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Becoming Brazilian
This book examines how Gilberto Freyre's notion of mestiçagem (race mixing) became the overwhelmingly dominant narrative of national identity in twentieth-century Brazil. It will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Brazil, Latin America, race, nationalism, national identity, and popular culture.
Salvaging Empire
Salvaging Empire probes the historical roots and current predicaments of a twenty-first century settler colony seeking to control an uncertain future through resource management and environmental science. Four decades after a violent 1982 war between the United Kingdom and Argentina reestablished British authority over the Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas in Spanish), a commercial fishing boom and offshore oil discoveries have intensified the sovereignty dispute over the South Atlantic archipelago. Scholarly literature on the South Atlantic focuses primarily on military history of the 1982 conflict. However, contested claims over natural resources have now made this disputed territory a critic...
Beyond Imported Magic
Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South. The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the global North to the global South—the view of technology as “imported magic.” They describe not only alternate pathways for innovation, invention, and discovery but also how ideas and technologies circulate in Latin American contexts and transnationally. The contributors' explorations of these issues, and their examination of specific Latin American experiences with science and technology, offer a br...
Research Handbook on Innovation Governance for Emerging Economies
Although in recent years some emerging economies have improved their performance in terms of R&D investment, outputs and innovative capacity, these countries are still blighted by extreme poverty, inequality and social exclusion. Hence, emerging countries are exposed to conditions which differ quite substantially from the dominant OECD model of innovation policy for development and welfare. This Research Handbook contributes to the debate by looking at how innovation theory, policy and practice interact, and explains different types of configurations in countries that are characterized by two contrasting but mutually reinforcing features: systemic failure and resourcefulness. Focusing on innovation governance and public policies, it aims to understand related governance failures and to explore options for alternative, more efficient approaches.
Constellations of Inequality
Introduction: relaunching Alcântara -- Mimetic convergence and complementary hierarchy -- Alcântara in space and time -- Interpreting an explosion -- Expertise and inequality -- Racialization and race-based law -- The making of race and class -- Space at the edge of the Amazon -- Conclusion: space and utopia
History of Universities: Volume XXXIV/1
History of Universities XXXIV/1 contains the customary mix of learned articles which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. This volume offers a global history of research education in the ninteenth and twentieth centuries.
Development Business
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A Circulação do Conhecimento em Teoria e Prática: Entrelaçamentos Regionais, Transdisciplinares e Políticos
Esta obra reúne as versões ampliadas de uma série de textos que foram, em sua maioria, apresentados por ocasião do workshop intitulado "Sobre a criação de conhecimento nas ciências sociais em sociedades abertas e fechadas" (On Generating Knowledge in Social Sciences in Closed and Open Societies), realizado na Universidade de Brasília, em cooperação com pesquisadoras/es de diversas outras instituições da América Latina, da Europa e da Índia, em maio de 2018. Busca-se debater diferentes facetas e expressões da circulação de conhecimento, articulando a teoria e a prática intelectual nas ciências humanas e sociais, sendo que algumas das contribuições têm um enfoque mais voltado a debates teóricos, e outras colocam maior peso sobre a investigação prática, sem estabelecer uma divisão estanque entre ambas. O objetivo foi o de desvelar dinâmicas e assimetrias desses processos de produção e circulação, que ocorrem em diferentes contextos.
