Vlog 4: A brief history of capoeira

This vlog sets out a little of the history of capoeira, focusing on the different styles that were developed following the establishment of the first capoeira academy in the 1930s - Capoeira Regional, Capoeira Angola, Capoeira Contemporanea and street capoeira.

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Vlog 3: Capoeira and Security Literature

This is the third vlog presenting the ideas of my book "Cultural Resistance and Security from Below" (Routledge 2019).In this vlog I present a short background to capoeira alongside a discussion on the bias of mainstream security theory. I begin to ask how capoeira can fill the gaps in security theorisation and challenge the processes through which they occur.

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Vlog 2: Outline of my book, "Cultural Resistance and Security from Below"

Vlog 2. Here is an outline of my book "Cultural Resistance and Security from Below. Power and Escape through Capoeira" (Routledge 2019)You can see more here: http://capoeira-security.blogspot.com... vlog sets up the enquiry into how security is distributed through capoeira. It asks three questions: 1. What knowledge is generated through playing capoeira, 2. How communicating this knowledge changes threats and protection, and 3. What implications can be drawn for security analysis and policy.

Vlog 1: I left Congo for Angola

Vlog 1 presenting the ideas in my book "Cultural Resistance & Security from Below. Power & Escape through Capoeira" (Routledge 2019). Check out other vlogs here: http://capoeira-security.blogspot.com/ 

This vlog looks at how my work on security in the DR Congo led me to research the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira as a black discourse of completeness and agency, countering descriptions of Africa as a place of passivity and failure.