Vlog 8. How has security been distributed through capoeira?

This vlog examines how security has been distributed through capoeira, and identifies three mechanisms: keeping inequality problematic, mobilising in structural violence and maintaining the possibility of other outcomes.

Vlog 7. Tricks & Magic in Capoeira

Capoeira does not rely on brute force but on trickery and magic. This vlog introduces the tactics, counter-rationality and anarcho-magicalism of capoeira to give some insights into the disruptive and creative elements of the art.

Vlog 6. Class & Race in capoeira

Capoeira movement and music generates and communicates knowledge. This vlog looks at the who, where and when of capoeira and notes strong references to Black Bahian working class men in the early to mid-twentieth century. Since the 1970s and 1980s, there has been more explicit mention of the African heritage of capoeira and this has interacted with a globalised discourse on race.

Vlog 5: Capoeira as a game of life

It is common to note that there is no real distinction between capoeira and life. This can be variously interpreted: that capoeira provides physical and psychological training for life's struggles, that it is better to play out differences in a controlled environment than in the street, or that capoeira is itself a way of life. Understanding the duality between capoeira and life is key to understanding the resistance that it offers.