
Precarious Democracy
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- 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
- Chapter 1. "Family Is Everything": Generational Tensions as a Working-Class Household from Recife, Brazil, Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections
- Chapter 2. Among Mothers and Daughters: Economic Mobility and Political Identity in a Northeastern Periferia
- Chapter 3. Dreaming with Guns: Performing Masculinity and Imagining Consumption in Bolsonaro's Brazil
- Chapter 4. Whiteness Has Come Out of the Closet and Intensified Brazil's Reactionary Wave
- Part II: Corruption and Crime
- Chapter 5. Cruel Pessimism: The Affect of Anticorruption and the End of the New Brazilian Middle Class
- Chapter 6. The Effects of Some Religious Affects: Revolutions in Crime
- Chapter 7. "Look at That": Cures, Poisons, and Shifting Rationalities in the Backlands That Have Become a Sea (of Money)
- Chapter 8. "The Oil Is Ours": Petro-Affect and the Scandalization of Politics
- Part III: Infrastructures of Hope
- Chapter 9. Despairing Hopes (and Hopeful Despair) in Amazonia
- Chapter 10. Tempered Hopes: (Re)producing the Middle Class in Recife's Alternative Music Scene
- Chapter 11. Withering Dreams: Material Hope and Apathy among Brazil's Once-Rising Poor
- Chapter 12. Bolsonaro Wins Japan: Support for the Far Right among Japanese Brazilian Overseas Labor Migrants
- Part IV: Old Challenges, New Activism
- Chapter 13. Holding the Wave: Black LGBTI+ Feminist Resilience amid the Reactionary Turn in Rio de Janeiro
- Chapter 14. LGBTTI Elders in Brazil: Subjectivation and Narratives about Resilience, Resistance, and Vulnerability
- Chapter 15. Disgust and Defiance: The Visceral Politics of Trans and Travesti Activism amid a Heteronormative Backlash
- Chapter 16. Barbie e Ken Cidadãos de Bem": Memes and Political Participation among College Students in Brazil
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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