NGOs as shadow pseudopublics: Grassroots community leaders' perceptions of change and continuity in Porto Alegre, Brazil

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 eth...

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America
Brazil
Citizen participation
Citizenship
Civil society
Collaboration
Communities
Community participation
Democracy
Economic change
Ethnographic research
Ethnology
Funding
Grass roots movement
Market economy
Municipal government
Neoliberalism
NGOs
Nongovernmental organizations
Perceptions
Political anthropology
Politics
Porto Alegre
Private sector
Recycling centers
Social relations. Intercultural and interethnic relations. Collective identity
Social structure and social relations
State-society relations
title NGOs as shadow pseudopublics: Grassroots community leaders' perceptions of change and continuity in Porto Alegre, Brazil
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