monograph presented by Mariana Miranda Tavares, in September 2022, under the guidance of Rebecca Abers. The monograph proposes to study how social movements influenced the National Congress in proposing, discussing and approving double emergency aid for single-parent families headed by women.
Article published by Jaqueline Barbosa shows the artistic language as a power for the construction of a minimally common political project in moments of crisis. The article describes some national artivisms carried out from March 2020 to May 2021.
The article analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Brazilian radical right, as well as its responses to the pandemic, during the period from March 2020 to October 2021. Despite low approval rates, the Brazilian president maintained the negationist discourse throughout the period. The authors argue that to explain denialism it is necessary to understand the populism of the Brazilian radical right as more than an ideology, but rather as a social movement.
In a text published in the book COVID-19's political challenges in Latin America , Rebecca Abers and Marisa von Bülow explore the creative process of creating new frameworks and routines for collective action in the face of the pandemic. They explore the response to the pandemic as a process of “problem solving” that involved the recombination of ways of understanding and acting historically mobilized by social movements.
Article published in Jornal El País by Marisa von Bülow, co-authored with Mariana Llanos, discusses how Jair Bolsonaro’s strategy of polarization and radicalization can face the crisis of the pandemic, it can put him alone and interfere in the necessary cooperation to face it. The authors warn that this attitude can isolate Brazil and interfere with the country's recovery.
Article published in Nexo Jornal by Rebecca Abers, co-authored with other teachers, regarding the traumatic consequences of the pandemic, mourning, the right to memory and institutional accountability in this process. The authors point out the role of the State in guaranteeing the memory and mourning of a traumatic experience such as the pandemic.
Rebecca Abers and Marisa von Bülow, in El Pais : “The absence of a unified front of political parties and leaders on the best path to adopt to face the crisis only contributes to making state action even more difficult, despite the efforts of many local authorities . The result is an erratic and inconsistent state, unable to protect much of the population from disease and the economic effects of the pandemic.” Keep reading here.
Article by Marisa von Bülow for Carnegie : “Brazilian politicians argue over how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, civil society organizations from the country's slums have come together to educate and advocate for their communities. But they cannot do it alone”. Read it on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace blog.
Master's dissertation defended by Mariana Fonseca, in June 2021. The dissertation offers an analysis of the main interpretive frameworks mobilized by the communication collectives of the peripheries in the Covid-19 pandemic. Check out the full work here.
This article, produced by Rebecca Abers, Federico Rossi and Marisa von Bülow, compares how COVID-19 has affected state-society relations differently in two relatively similar countries: Brazil and Argentina. Based on a dialogue between social movement theories and ideational institutionalism, it argues that the variation in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic is explained by the different roles played by social movements inside and outside government and by contrasting ideational disputes. Read the article available in English .
