Being a Scholar-Activist in the Age of Bolsonaro
Debora Diniz is an anthropologist, activist, and former University of Brasilia law professor. Her life was utterly transformed last year, when she helped bring a case to Brazil’s Supreme Court to decr...
10 Maj 201914min
The Politics Behind Brazil’s Far-Right Moral Panic
On this episode of Brazil Unfiltered James Green talks with Ben Cowan, Associate Professor of History at UC San Diego and a leading expert on the history of Brazil’s military dictatorship. His 2016 bo...
26 Apr 201916min
Supporting Brazilian Democracy, from Oklahoma to NYC
On December 1, 2018, a group of activists and scholars met in New York to talk about the political crisis in Brazil. What came out of that meeting was the creation of US Network for Democracy in Brazi...
12 Apr 201919min
A Look Inside Rio's Favelas
It's impossible to understand contemporary Brazil without understanding life in the country's poorest and most marginalized communities. Watson Postdoctoral Fellow Nick Barnes lived in one such commun...
26 Mars 201923min
The Life, Work, and Legacy of Marielle Franco
March 14 marked the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Marielle Franco, a politician and activist in Rio de Janeiro. Her assassination shook the city -- and the country. On this episode of B...
7 Mars 201922min
