Democracy and Brazil : collapse and regression

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Democracy and Brazil : collapse and regression

edited by Bernardo Bianchi ... [et al.]

(Routledge studies in Latin American politics)

Routledge, 2020

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Other editors: Jorge Chaloub, Patricia Rangel, Frieder Otto Wolf

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Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression discusses the de-democratization process underway in contemporary Brazil. The relative political stability that characterized domestic politics in the 2000s ended with the sudden emergence of a series of massive protests in 2013, followed by the controversial impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. In this new, more conservative period in Brazilian politics, a series of institutional reforms deepened the distance between citizens and representatives. Brazil's current political crisis cannot be understood without reference to the continual growth of right-wing and ultra-right discourse, on the one hand, and to the neoliberal ideology that pervades the minds of large parts of the Brazilian elite, on the other. Twenty experts on Brazil across different fields discuss the ongoing political turmoil in the light of distinct problems: geopolitics, gender, religion, media, indigenous populations, right-wing strategies, and new forms of coup, among others. Updated analyses enriched with historical perspective help to illuminate the intricate issues that will determine the country's fate in years to come. Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression will interest students and scholars of Brazilian Politics and History, Latin America, and the broader field of democracy studies.

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1. De-democratization in Contemporary Brazil: From 2015 to 2019 Part I Political Collapse 2. Initial Observations on the Brazilian Disaster 3. Cycles of Democracy and the Racial Issue in Brazil (1978-2019) 4. Democratization and De-democratization in Left-Led Brazil: From "Low-Conflict Progressivism" to "Hyper-Reactionary Neoliberalism" 5. The Right and Neo-Golpismo in Latin America. A Comparative Reading of Honduras (2009), Paraguay (2012), and Brazil (2016) 6. Corruption and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Brazil 7. Bolsonaro and the Current Stage of the Brazilian Social Crisis: Historical Continuities as a Backdrop for the Present Situation 8. The Post-Depressive Constellation: From Political Effervescence to the Rise of Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Brazil Part II Social Regression 9. Paulo Freire's Legacy and the Ideological Battle in Brazil 10. The Urban Crisis in Brazil: from the Neodevelopmentalist Experiment to the Rise of Bolsonarismo 11. De-democratization in Brazil and the New Puzzle of Women's Political Representation 12. Politics of Devastation: Remarks on De-democratization, Indigenous Peoples, and the Environment in Contemporary Brazil 13. Politics and Religion in Contemporary Brazil: The Neoconservative Turn in Evangelical Christianity 14. What is Post-Truth? A Tentative Answer with Brazil as a Case Study 15. Psychiatric Power: Exclusion and Segregation in the Brazilian Mental Health System 16. A Return to the Past or a New Beginning? Why the Brazilian Case Merits Broader Discussion

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