Imagining Brazil

Author : Jessé Souza,Valter Sinder
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0739110144

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Imagining Brazil by Jessé Souza,Valter Sinder Pdf

Imagining Brazil provides a comprehensive and multifaceted picture of Brazil in the age of globalization. Privileging diversity in relation to the authors as well as the manner in which Brazil is perceived, JessZ Souza and Valter Sinder have assembled historians, political scientists, sociologists, literary critics, and scholars of culture in an attempt to understand a complex society in all its richness and diversity. Rising from one of the worldOs poorest societies in the 1930s to the eighth largest world economy in the 1980s, Brazil is used as an example of globalizationOs impact on peripheral societies, exploring in new contexts the serious social problems that have always characterized this society. Imagining Brazil explores the connections between society and politics and culture and literature, creating an encompassing volume of interest to scholars of Latin American studies as well as those interested in how globalization impacts the varied aspects of a country.

Author : Jasmine Mitchell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252052163

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Imagining the Mulatta by Jasmine Mitchell Pdf

Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixed race women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have perfected racial representation—all the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and white supremacy that the mulatta narrative creates. Jasmine Mitchell investigates the development and exploitation of the mulatta figure in Brazilian and U.S. popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, she analyzes policy debates and reveals the use of mixed-Black female celebrities as subjects of racial and gendered discussions. Mitchell also unveils the ways the media moralizes about the mulatta figure and uses her as an example of an ”acceptable” version of blackness that at once dreams of erasing undesirable blackness while maintaining the qualities that serve as outlets for interracial desire.

Author : Michiel van Groesen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004348035

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Imagining the Americas in Print by Michiel van Groesen Pdf

In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which early modern Europe gathered information and manufactured knowledge about the Americas, and used it to further their colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world.

Author : Marcus Wood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199274574

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Black Milk by Marcus Wood Pdf

Black Milk is the first in-depth analysis of the visual arts that effloresced around slavery in Brazil and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Exploring prints, photographs, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and ephemera, it will change everything we knew, or thought we knew, about the visual archive of Atlantic slavery.

Author : Maria C.D.P. Lyra,Brady Wagoner,Alicia Barreiro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030641757

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Imagining the Past, Constructing the Future by Maria C.D.P. Lyra,Brady Wagoner,Alicia Barreiro Pdf

This book takes a sociocultural, developmental and dialogical perspective to explore the constructive and interconnected nature of remembering and imagining. Conceived as cognitive-affective processes, both emerge at the border of the person and his or her socio-cultural world. Memory is approached as a functional adaption to the environment using the resources of the past in preparation for action in the present. Imagination is tightly related to memory in that both aim to escape the confines of the concrete here-and-now situation; however, while memory is primarily oriented to the past, imagination looks to the future. Both are embedded in the exchanges with the social and cultural milieu, and thus theorizing them has relied on key ideas from Lev Vygotsky, Frederic Bartlett and Mikhail Bakhtin. Thus, this book aims to integrate theories of remembering and imagining, through rich empirical studies in diverse cultural settings and concerning the development of self and identity. These two groups of studies compose the subparts that organize the book.

Author : H. Leung,M. Hendley,R. Compton,B. Haley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230101586

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Imagining Globalization by H. Leung,M. Hendley,R. Compton,B. Haley Pdf

This collection gives voice to the peoples and groups impacted by globalization as they seek to negotiate their identities, language use, and territorial boundaries within a larger global context. Rather than viewing globalization as one-dimensional (i.e., cultural, economic, or political), the approaches taken by the authors reflect a nuanced and multifaceted discussion of globalization that integrates all three perspectives. They explore identity, boundaries, language use, and other issues in the context of specific temporal and spatial contexts.

Author : Rodanthi Tzanelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351470445

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Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination by Rodanthi Tzanelli Pdf

Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts. Atmosphere connects to social imaginaries, utopian representational frames producing the culture of a city or country. But who resolves atmospheric contradictions in a place’s social and cultural rhythms, when the eyes of the world are turned on it? Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination examines ephemeral and solidified atmospheres in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and the handover ceremony to Tokyo for the 2020 Games. Indeed, highlighting the various social and cultural implications upon these Olympic Games hosts, Tzanelli argues that the ‘Olympic City’ is produced by aesthetic "imagineers", mobile groups of architects, artists and entrepreneurs, who aesthetically ‘engineer’ native cultures as utopias. Thus, it is explored as to how Rio and Tokyo’s "imagineers" problematize notions of creativity, cosmopolitan togetherness and belonging. Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination will appeal to postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and professionals interested in fields such as: Globalization Studies, Mobility Theory, Cultural Sociology, International Political Economy, Conference and Event Management, Tourism Studies and Migration Studies.

Author : Luca Tateo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030380250

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A Theory of Imagining, Knowing, and Understanding by Luca Tateo Pdf

This is a book about imaginative work and its relationship with the construction of knowledge. It is fully acknowledged by epistemologists that imagination is not something opposed to rationality; it is not mere fantasy opposed to intellect. In philosophy and cognitive sciences, imagination is generally “delimiting not much more than the mental ability to interact cognitively with things that are not now present via the senses.” (Stuart, 2017, p. 11) For centuries, scholars and poets have wondered where this capability could come from, whether it is inspired by divinity or it is a peculiar feature of human mind (Tateo, 2017b). The omnipresence of imaginative work in both every day and highly specialized human activities requires a profoundly radical understanding of this phenomenon. We need to work imaginatively in order to achieve knowledge, thus imagination must be something more than a mere flight of fantasy. Considering different stories in the field of scientific endeavor, I will try to propose the idea that the imaginative process is fundamental higher mental function that concurs in our experiencing, knowing and understanding the world we are part of. This book is thus about a theoretical idea of imagining as constant part of the complex whole we call the human psyche. It is a story of human beings striving not only for knowledge and exploration but also striving for imagining possibilities.​

Author : Peter Marks
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474400206

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Imagining Surveillance by Peter Marks Pdf

Presents the first full-length study of the depiction and assessment of surveillance in literature and film.

Author : Eduardo Posada-Carbo,Joanna Innes,Mark Philp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197631577

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Re-Imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870 by Eduardo Posada-Carbo,Joanna Innes,Mark Philp Pdf

"This book explores the ways in which people in Latin America and the Caribbean joined with others in Europe and the United States to re-imagine the ancient term "democracy", so as to give it relevance and power in the modern world. In all these regions, that process largely followed the French Revolution; in Latin America it more especially followed independence movements of the 1810s and 20s. The book looks at how a variety of political actors and commentators used the term to characterize or argue about modern conditions through the ensuing half-century; by 1870, it was firmly established in mainstream political lexicons throughout the region. Following introductory scene-setting and overview chapters, specialists contribute wide-ranging accounts of aspects of the context in which the word was "re-imagined"; six final chapters explore differences in its fortune from place to place"--

Author : Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350134317

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Imagining the Plains of Latin America by Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz Pdf

From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile and Peru, the plains of Latin America have haunted the literature and culture of the continent. Bringing these landscapes into focus as a major subject of Latin American culture, this book outlines innovative new ecocritcial readings of canonical literary texts from the 19th century to the present. Tracing these natural landscapes across national borders the book develops a new transnational understanding of Hispanic culture in South America and expands the scope of the contemporary environmental humanities. Texts covered include works by: Ciro Alegría, Manoel de Barros, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Rómulo Gallegos, José Eustasio Rivera, João Guimarães Rosa, and Domingo Sarmiento.

Author : Zelideth María Rivas,Debbie Lee-DiStefano
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813585239

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Imagining Asia in the Americas by Zelideth María Rivas,Debbie Lee-DiStefano Pdf

For centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America. Yet in many of these countries, Asians are commonly viewed as undifferentiated racial “others,” lumped together as chinos regardless of whether they have Chinese ancestry. How might this struggle for recognition in their adopted homelands affect the ways that Asians in the Americas imagine community and cultural identity? The essays in Imagining Asia in the Americas investigate the myriad ways that Asians throughout the Americas use language, literature, religion, commerce, and other cultural practices to establish a sense of community, commemorate their countries of origin, and anticipate the possibilities presented by life in a new land. Focusing on a variety of locations across South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and the United States, the book’s contributors reveal the rich diversity of Asian American identities. Yet taken together, they provide an illuminating portrait of how immigrants negotiate between their native and adopted cultures. Drawing from a rich array of source materials, including texts in Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Gujarati that have never before been translated into English, this collection represents a groundbreaking work of scholarship. Through its unique comparative approach, Imagining Asia in the Americas opens up a conversation between various Asian communities within the Americas and beyond.

Author : Ana Luiza Fonseca (Curator)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 8291430713

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Imagine Brazil by Ana Luiza Fonseca (Curator) Pdf

Author : Sean T. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226499437

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Constellations of Inequality by Sean T. Mitchell Pdf

Winner of the 2018 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section Book Prize In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcântara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with displacement. Completed in 1990, this vast undertaking in one of Brazil’s poorest regions has provoked decades of conflict and controversy. Constellations of Inequality tells this story of technological aspiration and the stark dynamics of inequality it laid bare. Sean T. Mitchell analyzes conflicts over land, ethnoracial identity, mobilization among descendants of escaped slaves, military-civilian competition in the launch program, and international intrigue. Throughout, he illuminates Brazil’s changing politics of inequality and examines how such inequality is made, reproduced, and challenged. How people conceptualize and act on the unequal conditions in which they find themselves, he shows, is as much a cultural and historical matter as a material one. Deftly broadening our understanding of race, technology, development, and political consciousness on local, national, and global levels, Constellations of Inequality paints a portrait of contemporary Brazil that will interest a broad spectrum of readers.

Author : G. Mitchell-Walthour,E. Hordge-Freeman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137553942

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Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production by G. Mitchell-Walthour,E. Hordge-Freeman Pdf

In this co-edited volume, Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman have invited contributors of African descent from the United States and Brazil to reflect on their multidimensional experiences in the field as researchers, collaborators, and allies to communities of color. Contributors promote an interdisciplinary perspective, as they represent the fields of sociology, political science, anthropology, and the humanities. They engage W.E.B. Du Bois' notion of 'second-sight,' which suggests that the unique positionality of Black researchers might provide them with advantages in their empirical observations and knowledge production. They expose the complex and contradictory efforts, discourses, and performances that Black researchers must use to implement and develop their community-centered research agenda. They illustrate that 'second-sight' is not inevitable but must be worked at and is sometimes not achieved in certain research and cultural contexts.