Manifesting Democracy?

von Maite Conde

224 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This volume explores the series of public protests - manifestações - that took place in a number of Brazilian cities in June and July 2013, when thousands of people took to the streets to demand improvements in urban infrastructures.

- Critically examines the role these protests played in politics, the political and their relationships to urban space and culture - Analyses their connections to the emergence of a 'New Right' in Brazil, which saw the election of Bolsonaro - Includes first-hand accounts and brings together contributions from both activists and scholars within a number of different fields (geography, history, philosophy, art, political economy) - The first interdisciplinary English language anthology to address Brazil's 2013 protests and the broader political and cultural questions they raise - A major contribution to Brazilian and Latin American Studies in Europe and the USA, as well as interdisciplinary studies of social movements, urban culture and politics

• ISBN: 9781119331100
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.04.2022
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons