de Souza Santos, A,A and Hatzikidi, K (Eds).
(2025)
The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil.
[Book].
Modern Americas.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Rather than looking back into Brazil’s authoritarian past, the Bolsonaro administration (2019–2022) provides an innovative case study through which to explore Brazil’s manifold and recurring expressions of authoritarianism. This book investigates the ways that authoritarianism most recently emerged and how it was confronted, and, in doing so, the varied ways (and spaces) in which struggles over the meaning and practice of democracy that took place during the period. The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil examines repression and dissent: efforts to dismantle democratic foundations alongside forms of contestation and resistance to authoritarianism. The chapters offer valuable theoretical and ethnographic insights, from interdisciplinary perspectives, into the complex realities that Brazilians experienced in the four years of Bolsonaro’s presidency. The book is organised around four sections, each addressing a core area where democracy, as meaning and practice, was contested, attacked and defended. This is shown not only between Bolsonaro’s government and those who resisted it from within and outside the state, but also between state and non-state actors and between public and private sectors, allowing for a broad view of the country’s polarised political landscape and the impact such struggles have had on civil society.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800088207 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800088207 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088207 |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Brazil, democracy, politics, authoritarianism |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10208227 |
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