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A critical examination of Brazil's June 2013 protests and how they continue to shape the country's democracy, media, and political conflict today.
In June 2013, a twenty-cent increase in bus fares ignited the largest wave of protests in Brazil since the end of the military dictatorship. What began as a demand for affordable transportation quickly became a nationwide uprising against inequality, corruption, police violence, and political representation itself. June Days revisits this defining moment ten years later to ask what, exactly, 2013 set in motion—and why its consequences remain unresolved. Bringing together scholars and activists from across disciplines, the volume examines how the June Days protests reshaped Brazil's political landscape, from the rise of new protest tactics and alternative media to the expansion of surveillance, repression, and far-right mobilization. Rather than offering a single interpretation, the book foregrounds tension and plurality, showing how both progressive and reactionary forces drew lessons from the streets. By reframing June 2013 as an ongoing process rather than a closed chapter, this collection speaks to scholars, students, and readers seeking to understand democracy under pressure in Brazil and beyond.
"June Days represents an important milestone both for the field of social movement and activism studies and for studies focusing on Latin America. Although it addresses the Brazilian case, this excellent compendium will be a fundamental reference for studies on social movements, the use of digital networks and platforms for activism, the actions and militarization of the police, and for understanding polarized political contexts, among others. In times of renewed fascism and the global far right, this book represents a possibility of looking to the past as a way to imagine new, more democratic futures." — Carolina Parreiras, University of Sao Paulo
David Nemer is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Augusto Jobim do Amaral is Professor of the Graduate Program in Criminal Sciences and the Graduate Program in Philosophy at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Pablo Ornelas Rosa is Professor of the Graduate Program in Political Sociology and Public Security at University of Vila Velha (UVV) and Professor of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology, and Education at University of Vale do Cricaré (UNIVC). Rodrigo Lopes de Barros is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
1: Contextualizing the June Days and a Decade of Political Transformation
David Nemer, Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Pablo Ornelas Rosa, and Augusto Jobim do Amaral
Section I: Comparative and Historical Perspectives
2: The protests of June 2013: Cycle of protests and political developments
Jonas Medeiros and Camila Rocha
3: Neither for 20 centavos nor for 30 pesos. Mass protests in 2013 Brazil and 2019 Chile
Fiammetta Bonfigli
4: The cycle of struggles in Brazil around 2013: A look from Salvador, Bahia
Manoel Nascimento
Section II: Surveillance, Policing, and the Role of Urban Infrastructure
5: Antidemocratic trends in Brazil's June 2013 protests
Isabela Kalil and Álex Kalil
6: Protest policing during the 2013 protest cycle: The technologies of surveillance
Eduardo Georjão Fernandes
7: Social conflicts and transportation: Disruptions and continuities
Lucas Legume Monteiro
Section III: Media, Representations, and Appropriations of Social Movements
8: Mídia Ninja 10 years later: How the collective that emerged in June 2013 allows us to understand today's Brazil
Thiago Ferreira
9: June 2013 in the labyrinth of fascism
Leo Vinicius Maia Liberato
10: June 2013 ten years later: Enigmas to decipher
Maria da Glória Gohn
Section IV: June Days Through Radical Essays from the Bottom
11: The fearsome strength of the defeated
Alana Moraes
12: 2013 (+10) If the stones don't fly, dreams are in vain
Camila Jourdan
13: What does 2013 still tell us, a decade later?
Jean Tible
Glossary
List of Contributors
Index