Join us for a Global Dialogues event with sociologist, Ruy Braga (University of São Paulo), author of The Politics of the Precariat: From Populism to Lulista Hegemony. Professor Braga will discuss the rise of Brazil’s Workers’ Party in the early 2000s, the fragile alliances that held Brazil together for nearly 15 years, and the repercussions of the ongoing crisis in the global economic order.
Event participants will have the chance to receive a free copy of the book!
About The Politics of the Precariat
The Politics of the Precariat From Populism to Lulista Hegemony explores the social history of Brazila as an analytical vector for theoretical tools of Marxist critical sociology. Braga examines Brazil’s movement from Fordist populism to a financialized post-Fordist economy under Lulista hegemony, showing how these economic shifts are felt in the daily lives of the subordinate. It emphasizes how insecurity and anxiety have fueled new forms of collective and class-based struggle.
About Ruy Braga
Author Ruy Gomes Braga Neto has a degree in Social Sciences (1993), a master’s degree in Sociology , PhD in Social Sciences from Unicamp, and professorship at the University of São Paulo. He also performed postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley.
Ruy served as a visiting professor at the following universities: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), National University of Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina), University of Coimbra and University of California at Berkeley. Furthermore, he gave lectures and mini-courses at the University of Rome, the New University of Lisbon, the ISCTE (University Institute of Lisbon), the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) and the University of the Witwatersrand.
He is currently head of the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at USP, where he coordinates the Center for the Study of Citizenship Rights (Cenedic).
This event is co-sponsored by the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program at UW-Madison.
