Precarious Democracy : : Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil / / ed. by Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero.
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...
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Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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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