Dr. Eve Buckley of the University of Delaware has recently published a chapter in the edited volume, Ciências e tecnologias num Brasil (in)dependente.
From the editors: “This book discusses the history of the production of science and technologies in Brazil, considered as part of the process of cultural configuration and consolidation following the nation’s independence in 1822. The authors understand science as a set of localized cultural practices which exert influence over an extended period of time through the exchange of knowledge, goods, technologies, and in forms of governance and global ideologies. The book emerged from the efforts of a group of historians of science to trace a history of modes of production and the institutionalization of scientific and technological knowledge, seeking to understand the social and political networks that contributed to the authority of science within Brazil and the globalized structure of science over the past two centuries.”
Dr. Buckley’s chapter is entitled “Contestando o discurso de superpopulação do Brasil: Josué de Castro e a coalizão não malthusiana (1948-1974),” and deals with challenges to overpopulation discourses in Brazil from 1948-1974.
You can find more information about the book here.