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This book offers a pioneering critical history of Brazilian science fiction (SF) cinema, from its first appearances in the mid-twentieth century to the present. Though frequently overlooked by scholars, SF cinema from the Global South has reinvigorated the genre in recent decades. In this comprehensive study—the first of its kind in either English or Portuguese—Alfredo Suppia draws out the unique features and universal resonance of SF film in Brazil, a country that has fittingly been called'the land of the future.'In Suppia's analysis, Brazilian SF stems from and responds to a long history of inequality in which everyday reality has often resembled a movie-like dystopia. Analyzing both short and feature films in the context of social, political, and economic transformations, Suppia rethinks SF film in general from a southern perspective.

Órgão sob o qual se pensaram e se executaram as principais políticas públicas levadas a cabo no Brasil independente, o Ministério da Fazenda auferiu nova estatura com a proclamação da República. Em mais de dois séculos de história, coube ao órgão liderar políticas exitosas bem como medidas desastrosas, sendo a ele delegados os louros (e os ônus) do desenvolvimento nacional. Objeto de constante disputa política, o Ministério da Fazenda se diferencia dos demais postos de gabinete mesmo sem coordenar a formulação de políticas-fim, uma vez que se responsabiliza, a rigor, pela própria viabilidade dessas. Assim, com o objetivo de apresentar uma face menos visível da história do Brasil, Os homens do cofre lança luz sobre o pensamento dos personagens que, de alguma maneira, nortearam o desenvolvimento do país entre o advento republicano (1889) e o fim do regime militar (1985).

For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares's classic anthropological study of Brazil's vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established—and even attractive and exotic—representation of poverty. The study traces how the term'favela'emerged as an analytic category beginning in the mid-1960s, showing how it became the object of immense popular debate and sustained social science research. But the concept of the favela so favored by social scientists is not, Valladares argues, a straightforward reflection of its social reality, and it often obscures more than it reveals.The established representation of favelas undercuts more complex, accurate, and historicized explanations of Brazilian development. It marks and perpetuates favelas as zones of exception rather than as integral to Brazil's modernization over the past century. And it has had important repercussions for the direction of research and policy affecting the lives of millions of Brazilians. Valladares's foundational book will be welcomed by all who seek to understand Brazil's evolution into the twenty-first century.

Este livro analisa o processo de formulação e implementação da política econômica durante os governos de Jânio Quadros e João Goulart – um dos momentos mais críticos da história brasileira do século XX. A análise é feita a partir da atuação de classes sociais domésticas e grupos de interesses estrangeiros, notadamente o governo norte-americano e o Fundo Monetário Internacional (FMI). A partir de amplo leque de fontes, mostra-se como as condições por trás do golpe civil-militar de 1964 relacionaram-se à incapacidade do governo de conter os graves desequilíbrios da economia no período.

For all of Brazil's efforts to reduce poverty-and its progress-the favelas in Rio de Janeiro still house one-third of the city's poor, and violence permeates every aspect of the city. As urban drug gangs and police wage war in the streets, favela residents who are especially vulnerable live in fear of being caught in the crossfire. Politicians, human rights activists, and security authorities have been working to minimize the social and economic problems at the root of this'war.'Living in the Crossfire presents impassioned testimony from officials, residents, and others in response to the ongoing crisis. Maria Helena Moreira Alves and Philip Evanson provide vivid accounts from grieving mothers and members of the police working to stop the war and, among officials, from Brazil's President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, who discusses his efforts to improve public security.

In 1884 a community of Brazilians was'discovered'by the Western world. The Ecology of Power examines these indigenous people from the Upper Xingu region, a group who even today are one of the strongest examples of long-term cultural continuity. Drawing upon written and oral history, ethnography, and archaeology, Heckenberger addresses the difficult issues facing anthropologists today as they'uncover'the muted voices of indigenous peoples and provides a fascinating portrait of a unique community of people who have in a way become living cultural artifacts.