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Corruption in Latin America
This book is the newest and one of the very few existing examinations of the full nature of corruption throughout Central and South America. In detailed chapters written by experts with extensive in-country experience, it reveals the political and economic roots and consequences of corruption in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Peru. The editor’s introduction and conclusion texts synthesize their work and provides an over-arching view of corrupt practices and anti-corruption initiatives throughout Latin America. Corruption in Latin America shows the extent to which corrupt practices engulf each of the countries discussed, the involvement of political and corporate entities in the pursuit of ill-gotten gains, and the drag on development caused by corruption in each political entity. The book will be of interest for social scientists, political actors and social activists involved in the fight against corruption in Latin America by providing in-depth analyses of the topic and discussing how best to pursue anti-corruption efforts through civil society actions, judicial endeavors, legal shifts, or elections.
Public Sector Performance, Corruption and State Capture in a Globalized World
This collection examines the difficult task of reforming governments worldwide to meet citizens’ needs and aspirations. It advances constructive efforts to enhance public accountability while recognizing the complex ways in which corruption, greed, and state capture undermine the legitimacy and performance of government. The contributors are political scientists, lawyers, and economists who bring a cross-disciplinary approach to their chosen subjects. The first group of chapters deals with public sector performance, development, and public participation. Complementary pieces by a practitioner and a scholar confront the challenges of achieving reform in countries with difficult political en...
Brazil in the Making
This innovative volume traces Brazil's singular character, exploring both the remarkable richness and cohesion of the national culture and the contradictions and tensions that have developed over time. What shared experiences give its citizens their sense of being Brazilian? What memories bind them together? What metaphors and stereotypes of identity have emerged? Which groups are privileged over others in idealized representations of the nation? The contributors--a multidisciplinary group of U.S. and Brazilian scholars--offer a fresh look at questions that have been asked since the early nineteenth century and that continue to drive nationalist discourse today. Their chapters explore Brazilian identity through an innovative framework that brings in seldom-considered aspects of art, music, and visual images, offering a compelling analysis of how nationalism functions as a social, political, and cultural construction in Latin America. Contributions by: Cristina Antunes, Dain Borges, Val ria Costa e Silva, James Green, Efrain Kristal, Ludwig Lauerhass Jr., Cristina Magaldi, Elizabeth A. Marchant, Jos Mindlin, Carmen Nava, Jos Luis Passos, Robert Stam, and Val ria Torres
Promises of Empowerment
How and to what degree are women worldwide gaining and using power? This book offers the first genuinely comparative assessment of this key question by exploring the conditions, actions, and accomplishments of women in Latin America and Asia. Encompassing 60 percent of the world's population and experiencing far-reaching transformations, these two regions offer a vital window into our understanding of the experiences of women globally. Revealing both basic similarities and fundamental differences, this volume offers thoughtful insights about the changing conditions of women, on the one hand, and, on the other, about patterns of social change throughout Asia and Latin America.
Pandemic and Crisis of Democracy
In this incisive book, André Duarte examines the health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary crisis of democracy. Reflecting on President Jair Bolsonaro’s misgovernment of Brazil, as evidenced by his political actions, speeches and omissions from March 2020 to September 2021, and using concepts like biopolitics, neoliberalism and necropolitics, Duarte proposes three interrelated hypotheses to demonstrate Bolsonaro's sharp distrust of democracy. First, that Bolsonaro’s rhetoric, actions and omissions during the first year and a half of the pandemic revealed a dangerous mixture of biopolitical, neoliberal and necropolitical governmentality strategies. Second, t...
Frei Betto
The Biography includes a Preface by Cuban Commander Fidel Castro Frei Bettos roles as a revolutionary Christian, popular educator, social movement articulator, and journalist/writer provide insight into the political and religious history not only of Brazil, but of Cuba and former socialist countries of Eastern Europe. His lifepath is one of engagement with the revolutionary struggle against the Brazilian military dictatorship in favor of social transformation. His arrest in 1969 for coordinating the safe departure of political militants from Brazil, and his concern to eliminate hunger and suffering from the poorer classes, were strong credentials as he promoted dialogue between political bo...
Inteligência Artificial
O livro "Inteligência Artificial: Democracia e Impactos Sociais" traz uma preocupação central: agendas de pesquisas que estão voltadas para impactos humanos e sociais da inteligência artificial. O grupo de Humanidades do C4AI, responsável pela organização do livro, tem desempenhado um papel fundamental ao pautar assuntos relevantes como o impacto da inteligência artificial para o futuro do trabalho, o aumento da desigualdade social, os riscos que envolvem segurança e privacidade, a questão da regulação, os dilemas éticos envolvidos, os problemas ligados à informação, aos sistemas político-partidários e para a própria democracia, e questões relativas à qualidade da inter...
Videologias
Reflete sobre os meios de comunicação de massa - particularmente a televisão - enquanto operação imaginária, na medida em que a imagem é simultaneamente alicerce, instrumento e resultado da operação midiática. Enfatiza essa tríplice posição da imagem numa sociedade em que os seres somente são ou vêm à existência se forem dados à visibilidade imediata.
Tudo Por Um Monstro
Esta é uma história de ousadias. Um homem que satisfez suas mais audaciosas ambições, um empreendedor da medicina, que desafiou circunstâncias e que pensou à frente do seu tempo. Um homem que desafiou o impossível e os limites da ética, um homem simpático e sedutor, que exerceu como poucos as máscaras da arrogância e da prepotência e ganhou famas, fortunas, antipatias e se tornou uma unanimidade de ódios. Este livro conta a derrocada moral e material do poderoso doutor Roger Abdelmassih, o médico dos bebês impossíveis, incensado e .massacrado pela imprensa. Este livro conta também as interessantes histórias que estão por trás do maior massacre de reputação dos últimos ...
