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Leonardo Avritzer
is Associate Professor in Political Science at the School of Liberal Arts of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil).
Master's degree in Political Science from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Ph.D in Political Sociology from the New School for Social Research, New York.
Publications and articles include: "Teoria crítica e teoria democrática",
"The conflict between civil and political society in post-authoritarian Brazil", "Civil Society: the meaning and the employment of the concept".
Eurozine Articles
Towards widening the democratic canon
Social movements are emancipatory in so far as they seek alternatives to conditions imposed by states and economic conditions. Moreover, they redefine more inclusive social identities and act as truly transnational democratic units. [more]
