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Brazilian Innovation in the Global Automotive Value Chain: Implications of the Organisational Decomposition of the Innovation Process

Published by: Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Hybrid Activism: Paths of globalisation in the Brazilian Environmental Movement

Published by: IDS

Globalisation has opened up new spaces and opportunities for activists to work in local and global contexts. This enables a hybrid type of activism where activists continuously interweave global and local experience. Through accessing two Brazilian environmental organisations this paper demonstrates how hybrid activism works.

Hybrid Activism: Paths of Globalisation in the Brazilian Environmental Movement

Published by: IDS

Focusing on two case studies of environmental activism in Brazil, this paper argues against theories that consider local and global activism as two separate realms.

Brazilian Experiences of Participation and Citizenship: A Critical Look (Research Summary)

Published by: IDS

Quantitative Methods in Contexts of Everyday Violence

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Published as an IDS Bulletin, this article reflects on an innovative methodology adopted to capture the experience of living with violence in communities in Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico and Nigeria

Brazil in the Global Economy. Measuring the Gains from Trade

Published by: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/International Labour Office

The Brazilian economy has experienced sustained growth since 2000, after several turbulent decades. The country’s engagement with...

O Brasil na Economia Mundial: Medindo os Ganhos Comerciais

Published by: International Labour Office (ILO)

Relatório de um projeto desenvolvido conjuntamente pela OIT e o Fundo Carnegie pela Paz Internacional, com o apoio do PNUD, que visa a...

Violence, Social Action and Research

Published by: IDS

Researchers for this Bulletin set out not only to understand contemporary dynamics of violence, but also to work with people trapped in violent places, spaces and histories who were willing to talk about and act upon their situation. Researching violence in an interactive way with those living in the thick of it posed many ethical, safety, epistemological and methodological challenges.

Participatory Governance and the Challenge of Assumed Representation in Brazil

Published by: IDS

The growth of participatory governance has had the unintended consequence of spawning complex new forms of political representation. The...