Angela Alonso is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is also the coordinator of the Environmental Conflicts Area at CEBRAP (Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning). She has researched and produced a range of publications on social movements in Brazil.

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  Hybrid Activism: Paths of Globalization in the Brazilian Environmen...

  Alonso, A

  In J Gaventa & R Tandon (eds) Globalizing Citizens: New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion. London: Zed
  Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordere...
  Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordered from Zed Books at www.zedbooks.co.uk/citizenship or purchased at the IDS bookstore.
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  Environmental Activism in Brazil: The Rise of a Social Movement

  Alonso, A, Costa, V & D, Maciel

  In L Thompson & C Tapscott (eds) Citizenship and Social Movements: Perspectives from the Global South. London: Zed
  Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordere...
  Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordered from Zed Books at www.zedbooks.co.uk/citizenship or purchased at the IDS bookstore.
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  Hybrid Activism: Paths of Globalisation in the Brazilian Environmen...

  Alonso, A

  IDS Working Paper, Number 332
  Focusing on two case studies of environmental activism in Brazil, this paper argues against theories that consider lo...
  Focusing on two case studies of environmental activism in Brazil, this paper argues against theories that consider local and global activism as two separate realms. Instead, it is argued here that transnational activists circulate across the two spaces. In the global spaces, they build alliances with foreign groups, and in the local ones, they deal with the national state, other organised groups and ordinary communities living inside environmental areas they aim to protect. Activists live in both spheres and as they move, they carry with them local and global meanings, knowledge and forms of action and organising, mixing them through the continuous action of two mechanisms: adaptation and emulation. In this way, activists’ biographies – their lived experience, their meanings and strategies – intermingle with both spaces in one single trajectory of activism. Discussing the existing literature on transnational social movements, I will argue
  that they forge hybrid identities in the sense of being at the same time local and global.
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  Environmental Perception and Political Mobilization in Rio de Janei...

  Alonso, A & V, Costa

  In M Leach, I Scoones & B Wynne (eds) Science and Citizens: Globalization and the challenge of Engagement. London: Zed
  Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordere...
  Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordered from Zed Books at www.zedbooks.co.uk/citizenship or purchased at the IDS bookstore.
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  The Formation of the Brazilian Environmental Movement

  Alonso, A, Costa, V & D, Maciel

  IDS Working Paper 259.
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  The Dynamics of Public Hearings for Environmental Licensing: The Ca...

  Alonso, A & V, Costa

  IDS Bulletin, 35(2)
  This article investigates an environmental governance mechanism in Brazil: the Public Hearings for Environmental Lice...
  This article investigates an environmental governance mechanism in Brazil: the Public Hearings for Environmental Licensing (Aplas). Through a case study - a ring road currently under construction around the S„o Paulo Metropolitan Area - we evaluate the effectiveness of this mechanism that seeks to expand popular participation in the public discussion of enterprises with potential environmental risk. Analysing the social profile and the cognitive and material resources of the Aplas potential participants as well as Aplas modus operandis, we argue that Aplas present the same problems pointed out by the literature on the functioning of deliberative processes: the most active agents are pre-established elites; authorities have agenda control; Aplas have low influence on environmental public policies. Hence, we conclude that Aplas lack of legitimacy and efficacy, not being able to ensure the effective participation of ordinary citizens in the environmental licensing process.
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  Ciências Sociais e Meio Ambiente no Brasil: um balanço bibliográfico

  Alonso, A & V, Costa

  In Revista Brasileira de Informações Bibliográficas em Ciências Sociais, (Brazilian Journal of Social Sciences Literature Reviews), 53: 35- 78
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  Para uma sociologia dos conflitos ambientais no Brasil

  Alonso, A & V, Acosta

  In Alimonda, H. (ed) Ecología Política. Naturaleza, Sociedad y Utopía. Buenos Aires: CLACSO
  Nas duas últimas décadas do século XX, a questão ambiental alcançou ostatus de problema global e tem mobilizado não a...
  Nas duas últimas décadas do século XX, a questão ambiental alcançou ostatus de problema global e tem mobilizado não apenas a sociedade civil organizada, os meios de comunicação, mas os governos de todas as regiões do planeta. Frank, Hironaga e Schofer (2000: 96-116) sustentam que o processo de disseminação global de práticas e a adoção de instituições visando à proteção ambiental estão correlacionados com a difusão de concepções e conhecimentos desenvolvidos por ONGs e organizações científicas vinculadas à perspectiva ambientalista. Frederick Buttel (2000: 117-121), outro importante sociólogo ambiental, contesta, no entanto, o otimismo da conclusão anterior,
  a rgumentando que a ampla difusão da preocupação de governos e setores da sociedade civil com os problemas ambientais ou mesmo a extensa agenda de discussões em fóruns internacionais não resultou em um consenso em torno de soluções. Ao contrário, à medida que se ampliou e se aprofundou o debate, os conflitos se tornaram mais agudos e as soluções mais problemáticas do que se poderia imaginar 30 anos atrás.