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E-BooksQueering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies



Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies
Free Download Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies By Rafael de la Dehesa
2010 | 315 Pages | ISBN: 0822347245 | PDF | 9 MB
Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the historical development and contemporary dynamics of LGBT activism in Latin America's two largest democracies. Rafael de la Dehesa focuses on the ways that LGBT activists have engaged with the state, particularly in alliance with political parties and through government health agencies in the wake of the AIDS crisis. He examines this engagement against the backdrop of the broader political transitions to democracy, the neoliberal transformation of state-civil society relations, and the gradual consolidation of sexual rights at the international level. His comparison highlights similarities between sexual rights movements in Mexico and Brazil, including a convergence on legislative priorities such as antidiscrimination laws and the legal recognition of same-sex couples. At the same time, de la Dehesa points to notable differences in the tactics deployed by activists and the coalitions brought to bear on the state.De la Dehesa studied the archives of activists, social-movement organizations, political parties, religious institutions, legislatures, and state agencies, and he interviewed hundreds of individuals, not only LGBT activists, but also feminists, AIDS and human-rights activists, party militants, journalists, academics, and state officials. He marshals his prodigious research to reveal the interplay between evolving representative institutions and LGBT activists' entry into the political public sphere in Latin America, offering a critical analysis of the possibilities opened by emerging democratic arrangements, as well as their limitations. At the same time, exploring activists' engagement with the international arena, he offers new insights into the diffusion and expression of transnational norms inscribing sexual rights within a broader project of liberal modernity. Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil is a landmark examination of LGBT political mobilization.



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E-BooksBrazil's International Status and Recognition as an Emerging Power Inconsistencies and Complexities



Brazil's International Status and Recognition as an Emerging Power Inconsistencies and Complexities
Free Download Daniel Buarque, "Brazil's International Status and Recognition as an Emerging Power: Inconsistencies and Complexities "
English | ISBN: 3031475747 | 2023 | 227 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book focusses on the intersubjective character of status in order to understand the degree to which Brazil has been able to achieve an increase in its global status. Buarque compares the long-standing ambitions of Brazilian foreign policy elites with external perspectives of observers in states with greater international status who would need to recognize Brazil as a great power and a state increasing in international prestige. Buarque develops a multidisciplinary approach influenced by sociology and psychology scholarship and gives special attention to the importance of recognition whilst drawing on international relations scholarship focussed on prestige, identity, roles and ontological security. In so doing, the book argues for the difference between the status and role Brazil aspires to have in the world and the external beliefs about the level of prestige of the state, amounting to status inconsistency and anxiety leading to ontological insecurity. It proposes that powerful states perceive Brazil as a coveted pawn in international politics and outlines a typology of what states that aspire to have more prestige need to do to achieve recognition for higher status.



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E-BooksThere's an Awful Lot of Bubbly in Brazil



There's an Awful Lot of Bubbly in Brazil
Free Download Mike Brazil, Alan; Parry, "There's an Awful Lot of Bubbly in Brazil"
English | 2007 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1905156367 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Alan Brazil's hilariously engaging autobiography was the surprise bestseller of 2006, a life-enhancing antidote to the bland life-stories of a gaggle of young Premier League superstars. Alan and his co-writer, Mike 'Porky' Parry, have added fresh stories of japes, pranks and mishaps, and they can be relied upon to keep the bottles of bubbly slipping down a treat. Funny and controversial by turns, "There's an Awful Lot of Bubbly in Brazil" will delight and entertain all football followers as well as the multitude of fans of Alan's "talkSPORT" breakfast show.



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E-BooksThe Accidental President of Brazil A Memoir



The Accidental President of Brazil A Memoir
Free Download The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir By Fernando Henrique Cardoso
2007 | 291 Pages | ISBN: 158648429X | EPUB | 1 MB
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E-BooksThe Soils of Brazil (2024)



The Soils of Brazil (2024)
Free Download The Soils of Brazil by Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 491 Pages | ISBN : 3031199472 | 535.4 MB
This book represents the first comprehensive edition, in English, on the soils of Brazil, in the challenge of illustrating all the biomes of a country of truly continental dimension. In addition to presenting the first geosystemic view of Brazilian soils, in all geological, geomorphological and environmental aspects, the book also makes a key contribution to the discussion of current topics in Pedology, such as Anthrosols, Technosols, Soil Management trends and sustainability, Pedometrics and advanced techniques of digital soil mapping. The soils of Brazil were conveniently stratified into sectors and treated within the different biomes, without neglecting any area of the Brazilian territory.



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E-BooksCreative Transformations Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas



Creative Transformations Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas
Free Download Krista Brune, "Creative Transformations: Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas "
English | ISBN: 1438480628 | 2021 | 264 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
Krista Brune is Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Spanish at Pennsylvania State University.



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MagazineTaste of Brazil - Sea Food 2024




Taste of Brazil - Sea Food 2024

Taste of BraziSea Food 2024
English | 58 Pages | PDF | 12.98 MB





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E-BooksHello, Hello Brazil Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil



Hello, Hello Brazil Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil
Free Download Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil By Bryan McCann
2004 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0822332841 | PDF | 2 MB
"Hello, hello Brazil" was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital in Rio de Janeiro and circulated nationally by the burgeoning recording and broadcasting industries. Bryan McCann chronicles the flourishing of Brazilian popular music between the 1920s and the 1950s. Through analysis of the competing projects of composers, producers, bureaucrats, and fans, he shows that Brazilians alternately envisioned popular music as the foundation for a unified national culture and used it as a tool to probe racial and regional divisions.McCann explores the links between the growth of the culture industry, rapid industrialization, and the rise and fall of Getúlio Vargas's Estado Novo dictatorship. He argues that these processes opened a window of opportunity for the creation of enduring cultural patterns and demonstrates that the understandings of popular music cemented in the mid-twentieth century continue to structure Brazilian cultural life in the early twenty-first.



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E-BooksBrazil on Screen Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia



Brazil on Screen Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia
Free Download Julian Ross, "Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia"
English | 2007 | pages: 184 | ISBN: 1845113284, 1845114485 | PDF | 14,3 mb
Two periods of Brazilian film history are particularly notable for their artistic momentum: the Cinema Novo movement of the 1960s and early '70s, and the film revival from the mid 1990s onwards. What makes them especially strong, this book argues, is their utopian impulse. By adopting Utopia as a theme, as well as a method of film analysis, Lucia Nagib unveils, organises and interprets a fascinating wealth of recurrent images, which are a bridge between a cinema strongly concerned with the national project and another informed by global culture. Outstanding recent films, such as "Central Station", "Perfumed Ball", "Hans Staden", "Orfeu", "City of God" and "The Trespasser", are illuminated by Nagib's sharp analysis, which detects utopian, anti-utopian and even dystopian impulses in them. They are at once representatives of a political arena in constant struggle against underdevelopment and legitimate (as well as critical) heirs of past cinematic traditions.



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E-BooksTropical Marine Environments of Brazil Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneities and Responses to Climate Changes



Tropical Marine Environments of Brazil Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneities and Responses to Climate Changes
Free Download Tropical Marine Environments of Brazil: Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneities and Responses to Climate Changes by José Maria Landim Dominguez, Ruy Kenji Papa de Kikuchi, Moacyr Cunha de Araújo Filho, Ralf Schwamborn, Helenice Vital
English | PDF | 2023 | 278 Pages | ISBN : 3031213289 | 13.4 MB
This book provides an overview of the tropical marine environments of Brazil and a multi-disciplinary assessment of the impact of ongoing climate change in these environments. These changes will affect physical, biological and biogeochemical characteristics of coastal zones and oceans, modifying their ecological structure, their functions and the various services provided to humans and have the potential of causing severe socioeconomic impacts in local (coastal zone), regional (continental shelf and shallow seas) and global (ocean) scales. The Tropical Brazil presents a unique opportunity to evaluate how spatial and temporal heterogeneity influences the response and resilience of marine environments to climate changes. This region comprises the main reef constructions of the Western South Atlantic Ocean, the majority of the Brazilian deltas, one of the longest mangrove areas of the world, a very narrow and shallow continental shelf, extreme variations in sediment and nutrient flows, as well as undeniable importance in transferring heat and mass between hemispheres.



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