Knowledge and Power of the Civil Society: an empirical study of Brazilian professionals working in the NGOs

This study critically analyses the way Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) operate in Brazil and their contribution to the development of the Brazilian civil society. The notion of "power fields" and "habitus", proposed by Bourdieu (1989; 1996), provides the theoretical backdr...

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Main Authors: Júnia Fátima do Carmo Guerra, Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodosio, Walter Mswaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2016-03-01
Series:Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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Online Access:https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/4259