Social sciences in the country of Bolsonaro's Brazil

Professor in History at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and professor at the Institute of Political Sciences of the University of Brasília, a researcher Flavia Biroli He presides over the Brazilian Association of Political Sciences where he coordinates the Research Group on Democracy and Inequality. Passing through Buenos Aires, he told CLACSO TV about the current cuts and persecutions in his country's universities, denouncing "the blockage of financing necessary to maintain the activities of public universities" since Jair Bolsonaro's arrival at the government.

Flávia Biroli was editor of the Brazilian Political Science Magazine (2009-2016), Deputy Director of the Political Science Institute of the University of Brasília (2011-2015) and Director of the National Postgraduate and Research Association in Social Sciences (2011-12). She was also a member of the UN Women's Civil Society Advisory Group in Brazil (2016-2018). She published, among others, the books «Convexa Caleidoscope: las mujeres, los medios y la política» (UNESP, 2011, com Luis Felipe Miguel), «La autonomía y las desigualdades de género: aportaciones feministas a la crítica democrática» (Editores UFF y Horizonte, 2013), «Familia: nuevos conceptos» (Perseo Abramo, 2014), «Feminismo e política: Una introducción» (Boitempo Editorial, 2014, com Luis Felipe Miguel), «Noticias de la controversia: los medios de comunicación, la democracia y la formación de las prefieren» (Contexto de 2017, com Luis Felipe Miguel) e «Las desigualdades de género: límites de la democracia en Brasil» (Boitempo Editorial, 2018).