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Politics in Uniform
Between 1964 and 1985, Brazil lived under the control of a repressive, anticommunist regime, where generals maintained all power. Respect for discipline and the absence of any and all political activity was demanded of lower-ranking officers, while their commanders ran the highest functions of state. Despite these circumstances, dozens of young captains, majors, and colonels believed that they too deserved to participate in the exercise of power. For two decades they carried on a clandestine political life that strongly influenced the regime's evolution. This book tells their story. It is history viewed from below, that pays attention to the origins of these actors, their career paths, their...
Brazilian Propaganda
In Brazilian Propaganda, Nina Schneider examines the various modes of official, and unofficial, propaganda used by an authoritarian regime. Such propaganda is commonly believed to be political, praising military figures and openly legitimizing state repression. However, Brazil's military dictatorship (1964-1985) launched seemingly apolitical official campaigns that were aesthetically appealing and ostensibly aimed to "enlighten" and "civilize." Some were produced as civilian-military collaborations and others were conducted by privately owned media, but undergirding them all was the theme of a country aspiring to become a developed nation. Focusing primarily on visual media, Schneider demons...
Brazil, Land of the Past: The Ideological Roots of the New Right
Brazil, Land of the Past scrutinizes the ideological roots of the so-called New Right in Brazil. The book traces the continuity and resilience of a system of thought based on the idea of a God-given hierarchical order to be defended against any social contract and modernizing relativization. It explains in detail how today a diverse movement — which includes actors ranging from the authoritarian Bolsonaro wing to economic liberals to the military to both Catholic and evangelical religious conservatives – assumes unanimously the ideas of this tradition as underlying premises of their political action. Though not always explicitly, this drives the self-declared “liberal-conservative” but rather anti-modernist reaction which claims to liberate an imaginary authentic “Brazil” from an aberrant “State” – and in so doing intends to preserve inherited privilege in an extremely unequal society.
Until the Storm Passes
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Until the Storm Passes reveals how Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship contributed to its own demise by alienating the civilian political elites who initially helped bring it to power. Based on exhaustive research conducted in nearly twenty archives in five countries, as well as on oral histories with surviving politicians from the period, this book tells the surprising story of how the alternatingly self-interested and heroic resistance of the political class contributed decisively to Brazil's democratization. As they gradually turned against military rule, politicians began to embrace a political role for the masses that most of them would never have accepted in 1964, thus setting the stage for the breathtaking expansion of democracy that Brazil enjoyed over the next three decades.
Latin America's Radical Left
This book examines a generation of leftist militants who in the 1960s advocated revolutionary violence for social change in South America.
Volkswagen in the Amazon
The first history of the German multinational's resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon.
Social Segmentation and Clientelism in the Extreme West
This volume explores problems related to processes of importation and adaptation of Western cultural and institutional models and their effects on social structures. Among these problems, those related to the permanence of reciprocity ties in official institutions and their correlates, such as clientelism and corruption, stand out. The book will appeal to social scientists concerned with analytical problems and theoretical advances in relation to the issues at hand, as well as the wider public concerned with the trends and results of the importation of Western models in the processes of transforming social structures, especially in “extra-Western” societies.
Querido Lula
De 7 de abril de 2018 a 8 de novembro de 2019, o ex-presidente Lula ficou encarcerado na Superintendência da Polícia Federal de Curitiba. Foram 580 dias de cárcere, que marcaram definitivamente o rumo da história pessoal de Lula e também do Brasil: enquanto o país elegia um representante da extrema direita, um acampamento em frente à prisão se formou, organizações nacionais e internacionais lutavam na arena jurídica para reverter as injustas condenações, e milhares de brasileiros e brasileiras se solidarizaram com a situação do ex-presidente, seja por manifestações via internet ou pelo meio de comunicação mais antigo entre nós, as cartas. Durante esse período, aproximada...
A política nos quartéis
Capitães amotinados e coronéis conspiradores; generais que caíram em desgraça e políticos golpistas dissidentes. A historiadora francesa Maud Chirio revela um ponto de vista original sobre o regime militar brasileiro ao retratar a intensa vida política dentro das Forças Armadas durante o período. Seu foco são os oficiais de patentes médias ou inferiores, que foram a favor do golpe de 1964, mas terminaram sendo politicamente derrotados. Para escrever o livro, Chirio utilizou uma extensa bibliografia, além de realizar entrevistas inéditas com antigos participantes do regime militar, o que lhe possibilitou a leitura de documentos muitas vezes secretos ou pouco acessíveis. O panorama que traçou revela uma fina compreensão sociológica da instituição militar. Um contexto que propiciou manifestos, pressões, panfletagem, protestos, revoltas e até atentados promovidos por oficiais. Influiu, ainda, diretamente sobre as escolhas políticas, econômicas e policiais do poder ao longo dos 21 anos da ditadura deflagrada com o golpe de 1964. A política nos quartéis é um marco na renovação dos estudos sobre o tema.
Politics in Uniform
Between 1964 and 1985, Brazil lived under the control of a repressive, anticommunist regime, where generals maintained all power. Respect for discipline and the absence of any and all political activity was demanded of lower-ranking officers, while their commanders ran the highest functions of state. Despite these circumstances, dozens of young captains, majors, and colonels believed that they too deserved to participate in the exercise of power. For two decades they carried on a clandestine political life that strongly influenced the regime's evolution. This book tells their story. It is history viewed from below, that pays attention to the origins of these actors, their career paths, their...
