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Sem medo do futuro
A Editora Contracorrente tem a honra de anunciar a publicação do livro Sem medo do futuro, do professor, escritor, militante do MTST e político Guilherme Boulos. Com sua retórica inconfundível – direta e acessível –, Boulos entrega nesta obra (composta por cinco ensaios) uma análise aguda e lúcida do Brasil de hoje, que sofre o desmonte de suas recentes conquistas sociais. Apoiando-se em dados concretos e diversas referências, mas sem cair nas armadilhas do academicismo, Boulos procura também relacionar os problemas econômicos, políticos e ambientas contemporâneos do país com o nosso passado, marcado por injustiças e inversões de todo tipo, sempre em benefício de uma peq...
De que lado você está?
Guilherme Boulos é considerado uma das lideranças sociais mais importantes no Brasil nos últimos anos. Isto porque a questão da qualidade de vida nas grandes cidades tornou-se um dos principais palcos de disputa no país - e os sem-teto, efeito colateral do desenvolvimento das últimas décadas, organizados ou não, hoje se juntam aos milhões. A figura do jovem líder do MTST despontou com força há pouco mais de um ano, quando o impacto de algumas expressivas mobilizações de rua e a ocupação de um vasto terreno perto do estádio onde se daria a abertura da Copa do Mundo lhe deram grande visibilidade. Segundo o próprio autor, De que lado você está? "é uma obra de intervenção,...
Por que ocupamos?
Fruto da experiência de Guilherme Boulos durante anos de militância no MTST, Por que ocupamos? sistematiza informações e pontos de vista que deveriam ser de conhecimento obrigatório para quem se propõe a discutir a questão habitacional brasileira. Aqueles que se limitam a ofender os sem-teto devido às ocupações de prédios e terrenos, antes de sequer ouvir seus motivos, encontrarão no livro um desconhecido e surpreendente território a ser desbravado pela reflexão. Leitores já familiarizados com os movimentos sociais terão a oportunidade de consolidar posições e fortalecer argumentos – pré-requisitos para fazer avançar a luta pela moradia, cada vez mais necessária frente aos abusivos preços dos aluguéis e crescente déficit habitacional nas grandes cidades do país.
Por que gritamos Golpe?
Somando-se ao debate público sobre a crise política no Brasil, Por que gritamos Golpe? proporciona ao leitor diversas análises sobre a dinâmica do processo de impeachment da presidente Dilma Rousseff, dentro de uma perspectiva multidisciplinar e de esquerda. Os textos que compõem a coletânea são inéditos e buscam desenhar uma genealogia da crise política, entender as ameaças que se colocam à democracia e aos direitos conquistados pela Constituição de 1988 e apontar caminhos de superação de nossos impasses políticos. São trinta autores, entre pesquisadores, professores, ativistas, representantes de movimentos sociais, jornalistas e figuras políticas. Por que gritamos Golpe? ...
Visual Political Communication
This book offers a theoretically driven, empirically grounded survey of the role visual communication plays in political culture, enabling a better understanding of the significance and impact visuals can have as tools of political communication. The advent of new media technologies have created new ways of producing, disseminating and consuming visual communication, the book hence explores the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of visual political communication in the digital age, and how visual communication is employed in a number of key settings. The book is intended as a specialist reading and teaching resource for courses on media, politics, citizenship, activism, social movements, public policy, and communication.
The Brazilian Left in the 21st Century
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.
The Latin American Crisis and the New Authoritarian State
This book provides a fresh interpretation of the rise and fall of Latin America’s ‘left turn’, or movement towards more progressive economic or social policies. From a historical and comparative perspective, the book argues that Latin America is entering a new phase of authoritarian statism. Based on over 10 years of research on Latin American political economy and social movements, including years of fieldwork in Chile, Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina, this book combines the stories of individuals and groups in particular situations with the macro-level political and economic trajectory of the region since the postwar period. The book draws on over 100 interviews with community activi...
Lula
The first – and long-awaited – major biography of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Lula is among the greatest political figures in Brazilian history. The only president in the country with a working-class background, combined with a party that was profoundly original in its roots, he exercised charismatic power and influence in a more lasting way than any other public figure in the republican period. Since 2011, Fernando Morais, one of Brazil's leading writers, has gained direct, frank and frequent access to Lula. To these dozens of hours of testimonies, he has added a reporter's flair and captivating prose to compose a biography that paints a picture in all its grandeur and complexity. In a narrative that makes use of flashforwards and flashbacks to maintain an electrifying pace, Morais goes from Lula's childhood to the annulment of his convictions, in 2021, passing through the new unionism, the ABC strikes, the foundation of the PT and the first election campaign.
Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice provides a compelling demonstration of the deeply gendered and unequal effects of the climate emergency, alongside the urgent need for a feminist perspective to expose and address these structural political, social and economic inequalities. Taking a nuanced, multidisciplinary approach, this book explores new ways of thinking about how climate change interacts with gender inequalities and feminist concerns with rights and law, and how the human world is bound up with the non-human, natural world.
Engaging Erik Olin Wright
A collection of essays exploring emancipatory social science, inspired by the work of pioneering sociologist Erik Olin Wright Erik Olin Wright was one of the most brilliant and world renowned social scientists of our era. He left us in 2019 with an unfinished project - the articulation of class and utopia. Wright's sociological Marxism embarked from an original class analysis, with its trade-mark contradictory class locations, that empirically mapped class structures across the globe. In response to the collapse of communism and the rise of neoliberalism, Wright turned to the premise of class analysis, that is the possibility of socialism. Forsaking Marxism's allergy to utopian thinking, Wri...
