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NGOs as shadow pseudopublics: Grassroots community leaders’ perceptions of change and continuity in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Author(s) -
Junge Benjamin
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01372.x
Subject(s) - grassroots , citizenship , neoliberalism (international relations) , civil society , politics , shadow (psychology) , ethos , sociology , individualism , hegemony , political science , private sector , state (computer science) , public administration , government (linguistics) , gender studies , political economy , law , psychology , algorithm , computer science , psychotherapist , linguistics , philosophy
In this article, I examine changing meanings of participation for grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil, since the 2004 defeat of the Workers Party (PT) municipal government and a subsequent rise in the presence of both the private sector and NGOs in community politics. Through an ethnographic analysis of community politics in one municipal district, based on interviews I carried out in 2008, I argue that the changing relationship between state, private sector, and civil society has contributed to destabilization of the narrative of active citizenship hegemonic in earlier years, implanting a market‐oriented, individualistic ethos in its place. [ participation, citizenship, civil society, neoliberalism, NGOs, private sector, Brazil ]