Editor's Choice Ep. 7: Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil w/ Armando Boito
Release Date: 09/13/2024
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Editor's Choice Ep. 7: Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil w/ Armando Boito
Latin American Perspectives
Dando início à Segunda temporada do LAP Editor’s Choice, nos juntamos ao renomado cientista político marxista e teórico Armando Boito para discutir seu recém-lançado livro "Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil: Class Conflicts in Workers' Party Governments and the Rise of Bolsonaro Neo-fascism" (disponível em inglês). O livro examina o processo político brasileiro entre os anos de 2003 e 2020, focando nos governos do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), suas políticas reformistas, a crise política que levou ao impeachment da presidente Dilma Rousseff, e a ascensão do neofascismo com...
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Professor’s Kristin Ciupa and Jeffery Webber join the podcast to discuss their new co-edited volume The Labor of Extraction in Latin America that was recently published by Rowman & Littlefield as part of the "Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom" series. This edited volume traces the power of labor in extractive sectors in Latin America starting in the 1980s and shows how labor shapes national export sectors, economies, politics, and societies more broadly. Bringing together a team of international experts who look at labor in several extractive sectors—including oil...
info_outlineDando início à Segunda temporada do LAP Editor’s Choice, nos juntamos ao renomado cientista político marxista e teórico Armando Boito para discutir seu recém-lançado livro "Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil: Class Conflicts in Workers' Party Governments and the Rise of Bolsonaro Neo-fascism" (disponível em inglês).
O livro examina o processo político brasileiro entre os anos de 2003 e 2020, focando nos governos do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), suas políticas reformistas, a crise política que levou ao impeachment da presidente Dilma Rousseff, e a ascensão do neofascismo com Bolsonaro. Com base em uma estrutura teórica marxista, Boito argumenta que conflitos ideológicos e partidários estão intimamente ligados aos conflitos distributivos baseados em classe social dentro da sociedade brasileira em geral. Portanto, após a quarta derrota consecutiva nas eleições presidenciais, partidos políticos representando o capital internacional, segmentos da burguesia e a classe média abandonaram normas democráticas com o objetivo de acabar com o ciclo de governança do PT, pavimentando o caminho para a ascensão do neofascismo.
Armando Boito é professor de Ciências Políticas na Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brasil, e editor do jornal Crítica Marxista.
"Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil" pode ser comprado online através do site Haymarket Books: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2019-reform-and-political-crisis-in-brazil
Outras leituras do LAP e Armando Boito:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0094582X221140419
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094582X19887910
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Esse episódio foi co-produzido pelos estagiários do LAP, Lara Paredes e Mateus Quesada.