Manifesting Democracy?

Maite Conde is Professor of Brazilian Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity (2018) which received the Katherine Singer Kovacs award by the Modern Language Association in 2019, and Consuming Visions: Cinema, Writing and Modernity in Brazil (2012). She has also edited the collections Between Conformity and Resistance: Essays in Politics, Culture and the State by Marilena Chauí (2012) and On Brazil and Global Cinema by Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes (with Stephanie Dennison, 2018).

Notes on Contributors vii

List of Illustrations xi

Series Editors’ Preface xii

Acknowledgements xiii

1 Introduction 1
Maite Conde

2 June 2013: A Moment in the Struggle for Public Transport in the City 23
Marina Capusso and Matheus Preis

3 The June 2013 Demonstrations in the City of São Paulo 39
Marilena Chaui

4 Are They Black Blocs? The Trajectories of Militancy, Repression, and the Contestation of Meaning in Rio de Janeiro’s Protests 52
André Reyes Novaes and Mariana Lamego

5 Media Activism and Diverse Tactics on the Streets of Brazil: Observations about and from Mídia NINJA 71
Marianna Olinger

6 The Politics of Strolling 82
Pedro Erber

7 Seja Gari, Seja Herói (Be a Binman, Be a Hero): Aesthetic Manifestations in Rio de Janeiro’s Protests 101
Barbara Szaniecki

8 Social Movements and Participatory Planning: The Limits of Institutionalization 119
Renato Anelli and Ana Paula Koury

9 Brazil: Development Strategies and Social Change from Import Substitution to the June Days 137
Alfredo Saad-Filho

10 The Democratic Eclipse: Between the Brazil of Social Struggles and the Brazil of Political Coups 166
Francisco Foot Hardman

Index 187