Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration
Co-authored by Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin, Duke University Press, 2013
Book discussion: March 4, 2013 from 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate Center
Free and open to the public
Sustaining Activism combines analysis of a successful rural women’s movement at a key moment in the development of Brazil’s democracy with examination of the father-daughter ethnographic methodology developed by Rubin and his daughter to study, write, and teach about the movement.
Jeffrey W. Rubin is Professor of History at Boston University. He is the author of Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico (Duke University Press, 1997) and numerous articles and book chapters on social movements and politics in Mexico and Brazil. His current research on democracy and grassroots innovation in Brazil examines the participatory budgeting project in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, the rural women’s movement in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the Afro Reggae Cultural Group in Rio de Janeiro, and the national Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST).
Emma Sokoloff-Rubin is a Yale University Howland Research Fellow based in Buenos Aires. She is the co-author of Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration.
