145. Vania Sierra on Brazil's 2022 Elections Significance

<p>How Jair Bolsonaro’s Administration transformed Brazil? Why the term “necropolitics” is used to describe not only his government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the deforestation of the Amazon region but also the dismantling of social welfare programs that previously sought to address economic, gender and racial inequalities? In which ways, the militaristic view of governance caused a “crisis of democracy”?</p> <p>After the 2022 presidential elections, why half of Brasil’s voters (50.9%) chose former president Lula da Silva to lead the country in 2023?</p> <p>An interview in Portuguese with Vania Sierra, Social Policy Professor at Universidade do Estado do Rio&nbsp;de&nbsp;Janeiro.</p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/sae4cxFZPa0">You can watch the Portuguese language Video Interview on my Youtube channel here.</a></p> <p><strong>Listen to the episode, follow us on Instagram and Twitter @womanhood_ir and support us on Patreon </strong><a href="http://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir"><strong>www.patreon.com/womanhoodir</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-workshop-violencepeace-tickets-463609788357"><strong>RSVP: Online Workshop VAW/Peace on November 22nd</strong></a></p> <p><strong>Listen to related episodes:</strong></p> <ul> <li>28. The Escazú Agreement: How To Fix Human and Earth Relations</li> <li>68. Camila Cavalcante on Feminist Photography and Abortion in Brazil</li> <li>73. Akhila Kolisetty on Gender, Militarism and Climate Justice</li> </ul> <p><strong>Recommended links:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="//Vania Sierra">Vania Sierra's Academic Articles</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.academia.edu/90024754/Direitos_Sociais_em_perspectiva_os_desafios_do_Ensino_Superior_no_contexto_do_bolsonarismo_">Direitos Sociais em perspectiva: os desafios do Ensino Superior no contexto do “bolsonarismo”</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtAWPMLYMpQ">Brazil’s Lula da Silva, explained</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg-4K8ddmbE">Brazil: a