Ninguém me reconhece como grande cidadão: desafios da participação em Três Corações

Abstract

This dissertation analyses limits, possibilities ans risks of the participatory process of creation of the Culture Municipal System of Três Corações city, based on the vision of nine leaderships citizens of the comunity who got envolved with the movement that asks this public policy. From the rereading of participation theories and the content analysis of nine half-structured interviews, it was generated the understanding that the proccess, owned by civil society, looks for cultural agents self-promotion and the implementation of democratic rules, but faces as limits and obstacles the responsability transfers by public power, the custs of participation, the lack of effectiveness and assistencialism. There is, yet, the risk of creating mechanisms of managerial participation, reducing the culture system political rule. The results allows a reflection around the need of interlocution between participatory moviments that ask for public policies implementation.