As part of the Thinking Inside the Box: 1973, we invite Anna Grimaldi to discuss her recently published book, Brazil and the Transnational Human Rights Movement, 1964-1985. This event explores how solidarity for Brazil contributed to the global human rights movement of the 1970s. Inspired by the theme of hope and solidarity, Anna presents a range of protests, petitions, posters, and other cultural, artistic, and media-based campaigns to understand how the language of human rights shaped and was shaped by solidarity for Brazil. She argues that by prompting the international community to join the fight against dictatorship, solidarity for Brazil reframed the debate on human rights itself, stretching the concept beyond mainstream interpretations to centre on a series of hopes: hopes for social, economic and cultural rights; equality; education and healthcare; the rights of marginalised groups; land redistribution; resource sovereignty, working conditions; and autonomous development. Anna shows how these hopes and struggles were disseminated through networks of exiles, catholic activists, journalists and academics between Brazil and Western Europe, who drew from the Latin American experience to challenge mainstream narratives of human rights from below.

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