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Why Brazil? The Belgian mobilization against repression in Brazil and its significance for Third World solidarity activism in the 1970s and beyond
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Abstract
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For several years, an interdisciplinary range of scholars has begun to revisit the history of the European social movements that engaged in solidarity campaigns for distant Third World countries in the wake of postwar decolonization. This article aims to contribute to a new and more complex understanding of these Third World solidarity movements by focusing on Belgian campaigns against human rights violations and repression in Brazil in the early 1970s. Why did the plight of Brazil provoke such a groundswell of reaction in Belgium in the early 1970s, when it had gone unnoticed in previous years and was quickly superseded by other international causes after 1973? By drawing attention to hitherto neglected transnational dimensions and networks, this article develops new perspectives to re-think the roots, development and shifting affinities typical of solidarity campaigns for Third World countries and human rights activism. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Belgisch tijdschrift voor nieuwste geschiedenis / Jan Dhondt Stichting; CEGESOMA [Brussel] - Gent, 1969, currens
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Publication
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Gent
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Fondation Jan Dhondt
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2013
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ISSN
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0035-0869
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2295-3744
[online]
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Volume/pages
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43
:4
(2013)
, p. 108-147
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Full text (open access)
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