The Brazilian Left in the 21st Century

Conflict and Conciliation in Peripheral Capitalism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-03287-6
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH

Buch, Englisch, MyCopy, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

The beginning of the 21st century in Brazil witnessed contradictory historical developments. While the election of Lula da Silva in 2002 and the Workers' Party promised a real possibility for the lower classes to improve their living conditions, and the possibility of opening political institutions to a real democratization, these social transformations showed themselves to be complacent with conservative political practices. This book aims to reconstruct the role played by various left movements and organizations in Brazil from their process of renewal in the 1980s as they fought against the military dictatorship, going through the Workers' Party's governments in the 2000s, until the Party’s dramatic defeat with the parliamentary coup in 2016. The essays collected in this volume try to understand the development of Brazilian Left in the light of socialist politics and especially Marxism, both in terms of political organizations and theory, representing an effort to rethink some aspects of the history of the Brazilian left and how it can reorganize itself after the conservative turn.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Puzone, Vladimir

Miguel, Luis Felipe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors IntroductionPart I: The Worker's Party and Its AdministrationChapter 1 - The Development of the Workers’ Party: the Rise and Fall of a StarVladimir PuzoneChapter 2 – Past and Future of LulismAndré SingerChapter 3 - The Choices of the Brazilian Left: The Paradox of the New Developmentalist StateEvelina DagninoPart II: Social MovementsChapter 4 - Unions in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities for a Leftwing Labor PoliticsAdalberto CardosoChapter 5 – Feminist Challenges to Democracy in BrazilFlávia BiroliChapter 6 - Black Movements in Contemporary Brazil: Beyond the Left?Joaze Bernardino CostaChapter 7 - The LGBT Movement, the Brazilian Left, and the Process of DemocratizationJames GreenChapter 8 – Is There a Future for a Post-“Lulist” Left-Wing in Brazil? Theories, Perspectives and Conditions of Struggles in the Contemporary Brazilian Left Ruy Braga and Alvaro Bianchi Chapter 9 – The Dispersion of Demands in Recent Brazilian Digital ActivismKelly PrudencioPart III: Special IssuesChapter 10 - Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Communities, and the Environment: Violence and the 'Territorial Question' under the New Developmentist Agenda in BrazilAndréa Zhouri and Klemens LaschefksiChapter 11 - Brazilian Left, Latin America and the Regional Integration in the 21st century Luciana Maria de Aragão BallestrinChapter 12 – Democracy and the Left in Contemporary BrazilLuis Felipe Miguel

Über Autor(innen)

Luis Felipe Miguel is Full Professor in the Political Science Institute at the University of Brasília, Brazil, where he leads the Research Group on Democracy and Inequalities. He is also a researcher in the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He is the author of several books, including Democracia e Representação (2014), Feminismo e Política (co-authored with Flávia Biroli; Editora Boitempo, 2014), Consenso e Conflito na Democracia Contemporânea (2017), and Dominação e Resistência (forthcoming).Vladimir Puzone is Research Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Brasília (Brazil), where he is conducting a research on the history of the Workers’ Party. He is the author of the book Capitalismo Perene: reflexões sobre a estabilização do capitalismo a partir de Lukács e da teoria crítica (Perennial capitalism: reflections on the stabilization of capitalism in Lukács and Critical Theory, 2016).