Rights-based philanthropy in Brazil: Aspiration or contradiction?
Does philanthropy have a role to play in promoting human rights in Latin America, and if so, how can social movements best engage with it?
Jessica Sklair is a Research Fellow at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, University of Cambridge and an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. Her research explores processes of financialisation and the changing role of the private sector in Brazilian development. She has also carried out research on elite philanthropy in Brazil, exploring philanthrocapitalism in the Brazilian context, the role played by philanthropy in aiding succession processes in family businesses and the recent emergence of philanthropic 'impact investing' and new forms of social finance.