Associate Professor Jeffrey Rubin Quoted in “Truth-Out” Article

Caśsia Sales (center) with husband Marcio Sales (left) and fellow community member Nete Gomes da Silva (right) at a community meeting. (Photo: Jesse Meehl)

Jeffrey Rubin, an associate professor at Boston University, whose research has focused on the history of grassroots activism in Brazil and its contributions to democracy, noted that Brazil has a long historical trajectory of social movement activism, particularly since the late 1970s, when civil society organizing surged and new social movements focused national attention on a wide range of inequalities.

The outbreak of protests on the streets in 2013 was a natural result of this trajectory, according to Rubin. He said the protests at the time of the 2014 World Cup were then a second, very significant moment in that trajectory of activism, and added that the reconfiguring of sports in the public perception was also crucial.

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