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Who is afraid of Gramsci?

Contrary to what extreme right-wing sectors have spread, Antonio Gramsci’s thinking is not a Machiavellian domination of culture and politics. When Gramsci speaks of hegemony, he is describing the functioning of politics in our time.

6 de dezembro de 2023

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Women versus the Nazis

Brazil was well represented by its nurses in World War II. Vírgínia Portocarrero was one such who took part in the Italian campaign.

12 de outubro de 2021

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We need to talk about the History of the United States

Recently released “The United States: a history”, (Editora Contexto) warns that we cannot deny the tenacity of a past which lives on through veneration of the Confederacy and an age marked by the hierarchy of race. We interview its author, Vitor Izecksohn,

3 de outubro de 2021

Massacre de Manguinhos e a repressão da ditadura militar

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The Massacre at Manguinhos: scientists feel the tyranny of dictatorship

Various sectors of Brazilian society fell victim to the military following the coup of 1964. Below, we tell how ten distinguished scientist / researchers from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute were forcibly retired, in what became known as the Massacre of Manguinhos.

28 de março de 2021

Estátua de Antonio López, em Barcelona. Wikipedia Commons.

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Slavery and memory: recent transformations in Spanish public space

Barcelona has a collective memory beyond just the City’s siege in 1714, the Civil War and the crimes of Francosim. See how the shifting of the statue commemorating António Lopez y Lopez, a prominent slave trader, has renewed sensitivities about the use

19 de janeiro de 2021

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Indigenous peoples and the subject of work in colonial Brazil

The toil of the enslaved African was never a replacement for indigenous labour, which continued to be widely needed by the colonial economies and societies of Brazil, even after the arrival of Africans.

10 de dezembro de 2020

Katy Ashton é a diretora do Museu de História da Pessoa. Foto: André de Lemos Freixo.

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A museum to celebrate people’s history

Director of the People's History Museum (PHM) in Manchester, UK, shows how the union between historical knowledge and emotions can improve our connectioons to the past.

8 de outubro de 2020

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Yvonne Jean, Brasília and UnB (1962- 1965)

The hopes and dismay of a modernist dream, seen through the work of a Belgian-born journalist who embraced Brazil.

13 de julho de 2020

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