Brazil after Bolsonaro The Comeback of Lula da Silva

Part I: The person and situation

1. Lula and the PT in Brazilian politics, 1980-2022

Leslie Bethell

2. A new chance for Lula

Thomas Traumann

3. Why Bolsonaro failed, just

Oswaldo Martins Estanislau do Amaral

Part II: Context and issues

4. A tropical game of thrones: Courts and executive-legislative relations from Bolsonaro to Lula

Marcus André Melo and André Regis de Carvalho

5. The return of Lula and the challenges facing Brazil’s economy: Will the chicken fly?

Edmund Amann

6. Social policies, poverty, and hunger in Brazil: The social and institutional legacy of the Lula/Dilma governments

Paulo Jannuzzi

7. A state of ignorance: Bolsonaro and Brazil’s historic hostility to mass education

Eduardo Bueno

8. Black Identity, mobilisation and politics in Brazil

Gladys Mitchell- Walthour

9. Crime, violence and public security

Anthony Pereira and Renato Sergio de Lima

10. Human rights: Public policies and systems before and after Bolsonaro, and the challenge to rebuild them

Rogerio Sottili and Juliana Bueno

11. Lula and Amazonia

Philip M. Fearnside

12. Lula’s comeback – a new era for Indigenous peoples?

Fiona Watson

Part III: Foreign policy

13. Pink tide revisited: Bolsonarismo, social movements and the future of South American integration

Luísa Calvete Portela Barbosa

14. Brazil in the world

Nelson Franco Jobim

Part IV: The perspective of another President

15. Personal reflections: A colleague’s perspective on Lula

Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera

Index

Biography

Richard Bourne is an author and retired journalist, who was formerly education correspondent of The Guardian as well as a senior fellow at the Institute for Commonwealth Studies. Bourne is author of several books including Garibaldi in South America – an Exploration, Lula of Brazil – the Story so Far, Assault on the Amazon, Getúlio Vargas of Brazil: Sphinx of the Pampas, and Political Leaders of Latin America.

"This volume offers a timely and insightful overview of Lula's return to office and the challenges faced by his new administration. The contributors—including leading experts in the field—provide clear analysis of topics including the political conflicts of the last decade, the persistence of Bolsonarismo, and the politics of social spending, higher education, Black representation, public security, human rights and environmental protections. This is an extremely valuable contribution to understanding current Brazil, both for specialists and a broader audience."

Bryan McCann, Georgetown University

"This insightful book is about the electoral defeat of the extreme-right populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, by a democratic coalition that gave Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva his third term in the presidential office. It is also about the legacy of political radicalization and destruction of state capacities the new president will have to face and overcome. Certainly, a topic of greatest interest for readers that care for the future of democratic politics worldwide."

Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, University of São Paulo

“This is an essential book to understand today’s Brazil and Lula, whose success is paramount for the aspirational Global South.”

Krishnan Srinivasan, The Wire

"[The] first in-depth assessment of the country's shifting political scene since the sea-change of the October 2022 presidential poll."

Robert Plummer, The Round Table