Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression

ISBN-13: 9780367897680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 292 str.

Bernardo Bianchi; Jorge Chaloub; Patricia Rangel

Opis

Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression discusses the de-democratization process underway in contemporary Brazil.

Spis treści

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