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Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities-places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the ""dictionary"" she is compiling; and to trace the complex network of family, medicine, state, and economy in which her abandonment and pathology

Institutional care --- Marginality, Social --- #SBIB:39A74 --- #SBIB:39A9 --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Benevolent institutions --- Care, Institutional --- Charitable institutions --- Homes (Institutions) --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- Soins en institutions --- Exclusion sociale --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Charities --- Public institutions --- Public welfare --- Deinstitutionalization

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"Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the "dictionary" she is compiling; and to trace the complex network of family, medicine, state, and economy in which her abandonment and pathology took form. As Biehl painstakingly relates Catarina's words to a vanished world and elucidates her condition, we learn of subjectivities unmade and remade under economic pressures, pharmaceuticals as moral technologies, a public common sense that lets the unsound and unproductive die, and anthropology's unique power to work through these juxtaposed fields. Vita's methodological innovations, bold fieldwork, and rigorous social theory make it an essential reading for anyone who is grappling with how to understand the conditions of life, thought and ethics in the contemporary world"--Book cover.

Institutional care --- Marginality, Social --- Benevolent institutions --- Care, Institutional --- Charitable institutions --- Homes (Institutions) --- Charities --- Public institutions --- Public welfare --- Deinstitutionalization --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- anthropology and social theory. --- anthropology students. --- brazilian culture. --- brazilian economy. --- brazilian ethnography. --- brazilian health care. --- cultural anthropology. --- ethics and morality. --- healthcare and poverty. --- international health care. --- international mental health. --- international studies. --- latin american culture. --- latin american healthcare. --- medical anthropology. --- mental illness. --- social services and welfare. --- south american anthropology. --- south american culture. --- south american ethnography. --- south american mental health. --- Porto Alegre (Brasil) --- Brasil --- Institutional care. --- Marginality, Social. --- Soins en institutions --- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). --- Brazil

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Countless studies of citizen participation in public decisionmaking point out the limitations of direct democracy when it is transported from the realm of political theory into the "real world." In contrast, this book examines a case where an innovative city government gave major decisionmaking power to ordinary citizens on a large scale—and managed to survive and prosper. Since 1989, the government of Porto Alegre, Brazil, led by the Workers' Party, has implemented a participatory budget program that is becoming a model for policymakers worldwide. Each year in this regional capital of 1.3 million people, residents meet in their neighborhoods to determine budget priorities. Tens of thousands attend the annual budget assemblies. Nearly a thousand work as delegates year-round, and a popularly elected council has final say on all city spending. Inventing Local Democracy tells this dramatic story of a group of activists who came to power in a city long dominated by patronage politics and elite rule. At the same time, it is a sociopolitical study of the impact that state-sponsored participatory forums can have on civil society. Examining this dual transformation, Abers provides a groundbreaking contribution to the theory of participatory democracy.

Political participation --- Local government --- Local administration --- Township government --- Subnational governments --- Administrative and political divisions --- Decentralization in government --- Public administration --- Citizen participation --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- Prefeitura de Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Politics and government --- Citizen participation. --- Administration locale --- Participation politique --- Case studies. --- Participation des citoyens --- Cas, Etudes de --- Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brésil) --- Politique et gouvernement

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"Addresses the question of why institutions meant to attract citizen participation succeed in strengthening civil society and improving state responsiveness and transparency in some places, but fail in others. Focuses on urban politics in Porto Alegre (Brazil), Montevideo (Uruguay), and Caracas (Venezuela)"--Provided by publisher.

Political participation --- Municipal government --- Comparative government --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Cities and towns --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Municipalities --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Government --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- Montevideo (Uruguay) --- Caracas (Venezuela) --- Santiago de León de Caracas (Venezuela) --- Caracas --- Montevideo --- Ciudad de Montevideo (Uruguay) --- Montevidéu (Uruguay) --- Politics and government.

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Political participation --- Political culture --- Civil society --- Participation politique --- Culture politique --- Société civile --- Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brésil) --- Politics and government --- Citizen participation. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Participation des citoyens --- #SBIB:328H32 --- #SBIB:35H6040 --- #SBIB:324H50 --- #SBIB:324H60 --- Instellingen en beleid: Midden en Latijns-Amerika --- Bestuur en beleid: nationale en regionale studies: Latijns-Amerika --- Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) --- Politieke socialisatie --- History. --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- Société civile --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brésil) --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Culture --- Political science --- Social contract --- History --- Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Prefeitura de Porto Alegre (Brazil)