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Ensino de história
  • Language: pt-BR
Tem pano para manga
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 399

Tem pano para manga

A sociedade brasileira tem presenciado, mais acentuadamente nos últimos anos, o aumento da presença de lideranças indígenas no cenário político regional, nacional e internacional. Organizações indígenas articulam-se em assembleias por todo o país. Pela primeira vez, a Funai é presidida por uma mulher indígena e cria-se o inédito Ministério dos Povos Indígenas, com uma representante proveniente do movimento indígena organizado. Neste livro, buscamos trazer uma contribuição para a compreensão da história do movimento indígena, desde suas primeiras manifestações, ainda durante o período da ditadura civil-militar, até os embates na Assembleia Nacional Constituinte(1987-1988) e os avanços conquistados na Constituição Federal de 1988.

Green Backlash
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 508

Green Backlash

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-25
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The tide is turning against environmentalism as the political right, industry and governments fight back. Green Backlash is a controversial expose of the anti-environmental movement. Tracing the rise of the backlash from the Wise Use movement in the USA, the author reveals its rapid spread worldwide: the anti-roads movement in the UK, forestry debates in Canada and Australia, marine resource issues in Europe, South-East Asia, and controversies such as the Brent Spar. The backlash is set to get worse as the resource wars intensify. This book offers a greater understanding of the challenges and threats facing global environmentalism, concluding that the environmental movement now has a chance to re-evaluate and change for the better to beat the backlash - a chance that must not be missed.

The Practice of Everyday Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

The Practice of Everyday Life

Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws on an immense theoretical literature in analytic philosophy, linguistics, sociology, semiology, and anthropology--to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.

Antichrist
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 112

Antichrist

Written and directed by Lars von Trier, one of the most influential and provocative filmmakers working today, Antichrist (2009), tells a story of parental loss, mourning and despair that result from the tragic death of a child. When the film screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, it split audiences down the middle. Some attacked von Trier for misogyny (amongst other things), while others defended him for creating a daring and poetic portrait of grief and separation. Dense, shocking, and thought-provoking, Antichrist is a film which calls for careful analysis and in her Devil's Advocate on the film Amy Simmons follows an account of the film's making with an in-depth consideration of the themes and issues arising from it -- the ambiguous depiction of the natural world, the shifting gender power relations, its reflections on Christianity and the limitations of rationality. Ata the film's heart, says the author, is a heartbreaking depiction of grief-stricken parents, a confounding interplay between psychology and psychosis, misogyny and empowerment.

The Revolution that Never was
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

The Revolution that Never was

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Memory’s Turn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

Memory’s Turn

The first book to trace Brazil's reckoning with dictatorship through the collision of politics and cultural production.

Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Conservation in Northern Mexico
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 514

Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Conservation in Northern Mexico

This book describes the biodiversity and biogeography of nothern Mexico, documents the biological importance of regional ecosystems and the impacts of human land use on the conservation status of plants and wildlife. It should become the standard source document for the conservation status of species and ecosystems in this region, which is of unusual biological interest because of its high biodiversity and highly varied landscape and biological zonation.

Amazonian Routes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 365

Amazonian Routes

This book reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native Amazonians as perpetual wanderers, lacking attachment to place and likely to flee at the slightest provocation. Instead, native Amazonians used traditional as well as new, colonial forms of spatial mobility to build enduring communities under the constraints of Portuguese colonialism. Canoeing and trekking through the interior to collect forest products or to contact independent native groups, Indians expanded their social networks, found economic opportunities, and brought new people and resources ba...

The Color of Modernity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 467

The Color of Modernity

In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes—the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution and 1954’s IV Centenário, the quadricentennial of São Paulo’s founding—this book shows how both elites and popular sectors in São Paulo embraced a regional identity that emphasized their European origins and aptitude for modernity and progress, attributes that became—and remain—associated with “whiteness.” This racialized regionalism naturalized and reproduced regional inequalities, as São Paulo became synonymous with prosperity while Brazil’s Northeast, a region plagued by drought and poverty, came to represent backwardness and São Paulo’s racial “Other.” This view of regional difference, Weinstein argues, led to development policies that exacerbated these inequalities and impeded democratization.