This paper examines the multiple strategies articulated by grassroots recycler networks to bring about socioenvironmental change. The paper shows how these networks are an emblematic case of grassroots governmentality, ...

This article explores the limits imposed by a capitalist system of industrial relations on the construction of workplace democracy. It does so by focusing on the experiences of two grass-roots organisations, from both the ...

In 1971, after more than a decade of national andmunicipal policies aimed at the top-down removal of shantytowns, the BuenosAires City Council approved the Plan Piloto para la Relocalización de Villa 7 (Pilot Plan for the ...

This thesis investigated how intra-party democracy has unfolded within two of the largest Brazilian political parties: PT and PSDB. For such, based on a case study, we aimed at the identification to the potential synergies ...

Only a few years after democratic rule had returned to Chile, a scholar of grassroots democracy wondered: where did all protesters go? (Oxhorn 1994) In those days, almost any observer of the Chilean political scene had ...

This article, focused on analyzing the struggles of Afro-descendent populations, highlights the need to formulate clear answers to a series of key questions: What should the role of Afro-descendents and their demands ...

Within the American Black Movement, the Black Panther Party (BPP) became the most prominent and influential organization of the 1960s and 1970s. The movement initiated in Oakland (California) and captured the attention of ...