Poder popular no século XXI

Hilary Wainwright

June 2007

Os protestos em Seattle e Gênova tornaram-se o símbolo da crescente animosidade contra o poder globalizante das corporações multinacionais. As mobilizações contra a Guerra do Iraque somaram um conteúdo antiimperialista, antibelicista e solidário, e firmaram um sentido global nesse combate. Mas ao lado de demonstrações grandiosas, a alternativa se expressa também nos espaços local e regional com a aplicação crescente dos conceitos de democracia participativa e economia solidária. A autora, escritora e ativista política, busca compreender como estão sendo postos em prática tais conceitos, como pode ser possível ao povo ter controle sobre o Poder Público, desde bairros e localidades da Inglaterra (East Manchester, Luton e Newcastle), até Porto Alegre, no Brasil, onde ela comprova o imenso potencial democrático que tem o orçamento participativo. Comentário de capa de Boaventura de Sousa Santos

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Hilary Wainwright

Research Director of the TNI New Politics programme

Hilary Wainwright is a leading researcher and writer on the emergence of new forms of democratic accountability within parties, movements and the state. She is the driving force and editor behind Red Pepper, a popular British new left magazine, and has documented countless examples of resurgent democratic movements from Brazil to Britain and the lessons they provide for progressive politics.

As well as TNI fellow, she is also Senior Research Associate at the International Centre for Participation Studies at the Department for Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK and previously research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics. She has also been a visiting Professor and Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles; Havens Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Todai University, Tokyo. Her books include Reclaim the State: Adventures in Popular Democracy (Verso/TNI, 2003) and Arguments for a New Left: Answering the Free Market Right (Blackwell, 1993).

Wainwright founded the Popular Planning Unit of the Greater London Council during the Thatcher years, and was convenor of the new economics working group of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly from 1989 to 1994.