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Brazil Is Not for Amateurs
Who should read this book? I cant imagine anyone who would not enjoy and benefit from this insightful overview. Obviously, those with current or future business interests in Brazil should read it, as should anyone planning a visit. Students and scholars interested in the politics, governance or administration of any country, would benefit enormously from studying Belmiros objective and skeptical methodology. In our increasing global interdependence, this is a good time to enhance our knowledge of the political, economic, and social conditions in this giant of the southern hemisphere. Belmiros astute analyses are presented in an optimistic, good humored style, reflecting a kind of tough love. He appreciates and extols the virtues and potential of Brazil, but is not blind to its flaws, and leaves the reader with an intricate, balanced A. W. McEachern, Professor Emeritus of Public Administration University of Southern California
The Shifting Ground of Globalization
In The Shifting Ground of Globalization, Thiago Aguiar describes the transformation of the Brazilian mining company into a Transnational Corporation and its consequences for workers, communities, and the environment in the first decades of the twenty-first century.
Insights on Literary Journalism
Bringing together ten chapters by some of the most important scholars of literary journalism around the world, this book covers a range of topics that are key to understanding the role of literary journalism as both a practice and a topic of academic study. Beginning with an introduction that situates literary journalism in its historical context, the chapters go on to address the basic definitional problem of literary journalism; the rhetorical strategies of literary journalists; the negotiated roles of subjects and storytellers; gender; geography; the role of literary journalism in fostering the public imagination; and the role of literary journalism in education. The chapters draw on contemporary and relatable case studies, which help readers link broader themes with their practical applications. This volume concludes with an Afterword by Bill Reynolds, editor of Literary Journalism Studies, which reflects on the preceding chapters and critically on the direction in which the field is heading in the near future. Insights on Literary Journalism is highly recommended reading for advanced scholars and researchers of Literary Journalism as well as Literature and Media History.
Brazillionaires
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award Wealth and power on the trail of the super-rich In 2012, Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista was the eighth richest man in the world, his $30bn fortune built on Brazil's incredible natural resources. By the middle of 2013 he had lost it all, engulfed in scandal. Brazillionaires is a fast-paced account of Batista's rise and fall: a story of helicopter flights, beach-front penthouses and high-speed car crashes. Along the way, it tells the parallel story of Brazil itself, a country caught in the cycle of boom and bust, renewed hope and dashed promise; a country where the hyper-rich are at the heart of the economy - and where their wealth can buy immense political power. Stefan Zweig said in 1941 that Brazil was the country of the future; Brazilians joke that it always will be. Today, rampant corruption and endemic inequality threaten to derail the new Brazilian Dream. The brazillionaires are the key to understanding that dream; through them Brazillionaires tells the story of their country's past, present and future.
Thinking with an Accent
"Thinking with an Accent brings together leading and emerging scholars of media, literature, education, law, linguistics, sound, and politics to theorize accent as an understudied lynchpin of the global cultural economy. It reframes accent as a powerfully coded and yet unexplored mode of perception-one that, properly harnessed, can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care. Accent, this anthology shows, does more than denote geographic, ethnic, or social identity. Accent emerges through listening, mobilizes negotiations of power, and enacts desiring relations. To think with an accent is to practice a dialogical and multimodal inquiry that unfolds the tensions of address within mediated utterances"--
Brazil Apart
Leading English-language account of the fall of Lula’s Workers’ Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New Right What does Brazil’s lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America’s largest country, and how has it come about? Always something of a world unto itself, Brazil became, under the Workers’ Party from 2003 to 2016, “the theatre of a socio-political drama without equivalent in any other major state.” Bucking the global trend towards a tighter neoliberalism, former steelworker Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva swept aside the broken promises of previous years to invest in social transfers, defying vituperations in the Brazilian media to become the most popular ruler of the age. But in a second spectacular reversal, a parliamentary coup d’état against Lula’s successor—backed by forces in the judiciary and a youthful New Right—has been consolidated by Bolsonaro’s 2018 capture of the Planalto. With the PT’s lodestar now behind bars, a weighing up of his legacy, and of the contrasting Bolsonaro regime, is urgently needed. Brazil Apart is the sharp-edged, comprehensive analytic account required.
Decadent Developmentalism
Complementarities between political and economic institutions have kept Brazil in a low-level economic equilibrium since 1985.
Empresários Brasileiros
EMPRESARIOS BRASILEIROS Empresários Brasileiros, de Latif Abrão Jr e Marcos Barrero, Editora L2M/SP, apresenta um perfil pessoal e empresarial de 58 líderes brasileiros em atividade de 1962 a 2022 e fixa um painel da construção do próprio capitalismo no país. Começa com o lançamento do carro Romi-Isetta, uma história de pioneirismo e um gesto de arrojo de uma empresa do interior paulista em meados do século passado, e alcança as duas décadas iniciais do novo século com empresas que desenvolvem novos negócios. Trata-se de uma História do Brasil pelos empreendedores em quase 600 páginas. O livro proporciona uma leitura leve e agradável graças ao tom de narrativa jornalístico e literário.
Uma nuvem se aproxima da janela
Hoje, o subdistrito de Bento Rodrigues, em Mariana-MG, vive apenas no mundo das lembranças, atrás dos olhos de quem jamais irá esquecê-lo um dia. Um lugar capaz de transmitir a mineiridade por meio de encontros e café. Um ambiente vívido, que ainda cultiva afetos, memórias, vínculos e famílias. Apesar de ter sido encoberto por uma nuvem que não traria chuva, mas rejeito, no dia 5 de novembro, Bento Rodrigues se faz presente: na saudade e nos moradores que contam essa história.
90 anos | Noventa reportagens
Ao longo dos seus 90 anos, O GLOBO consolidou uma posição destacada na imprensa brasileira, fruto de uma trajetória em que o compromisso com a informação de qualidade tem estado permanentemente entre seus princípios pétreos. Disso são evidências a preocupação do jornal de se manter conectado com as possibilidades tecnológicas de cada época, oferecendo ao leitor um padrão gráfico aprimorado, e, no que diz respeito à matéria-prima de um veículo de comunicação – o tratamento profissional da produção de notícias –, a busca inegociável pela excelência. Em particular neste último aspecto, o material reunido no e-book “90 anos 90 reportagens” é exemplo perfeito. No livro virtual, estão algumas das grandes reportagens e coberturas do jornal, material recolhido num inesgotável acervo que, pela riqueza editorial e pela quantidade, contribuem para entender a razão de O GLOBO se manter entre os grandes veículos da mídia brasileira.
