Intro; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One; 1.1 The Solidarity Economy; 1.2 Cultural Citizenship in Brazil; 1.3 Plenary Debates; Chapter Two; 2.1 The Experience of Collective Cultural Groups; 2.2 Plenary Debates; 2.3 Critical Reading; Chapter Three; 3.1 The Role of Municipal Public Policies; 3.2 The Solidarity Economy and the Economy of Culture; 3.3 Cultural Rights and Citizenship; 3.4 Plenary Debates; 3.5 Critical Readings: Perspectives for the Great ABC Region; 3.6 Critical Readings: The Solidarity Economy and the Connections with Cultural Policies
Chapter FourContributors; Bibliography; Index
Summary
How can artists in a developing country be able to dedicate themselves to the laborious task of creating art when there are few resources? How can the government and intellectuals support artists without imposing a centralized idea of national culture? This book explores these questions and others, focusing on lived experience in the ABC region of São Paulo, Brazil. Beginning with two lectures by two renowned professors and activists of the Brazilian solidarity movement, Ladislau Dowbor and Célio Turino de Almeida, the book then opens up space for artists from diverse areas to speak about thei
