Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil

Medientyp: E-Book

Titel: Precarious Democracy : Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil

Erschienen: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, [2021]
[Online-Ausgabe]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (238 p); 14 b-w images, 5 tables

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.36019/9781978825697

ISBN: 9781978825697

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Schlagwörter: Ethnology Brazil ; Social movements Brazil History 21st century ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Latin American, political science, democracy, working-class issues, working-class ; ethnographies, hope, despair, resistance, Brazil, South American ; power, political leaders, presidential election, economic mobility, political identity, guns, weapons, corruption, crime, crime in Brazil, anti-corruption, middle class, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon river, migrants, Japanese-Brazilian, Rio de Janeiro, activism, political participation, Brazilian youth, travesti activism ; trans activism, trans Latina activism

Art der Reproduktion: [Online-Ausgabe]

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Anmerkungen: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Beschreibung: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACRONYMS -- INTRODUCTION: Ethnographies of the Brazilian Unraveling -- CRITICAL OVERVIEW: A Plan for a Country Still Looking for Democracy -- Part I: THE INTIMACY OF POWER -- 1. “FAMILY IS EVERYTHING”: Generational Tensions as a Working-Class Household from Recife, Brazil, Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections -- 2. AMONG MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: Economic Mobility and Political Identity in a Northeastern Periferia -- 3. DREAMING WITH GUNS: Performing Masculinity and Imagining Consumption in Bolsonaro’s Brazil -- 4. WHITENESS HAS COME OUT OF THE CLOSET AND INTENSIFIED BRAZIL’S REACTIONARY WAVE -- Part II. CORRUPTION AND CRIME -- 5. CRUEL PESSIMISM: The Affect of Anticorruption and the End of the New Brazilian Middle Class -- 6. THE EFFECTS OF SOME RELIGIOUS AFFECTS: Revolutions in Crime -- 7. “LOOK AT THAT”: Cures, Poisons, and Shifting Rationalities in the Backlands That Have Become a Sea (of Money) -- 8. “THE OIL IS OURS”: Petro-Affect and the Scandalization of Politics -- Part III. INFRASTRUCTURES OF HOPE -- 9. DESPAIRING HOPES (AND HOPEFUL DESPAIR) IN AMAZONIA -- 10. TEMPERED HOPES: (Re)producing the Middle Class in Recife’s Alternative Music Scene -- 11. WITHERING DREAMS: Material Hope and Apathy among Brazil’s Once-Rising Poor -- 12. BOLSONARO WINS JAPAN: Support for the Far Right among Japanese Brazilian Overseas Labor Migrants -- Part IV. OLD CHALLENGES, NEW ACTIVISM -- 13. HOLDING THE WAVE: Black LGBTI+ Feminist Resilience amid the Reactionary Turn in Rio de Janeiro -- 14. LGBTTI ELDERS IN BRAZIL: Subjectivation and Narratives about Resilience, Resistance, and Vulnerability -- 15. DISGUST AND DEFIANCE: The Visceral Politics of Trans and Travesti Activism amid a Heteronormative Backlash -- 16. “BARBIE E KEN CIDADÃOS DE BEM”: Memes and Political Participation among College Students in Brazil -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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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