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Brazil Linkage

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by Josh Busby

31 May 2014, 2030 EDT

Here are some stories we’ve been reading about Brazil:

  • Street artist captures iconic image of impending World Cup (see mural above)
  • Rio residents ambivalent about the World Cup

  • Sao Paulo experiencing incredible drought, reservoir down to 8% of capacity
  • Speaking of water, sewage and dead dogs make the site for Olympic rowing in Rio a possible nightmare
  • Andy Revkin’s students explore the challenges Brazil faces preparing for the Cup and the Olympics
  • Incredible photoessay of pacification efforts in Brazil’s favelas in advance of the World Cup

  • The Nation opines on the World Cup, a bit over the top I think on the protest movements that continue

Joshua Busby is a Professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin. From 2021-2023, he served as a Senior Advisor for Climate at the U.S. Department of Defense. His most recent book is States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security (Cambridge, 2023). He is also the author of Moral Movements and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2010) and the co-author, with Ethan Kapstein, of AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations (Cambridge, 2013). His main research interests include transnational advocacy and social movements, international security and climate change, global public health and HIV/ AIDS, energy and environmental policy, and U.S. foreign policy.

1 Comment

  1. LFC
    LFC on 4 June 2014 at 14.29 EDT

    These posts from Brazil are appreciated, even though I don’t have time to follow the links right now. I guess I’d have to go to the Slate link to get the details on the mural, which is striking.