Facing Poverty and Marginalization

Fifty Years of Critical Research in Brazil

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• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781787070462
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Auditing
• Index: Politics & International Relations

A long history of poverty, discrimination, colonialism and struggle for social justice has provided, over the last fifty years, the context for the development of a vast amount of critical scholarship targeting marginalization in Brazil: Freireian pedagogics, theology of liberation, critical sociology, anthropology and ethnomathematics, critical social psychology and discourse analysis. Most of this scholarship has unfortunately been accessible only to the Portuguese-speaking readership. This volume presents, for the first time to an international audience, the novel understandings of critical research that have emerged in this frame. While Brazil is entering a new phase of socio-economic and political turmoil, distinguished representatives of the various critical research traditions from all over Brazil explore the voices and practices of those who are usually hardly heard: the helpless, the mentally ill, the landless, the homeless, the voiceless youth, delinquents, indigenous people, the powerless. The volume proposes original theoretical tools and arguments that can inspire social-scientific discussions on facing poverty and marginalization not only with regard to Brazil, but also other parts of the world. It is the first book of its kind in English and a unique tool for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and specialists across the social sciences.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• (Post)Critical Global Studies: A Note from the Series Editors
• Introduction: Fifty Years of Critical Research in Brazil
• 1. Life at the Landfill: Portraying Exclusion and Resistance in the Documentary Estamira by Marcos Prado
• 2. Struggling for Housing: The November 20 Occupation in Porto Alegre
• 3. Educating in Itinerancy: Countryside Life and Novel Forms of Schooling
• 4. Indigenous Children and Identity Politics: Numeracy Practices among the Kaiabi from Xingu, Mato Grosso
• 5. “Special” and “Normal” in Students’ Voices: Meaning Production at a State-Funded School in Campinas
• 6. The Dis-order of Discourse: Young People Confined in CASA (São Paulo) and a Poet Considered Insane in Colônia Juliano More (Rio de Janeiro)
• 7. In-Famous Cyberhomelessness: The “Homeless” Writer Tião Nicomedes
• Instead of an Epilogue. Youth “in Movement” in Contemporary Brazil: Sharing Intense Moments with José, Carlos, Raquel, and Werá Mirim
• Notes on Contributors
• Index