As Sino-African economic cooperation reached global attention at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Xiaoyang Tang was among the first to do field work in the region. In an interview with PW's Maria Sikorski, he talks about China's approach to…

The Camaçari Industrial Complex in Bahia attracted worldwide attention following BYD’s announcement in 2023 that it would be home to the electric vehicle company’s largest factory outside China. What will the wave of Chinese investment mean for Brazil’s workers?

With the attempted coup of 2022, and the consolidation of the nation's right behind Bolsonarism, memories of Brazil's horrific military dictatorship are more prominent than they've been in decades. To explore the meaning of these experiences in light of current…

The same water produces electricity twenty times over the course of a basin. But these very low costs do not translate into benefits for the people.

The 2008 financial crisis was an unprecedented demonstration of financialization in capitalism today. In the US, the collapse of real estate values revealed how formal credit channels—imagined as mechanisms of wealth creation—had brought unsustainable levels of household indebtedness down into…