Precarious Democracy
Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
Herausgeber: Junge, Benjamin; Cantero, Lucia; Jarrin, Alvaro; Mitchell, Sean T
Precarious Democracy
Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
Herausgeber: Junge, Benjamin; Cantero, Lucia; Jarrin, Alvaro; Mitchell, Sean T
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Precarious Democracy collects powerful and intimate political ethnographic writing on Brazil’s pivotal years, 2013-19, from the nation’s megacities to rural Amazonia. The 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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Precarious Democracy collects powerful and intimate political ethnographic writing on Brazil’s pivotal years, 2013-19, from the nation’s megacities to rural Amazonia. The 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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Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Rutgers University Press
- Seitenzahl: 258
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2021
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 256mm x 178mm x 24mm
- Gewicht: 558g
- ISBN-13: 9781978825666
- ISBN-10: 1978825668
- Artikelnr.: 61146495
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
- Verlag: Rutgers University Press
- Seitenzahl: 258
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2021
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 256mm x 178mm x 24mm
- Gewicht: 558g
- ISBN-13: 9781978825666
- ISBN-10: 1978825668
- Artikelnr.: 61146495
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
BENJAMIN JUNGE is a professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is the author of Cynical Citizenship: Gender, Regionalism and Political Subjectivity in Porto Alegre, Brazil and co-editor of Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship. SEAN T. MITCHELL is an associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of the award-winning, Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil and co-editor of Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency. ALVARO JARRÍN is an associate professor of anthropology at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil and co-editor of Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement. LUCIA CANTERO is an assistant professor of international studies at the University of San Francisco, California. She is the author of The Waste of Accumulation: The ‘Shock of Order’ Campaign and the Right to Rio 2016.
List of Acronyms
Editors’ Introduction: Ethnographies of the Brazilian Unravelling by
Benjamin Junge, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero, and Sean T. Mitchell
A Plan for a Country Still Looking for Democracy: A Critical Overview by
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Part I: The Intimacy of Power
Chapter 1: “Family is Everything”: Generational Tensions as a Working-Class
Household from Recife, Brazil Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections
by Benjamin Junge
Chapter 2: Among Mothers and Daughters: Economic Mobility and Political
Identity in a Northeastern Periferia by Jessica Jerome
Chapter 3: Dreaming with Guns: Performing Masculinity and Imagining
Consumption in Bolsonaro’s Brazil by Isabela Kalil, Rosana
Pinheiro-Machado, and Lucia Mury Scalco
Chapter 4: Whiteness Has Come Out of the Closet and Intensified Brazil’s
Reactionary Wave by Patricia de Santana Pinho
Part II: Corruption and Crime
Chapter 5: Cruel Pessimism: The Affect of Anti-Corruption and the End of
the New Brazilian Middle Class by Sean T. Mitchell
Chapter 6: The Effects of Some Religious Affects: Revolutions in Crime by
Karina Biondi
Chapter 7: “Look at that”: Cures, Poisons, and Shifting Rationalities in
the Backlands that have become a Sea (of Money) by John Collins
Chapter 8: The Oil is Ours: Petrobras, Corruption and Extractive Global
Lawfare by Lucia Cantero
Part III: Infrastructures of Hope
Chapter 9: Despairing Hopes (and Hopeful Despair) in Amazonia by David
Rojas, Andrezza Alves Spexoto Olival, and Alexandre de Azevedo Olival
Chapter 10: Tempered Hopes: (Re)producing the Middle Class in Recife’s
Alternative Music Scene by Falina Enriquez
Chapter 11: Withering Dreams: Material Hope and Apathy among Brazil’s Once
Rising Poor by Moisés Kopper
Chapter 12: Bolsonaro Wins Japan: Support for the Far Right among
Japanese-Brazilian Overseas Labor Migrants by Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer
Part IV: Old Challenges, New Activism
Chapter 13: Holding the Wave: Black LGBTI+ Feminist Resilience Amidst the
Reactionary Turn in Rio de Janeiro by LaShandra Sullivan
Chapter 14: LGBTTI Elders in Brazil: Subjectivation and Narratives about
Resilience, Resistance and Vulnerability by Carlos Eduardo Henning
Chapter 15: Disgust and Defiance: The Visceral Politics of Trans and
Travesti Activism Amidst a Heteronormative Backlash by Alvaro Jarrín
Chapter 16: “Barbie e Ken, Cidadãos de Bem”: Memes and Political
Participation among College Students in Brazil by Melanie A. Medeiros,
Patrick McCormick, Erika Schmitt, and James Kale
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index
Editors’ Introduction: Ethnographies of the Brazilian Unravelling by
Benjamin Junge, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero, and Sean T. Mitchell
A Plan for a Country Still Looking for Democracy: A Critical Overview by
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Part I: The Intimacy of Power
Chapter 1: “Family is Everything”: Generational Tensions as a Working-Class
Household from Recife, Brazil Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections
by Benjamin Junge
Chapter 2: Among Mothers and Daughters: Economic Mobility and Political
Identity in a Northeastern Periferia by Jessica Jerome
Chapter 3: Dreaming with Guns: Performing Masculinity and Imagining
Consumption in Bolsonaro’s Brazil by Isabela Kalil, Rosana
Pinheiro-Machado, and Lucia Mury Scalco
Chapter 4: Whiteness Has Come Out of the Closet and Intensified Brazil’s
Reactionary Wave by Patricia de Santana Pinho
Part II: Corruption and Crime
Chapter 5: Cruel Pessimism: The Affect of Anti-Corruption and the End of
the New Brazilian Middle Class by Sean T. Mitchell
Chapter 6: The Effects of Some Religious Affects: Revolutions in Crime by
Karina Biondi
Chapter 7: “Look at that”: Cures, Poisons, and Shifting Rationalities in
the Backlands that have become a Sea (of Money) by John Collins
Chapter 8: The Oil is Ours: Petrobras, Corruption and Extractive Global
Lawfare by Lucia Cantero
Part III: Infrastructures of Hope
Chapter 9: Despairing Hopes (and Hopeful Despair) in Amazonia by David
Rojas, Andrezza Alves Spexoto Olival, and Alexandre de Azevedo Olival
Chapter 10: Tempered Hopes: (Re)producing the Middle Class in Recife’s
Alternative Music Scene by Falina Enriquez
Chapter 11: Withering Dreams: Material Hope and Apathy among Brazil’s Once
Rising Poor by Moisés Kopper
Chapter 12: Bolsonaro Wins Japan: Support for the Far Right among
Japanese-Brazilian Overseas Labor Migrants by Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer
Part IV: Old Challenges, New Activism
Chapter 13: Holding the Wave: Black LGBTI+ Feminist Resilience Amidst the
Reactionary Turn in Rio de Janeiro by LaShandra Sullivan
Chapter 14: LGBTTI Elders in Brazil: Subjectivation and Narratives about
Resilience, Resistance and Vulnerability by Carlos Eduardo Henning
Chapter 15: Disgust and Defiance: The Visceral Politics of Trans and
Travesti Activism Amidst a Heteronormative Backlash by Alvaro Jarrín
Chapter 16: “Barbie e Ken, Cidadãos de Bem”: Memes and Political
Participation among College Students in Brazil by Melanie A. Medeiros,
Patrick McCormick, Erika Schmitt, and James Kale
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index
List of Acronyms
Editors’ Introduction: Ethnographies of the Brazilian Unravelling by
Benjamin Junge, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero, and Sean T. Mitchell
A Plan for a Country Still Looking for Democracy: A Critical Overview by
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Part I: The Intimacy of Power
Chapter 1: “Family is Everything”: Generational Tensions as a Working-Class
Household from Recife, Brazil Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections
by Benjamin Junge
Chapter 2: Among Mothers and Daughters: Economic Mobility and Political
Identity in a Northeastern Periferia by Jessica Jerome
Chapter 3: Dreaming with Guns: Performing Masculinity and Imagining
Consumption in Bolsonaro’s Brazil by Isabela Kalil, Rosana
Pinheiro-Machado, and Lucia Mury Scalco
Chapter 4: Whiteness Has Come Out of the Closet and Intensified Brazil’s
Reactionary Wave by Patricia de Santana Pinho
Part II: Corruption and Crime
Chapter 5: Cruel Pessimism: The Affect of Anti-Corruption and the End of
the New Brazilian Middle Class by Sean T. Mitchell
Chapter 6: The Effects of Some Religious Affects: Revolutions in Crime by
Karina Biondi
Chapter 7: “Look at that”: Cures, Poisons, and Shifting Rationalities in
the Backlands that have become a Sea (of Money) by John Collins
Chapter 8: The Oil is Ours: Petrobras, Corruption and Extractive Global
Lawfare by Lucia Cantero
Part III: Infrastructures of Hope
Chapter 9: Despairing Hopes (and Hopeful Despair) in Amazonia by David
Rojas, Andrezza Alves Spexoto Olival, and Alexandre de Azevedo Olival
Chapter 10: Tempered Hopes: (Re)producing the Middle Class in Recife’s
Alternative Music Scene by Falina Enriquez
Chapter 11: Withering Dreams: Material Hope and Apathy among Brazil’s Once
Rising Poor by Moisés Kopper
Chapter 12: Bolsonaro Wins Japan: Support for the Far Right among
Japanese-Brazilian Overseas Labor Migrants by Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer
Part IV: Old Challenges, New Activism
Chapter 13: Holding the Wave: Black LGBTI+ Feminist Resilience Amidst the
Reactionary Turn in Rio de Janeiro by LaShandra Sullivan
Chapter 14: LGBTTI Elders in Brazil: Subjectivation and Narratives about
Resilience, Resistance and Vulnerability by Carlos Eduardo Henning
Chapter 15: Disgust and Defiance: The Visceral Politics of Trans and
Travesti Activism Amidst a Heteronormative Backlash by Alvaro Jarrín
Chapter 16: “Barbie e Ken, Cidadãos de Bem”: Memes and Political
Participation among College Students in Brazil by Melanie A. Medeiros,
Patrick McCormick, Erika Schmitt, and James Kale
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index
Editors’ Introduction: Ethnographies of the Brazilian Unravelling by
Benjamin Junge, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero, and Sean T. Mitchell
A Plan for a Country Still Looking for Democracy: A Critical Overview by
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Part I: The Intimacy of Power
Chapter 1: “Family is Everything”: Generational Tensions as a Working-Class
Household from Recife, Brazil Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections
by Benjamin Junge
Chapter 2: Among Mothers and Daughters: Economic Mobility and Political
Identity in a Northeastern Periferia by Jessica Jerome
Chapter 3: Dreaming with Guns: Performing Masculinity and Imagining
Consumption in Bolsonaro’s Brazil by Isabela Kalil, Rosana
Pinheiro-Machado, and Lucia Mury Scalco
Chapter 4: Whiteness Has Come Out of the Closet and Intensified Brazil’s
Reactionary Wave by Patricia de Santana Pinho
Part II: Corruption and Crime
Chapter 5: Cruel Pessimism: The Affect of Anti-Corruption and the End of
the New Brazilian Middle Class by Sean T. Mitchell
Chapter 6: The Effects of Some Religious Affects: Revolutions in Crime by
Karina Biondi
Chapter 7: “Look at that”: Cures, Poisons, and Shifting Rationalities in
the Backlands that have become a Sea (of Money) by John Collins
Chapter 8: The Oil is Ours: Petrobras, Corruption and Extractive Global
Lawfare by Lucia Cantero
Part III: Infrastructures of Hope
Chapter 9: Despairing Hopes (and Hopeful Despair) in Amazonia by David
Rojas, Andrezza Alves Spexoto Olival, and Alexandre de Azevedo Olival
Chapter 10: Tempered Hopes: (Re)producing the Middle Class in Recife’s
Alternative Music Scene by Falina Enriquez
Chapter 11: Withering Dreams: Material Hope and Apathy among Brazil’s Once
Rising Poor by Moisés Kopper
Chapter 12: Bolsonaro Wins Japan: Support for the Far Right among
Japanese-Brazilian Overseas Labor Migrants by Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer
Part IV: Old Challenges, New Activism
Chapter 13: Holding the Wave: Black LGBTI+ Feminist Resilience Amidst the
Reactionary Turn in Rio de Janeiro by LaShandra Sullivan
Chapter 14: LGBTTI Elders in Brazil: Subjectivation and Narratives about
Resilience, Resistance and Vulnerability by Carlos Eduardo Henning
Chapter 15: Disgust and Defiance: The Visceral Politics of Trans and
Travesti Activism Amidst a Heteronormative Backlash by Alvaro Jarrín
Chapter 16: “Barbie e Ken, Cidadãos de Bem”: Memes and Political
Participation among College Students in Brazil by Melanie A. Medeiros,
Patrick McCormick, Erika Schmitt, and James Kale
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index