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Government, Governance and Governmentality in Pará, Northern Brazil

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Participatory planning approaches have become almost standard in rural development projects promoted by international cooperation agencies. In Brazilian governmental politics, an increase in participatory budget planning processes (orçamento participativo) on the municipal level can also be observed - until now mostly in urban areas. Over the past few years attempts have also been made to introduce participatory planning in rural development, integrated into an official state programme to promote small-scale agriculture.

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Notes

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    The most popular case is the City of Porto Alegre in the Southern federal state of Rio Grande do Sul (Abers 1998, 2000; Genro and de Souza 1997; Lindert and Nijenhuis 2004).

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    Examples of Participatory Monitoring processes in Brazil can be found in: Abbot and Guijt 1999; Sidersky and Guijt 2000; Franco et al. 2000; Segebart 2007.

  3. 3.

    Foucault delivered a lecture about ‘governmentality’ in 1978 at the Collège de France, which was first published in Ideology and Consciousness in 1979 and republished in 1991 in Burchell et al. (1991).

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    They applied the International Human Development Index (HDI).

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Segebart, D. (2010). Government, Governance and Governmentality in Pará, Northern Brazil. In: Lindert, P., Verkoren, O. (eds) Decentralized Development in Latin America. GeoJournal Library, vol 97. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3739-8_9

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