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Category : Art, Brazilian
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Author: Ksenija Bilbija
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822350424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Offering bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America, scholars analyze the memory markets in six countries that emerged from authoritarian rule in the 1980s and 1990s.

Author: Katherine Goldman
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813530352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Citizens in Latin American cities live in constant fear, amidst some of the most dangerous conditions on earth. In that vast region, 140 thousand people die violently each year, and one out of three citizens have been directly or indirectly victimized by violence. Citizens of Fear, in part, assembles survey results of social scientists who document the pervasiveness of violence. But the numbers tell only part of the story.

Author: Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429013361
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing examines public experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in Brazil. This book contributes to the emerging field of southern criminology by engaging with the perils faced by people living in ‘favelas’ in Brazil and critically investigating the discourse of state actors. It combines original ethnographic data with critical analysis to expand understandings of violence and control in urban and postcolonial contexts. This study challenges dominant practices and notions of security and control. Its objective is to decolonise knowledge and shed light on issues relating to policing, coercion, and the great socioeconomic, historical and spatial inequalities that shape the lives of millions of people in the Global South. The findings of this book expose the exacerbation of social problems by the expansion of the penal and crime industry, unsettling the applicability and universalism of mainstream managerial criminology. The evidence reveals that new modes of securitisation have not addressed long-standing issues of sexism, racism, classism and brutalisation in the police. Moreover, through the increasing use of methods of control and incarceration, security programmes have failed to prevent diverse forms of violence and challenge the expansion of organised crime. Instead they have exacerbated the inequalities that affect the most marginalised populations. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, cultural studies, social theory and those interested in learning about the social injustices that exists in the Global South.

Author: Teresa Magalhães
Publisher: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
ISBN: 9892600258
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Languages : en
Pages : 146

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A violência, na qual se inclui o abuso, constitui um grave problema social e de saúde pública, com relevantes prejuízos para as vítimas, suas famílias e sociedade. Importa, por isso, que toda a sociedade esteja infor­mada sobre esta problemática e sobre as estratégias e soluções para identificar, tratar e prevenir este tipo de vitimização. A presente publicação tem como objetivo dar res­posta, num formato simples, a dúvidas frequentes sobre este assunto, contribuindo para criar uma maior sensi­bilização e atenção face à existência destes casos, bem como para promover a capacidade de cada um para os identificar e orientar adequadamente, tendo em vista um pronto e correto diagnóstico e, logo, a mais rápida proteção e tratamento das vítimas, e a prevenção da sua vitimização secundária e da perpetuação da violência. Note-se, contudo, que esta é uma questão deveras complexa e envolvendo riscos, pelo que uma interven­ção individual não substituirá, nunca, uma intervenção profissional especializada.

Author: Artur Alípio Barrio de Sousa Lopes
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Category : Art, Brazilian
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Nicolau Alberto de Fonty Archer
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Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Author: Marta Peixoto
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816621594
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Passionate Fictions was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "Clarice Lispector is the premiere Latin American woman prose writer of this century," Suzanne Ruta noted in the New York Times Book Review, "but because she is a woman and a Brazilian, she has remained virtually unknown in the United States." Passionate Fictions provides American readers with a critical introduction to this remarkable writer and offers those who already know Lispector's fiction a deeper understanding of its complex workings.

Author: Cassia Roth
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503611337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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A Miscarriage of Justice examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After the abolition of slavery in 1888 and the onset of republicanism in 1889, women's reproductive capabilities—their ability to conceive and raise future citizens and laborers—became critical to the expansion of the new Brazilian state. Analyzing court cases, law, medical writings, and health data, Cassia Roth argues that the state's approach to women's health in the early twentieth century focused on criminalizing fertility control without improving services or outcomes for women. Ultimately, the increasingly interventionist state fostered a culture of condemnation around poor women's reproduction that extended beyond elite discourses into the popular imagination. By tracing how legal thought and medical knowledge became cemented into law and clinical practice, how obstetricians, public health officials, and legal practitioners approached fertility control, and how women experienced and negotiated their reproductive lives, A Miscarriage of Justice provides a new way of interpreting the intertwined histories of gender, race, reproduction, and the state—and shows how these questions continue to reverberate in debates over reproductive rights and women's health in Brazil today.