...Stuart Davis Drawing on the case of O Movimento Brasil Livre (The Free Brazil Movement), or MBL, this article interrogates key assumptions about the nature of networked digital activism. The MBL, formed in the early 2010s by a Koch‐funded network of libertarian student groups, utilized...

...Alan K. Manchester Brazil: Portrait of Half a Continent . Edited by Smith T. Lynn Marchant Alexander . New York : The Dryden Press , 1951 . Pp. viii , 466 . $5.75 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 156 The South Atlantic Quarterly mission should become...

... in Brazil, I argue that they can be seen as a reflection of and a commentary on the meanings of formal and informal labor in Brazil, as well as on some of the changes currently observed in the nature of labor worldwide. Further, this kind of child work blurs some of the most basic distinctions...

...Hugo Albuquerque This article discusses the protests that shook Brazil in 2013. The argument grounds itself in the hypothesis that the protests can only be understood by analyzing the current scenario of the country’s class composition, history, and relationship to the civilizational paradigm...

...Rafael Grohmann The aim of this article is to analyze the emergence of worker-owned platforms—whether cooperatives or collectives—as a laboratory of platform labor, considering the circulation of workers’ struggles. The research involves six cases in three different countries (Spain, France, Brazil...

...Fábio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco Across the globe, algorithmic technologies have undeniably altered the way labor relations are governed. The purpose of this article is to investigate a particular manifestation of that phenomenon: how, in Brazil, platform capitalism consists in a hybrid...

...Alan K. Manchester Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 X)he SOUTH ATLANTIC Quarterly BRAZIL IN TRANSITION Alan K. Manchester AT 8:30 on the morning of August 24, 1954, Getulio Vargas com­ mitted suicide. The announcement stunned Brazil. The sui­ cide was a totally unexpected...

...Philip Evanson Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Understanding the People: Futebol, Film, Theater and Politics in Present-Day Brazil Philip Evanson Futebol or soccer is an enthusiasm of central emotional importance for millions of Brazilians. The passion forfutebol requires...

...Alan K. Manchester Brazilian Culture. An Introduction to the Study of Culture in Brazil . By Azevedo Fernando de . Translated by Crawford William Rex . New York : The Macmillan Company . Pp. xxix , 562 . $12.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book...

...Alan K. Manchester Every Inch a King: A Biography of Dom Pedro I, First Emperor of Brazil . By da Costa Sérgio Corrêa . Translated from the Portuguese by Putnam Samuel . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1950 . Pp. 230 . $3.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press...

...Alan K. Manchester Brazil: People and Institutions . By Smith T. Lynn . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1946 . Pp. xxiv , 843 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 514 The South Atlantic Quarterly complete absence of powerful neighbors...

...Alan K. Manchester Empire in Brazil: A New World Experiment with Monarchy . By Haring C. H. . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1958 . Pp. 182 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 145 Empire in Brazil: A New World Experiment...

...Alan K. Manchester Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Racial Democracy in Brazil Alan K. Manchester Just as political democracy is the product of Anglo-Americans, so racial democracy is the handiwork of Brazilians.1 Nowhere in the country, even in the areas where black and mixed...

...Jean Tible How can we make sense of the current rise and strength of the far right in Brazil? This article aims to address this question by providing an analysis of Brazilian politics in recent years, exploring both its institutional aspects and factors exceeding this framework. It examines...

...Augusto Jobim do Amaral How can Brazil be understood as a global laboratory for fascist insurrection? Given the events of January 8, 2023, this essay intends to analyze, on the one hand, the manifestation of a global extreme right that tends to operate as a large-scale, long-lasting anti...

...Felipe Magalhães In 2016, the progressive government of the Workers’ Party in Brazil came to a halt through a highly contested impeachment process that gave way to an aggressive policy switch toward a hardline neoliberal fix. This article addresses the conjuncture of the many trajectories that led...

... experienced their first significant gains. This article identifies, describes, and analyzes the emergence of a cinema-labor cycle in São Paulo (1977–82) that constitutes a key instance of Brazil’s “deferred 1968”: a complex response to the distinct pressures of a repressive military regime, entrenched...

...Pedro B. Mendes The year 2013 marked a turning point for Brazil. On one hand, it gave voice to a crisis involving the notion of development as a technocratic tool for achieving economic growth—in a “heated economy” at that. On the other hand, it signaled the rise of the Brazilian multitude...

... and Ecuador. Today, from “Lulismo” in Brazil to “socialism for the twenty-first century” in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela, “progressive” governments are increasingly facing a renewed round of discontent—ranging from criticism to open revolt—from the very movements that brought them to power. These new...

...Roy D. King; Bruna Valensia The potential for the corruption of the authority of guards by prisoners, either individually or as members of gangs, is well documented in the Anglo-American literature. What distinguishes the situation of prison gang culture in Brazil are its origins in economic...