Denied recognition: threats against the rights of quilombola communities (in: A Horizon of Im-possibilities, 2021)

A Horizon of (Im)possibilities

Edited by Katerina Hatzikidi and Eduardo Dullo

15 September 2021

229 × 152 mm

195 pp

Formats:

Paperback: 978-1-908857-89-7

PDF: 978-1-908857-92-7

Acesso em: https://humanities-digital-library.org/index.php/hdl/catalog/book/horizon-of-impossibilities

The 2018 presidential election result in Brazil surprised and shocked many. Since then, numerous debates and a growing body of texts have attempted to understand the country’s, so-called ‘conservative turn’.

A gripping in-depth account of politics and society in Brazil today, this new volume brings to together a myriad of different perspectives to help us better understand the political events that shook the country in recent years. Combining ethnographic insights with political science, history, sociology, and anthropology, the interdisciplinary analyses included offer a panoramic view on social and political change in Brazil, spanning temporal and spatial dimensions. Starting with the 2018 presidential election, the contributors discuss the country’s recent –or more distant– past in relation to the present. Pointing to the continuities and disruptions in the course of those years, the analyses offered are an invaluable guide to unpacking and understanding the limits of political democracy, including what has already come to pass, but also what is yet to come.

Foreword

Carly Machado

Introduction: Brazil’s conservative return

Katerina Hatzikidi and Eduardo Dullo

Looking back: How did we get here?

1. The past of the present

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

2. Denied recognition: threats against the rights of quilombola communities

José M. Arruti and Thaisa Held

3. From Orkut to Brasília: the origins of the New Brazilian Right

Camila Rocha

4. Ritual, text and politics: the evangelical mindset and political polarization

David Lehmann

The horizon ahead: Where are we going?

5. After affirmative action: redrawing colour lines in Brazil

Graziella Moraes Silva

6. From protests to silence: social movements in contemporary Brazil

Andreza A. de Souza Santos

7. Development opportunity or national crisis? The implications of Brazil’s political shift for elite philanthropy and civil society organising

Jessica Sklair

8. Politics and collective mobilisation in post-PT Brazil

Jeff Garmany

Conclusion: Shifting horizons

Katerina Hatzikidi and Eduardo Dullo

Afterword – ‘No matter who won’

Taily Terena, João Tikuna, Gabriel Soares