Empire’s Architecture

By Allen Mcduffee
See it in In These Times: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3458/empires_architecture/
Should it ever be finished, the U.S. embassy in Iraq will stand as a colossal monument to the Bush administration’s failures
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Lost for Words?

Goetz Ottmann
Lost for words? : Brazilian liberationism in the 1990s
Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002

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The Economic Policy of the Latin American Left in Government: Venezuela

By Edgardo Lander and Pablo NavarreteTRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE – TNI
Read it at TNI website: http://www.tni.org/reports/newpol/venezuelaeconomicpolicy.pdf?

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Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges

Boaventura de Sousa Santos
2007
See file at: http://www.ces.uc.pt/bss/documentos/AbyssalThinking.pdf

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Local Democracy in Brazil and India: the role of center-periphery relations in the construction of participatory institutions

Leonardo Avritzer2005
See article at: http://www.ces.uc.pt/bss/documentos/BrazilIndia2005_Leo_Avritzer_Maio05.pdf

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Two Democraties, Two Legalities: Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Chapter 13 of Boaventura de Sousa Santos and
César A. Rodríguez-Garavito (eds.) Law and Counter-Hegemonic
Globalization: Toward a Subaltern Cosmopolitan Legality. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
See file at: www.ces.uc.pt/bss/documentos/chapter13.pdf

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Moving the State: The Politics of Democratic Decentralization in Kerala, South Africa, and Porto Alegre

Patrick Heller
POLITICS & SOCIETY, Vol. 29 No. 1, March 2001 131-163
See file at: http://www.nibr.no/content/download/1772/7685/version/1/file/Paper-Patrick-Heller.pdf

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Radical innovations or technical fix? Participatory Budgeting in Bradford: how Latin American participatory traditions are reinterpreted in the British context

By Heather Blakey
International Centre for Peace StudiesDepartment of Peace StudiesUniversity of Bradford2007
See article at: http://www.psa.ac.uk/2007/pps/Blakey.pdf

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Participatory Budgets: The Peruvian Experience

Carlos Monge
Grupo Propuesta Ciudadana
Lima, june 2004
Presented at the International Conference on Local Development, World Bank, Washington, D.C., June 16-18, 2004
See PPT at: http://www1.worldbank.org/sp/ldconference/Materials/Parallel/PS1/PS1_S5_PPT3.pdf

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Municipal Decentralization and Participatory Democracy: Building a New Mode of Urban Politics in Montevideo City?

Eduardo Canel
YORK UNIVERSITY
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 71, October 2001
See file at: http://www.cedla.uva.nl/60_publications/PDF_files_publications/71RevistaEuropea/71EduardoCanel.pdf

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