Name: Luiza Duarte Bissoli
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 25/05/2016
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Cristiana Losekann | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Cristiana Losekann | Advisor * |
| Débora Alves Maciel | External Examiner * |
| Igor Suzano Machado | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: In this dissertation, we seek to make the Field of Mobilization of Law against GMOs (FMLG) through actors, arenas and strategies that influence and relate to AS-PTA (in portuguese, Assessoria e Serviços a Projetos em Agricultura Alternativa - Consultancy and Services for Projects in Alternative Agriculture) and IDEC (in portuguese, Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor Brazilian Consumer Protection Agency). Both associations show how not every
alliance is between actors with the same objectives and the same specific strategies. Contrariwise, the tow cases denotes how different entities can come togetherwith strategies that complement each other depending on social, political and economic context. In addition, both have diverses repertoires and forms of action, including specialization on issues and strategies. The political discussion we want to establish around the transgenics runs through multiple
social fields social science, law and natural environment. Because of that, we choose for a multiple research techniques. Our main theoretical references are: researchers who use a historical perspective in view of political process, as Tilly (2010) and Tarrow (2009), researchers from the mobilization of law, and relational approaches like Rucht (2004), and interpretation, especially McCann (2006, 2010). Finally, we conclude that we have in the case of transgenic very low accountability, revealing a poor democratic political system in treating on technical issues and policy. Still, the judiciary has shown an open power to many demands of civil society. This work goes against the idea of generalizing social movements as hyposufficient, and reveals the importance of the performance of organizations in this particular conflict.
