Bringing together some of the world's leading scholars, practitioners, and human-rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012-2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission. While attentive to the inquiry's local and national dimensions, it offers an illuminating transnational perspective that considers the Commission's Latin American regional context and relates it to global efforts for human rights accountability, contributing to a more general and critical reassessment of truth commissions from a variety of viewpoints.

Additional Illustrators Louise Proctor, William Bartlett, And Catherine Scholz.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich VWL - Wettbewerbstheorie, Wettbewerbspolitik, Note: gut, Philipps-Universitat Marburg (Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Mobilfunk: Unternehmensstrategien und Markstrukturen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Mobilfunk ist heute der wichtigste Teilbereich kabelungebundener Kommunikationstechnik. Sinkende Nutzungsgebuhren und Endgeratepreise hatten eine starke Zunahme des Privatkundenanteils zur Folge und beschleunigten das Wachstum des, heute als Massenmarkt bezeichneten, Segmentes. In Deutschland fand diese Entwicklung mit der Einfuhrung das analogen A-Netzes (1958-1977) ihren Anfang und wurde uber die B- (1972-1994) und C- (1989-2000) Netze fortgesetzt. Der entscheidende Durchbruch dieser Entwicklung basiert auf der Anwendung der digitalen, zellular aufgebauten Ubertragungstechnik der D- und E-Netze (GSM-Standard), welcher den Teilnehmern eine netzubergreifende, paneuropaische wie auch weltweite mobile TK erlaubt. Unterstutzt wurde diese Entwicklung durch eine stetig sinkende Gebuhrenstruktur, die eine Wachstumsrate zur Folge hatte. Nach Schatzung des Internationalen Fernmeldevereins (ITU) existieren derzeit weltweit ca. 1 Mrd. Mobilfunkanschlusse. Fur das Jahr 2002 rechnet der ITU damit, dass die Zahl der Mobilfunkanschlusse mit insgesamt 1,6 Mrd. erstmalig die Zahl der Festnetzanschlusse mit 1,2 Mrd. uberschreitet. Die technische Entwicklung ist derart rasant und vielschichtig, dass es zur Zeit schwierig ist abzuschatzen, ob Fest- und Mobilfunknetz miteinander verschmelzen werden oder ob das Mobilfunknetz das Festnetz verdrangen wird. Wegen den zu erwartenden Kapazitatsengpassen in Mobilfunknetzen und des zunehmenden Trends zu breitbandigen, kapazitatsintensiven Multimediadiensten ist davon auszugehen, dass das Festnetz vorerst seine Bedeutung beibehalt.

Brazil's military dictatorship (1964-1985) launched seemingly apolitical official campaigns that were aesthetically appealing and ostensibly aimed to ""enlighten"" and ""civilize."" Some were produced as civilian-military collaborations and others were conducted by privately owned media, but undergirding them all was the theme of a country aspiring to become a developed nation. In Brazilian Propaganda, Nina Schneider examines the various modes of both official and unendorsed propaganda used by an authoritarian regime. Focusing primarily on visual media, she demonstrates how many short films of the period portrayed a society free from class and racial conflicts. These films espoused civic-mindedness while attempting to distract from atrocities perpetuated by the regime. Mining a rich trove of materials from the National Archives in Rio and conducting interviews with key propagandists, Schneider demonstrates the ambiguities of twentieth-century Brazilian propaganda. She also challenges the notion of a homogeneous military regime in Brazil, highlighting its fractures and competing forces. By analyzing the strategies, production mechanisms, and meanings of these films and reconstructing their effects, she provides an alternative interpretation of the propagandists' intentions and a new framework for understanding this era in Brazil's history.

"Highly original. Skillfully employs and interprets a variety of important sources including oral history interviews, documents from the military regime, photographs, and especially films."--Kenneth P. Serbin, author of "Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil's Clergy and Seminaries" "An outstanding contribution to our understanding of recent Brazilian politics and history. A thorough, much-needed, and relevant study of political propaganda."--Ollie Andrew Johnson III, author of "Brazilian Party Politics and the Coup of 1964" Brazil's military dictatorship (1964-1985) launched seemingly apolitical official campaigns that were aesthetically appealing and ostensibly aimed to "enlighten" and "civilize." Some were produced as civilian-military collaborations and others were conducted by privately owned media, but undergirding them all was the theme of a country aspiring to become a developed nation.
In "Brazilian Propaganda," Nina Schneider examines the various modes of both official and unendorsed propaganda used by an authoritarian regime. Focusing primarily on visual media, she demonstrates how many short films of the period portrayed a society free from class and racial conflicts. These films espoused civic-mindedness while attempting to distract from atrocities perpetuated by the regime.
Mining a rich trove of materials from the National Archives in Rio and conducting interviews with key propagandists, Schneider demonstrates the ambiguities of twentieth-century Brazilian propaganda. She also challenges the notion of a homogeneous military regime in Brazil, highlighting its fractures and competing forces. By analyzing the strategies, production mechanisms, and meanings of these films and reconstructing their effects, she provides an alternative interpretation of the propagandists' intentions and a new framework for understanding this era in Brazil's history.