As ditaduras argentina e brasileira em ação: Violência repressiva e busca de consentimento Available to Purchase

Given the growing questioning of democracy in South America, reflected in the election of authoritarian governments in several countries from this region during recent years, the publication of the book As ditaduras argentina e brasileira em ação: Violência repressiva e busca de consentimento (The Argentine and Brazilian dictatorships in action: Repressive violence and the search for consent), organized by professors Daniel Lvovich, from Argentina, and Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta, from Brazil, provides a timely invitation to reflect on and learn about the military regimes that emerged in both countries during the 1960s and 1970s. The work brings together Argentine and Brazilian experts who approach these processes from transnational, comparative, and connected history perspectives. According to the creators of the collection, “the idea is to focus on state actions to understand strategies for maintaining political power based on both repression and the pursuit of social consent” (p. 11). The temporal framework...