The Brazilian Left in the 21st Century

Editors IntroductionPart I: The Worker's Party and Its AdministrationChapter 1 - The Development of the Workers' Party: the Rise and Fall of a StarVladimir PuzoneChapter 2 - Past and Future of LulismAndré SingerChapter 3 - The Choices of the Brazilian Left: The Paradox of the New Developmentalist StateEvelina DagninoPart II: Social MovementsChapter 4 - Unions in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities for a Leftwing Labor PoliticsAdalberto CardosoChapter 5 - Feminist Challenges to Democracy in BrazilFlávia BiroliChapter 6 - Black Movements in Contemporary Brazil: Beyond the Left?Joaze Bernardino CostaChapter 7 - The LGBT Movement, the Brazilian Left, and the Process of DemocratizationJames GreenChapter 8 - Is There a Future for a Post-"Lulist" Left-Wing in Brazil? Theories, Perspectives and Conditions of Struggles in the Contemporary Brazilian Left Ruy Braga and Alvaro Bianchi Chapter 9 - The Dispersion of Demands in Recent Brazilian Digital ActivismKelly PrudencioPart III: Special IssuesChapter 10 - Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Communities, and the Environment: Violence and the 'Territorial Question' under the New Developmentist Agenda in BrazilAndréa Zhouri and Klemens LaschefksiChapter 11 - Brazilian Left, Latin America and the Regional Integration in the 21st century Luciana Maria de Aragão BallestrinChapter 12 - Democracy and the Left in Contemporary BrazilLuis Felipe Miguel

Luis Felipe Miguel is Full Professor in the Political Science Institute at the University of Brasília, Brazil, where he leads the Research Group on Democracy and Inequalities. He is also a researcher in the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He is the author of several books, of which the most recent is Dominação e resistência: desafios para uma política emancipatória (Domination and resistance: challenges to an emancipatory politics, 2018).

Vladimir Puzone is Research Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Brasília, Brazil. He is the author of the book Capitalismo perene: reflexões sobre a estabilização do capitalismo a partir de Lukács e da teoria crítica (Perennial capitalism: reflections on the stabilization of capitalism in Lukács and Critical Theory, 2016).