This volume explores the series of public protests – manifestações – that took place in a number of Brazilian cities in June and July 2013, when thousands of people took to the streets to demand improvements in urban infrastructures.
Critically examines the role these protests played in politics, the political and their relationships to urban space and culture
Analyses their connections to the emergence of a ‘New Right’ in Brazil, which saw the election of Bolsonaro
Includes first-hand accounts and brings together contributions from both activists and scholars within a number of different fields (geography, history, philosophy, art, political economy)
The first interdisciplinary English language anthology to address Brazil’s 2013 protests and the broader political and cultural questions they raise
A major contribution to Brazilian and Latin American Studies in Europe and the USA, as well as interdisciplinary studies of social movements, urban culture and politics
About the Author
Maite Conde is Professor of Brazilian Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity (2018) which received the Katherine Singer Kovacs award by the Modern Language Association in 2019, and Consuming Visions: Cinema, Writing and Modernity in Brazil (2012). She has also edited the collections Between Conformity and Resistance: Essays in Politics, Culture and the State by Marilena Chauí (2012) and On Brazil and Global Cinema by Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes (with Stephanie Dennison, 2018).
