Tag: brazil
The greatest performance in Brazilian history
In the second round of elections, people left home to vote with a book in hand
A country that doesn't even notice its destruction
"Can so much destruction be the result of chance alone? Is it, forgive the involuntary rhyme, just neglect?", writes Renato Janine Ribeiro
People of infinite colors
For four years, Adriana Varejão was already studying, together with Lilia Schwarcz, the infinite colors and identities of the Brazilian people. remember
Brazil, a perverse and ambiguous country
Artist and director of the Afro Brasil Museum, Emanoel Araújo reflects on the difference between theoretical and academic analyzes of slavery and its real experience
Much more than “beauty”
Book by Rogério Assis and Ciro Girard, released in April 2018, awakens increasingly necessary reflections on the world we inhabit
Bruscky, Marcelle, Milhazes, Zerbini and WWII Brazilians in London
Material produced by around 70 artists in 1943 to finance the Brazilian struggle in Italy leaves the collections and returns to be exhibited at a time of appreciation of national production
Democracy?
I read somewhere, and it struck me as true, that since the beginning of time, the freedom of some has been at the expense of the servitude of others.
Human thought available in a digital library
US Library of Congress project in partnership with UNESCO has made available more than 19 works with specifications in seven languages
Back to the asylums? SUS resumes debate on psychiatric hospitals in Brazil
Measure is repudiated and seen as a major setback for mental health workers. Lumena Almeida, who has more than 30 years of experience in the SUS and was once the national secretary for Health Care, reflects on the topic
The human sciences and the culture war in Brazil
One of the facets of the “cultural war” between the left and the right that Brazil is currently experiencing is the widespread criticism of the human sciences.
