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The majorconflicts between the Global North and the South can be
expected toresult from the confrontation of alternative conceptions
of democracy,mainly between liberal or representative democracy and
participatorydemocracy. The hegemonic model of democracy, while
prevailing on aglobal scale, guarantees no more than low-intensity
democracy. Inrecent times, participatory democracy has exhibited a
new dynamic,engaging mainly subaltern communities and social groups
that fightagainst social exclusion and the suppression of
citizenship. In thiscollection of reports from the Global
South-India, South Africa,Mozambique, Colombia, and Brazil-De Sousa
Santos and his colleaguesshow how, in some cases, the deepening of
democracy results from thedevelopment of dual forms of
participatory and representativedemocracy, and points to the
emergence of transnational networks ofparticipatory democracy
initiatives. Such networks pave one of the waysto the reinvention
of social emancipation. This is volume 1 of the Reinventing Social
Emancipation project, edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos.
A Movement of Movements charts the strategic thinking behind the
mosaic of movements currently challenging neoliberal globalization.
Leading theorists and activists-the Zapatistas' Subcomandante
Marcos, Chittaroopa Palit from the Indian Narmada Valley dam
protests, Soweto anti-privatization campaigner Trevor Ngwane,
Brazilian Sem Terra leader Joao Pedro Stedile, and many
more-discuss their personal formation as radicals, the history of
their movements, their analyses of globalization, and the nuts and
bolts of mobilizing against a US-dominated world system. Explaining
how the Global South and the experience of indigenous peoples have
provided such a dynamic and practical inspiration, the contributors
describe the roles anarchism and direct democracy have played, the
contributions and limitations of the World Social Forum at Porto
Alegre as a coordinating focus, and the effects of and responses to
the economic downturn, September 11, and Washington's war on
terror. Their statements, at once personal and visionary, offer a
dazzling new insight into the political imagination of the global
resistance movements.
An intellectual of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) and a US-based journalist produce a sympathetic portrait of the Party. Without being critical offers history and context of PT's phenomenal growth in 1980s. Title is an awkward translation of Lula's 1989 campaign slogan"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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