ISTR Sixth International Conference Toronto, Canada / July 11-14, 2004 Contesting Citizenship and Civil Society in a Divided World

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Pos-graduating (mestrando) in Public Administration and Government
by
Edi Augusto Benini
Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo - FGV

In this article we discun the relations considered key to the situated movements of the civil society in the context of the solidary economy and the process, always unfinished in our opinion, of State reform. First we argue on the meaning of the proposal of the solidary economy, which’s dufferebs from the same of the traditional concept of social economy in basic points and detaching a more structural process. Such reflection is made from literature on the nature of the public policy and texts discussing for the State reform, and literature produced in the context and movement of the solidary economy (That encloses articles, essays and case studies). These studies indicate that the solidary economy, while project of the civil society, is the accomplishmens of a collective proposal that articulates theoretical questions, and historical successes and mistakes and structural problems of the contemporary society, in tris way the dichotomy between utopia and the project to combat poverty is only on the surface of a process that, for its nature, has a strong perspective to determine another type of State reform, whose citizens and values are of the proper civil society. Thus, the proposal of the solidary economy is the vehicle and the agenda of this process.

Date received: October 10, 2003

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