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Grassroots mobilization, co-production of public policy and the promotion of participatory democracy by the Brazilian Solidarity Economy movement By Ana Margarida Esteves B.A., Technical University of Lisbon, 1997 M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science, 1998 M.A., Brown University, 2006 Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Sociology at Brown University Providence, Rhode Island May 2011 ©Copyright 2011 by Ana Margarida Esteves This dissertation by Ana Margarida Esteves is accepted in its present form by the Department of Sociology as satisfying the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Date _____________________ __________________________________________________________ Paget Henry, Advisor Date _____________________ __________________________________________________________ Ann Dill, Reader Date ____________________ __________________________________________________________ Giapaolo Baiocchi, Reader Approved by the Graduate Council Date ___________________ ___________________________________________________________ Peter M. Weber, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School iii Ana Margarida Fernandes Esteves______________________________ Department of Sociology • Brown University • Box 1916, Maxcy Hall, 112 Georges Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA • (+1 401) 575 2116 • [email protected] EDUCATION Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Ph.D., Sociology, May 2011 (expected) Committee: Paget Henry (Chair), Ann Dill, Gianpaolo Baiocchi (Readers) Dissertation: Grassroots mobilization, co-production of public policy and the promotion of participatory democracy by the Brazilian Solidarity Economy movement M.A., Sociology, May 2006 Thesis: Collective Action versus Formal Monitoring: New Social Movements and cooperative federations as promoters of effective worker ownership London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK M.Sc., European Studies, October 1998 Technical University of Lisbon, Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal “Licenciatura” (B.A. + M.A.), International Relations, July 1997 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Political economy of development, civil society and democratization, social movements, popular education, community-based development and social justice, globalization, regional integration, social theory, research methodology, Latin America, Europe, Africa AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS European Social Fund/Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education Doctoral Fellowship, January 2008 until May 2011 Brown University - Watson Institute for International Studies/Center for Latin American Studies Fieldwork Travel Grant, Summer 2007 Portuguese Fulbright Commission/Luso-American Foundation for Development William J. Fulbright Doctoral Scholarship, September 2004-December 2007 Brown University - Watson Institute for International Studies/Center for Latin American Studies Tinker Foundation Fieldwork Grant, January 2005 British Council - British Chevening Scholarship, September 1997 to June 1998 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Academic appointments Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil Visiting Research Fellow, Post-Graduate Program in Political Science, July 2008 – July 2009 Editing and publishing Interface: A journal for and about social movements (http://www.interfacejournal.net/) Co-founder, member of the international editorial spokescouncil and coordinating editor of the Portuguese language working group, composed by 25 academics and activists from Brazil, Portugal and Angola that act as reviewers and translators. (Since March 2007) Ana Margarida Esteves, iv Academic teaching Instructor Universidade Federal Fluminense, Post-Graduate Program in Political Science (M.A. and Ph.D.) Political Regimes and Development Policies, spring ‘09 Research Methodology, spring ‘09 Teaching Assistant Brown University, Department of Sociology Theories of Organizational Dynamics and Decision Making, spring ’06, spring ‘08 Economic Development and Social Change, fall ’05, fall ‘07 Comparative Development, spring ’07 Sociological Theory, fall ’06 Professional training Brown University Sheridan Center for Teaching Certification Program, September 2006- May 2007 Research experience Fieldwork Brazil – Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, Ceará, summers of 2006 and 2007, July 2008 – August 2009 Field research for my Ph.D. dissertation on the relationship between popular education, co- production of public policies and the internal practice of democracy in the Brazilian Solidarity Economy movement. Conducted a total of 136 semi-structured interviews with workers, technicians of civil society organizations, public officials and movement intellectuals in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Ceará and São Paulo. Conducted participant observation of meetings of the Solidarity Economy forums at the national level, as well as at the state and municipal levels in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul. Collected more than 200 archival documents at NGOs, universities and government departments on the history of the Solidarity Economy forums and the strategies of popular education and technical assistance carried out by participating civil society organizations. Such documents include meeting reports and strategy documents, as well as pedagogical material used in popular education and technical assistance. Brazil – Recife, July and August 2005 Fieldwork for my M.A. thesis on the role of the Pernambuco chapter of the Organization of Brazilian Cooperatives (OCB) in the promotion of forms of organizational learning that support internal democracy within an affiliated workers’ cooperative, which is a recuperated factory like its counterpart in Buenos Aires. Conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with workers, managers and technicians from OCB, as well as participant observation of factory meetings. Collected archival documents on the role of OCB in the support to recuperated factories. Argentina - Buenos Aires, January and June 2005 Fieldwork for my M.A. thesis on the role of MNER (National Movement of Recuperated Enterprises) in the promotion of forms of organizational learning that support internal democracy within an affiliated workers’ cooperative. Conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with workers Ana Margarida Esteves, v and movement leaders. Collected archival documents on the history of MNER and the support it gives to recuperated factories. Research assistantship Brown University “American Communities Project” - Prof. John Logan, October 2005 to September 2006 (http://www.s4.brown.edu/S4/projects.htm ) Built a database, based on U.S. population census, on voting behaviour in different racial/ethnic communities in U.S. major cities. “Social Exclusion: Comparative Analysis of Europe and Middle East Youth” - Prof. Hilary Silver, November 2006 to March 2007 (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1087432) Made a literature review on youth social exclusion in the Middle East. International Development Aid European Commission Project manager, EuropeAid - European Commission Development Aid Office (AIDCO), Brussels, Belgium, Unit E-3: Technical support to Economic Cooperation with Latin America (April 2003 to June 2004) - Provided technical support to the Delegation of the European Union to MERCOSUR in the design of a project of institutional support to MERCOSUR’s Parliamentary Assembly; - Managed contracts of technical cooperation between universities in the European Union and Latin America (ALFA, ALIß and Erasmus Mundi programs). Project manager (Junior Expert in Delegation Program), European Union Delegation in Brazil, Brasília, Economic Cooperation Section (October 2000 to October 2002) - Managed contracts of technical cooperation between small and medium enterprises in the European Union and Latin America (AL-Invest Program). - Managed the content of the economic cooperation section of the Delegation’s website; - Wrote a weekly bilingual media review bulletin (English/Portuguese) on economic affairs in the MERCOSUR region for the Brussels headquarters and other EU delegations in the American continent. Assistant Project Manager (Intern), Directorate General for External Relations (RELEX), Brussels, Belgium, Unit F2 – Mashrak and Israel (October 1999 to March 2000) - Provided technical assistance to the project director for economic cooperation in the Mashrak region (Palestine/Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon) and Israel. PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed articles Esteves, Ana Margarida. 2010. “C.L.R. James and the Rise of Solidarity Economy in Brazil”. The C.L.R. James Journal. 16, 1: 37-66 (August 2010) Esteves, Ana Margarida. 2008. “Processes of Knowledge Production in Social Movements as Multi-level Power Dynamics”. Sociology Compass. 2, 6: 1934-1953 (October 2008) Ana Margarida Esteves, vi Book chapters Esteves, Ana Margarida. 2008. “Entrepreneurship as Activism – The emergence of the Brazilian Forum of Solidarity Economy”. Pp. 13-54 in Andersson, Vibeke and Steen Fryba Christensen (ed). New Latin American Development Strategies in a Changing International Economic and Political Context. Development Research Series, Occasional Papers no 7, Development and International Relations, Aalborg University, Denmark. ISBN 87-90874-00-5 Editorials Esteves, Ana Margarida, Sara Motta and Laurence Cox. 2009. “’Civil society versus social movements”. Interface: A journal for and about social movements. 1, 2: 1-21