Brazil Unfiltered

Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform Studies at the University of Toronto. Leader of DigiLabour initiative. Co-director of Critical Digital Methods Institute. Researcher of Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects. Founding Board Member of Labor Tech Research Network. His research interests include platform cooperativis...

Jonathan Watts is a British journalist serving as the global environment editor of The Guardian. Based in the Amazon town of Altamira, Pará state, he is one of the cofounders of Sumauma, an independent news agency specialized in reporting from the Amazon. He has also reported from the Antarctic, Arctic, Amazon and several COP summits for The Guardian, covering, as he says, "a lot of grim stuff I w...

Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, P.H.D. in Political Science, is senior researcher at Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP), retired Professor of Political Science and former dean of the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo (2009-2013). Her books include Foreign Policy Responses to the Rise of Brazil – Balancing Power in Emerging States, written with...

Jan Rocha is a British born journalist and writer who was correspondent for the BBC World Service and The Guardian in Brazil from the 1970s to the 90s and currently writes about politics for LAB (Latin America Bureau). Her books about Brazil include Murder in the Rainforest: The Yanomami, the Gold Miners and the Amazon and Cutting the Wire (the story of the Landless Movement in Brazil) with Sue Br...

Andre Pagliarini is an assistant professor of history and fellow in the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest at Hampden-Sydney College in central Virginia. He has written widely on Brazil for scholarly and academic audiences in outlets like Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, New York Times, and The Guardian as well as Folha de S. Paulo and Piauí in Brazil....

Maurício Angelo is an award-winning international freelance investigative journalist and the founder of The Mining Observatory, a Brazilian based investigative journalism Centre established in 2015. Researcher at Sustainable Development Center at the University of Brasília (UnB). He publishes in many media outlets in Brazil and around the world and was the winner of the Excellence in Journalism Aw...

João Roberto Martins Filho is professor emeritus of Political Science at the Federal University of São Carlos with a doctorate in Social Science from the State University of Campinas. He is the author of many classical works, including an English translation of "The Student movement and the military dictatorship" (1987), "The Palace and the Barracks"(1995; 2nd edition, 2019), "The Brazilian Navy i...

Cecília MacDowell Santos is Professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco and Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She holds a Ph. D. in Sociology (UC Berkeley) and a Master in Law (University of São Paulo). Her research interests center on laws, policies, and feminist mobilizations to combat violence against women, as well as transnational legal mobiliza...

​​In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Fiona Watson. Fiona is Research and Advocacy Director at Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples' rights. She has been with Survival since 1990 and worked on many campaigns for Indigenous peoples’ rights, notably with the Yanomami, Guarani, and Awá in Brazil. She has visited many Indigenous communities in...

​​In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Fernanda Magnotta. Fernanda is a specialist in United States foreign policy. She holds a PhD and a Master's degree from the San Tiago Dantas foreign relations post-graduation program, of a consortium of the State University of São Paulo (Unesp), the State University in Campinas (Unicamp) and the São Paulo Pontificate Catholic U...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Celso Amorim. Celso is a professor and professional diplomate. He served as Dilma Rousseff's Minister of Defense (2011-2014) and Lula's Minister of Foreign Relations (2003-2010). Celso also spent time as the Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations and the World Trade Organization and was a founding member of the...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Guilherme Casarões. Guilherme is a Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Center of International Relations, a professor at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo, and a member of the Observatório da Extrema Direita. His research explores topics related to Brazilian foreign policy, Latin American politics, and the rise of the extre...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Celso Rocha de Barros. Celso is a Sociologist and Political Scientist. Celso is a political columnist for the Folha de São Paulo and the author of "PT, uma história," which comes out October, 2022. Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and cul...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with journalist Fernanda Mena. Fernanda has worked at the Folha de São Paulo for over a decade, both as an editor and as a reporter. Before arriving at the Folha, she worked at Piauí, Fantástico, TV Globo, and UOL. Fernanda is a leading voice in the debate about drug prohibition and the politics of policing. In 2020, she completed her...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Brian Mier. Brian is a Chicago native who has lived in Brazil for almost 30 years while working as a journalist. Brian is co-editor of the English language publication Brasil Wire and correspondent for Telesur English’s news program, “From the South.” He also edited the book Year of Lead: Washington, Wall Street and the New Imper...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Rafael Ioris. Rafael is a professor of Latin American history in the history department at the University of Denver and a researcher at the Institute for the Study of the United States in Brazil. You can find Rafael's opinions in multi-media outlets in Brazil and in the U.S. on topics ranging from U.S./Latin America/Brazil relati...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Marcelle Decothé. Marcelle is the advocacy director at the Instituto Marielle Franco. She is completing a doctorate in sociology at the Fluminense Federal University. Her academic interests include activism, race, favelas, and public security. As a representative of the Instituto Marielle Franco, Marcelle was one of the members o...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Márcia Lima. Márcia is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo and the coordinator of the Afro Research Center on race, gender, and racial justice at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (AFRO-CEBRAP). In her interview, Márcia offered her insight into the politics of racial inequality,...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Leonardo Avritzer. Leonardo is a Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He is the author of many books, including Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America, Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil, and A inovação democrático no Brasil. He is currently the pre...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Edward MacRae. Edward is Professor Emeritus at the Federal University of Bahia in the Department of Anthropology. Edward’s doctoral dissertation and first book, The Construction of Equality: Sexual Identity and Politics in Brazil During the Opening is widely considered to be a one of the founding classics of LGBTQIA+ Studies in B...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Lilia Schwarcz. Lilia is a professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and the University of São Paulo. She is the author of many books in Portuguese and in English on the history and culture of Brazil. Some of her books available in English include: The Spectacle of Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks Valério Arcary. Valério is a Professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of São Paulo (IFSP) and one of the leading public intellectuals active in the Socialism and Liberty Party, or PSOL as it is referred to in Brazil. Valério is an expert on Marxist history and historiography. He is the author of numerous...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Associate professor of political science at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, George Avelino. George's research focuses on elections, political parties, political coalitions, comparative politics, democracy, and public policy. In the interview, George discusses in detail the current political climate in Brazil in the le...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Vânia Penha-Lopes, Professor of Sociology at Bloomfield College, in New Jersey. Vânia is co-chair of the Brazil Seminar at Columbia University (2008-present) and was a member of the executive committee of the Brazilian Studies Association-BRASA (2010-14). A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dr. Penha-Lopes graduated with honors f...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Andre Pagliarini professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and the co-editor of the Washington Brazil Office's weekly "Brazilian Election Bulletin." In addition to writing widely for general audiences in the United States and Brazil in outlets like The Guardian, New Republic, Folha de S. Paulo, and Piauí, Andre i...