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This book has been many years in production. It began life as an article on the protests that took place in Brazil in June 2013, called ‘Kicking off in Brazil: Manifesting Democracy’, co-authored with Tariq Jazeel, which was published in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies in 2013. I am grateful to Jens Andermann and the editors of that journal for their interest in the article. Thanks also to Tariq for his original input to this project.

I am extremely pleased to be part of Wiley’s Antipode Book series. I am grateful to the editors of the series for their support of this project and their patience is seeing it to fruition. Special thanks to Dave Featherstone for his enthusiasm and help with the book. I am also grateful to have received funding from Antipode to translate many of the chapters here from Portuguese. Many thanks to Lisa Shaw for her excellent translations. At Wiley, Jacqueline Scott has been endlessly helpful, guiding the book through its various stages with patience and dedication throughout.

The collection has benefitted greatly from the comments and suggestions provided by the two anonymous reviewers, as well as to Bryan Cameron, Ulrich Oslender, and David Treece who provided feedback on the introduction at various stages. Thanks also to Stephanie Dennison who suggested I present aspects of the introduction at a seminar at Leeds University and to those in the audience for the lively discussion that followed.

Chapter 6 of this book was previously published in the journal Latin American Perspectives and an earlier version of Chapter 9 was published in Studies in Political Economy. Many thanks to the editors of these journals for allowing these chapters to appear here.

I owe my greatest thanks to the scholars and activists who contributed chapters to this edited collection, both for their work and their patience in seeing the project through. Hailing from different fields, backgrounds, and generations they shed light on an important event in Brazil’s recent history, challenging us to think about the country’s political foundations and framework.

This book is dedicated to them. It is also dedicated to all of those who participated in the original manifestações in Brazil in June 2013 and their hope in seeing a better Brazil.

Maite Conde

Cambridge