Populist Politics in Contemporary Brazil: Understanding Lulism and Bolsonarism

This book draws on the complexity of recent Brazilian politics to understand the populist challenge to the inequalities of liberal democratic societies It rethinks populist politics and theory in light of the unique politics of contemporary Brazil
with a particular focus on the politics of climate change, indigenous politics and the politics of gender. Our book demonstrates the limits of existing theories of populism and is the first English language book to analyse the contrasting populisms of Lula and Bolsonaro., We develop a unique analysis of Brazilian politics and the more than two-decade long rule of populisms of the left and the right. L