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Brazil Unfiltered

by Washington Brazil Office

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil. Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. The podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo. ➡️ https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

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  1. BRICS and the balance of global power with Eduardo Gomes

    Eduardo Gomes is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fluminense Federal University, in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He hold a Ph. D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, with a dissertation on a failed project of turning Brazil into an exporter of manufactured...

  2. The implications of Bolsonaro's trial with Rubens Glezer

    Rubens Glezer is a professor of Constitutional Law at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation Law School in São Paulo. He holds a PhD in Legal Theory from USP, a Master's in Law and Development from the Getúlio Vargas Law School and is a visiting researcher at NYU (New York University). Glezer is a...

  3. Brazilian women and activism in the US with Heloisa Galvão

    Heloisa Galvão is a co-founder of the Brazilian Women’s Group and its Executive-Director. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Decoration “Ordem do Rio Branco” awarded by the President of Brazil to Brazilians living overseas who are recognized by outstanding services to Brazil…

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  4. Migration scenarios in Brazil and the US with João Carlos Jarochinski

    João Carlos Jarochinski Silva is Professor at Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR) in a joint appointment at the Faculty of International Relations and the Sociedade e Fronteiras (Society and Borders) Postgraduate Programme. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Núcleo de Estudos de População…

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  5. The impact of big tech on Brazilian politics with Marianna Poyares

    Marianna Poyares is a Fritz Fellow at Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology. She is a critical theorist working on the ethics of new technologies of migration and border enforcement. Trained as a philosopher and with a background in human rights policy and advocacy, Marianna has worked,...

  6. The legacies of Brazil's military dictatorship with Vera Paiva

    Vera Paiva is a Full Professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at the University of São Paulo, where she has taught since 1987. She is dedicated to psychosocial approaches to inequality and sexuality and to the innovation of health practices (prevention and...

  7. The impact of local elections on Brazilian politics with Camila Rocha

    Camila Rocha is the Scientific Director of CCI/Cebrap. A PhD in Political Science from the University of São Paulo, she won the USP Thesis Award and the best doctoral thesis award from the Brazilian Political Science Association. A finalist for the 64th Jabuti Prize with the book Less Marx, More...

  8. O retorno de Trump e o futuro das relações Brasil-EUA

    CartaCapital e o ‪WashingtonBrazilOffice‬ (WBO) transmitem uma edição especial do podcast Brazil Unfiltered para debater o resultado das eleições presidenciais americanas e como a vitória de Donald Trump contra Kamala Harris poderá impactar o futuro das relações entre Brasil e os Estados Unidos.…

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  9. Violence in modern Brazil with Erika Robb Larkins

    Erika Robb Larkins is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Behner Stiefel Chair of Brazilian Studies and the Director of the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at California State University, San Diego. Her first book, The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil…

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  10. Brazilian black women and the municipal elections with Tainah Pereira

    Tainah Santos Pereira is a PhD student of International Political Economy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Tainha has a MA in Political Science from the Federal State University of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio) and a BA in International Relations from Universidade Estácio de Sá. She...

  11. The importance of the Cerrado region with Isabel Figueiredo

    Isabel Figueiredo is an ecologist and coordinator of the Cerrado and Caatinga Program at the Institute of Society, Population and Nature (ISPN). With a Master's degree in Ecology from the University of Brasilia, she has worked for eighteen years on the conservation of the Cerrado with indigenous...

  12. The impact of US elections on Brazil with André Pagliarini

    Andre Pagliarini is an assistant professor of history and international studies at Louisiana State University, a faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office and a non-resident expert at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He has written widely on Brazil for scholarly and academic...

  13. Women's struggles in Brazil with Debora Diniz

    Debora Diniz is a Brazilian university professor, human rights activist, documentarist, and public intellectual. Diniz served as a professor at University of Brasília for almost 20 years. She is the founder of Anis – Instituto de Bioética, an organization that specializes in the use of video and...

  14. The state of US-Brazil relations with Rep. Kamlager-Dove

    A member of the Democratic Party, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove represents California’s vibrant, diverse 37th Congressional District in Los Angeles County. She is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and serves as Vice Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee. She…

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  15. Brazil and the Green Economy with Juliana de Moraes Pinheiro

    Juliana de Moraes Pinheiro is the co-founder of WBO and was the organization's first executive director. With a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Erasmus Mundus program, Juliana specialized in International Political Economy and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies…

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  16. Activism under Brazil's military regime with Marcos Arruda

    Marcos Arruda is an economist, professor and author. He is an associate and co-founder of the PACS Institute – Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone, Rio de Janeiro since 1986 and an associate of the Transnational Institute, in Amsterdam, since 1975. Arruda is the co-founder and former...

  17. The Military Dictatorship's Files with Peter Kornbluh

    Peter Kornbluh is a Senior Analyst who was has worked at the National Security Archive since April 1986. He currently directs the Archive's Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects. He was co-director of the Iran-Contra documentation project and director of the Archive's project on U.S. policy…

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  18. Violence and organized crime in Brazil with Rafael Alcadipan

    Rafael Alcadipani is full professor of management at the Sao Paulo Management School from the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil. He got his PhD in management from the University of Manchester, UK. He does research on police and crime in Brazil. He has published widely in top scientific journals...

  19. The WBO in action in 2023: André Pagliarini interviews James N Green

    In the last program of 2023, James Naylor Green switches roles and becomes the interviewee. The Brazil Unfiltered host, who is a professor of Brazilian history and culture at Brown University and the national co-coordinator for the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, answers questions by André...

  20. The Threats to Artistic Freedom and Freedom of Speech with Raísa Cetra

    Raísa Cetra is co-executive director at Article 19 Brazil and South America and PhD student in Global Health at USP. She has a bachelor's degree in International Relations at the same university. She has worked widely on international human rights law within civil society organizations, mostly in...

  21. The impact of social movements and participation with Athayde Motta

    Athayde Motta holds a master’s degree in Anthropology and a master's degree in Public Affairs (both from the University of Texas at Austin). He has a long career in the areas of international development, management of civil society organizations (CSOs) and program and project development. He...

  22. How Brazil cooperated with the Pinochet regime in Chile with Mila Burns

    Mila Burns is an Associate Professor at the Department of Latin American & Latino Studies at Lehman College, CUNY. She is the Associate Director at the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Burns is the author of Dona Ivone Lara's Sorriso Negro...

  23. The Defense of Democracy in Brazil with Natalia de Campos

    Natalia de Campos is a performance and theater artists, producer, writer, educator, translator and activist born in São Paulo, Brazil. She has lives in New York for the last 25 years, where she founded the multidisciplinary arts collaborative Syncretic Pleasures, to produce performance and arts...

  24. The Challenges for Transparency in Brazil with Luis Adams

    Luis Adams is a partner of the Litigation, Arbitration and Compliance practices of Tauil & Chequer Advogados. In the Brasília Office, he is responsible for matters related to Superior and Supreme Courts. Adams has extensive tax experience, working as Counsel for the Federal Treasury at the…

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  25. The Lula Administration's Greatest Challenges with Fábio Sá e Silva

    Fabio Sá e Silva is an associate professor of International Studies and the Wick Cary professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is also affiliated as a fellow at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. He studies the social organization and the political…

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  26. Labor Precarity in the Digital Age with Rafael Grohmann

    Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform Studies at the University of Toronto. Leader of DigiLabour initiative. Co-director of Critical Digital Methods Institute. Researcher of Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects....

  27. The Amazon as the Center of the World with Jonathan Watts

    Jonathan Watts is a British journalist serving as the global environment editor of The Guardian. Based in the Amazon town of Altamira, Pará state, he is one of the cofounders of Sumauma, an independent news agency specialized in reporting from the Amazon. He has also reported from the Antarctic,...

  28. Brazilian foreign policy under Lula with Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida

    Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, P.H.D. in Political Science, is senior researcher at Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP), retired Professor of Political Science and former dean of the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo (2009-2013). Her books...

  29. Solidarity and resistance in Latin America with Jan Rocha

    Jan Rocha is a British born journalist and writer who was correspondent for the BBC World Service and The Guardian in Brazil from the 1970s to the 90s and currently writes about politics for LAB (Latin America Bureau). Her books about Brazil include Murder in the Rainforest: The Yanomami, the…

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  30. Lula's first 100 days with André Pagliarini

    Andre Pagliarini is an assistant professor of history and fellow in the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest at Hampden-Sydney College in central Virginia. He has written widely on Brazil for scholarly and academic audiences in outlets like Latin American Research Review, Latin...

  31. How the mining boom has impacted the environment with Maurício Angelo

    Maurício Angelo is an award-winning international freelance investigative journalist and the founder of The Mining Observatory, a Brazilian based investigative journalism Centre established in 2015. Researcher at Sustainable Development Center at the University of Brasília (UnB). He publishes in...

  32. The military and Democracy with João Roberto Martins Filho

    João Roberto Martins Filho is professor emeritus of Political Science at the Federal University of São Carlos with a doctorate in Social Science from the State University of Campinas. He is the author of many classical works, including an English translation of "The Student movement and the...

  33. Women's Movements on the Rebound with Cecilia MacDowell Santos

    Cecília MacDowell Santos is Professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco and Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (UC Berkeley) and a Master in Law (University of São Paulo). Her research interests center on laws…

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  34. The Indigenous Humanitarian Crisis with Fiona Watson

    ​​In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Fiona Watson. Fiona is Research and Advocacy Director at Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples' rights. She has been with Survival since 1990 and worked on many campaigns for Indigenous peoples’…

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  35. The Lula-Biden Meeting and Brazil-US Relations with Fernanda Magnotta

    ​​In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Fernanda Magnotta. Fernanda is a specialist in United States foreign policy. She holds a PhD and a Master's degree from the San Tiago Dantas foreign relations post-graduation program, of a consortium of the State University of...

  36. Will Lula Transform Global Power Dynamics? With Celso Amorim

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Celso Amorim. Celso is a professor and professional diplomate. He served as Dilma Rousseff's Minister of Defense (2011-2014) and Lula's Minister of Foreign Relations (2003-2010). Celso also spent time as the Permanent...

  37. What Lula's Victory Means for Brazil & the World with Guilherme Casarões

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Guilherme Casarões. Guilherme is a Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Center of International Relations, a professor at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo, and a member of the Observatório da Extrema Direita. His research...

  38. What We Can Learn from the 1st Round of the Brazilian Elections with Celso Rocha de Barros

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Celso Rocha de Barros. Celso is a Sociologist and Political Scientist. Celso is a political columnist for the Folha de São Paulo and the author of "PT, uma história," which comes out October, 2022. Brazil is going through...

  39. Will Brazil Vote for Human Rights? with Fernanda Mena

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with journalist Fernanda Mena. Fernanda has worked at the Folha de São Paulo for over a decade, both as an editor and as a reporter. Before arriving at the Folha, she worked at Piauí, Fantástico, TV Globo, and UOL. Fernanda is a...

  40. Election Analysis & Predictions with Brian Mier

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Brian Mier. Brian is a Chicago native who has lived in Brazil for almost 30 years while working as a journalist. Brian is co-editor of the English language publication Brasil Wire and correspondent for Telesur English’s news...

  41. The Amazon and Brazil's Democratic Crisis with Rafael Ioris

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Rafael Ioris. Rafael is a professor of Latin American history in the history department at the University of Denver and a researcher at the Institute for the Study of the United States in Brazil. You can find Rafael's opinions…

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  42. Brazilian NGOs Go to Washington with Marcelle Decothé

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Marcelle Decothé. Marcelle is the advocacy director at the Instituto Marielle Franco. She is completing a doctorate in sociology at the Fluminense Federal University. Her academic interests include activism, race, favelas, and...

  43. How Brazil Became a Black Country with Márcia Lima

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Márcia Lima. Márcia is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo and the coordinator of the Afro Research Center on race, gender, and racial justice at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and…

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  44. Democracy on the Ballot with Leonardo Avritzer

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Leonardo Avritzer. Leonardo is a Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He is the author of many books, including Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America,...

  45. The Early Days of the LGBTQIA+ Movement with Edward MacRae

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Edward MacRae. Edward is Professor Emeritus at the Federal University of Bahia in the Department of Anthropology. Edward’s doctoral dissertation and first book, The Construction of Equality: Sexual Identity and Politics in…

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  46. Is Brazil a Democracy with Lilia Schwarcz

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Lilia Schwarcz. Lilia is a professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and the University of São Paulo. She is the author of many books in Portuguese and in English on the history and culture of Brazil. Some of her books...

  47. Left of Lula with Valério Arcary

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks Valério Arcary. Valério is a Professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of São Paulo (IFSP) and one of the leading public intellectuals active in the Socialism and Liberty Party, or PSOL as it is referred...

  48. Is Democracy at Risk in Brazil with George Avelino

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Associate professor of political science at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, George Avelino. George's research focuses on elections, political parties, political coalitions, comparative politics, democracy, and public...

  49. Confronting Whiteness in Brazil and the U.S. with Vânia Penha-Lopes

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Vânia Penha-Lopes, Professor of Sociology at Bloomfield College, in New Jersey. Vânia is co-chair of the Brazil Seminar at Columbia University (2008-present) and was a member of the executive committee of the Brazilian Studies...

  50. Understanding Bolsonarismo with Andre Pagliarini

    In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Andre Pagliarini professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and the co-editor of the Washington Brazil Office's weekly "Brazilian Election Bulletin." In addition to writing widely for general audiences in the...

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Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. The podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

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