The book that the reader has in hand, the fruit of an interdisciplinary
seminar held in Berlin in December 2004 which brought together
scholars from Germany and different regions of the Americas, is guided by a dual perspective and objective, a fact reflected by the authors
and themes that it brings together. It is on one hand, a view from outside Brazil that seeks to understand how Brazilian society is responding to the processes of global integration. At the same time, there is
also an internal perspective of observation that documents the plurality of ways that social actors and analysts interpret the transformations
underway. The common thread of the various perspectives of analysis
involved, which, therefore, unifies the different articles joined here, is
not their focus on Brazil, but more properly the interest in the relations
between Brazil and the world, based on the context of the Americas. It
can be said that it is not a book about Brazil, but of a set of reflections,
oriented by the case of a specific country, about the way that local,
regional and global processes and contexts have been interweaving in
various fields.
Author(s): Peter Birle; Sérgio Costa; Horst Nitschack, (eds.)
Series: Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana ; 120
Publisher: Iberoamericana; Vervuert
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 239
City: Madrid
Tags: Brazil; Brasil; Americas; América latina; Latin America
The Editors
Introduction ...................................................................................... 7
Jorge Larraín
Latin America in the Post-national World ........................................ 13
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
Post-imperialism. A Latin American Cosmopolitics ........................ 31
Jean Daudelin
Joining the Club: Lula and the End of Periphery for Brazil .............. 51
Marcos Antonio Macedo Cintra
Successes and Limits of Brazilian Macroeconomic Policy
in the Period 1999-2004 .................................................................... 79
Alberto J. Olvera
The Discourses of Participation and Accountability in the
International Context at the End of the Twentieth Century ............ 105
Bila Sorj/Aparecida Fonseca Moraes
Paradoxes of the Expansion of Women’s Rights in Brazil ............. 121
Patricia Pinho
Brazil in the Map of Africanness: Examining Roots Tourism
and International Black Relations ................................................... 135
Marjo de Theije
Migration and Religious Transnationalism:
Recent Research and the Case of the Brazilians in Suriname ......... 151
Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda
A short Sketch on some Signs of Transformation in Brazilian
Urban Imaginary ............................................................................. 171
6 Contents
Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha
The Sensitive Territory of the Favelas: Place, History, and
Representation ................................................................................ 185
Esther Hamburger
Wired Up to the World: Performance and Media in
Contemporary Brazil ...................................................................... 199
Robert Stam
Tropicalia, Transe-Brechtianismo and the Multicultural
Theme ............................................................................................. 223
Authors and Editors ......................................................................... 239
