Manifesting Democracy?: Urban Protests and the Politics of Representation in Brazil Post 2013

This volume explores the series of public protests – manifestações – that took place in a number of Brazilian cities in June and July 2013, when thousands of people took to the streets to demand improvements in urban infrastructures.

• Critically examines the role these protests played in politics, the political and their relationships to urban space and culture
• Analyses their connections to the emergence of a ‘New Right’ in Brazil, which saw the election of Bolsonaro
• Includes first-hand acc...