Movimentos sociais urbanos: pensando uma realidade em construção

Resumo

In this article, we questioned the problem related to the crisis of the New Social
Movements (NSM), taking as reference the pattern assumed b> the movements at
the seventies and the eighties, particularly in the Brazilian case. The crisis approach
has to do with the hypothesis of a new, original situation at the social movements.
The analysis os NSM have given emphasys to the social participation spaces concerning
daily experiences, through which new collective identities are built up at the
political culture sphere. These spaces are regarded as based in principles like
autonomy, internal democracy, solidarity and non-alienation. We also point out some
issues which still remain as open questions, methodologically and analitically, in the
available bibliography. Some substantive items are referred as well to stress the
present historical-conjunctural and analytical situation of Urban Social Movements.