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Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?
This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities.As a consequence of the demise of secularization theory, we live in an interesting intellectual moment where the so-called ‘post-secular’ coexists with the secular, which in turn has become pluralized and historicized. This cohabitation of the secular and post-secular is revealed mainly through political dialectical processes that overshadow the subjective and inter-subjective dimensions of secularity, making it difficult to pinpoint concrete sites, agents, and objects of expression. Drawing on cases from South America, Africa, and Europe, contributors apply key insights from religious studies debates on the genealogies and formations of both religion and secularism. They explore the spaces, persons, and places in which these categories emerge and mutually constitute one another.
In the Remains of Progress
This book proposes an ethnographic approach to popular entrepreneurship based on the experience of the wageless life in Brazil. It starts from the historical premise that self-employment is at the heart of the popular way of life, whose main characteristic is the desire for autonomy. In turn, the global discourse of self-realisation carries a strong attempt at modernisation aimed at young people, but which is also capable of embarrassing older people. From the shopping streets, social entrepreneurship and Pentecostal cults, this process is giving shape to political conflicts that are redrawing the sense of community in São Paulo, the country's largest city.
The Spectacular Favela
"This book examines the political economy of violence in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Rocinha. Based on over two years of research and residence in the community, it offers an ethnographic account of how entangled forms of violence become essential forces shaping everyday social relations in the favela. The first part of the book shows how armed actors--drug traffickers and police--use spectacle to perform power. Yet despite the prevalence of physical violence, the favela has itself become a valuable global brand, consumed in disembodied fashion through media and in embodied fashion through tourism. Exploring media and favela tourism, the second part of the book demonstrates how the social relationships that arise from ongoing favela violence have a direct relationship to the market economy"--Provided by publisher.
Discourses on American Musical Theatre between São Paulo and New York
In this book, Bernardo Fonseca Machado examines the transnationalization of American Broadway and the resulting cultural exchanges between New York and São Paulo at the turn of the twenty-first century. Machado combines ethnography and history to track the complexities of discourses, imaginaries, and economic interests within the flow of musical people, capital, practices, pedagogies, and shows between these two cities.
Cocaine
The contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout the Americas and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities. Based on in-depth interviews and archival research, these essays examine how government agents, acting both within and outside the law, and criminal actors seek to manage the flow of illicit drugs to both maintain order and earn profits. Whether discussing the moral economy of coca cultivation in Bolivia, criminal organizations and drug traffickers in Mexico, or the routes cocaine takes as it travels into and through Guatemala, the contributors demonstrate how entire ways of life are built around cocaine co...
The entangled city
This book tells the story of the ‘world of crime’ in São Paulo. In so doing, it presents a new framework to understand urban conflict in many other contexts.
Novas faces da vida nas ruas
Esta coletânea apresenta produções que tematizam a situação de rua na última década (2006-2016), a partir de diversas lentes: das histórias de seus moradores, passando pela assunção e construção política do Movimento Nacional da População de Rua e pelas intersecções entre rua e crack à luz dos diversos dispositivos de atenção, gestão e tratamento mobilizados contemporaneamente. Todos os textos são frutos de pesquisas originais, tecidos a partir do encontro visceral entre pesquisadores, pessoas em situação de rua e operadores de políticas. O intuito é ter a dimensão empírica e política da rua como central para pensar temas como o gerenciamento dos corpos e o controle de vidas nuas nas cidades.
PSICANÁLISE, REDUÇÃO DE DANOS E O USO ABUSIVO DE DROGAS
É urgente a disseminação dessa iniciativa implicita no esforço de Julio em buscar sistematizar, ordenar e também teorizar esse campo prático especificado pela expressão "Álcool e outras Drogas" enquanto uma iniciativa proveniente do campo da saúde. Sua ampla experiência, bem estofada tanto prática como teoricamente, produz uma visão de conjunto que dá o devido relevo à multiplicidade de temas que o campo circunscreve, bem como, por lê-lo com a psicanálise, o torna acessível a iniciativas instruídas por ela no campo social, numa clínica estendida. Por esse viés, Julio busca delimitar uma linha de ação para essas pessoas identificadas como "usuárias de droga", que lhes a...
Engajamentos coletivos nas fronteiras do capitalismo
Esta coletânea propõe pensar a etnografia como um engajamento coletivo que se conecta ativamente com experimentações que, expressas em lutas sociais, defendem a multiplicidade e coexistência de modos de vida e, assim, reagem aos efeitos do capitalismo. Alguns dos textos se engajam com as experimentações que resistem aos cercamentos no norte de Moçambique e de Minas Gerais, nos campos de Roraima e nos rios do Xingu. Ainda, outros fazem ver novas colaborações e alianças tecidas a partir da ocupação de ruínas capitalistas, no cerrado mineiro marcado pelo agronegócio, nas águas barradas do rio Iratapuru e nas terras dos quilombolas no Vale do Ribeira.
