ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Red Card for Porto Alegre?

From IPS News
By Clarinha Glock* – IPS/IFEJ

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Jul 18 (IPS) – The southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, a pioneer in participatory budgets and environmental policies, and habitual host of the enormous World Social Forum, has returned to the international stage.

Chosen as one of the 12 sites for [...]

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Contours of the Neoliberal City: fragmentation, frontier geographies, and the new circularity

By Nasser Abourahme
“The slum in and of itself creates a different kind of governmentality;
AlSayyad and Roy point out that the apparently unregulated practices of
squatting are in fact a distinct form of regulation, “a set of tactics
that recreate informality as governmentality” [2006: 8]. This
informality operates through the constant negotiability of value (as
opposed to the fixing of [...]

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Civic Governmentality: The Politics of Inclusion in Beirut and Mumbai

By Ananya Roy
This article is concerned with the politics of inclusion. It analyzes the institutionalization of participatory citizenship as the formation of regimes of “civic governmentality”. Through the study of key civil society organizations such as SPARC and Hezbollah, it studies three dimensions of civic governmentality: an infrastructure of populist mediation; technologies of governing (for [...]

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