The Brazilian Left in the 21st Century

Editors Introduction Part I: The Worker's Party and Its Administration Chapter 1 - The Development of the Workers' Party: the Rise and Fall of a StarVladimir Puzone Chapter 2 - Past and Future of LulismAndré Singer Chapter 3 - The Choices of the Brazilian Left: The Paradox of the New Developmentalist StateEvelina Dagnino Part II: Social Movements Chapter 4 - Unions in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities for a Leftwing Labor PoliticsAdalberto Cardoso Chapter 5 - Feminist Challenges to Democracy in BrazilFlávia Biroli Chapter 6 - Black Movements in Contemporary Brazil: Beyond the Left?Joaze Bernardino Costa Chapter 7 - The LGBT Movement, the Brazilian Left, and the Process of DemocratizationJames Green Chapter 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 Prudencio Part III: Special Issues Chapter 10 - Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Communities, and the Environment: Violence and the 'Territorial Question' under the New Developmentist Agenda in BrazilAndréa Zhouri and Klemens Laschefksi Chapter 11 - Brazilian Left, Latin America and the Regional Integration in the 21st century Luciana Maria de Aragão Ballestrin Chapter 12 - Democracy and the Left in Contemporary BrazilLuis Felipe Miguel

Luis Felipe Miguel, Full Professor in the Political Science Institute at the University of Brasília, Brazil, where he leads the Research Group on Democracy and Inequalities.

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).