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A democracia no Brasil
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 162

A democracia no Brasil

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-07-05
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  • Publisher: Gramma

Este livro se constitui em leitura fundamental para quem quer entender o passado recente de nosso país, lançando um olhar lúcido sobre a Ditadura Militar (1964-1985) e seu entulho autoritário ainda enraizado na sociedade brasileira.

The Brazilian Left in the 21st Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

The Brazilian Left in the 21st Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-02-04
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book aims to reconstruct the role played by left movements and organizations in Brazil from their process of renewal in the 1980s as they fought against the civil-military dictatorship, going through the Workers' Party's governments in the 2000s, until the Party’s dramatic defeat with a parliamentary coup in 2016. Henceforth, there have been attacks on social and political rights that severely affect the lower classes and reverted progressive policies on various issues. Through a historical reconstruction, this book analyzes how different left movements and organizations contributed to the democratization of Brazilian society, and how their contradictions contributed to the actual conservative turn. The essays also focus the development of Brazilian Left in the light of socialist politics and especially Marxism, both in terms of political organizations and theory. In this sense, the essays in this collection represent an effort to rethink some aspects of the history of the Brazilian left and how it can reorganize itself after the conservative turn.

Concrete Inferno
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

Concrete Inferno

After a coup in 1964 that ousted Brazil’s leftist President João Goulart from power, a brutal military dictatorship took the reins of the state. As a result, elements of the persecuted Brazilian Communist Party split from a more peaceful, orthodox line and declared their intent to wage an insurgent war against the government, plunging the country into a conflagration of violence marked by cycles of urban bombings, political assassinations, institutional torture, kidnappings, and summary executions. Concrete Inferno relays this period in Brazil in a lucid narrative history, exploring what drove the military coup of 1964, the subsequent rise of the Armed Left, and the successes and failures of the insurgency and how it concluded. Stretching from the rumblings of discontent during João Goulart’s ascendancy in 1961 to the strange conclusion of the dictatorship in 1985, the book draws on new primary sources and a wealth of English- and Portuguese-language resources to provide a complete and evenhanded portrait of the conflict.

From Dictatorship to Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 147

From Dictatorship to Democracy

In From Dictatorship to Democracy: Confronting the Authoritarian Past in Brazil, Dr Gisele Iecker de Almeida offers a thought-provoking examination of how government initiatives construct representations of the past and can play a crucial role in shaping collective memory. Focusing on Brazil's difficult heritage, this groundbreaking monograph delves into the complex landscape of memory surrounding the dictatorship and its enduring legacies. Through a critical analysis of Brazilian policies implemented between 1995 and 2016, including the Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances, the Amnesty Commission, Revealed Memories, and the Brazilian National Truth Commission, de Almeid...

Justice and Democracy in Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 174

Justice and Democracy in Brazil

This book details the struggle to establish and maintain democracy and justice in Brazil after 2000. From 1964 to 1984, Brazil had a dictatorship, which was followed by democratic elections. Later, from 2003 to 2016, the nation enjoyed a very popular and democratic government under President Lula and President Dilma, who created many social and educational programs that raised 32 million people out of extreme poverty. However, as this book highlights, since 2013, the nation has witnessed the rise of a very conservative movement, which led to the impeachment of President Dilma (2016), to the imprisonment of President Lula (2018) and to the election of a right-wing president, who represented a decline in democracy and rights from 2018 to 2022. In 2022, we had new elections, with the victory of President Lula, who took office on January 1, 2023. This book advocates for a new period in Brazilian politics, with full democracy, respect for the rule of law and social justice.

Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 395

Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below

  • Categories: Law

Examines when, where, why, and how corporate accountability for past human rights violations in armed conflicts and authoritarian regimes is possible.

200 filmes para 200 anos de independência do Brasil
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 456

200 filmes para 200 anos de independência do Brasil

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-02-08
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  • Publisher: Editora CRV

As celebrações do bicentenário da Independência do Brasil foram ofuscadas pelo momento incendiário da campanha presidencial do ano de 2022, não obstante, importantes estudos tenham sido lançados neste mesmo ano. Ao longo do século XX, a historiografia brasileira aprofundou, a partir de matrizes teóricas diversas, as contradições de nossa Independência face o contexto geral da América Latina. Esta obra propõe uma mudança de olhar sobre esses 200 anos. Se é fato que historiadores e historiadoras se dedicaram à investigação, também cineastas nacionais se dedicaram a desmascarar as brutais condições de existência impostas aos cidadãos e cidadãs brasileiros nestes dois séculos. Glauber Rocha, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Sylvio Back, Lúcia Murat, Sílvio Tendler, Kléber Mendonça Filho, Hector Babenco, Ana Carolina, outros e outras lançaram às telas de cinema, as incongruências e horrores de nossa História. Não se pretende substituir os estudos historiográficos, mas reconhecer como Robert Rosenstone que, o cinema dá "carne ao passado" e se configura como uma nova forma de pensamento histórico.

Religion and Law in Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Religion and Law in Brazil

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient resource provides systematic information on how Brazil deals with the role religion plays or can play in society, the legal status of religious communities and institutions, and the legal interaction among religion, culture, education, and media. After a general introduction describing the social and historical background, the book goes on to explain the legal framework in which religion is approached. Coverage proceeds from the principle of religious freedom through the rights and contractual obligations of religious communities; international, transnational, and regional law effects; and the legal p...

The Brazilian Truth Commission
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

The Brazilian Truth Commission

Bringing together some of the world’s leading scholars, practitioners, and human-rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012–2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission. While attentive to the inquiry’s local and national dimensions, it offers an illuminating transnational perspective that considers the Commission’s Latin American regional context and relates it to global efforts for human rights accountability, contributing to a more general and critical reassessment of truth commissions from a variety of viewpoints.

Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach. The seven case studies are preceded by an Introduction in which the editors assess the continuing relevance of Wolf’s political economy. The book concludes with Gavin Smith’s reflection on reading Eric Wolf as a public intellectual today.