Prof. Ben Junge to moderate online book-launch panel on 10/21 for new edited volume on Brazil
Hi New Paltz Anthropology Majors and Minors: Hope you’ll join me for this online book-launch. The link is included below (or you can scan the code on the flyer). Cheers, Dr. Junge *** Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil (Rutgers University Press), edited by Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, Alvaro Jarrín and Lucia Cantero, brings together 15 evocative ethnographic accounts of how Brazilians from diverse walks of life have experienced and responded to economic precarity, political crisis, and diminishing hopes for the future from 2013 to 2019—a pivotal period in Brazilian history, bookended by the explosion of massive protests across the country in 2013 and the first year in office of hard-right president Jair Bolsonaro. Session presentations: “Introduction: Ethnographies of the Brazilian Unraveling,” Benjamin Junge Professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at New Paltz, author of Cynical Citizenship: Gender, Regionalism, and Political Subjectivity in Porto Alegre, Brazil “The Effects of Some Religious Affects: Revolutions in Crime,” Karina Biondi Professor at the State University of Maranhão, author of Sharing This Walk: An Ethnography of Prison Life and the PCC in Brazil “‘The Oil Is Ours’: Petro-Affect and the Scandalization of Politics,” Lucia Cantero Associate professor of international studies at the University of San Francisco, author of Specters of the Market: Consumer- citizenship and the Visual Politics of Race and Inequality in Brazil “Disgust and Defiance: The Visceral Politics of Trans and Travesti Activism amid a Heteronormative Backlash,” Alvaro Jarrín Associate professor of anthropology at College of the Holy Cross, author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil “Cruel Pessimism: The Affect of Anticorruption and the End of the New Brazilian Middle Class,” Sean T. Mitchell Associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark, author of Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil.
Date/Time Info
Thursday, October 21, 3-4:00 pm New York time