Tourism that seeks to engage with indigenous communities often masks the enduring historical struggle of who gets to decide what a place is and who benefits from it.
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Robert Muggah, an expert in organised crime in Brazil, explains the origins of the Commando Vermehlo, the gang targeted in a deadly raid in Rio de Janeiro in late October.
Brazilian lawmakers are debating a bill that would expand the definition of terrorism to include the activities of organised crime.
During the only major performance she gave in her home country, Gilberto was booed.
Until Bolsonaro’s election win, sex workers had been gaining rights. His ultra-far-right, homophobic, racist and mysoginistic views have made the reality much worse.
A 1904 revolt against mandatory smallpox inoculation taught Brazilian health officials a deadly lesson on how to vaccinate a skeptical public. Today President Bolsonaro seems to ignore that history.
COVID-19 is spreading fast through not only the world’s richest cities but also its poorest, ravaging slum areas where risk factors like overcrowding and poverty accelerate disease transmission.
As evangelicalism spreads across Brazil, some of Rio de Janeiro’s most notorious gangs see minority religions as an affront to God. And they’re using guns to spread their gospel.
Violence against LGBTQ people in Brazil is at an all-time high, but artists refuse to be intimidated.
Tobacco companies are enlisting the help of social media influencers to promote traditional cigarettes and their brands to young people.
Jair Bolsonaro has very rightwing views likely to put a final nail in the coffin off Brazil’s Africa moment spearheaded by former president Lula da Silva.
At many popular destinations, residents are protesting against crowding, rowdy visitors and low wages. With some research, travelers can use their visits to enrich host areas instead of harming them.
As hard-line Pentecostalism spreads across Brazil, some drug traffickers in gang-controlled areas of Rio de Janeiro are using religion as an excuse to attack nonbelievers.
The sounds and sights of Brazilian feminist funk.
In one bloody week in June, 181 Rio residents were shot, including a baby in utero. It’s now impossible not to notice that city’s once-lauded favela “pacification” strategy has all but collapsed.
Rio’s sex workers were hoping the 2016 games would also boost their trade – but they were wrong.
Residents of the Maré neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro are eight times more likely to be killed by police than other Brazilians. Most victims are young and black.
Famously freewheeling – but also violent and unequal – Rio de Janeiro has elected a right-wing former pentecostal bishop as mayor. What’s at stake for this ‘gay, black and tolerant’ Brazilian city?
At one point, it looked like the games could be cancelled. But the carnival spirit has prevailed.
Instead of showcasing a rising global power with a booming economy, the 2014 Games put a spotlight on Brazil’s most serious economic recession since the 1930s, along with a host of social problems.
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Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
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Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and Political Science, University of Florida
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Associate professor, Centre for Educational Research and Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Head of Research Programme, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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Associate Professor, History, University of Newcastle
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
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Director, Cities of Culture Research Observatory, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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Criminal Science Professor and Researcher on Crime Prevention and Human Rights, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
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