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Crossing Racial Borders
Crossing Racial Borders: The Epistemic Empowerment of the Subaltern explores critically the racial, socioeconomic, historical, and political contemporary conditions of the lived experiences of the subaltern, the oppressed. Through the lens of the decolonial school of thought developed by Latin American thinkers and scholars, this text focuses on the identification and analysis of the subalterns’ praxis of living, thinking, knowing, and doing. The contributors delve into the subalterns’ agency at work and how their [inter]subjective/reflective actions, gestures, and thoughts are deep-seated in subverting and resisting the material and symbolic coloniality of power's exploitation, categorization, and oppression. Drawing from sociological, anthropological, literary, and historical approaches, a new set of ideas and rationalities uncovers and challenges the complicities of modernity/coloniality (power-pattern-matrix) through new narratives and discursive epistemic-frames of empowerment and agency.
Political (In)Justice
Why do attempts by authoritarian regimes to legalize their political repression differ so dramatically? Why do some dispense with the law altogether, while others scrupulously modify constitutions, pass new laws, and organize political trials? Political (In)Justice answers these questions by comparing the legal aspects of political repression in three recent military regimes: Brazil (1964-1985); Chile (1973-1990); and Argentina (1976-1983). By focusing on political trials as a reflection of each regime's overall approach to the law, Anthony Pereira argues that the practice of each regime can be explained by examining the long-term relationship between the judiciary and the military. Brazil was marked by a high degree of judicial-military integration and cooperation; Chile's military essentially usurped judicial authority; and in Argentina, the military negated the judiciary altogether. Pereira extends the judicial-military framework to other authoritarian regimes—Salazar's Portugal, Hitler's Germany, and Franco's Spain—and a democracy (the United States), to illuminate historical and contemporary aspects of state coercion and the rule of law.
Regional and International Cooperation in South America After COVID
This volume analyses South American regional and international cooperation during the COVID19 crisis started in 2020. Across thirteen chapters a collection of leading experts address how regional collaboration has developed, evolved, and recoiled. The chapters explore the state of regionalism at the pandemic surge and the challenges and opportunities this situation has opened for regional and international cooperation. Authors analyze the role of extra-regional powers and traditional regional leaders during the pandemic, identifying the extent to which regional cooperation has been possible across several policy agendas. They argue that fragmented visions of regionalism, ideological polariza...
The Trade Policy of Emerging Powers
As emerging powers deepen their involvement in world trade and global governance, it is crucial to explore the what and the why of their strategic choices vis-a-vis the World Trade Organization. This book does just that, examining the trade policy decisions of two emerging power states, Brazil and India, since 2001. In this timely work, Laura Carsten Mahrenbach develops a broad-based analytical framework which addresses trade policy within EP states, in their regions and on the global level. The findings underline the importance of examining domestic factors when trying to understand strategic decisions by emerging powers. They also have important implications for our understanding of the role of emerging power states in global (trade) governance.
New studies on civil-military relations and defense policy in Brazil
"After one of the longest military regimes in Latin America's history, Brazil transitioned to democracy in 1985. It was inevitable that, from then on, the political power of the military would decline. However, the extent to which the country's armed forces would eschew politics was never clear, given the vast role it had always played in domestic affairs since the onset of the republic in 1889."
The Unintended Consequences of Interregionalism
This edited book brings a new analytical angle to the study of comparative regionalism by focussing on the unintended consequences of interregional relations. The book satisfies the need to go beyond the consideration of the success or failure of international policies. It sheds light on complex interactions involving multiple actors, individual and institutional, driven by various representations, interests and strategies, and which often result in unintended consequences that powerfully affect the socio-political context in which they unfold. By providing a new conceptual framework to understand how interregionalism brings about social change, the book examines the effects on the individua...
Lar é onde minha mãe está: desfudendo a maternidade
Não é um livro para ser lido em uma ordem cronológica, do início ao fim, embora você possa fazê-lo dessa maneira se assim desejar. É um livro para se ler enquanto estamos esperando pelo filho na consulta médica, na aula de futebol, natação, balé, ou talvez entre uma mamada e outra do pequeno recém-nascido, no caminho para o trabalho ou no intervalo do almoço. É um livro para trazer reflexões sobre uma nova possibilidade de educar, para além da punição ou recompensa, do castigo ou permissividade total.
Carioceias Cruéis
Um homem atormentado por um presságio sobre seu filho, ainda em gestação. A invasão de um?criminoso em fuga a uma casa em que vivem três idosas gêmeas e senis. Uma equação de tudo, e as consequências (im)previsíveis do conhecimento absoluto da realidade. Uma experiência de morte por afogamento vivida em primeira pessoa por uma terceira pessoa. Uma família de fantasmas usurpadores que aos poucos se apossam da vida de um homem infeliz. Uma guerra de versões em uma assembleia ordinária de condomínio. Morbidez, dor e cansaço em um enterro num dia quente de verão. Um confronto veloz e tragicômico nas ruas do Centro da cidade. Uma mãe tentando desviar seu filho de um caminho inevitável e sem saída... Este livro traz nove contos morais (alguns fantásticos) baseados em mitos gregos cujos enredos se passam no Rio de Janeiro das décadas de 1990 e 2000.
Doenças e curas
Quais as doenças que afligiam índios e europeus nos primeiros séculos do Brasil? Como os nativos se defendiam de males até então desconhecidos por eles, como gripe e sarampo? A pesquisadora e médica Cristina Gurgel nos mostra um capítulo importante da História do Brasil, o encontro (e desencontro) de duas culturas sob a ótica das doenças e dos males que afetaram seus habitantes. Ao contrário do que se propaga, a autora defende a ideia de que os princípios terapêuticos básicos da medicina indígena e europeia tinham muito em comum. Ambos os povos possuíam uma concepção da doença como uma invasora, sendo, portanto, necessário forçar sua saída do organismo. Para que isso oc...
