Abstract

ROCCA RIVAROLA, Dolores. Activism and State: Conceptions and practices in government-supporting organizations in Brazil (2003-2016) and Argentina (2003-2015). Perf. latinoam. [online]. 2019, vol.27, n.54, 00003. ISSN 0188-7653.  https://doi.org/10.18504/pl2754-003-2019.

Based on semi-structured interviews held between 2005 and 2015 in Argentina and Brazil with members of different government-supporting organizations, this paper analyzes political activism carried out in the context of an institutional immersion of these organizations in the State (through, for example, posts, policies and resource management). We will not focus on the influence of this activist presence in public policies, but on the impact of that institutional presence over activist conceptions and practices. We will, thus, analyze different phenomena, definitions and everyday articulations that are set by the intersection between activism and State.

Keywords : activism; bureaucracies; Partido de los Trabajadores (PT); kirchnerismo; organizations; Brazil; Argentina.