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Brazil and Transnational Human Rights Movement, 1964–1985 explores how solidarity for Brazil contributed to the global human rights movement of the 1970s. Through protests, petitions, posters, and numerous other cultural, artistic, and media-based campaigns, solidarity for Brazil popularised the language of human rights and prompted the international community to join the fight against the country’s military regime. But solidarity for Brazil also reframed the debate on human rights itself, stretching the concept beyond mainstream interpretations that emphasised the violation of ‘basic’ individual rights, such as the use of torture and political imprisonment, to also incorporate social and economic rights, inequality, indigenous minorities, and the human rights responsibilities of multinational companies and development projects. Crucial to this process were multiple networks of exiles, catholic activists, journalists, and academics between Brazil and Western Europe, who drew from the Latin American experience to challenge mainstream narratives of human rights from below.
“Brazil and the Transnational Human Rights Movement is an inspiring study of global politics, resistance and solidarity. Challenging us to reconceptualise teleological top-down histories of human rights and consider pluralistic notions circulating among exiles and activists from the 1960s to the 1980s, it is an exciting call to rethink histories of the late twentieth century” — Tanya Harmer, Associate Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Acronyms; Introduction; Chapter 1: Foundations of Solidarity 1964–1969; Chapter 2: Exile, Torture, and Disappearances 1969–1972; Chapter 3: Poverty, Inequality, and Transnational Responsibility 1973–1975; Chapter 4: Brazil and Latin America; Brazil and the Third World 1975–1985; Conclusion; Epilogue.