2021
State–society relations in uncertain times: Social movement strategies, ideational contestation and the pandemic in Brazil and Argentina
Rebecca Abers, Marisa von Bülow e Federico Rossi
This article compares how COVID-19 affected state–society relations differently in two relatively similar countries: Brazil and Argentina.
2021
Debora Rezende de Almeida e Gizela Zaremberg
Article conducts a comparative and historically situated analysis of activism for and against abortion rights in Brazil and Mexico (2000–2018).
2021
This article maps and analyzes the digital electoral strategies used by district deputies elected in 2018 in the Federal District. Based on qualitative interviews, document analysis and analysis of campaign spending data, it proposes a typology of four digital election campaign styles.
2021
Tayrine Dias, Marisa von Bülow e
Danniel Gobbi
This article presents an analysis of the use of populist framing mechanisms by grassroots right-wing organizations. It brings together the social movement literature on framing and the populist literature to understand how actors build an emergent field of activism in a highly contentious context.
2021
Cleyton Feitosa
Documentary research points out that 37% of the documents make some mention of the LGBTs issue. By Content Analysis, I verified that, at least at the formal level, they aim to: (i) fight discrimination, (ii) transform society aiming at sexual freedom, (iii) ensure internal respect among members, and finally, (iv) articulate with civil society and the segments that belong to it.
2020
Just over a decade of creative experimentation with the implementation of public policies for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestite, transgender, intersex, and other non-cis-heteronormative identities (LGBTI+), we have witnessed the rise of the extreme right to the Federal Government and a phenomenon that Political Science has been calling “de-institutionalization”.
2021
Cleyton Feitosa
Review of the book ‘The collapse of democracy in Brazil: from the Constitution to the 2016 coup’, authored by Luis Felipe Miguel.
2020
Debora Rezende de Almeida
This article discusses the potential of social media platforms to promote the accountability of civil society representatives with seats in participatory institutions in Brazil.
2020
2020
Rebecca Abers
This article examines institutional activism between 2011 and 2018 in two Brazilian government programs, ‘Green Grants’ and the ‘Stork Network’. Institutional activism is defined as collective action in the defense of contentious causes conducted within the boundaries of state institutions.
2020
Ana Marusia Pinheiro Lima
The text reviews the literature on the concepts of tolerance in political theory and its necessity in recent democracies, with the challenges for effective participation and the discussion of the educators’ role regarding what and how it should be worked out in learning.
2020
The New Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have reshaped the debates about populism and the crisis of democracy. This article seeks to analyze how the use of social media reinvigorates the mobilization ability of outsiders to challenge establishment actors and question the political order.
2019
Cleyton Feitosa
How did the candidates for the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil position themselves on sexual and gender diversity in the 2018 elections? This paper presents results from a desk research conducted on the Government Plans of the 13 presidential candidates registered with the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
2019
Cleyton Feitosa
This work presents the results of a research completed at the State Center to Combat Homophobia, in Pernambuco (Brazil). How it acts to minimize violence against the LGBT population; collected information about the services offered; and checked the advances and challenges of that public policy.
2019
The impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was the result of a long and contentious process. Over the course of almost two years, Rousseff’s allies and opposition took to the streets and to social media to try to influence the process.
2019
Rebecca Abers
Paper presented at the 2019 Conference of the Latin American Studies Association Boston, explores the evolution of the Green Grants program, run by Brazil ́s Ministry of Environment, as a means for developing the concept of bureaucratic activism.
2019
Anne Karoline Rodrigues Vieira
This paper focuses on the analysis of the political ambition of the deputies present in the 11th and 17th legislatures of the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais, who descriptively represented the following subaltern groups: women, blacks and underqualified workers.
2018
Since contractualist theories and modern revolutions, political representation means acting in someone’s place, as their authorized agent. Although the definition is widely accepted and legitimized in political science, social and institutional dynamics have been denouncing the narrow limits of this understanding.
2018
Marisa vön Bulow, Luiz Vilaça e Pedro Abelin
Recent protests throughout the world have fueled debates about how social movement organizations use digital tools. In this article, we analyze the variety of digital activist practices (DAPs) enacted by Chilean student movement organizations over time (2011–2016). We define DAPs as proactive actions that seek to achieve political impacts in a particular context through the use of digital tools.
2018
Cleyton Feitosa
The present article develops, through bibliographical research, reflections systematized in three sections: the first discusses the concept of political representation, the second explores the factors of women’s political under-representation as clues to the political exclusion of LGBT people, and the third analyzes the barriers to political ambition and promotes the absence of the LGBT segment in Brazilian representative spheres.
2018
What relationships, alliances and connections were established between the Feminist and LGBT Movement in Brazil? From this problem, I explored his political trajectories through the specialized bibliography on the history of the two movements in the country (PINTO, 2003; FACCHINI, 2005). The results indicated that such militants developed separately with little articulation, dialogue and political alliances.
2018
Marisa vön Bulow
This article analyzes the impacts of the process of appropriation of social media on social movement organizations and leaders. It focuses on the case of the Chilean student movement and the cycle of protests that began in 2011. The analysis is based on a multimethods approach, bringing together content analysis of qualitative interviews and focus groups, and three years of network data on Twitter users.
2018
Rebecca Abers, Robin King, Daniely Votto; Igor Brandão
This case study in the World Resources Report, “Towards a More Equal City,” examines transformative urban change in Porto Alegre, Brazil, through the lens of participatory budgeting. The research focuses on whether and how transformative change has taken place in the city between 1990 and the present.
2018
The study of the participation of social movements in the production of public policies is a fast developing agenda in Brazil and in the international literature. In this article we seek to offer an analytical model to approach what the literature traditionally apprehends as “political context”, which would condition the actions of social movements in their attempts to influence the State.
2017
Debora Rezende de Almeida
This article analyzes the National Social Participation Policy and System (PNPS), launched via Decree 8.243/2014, in order to map its innovations, limits, and potentialities to respond to the challenges of the effectiveness of social participation in the country.
2017
Ana Marusia Pinheiro Lima
This study makes a rescue of the children’s program Plenarinho, of the Chamber of Deputies, and documents the process of reflection on its purpose. It analyzes what is offered by the Plenarinho Portal on the Internet, in the technological, communicational, educational, and political dimensions.
2018
Since the redemocratization of Brazil, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestite and transgender (LGBT) people have been active in political parties and institutional politics. This essay aims to survey the main academic productions that have investigated the connections between the LGBT Movement and Political Parties in Brazil.
2017
Cleyton Feitosa
The present work aims to map the demands for social participation of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestite, and transgender (LGBT) population in the management of affirmative public policies to promote citizenship and LGBT human rights in Brazil, based on the participatory institutions built since the 2000s in the Federal Executive.
2017
Gustavo Gomes da Costa Santos, Cleyton Feitosa
This article presents the results of a research on the management of public policies to promote the citizenship of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites and transsexuals (LGBT) in the state of Pernambuco, through semi-structured interviews with state and municipal managers of LGBT policy.
2017
This article seeks to contribute to the debate about the development of public policies for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) in recent years in Brazil: (I) replenishing a brief history of the Brazilian LGBT Movement; and (II) carry out a survey of the most recent academic productions has debated and questioned the limits and possibilities of LGBT public policy in Brazil.
2017
Cleyton Feitosa e Emerson Santos
This study verifies the possibilities of exercising social control available to the LGBTQIA+ population in the Federal Public Administration based on a documentary analysis of the decree that established the National Council to Combat Discrimination against Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transvestites, and Transsexuals.
2016
Rebecca Abers, Marília Silva de Oliveira e Ana Karine Pereira
This paper explores attempts to implement that agenda in big infrastructure projects in the Amazon: the BR-163 road and the Belo Monte dam. We argue that overlapping inequalities (between social groups, within the bureaucracy and between territorial centre and periphery) result in uneven state capacities for implementing projects in the Amazon.
2016
This paper present some results of a research study focusing on the Brazilian Social Assistance System and its main participatory and deliberative institutions. We argue that at least two dimensions are responsible for the connection between arenas – institutional design and the circulation of participant – and that these dimensions also present contradictory effects in terms of the legitimacy of representation, including problems related to public accountability and the inclusion of different discourses.
2015
In this article, we explore changes in the relationship between social movements and the Workers’ Party government through the lens of the politics of senior appointments in the Ministry of Environment (MMA) between 2003 and 2013.
2014
Debora Rezende de Almeida
The article proposes to rethink the concept of political representation, based on two main ideas, namely, the representation is a process and it is a construction. Second, in order to understand the democratizing potentials of these transformations, this paper reinterprets the criteria of legitimacy of representation.
2014
Debora Rezende de Almeida
.This article argues that the new institutional architecture that expands the connections between State and society inaugurates a new moment of political representation in the country.
2014
This article analyzes the combination of state interaction routines with social movements in the construction of public policies during the Lula government.