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Critical Review: Alonso, Mische (2017) “Changing Repertoires and Partisan Ambivalence in the New Brazilian Protests’, published in the Bulletin of Latin American Research., 2018

Angela Alonso, University of São Paulo, Brazil and Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame, USA, inv... more Angela Alonso, University of São Paulo, Brazil and Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame, USA, investigated the June 2013 Brazil protests in their article “Changing Repertoires and Partisan Ambivalence in the New Brazilian Protests’, published in the Bulletin of Latin American Research. This critical review aims at introducing and contextualizing the events in addition to indicating the effectiveness of the thesis, arguments and structure of the piece of work. In early June 2013, several Brazilians marched on city streets following general public disaffection regarding state inefficiency. Following global (autonomist and socialist) and local (patriotic) repertoires of contention, the June protests combined hybrid political performances from two distinct action fields displacing the earlier prevalence of socialist repertoires. Alonso and Mische set that the diversity of actors, and claims consist on a cycle of protest and that it deviates from a single student movement. The authors drew up the rejection of political parties as a trigger for protest and raised broader questions regarding the correlation between political parties, institutional politics and social movements in the waves of protest.

Critical Review: Alonso, Mische (2017) “Changing Repertoires and Partisan Ambivalence in the New Brazilian Protests’, published in the Bulletin of Latin American Research., 2018

Angela Alonso, University of São Paulo, Brazil and Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame, USA, inv... more Angela Alonso, University of São Paulo, Brazil and Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame, USA, investigated the June 2013 Brazil protests in their article “Changing Repertoires and Partisan Ambivalence in the New Brazilian Protests’, published in the Bulletin of Latin American Research. This critical review aims at introducing and contextualizing the events in addition to indicating the effectiveness of the thesis, arguments and structure of the piece of work. In early June 2013, several Brazilians marched on city streets following general public disaffection regarding state inefficiency. Following global (autonomist and socialist) and local (patriotic) repertoires of contention, the June protests combined hybrid political performances from two distinct action fields displacing the earlier prevalence of socialist repertoires. Alonso and Mische set that the diversity of actors, and claims consist on a cycle of protest and that it deviates from a single student movement. The authors drew up the rejection of political parties as a trigger for protest and raised broader questions regarding the correlation between political parties, institutional politics and social movements in the waves of protest.