Podcasts
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 impact of law and justice in Brazil and comparatively. As an institution builder, Fabio codirects the Oklahoma University Center for Brazilian Studies, is a member of the executive committee of the Brazilian Studies Association and a trustee of the Law and Society Association - Class of 2013. In 2018, he was recognized as the outstanding faculty in his department.
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. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.
Labor Precarity in the Digital Age
In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Rafael Grohmann, who researches labor and work issues in the digital realm. Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform Studies at the University of Toronto. Leader of DigiLabour initiative. He is the co-director of Critical Digital Methods Institute as well as a researcher for Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects and a founding board member of Labor Tech Research Network. His research interests include platform cooperativism and worker-owned platforms, work & AI, workers' organization, platform labor, communication/media and work. He is currently working on a book manuscript on worker-owned platforms in Latin America. On the show, Grohmann discusses the impacts of companies such as Uber and Amazon on the labor scenario in Brazil
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, Arctic, Amazon and several COP summits for The Guardian, covering, as he says, "a lot of grim stuff I wish wasn't happening and interviewing a lot of great people trying to stop it". Between 2012 and 2017, Watts was The Guardian's Latin America correspondent, when he interviewed political figures such as Brazilian presidents Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff and Bolivian president Evo Morales, among other political leaders of the region. He is the author of When a Billion Chinese Jump (Faber 2010), which was translated into four languages.
Foreign policy under Lula
New ep of Brazil Unfiltered! @JamesNGreen speaks with Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida about the Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula government.
Solidarity and Resistance in Latin America
In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Jan Rocha, a British born journalist and writer who has just released the book "CLAMOR: The search for the disappeared of the South American dictatorships". Rocha 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). In 2020 she published "Nossa Correspondente Informa", a selection of BBC stories broadcast during the Brazilian dictatorship. She has twice won the Vladimir Herzog Human Rights prize for journalism, in the categories of radio and books. From 2013-2014 she was a consultant to the Brazilian Truth Commission. On the show, Rocha discusses the lessons from the networks of solidarity and resistance in 1970s and 1980s Latin America
Lula's first 100 days with André Pagliarini
Lula's first 100 days with André Pagliarini, an assistant professor of history and fellow in the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest at Hampden-Sydney College in central Virginia.
How the mining boom has impacted the environment
How the mining boom has impacted the environment with Mauricio Angelo, an award-winning international freelance investigative journalist and the founder of The Mining Observatory, a Brazilian based investigative journalism Centre established in 2015
Relations between the military and the Brazilian state
The military and Democracy with João Roberto Martins Filho, professor emeritus of Political Science at the Federal University of São Carlos with a doctorate in Social Science from the State University of Campinas.
Women's Movements on the Rebound with Cecilia MacDowell Santos
Women's Movements on the Rebound with Cecilia MacDowell Santos, Professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco and Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra.
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.
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.