Unsettling Brazil Urban Indigenous and Black Peoples' Resistances to Dependent Settler Capitalism

"[Unsettling Brazil] This really is a fabulous piece of work and I do not say so lightly. It is written with exceptional poise and precision, and the arguments advanced offer much needed insight into the nature of contemporary urban Indigenous and Black forms of place- and community-making as resistance to the settler capitalist state. I particularly appreciated the commitment to centering and 'speaking nearby' the stories of five different Black and Indigenous urban forms of resistance - aldeias, quilombos, favelas and student groups - and to the level of engagement displayed throughout with the communities involved. The book should be ready by anyone working within or across the disciplines and fields of anthropology and sociology, Brazilian and Latin American studies, and Indigenous and decolonial studies."-Thea Pitman is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Leeds. She is author of the book Decolonising the Museum: The Curation of Indigenous Contemporary Art in Brazil(2021). She is currently Chair of the Standing Conference of Latin American Studies in the UK and Co-chair of Arts and Humanities Alliance.

"Unsettling Brazil is convincing: an innovative lens for interpreting contemporary political contestations in Brazil." -Lorenzo Veracini is Professor of history and politics at Swinburne University of Technology. He is the author, among other works, of The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea, and Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview.

"Unsettling Brazil makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Brazilian indigenous and quilombo studies. Little, if anything, has been published in English on urban indigenous and quilombo communitites, their histories and struggles in Brazil."-Jan French is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast. She has also authored a number of peer-reviewed articles on African, mixed race, and indigenous Brazil.