ISBN:
9781978825697
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (238 p.)
,
14 b-w images, 5 tables
Edition:
2021
DDC:
306.0981
Keywords:
Ethnology
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Social movements History 21st century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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ethnographies, hope, despair, resistance, Brazil, South American, Latin American, political science, democracy, working-class issues, working-class, power, political leaders, presidential election, economic mobility, political identity, guns, weapons, corruption, crime, crime in Brazil, anti-corruption, middle class, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon river, migrants, Japanese-Brazilian, Rio de Janeiro, activism, political participation, Brazilian youth, travesti activism, trans activism, trans Latina activism
Abstract:
Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval. As the presidency passed to his Workers' Party successor, Dilma Rousseff, many across the world hailed Brazil as a model of progressive governance in the Global South. Yet, by 2019, those progressive gains were being dismantled as the far right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of a bitterly divided country. Digging beneath this pendulum swing of policy and politics, and drawing on rich ethnographic portraits, Precarious Democracy shows how these transformations were made and experienced by Brazilians far from the halls of power. Bringing together powerful and intimate stories and portraits from Brazil's megacities to rural Amazonia, this volume demonstrates the necessity of ethnography for understanding social and political change, and provides crucial insights on one of the most epochal periods of change in Brazilian history.
Note:
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DOI:
10.36019/9781978825697
URL:
https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978825697
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978825697
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