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The Condor Trials
Stories of transnational terror and justice illuminate the past and present of South America’s struggles for human rights. Through the voices of survivors, human rights activists, judicial actors, and experts, The Condor Trials unravels the secrets of transnational repression masterminded by South American dictators between 1969 and 1981. Under Operation Condor, the regimes of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay closely monitored hundreds of exiles and kidnapped, tortured, murdered, or forcibly returned them to their countries of origin. This cross-border network designed to silence opposition in exile transformed South America into a borderless zone of terror and impunity. Francesca Lessa shows how, gradually, transnational networks of activists materialized and effectively transcended national borders to achieve justice for the victims of these horrors. Based on extensive fieldwork, archival research, trial ethnography, and over 100 interviews, The Condor Trials explores South America’s past and present and sheds light on ongoing struggles for justice as its societies come to terms with the unparalleled atrocities of their not-so-distant pasts.
Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America
This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies. It presents original contributions to the study of Paraguayan culture from a variety of perspectives that include visual, literary, and cultural studies; gender studies, sociology, and political theory. The essays compiled here focus on the different narratives and political processes that shaped a country decentered from, but also deeply connected to, the rest of Latin America. Structured in four thematic sections, the book reflects upon authoritarianism; the tensions between modern, indigenous, and popular artistic expressions; the legacies of the Stroessner Regime, political resistance, and the struggle for collective memory; as well as the literary framing of historical trauma, particularly in connection with the Roabastian notion of la realidad que delira [delirious reality].
Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels
A nuanced understanding of modernization in nineteenth-century Brazil that demonstrates Brazilian commitment to technological innovation.
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The Tribute of Blood
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America’s largest nation. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive recruitment to fill its lower ranks, Beattie shows how enlisted service became associated with criminality, perversion, and dishonor, as nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Brazilian officials rounded up the “dishonorable” poor—including petty criminals, vagrants, and “sodomites”—and forced them to serve as soldiers. Beattie looks through sociological, anthropological, and histori...
Outlaw Capital
With an ethnography of the largest contraband economy in the Americas running through Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, Outlaw Capital shows how transgressive economies and gray spaces are central to globalized capitalism. A key site on the China-Paraguay-Brazil trade route, Ciudad del Este moves billions of dollars’ worth of consumer goods—everything from cell phones to whiskey—providing cheap transit to Asian manufacturers and invisible subsidies to Brazilian consumers. A vibrant popular economy of Paraguayan street vendors and Brazilian “ant contrabandistas” capture some of the city’s profits, contesting the social distribution of wealth through an insurgent urban epistemology of use...
Guerra na Imprensa ou Imprensa de Guerra?
A Guerra da Tríplice Aliança ou Guerra do Paraguai (1864 – 1870) foi a primeira na América do Sul a ter forte cobertura jornalística. Guerra de imensas proporções, jamais vista na Bacia do Prata até então, seja no envolvimento militar, através do recrutamento de grande contingente de pessoas, seja através de notícias de milhares de mortes decorrentes de combate e de doenças, de enormes dispêndios de recursos de toda monta, esse acontecimento marcou os diferentes processos de consolidação e afirmação dos projetos de Estado-Nação dos países que se envolveram no conflito. No Brasil, passado o ardor patriótico dos primeiros meses do conflito, houve tanto periódicos que ap...
História da imprensa no Brasil do século XIX
O livro História da imprensa no Brasil do século XIX, de Marialva Carlos Barbosa, Antonio Carlos Hohlfeldt e Ana Paula Goulart Ribeiro três importantes pesquisadores de História da Imprensa e da Comunicação no Brasil é o primeiro número do selo PUC+, parceria das editoras da PUCRS e da PUC-Rio. Uma iniciativa que visa conectar os leitores a diversos autores nacionais e internacionais, com trajetórias reconhecidas no universo acadêmico. Os livros do PUC+ abordarão temas de grande relevância científica ou de divulgação científica e de amplo interesse acadêmico e social. Este primeiro número do selo reúne textos de pesquisadores de todo o Brasil que, durante dois anos, realiz...
