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Crow Blue
The latest novel from a rising star of Brazilian literature, Crow Blue spins a far-reaching story of the search for one's roots.
Adriana Varejão
Continually reexamining and re-presenting Brazil's cultural history, Adriana Varejao constructs sculptural paintings that often take the fragmented or eviscerated human body as their subject. Extremely tactile and often saturated in blood-red hues, Varejao's highly visceral work recalls the pain and pleasure that accompanies both colonialism and the creative process.
Symphony in White
"Tells the story of two sisters, Clarice and Maria Inês, raised in rural Brazil in the 1960s and educated in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s. Also presenting the perspectives of men they have loved, men they married, and the girls' parents, past events are revealed that help to explain how the two sisters' lives unfold"--Provided by publisher.
Stuck in a Non-place
This books is the product of research conducted in the Brazilian Border with Bolívia in 2013, where a migrant temporary shelter hosted, under a humanitarian visa, hundreds of Haitians that had fled several stages of human insecurity back in their homeland. In order to survive and with the dream of leaving soon, migrants strategise their relationships and harnest social navigation skills. This fieldwork was part of the Master of Social and Cultural Anthropology programa at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, for which the author was granted a VU Scholarship.
Adriana Varejao. Polvo
One of the most original voices in contemporary Brazilian art, Varejeo's diverse practice comprises painting, sculpture, photography and installation. Her sources are many, encompassing baroque art history, architectural, natural, sciences and theatre. 00Exhibition: Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK (2013).
Disparate Regional Development in Brazil
Published in 1997, an analysis of the regional development problem in Brazil from a monetary perspective. The author deals with the vicious circles generated in a country with strong regional disparities, emphasizing the link between real and financial problems. Some elements of dependency theory and of post-Keynesian monetary theory are adopted to create a new model which can cope with both financial and real problems in the same framework. State policies for the regions are also examined and the study finds that they are inadequate in the prevention of the vicious circles which lead to disparate regional growth.
Brazilian researchers’ activity in international publication
O estudo é baseado em coleta de dados junto a pesquisadores brasileiros com experiência em publicações de artigos acadêmicos em periódicos internacionais, e examina uma gama de práticas correntes, de acordo com a Teoria da Atividade de Engestrom. A análise dessas práticas revela que há inúmeros e sérios conflitos dentro das atividades que compõe o objeto final, a publicação. Essas informações enfatizam a necessidade de políticas institucionais que apoiem o trabalho dos pesquisadores, tanto no campo da pesquisa quanto no letramento acadêmico em português e em língua estrangeira.
Sentencing Canudos
In the late nineteenth century, the Brazilian army staged several campaigns against the settlement of Canudos in northeastern Brazil. The colony's residents, primarily disenfranchised former slaves, mestizos, landless farmers, and uprooted Indians, followed a man known as Antonio Conselheiro ("The Counselor"), who promoted a communal existence, free of taxes and oppression. To the fledgling republic of Brazil, the settlement represented a threat to their system of government, which had only recently been freed from monarchy. Estimates of the death toll at Canudos range from fifteen thousand to thirty thousand. Sentencing Canudos offers an original perspective on the hegemonic intellectual di...
Made in Brasil
Made in Brasil - três décadas do vídeo brasileiro reúne reflexões e depoimentos de artistas, realizadores e autores. O livro se destaca pela produção de conhecimento sobre o vídeo e suas relações com o cinema, a televisão, a literatura e as artes visuais, referentes aos principais momentos do vídeo no Brasil.
Advanced and sustainable technologies for automotive industry innovation
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