Hello, I am Dr. Andreza Aruska
I am the director of the King’s Brazil Institute at the School of Global Affairs, King’s College London and Associate Professor in Brazil and Latin American Studies. I teach a module on contemporary Brazil and on comparative politics of Latin America. My research and teaching interests include participatory politics, inequalities, and local governments. Regions of interest: Brazil, Latin America, South Africa, China and India. I am the author of the book: “The Politics of Memory: Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil”. I also co-edited two books: “Urban Transformations and Public Health in the Emergent City” and “African Cities and Collaborative Futures”, both with Manchester University Press.
Media
Interview & In the news
Interviews
(2026) Times of India; COP 30 shows US Free Rider Issue – and the need to punish green non-compliance
(2026) Substack Global Affairs; Sovereignty on trial: understanding justice through the Mariana Disaster
(2025) BBC Brasil; Mundo vê com surpresa instituições funcionando melhor no Brasil do que nos Estados Unidos.
(2024) BBC Brasil; Como uma eventual vitória de Trump impactaria o Brasil.
(2024) BBC Brasil; A perspectiva brasileira para entender a violência na eleição americana.
(2024) Revista Problemas Brasileiros; Meio ambiente é chave para inserção global.
(2024) BBC Brasil; Dilma Rousseff e a presidente eleita do Mexico.
(2022) TRT World; Brazil’s potential left win.
(2022) Valor Economico; Aumento de preços e achatamento dos salários.
(2022) BBC Brasil; G1; O Tempo; Economic Crisis leading young people to consider military careers
(2021) The Independent: About Bolsonaro and the making of an institutional crisis in Brazil.
(2021) Jornal UFRGS: A pobreza é uma forma de opressão política.
(2021) BBC News Brasil: Retratos do Brasil com ou sem lockdown.
(2020) STF News: Assinatura de termo da parceria com a Suprema Corte Brasileira.
(2020) Decentralised response to COVID-19 in Brazil (conversation with various media sources):Estadão;CNN Brasil,El País,Agência Brasil,O Tempo,Isto é
(2020) BBC News Brazil: The Government’s threatening tone to the media in Brazil
(2019) CNM Notícias: COVID-19, the vaccine and inequalities in Brazil
(2019) The Lancet: Brazilian development agenda.
(2019) Bloomberg news: Bolsonaro’s Amazon controversy and his UN speech. In Portuguese Uol Noticias.
(2019) Business Insider:Amazon fires and Global outrage
(2019) BBC News Brasil:Brazilian higher education
(2019) BBC News Brasil:Brazilian politics and the country’s image abroad
(2010) Pesquisadores estudam a capital dos novos tempos. Correio Braziliense, p.32
Podcast Participation
De Souza Santos, A. A. (2024) The Dead River (on Mariana’s Dam Collapse), episode 6. Spotify
De Souza Santos, A. A. (2020) The impact of COVID-19 on Brazil. iTunes – Spotify – Sound Cloud.
De Souza Santos, A. A. (2020) Hegemonic Narratives (Panel 3). iTunes
De Souza Santos, A. A. (2020) Municipal elections in Brazil (Panel with Anthony Pereira, Timothy Power, Silvana Krause, Nathalia Passarinho and Fernanda Odilla) Youtube
In the news
Radio
(2024) BBC World: Protests in Brazil to support former president Bolsonaro.
(2023) BBC World Ineligibility of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
(2023) Radio Student Brazil’s assault on democracy on 8 January 2023.
(2022) Radio City, ‘Así Amaneció’ Brazil’s election and the lessons for Latin America.
(2020) RFI, Brazil as the new epicentre of COVID-19, political analysis (en español)
(2019) Radio Camara,Mulheres ainda enfrentam dificuldades de ocupacao de postos na politica e em cargos de chefia.
(2019) Deutsche Welle,World Link: Brazil’s Amazon Fires
(2018) BBC Radio 5, Live Breakfast
(2018) Radio Student, on Bolsonaro’s election
Video Interviews and Panels
(2026) Round Table: Cop 30 what is at stake?
(2026) Assembleia Legislativa de Minas Gerais: O perfil dos jovens que buscam carreiras militares.
(2025) France 24 English: On Bolsonaro’s trial.
(2025) DW International: Bolsonaro’s trial has divided Brazil.
(2023) My Book Launch: Memoria Seletiva: O patrimonio cultural e extrativismo no Brasil.
(2023) School of Global Affairs, KCL : The world made me.
(2023) Minas Gerais Assembleia Legislativa : The impact of mining on cultural heritage
(2023) Wall Street Journal : BRICS and the G7
(2023) Brazil Forum : Política habitacional e desastres urbanos.
(2023) BBC World News : Brazil’s Congress stormed
(2022) Euro News : Brazil’s 2022 elections
(2022) BBC Brasil: O 7 de Setembro de Bolsonaro.
(2022) CNN Brasil: A política no dia-a-dia.
(2022) Globo News : Falta de oferta de trabalho leva o jovem a cogitar a carreira militar.
(2022) Brazil Forum UK University of Oxford : Painel sobre cidades Brasileiras
(2021) ABC News: Why is Bolsonaro targeting the Supreme Court?
(2021) Radio Renascença : O Brazil vive um trauma coletivo.
(2021) Canal UFRGS Aula Magna 2021
(2021) Global Affairs KCLBook Discussion ‘Decadent Developmentalism’
(2021) Canal USPO Combate à Pandemia nos Municípios: Evidência, Política e Incertezas.
(2020) Estado de Minas: O que a ciência aprendeu após um ano de combate ao novo coronavírus?
(2020) TV Justiça: Supreme Courts, Governance and Democracy.
(2020) Globo Jornal Nacional: Brazilians work on internationally leading COVID-19 research.
(2020) Globo Jornal Hoje: Decentralised response to COVID-19 in Brasil.
(2020) Globo Hora 1: Decentralised response to COVID-19 in Brasil.
(2020) Globo News:
Brasileiros na linha de frente das pesquisas em Oxford sobre COVID-19.
(2019) Brazilian House of Commons Panel: Women leadership in local politics and women representation in public service.
(2019) BBC World News
(2019) TV Nova Amazonia, on Academia in Brazil and overseas
(2017) Education in Brazil, panel with Fernando Haddad and Claudia Costin
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