Emergent Brazil : key perspectives on a new global power / edited by Jeffrey D. Needell ; contributors, Daniela Campello [and nineteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Needell, Jeffrey D., editor.

Campello, Daniela, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Brazil.

Globalization.

Brazil--History.

Brazil.

Brazil--Foreign relations--20th century.

Brazil--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For decades, scholars and journalists have hailed the enormous potential of Brazil, which has been one of the world's largest economies for the last twenty years. But its promise has too often been curtailed by dictatorship, racism, poverty, and violence. Offering an interdisciplinary approach to the critical issues facing Brazil, the contributors to this volume analyze the democratization of the country's media, its nuclear capabilities, changing crime rates, the spread of Pentecostalism and indigenous religions, the development of popular culture, the growth of Brazilian agribusiness, and

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: An Attempt to Grasp the Moment; PART I. BRAZIL, TODAY AND YESTERDAY; 1. The Country of the Present, or, Leaving the Future in the Past; 2. Brazilian Spring or Brazilian Autumn? First Impressions of the June Days of 2013; PART II. BRAZIL'S POLITICAL SCENE; 3. Understanding the Increasing Popularity of Brazilian Presidents; 4. Too Soon to Give Up, Too Late to Really Matter: Impasses, Self-Deception, and Brazil's Media-Democratization Agenda; PART III. BRAZIL'S URBAN SCENE

5. Crime Victimization in Brazil, 2009: Risks by Race, Class, and Place6. Pacification Urbanism: A View from Rio's Old Industrial Suburbs; 7. Popular Culture in Emergent Brazil; PART IV. BRAZILIAN RELIGIONS AND THE WORLD; 8. Neo-Pentecostals on the Pitch: Brazilian Football Players as Missionaries Abroad; 9. The Global Spread of Brazilian Religions; PART V. BRAZILIAN FOREST AND FIELD TO THE WORLD; 10. Biofuels: Energy for the World; 11. Agribusiness and Sustainability of the Orange Juice and Sugar and Ethanol Industries of São Paulo and Florida

12. Environmental Governance and Technological Innovations for Sustainable Development in the Amazon13. Emergent Socio-Environmental Development in Amazonia; PART VI. BRAZIL'S NEW DIPLOMATIC ROLE IN THE WORLD; 14. Brazil: An Emerging Nuclear Power; 15. The Strange Case of the Missing Relationship: Brazil and the United States; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5094-4

OCLC:

907689759