Snapshots of a political space: occupying the city

Authors

  • Sonia Fleury Getulio Vargas Foundation

Abstract

We talked to Sonia Fleury in the days in which thousands of people across Brazil took to the streets in demonstrations which started in the internet social networks and overflowed into the concrete space of the cities. Suddenly and unequivocally, public space merged with the virtual space of online communication reaffirming themselves as political space, endowed with a new sense of urbanity maybe. In her studies, Mrs. Fleury sees the city from the point of view of its citizens, through the lens of citizenship and public policy. A crucial look at this moment in our country.

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Author Biography

Sonia Fleury, Getulio Vargas Foundation

She has a PhD in Political Sciences, Master of Sciences in Sociology and is graduated in Psychology. Her recent research interests address the issue of citizenship and discrimination as criteria for public policies analysis. Her production was published in several languages ​​and countries. She is Professor at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE) of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), whose Program for the Studies of the Public Sphere she coordinates.

Published

2022-05-03