Authors:
Adrian Gurza Lavalle (USP)
José Szwako (UERJ)
Abstract: In this article, we comment on two speeches by Ruth Cardoso: “Isso é política? Dilemmas of participation. Between the modern and the postmodern” and ‘Political participation and democracy’, both published in the journal Novos Estudos in March 1988 and March 1990, respectively. The first aimed to shed light, in the context of the Constituent Assembly, on the place of popular participation and the political stakes of the democratic camp in the post-transition - a camp once unified against authoritarianism. The second, interested in elucidating the election of Collor, whose victory by popular vote seemed to put the expectations of this camp in check. Both were fully involved in understanding and disputing the historical horizon opened up by redemocratization. Based on these reflections, we want to show how Ruth Cardoso's work, while being crossed by the dilemmas of the time, raises a criticism of her contemporary interlocutors and interpreters of social movements that is still pertinent to our analysis today.
Source: Novos Estudos CEBRAP (v.43, n.1, p.11-29, Jan-Abr, 2024).
Link: https://www.scielo.br/j/nec/a/PCjbCpCPwJ8VxSrYQw6VRyc
