Popular movements and the fetish of participation in the Lula government
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2012v4n7p178Keywords:
Council, Urban policy, Popular movementsAbstract
The National Council of Cities (Brazil) is composed by representants of govnerment, NGOs, business organizations, academic entities and national popular movements (that are envolved with fight for housing). In the representation process, the agents that are in the Council have modified their identities and discourses (Laclau and Mouffe). The movements are linked in a network with NGO ́s e academic entities, maintained the hegemony, inside the Council, and give obtained changes in terms of resources, laws and recognition of the popular demands. But, the government decisions can ignore the decisions of the Council, because there are relations of power and hegemony that become this participation in a fetish (Gramsci).
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