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  • Espaços periféricos

    Políticas, violência e território nas bordas da cidade

    Series Libro 5 - Coleção Marginália de Estudos Urbanos
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  • Architectures of Hope

    Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing

    Architectures of Hope examines how communal idealism, electoral politics, and low-income consumer markets made first-time homeownership a reality for millions of low-income Brazilians over the last ten years.Drawing on a five-year-long ethnography among city planners, architects, street-level bureaucrats, politicians, market and bank representatives, community leaders, and past, present, and ... Leer más

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  • Precarious Democracy

    Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins

    Series Libro 2 - Urban Anthropology Unbound
    Extreme inequalities, uneven planning, and unruly environments have long shaped individual and collective subjectivities at Latin America’s urban margins. Yet these same margins have frequently given rise to new forms of community organization, cultural practice, and social mobilization. This volumeframes the urban margins as complex and multi-layered sites where ongoing translocal histories of ... Leer más

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  • Indelible Inequalities in Latin America

    Insights from History, Politics, and Culture

    Since the earliest years of European colonialism, Latin America has been a region of seemingly intractable inequalities, marked by a stark divide between the haves and the have-nots. This collection illuminates the diverse processes that have combined to produce and reproduce inequalities in Latin America, as well as some of the implications of those processes for North Americans. Anthropologists, ... Leer más

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    Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Their dreams are straightforward: with more money, they can improve their children's lives. But the reality of their experiences is often harsh, and structural barriers—particularly those ... Leer más

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  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Leer más

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  • Transbordering Latin Americas

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  • Kuxlejal Politics

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  • Everyday Revolutions

    Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina

    In the wake of the global financial crisis, new forms of social organization are beginning to take shape. Disparate groups of people are coming together in order to resist corporate globalization and seek a more positive way forward. These movements are not based on hierarchy; rather than looking to those in power to solve their problems, participants are looking to one another. In certain ... Leer más

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