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Kicking Off in Brazil: Manifesting Democracy

Conde, M; Jazeel, T; (2013) Kicking Off in Brazil: Manifesting Democracy. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies , 22 (4) pp. 437-450. 10.1080/13569325.2013.840278. Green open access

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Abstract

On 6 June, nine days before the Confederations Cup was due to kick off in Brasília, the first of a series of public protests – ‘manifestações’ – began in São Paulo. They quickly swept across Brazil, rippling through at least 70 cities, including Rio de Janeiro, Belem, Belo Horizonte, Salvador and Brasília. The largest protests that the country, and indeed Latin America, has witnessed in more than twenty years, the manifestações have received widespread media attention and critical commentary both within Brazil and overseas. This dispatch reflects on these recent protests, signposting and discussing a number of issues that they raise in Brazil's current conjuncture and more broadly, such as urban and class politics, state violence, political mediation and representation, and the uneven developmental politics of Brazil's so-called ‘emerging economy’ identity. It suggests that the manifestações pose challenging questions for all of these issues.

Type: Article
Title: Kicking Off in Brazil: Manifesting Democracy
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2013.840278
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2013.840278
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1538834
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