DANIEL CHAVEZ

TNI

Agosto 2006

			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 Rodriguez Garavito (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). Curriculum Vitae
	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		Beyond the Market: The Future of Public Services (Editor) Public services yearbook 2005/6, 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<_a> TNI Website, August 2004<_p> 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
	Selected articles