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Daniel Chavez

TNI New Politics Programme Coordinator

Daniel Chavez is a Uruguayan anthropologist specialising in Latin American politics and urban social and political movements. With an intimate knowledge of Latin American left politics and an advisor to various local governments on participatory local democracy, he is also editor of the La nueva izquierda en América Latina: sus orígenes y trayectoria futura (New Left in Latin America: its origins and future, with Patrick Barrett and Cesar García (Grupo Editorial Norma, 2005)  

Before moving to Europe he had worked for almost a decade for the United Federation of Mutual-Aid Housing Cooperatives (FUCVAM). Daniel currently co-ordinates the New TNI Politics Programme, in co-operation with Hilary Wainwright. He is also author of The Left in the City: Participatory Local Governments in Latin America with Benjamin Goldfrank (LAB, 2001).

Left politics and emancipatory political thinking in Latin America; Chavez and Venezuela; participatory urban management, planning and governance; new social movements; public services reforms and alternatives to privatisation.

English, Spanish

Selected publications: 
The New Latin American Left
The Left in the City
Polis & Demos

Recent content by Daniel Chavez

Venezuela's CANTV: What should a 21st century "socialist” telecommunications company look like? (4 Mar 2010)

Venezuela's revolution has often been tied to the slogan “Socialism in the 21st Century.” What might that might mean concretely in changes under way in the renationalised state telecommunications company, CANTV?

The Left in the City (17 Apr 2007)

The Left in the City explores examples of progressive parties in local office from across the continent, from Mexico to Uruguay and from Brazil to Peru, and examines the successes and failures of the Left in government.

Beyond the Market: The Future of Public Services (15 Mar 2007)

This yearbook proves that privatisation is not inevitable; that we can and must react to protect, preserve and reclaim
our public service inheritance. It is clear that without extensive, universally distributed public services, there is no way the
world can realise the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals.

Polis & Demos (31 Oct 2006)

In reviewing and comparing experiments with participatory budgeting and democratisation in Montevideo and Porto Alegre, the book aims to contribute to a more extensive and deeper understandings of left politics and democratic public policies in Latin America and the Global South.

Lights Off! (19 May 2002)

This briefing attempts to look beyond the promised benefits of the power sector liberalisation, and debunk some myths about power deregulation and privatisation worldwide.

 
 
 
 

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