Brazil

The Passenger

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

IN THIS VOLUME, Jon Lee Anderson, Alberto Riva, and Eliane Brum among other Brazilian writers explore a multi-faceted country the world wouldnâ t really associate with â order and progress.â

Produktdetails

• The Passenger
• Verlag: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781787702417
• ISBN-10: 1787702413
• Artikelnr.: 58591831

Inhaltsangabe

Brazil in Numbers A Sign of the Times - Fabian Federl The Icon: Marta
Vieira da Silva - Aydano André Motta
Order and Progress? - Jon Lee Anderson Jon Lee Anderson, one of America's
foremost reporters and a leading expert on Latin America, attempts to
answer the question the whole world has asked since the election of Jair
Bolsonaro: how was this possible?
Funk, Pride and Prejudice - Alberto Riva Coarse, over the top and
foul-mouthed but also pioneering, liberating and feminist, Brazil's
funkeiras are turning the tables on a patriarchal society and fighting
against the stereotype of white middle-class beauty.
Prime Time - Alex Cuadros For decades Rede Globo's programming has
determined Brazilians' evening routine: the news, followed by a telenovela
and a football match. While its direct influence on politics has waned
since the days when its founder Roberto Marinho decided whether a
government would stand or fall, it still holds considerable sway.
Prosperity Now: The Rise of the Evangelicals - Anna Virginia Balloussier
Brazil is seeing a boom in conversions to the neo-Pentecostal movement and
in particular to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, which preaches
prosperity theology: pay up and have faith.
In Defence of Fragmentation - Michel Laub How can we define the
indefinable? Is it possible to pin a single label on a country so
multi-faceted that it appears almost schizophrenic?
The Road - Stephanie Nolen Highway BR-163 cuts a brutal path through
Brazil's conflicting ambitions of transforming itself into an economic
powerhouse while preserving the Amazon. Stephanie Nolen travelled two
thousand kilometres along the dusty, dangerous corridor and found a range
of ways that the forest could work for everyone.
Real Life on the Passarela do Samba - Aydano André Motta After decades of
toeing the line, samba schools are now engaging with the socio-political
issues at the heart of the contemporary debate.
The War - Bruno Paes Manso and Camila Nunes Dias Two factions - the
Primeiro Comando da Capital and the Comando Vermelho - are vying for
control of the drug market, the prisons and the favelas in an all-out
battle for supremacy.
You've Got Mail! - Fabian Federl There was a time when Rocinha, Rio's
largest favela, had no addresses, but then Eliane Ramos drew the first map
of the area before starting a postal delivery service.
'On the River, I Was King' - Eliane Brum The construction of the Belo Monte
Dam meant those living happily on the banks of the Xingu River had to be
relocated to the outskirts of Altamira, one of Brazil's most violent
cities. Now they live behind barred windows surrounded by gun violence,
forced to buy food with money they never used to have and for which they
never before felt the need. Their situation is dire, but the fight back has
begun.
Tales from Another Brazil - Valerio Millefoglie An Author Recommends - Luiz
Ruffato The Playlist - Alberto Riva Further Reading