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Articles by Francisco de Oliveira
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Lula in the Labyrinth
in NLR 42, November-December 2006, pp. 5-22
Subjects: Latin America and the Caribbean , Brazil
Amid the complex cross-currents of the Latin American political scene, where to situate Lula’s Brazil? Dynamics of neo-populism and statification, social credits and government graft as elements of a novel reconstitution of power under a Workers Party president.
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The Duckbilled Platypus
in NLR 24, November-December 2003, pp. 40-57
Subjects: Social Theory , Brazil
What animal species does contemporary Brazil most resemble? The strange forms of a society that no longer enjoys the options of under-development, without acquiring the dynamics of globalized development, in the liveliest exploration to date of the possible meaning of Lula’s government.
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Also available in Spanish and Turkish