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  title info:
    title: Manifesting democracy?
    sub title: urban protests and the politics of representation in Brazil post 2013
  name:
    name part: Conde, Maite
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : color illustrations.
  abstract: "Grappling with the question of democracy in Brazil is far from straightforward, not least in the country's contemporary history. In 2016, then President Dilma Rousseff, of the PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores) or the Workers' Party, was impeached and evicted from office midway through her second term after being found guilty of breaking budgetary laws for deferring payments on public accounts, a long-standing practice common to previous governments. Two years later, her predecessor, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, the most popular ruler in Brazilian history, was incarcerated for twelve years, an act carried out ostensibly on grounds of corruption and money laundering, yet one that as recent reporting has uncovered was part of a conspiracy to prevent him and the Workers' Party from returning to power in the 2018 election. With Lula out of the way, that election was won by the right wing candidate Jair Messias Bolsonaro, a former military officer who has extolled the country's most notorious torturer; declared that the military dictatorship should have shot thirty thousand opponents; told a congress woman that she was too ugly to merit raping; announced he would rather his son killed in a car accident than be gay; avowed open season on the Amazon rainforest, pledging to take land away from indigenous communities; declared that indigenous and Afro-Brazilian peoples are not fit for anything, not even procreating; and promised to rid Brazil of red riff-raff. In 1991 Brazilian philosopher Marilena Chauí, a contributor to this collection, declared "Brazil is an authoritarian country," since it has yet to "fully realise the principals of liberalism and republicanism" (2011:169) Brazil is a nation, Chauí stated, "where there is no distinction between public and private, in which there is an inability to tolerate the formal and abstract principle of equality before the law, in which social and popular forms of struggle are repressed and in which racial, sexual and class discriminati…
  table of contents: Introduction / Maite Conde -- June 2013: A Moment in the Struggle for Public Transport in the City -- The June 2013 Protests in the City of São Paulo -- Are they Black Blocs? The Trajectories of Militancy, Repression and Contestation of Meaning in Rio de Janeiro's Protests -- Media Activism and Diverse Tactics on the Streets of Brazil. Observations about and from Mídia NINJA -- The Politics of Strolling -- Seja Gari, Seja Herói (Be a Binman, Be a Hero). Aesthetic Manifestations in Rio de Janeiro's Protests -- Social Movements and Participatory Planning. The Limits of Institutionalization -- Brazil. Development Strategies and Social Change from Import Substitution to the June Days -- The Democratic Eclipse: Between the Brazil of Social Struggles and the Brazil of Political Coups.
  note: edited by Maite Conde.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: s-bl---
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    geographic: Brazil
  subject:
    topic: Political participation
    geographic: Brazil
  subject:
    geographic: Brazil
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1985-
  subject:
    topic: Protest movements
    geographic: Brazil
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: Brazil
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 2003-
  classification: JL2431 .M326 2022
  classification: 320.981
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    title info:
      title: Manifesting democracy?
    origin info:
      publisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2022
      edition: First Edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2021060397
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    title info:
      title: Antipode book series
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  identifier: 9781119331247
  identifier: 1119331242
  identifier: 9781119330912
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220128
    record change date: 20260214214750.5
    record identifier: in00004685762
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng