Emergent Brazil Key Perspectives on a New Global Power 1st Edition by Jeffrey Needell ISBN 978-0813060675 0813060672

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ISBN 10: 0813060672

ISBN 13: 978-0813060675

Author: Jeffrey D. Needell 

“Highly recommended for anyone seeking to understand Brazil’s recent dynamism.”—Timothy J. Power, coeditor of Corruption and Democracy in Brazil
 
“Superb. No other recent volume on Brazil is as deep, rich, and multifaceted.”—Michael Shifter, president, Inter-American Dialogue
 
“Treats the politics, economy, and society of Brazil, showing how those subjects are affected by forces elsewhere in the world and how Brazil in turn impacts other countries. All serious students of contemporary Brazil should read this book.”—Joseph L. Love, author of The Revolt of the Whip
 

For decades, scholars and journalists have hailed the enormous potential of Brazil, which has been one of the world’s largest economies for the last twenty years. But its promise has too often been curtailed by dictatorship, racism, poverty, and violence.
           
Offering an interdisciplinary approach to the critical issues facing Brazil, the contributors to this volume analyze the democratization of the country’s media, its nuclear capabilities, changing crime rates, the spread of Pentecostalism and indigenous religions, the development of popular culture, the growth of Brazilian agribusiness, and the implementation of sustainable economic development, especially in the Amazon.
           
The only member of the large, newly industrialized, fast-growing BRICS economies (along with Russia, China, India, and South Africa) in the Western hemisphere, Brazil plays a unique role regionally and throughout the world. Emergent Brazil is a comprehensive and timely collection of essays that explore the country’s major domestic concerns and the impact of its trends, institutions, culture, and religion across the globe. 

Table of contents: 

PART I. BRAZIL, TODAY AND YESTERDAY

The Country of the Present, or, Leaving the Future in the Past – Marshall C. Eakin

Brazilian Spring or Brazilian Autumn? First Impressions of the June Days of 2013 – Fernando Lattman-Weltman

PART II. BRAZIL’S POLITICAL SCENE
3. Understanding the Increasing Popularity of Brazilian Presidents – Daniela Campello and Cesar Zucco Jr.
4. Too Soon to Give Up, Too Late to Really Matter: Impasses, Self-Deception, and Brazil’s Media-Democratization Agenda – Fernando Lattman-Weltman

PART III. BRAZIL’S URBAN SCENE
5. Crime Victimization in Brazil, 2009: Risks by Race, Class, and Place – Charles H. Wood and Ludmila Ribeiro
6. Pacification Urbanism: A View from Rio’s Old Industrial Suburbs – Mariana Cavalcanti
7. Popular Culture in Emergent Brazil – Bryan McCann

PART IV. BRAZILIAN RELIGIONS AND THE WORLD
8. Neo-Pentecostals on the Pitch: Brazilian Football Players as Missionaries Abroad – Carmen Rial
9. The Global Spread of Brazilian Religions – Cristina Rocha and Manuel A. Vasquez

PART V. BRAZILIAN FOREST AND FIELD TO THE WORLD
10. Biofuels: Energy for the World – Roberto Rodrigues
11. Agribusiness and Sustainability of the Orange Juice and Sugar and Ethanol Industries of São Paulo and Florida – James A. Sterns, Thomas H. Spreen, and Paula M. Mercadante
12. Environmental Governance and Technological Innovations for Sustainable Development in the Amazon – Judson F. Valentim
13. Emergent Socio-Environmental Development in Amazonia – Marianne Schmink

PART VI. BRAZIL’S NEW DIPLOMATIC ROLE IN THE WORLD
14. Brazil: An Emerging Nuclear Power – Carlo Patti
15. The Strange Case of the Missing Relationship: Brazil and the United States – Peter Hakim

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