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28/11/2025

Necropolitics, State of Exception, and Violence Against Indigenous People in the Amazon Region During the Bolsonaro Administration

The article analyzes violence and socio-environmental conflicts in indigenous territories, highlighting multiple forms of human rights violations and showing how recent policies reinforce an extermination project and significant changes in Brazilian socio-environmental policy.
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https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/necropolitics-state-of-exception-and-violence-against-indigenous-people-in-the-amazon-region-during-the-bolsonaro-administration/

Published: March 29, 2021

26/11/2025

Climate Security, the Amazon, and the Responsibility to Protect

The text examines the devastation of the Amazon and discusses what more could be done to prevent an environmental catastrophe, analyzing even the possibility of applying the principle of the responsibility to protect (R2P) as a way to respond to the crisis.

Click at this link to access the full article: https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/climate-security-the-amazon-and-the-responsibility-to-protect/

Published: July 5, 2021

21/11/2025

The Politics and Policies of Climate Change in Brazil: mapping out the field

What are the responses given to the causes and effects of climate change in Brazil’s public policies and international negotiations? What are the relationships between science and policymaking, and between development models and capitalism in such debates? What are the interfaces between climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and development models? These are some of the main questions that the authors of this Special Issue have attempted to discuss and analyse.

Click at this link to access the full article: https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/the-politics-and-policies-of-climate-change-in-brazil-mapping-out-the-field/

Published: December 31, 2023

18/11/2025

A Military-Green Biopolitics: The Brazilian Amazon Between Security and Development

The article seeks to demonstrate that the Brazilian defense strategy toward the Amazon is a local manifestation of a biopolitical approach, in which the ‘security/development’ binomen operates as a set of technologies of government applied both to the forest and its natural resources and to the populations that inhabit it

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https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/a-military-green-biopolitics-the-brazilian-amazon-between-security-and-development/

Published: May 14, 2021

14/11/2025

Racism as a Form of Politics: Brazilian Racial Politics
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that recent transformations in the direction of Brazilian racial politics result from complex processes simultaneously linked to transnational politics, the actions of the black movement and the division among the elites on the issue of race.

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https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/racism-as-a-form-of-politics-brazilian-racial-politics/

Published: December 13, 2022

11/11/2025

Policy Dynamics and Government Attention over Welfare Policies: An Analysis of the Brazilian Case

This article aims to understand changes in the Brazilian social welfare agenda by means of an analysis of the attention given to social welfare policies at the federal level.

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https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/policy-dynamics-and-government-attention-over-welfare-policies-an-analysis-of-the-brazilian-case/

Published: March 30, 2022

07/11/2025

Populism and the Dismantling of Brazil’s Deforestation Oversight Policy

The main objective of the article is to investigate how the performance and governing style of radical right-wing populism contributed to the escalation of illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon during Jair Bolsonaro’s administration (2019–2022).

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https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/populism-and-the-dismantling-of-brazils-deforestation-oversight-policy/

Published: February 27, 2024

04/11/2025

Punishing the Corrupt and Renewing Politics: The Candidacies of Federal Police Officers for the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies (2002-2018)

The study seeks to fill the gap in understanding the relationship between the Federal Police and Brazilian politics by analyzing the candidacies of individuals linked to the institution in five elections for the Chamber of Deputies: 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018.

Click at this link to access the full article: https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/punishing-the-corrupt-and-renewing-politics-the-candidacies-of-federal-police-officers-for-the-brazilian-chamber-of-deputies-2002-2018/

Published: December 2, 2024

31/10/2025

Is the Public Sphere Still Alive? Longitudinal Analysis of Climate Change Issue Attention Across Newspapers and Social Media Platforms (2014-2022)

The article offers a dual contribution that centers on the interaction among the following elements: The platformization of the public sphere, the various contingent phenomena linked to it (such as echo chambers, filter bubbles, political polarization, etc) and how these phenomena relate with the hypothesis of a fragmented public sphere.*

Click at this link to access the full text: https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/is-the-public-sphere-still-alive-longitudinal-analysis-of-climate-change-issue-attention-across-newspapers-and-social-media-platforms-2014-2022/

Published: October 7, 2024 ‎

24/10/2025

Is Brazil a Geoeconomic Node? Geography, Public Policy, and the Failure of Economic Integration in South America

*A geoeconomic node is the core of economic networks in a geographically delimited system. The flows of all units that are part of the system are focused on the node, enabling it to transfer momentum for development. Geoeconomic nodality is a sine-qua-non condition for anchor countries, leading areas, and regional powers to exist at all, and for regional integration to progress.*

Click at this link to access the full article: https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/is-brazil-a-geoeconomic-node-geography-public-policy-and-the-failure-of-economic-integration-in-south-america/

Published: Aug 03, 2020

21/10/2025

Gabriela Lotta e Catarina Segatto apresentam artigo sobre reforma do ensino médio

Assista aqui o vídeo das pesquisadoras Gabriela Lotta e Catarina Segatto sobre o artigo “State-Level Implementation of the Secondary Education Reform in Brazil: Between Conflict, Ambiguity, and Heterogeneity”, escrito em coautoria com Fernando Luiz Abrucio, e publicado na última edição da BPSR.

O artigo completo pode ser acessado em: https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/state-level-implementation-of-the-secondary-education-reform-in-brazil-between-conflict-ambiguity-and-heterogeneity/

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