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This work comprehensively analyzes the action of popular libraries as an instrument of social transformation, in the light of the ideas of Paulo Freire. Through a bibliographic study, it proposes the conception of a community library based on a lecture that gave rise to the book "The importance of the act of reading", experiences carried out by the author in São Tomé and Príncipe. The debate starts from the assumption that the structuring of a popular library has its origins in social movements, whose intention is to promote the social inclusion of subjects considered marginalized in the educational system. The proposal intends to implement and maintain a community library in partnership with the local community, supporting community activities and serving as a public space for gathering, information, leisure, learning and local memory, the so-called cultural circles. Finally, it highlights the remarkable influence of Freire thought as an educator of ethical, political and critical awareness in the literacy process in Brazil, and, consequently, relevant to the interdisciplinary area of community librarianship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering that several diseases/infections have plagued the Brazilian population since the arrival of the Portuguese to the "new continent", this paper aims to demonstrate the strong correlation between the acceleration of the globalization process and the beginning of several pandemics in Brazil, particularly HIV/AIDS, a disease that in the 1980s was called "gay plague" and was responsible for stigmatizing male homosexuality. Over time, many achievements have been obtained by social movements, such as HIV treatment and the dissemination of legitimate information about HIV/AIDS, as the infection/disease impacts the society as a whole. Despite this, difficult days take over the country, threatening the existence of the Unified Health System (SUS) and the free access to pre- and post-exposure medication to the virus. Regarding materials and methods, we highlight the literature review employing triangulation of methods, observing the views of researchers about the phenomenon from multiple angles, the systematic literature review method, collecting data and highlighting evidence about the scenario of HIV/AIDS in Brazil and, finally, we draw a documentary analysis of historiographic nature that supports this research and contributes substantially to the theoretical and methodological framework of this article. The results demonstrate that since colonial Brazil the globalization of diseases has affected thousands of people, and that even today, 40 years after the first case of HIV/AIDS, the blame continues to directed at certain social groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Music has a relevant presence in the religious service of churches and evangelical groups in Brazil. This article, based on qualitative research, presents the potentials of musical activity. Conversion in one of them, whereas gospel music, as a category registered in Brazil since the 1990s, comprises the appropriation of secular sound styles. This modality also stands out for initiatives aimed at reflecting on race and gender inequalities, is part of a scenario characterized by the use of current categories in social movements. The musical activities addressed end up supporting public tensions related to positions about religious guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the expansion of the public sphere to the virtual space and the appropriation of the internet by social movements, this paper seeks to analyze which representations are put into circulation in the public space, through the Landless Movement (MST) website on Landless solidarity, which involve the donation and production of food, during the Covid-19 pandemic, in the period of August 2020. It is supported by the Theory of Social Representations, Content Analysis, and the study of the main symbolic utterances of discourse. It concludes that the circulated representations of Landless solidarity create new meanings about the importance of agrarian reform and the MST in Brazil and its role in the fight against hunger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This text is the translation of an interview given by Brazilian anthropologist, professor, and Brazilian Black Movement activist Lélia Gonzalez (1935–1994) at the beginning of the 1980s. Gonzalez, who is today enthusiastically incorporated into the academic anthropology after decades of silence in Brazil, exposes here some of the particularities of her stunning life itinerary. She has challenged Brazilian social theory by bringing forward the need for an approach that considers race, gender, and coloniality, and has worked towards an open dialogue with Latin American realities, including Brazil's. Her contribution has been recognized as essential by public intellectuals such as Angela Davis, and her reemergence has to do with the growing demand of decolonizing the Brazilian Academy, issued by the Black movement and other social movements in the country. The translation, having Brazilian Portuguese as the language of origin, has been made by anthropologists, social scientists, and translators from the RECânone Community Project, linking the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and the University of Brasília, both public centers of higher education in the country. Translators added notes aiming to help a non-Brazilian audience understand the racial, social, and cultural context where Gonzalez produced her academic and activist work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social movements are made of groups of people who share the same territory, collective identities and organize themselves in a democratic and dialogic manner. From these, health care productions integrated with local realities emerge and Paraiba is historically recognized as the cradle of these actions, especially those with theoretical-methodological orientation of Popular Health Education. This research aimed to highlight the history of these groups and their subjects, recording their experiences. To this end, we resorted to a study with a qualitative approach and descriptive character, proceeded by 26 individual semi-structured interviews with social actors, from which the personal and collective historical landmarks of these subjects were extracted and systematized for the construction of a timeline. It was observed that in the period referring to the Military Dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985), many of the experiences were articulated by sectors of the Catholic Church. In other periods, the articulations were carried out by unions and minority groups, popular communities and students, with the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) being the most expressive group present in the trajectories. In this way, the substrate produced will be configured as a collection for other researches, as well as being useful in disseminating the memory of the groups and their historical contributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is liberation theology dead or in decline? This article analyzes factors that have led to that perception and provides evidence to the contrary. It demonstrates that the theology has survived multiple attempts by certain sectors of both church and state to eliminate it, and that it remains very much alive in grassroots pastoral programs and social movements. Support for this last statement is provided by the author's field research in Brazil. The article concludes with signs that liberation theology will endure as it continues to inspire spiritually motivated people who commit themselves to addressing human needs by promoting social justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to discuss the severe economic and social impacts caused in the region by the development model in place as well as proposals for transformation advanced by different Latin American social movements. This is not a scholarly article, but rather a set of reflections gained from extensive reading and years of political activism carried out in Brazil, in the region, and worldwide. Nor is this article exhaustive; rather it consists of ideas that may contribute to the debate surrounding the right to development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research note seeks to update our understanding of the factors that influence shifts in social movement strategies. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, I assess the role of crisis in whether and how social movements reshape their strategies and perhaps redefine their fight for the right to the city. Though previous research has shown the importance of political opportunities and ideology for social movement strategies, we need to reassess these variables and the direction of change in times of crisis. Using the case of the Union of Housing Movements in São Paulo, I find that though the tactics of the movement responded to a conflictual relationship at the federal level and a need to meet immediate needs of members, the ideology of the movement provided the structure for continuing to engage in inclusionary governance strategies and renewed energy for transformational change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We revisit the debates on reproductive health and rights (RHR) and public policies in Brazil, with focus on contraception, abortion and maternity care. These were part of a broader political agenda for re-democratisation, and for health sector reform, with the creation of the Women's Integral Health Program (PAISM) in 1983, and of the Universal Health System (SUS) in 1988. The momentum created by ICPD in Cairo (1994) was essential to institutionalise the language of RHR. Not without resistance and organised activism, recent years of right-wing governments brought a disinvestment in most public policies for women's rights. Some components of the RHR agenda are more mainstreamed, such as fertility regulation, especially hormonal and long term-methods. The limited legal rights to abortion are poorly institutionalised and constantly threatened. Maternal care tends to be highly medicalised and frequently abusive. The covid-19 pandemic accelerated social and public health disruption. The article addresses notions such as reproductive justice and institutional violence, present in the early days of women's health movement, in order to highlight important premises that were diluted in the debate on reproductive rights and autonomy. The historical analysis of how these concepts evolved locally and globally can allow a better understanding of present challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to comprehend the social and legal movements that circulated in Brazil in the 20s of the 19th century and to describe how the concepts of constitution, Independence, monarchy, republic and law circulated in that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We are experiencing a period of adaptation of our agri-food systems to the context of climate change, thus witnessing the incorporation of several more ecological and socially inclusive practices. In this sense, this chapter seeks to understand the role of civil society in promoting sustainable food systems based on Brazilian experiences over the last three decades. First, the role of civil society in the construction of new agroecological markets is discussed, bringing the experience of the consumer cooperative COOLMEIA, which started the construction of the first agroecological fair in Brazil, the Ecological Farmers Fair in Porto Alegre. Then the civil society activism engaged on establishment of the Human Right to Healthy and Adequate Food is discussed, highlighting the importance of social movements and civil society organisations in the construction of a democratic political system. At last, the trajectory of the civil society as actors participating in the formal instance of State governance through their performance in the National Council for Food Security and Nutrition -- CONSEA, presenting the historical context, achievements and struggles. Finally, the chapter concludes with a section reviewing lessons learned and possible challenges for civil society participation in the debate on agri-food systems in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines popular participation in the making of Brazil's 1988 post-authoritarian "Citizen Constitution." In 1987, Brazilians submitted 122 popular amendments (emendas populares) supported by over 12 million signatures to the National Constituent Assembly (1987–88). As this article contends, this extraordinary experiment in popular constitution-making problematizes notions of Brazil's transition from authoritarian to democratic rule as the most conservative of those that swept Latin America at the end of the Cold War. The popular amendments emerged amid a nationwide campaign for popular participation that saw millions of Brazilians participate in letter-writing campaigns, protests, and debates over the constitution that carried over into the halls of the Constituent Assembly itself. I argue that the popular amendments countered the arbitrary authoritarianism of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1964–85) with a constitutionalism in which everyday Brazilians would safeguard democracy through popular participation in government. While only partially consolidated, this vision offered diverse marginalized groups an opportunity to claim full citizenship in Brazil's nascent democracy, especially in ways that more overtly addressed issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and disability. This article thus shows that far from being the exclusive province of political elites, everyday people meaningfully shaped the constitutional restorations in late twentieth-century Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the historical role of Brazilian modernism beyond the direct effects of the 1922 Modern Art Week. The Brazilian modernism is seen, from the point of view of this research, as a social formation, artistic movement, and cultural institution as a whole. From this perspective, we will analyze the trajectory of "long modernism" in Brazil, that provided the basis of a cultural and political agenda and guided a set of cultural actions and projects sharing the structure of felling on "Brazilianness", based on racial miscegenation, on the search for a cultural language common to all races and classes, and the vision of the intellectual as a tutor of the national conscience. The historical changes throughout the 1980s, produced by the responses of the new social movements to the challenges and impasses generated by the authoritarian modernization imposed by the 1964 Military Regime marked the end of the Brazilian modernist agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recognizing the importance of the discussion on collective health from the perspective of Popular Education (PE), in a critical scenario derived from COVID-19 and misgovernment, this experience report explores the experiences in the Observatory of Popular Education in Health and Brazilian Reality. It is an initiative of the Extension "Práticas Integrais de Promoção da Saúde e Nutrição na Atenção Básica" (PINAB) that aims to propagate the PE and bring together its actors. Seven meetings were held and themes were worked on: "The current Brazilian conjuncture and the principles of popular education and its philosophy for the construction of methodological paths of practice", "Food sovereignty as a movement of humanity and civility: what is the role of popular education in health?", "Eugenics processes in Brazil and their consequences on health, education, justice and equity", "The world and its changes: the place and role of popular education in health", and "Popular Education in Health: Paths and alternatives for experiences and practices". This experience promoted reflections about the current conjuncture, retrieving founding concepts of PE and valuable insights in its meetings. It also demonstrated the potentialities in the use of virtual environments as aids in the dialectic methodology of PE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Rural Education modality is a great conquest of the organized social movements and of the Brazilian peasants. Gradually, it was conquering space, consolidating its guiding principles, and operational guidelines, and structuring itself to serve the social groups abandoned by the system throughout the history of Brazil. This work is based on documentary research and a series of interviews with students of the Rural Education degree of the Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia who live in rural communities of the city of Laje-Bahia, Brazil. This work has as its main objective to understand the social function of the course and investigate the anthropological, teleological, and methodological conceptions that guide the work of the University professors. Investigating students, communities, teachers and the results obtained during their trajectory over time is very important to build records that help other researchers interested in this problem and contribute to improving, more and more, the services provided. by the investigated institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we proposed a reflection on the theoretical category of praxis, starting from the questioning of how it is possible to think about the construction of an emancipatory praxis in the current Brazilian context? To go through this question, we situate the concept of historical fatalism, as a possibility for understand how the power relations are constituted in the current moment, in face of the social threat coming from two agents: the neoconservative government Brazil, and the Covid-19 virus, generator of a worldwide pandemic. In this work, we understand that these agents contribute to the intensification of the neoliberal offensive, which highlights the structural contradictions in the order of capital. Thus, we established that this category of praxis is an expression of the process of critical awareness of subjects, and institutes a movement necessary for social change, based on a historical conception of reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyses the political campaign of the rather under-researched Bancada Ativista, a prefigurative progressive experience comprised of nine co-candidates running for a single seat in the State Chamber of Sao Paulo during the 2018 Brazilian elections. The political experience brought about by the Bancada Ativista stands as a prolific effort in its aim to transform legislative action, responding to the challenges posed by the contemporary crisis of representative democracy. By taking the Essex School's discourse theory standpoint, this article critically explores the discursive composition of the Bancada 's political campaign and the significance of its electoral success in light of crisis-driven Brazilian politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A disease is considered neglected when it is not given due priority in health policies despite the social relevance of that disease, either in terms of the number of individuals affected by it or its morbidity or mortality. Although the causes are structural, neglect in health does not occur in a vacuum. In this paper, we explore how sickle cell disease (SCD) is constructed and neglected in Brazil, based on insights from our long-term participatory qualitative research in the state of Bahia. We present five overarching themes relevant to the social production of SCD, and associated health policies in Brazil: (1) The achievements and setbacks to overcome neglect in SCD, (2) Continuity of comprehensive SCD care; (3) Social movements of people with SCD; (4) Biocultural citizenship; and (5) Academic advocacy. We conclude that it is insufficient to merely recognize the health inequities that differentiate white and black populations in Brazil; racism must be understood as both a producer and a reproducer of this process of neglect. We conclude with a set of recommendations for the main SCD stakeholder groups committed to improving the lives of people living with SCD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social movement scholarship has increasingly shown how continuous mobilization depends on collective memory construction. This article sets out to study this formative activity in a changing media landscape. It asks how activists navigate the temporal nexus of collective memory mediation. The empirical focus is on Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), a well-established organization that since the early 1980s has communicated its collective memories on several media platforms. This article also demonstrates, through a corpus analysis of MST's internal newspaper, Jornal Sem Terra (1984–2014), and its Facebook page (2014–2019), how collective memories of rural violence serve various functions in these different media. The empirical study verifies the formative implication of rural violence for Brazil's landless movement, but also unveils notable differences between the newspaper and Facebook in this regard. Whereas Jornal Sem Terra employed a horizontal collective memory construction through contemporary documentation of ongoing and upcoming events, the Facebook posts primarily engaged in the vertical extraction of already established memories. In other words, the print media produced a narrative around collective memories of rural violence, and these memories were re-produced through digital media platforms. These empirical findings implicate that renewed methodologies are needed in future studies of social movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the first decades of implementations of inclusive churches in Brazil, production of pastoral support materials, books about inclusive and queer theology, evangelical religious communities composed by sexual and gender dissidences have started the process on collective organization to perform on the public sphere. They have offered alternative conceptions for understanding the relationship between faith and sexuality and have constructed the struggle scenery for their citizenship recognition. Furthermore, we discuss how the inclusive churches movement organizations has developed in a context of intense disagreement between sexual dissident's social movements whom revendicate civil rights and evangelical sectors who acted to avoid the spread of those requisitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article revisits the history of HIV prevention for gay and other men who have sex with men in relation to public health policy and the role of LGBT and AIDS-related social movements in Brazil. An interpretive study was undertaken informed by philosophical and phenomenological hermeneutics. It included interviews with policymakers, researchers and activists involved in HIV and AIDS, especially HIV prevention among gay and other men who have sex with men. Prevention initiatives were analysed with a focus on the social and programmatic aspects of vulnerability to HIV, and advances and setbacks in the Brazilian response to the epidemic. The recent crisis in HIV prevention triggered by a growing conservatism in Brazilian politics and the current government's LGBT-phobia pose barriers that compromise issues of profound importance with regards to policy on HIV and AIDS: namely, engagement with human rights and social participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Brazil, many anthropologists are encouraged to act for the benefit of minority groups, assuming an activist role in conducting research on and with them. Yet efforts to integrate these dual roles are undermined by the continued separation of scientific knowledge production processes from other scholar activist activities. In this article, I seek to contend this separation by reflecting on my work as a volunteer in medios libres (the "free media"). With this form of activism, I sought to support the Mexican Indigenous social movement Modevite alongside my doctoral research, in a process of double contention. I reflect on the possibilities of rethinking the activism–academia dichotomy in knowledge production and on how we can produce knowledge that is more strategic for the people we engage with. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article investigates the Brazilian social movement of mothers whose children were killed by State's security agents between 2003 and 2017. Its purpose is to understand how these women define their claims for justice, as they struggle to see those responsible for the assassination of their children properly judged. Our hypothesis is that their activism politicizes motherhood and makes it a public matter. To investigate that, we conducted in-depth interviews with twelve activists on the mothers' movements against police violence. The interviews were conducted between June and August of 2017, in two metropolitan areas in the Southeast of Brazil, the city of Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and Santos (SP). They confirmed the politicization of motherhood, redefining care as resistance and a matter of justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Struggles against eviction are key moments in the (re)production of informal housing in Brazilian cities, as they contest the uprooting and displacement of generally low-income families. While recent research has focused on displacement due to the World Cup and Olympic Games mega-events, this paper explores struggles against eviction that are less high profile, underscoring the distributed nature of evictions in processes of urban change. Drawing on long term fieldwork, this paper examines three cases of struggles against eviction in different cities in the southeast of Brazil. This comparison highlights the everyday contestations that take place across varied geo-political terrain; the morphological constraints and opportunities for collective action of building as opposed to land occupations; the punitive and cooperative state logics with which threatened communities must engage; and drawing on recent attempts in geography to combine theorisations of territory, place, network and scale, contributes to understanding the polymorphy of spatial struggles in contemporary Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The organization and performance of the feminist movement has historically demonstrated that women are fundamental in the construction of knowledge and practices that promote political education and in defense of human rights, even though they occupy subordinate places in society. In times of democratic setbacks, fueled by a conservative policy and a deep attack on women's rights, especially in Brazil, it is necessary to search for new alternatives and militancy strategies. In the 2018 presidential elections, faced with the imminence of a conservative politician occupying the presidency of Brazil, women organized a movement through social networks called #EleNão (#NotHim), with the objective of discussing and making women aware of the danger posed by the victory of Jair Messias Bolsonaro. Based on the concepts of autonomy and hope proposed by Paulo Freire and popular education, we seek to discuss how the movement brought important developments to the feminist movement and highlighted women as one of the main fronts of resistance to conservatism, contributing to the construction of an education as a practice of freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bolsonaro was elected in 2018 with a very conservative political agenda, promising neoliberal economic measures, and opposing to minority's rights. Bolsonaro has been well-known as a right-wing and authoritarian politician and his government is recognised as extreme right, conservative, and/or neo-fascist, with important setbacks in public policies. The "bolsonarismo" shall be defeated, but the electoral process will not be easy, with fake news and political violence. The open threats to democracy are leading to alliances of democratic and popular political forces, including agrarian and urban social movements. This article reflects critically about Bolsonaro administration, particularly the dismantling of public policies and programmes to the countryside, reflecting about the political actions of the agrarian movements in the 2022 electoral process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first mobilizations for the democratization of communication emerged in the context of struggles for democracy in Brazil, between the second half of the 1970s and 1988. The central demands were the confrontation of the authoritarian State and the power of commercial media and the defense of the social right to communication, in line with the debates of the New World Information and Communication Order (NOMIC). Umbilically linked to the struggle for citizenship and rights, the democratization of communication was already asserting itself as a necessary condition for democracy, but it faced structural obstacles such as the incidence of private interests in the Brazilian State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aims to reconstruct the landscape of critical social psychology in Brazil and discuss the academic production networks that are developing in this field. Therefore, it analyzed a sample of 384 articles in the field of critical social psychology published by 18 journals indexed in QUALIS (Categories A1 and A2 in psychology area). The publication and citation information were obtained from ISI Web of Science database. Bibliometric analyses were performed using VOSviewer 1.6.9 software to identify indicators such as reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) of historical works, consumption, semantic maps and coauthorship. The results indicate that the academic production of Brazilian critical social psychology represents a socially significant and important impact on the country. The journals in which these studies were published have helped consolidate a strong and representative local academic community of the critical social psychology movement in Brazil, and their progressive and ascendant influence has also contributed to other countries of the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This text approaches the articulation between solidarity economy practices and the production of citizenship and autonomy among individuals in psychosocial suffering, through an artistic/cultural production. The confluence between public mental healthcare and associated work as an alternative to labor insertion for people suffering from mental disease is, although still challenging, very important in Brazil. We analyze two consolidated experiences, each extending over a period of two decades: The Suburban Madness group in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and GerAção-POA in Porto Alegre, both Brazilian capitals of the states of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul, respectively. The relevance of this research lies in showing the fruitful intersections between social movements, public health care, and arts, especially now that Brazil is facing a period of authoritarianism, which places at risk the democratic achievements of both public policies and social movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]