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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Os impasses das questões de gênero e sexualidade no Brasil atual

    Author: Ana Maria Colling

    Apesar dos avanços no combate à desigualdade de gênero no mundo e da presença das mulheres em todos os segmentos da sociedade, as conquistas ainda são lentas e o mito[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Summary Execution: A Recent Episode of Police Violence Against Young, Black Males in Bahia, Brazil

    Author: Cidinha da Silva

    Photo credit: Morgana Damásio. In protest in 2014 against the genocide of the Black population in the city of Salvador, Bahia promoted by the courageous and fearless campaign REAJA OU[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    Beyond the Elections: Politics in Brazil

    Author: Paulo Moreira

    Whenever I am asked about the Brazilian elections, people expect me to say something about the presidential run. It is the only election to which I am entitled to participate[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    Sobre Eleições Brasileiras

    Author: Paulo Moreira

    Sempre que me perguntam sobre as eleições no Brasil, as pessoas esperam comentários sobre a disputa presidencial. É a única eleição em que posso participar como brasileiro vivendo no exterior.[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Lições de São Paulo: Uma Mudança Merecida na Política Urbana

    Author: Derek Pardue

    Faltando dias para a eleição presidencial, no dia 5 de outubro, com tantos temas em jogo (veja aqui um resumo), a novela política e ideológica do Brasil segue em suspenso.[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Lessons from São Paulo: A Deserved Shift in Urbanization Policy

    Author: Derek Pardue

    Photo Credit: Derek Pardue With only a few days left before Brazil’s presidential election on October 5th, and so many important social issues under scrutiny (see this review, for example),[...]

    Capoeida-Cuba

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Featured

    Rediscovering lo cubano Through Capoeira in Cuba

    Author: Annie Gibson

    When members of the Cuban capoeira group Caiman Capoeira were asked what the world should know about their group, almost unanimously they responded, “Let the world know that in Cuba[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Narrativas de Deslocamento na Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea

    Author: Marcus Brasileiro

    Notas introdutórias O conceito de viagem, de acordo com Caren Kaplan, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (1996), se transformou em uma referência a movimentos populacionais, bem como em[...]

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    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    A Weird World Cup in the Land where Soccer is Everything

    Author: Derek Pardue

    Brazilian rapper Emicida, one of the most creative and perceptive pop artists in recent years, creates compelling drama in not only the content of what he says but also the[...]

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    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Tem algo esquisito nesta Copa do Mundo, mas talvez não o que você pensa

    Author: Derek Pardue

    O rapper brasileiro Emicida, um dos artistas mais criativos e perceptivos nos últimos tempos, cria drama não somente nas suas letras mas também na dinâmica da sua voz. Na música[...]

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    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    A Brazilian Take on the Writings of Stuart Hall

    Author: Leandro Belinaso Guimarães

    This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by Negarra Akili Kudumu, editor. … I think that anyone seriously engaged in cultural studies, as intellectual practice,[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Meus primeiros encontros com textos de Stuart Hall

    Author: Leandro Belinaso Guimarães

    … penso que qualquer pessoa que se envolva seriamente nos estudos culturais como prática intelectual deve sentir, na pele, sua transitoriedade, sua insubstancialidade, o pouco que consegue registrar, o pouco[...]

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    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    “Whitening” and Whitewashing: Postcolonial Brazil is not an Egalitarian “Rainbow Nation”

    Author: Sarah Lempp

    To commemorate the 500th anniversary of its “discovery” by Portuguese sailor Alvares de Cabral in 2000, Brazil officially presented itself as a “rainbow nation” without discrimination or racism; a place[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Global Perspectives

    A balança comercial do agronegócio brasileiro e a questão fundiária

    Author: Newton Narciso Gomes Junior, Raimundo Pires Silva, and Erica Ramos Andrade

    Introdução A última década, situada em um contexto internacional favorável, de protagonismo do capital financeiro, de alta demanda por recursos naturais e commodities agrícolas (das quais o país é grande[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Global Perspectives

    Desigualdades sociais e saúde no Brasil

    Author: Ionara Magalhães de Souza & Edna Maria de Araújo

    Temos uma sociedade desigual, que se adaptou a esse padrão de desigualdade e dele se serve e a partir dele se reproduz (THEODORO, 2008, p.81). O Brasil é um país[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Histórias & Resistências: Famílias, sexualidades e juventudes no Movimento dos Sem Teto da Bahia

    Author: Helaine Pereira de Souza & Vanessa Ribeiro Simon Cavalcanti

    Las mujeres no solamente habrán de aportar relevante apoyo (para la construcción social), sino que han de tener un papel protagonista. (Asunción Miura, 2008.) Qual a influência de gravidez(es) que[...]

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