Editors:
- Offers a wide scope of analyses about the Brazilian Left from different academic disciplines, including Marxist readings, perspectives from the fields of political sciences, sociology, gender and queer studies, and decolonization and subaltern studies
- Introduces debates about and problems in actual Brazilian left-leaning movements and organizations to an English-speaking audience
- Provides a reconstruction of Brazilian contemporary history, focusing on different political actors and social groups and movements
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Workers’ Party and Its Administrations
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Front Matter
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Social Movements and Special Issues
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book aims to reconstruct the role played by left movements and organizations in Brazil from their process of renewal in the 1980s as they fought against the civil-military dictatorship, going through the Workers' Party's governments in the 2000s, until the Party’s dramatic defeat with a parliamentary coup in 2016. Henceforth, there have been attacks on social and political rights that severely affect the lower classes and reverted progressive policies on various issues. Through a historical reconstruction, this book analyzes how different left movements and organizations contributed to the democratization of Brazilian society, and how their contradictions contributed to the actual conservative turn. The essays also focus the development of Brazilian Left in the light of socialist politics and especially Marxism, both in terms of political organizations and theory. In this sense, the essays in this collection represent an effort to rethink some aspects of the history of the Brazilian left and how it can reorganize itself after the conservative turn.
Reviews
“An outstanding examination of the achievements, trials, and limitations of the Brazilian left from the origins of the Workers’ Party to the downfall of Lula and Dilma Rousseff. This book is indispensable reading for scholars and students of Brazil.” (Alfredo Saad-Filho, Professor of Political Economy, SOAS, University of London, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
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Sociology Department, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
Vladimir Puzone
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Political Science Institute, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
Luis Felipe Miguel
About the editors
Luis Felipe Miguel, Full Professor in the Political Science Institute at the University of Brasília, Brazil, where he leads the Research Group on Democracy and Inequalities.
Vladimir Puzone is Research Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Brasília, Brazil. 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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Brazilian Left in the 21st Century
Book Subtitle: Conflict and Conciliation in Peripheral Capitalism
Editors: Vladimir Puzone, Luis Felipe Miguel
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03288-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98613-5Published: 22 February 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48468-2Published: 05 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03288-3Published: 04 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 298
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Latin American Politics