Sociedade civil e neoliberalismo: a construção de caminhos frente às políticas neoliberais 1995 - 2002

Abstract

The thesis discusses Civil Society Organizations and their position regarding neoliberal policies. It focuses on an analysis of the performance of these organizations in the Civil Society space, assuming that, given the neoliberal strategies adopted by the Brazilian State, the Civil Society Organizations, from 1995 to 2002, performed counter-hegemony to this. Neoliberal state in conformation and resistance processes, which are not watertight and non-exclusive. The general objective of the research was to analyze the performance of Civil Society Organizations, as counter-hegemonic cases, before the neoliberal policies assimilated by Brazil. The central question of the research is: How did the Civil Society Organizations counter-hegemonize neoliberal policies, from 1995 to 2002, in view of the reduction of the State's actions regarding social protection? The theoretical framework is supported by the contributions of some authors such as Behring (2008), Coutinho (2008) Duriguetto (2011), Landim (1993), Martins (2009), Montaño (2011) and Pereira (2003), among others. The discussions raise the investigation of a qualitative approach, of exploratory nature, with methodological procedures of Documentary Research and Discourse Analysis, having as instrument of analysis documents generated, during the time frame, by two civil society organizations from the military regime, the MOC and CESE and, which during the 90's, acted in front of the Brazilian neoliberal ideas. What can be seen is that those civil society organizations, during the time-frame, did not counteract the hegemony of the neoliberal project, from the constitution and execution of programs / projects that dealt with the multiple manifestations of the social issue, sought to ensure rights. political and social issues and the survival of groups / communities, sometimes conforming, sometimes resisting the offensive of the strategies carried out by the neoliberal policies installed in the Brazilian State and Bahia, although they do not express, in their activities, considering the time frame, political and social actions that explicit change and / or transformation in the period, as against hegemony to the neoliberal scenario, with regard to social protection.