Beyond civil society : Activism, participation, and protest in Latin America / Sonia E. Alvarez

Interrogating the civil society agenda, reassessing uncivic political activism -- Interrogating the civil society agenda, reflections on Brazil -- A century of councils: participatory budgeting and the long history of participation in Brazil -- Civil society in Brazil: from state autonomy to political interdependency -- The making and unmaking of a new democratic space -- Uncivil subjects, uncivil women: civic participation, ambivalence, and political subjectivity among grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil -- Mapping movement fields -- Mapping the field of Afro-Latin American politics: in and out of the civil society agenda -- Social movement demands in Argentina and the constitution of a "feminist people" -- Politics by other means: resistance to neoliberal biopolitics -- The "gray zone" between movements and markets: Brazilian feminists and the international aid chain -- The nexus of civic and uncivic politics -- This is no longer a democracy . . . Thoughts on the local referendums on mining on Peru's Northern frontier -- From Afro-Colombians to Afro-descendants: the trajectory of black social movements in Colombia, 1990/2010 -- In the streets and in the institutions: movements-in-democracy and the rural women's movement in Rio Grande do Sul -- Refounding the political: the struggle for provincialization in Santa Elena, Ecuador -- Movements, regimes, and refoundations -- The counterpoint between contention and civic collective action in Venezuela's recent democracy -- Brazil: back to the streets? -- Monuments of (de) colonization: violence, democracy, and gray zones in Bolivia after January 11, 2007 -- Beyond the civil society agenda. Participation and practices of governance, governability, and governmentality in Latin America -- Conclusion: Uncontained activism