Journal ArticleInternational Review of Social History · April 1, 2023
Lula and His Politics of Cunning explores the origin, roots, and evolution of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva's vision, discourse, and practice of leadership as a process of becoming. This commentary invites historians of labor movements and the left to think be ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Latin American Studies · November 19, 2022
If David Bell in his book Men on Horseback (2020) focuses on what is political charisma, how it functions, and what it means 'to write its history', this article examines how Brazil's ex-President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva ('Lula') acquired charisma during ...
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Journal ArticleLatin American Perspectives · March 1, 2016
The intellectual and political challenge of understanding the Brazilian state is heightened by the lack of a clear, singular label to apply to it, the state contains policies, programs, and politics that appear from the outside to be contradictory. The pas ...
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Journal ArticleTempo Social · December 1, 2012
The article explores the stunning success of the Brazilian Workers Party (PT) and its leader, Lula, former trade unionist, in winning a third consecutive presidential victory, with the election of Dilma Rousseff in 2010. In historical perspective, it exami ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Labor and Working-Class History · September 1, 2012
Those with a sharp tongue might say that labor historians in contemporary Brazil operate in the shadows or, to be more accurate, the shadow cast by the success of Latin America's most famous trade unionist, who served as president from 2002-2010. The field ...
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Chapter · May 1, 2011
This chapter examines the wider interdisciplinary debate that followed the "death of another world" in 1989-91, which led to an era of globalization that challenged entrenched intellectual, political, and even geographical understandings of the world. It d ...
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Journal ArticleLatin American Politics and Society · November 2009
A review of Lula: The Story So Far by Richard Bourne; Antonio Gino Negro Linhas de Montagem; and a collection of interviews with founders of the Brazilian Workers Party by Alexandre Fortes and Marieta Moraes. ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Labor and Working-Class History · August 17, 2009
Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, critical attention has increasingly focused on the remaining world system, capitalist in nature and anchored in the World Trade Organization (WTO), founded in 1994 as the successor to the 1948 General Agreement o ...
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Journal ArticleTeoria e Debate (São Paulo) · April 2009
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Journal ArticleTheory, Culture, & Society · February 2000
Are African and African-American Studies, as defined and practiced in the USA, tools of US cultural imperialism? Are discussions of race, racial inequality or racial oppression in other societies, when carried out by North Americans, to be viewed as ’bruta ...
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