Brazil on fire? Protests, crisis and confrontations
02 November 2018, 5:00 pm鈥6:30 pm
Event Information
Open to
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Organiser
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Alexander Macfarlane
Location
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Room 403DPU at Senate House, 4th Floor, Senate HouseMalet StreetLondonWC1E 7HU
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Brazil has experienced a series of intense processes in the last years. The election of a left government in 2002 that promoted policies against social, regional and racial inequalities -reelected in 2006, 2010 and 2014-, was followed by protests in June 2013 and new forms of activism. The mobilisations against Dilma Rousseff and the impeachment-coup, as well as the prison of Lula, have marked a new political cycle. In 2018, the country is facing new elections in the context of the rise of extreme-right movements, in what can be considered a crisis of multiple nature: political, economic, social, existencial. In this session, the political scientist Jean Tible in conversation with Alexandre Apsan Frediani, will discuss the current scenario in Brazil from the perspective of the grassroots movements, and the challenges that it poses to democracy and justice in Brazilian cities.听
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Speaker Bio
Jean Tible is profesor at the Political Science Department of the University of S茫o Paulo, author of Marx selvagem 听[Savage Marx] (S茫o Paulo, Autonomia Liter谩ria, 2018 鈥 3rd Edition) and co-editor of Junho: pot锚ncia das ruas e das redes [June: potency of the struggles and networks] (Funda莽茫o Friedrich Ebert, 2014); Cartografias da emerg锚ncia: novas lutas no Brasil [Cartography of the emergence: new struggles in Brazil] (FES, 2015); and Negri no Tr贸pico 23掳26鈥14鈥 [Negri in the tropic 23掳26鈥14鈥漖 (Autonomia Liter谩ria, Editora da Cidade e n-1 edi莽玫es, 2017). Articles and books avalaible at:
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