From Protest to Parliamentary Coup: An Overview of Brazil’s Recent History

Santos, Fabiano Vilaça dos; Guarnieri, Fernando

doi:10.1080/13569325.2016.1230940

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“…The debate about this issue led to heated political arguments in the aftermath of the impeachments against Fernando Lugo and Dilma Rousseff, but it also generated rich academic exchanges. In an early essay, Santos and Guarnieri (2016) characterized Rousseff's case as a "parliamentary coup". The authors noted -in line with the results presented in Figure 1 -that the process leading to Rousseff 's downfall began with the mass protests of June 2013, crystalized with the adverse economic conditions of 2014 and 2015, and concluded with a "farce" by political elites in 2016.…”

Section: The Coup Debate: From Political Stretching To Conceptual Strmentioning

confidence: 99%

IMPEACHMENT OR BACKSLIDING? Threats to democracy in the twenty-first century

Pérez‐Liñán

2018

Rev. bras. Ci. Soc.

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The age of military coups has ended, but democracy still confronts major challenges in the early twenty-first century. What are the new threats for democratic survival? Is impeachment a functional equivalent to old-fashioned military coups? Using comparative data for Latin America, this paper shows that the institution of impeachment has been “stretched” for political purposes and that the social conditions that triggered military coups in the pasttrigger impeachments in the contemporary era. However, the paper argues that impeachments should not be confused with coups and presents a surprising result: even though legislators often manipulate the impeachment process to undermine elected presidents, the most common threat to democratic survival does not originate in legislatures, but in the executive branch. Concentration of power by the executive has undermined democracy in Latin Americaand elsewhere.

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Section: The Coup Debate: From Political Stretching To Conceptual Strmentioning

confidence: 99%

IMPEACHMENT OR BACKSLIDING? Threats to democracy in the twenty-first century

Pérez‐Liñán

2018

Rev. bras. Ci. Soc.

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“…In addition, he closed the Ministries for Women, Racial Equality, Youth, and Human Rights as well as the Ministry for Science and Technology. Furthermore, his first Cabinet included no women or African-Brazilians (Bentes 2018;Santos and Guarnieri 2016). These moves symbolised a shift in politics away from constructions of 'community' that entailed a degree of inclusivity (or at least the illusion of it) and some increases in rights for marginalised groups in society, to a more exclusionary version of society in which the powerful want to control the representation of the community and shape a representation that is less open to plural identities.…”

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The Art of Violent Protest and Crime Prevention

Kerr

2018

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This article examines violent protest in art museums. There is a long history of art museums being used as sites of protest. As spaces full of meaning, they represent ideal locations for people to try to shape the present and the future. From peaceful demonstrations to terrorist attacks, the current risks of protest to art museums is high. Motivated by ideological, political and social reasons, these protests include those that specifically target art objects within the art museums, as well as others that use the sites as stages on which to protest. This article is based predominantly on secondary sources; however, it also uses empirical research data collected by the author during observation research at art museums in London in March 2017 and July 2017. The article begins by considering why art museums attract so many protests. It argues that as ‘sites of persuasion’, art museums can be battlegrounds on which people look to shape how society is constructed and perceived. It then examines contemporary and historical case studies in Brazil and the UK to help our understanding of violent protests and the challenges they pose to art museums. Following this, the article proposes that as art museums are important sites of persuasion, there must be more awareness of the threats they face from violent protests in order to shape crime prevention approaches. The article finishes by arguing that although protests can be highly problematic for people involved with art museums, the ongoing appeal of these spaces as sites of protest shows the significance of art museums as important locations of cultural meaning.

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“…Bolsonaro won the popular vote in southern Amazonia with the promise of radicalizing markedly authoritarian rural policies pursued by a government that took control of the presidency in 2016 through an administrative coup d'état (Anderson 2019;Milan 2016;Santos and Guarnieri 2016;Singer et al 2016). Since that year, state institutions have increased (already significant) state support for agroindustrial monocultures in Amazonia while at the same time diluting environmental regulations, undermining indigenous rights, and ending programs in support of smallholder farmers .…”

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Cultivating Alternatives to Authoritarian Populism in Amazonia

Rojas

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Olival³

2019

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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Resumen Um movimento de extrema direita que promete refazer as políticas rurais para beneficiar uma minoria de “produtores” conquistou a presidência do Brasil em 2018 com o apoio da maioria do eleitorado do sul da Amazônia. Lá, por muito tempo as elites políticas argumentaram que os produtores são representantes do interesse nacional. Esse argumento é uma questão multiespécies na medida em que “produtores” só podem argumentar que são “o povo” porque tem capturado as capacidades geradoras de ecologias de monocultura. E se agendas de extrema direita florescem em monoculturas, ecologias diversas podem abrir alternativas ao populismo autoritário. Examinamos um programa de agroecologia em que os camponeses fortalecem os laços de solidariedade entre eles estabelecendo relações mutualistas com sementes, solos e plantas nativas. Alternativas ao populismo autoritário podem ser cultivadas em lutas multiespécies pela terra nas quais forças humanas e não‐humanas convergem num esforço para compor ecologias hospitaleiras e inclusivas. [Populismo, autoritarismo, multiespécie, Amazônia, Brasil]

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From Protest to Parliamentary Coup: An Overview of Brazil’s Recent History

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IMPEACHMENT OR BACKSLIDING? Threats to democracy in the twenty-first century

IMPEACHMENT OR BACKSLIDING? Threats to democracy in the twenty-first century

The Art of Violent Protest and Crime Prevention

Cultivating Alternatives to Authoritarian Populism in Amazonia

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