Global Civic Activism in Flux

Civil society around the world is in flux. New forms of civic activism have taken shape, ranging from protest movements to community-level forums and online campaigns by individual activists.This analysis charts how civic activism is evolving across eight countries:* Brazil* Egypt* India* Kenya* Thailand* Tunisia* Turkey* Ukraine.These case studies reveal crosscutting themes relevant to the future of civil society support:* While there is a global wave of new protests and innovative citizen movements, many civic struggles are increasingly rooted in specific national issues.* New and older forms of civic activism coexist and intertwine in a variety of ways.* Some new activism is highly political and confrontational; some is very practical and pragmatic about trying to circumvent the shortcomings of mainstream politics.* New civic activism includes groups espousing an increasingly wide range of ideological positions.* While the new activism has been effective on some specific issues, it is mostly struggling to hold at bay resurgent authoritarian and illiberal government responses

Também somos paisagem : um estudo antropológico sobre o engajamento humano na natureza e a educação ambiental no Parque Estadual de Itapuã.

Este trabalho realiza um estudo no Parque Estadual de Itapuã, unidade de conservação localizada em Viamão/RS. Nesse universo, busca observar as experiências de interação humana com a natureza e como elas possibilitam as mudanças comportamentais idealizadas pelo discurso ecológico. Considera também o surgimento de novas sensibilidades em relação ao meio ambiente instigadas tanto pelas atividades de educação ambiental promovidas pelo parque quanto pelas atividades de lazer. Traz na sua base teórica a idéia de pertencimento humano à paisagem como geradora de percepções que regem a transformação da noção de uso da natureza para uma concepção mais holística da realidade.This report is a study on Parque Estadual de Itapuã, a conservation unit in Viamão /RS. In this place, this report observes the experiences of interaction among human beings and nature and how they make possible the behavioral changes idealized by the ecological thoughts. It also brings new sensibilities related to the environment which are instigated either for environmental education activities offered in the park or for entertainment activities. The theorical basis is the idea that the human being belongs to landscape, this idea generates the perceptions that rule the transformation of the idea of the use of the nature in an holistic conception