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Journeys into Terror
Since ancient times, explorers and adventurers have captured popular imagination with their frightening narratives of travels gone wrong. Usually, these stories heavily feature the exotic or unknown, and can transform any journey into a nightmare. Stories of such horrific happenings have a long and rich history that stretches from folktales to contemporary media narratives.This work presents eighteen essays that explore the ways in which these texts reflect and shape our fear and fascination surrounding travel, posing new questions about the "geographies of evil" and how our notions of "terrible places" and their inhabitants change over time. The volume's five thematic sections offer new insights into how power, privilege, uncanny landscapes, misbegotten quests, hellish commutes and deadly vacations can turn our travels into terror.
Rethinking Corruption
Corruption is perversely useful. It helps both those in government, and those opposing it. Consequently, eliminating it is difficult.
Brazil, Land of the Past: The Ideological Roots of the New Right
Brazil, Land of the Past scrutinizes the ideological roots of the so-called New Right in Brazil. The book traces the continuity and resilience of a system of thought based on the idea of a God-given hierarchical order to be defended against any social contract and modernizing relativization. It explains in detail how today a diverse movement — which includes actors ranging from the authoritarian Bolsonaro wing to economic liberals to the military to both Catholic and evangelical religious conservatives – assumes unanimously the ideas of this tradition as underlying premises of their political action. Though not always explicitly, this drives the self-declared “liberal-conservative” but rather anti-modernist reaction which claims to liberate an imaginary authentic “Brazil” from an aberrant “State” – and in so doing intends to preserve inherited privilege in an extremely unequal society.
Critical Perspectives on Think Tanks
This innovative book explores think tanks from the perspective of critical policy studies, showcasing how knowledge, power and politics intersect with the ways in which think tanks intervene in public policy.
When Misfortune Becomes Injustice
When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades. Alicia Ely Yamin weaves together theory and firsthand experience in a compelling narrative of how evolving legal norms, empirical knowledge, and development paradigms have interacted in the realization of health rights, and challenges us to consider why these advances have failed to produce greater equality within and between nations. In this revised and expanded second edition, Yamin incorporates crucial lessons learned about the state of global health equity and public health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating just how i...
Age of Impact
In a time of correction, terrorism, corruption, unemployment, hunger, cancer, depression, in which we are constantly bombarded by catastrophic news, generating the "negative instinct" referred to by Hans Rosling, the question that surrounds us is: who cares? Based on a narrative that is both light and impressively profound, James Marins sets out to fight apathy and ignorance and make us feel the potential of the era in which we live. After all, our capacity for opinion, action, participation and collaboration at scale for systemic changes has never been greater. To understand our possibilities, we cannot limit ourselves to the narrow view of our personal horizon. We need a more comprehensive...
A influência do Movimento Escola Sem Partido no debate educacional brasileiro
As realizações educacionais no Brasil acompanharam o processo de consolidação da ordem capitalista, refletindo suas mudanças e contradições. Nas últimas décadas, grupos conservadores atuam cotidianamente na construção de consensos em torno de uma normatização autoritária da educação. Na prática, as pautas e proposições do Movimento Escola Sem Partido (MESP) são difundidas como necessárias e fundamentais para a organização da atual educação brasileira, em combate à "doutrinação ideológica", à "manipulação ideológica" e à "ideologia de gênero". Ao propor a organização de uma vontade coletiva, divulgando suas concepções ideológicas como interesses comuns ...
Junho de 2013
A rebelião de 2013 chegou sem aviso prévio. Afinal, a economia emitia sinais de prosperidade, com taxa de crescimento. Mas em junho daquele ano, gigantescas multidões tomaram as ruas das principais cidades. O que havia começado como um movimento contra o aumento das passagens de ônibus se transformou em uma insurgência que sacudiria a vida política do país. Entender o que havia ocorrido se tornou um dilema para estudiosos e agentes políticos. Era necessário compreender os impactos daqueles acontecimentos sobre o processo político dos anos seguintes. Após dez anos, é possível traçar um diagnóstico daquele momento? As manifestações foram uma explosão popular autônoma? É po...
Strongman’s Brokers
This book explores the critical role of informal diplomats in shaping contemporary global politics as they navigate complex networks of power and influence in the age of strongman leaders. The world of international relations has long been viewed as the domain of state institutions and career diplomats. But in the age of strongman leaders, a new set of actors has emerged as key players in foreign policy: informal diplomats drawn from diasporas, religious communities, and trade networks. Through a collection of essays by historians, anthropologists, and political scientists, this book traces the historical parallels and continuities between these informal diplomats and the diasporic networks ...
Dicta&Contradicta (Vol. 8)
" Oitavo volume da revista semanal Dicta&Contradicta, organizada e editada pelo Instituto de Formação e Educação. A Dicta&Contradicta é uma revista semestral lançada em 2008 pelo Instituto de Formação e Educação. Reunindo artigos e resenhas de intelectuais brasileiros e estrangeiros sobre os grandes temas da cultura ocidental, a Dicta&Contradicta analisa e debate a ética, a filosofia, a literatura e as artes, sob uma perspectiva de longo prazo, desvinculada da política partidária e com uma vocação, na medida do possível, universal. Com uma mentalidade acadêmica, mas sem academicismos, a revista procura atender a uma demanda do mercado por textos de maior transcendência e pr...
