Requiem for Radical Citizenship: on the rise and fall of Radical Citizenship in Brazilian and Dutch non-governmental cooperation

In the past years, International Organizations in Brazil have been showing the tendency of withdrawal and/or decline of budgets, as well as shifts in priorities and regions in the country. The reasons for such changes are manifold, and ascribe to phenomena taking place both in national and international contexts. The paper discusses the reasons behind such changes, and asks about the future implications to projects that take radical democracy as a normative guideline in Brazil. In order to do so, it draws upon recent discussions in social movement theory and networks to analyse the rise, the evolution and the alleged demise of the network around radicalism in Brazil. Finally, it speculates about the alternatives to the radical democratic project given the changes in the presence of Private Aid Agencies in the country.