I've just come back from almost 2 months in Brazil. I was researching in archives in the North and Northeast of the country. I also managed to take a wonderful trip from Recife to Salvador via many remarkable places in the states of Alagoas and Sergipe.
I've also been doing some thinking about contemporary Brazil, a refreshing break from dusty archives, much of it inspired by what I saw during my travels and also by an edited collection Brazil under Lula (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) that I read over the summer. I recently wrote a review essay that includes some of these reflections for The Review, published as a section of the Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National.
