The Urban Social Movements: Problems of Organization and Internal Democracy

• Autor(a) principal: Gondim, Linda M.
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Sociedade e Estado
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/sociedade/article/view/43734
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This paper analyses the boundaries and concrete possibilities related withalternative practices generally adopted by organizations which appearinside the social movements themselves.First of all, the author discusses theoretically the problems caused byorganizing bureaucracies in the social urban movements. Afterwards, shestates the characteristics of an alternative model of democratic-coletiveorganization, which is based on informality, agreement and division of workin ad hoc and minima conditions.The difficulties in both kind of organizations have been considered startingfrom experiences occurred in the suburbs of Fortaleza.This analysis shows the dilemma raised on the one hand in the demand forless formalization and centralism, and on the other hand, for the necessity ofexplicit procedures to clear up conflicts and to evaluate the legitimaty andthe representativity of rival groups, which seek to control the association orto lead the movement.Finally the author proposes a model "organization versus directparticipation". This model, founded in the utopic ideas of Habermas andLechner, praises the search for a consensus, in which all participantsrecognize themselves as subjects of collective life outside any possiblemanipulation and authoritarianism.