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

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

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"Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval. As the presidency passed to his Workers' Party successor, Dilma Rousseff, many across the world hailed Brazil as a model of progressive governance in the Global South. Yet, by 2019, those progressive gains were being dismantled as the far right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of a bitterly divided country. Digging beneath this pendulum swing of policy and politics, and drawing on rich ethnographic portraits, Precarious Democracy shows how these transformations were made and experienced by Brazilians far from the halls of power. Bringing together powerful and intimate stories and portraits from Brazil's megacities to rural Amazonia, this volume demonstrates the necessity of ethnography for understanding social and political change, and provides crucial insights on one of the most epochal periods of change in Brazilian history"--
Language
eng
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x, 245 pages
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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
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9781978825666
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Precarious democracy : ethnographies of hope, despair, and resistance in Brazil
Title
Precarious democracy
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ethnographies of hope, despair, and resistance in Brazil
Statement of responsibility
edited by Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, Alvaro Jarrín, and Lucia Cantero
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval. As the presidency passed to his Workers' Party successor, Dilma Rousseff, many across the world hailed Brazil as a model of progressive governance in the Global South. Yet, by 2019, those progressive gains were being dismantled as the far right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of a bitterly divided country. Digging beneath this pendulum swing of policy and politics, and drawing on rich ethnographic portraits, Precarious Democracy shows how these transformations were made and experienced by Brazilians far from the halls of power. Bringing together powerful and intimate stories and portraits from Brazil's megacities to rural Amazonia, this volume demonstrates the necessity of ethnography for understanding social and political change, and provides crucial insights on one of the most epochal periods of change in Brazilian history"--
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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1980-
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  • Junge, Benjamin
  • Mitchell, Sean T.
  • Jarrín, Alvaro
  • Cantero, Lucia
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  • Social movements
  • Ethnology
  • Brazil
  • Brazil
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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
Instantiates
Publication
Note
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
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1240826950
Dimensions
26 cm
Extent
x, 245 pages
Isbn
9781978825666
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1240826950
Label
Precarious democracy : ethnographies of hope, despair, and resistance in Brazil, edited by Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, Alvaro Jarrín, and Lucia Cantero
Publication
Note
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
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1240826950
Dimensions
26 cm
Extent
x, 245 pages
Isbn
9781978825666
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1240826950

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