Desvendando as formas de participação no estado democrático de direito: um estudo sobre a participação desenvolvida pelo observatório social de Irati-PR,

Abstract

The present research had as objective to understand how the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Social Observatory of Irati develops its participation in the Municipality of Irati, in the temporal cut of 2016 and 2017 (first semester). The research was qualitative and was carried out through the following methodological procedure: systematization of theoretical reference from the main categories: Participation, Civil Society, State, Hegemony and Ideology. In this systematization it was fundamentally important to analyze the principles of the Democratic State of Law, the forms and representations of participation from the liberal and Marxist meanings. We also seek to articulate the totality of social relations, permeated by the contradictions of the capitalist production process and the fragmentation between public and private. In the sequence, the field was inserted, with data collection and documents, as well as observations, with annotations in a field notebook. Therefore, the research used direct and indirect documentation, in order to collect data that could guide the proposed interpretations. Several forms of participation of the NGO studied were identified, being these separated in the following categories: Fiscal Education, Society Mobilization and Public Accounts Audit. The interpretation of the data was performed through content analysis, trying to find the meaning of messages and forms of participation under the guidance of the dialectical-historical method. The main results show a tendency towards participation focused on managerial content, which disregards class interests and social inequalities. This is due to ideological and hegemonic influences of the capitalist mode of production, mainly influenced by neoliberal policies introduced in Brazil from the 1990s. To a certain extent, these policies affect participation as a pedagogical process, blocking the search for autonomy and political consciousness. Even so, when reflecting on the participatory processes in the State of Right, one can not disregard all the wealth of civil society, understood as space of struggles and conquests for new hegemonies, participation being an unfinished, contradictory, but constant process movement.