Social Participation and the Politics of Climate in Northeast Brazil

• Published in: Environment and Citizenship in Latin America Vol. 101; p. 77
• Main Author: Renzo Taddei
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States Berghahn Books 15.07.2012; Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Atmospheric sciences; Climate change; Climate change policy; Climate models; Climatology; Cloud seeding; Conservation of the environment; Diviners; Environmental policy; Environmental sciences; Environmental studies; Government; Human geography; Hydrometeorology; Meteorological research; Meteorology; Microphysics; Nuclear physics; Nucleation; Physical sciences; Physics; Political communication; Political discourse; Political science; Political sociology; Practical theology; Precipitation; Prophets; Public administration; Public policy; Rain; Religion; Rural areas; Social & cultural anthropology; Social sciences; Spiritual leaders; Theology; Weather forecasting
• ISBN: 9780857457479; 0857457470

How does one recognize citizenship, and environmental citizenship for that matter, as it exists in Latin America? As expressed by a number of the other contributions to this volume, the idea of citizenship becomes meaningful only when analysed against specific historical and institutional backgrounds. The region has experienced a wide variety of political contexts for citizenship over the past century, ranging from centralized dictatorships to relatively decentralized liberal regimes, each context making way for different kinds of political subjectivity. It is a given that hegemonic political agents will attempt to exert influence over the symbolic terrain upon which subject formation