Beyond a car-centric world
The detrimental effects of this car-centric approach are becoming increasingly apparent, and achieving sustainable transportation requires a holistic approach that addresses various aspects of urban living.
Treading the Diplomatic Tightrope: Lula’s Approach to the Israel-Palestine Conflict
During his presidential terms, Lula consistently advocated for the two-state solution, supporting the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. He also vehemently criticized Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories, viewing them as a hindrance to peace. However, Brazil maintained diplomatic and trade relations with Israel, illustrating the intricate political and economic considerations that influence the country's foreign policy. Lula emphasized the importance of multilateralism and international diplomacy in the quest for a peaceful and equitable resolution to the conflict. The article explores how this approach reflects Lula's pursuit of autonomy and sovereignty in Brazilian foreign policy, while also highlighting challenges and criticisms faced during his diplomatic journey.
Brazilian population abroad: the challenge of accessing data and organizing information
by Camila Escudero*
Reviewed by Matheus Lucas Hebling
The Brazilian emigration process is considered recent. It was only in the 1980 years that Brazil, recognized throughout its history as a country of immigration, with the arrival of foreigners contributing to the formation of its national identity (Ribeiro, 1995; Lesser, 2001), passed to be considered a country of emigration. […]
Black slavery in Latin America: The cases of Cuba and Brazil
Cuba and Brazil are the two countries were the ones that received the biggest number of black enslaved Africans and the last nations to abolish slavery officially. As can be seen in the text, in Cuba and Brazil, the population of black enslaved persons was boosted by sugarcane plantations and sugar production.
Is Bolsonaro an example of a radical right-wing populist?
Radical Right-Wing Populism (RWP) is a phenomenon that has been introduced previously in Latin America. In periods of economic crisis, the fight against inflation was another hallmark of right-wing populist appeals. Nevertheless, nativism, the core feature of RRP, was largely missing in earlier cases of RWP in Latin America. Nonetheless, Bolsonaro is as much a symptom of a broader trend as he is a consequence of recent Brazilian history.
Right Wing Populism in Latin America
Looking at Latin America, the criterion to define populism needs to be revised. Nativism and ethnopluralism seem out of place in a region where the concept of a homogenous nation-state never took hold and where mestizaje is a cultural ideal. This is not to say that nativism has to be dropped as a definitional criterion for the Latin American far-right. There are notable ideological overlaps with the European and North American New Right, for example, concerning immigration, which is a controversial issue in South America. There are also offenses against ethnic and cultural minorities, and nationalist rhetoric is pervasive.
Poverty Eradication, what a challenge!
Poverty inhabits different places and bodies, each one with different sociocultural, geographical, and historically variable dimensions and meanings. A process full of comings and goings, associated with the complex and profound transformations of the international scene, admitting different, if not divergent, interpretations and readings.
October 2022: Brazilian’s presidential candidates on Twitter
We collected daily tweets spanning from October 3rd to October 29th of 2022 (the day after the second turn elections in Brazil) for each one of the candidates running in the Brazilian second turn presidential elections. Tweets were collected from both candidates' timelines and Twitter users mentioning the candidates, totaling more than 69 million tweets, the largest volume of monthly data obtained since the beginning of our survey. We extracted the data through a Twitter API used exclusively for academic purposes and analyzed using R software.
Paradoxes of the decision-making process in public policies in the government of Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022)
by Matheus A. Botelho and Denise Cardozo
Reviewed by Matheus Lucas Hebling
In recent years, political scientists, public policy managers, and other bureaucrats at different levels dealt with incredibly contradictory processes in the formulation of public policies, especially in the federal government.
The government of Jair Messias Bolsonaro (2019-2022) reversed the logic of formulation and implementation of public […]
Citizen participation in Brazil: Anthropology’s insights
Talking about participation in Brazil is not an easy task. But a movement gained strength with the Covid-19 pandemic: digital participation, a context in which the emergence of democratic innovations stands out, as well as the migration of more traditional tools, such as councils, to the online format. Would online be a solution for increasing citizen participation in Brazil? My argument is that, for those who defend participation as an end, moving online can be a good strategy to insert layers excluded from participation. However, the individual perspective and sociological reduction must be employed in any investigation.