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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.
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.
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.
Nas tramas do crack
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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...
Iboga e Ibogaína no Brasil
Neste ressurgimento do interesse mundial pelas plantas de poder e pelos psicodélicos nas últimas duas décadas, algumas ganham menos visibilidade, apesar de seu imenso potencial terapêutico. Este é o caso da iboga e seu principal alcaloide, a ibogaína, já em uso no Brasil há quase duas décadas, mas com pouca informação circulando em português sobre seu uso. Este livro vem preencher esta lacuna: baseado na extensa experiência dos dois autores, é a primeira publicação em português dedicada a esta planta tão poderosa, misteriosa e maravilhosa. Partindo da sua experiência de mais de 14 anos acompanhando pacientes no tratamento com ibogaína, Bruno Ramos Gomes apresenta os resul...
Illegal Markets, Violence, and Inequality
This book challenges the quasi-consensus that Latin American countries dominate global homicide rankings mainly due to the illegal nature of drug production and trafficking. Building on US scholarship that looks at the role of social exclusion and discriminatory policing in drug violence, the authors of this volume show that the association between illegality and violence cannot be divorced from the inequality that prevails in those countries. This book looks in detail at the functioning of drug markets in Recife, the largest metropolitan area in Brazil’s North-East and, over the last 25 years, the heart of the country’s most violent metropolitan area. Building on extensive interviews an...
A Questão Social no Norte Fluminense: expressões e enfrentamentos
O livro A questão social no Norte Fluminense: expressões e enfrentamentos brinda-nos com uma rica e inédita análise do tema no Brasil contemporâneo, no marco da crise do capital e de políticas públicas ultraliberais. Aqui adquirem visibilidade a gênese e o aprofundamento de desigualdades sociais, a destruição de riquezas naturais na região e, simultaneamente, as formas de resistência por parte de sujeitos sociais ante as expressões da questão social. São salientadas particularidades do trabalho de assistentes sociais nesse enfrentamento: perfil profissional, condições de trabalho e dilemas do projeto-ético-político do Serviço Social. Este livro atesta o fecundo trabalho a...
