Grassroots Associations and Democracy in Brazil

Wednesday November 14, 2001 at 3:30 PM
The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
Skylight Conference Room (9th Floor)
Graduate School and University Center
365 5th Ave.

Dr. Rowan Ireland
La Trobe University, Australia
and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Professor Ireland is currently writing a book on grassroots associations and democracy in Brazilian cities. "Tocqueville in Brazil" is the pop label for the themes explored, as he examines various types of "social capital" in the associational life of religious groups and local manifestations of popular movements in Sao Paulo, Recife, and other cities. For background material, see "Popular Religions and the Building of Democracy in Latin America: Saving the Tocquevillian Parallel" Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (41:4, 111-136) and the book "Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil" (Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 1992).

to reserve, send email to bildner@gc.cuny.edu or leave message at (212) 817-2096