Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero, Lila Moritz Schwarcz, Lila Moritz Schwarcz

Gebundenes Buch

Precarious Democracy

Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil

Herausgeber: Junge, Benjamin; Cantero, Lucia; Jarrin, Alvaro; Mitchell, Sean T

Beschreibung

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.  

Autor

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. 

Produktdetails

• 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