The Scientific Editors and Editorial Committee of the journal Cadernos Metrópole invite researchers from areas of knowledge that approach the urban and regional issue to send texts to the organization of volume 27, number 63, about the theme

 

Participating to democratize democracies?

Conformation, disillusionment, and hope

Editors: Roberto Falanga and João Ferrão

Participation practices have been increasingly summoned to democratize liberal democracies given the evident crisis of their formal representation mechanisms, based on the electors’ vote. This type of participation has always coexisted with types such as opposition and resistance, expressed, for example, through demonstrations, protests, and petitions. However, a rigid dichotomy between those two types of participation does not allow to capture the recent diffuse increase in interstitial and in-between participation, which involves citizens and democratic institutions in innovative processes of debate, dispute, and co-creation of solutions for public problems.

The participation of citizens in public life has manifested itself in varied formats and scopes of action. Despite this diversity, some types of participation have been disseminated exponentially on the international scale, such as participatory budgeting, citizens’ assemblies, and participation initiatives in urban planning or regeneration of degraded urban areas.

Participatory processes are grounded on a conception of democracy characterized by improvement in values and institutions through the proactive role played by civil society. But can participatory processes fulfill this ambition? Are such processes the most adequate way to democratize democracies? Such questions guide Cadernos Metrópole’s thematic dossier, based primarily on a critical analysis of experiences developed in different European countries, but also on contributions from Latin American countries.

Europe, which imagines itself as the cradle of democracy, today is confronted by a set of interconnected crises whose most evident consequence is the rise of support to populist and xenophobic parties that have strong and authoritarian leaders. In this context, analyzing participatory processes is particularly relevant, understood as a set of alternative practices that complement the electoral mechanisms.

This issue welcomes theoretical, thematic, and empirical contributions that illustrate, debate, and critically evaluate the evolution of public and popular participation in recent decades, in different cities, regions, countries, or geographical areas, and its effective impact on societal and territorial transformation. This objective can be fulfilled by analyses of opportunities opened by participatory processes for strengthening democracies and producing and managing cities democratically; critical assessments of political and social constraints that limit such processes; transnational reflections on the role played by different intervening agents; empirical studies that discuss, critically and thoroughly, the legitimizing or transformative role played by participatory processes in specific sociopolitical contexts.

Deadline to send manuscripts: SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

 

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Books

AUTHOR or EDITOR (ed.) (year of publication). Title of the book. City of publication, Publishing house.

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CASTELLS, M. (1983). A questão urbana. Rio de Janeiro, Paz e Terra.

 

Book chapters

CHAPTER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). "Title of the chapter". In: BOOK'S AUTHOR or EDITOR (ed.). Title of the book. City of publication, Publishing house.

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BRANDÃO, M. D. de A. (1981). “O último dia da criação: mercado, propriedade e uso do solo em Salvador”. In: VALLADARES, L. do P. (ed.). Habitação em questão. Rio de Janeiro, Zahar.

 

Papers published in journals

PAPER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the paper. Title of the journal. City, journal's volume, journal's issue, paper's initial and final page.

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TOURAINE, A. (2006). Na fronteira dos movimentos sociais. Sociedade e Estado. Dossiê movimentos sociais. Brasília, v. 21, n.1, pp. 17-28.

 

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SALGADO, M. A. (1996). Políticas sociais na perspectiva da sociedade civil: mecanismos de controle social, monitoramento e execução, parcerias e financiamento. In: SEMINÁRIO INTERNACIONAL ENVELHECIMENTO POPULACIONAL: UMA AGENDA PARA O FINAL DO SÉCULO. Anais. Brasília, MPAS/SAS, pp. 193-207.

 

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AUTHOR (year of publication). Title. Doctoral dissertation or Master's thesis. City, Institution.

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FUJIMOTO, N. (1994). A produção monopolista do espaço urbano e a desconcentração do terciário de gestão na cidade de São Paulo. O caso da avenida Engenheiro Luís Carlos Berrini. Master's thesis. São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo.

 

Internet texts

AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the text. Available from. Date of access.

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FERREIRA, J. S. W. (2005). A cidade para poucos: breve história da propriedade urbana no Brasil. Available from: http://www.usp.br/fau/depprojeto/labhab/index.html. Access on: Sep 8 2005.