Brazil Watch
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 302
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Brazil
Author: Riordan Roett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1999-10-30
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0313389853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrazil, occupying nearly 50 percent of the South American continent, has the largest economy and is a major political power in Latin America. In this updated and expanded fifth edition of his text, Roett provides a thorough introduction to the dynamics shaping Brazilian politics, economics, and society, the difficult transition from military to civilian government in the 1980s, and the social issues facing Brazilian leaders as the country enters the 21st century. As Roett makes clear, despite years of economic growth and industrialization, by the late 1990s, Brazil still faces continued and growing challenges to its social cohesiveness and stability. Without greater attention to the basic needs of the Brazilian poor, the fabric of democracy in the New Republic faces formidable challenges. A thorough and engaging resource for all students and scholars of contemporary Latin America and, more specifically, Brazil.
Before Brasília
Author: Mary C. Karasch
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 0826357636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore Brasília offers an in-depth exploration of life in the captaincy of Goiás during the late colonial and early national period of Brazilian history. Karasch effectively counters the “decadence” narrative that has dominated the historiography of Goiás. She shifts the focus from the declining white elite to an expanding free population of color, basing her conclusions on sources previously unavailable to scholars that allow her to meaningfully analyze the impacts of geography and ethnography. Karasch studies the progression of this society as it evolved from the slaving frontier of the seventeenth century to a majority free population of color by 1835. As populations of indigenous and African captives and their descendants grew throughout Brazil, so did resistance and violent opposition to slavery. This comprehensive work explores the development of frontier violence and the enslavements that ultimately led to the consolidation of white rule over a majority population of color, both free and enslaved.
Brazil
Author: Laura Robinson
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2017-06-14
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1786357860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores five key themes: the new face of news and journalism, social movements and protest, television, cinema, publicity and marketing, and media theory. Chapters reflect the Brazilian case as a laboratory for exploring the evolving media environment of one of the world’s most fascinating societies.
Brazil's Second Chance
Author: Lincoln Gordon
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780815700326
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In this new work, a political economist and former U.S. ambassador to Brazil examines the social, political, and economic history of the country since the 1950s and discusses whether Brazil is ready to assume a place among first world nations. Drawing on his own long-term professional and personal relationship with Brazil, Lincoln Gordon evaluates the country's future prospects through the lens of history and policy. He traces Brazil's development efforts over the past fifty years, highlighting significant missteps as well as successes. Gordon identifies four key policy challenges that Brazil must address: consolidation of macroeconomic stability, poverty reduction, active engagement in the global economy, and political reform."--BOOK JACKET.
Urban Mix
Author: Stéphane Lemoine
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
Published: 2024-05-28
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1638401543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban Mix explores the devices and attitudes observable in urban crossroads of 8 major world cities. The diversity and complexity of crossings allow variable freedom of movement and define urban life, according to their cultural particularities. Mobility questions our ways of inhabiting the city. They are attached to multiple social approaches, constrained by the geography of the city and linked to the available energies. The frequentation of the city is mainly observed as a saturation or an animation and in an abstract and numerical way. But what is the nature of the movements in the cities, the daily life of more than half of the inhabitants of the planet? What are the speeds, rhythms, interactions, trajectories, specificities in an urban square? Many data describes flows, but don’t show the dynamics and the diversity of movements. This book focuses on 8 cases around the world and proposes to look at them at a human scale by drawing the paths of each moving element. Movement survey at 8 intersections in Old Delhi/Hauz Qasi Chowk in India, Copenhagen/Rådhuspladsen in Denmark, Tokyo/Shibuyacrossing in Japan, Hanoi/Place Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc in Vietnam, London/Oxford Circus inEngland, Lagos/ Ojuelegba and Alagbede-Igbobi Road and A1 in Nigeria, Sao Paulo/Av.Brigadeiro g Faria Lima and Av. President Juscelino Kubitschek in Brazil and Beijing/Chengfu and Zhongguancun E roads crossing in China
The Brazilian Truth Commission
Author: Nina Schneider
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2019-05-10
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1789200040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together some of the world’s leading scholars, practitioners, and human-rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012–2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission. While attentive to the inquiry’s local and national dimensions, it offers an illuminating transnational perspective that considers the Commission’s Latin American regional context and relates it to global efforts for human rights accountability, contributing to a more general and critical reassessment of truth commissions from a variety of viewpoints.
Religion in Today's World
Author: Melissa M. Wilcox
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 602
ISBN-13: 1317796640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligion is a major force in contemporary society. It is also one of the least understood social and political influences on individuals and communities. In this innovative collection of original essays and classic readings, experts explore the significance of contemporary religiosity: as a source of meaning and motivation, how it unites and divides us, and how it is used politically and culturally. Readers will be introduced to the broad debates in ways that will equip them to analyze, discuss, and make their own judgments about religion and society. This book should be read by anyone interested in understanding religion as a central source of meaning and politics, and is ideally suited for undergraduate teaching on religion and social issues and from a global perspective.
Women's Human Rights
Author: Susan Deller Ross
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 716
ISBN-13: 9780812240672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen's Human Rights studies the deprivation and violence women suffer due to discriminatory laws, religions, and customs and demonstrates how international human rights treaties can be used to develop new laws and court decisions that protect women against discrimination, subordination, and violence.
Football and Social Sciences in Brazil
Author: Sérgio Settani Giglio
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 3030846865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a kaleidoscopic view of the multidisciplinary field of research developed within Brazilian social sciences to study football as a major cultural and social phenomenon in the country. As a contributed volume, it brings together chapters authored by researchers from different disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology, political science, history, geography, economy, communication studies and physical education, who contributed to make Brazilian football a multifaceted object of study for the human and social sciences. The book is divided in four parts. The first two parts are dedicated to the "classic" areas, in which the best known research lines are concentrated: part one focuses on politics and history, while part two is dedicated to sociology and anthropology. The third part brings together studies from other four different areas: communication studies, geography, economy and physical education. The fourth part is organized not by disciplines, but around transversal themes, such as gender, violence, fans and racism. The varied approaches and different interpretations brought together in this book seek to provide an overview of the fertile academic debate that has stimulated the renewal of scientific research on football in Brazil, which makes Football and Social Sciences in Brazil a useful resource for researchers from different disciplines within the human and social sciences interested in the study of football as major cultural and social phenomenon all over the world.
