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”? 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? An interview in Portuguese with Vania Sierra, Social Policy Professor at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. You can watch the Portuguese language Video Interview on my Youtube channel here. Listen to the episode, follow us on Instagram and Twitter @womanhood_ir and support us on Patreon www.patreon.com/womanhoodir RSVP: Online Workshop VAW/Peace on November 22nd Listen to related episodes: 28. The Escazú Agreement: How To Fix Human and Earth Relations 68. Camila Cavalcante on Feminist Photography and Abortion in Brazil 73. Akhila Kolisetty on Gender, Militarism and Climate Justice Recommended links: Vania Sierra's Academic Articles Direitos Sociais em perspectiva: os desafios do Ensino Superior no contexto do “bolsonarismo” Brazil’s Lula da Silva, explained Brazil: a nation divided | FT Film Brazil’s Drug Wars Just Got Even Deadlier How Jair Bolsonaro brought the far-right to power in Brazil ‘War Without End’: the Necropolitics of Bolsonaro’s Brazil What Jair Bolsonaro did to the Amazon rainforest, in 2 charts The Coup within the Coup: An Analysis of Competing Discourses in 1961-1964 The Military’s Return to Brazilian Politics Brazil rejects U.N. appeal not to revise history by denying 1964 military coup Lava Jato: See How Far Brazil’s Corruption Probe Reached