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The Boundaries of Freedom brings together, for the first time in English, writings on the social and cultural history of Brazilian slavery, emphasizing the centrality of slavery, abolition, and Black subjectivity in the forging of modern Brazil. Nearly five million enslaved Africans were forced to Brazil's shores over four and a half centuries, making slavery integral to every aspect of its colonial and national history, stretching beyond temporal and geographical boundaries. This book introduces English-language readers to a paradigm-shifting renaissance in Brazilian scholarship that has taken place in the past several decades, upending longstanding assumptions on slavery's relation to law, property, sexuality and family; reconceiving understandings of slave economies; and engaging with issues of agency, autonomy, and freedom. These vibrant debates are explored in fifteen essays that place the Brazilian experience in dialogue with the afterlives of slavery worldwide. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The Boundaries of Freedom brings together, for the first time in English, key scholars writing on the social and cultural history of Brazilian slavery, emphasizing the centrality of slavery, abolition, and Black subjectivity in the forging of modern Brazil, the largest and most enduring slave society in the Americas. Nearly five million enslaved Africans were forced to Brazil's shores over four and a half centuries, making slavery integral to every aspect of its colonial and national history, stretching beyond temporal and geographical boundaries. This book introduces English-language readers to a paradigm-shifting renaissance in Brazilian scholarship that has taken place in the past several decades, upending longstanding assumptions on slavery's relation to law, property, sexuality and family; reconceiving understandings of slave economies; and engaging with issues of agency, autonomy, and freedom. These vibrant debates are explored in fifteen essays that place the Brazilian experience in dialogue with the afterlives of slavery worldwide.
"A Poverty of Rights" is an investigation of the knotty ties
between citizenship and inequality during the years when the legal
and institutional bases for modern Brazilian citizenship
originated. Between 1930 and 1964, Brazilian law dramatically
extended its range and power, and citizenship began to signify real
political, economic, and civil rights for common people. And yet,
even in Rio de Janeiro--Brazil's national capital until 1960--this
process did not include everyone. Rio's poorest residents sought
with hope, imagination, and will to claim myriad forms of
citizenship as their own. Yet, blocked by bureaucratic obstacles or
ignored by unrealistic laws, they found that their poverty remained
one of rights as well as resources. At the end of a period most
notable for citizenship's expansion, Rio's poor still found
themselves akin to illegal immigrants in their own land,
negotiating important components of their lives outside of the
boundaries and protections of laws and rights, their vulnerability
increasingly critical to important networks of profit and political
power. In exploring this process, Brodwyn Fischer offers a critical
re-interpretation not only of Brazil's Vargas regime, but also of
Rio's twentieth-century urban history and of the broader
significance of law, rights, and informality in the lives of the
very poor.
"A Poverty of Rights" is an investigation of the knotty ties
between citizenship and inequality during the years when the legal
and institutional bases for modern Brazilian citizenship
originated. Between 1930 and 1964, Brazilian law dramatically
extended its range and power, and citizenship began to signify real
political, economic, and civil rights for common people. And yet,
even in Rio de Janeiro--Brazil's national capital until 1960--this
process did not include everyone. Rio's poorest residents sought
with hope, imagination, and will to claim myriad forms of
citizenship as their own. Yet, blocked by bureaucratic obstacles or
ignored by unrealistic laws, they found that their poverty remained
one of rights as well as resources. At the end of a period most
notable for citizenship's expansion, Rio's poor still found
themselves akin to illegal immigrants in their own land,
negotiating important components of their lives outside of the
boundaries and protections of laws and rights, their vulnerability
increasingly critical to important networks of profit and political
power. In exploring this process, Brodwyn Fischer offers a critical
re-interpretation not only of Brazil's Vargas regime, but also of
Rio's twentieth-century urban history and of the broader
significance of law, rights, and informality in the lives of the
very poor.
This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related violence, modernization and development theories, populist or revolutionary politics, or debates about the cultures of poverty. Yet shantytowns have proven both more durable and more multifaceted than any of these perspectives foresaw. Far from being accidental offshoots of more dynamic economic and political developments, they are now a permanent and integral part of Latin America's urban societies, critical to struggles over democratization, economic transformation, identity politics, and the drug and arms trades. Integrating historical, cultural, and social scientific methodologies, this collection brings together recent research from across Latin America, from the informal neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, Managua and Buenos Aires. Amid alarmist exposés, Cities from Scratch intervenes by considering Latin American shantytowns at a new level of interdisciplinary complexity. Contributors. Javier Auyero, Mariana Cavalcanti, Ratão Diniz, Emilio Duhau, Sujatha Fernandes, Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Edward Murphy, Dennis Rodgers
This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related violence, modernization and development theories, populist or revolutionary politics, or debates about the cultures of poverty. Yet shantytowns have proven both more durable and more multifaceted than any of these perspectives foresaw. Far from being accidental offshoots of more dynamic economic and political developments, they are now a permanent and integral part of Latin America's urban societies, critical to struggles over democratization, economic transformation, identity politics, and the drug and arms trades. Integrating historical, cultural, and social scientific methodologies, this collection brings together recent research from across Latin America, from the informal neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, Managua and Buenos Aires. Amid alarmist exposes, Cities from Scratch intervenes by considering Latin American shantytowns at a new level of interdisciplinary complexity. Contributors. Javier Auyero, Mariana Cavalcanti, Ratao Diniz, Emilio Duhau, Sujatha Fernandes, Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Edward Murphy, Dennis Rodgers
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