Matrizes (Jun 2015)
The universities and the military regime
Abstract
The review approaches the book The universities and the military regime (As Universidades e o regime militar) – Brazilian political culture and authoritarian modernization, by Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta (Zahar, 2014), that analyzes the relations between the Dictatorship (Ditadura) and the Brazilian universities, using sources recently opened to the researchers. This book develops an analytical perspective beyond the dichotomy repression-resistance, replaced by resistance, adhesion and accommodation, with a panoramic approach of the several State actions and their consequences to the university, having University of Brasilia (UnB), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), and, in another registry, the University of São Paulo (USP), as the focus of analysis.
