Abstract
The mechanism responsible for the shift of public policies into government policies is a neocolonialist political cosmology which, through the manipulation of representations of time and space, has crystallized social identities which were constructed in a “top down” fashion. Life histories, which were sustained by naturalistic traditions and forms of knowledge – geared towards probabilities – became confronted with knowledge forms that were oriented towards the future, towards universalism, and towards predictability. Places that were lived in with affective ties with the material environment became indeterminate spaces, goods subject to the diffuse interests of a surrounding society that is planetary in scale. The result is, then, a shift from public socioenvironmental policies – understood as policies rooted in society at large – to government development policies – seen as policies supported, implemented, or endorsed by government.
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Aside from this distinction, I would suggest a further classification based upon the delegation of power and the meaning in which it is delegated. In this fashion, we can thus conceive of public policies in which the State delegates power to civil society as well as the other way around. The same concept can be applied to government policies. In terms of ideal types, we can think of public policies as those in which power is centered within society, whereas government policies are those in which power is centered within the State.
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One must remember, in this context, Godelier’s teaching that tradition is not simply repetition.
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I discuss this concept further, below.
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K.-O. Apel, “A necessidade, a aparente dificuldade e a efetiva possibilidade de uma macro ética planetária da (para a) humanidade,” in Revista da Comunicação e Linguagem, nos 15–16 – Ética e Comunicação - 1992, pp. 11–26.
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At Arraial do Cabo, the criterion stipulated by the Management Plan of 1997 was that the individual had to be “fishing for ten years and voting for five in Arraial do Cabo” (query Ibama/MMA, 1997).
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This decree deals with the sustainable development of traditional communities.
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Lobão, R. (2011). The Political Economy of Resentment: A Result of Public Policies That Become Government Policies?. In: Pinedo-Vasquez, M., Ruffino, M., Padoch, C., Brondízio, E. (eds) The Amazon Várzea . Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0146-5_19
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