Imagining Brazil (Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory) - Hardcover

Jessé Souza; Valter Sinder

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739110136 ISBN 13: 9780739110133

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2005

Synopsis

Imagining Brazil provides a comprehensive and multifaceted picture of Brazil in the age of globalization. Privileging diversity in relation to the authors as well as the manner in which Brazil is perceived, Jessé Souza and Valter Sinder have assembled historians, political scientists, sociologists, literary critics, and scholars of culture in an attempt to understand a complex society in all its richness and diversity. Rising from one of the world's poorest societies in the 1930s to the eighth largest world economy in the 1980s, Brazil is used as an example of globalization's impact on peripheral societies, exploring in new contexts the serious social problems that have always characterized this society. Imagining Brazil explores the connections between society and politics and culture and literature, creating an encompassing volume of interest to scholars of Latin American studies as well as those interested in how globalization impacts the varied aspects of a country.

About this title

About the Author:

Jessé Souza is professor at the department of sociology, UENF, Rio de Janeiro.
Valter Sinder is coordinator of the course of social sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro and professor of anthropology at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

Review:

. . . offers a wide-ranging and inclusive multidisciplinary analysis of Brazil's complex social and political identity. (Perspectives on Politics)

This collection brings together a wide array of (mostly) Brazilian authors, from various disciplines, who focus on different aspects and moments of Brazilian society, polity, culture and literature....The authors make clear at the outset that their intent was to provide a 'comprehensive and multifaceted picture', and to privilege 'diversity' both in terms of authorship as well as topic coverage, an aim that is broadly acheived. (Latin American Studies)

Like most edited collections, the fourteen essays in this volume are of varying quality and depth, although most of them are very fine contributions. especially to our understanding of intellectuals and ideas in Brazil in the twentieth century. The diverse disciplines of contributors also reflects the breadth and quality of scholars working on Brazil today in Brazilian academia. (Luso-Brazilian Review 2011-09-01)

About this edition

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0739110136
• ISBN 13: 9780739110133
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 318