Renunciar à autonomia ou o movimento associativo numa encruzilhada. O exemplo das Iniciativas de Desenvolvimento Local (IDL’s) em Portugal

• Main Author: Alcides A. Monteiro
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2004-10-01
• Series: Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
• Subjects: local development initiatives; Portugal; social exclusion; collective action; social inclusion; local development
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/1346

This text starts from analyses that point to the deep crisis of associationalism, a crisis that, to a great extent, derives from the option for techno-instrumental orientations, to the detriment of civic and solidarity logics, as well as from the weakening of the political dimension. It seeks to give a contribution to the understanding of some of the trends that are currently becoming established within associationalism in Portugal, based on an analysis of the dominant meanings given to it by a number of specific initiatives (Local Development Initiatives – LDI). The underlying thesis points to ambi­valence as one of the most distinctive features of local development associations, re-actualizing dialectical tensions that are at the centre of the paradigm of western modernity.