Daniel Chavez

TNI New Politics programme co-ordinator

chavez [at] tni.org

TNI fellow Daniel Chavez is a Uruguayan anthropologist specialising in Latin American politics and urban social and political movements. He joined TNI in 2001 as co-ordinator of the Energy Project, looking at democratic and participatory alternatives to electricity privatisation in the Global South. Before moving to Europe he had worked for almost a decade for the United Federation of Mutual-Aid Housing Cooperatives (FUCVAM). Daniel currently co-ordinates the New TNI Politics Programme, in co-operation with Hilary Wainwright. He has authored and edited a number of books, including most recently La nueva izquierda en América Latina: sus orígenes y trayectoria futura, with Patrick Barrett and Cesar García (Grupo Editorial Norma, 2005) and The Left in the City: Participatory Local Governments in Latin America with Benjamin Goldfrank (LAB, 2001). He holds a Phd in the Politics of Development from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS, The Hague).

Areas of interest

Left politics and emancipatory political thinking in Latin America; participatory urban management, planning and governance; new social movements; public services reforms and alternatives to privatisation.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Más allá del mercado: El futuro de los servicios públicos (Editor) Anuario de servicios públicos 20056
TNI / Public Services Internatinal Research Unit (PSIRU), January 2006

La nueva izquierda en América Latina. Sus orígenes y trayectoria futura (Co-editor with César A. Rodríguez Garavito and Patrick S. Barrett) Grupo Editorial Norma, Bogotá, 2005

La sinistra e le città. Partecipazione nei governi locali dell'America Latina (Co-editor with Benjamin Goldfrank and Giovanni Allegretti) TNI/Caminito Editrici, Florence, 2005

Polis & Demos. The Left in Municipal Governance in Montevideo and Porto Alegre TNI/Shaker Publishing, Amsterdam, 2004

The Left in the City. Participatory Local Governments in Latin America (Co-editor with Benjamin Goldfrank) Latin America Bureau, London, 2004

La Izquierda en la Ciudad. Participación en Gobiernos Locales de América Latina (Co-editor with Benjamin Goldfrank) Icaria, Barcelona, 2004

Contributions to books

"Del Frente Amplio a la Nueva Mayoría. La izquierda uruguaya ante la perspectiva del gobierno" [PDF document] in: Daniel Chavez, Patrick Barrett and César A. Rodríguez Garavito (eds) La nueva izquierda en América Latina. Sus orígenes y trayectoria futura, Grupo Editorial Norma, Bogotá, 2005

"Montevideo. From Popular Participation to Good Governance", in: Daniel Chavez and Benjamin Goldfrank (eds) The Left in the City. Participatory Local Governments in Latin America. Latin America Bureau, London, 2004

"Porto Alegre, Brazil: A New, Sustainable and Replicable Model of Participatory and Democratic Governance?" in: C. Ringnes Klyve (ed.) Kampen For En Stemme. Globalisering Sett Fra Sør, Solidaritet Forlag/ATTAC Norge, Oslo, 2002

"Albania. From Anarchy to Kanun Politics and Society" (Co-author with Albana Shala) in": P. van Tongeren, H. van de Veen and J. Verhoeven (eds.) Searching for Peace in Europe and Eurasia: An Overview of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities ???

Reports

Democratizar la Democracía
Hacia una propuesta de presupuesto participativo nacional TNI Website, August 2004

Lights Off! Debunking the Myths of Power Liberalisation TNI Briefing 3, May 2002

Video-documentaries

The Big Blackout. Debunking the Myths of Power Privatisation (Co-producer with Satya Sivaraman). TNI/Living Films, December 2003

Papers and speeches

Porto Alegre, Brazil: A New Sustainable and Replicable Model of Participatory Democratic Governance Speech at the "Actors and Approaches in Local Politics" Conference at the University of Oslo, 18 October 2002