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Cultural Resistance and Security from Below - Power and Escape through Capoeira (Paperback)
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Cultural Resistance and Security from Below - Power and Escape through Capoeira (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society
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This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how
security has been pursued from below and what significance this has
for security analysis and policy. Illegal at the beginning of the
twentieth century, capoeira is now a cultural institution and
export that is protected by the Brazilian state and recognised by
UNESCO, with capoeira players protecting and promoting their
interests through the practice and development of their art. The
book brings the musical and corporeal narrative from capoeira into
conversation with debates on security; these have typically been
dominated by northern, white, military voices, and as a result, the
perspective of the weaker player is routinely overlooked in
security literature and policy making. Bringing the perspective of
the weaker party, Cultural Resistance and Security from Below
examines the distribution of security from two angles. First, it
presents the history of the interaction between capoeira players
and the Brazilian society and state that resulted in political and
legal acceptance of capoeira. Second, it explores how the practice
of capoeira generates knowledge of identities, explanations and
values, and how this knowledge empowers communities of players and
is communicated to society more broadly. The book then turns to
consider how capoeira resists within Brazil's contemporary context
of insecurity, and what significance the knowledge and power, along
with capoeira's core move of escape, have to security analysis and
policy. The book concludes by taking the lessons from capoeira to
inform understanding of other cultural activities and ways of life
as potential sites and forms of resistance. Conceptually and
methodologically original, this book will be of interest to
scholars and students in the fields of security studies,
development studies, political science and international studies.
It will also be of interest to those scholars interested in the
changing interaction between politics and the arts.
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