Date and time
Monday 23 March 2015
5-7 pm (GMT)
Location
Graham Wallace Room, 5th Floor, Old Building, LSE (See Maps and Directions)
An anatomy of resistance: the popular committees of the World Cup in Brazil
Christopher Gaffney (University of Zurich)
This talk will explore the formation, composition and political actions of the Comitês Populares da Copa (CPC), Popular Committees of the World Cup, that formed in twelve Brazilian cities in anticipation of the 2014 World Cup. The CPC was the largest network of resistance movements ever assembled for a sports mega-event and contributed to the discourse of resistance and radical street actions that marked the 2013 FIFA Confederations’ Cup. Each of the twelve nuclei was independent of the others but communicated and coordinated through an umbrella organisation called the Articulção Nacional dos Comitês Populares da Copa (ANCoP), National Articulation of Popular Committees for the World Cup.
Discussants:
- Isaac Marrero-Guillam�n (Goldsmiths, University of London), co-editor of The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London�s Olympic State
- Mike Raco (UCL), author of State-led Privatisation and the Demise of the Democratic State: Welfare Reform and Localism in the era of Regulatory Capitalism
Chair:
Hyun Shin (LSE)
