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Precarious democracy, ethnographies of hope, despair, and resistance in Brazil, edited by Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, Alvaro Jarrín, and Lucia Cantero - paperback

Editors' introduction: Ethnographies of the Brazilian unravelling / Benjamin Junge, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero, and Sean T. Mitchell -- A plan for a country still looking for democracy : a critical overview / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz -- "Family is everything" : generational tensions as a working-class household from Recife, Brazil contemplates the 2018 presidential elections / Benjamin Junge -- Among mothers and daughters : economic mobility and political identity in a northeastern Periferia / Jessica Jerome -- Dreaming with guns : performing masculinity and imagining consumption in Bolsonaro's Brazil / Isabela Kalil, Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, and Lucia Mury Scalco -- Whiteness has come out of the closet and intensified Brazil's reactionary wave / Patricia de Santana Pinho -- Cruel pessimism : the affect of anti-corruption and the end of the new Brazilian middle class / Sean T. Mitchell -- The effects of some religious affects : revolutions in crime / Karina Biondi -- "Look at that" : cures, poisons, and shifting rationalities in the backlands that have become a sea (of money) / John Collins -- The oil is ours : Petrobras, corruption and extractive global lawfare / Lucia Cantero -- Despairing hopes (and hopeful despair) in Amazonia / David Rojas, Andrezza Alves Spexoto Olival, and Alexandre de Azevedo Olival -- Tempered hopes : (re)producing the middle class in Recife's alternative music scene / Falina Enriquez -- Withering dreams : material hope and apathy among Brazil's once rising poor / Moisés Kopper -- Bolsonaro wins Japan : support for the far right among Japanese-Brazilian overseas / Labor Migrants / Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer -- Holding the wave : Black LGBTI feminist resilience amidst the reactionary turn in Rio de Janeiro / LaShandra Sullivan -- LGBTTI elders in Brazil : subjectivation and narratives about resilience, resistance and vulnerability / Carlos Eduardo Henning -- Disgust and defiance : the visceral politics of trans and travesti activism amidst a heteronormative backlash / Alvaro Jarrín -- "Barbie e Ken, Cidadãos de bem" : memes and political participation among college students in Brazil / Melanie A. Medeiros, Patrick McCormick, Erika Schmitt, and James Kale

9781978825659

x, 245 pages, illustrations, 26 cm

(OCoLC)1240826950