Here’s a link to a podcast interview that I did for the Martial Arts Studies podcast with Laura Griffith on the historical and cultural development of martial arts in Brazil, mainly contrasting capoeira and Brazilian jiu-jitsu:  https://martialartsstudies.podbean.com/e/brazilian-jiu-jitsu-culture-masculinity-and-the-neoliberal-self-with-dr-ben-penglase/

Here is a link to a recent essay I wrote for the Huffington Post on the cultural significance of soccer in Brazil: Brazilian Football-World Post

And here’s a link to a radio interview with the World Views program on KGOU, the University of Oklahoma’s public radio station, about the favela “pacification” program in Rio de Janeiro: KGOU interview