Participação Comunitária e Gestão Municipal na Cidade de Fortaleza.
(Community Participation and City Management in Fortaleza).
Ceará Foundation for Scientific Development and Technology (FUNCAP)
Partners: Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR); Prefeitura de Fortaleza
(Community Participation and City Management in Fortaleza).
Ceará Foundation for Scientific Development and Technology (FUNCAP)
Partners: Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR); Prefeitura de Fortaleza
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This project takes place in the metropolitan region of Fortaleza, Ceará. More than three million people live in the city, many of them in the urban periphery, a space that is characterized by a lack of public investment and integration and in the words of the residents “abandoned” by the political system. The work, based on a participatory methodology which includes participatory GIS, is an exploration of ways in which participatory engagements weaken traditional bonds of power among the very poor and provide alternative channels of access to the public services for which residents are eligible because of their status as citizen and not because they have a powerful patron. We work in partnership with several universities from the city, but the research team is comprised of people (with ages ranging from high school students to grandparents) that are from the neighborhoods in which the project is active. Together we are organically developing methods for engagement and articulation with the public sector. |
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PUBLICATIONS
Nelson, D. R., and T. J. Finan. 2014. Participação e Impotência: a Busca pela Esperança na periferia de Fortaleza, Brasil. Iluminuras 15(36): 152–170. Available here.
Nelson, D. R., and T. J. Finan. 2014. Participação e Impotência: a Busca pela Esperança na periferia de Fortaleza, Brasil. Iluminuras 15(36): 152–170. Available here.