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Latin America
“Latin America” is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively. Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three interlocking steps: first, an intellectual history of the concept of Latin America in its natural historical habitat—mid-nineteenth-century redefinitions of empire and the cultural, political, and economic intellectualism; second, a serious and uncompromising critique of the current “Latin Ame...
The Routledge Intermediate Brazilian Portuguese Reader
The Routledge Intermediate Brazilian Reader is a comprehensive reader aimed at intermediate level students of Brazilian Portuguese. The aim is to provide a structured language teaching resource that is enjoyable and stimulating for learners, but that also provides meaningful cultural contexts. This Brazilian Reader consists of twenty readings graded on the basis of complexity of vocabulary, grammar and syntax. It presents a range of different text types which give a good representation of contemporary Brazilian writing, including fiction and non-fiction by some of Brazil’s most prominent and popular authors. Key features include: vocabulary lists for quick reference reading comprehension questions exercises to learn and review important vocabulary focus on idiomatic expressions full answer key to vocabulary and idiom exercises Portuguese-English glossary at the back Suitable for both class use and independent study, The Routledge Intermediate Brazilian Reader is an essential tool for facilitating vocabulary learning and increasing reading proficiency.
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.
Narratives against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil
This book examines the enslavement system in nineteenth-century Brazil, demonstrating the strategies that lawyers and plaintiffs used to fight for freedom in court. In nineteenth-century Brazil, countless enslaved and freed women and men appealed to court to claim their right to freedom or that of family members. Taken as a whole, these legal suits create a narrative against the institution of slavery. By analyzing 30 individual cases (1810–1881) from various parts of imperial Brazil, this book demonstrates the intricate strategies of argumentation that lawyers and plaintiffs conceived to prove the right to freedom of the parties involved and to convince the authorities of it. Enslaved per...
Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism
A unique contribution to film studies, Richard Gordon's Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism is the first full-length book on Brazilian films about slavery. By studying Brazilian films released between 1976 and 2005, Gordon examines how the films both define the national community and influence viewer understandings of Brazilianness. Though the films he examines span decades, they all communicate their revised version of Brazilian national identity through a cinematic strategy with a dual aim: to upset ingrained ways of thinking about Brazil and to persuade those who watch the films to accept a new way of understanding their national community. By examining patterns in this heterogeneo...
Understanding Brazil for Foreigners
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/UBrazilF/ Google+ page: http://plus.google.com/111085952888311459023/ This book is aimed to provide foreigners with a head start to understand Brazil and Brazilians. It’s not a “behavioral” book, nor an encyclopedia entry (that you would find in Wikipedia) or an atlas section. It’s a compilation of the information that you would likely want to know if moving to Brazil, making business or just before a tourism trip. When foreigners think about Brazil, usually what comes to mind is one or more of the following: Rio de Janeiro, Samba, Carnival parades, Christ the Redeemer, beaches, Bossa Nova and the Girl of Ipanema, huge forests, women in bikinis,...
Eva
A pequena Aisha foi “desposada” por um homem de 54 anos - “o profeta” do islamismo - quando ainda era uma criança - 9 aninhos -, sendo este o destino de muitas meninas em várias partes do mundo... Mas com que objetivo??? O que “allah” pretende com isso??? E saltamos 1.500 anos na História para viver o drama de outra Aisha, outra vítima da mesma ‘cultura’: o Islamismo – à moda ‘taliban’... O cobiçado prêmio do fotojornalismo, o ‘World Press Photo’, foi dado à sul-africana Jodi Bieber, quando suas ‘lentes sensíveis’ captaram a imagem tristemente chocante de uma jovem ‘mutilada’... e que seria a capa da revista Time em 1 de agosto de 2010... A imagem r...
O humor e suas múltiplas facetas
Nada mais estranho do que um denso estudo teórico e analítico sobre humor. Afinal, o riso não se explica. Então a que vem esta coletânea? Mais do que responder, o presente livro coloca em suspenso essa questão. Em seu conjunto, os textos reunidos aqui se apresentam como reflexões do humor em seus múltiplos modos de expressão: verbal, visual ou audiovisual. Convida a uma parada sobre o riso ou o fato de rir, mediante pesquisas sustentadas por instrumentais teóricos diversos.
Mídia e zeitgeist
“Conhecer e pensar não é chegar a uma verdade absolutamente certa, mas dialogar com a incerteza”, diz Edgar Morin. Esta é a nossa aventura: compreender as relações, inserir nos contextos, enxergar as consequências de atos que pareciam inofensivos e isolados, perceber a força criativa do caos, enfrentar as incertezas, resistir à destruição. A leitura desta coletânea nos ajuda a dialogar com a incerteza e nos permite viajar no espírito de nosso tempo com os olhos bem abertos. Marcia Benetti, no Prefácio
