Precarious Democracy
Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
1st Edition
Published on 17. September 2021
258 pages
978-1-9788-2569-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 in the Global South. Yet, by 2019, those progressive gains were being dismantled as the far right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of a bitterly divided country. Digging beneath this pendulum swing of policy and politics, and drawing on rich ethnographic portraits, Precarious Democracy shows how these transformations were made and experienced by Brazilians far from the halls of power. Bringing together powerful and intimate stories and portraits from Brazil's megacities to rural Amazonia, this 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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Benjamin Junge | Sean T. Mitchell | Alvaro Jarrin
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Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
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Content
- 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
