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Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela

The residents of Caxambu, a squatter neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, live in a state of insecurity as they face urban violence. Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela examines how inequality, racism, drug trafficking, police brutality, and gang activities affect the daily lives of the people of Caxambu. Some Brazilians see these communities, known as favelas, as centers of drug trafficking that exist beyond the control of the state and threaten the rest of the city. For other Brazilians, favelas are symbols of economic inequality and racial exclusion. Ben Penglase’s ethnography goes beyond these perspectives to look at how the people of Caxambu themselves experience violence. Althoug...

Final Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Final Justice

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Final Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Final Justice

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  • Published: 1993-01-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Guide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 780

Guide

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Case for Marriage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

The Case for Marriage

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-03-05
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  • Publisher: Crown

A groundbreaking look at marriage, one of the most basic and universal of all human institutions, which reveals the emotional, physical, economic, and sexual benefits that marriage brings to individuals and society as a whole. The Case for Marriage is a critically important intervention in the national debate about the future of family. Based on the authoritative research of family sociologist Linda J. Waite, journalist Maggie Gallagher, and a number of other scholars, this book’s findings dramatically contradict the anti-marriage myths that have become the common sense of most Americans. Today a broad consensus holds that marriage is a bad deal for women, that divorce is better for childr...

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2018
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2018

The World Bank Group has two overarching goals: End extreme poverty by 2030 and promote shared prosperity by boosting the incomes of the bottom 40 percent of the population in each economy. As this year’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity report documents, the world continues to make progress toward these goals. In 2015, approximately one-tenth of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty, and the incomes of the bottom 40 percent rose in 77 percent of economies studied. But success cannot be taken for granted. Poverty remains high in Sub- Saharan Africa, as well as in fragile and conflict-affected states. At the same time, most of the world’s poor now live in middle-income countries,...

Economies of Recycling
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Economies of Recycling

For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living. With scrap now being the largest export category from the US to China, the sheer scale of this global trade has not yet been clearly identified or analysed. Combining fine-grained ethnographic analysis with overviews of international material flows, Economies of Recycling radically changes the way we understand global and local economies as well as the new social relations and identities created by recycling processes. Following global material chains, this groundbreaking book reveals astonishing connections between persons, households, cities and global regions as objects are reworked, taken to pieces and traded. With case studies from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, China, the former Soviet Union, North America and Europe, this timely collection debunks common linear understandings of production, exchange and consumption and argues for a complete re-evaluation of North-South economic relationships.

Violence at the Urban Margins
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Violence at the Urban Margins

The inhabitants of the urban margins are hardly ever heard in discussions about public safety.

Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop

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  • Published: 2008-07-07
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  • Publisher: Springer

Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazillian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in English to analyze Brazilian hip hop.