Precarious Democracy : : Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil / / ed. by Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Alves Spexoto Olival, Andrezza,; Biondi, Karina,; Cantero, Lucia,; Collins, John F.,; Collins, John,; Enriquez, Falina,; Henning, Carlos Eduardo,; Jarrin, Alvaro,; Jarrín, Alvaro,; Jerome, Jessica,; Junge, Benjamin,; Kale, James,; Kalil, Isabela,; Kopper, Moisés,; LeBaron von Baeyer, Sarah,; McCormick, Patrick,; Medeiros, Melanie A.,; Mitchell, Sean T.,; Moritz Schwarcz, Lilia,; Mury Scalco, Lucia,; Pinheiro-Machado, Rosana,; Rojas, David,; Schmitt, Erika,; Schwarcz, Lila Moritz,; Spexoto Olival, Andrezza Alves,; Sullivan, LaShandra,; Sullivan, Lashandra,; de Azevedo Olival, Alexandre,; de Santana Pinho, Patricia,
• HerausgeberIn: Cantero, Lucia,; Jarrin, Alvaro,; Junge, Benjamin,; Mitchell, Sean T.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.) :; 14 b-w images, 5 tables

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...

Table of Contents

• 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