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The AWÊ, orchestrated by the maracá was a daily reminder of the rightful owner of the space that I sought to enter. Little by little, intersections and communalities among us became apparent.
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.
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.
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.
by Matheus A. Botelho and Denise Cardozo
Reviewed by Matheus Lucas Hebling
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.
Jokana means women in patxohã. Patxohã is a Brazilian indigenous language spoken by the pataxó people, mostly living in the extreme south of Bahia. The language is still alive in the community, taught at local schools, and mixed with Portuguese in daily life. Much is discussed around the importance of the role of women in society nowadays, around the world. And, if these women were seen as potency and as divine beings.
The Dandaras Collective put into practice the dream of making the monitoring project available and aiming to organize the activities held a call for new participants. This text aims at presenting an experience report on the systematization of data from the Project Blackening the Academy and present the next steps of a collective that keeps moving to build an anti-racist education. With a qualitative approach and using the methodology of bibliographic and documental research, this work presents a brief theoretical discussion on epistemic racism and the need for plurality within the academic field and presents the data of the activities carried out between 2020 and 2022.
Because of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's electoral victory on 30 October, it was decreed that Brazilian domestic policy should, after having gone off course, be taken again in the opposite direction. This means as the president-elect said in his victory speech, a project for Brazil opposite to that of Jair Bolsonaro's government. Lula's presence at COP 27 was marked by important bilateral meetings and a statement in which he made clear that the domestic change in his country would also be reflected in his foreign policy. The climate agenda, which was left out during four years of Jair Bolsonaro's government, will take a central role in the new government.
This article discusses the democratic consolidation of the Brazilian political culture. Thereby it reviews the literature and presents some own empirical analysis on regime preferences and understandings of democracy based on the seventh wave of the World Values Survey. The findings show that although high support of democracy can be measured, the process of democratic consolidation is still in the making because authoritarian alternatives like a military regime are continously supported by broader segments of the population.