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XVII Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association

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Roundtable: Continuity and Change in Modern Brazil

Fri, April 5, 4:00 to 5:45pm, Aztec Student Union, Union 3 – Legacy Suite

Session Submission Type: Complete Panel

Abstract

Brazil has undergone complex and surprising economic, social, and political changes in the last twenty years. The broad political consensus and social progress of the 2000s gave way to a new and more conflictual period inaugurated by the June-July 2013 protests. The rest of the decade saw the Lava Jato anti-corruption investigations, the recession of 2015-16, the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, and the arrival of Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. After four years of Bolsonarismo, Brazil is now witnessing the third term of President Lula in conditions very different from those of the first two terms. This roundtable offers reflections on these events through the lenses of three recent books on modern Brazil. These are Angela Alonso’s Treze, Perry Anderson’s Brazil Apart, and Jeff Garmany and Anthony Pereira’s Understanding Contemporary Brazil. Alonso’s book is about street protests in the 2003-13 period that transformed the major issues of Brazilian politics. Anderson’s book ends with an analysis of the colonization of the Bolsonaro administration by the armed forces. And Garmany and Pereira’s book, coming out in a second edition, includes a chapter on debates about the causes of Bolsonarismo, as well as its consequences for Brazilian democracy. The roundtable would be moderated of Chris Dunn of Tulane University.

Hybrid session. Link: https://SDSU.zoom.us/s/88623886716

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