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Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities-places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the ""dictionary"" she is compiling; and to trace the complex network of family, medicine, state, and economy in which her abandonment and pathology
Institutional care --- Marginality, Social --- #SBIB:39A74 --- #SBIB:39A9 --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Benevolent institutions --- Care, Institutional --- Charitable institutions --- Homes (Institutions) --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- Soins en institutions --- Exclusion sociale --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Charities --- Public institutions --- Public welfare --- Deinstitutionalization
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"Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the "dictionary" she is compiling; and to trace the complex network of family, medicine, state, and economy in which her abandonment and pathology took form. As Biehl painstakingly relates Catarina's words to a vanished world and elucidates her condition, we learn of subjectivities unmade and remade under economic pressures, pharmaceuticals as moral technologies, a public common sense that lets the unsound and unproductive die, and anthropology's unique power to work through these juxtaposed fields. Vita's methodological innovations, bold fieldwork, and rigorous social theory make it an essential reading for anyone who is grappling with how to understand the conditions of life, thought and ethics in the contemporary world"--Book cover.
Institutional care --- Marginality, Social --- Benevolent institutions --- Care, Institutional --- Charitable institutions --- Homes (Institutions) --- Charities --- Public institutions --- Public welfare --- Deinstitutionalization --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- anthropology and social theory. --- anthropology students. --- brazilian culture. --- brazilian economy. --- brazilian ethnography. --- brazilian health care. --- cultural anthropology. --- ethics and morality. --- healthcare and poverty. --- international health care. --- international mental health. --- international studies. --- latin american culture. --- latin american healthcare. --- medical anthropology. --- mental illness. --- social services and welfare. --- south american anthropology. --- south american culture. --- south american ethnography. --- south american mental health. --- Porto Alegre (Brasil) --- Brasil --- Institutional care. --- Marginality, Social. --- Soins en institutions --- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). --- Brazil
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"The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil traces the history of high and low politics in nineteenth-century Brazil from the vantage point of the provincial capital of Porto Alegre. In the immediate postcolonial period, new ideas about citizenship and freedom were developing, and elites struggled for control of the state as the lower classes sought inclusion in political life. The emergent Liberal Party, while initially successful in dismantling Portuguese trade restrictions, later came to be viewed as an elitist group that staved off threats to the systems of slavery, patronage, and the class hierarchy."--Jacket.
Political participation --- Social movements --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- History --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- Prefeitura de Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Politics and government --- Geschichte 1845-1895 --- 1800-1899
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Countless studies of citizen participation in public decisionmaking point out the limitations of direct democracy when it is transported from the realm of political theory into the "real world." In contrast, this book examines a case where an innovative city government gave major decisionmaking power to ordinary citizens on a large scale—and managed to survive and prosper. Since 1989, the government of Porto Alegre, Brazil, led by the Workers' Party, has implemented a participatory budget program that is becoming a model for policymakers worldwide. Each year in this regional capital of 1.3 million people, residents meet in their neighborhoods to determine budget priorities. Tens of thousands attend the annual budget assemblies. Nearly a thousand work as delegates year-round, and a popularly elected council has final say on all city spending. Inventing Local Democracy tells this dramatic story of a group of activists who came to power in a city long dominated by patronage politics and elite rule. At the same time, it is a sociopolitical study of the impact that state-sponsored participatory forums can have on civil society. Examining this dual transformation, Abers provides a groundbreaking contribution to the theory of participatory democracy.
Political participation --- Local government --- Local administration --- Township government --- Subnational governments --- Administrative and political divisions --- Decentralization in government --- Public administration --- Citizen participation --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- Prefeitura de Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Politics and government --- Citizen participation. --- Administration locale --- Participation politique --- Case studies. --- Participation des citoyens --- Cas, Etudes de --- Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brésil) --- Politique et gouvernement
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"This anthropological study of grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil's leftist hotspot, focuses on gender, politics, and regionalism during the early 2000s, when the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) was in power. The author explores the ways community leaders make sense of official notions of citizenship and how gender, politics, and regional identities shape these interpretations. Junge further examines the implications of leaders' deep ambivalence toward normative participation discourses for how we theorize and study participatory democracy, citizenship, and political subjectivity in Brazil and beyond."--
HISTORY / Latin America / South America. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- Elections --- Political participation --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Polls --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Representative government and representation --- Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brazil) --- Workers' Party (Brazil) --- PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brazil)) --- P.T. (Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brazil)) --- Parti des travailleurs (Brazil) --- Partido de los Trabajadores (Brazil) --- P.T. Brasil --- Partido de los Trabajadores de Brasil --- Brazilian Workers' Party --- World Social Forum --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- Politics and government.
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"Addresses the question of why institutions meant to attract citizen participation succeed in strengthening civil society and improving state responsiveness and transparency in some places, but fail in others. Focuses on urban politics in Porto Alegre (Brazil), Montevideo (Uruguay), and Caracas (Venezuela)"--Provided by publisher.
Political participation --- Municipal government --- Comparative government --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Cities and towns --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Municipalities --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Government --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- Montevideo (Uruguay) --- Caracas (Venezuela) --- Santiago de León de Caracas (Venezuela) --- Caracas --- Montevideo --- Ciudad de Montevideo (Uruguay) --- Montevidéu (Uruguay) --- Politics and government.
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Political participation --- Political culture --- Civil society --- Participation politique --- Culture politique --- Société civile --- Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brésil) --- Politics and government --- Citizen participation. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Participation des citoyens --- #SBIB:328H32 --- #SBIB:35H6040 --- #SBIB:324H50 --- #SBIB:324H60 --- Instellingen en beleid: Midden en Latijns-Amerika --- Bestuur en beleid: nationale en regionale studies: Latijns-Amerika --- Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) --- Politieke socialisatie --- History. --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- Société civile --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brésil) --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Culture --- Political science --- Social contract --- History --- Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Prefeitura de Porto Alegre (Brazil)
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Architectures of Hope examines how communal idealism, electoral politics, and low-income consumer markets made first-time homeownership a reality for millions of low-income Brazilians over the last ten years. Drawing on a five-year-long ethnography among city planners, architects, street-level bureaucrats, politicians, market and bank representatives, community leaders, and past, present, and future beneficiaries, Moisés Kopper tells the story of how a group of grassroots housing activists rose from oblivion to build a model community. He explores the strategies set forth by housing activists as they waited and hoped for--and eventually secured--homeownership through Minha Casa Minha Vida's public-private infrastructure. By showing how these efforts coalesced in Porto Alegre--Brazil's once progressive hotspot--he interrogates the value systems and novel arrangements of power and market that underlie the country's post-neoliberal project of modern and inclusive development. By chronicling the making and remaking of material hope in the aftermath of Minha Casa Minha Vida, Architectures of Hope reopens the future as a powerful venue for ethnographic inquiry and urban development.
Home ownership --- Low-income housing --- Housing policy --- Home ownership. --- Housing policy. --- Low-income housing. --- Social conditions. --- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- Brazil. --- Brazil --- Poor --- Housing --- Inclusionary housing programs --- Housing and state --- State and housing --- City planning --- Social policy --- Ownership of homes --- Real estate business --- House buying --- Government policy --- Law and legislation --- al-Barāzīl --- Barāzīl --- Brasil --- Brasile --- Brasilia --- Brasili --- Brasilien --- Brazili --- Brazili Federativlă Respubliki --- Brazilia --- Brazilii͡ --- Brazilii͡a Federativ Respublikaḣy --- Braziliya --- Braziliya Federativ Respublikası --- Brazilská federativní republika --- Brazylia --- Brésil --- Burajiru --- Federale Republiek van Brasili --- Federative Republic of Brazil --- Federativna republika Brazil --- Federativna republika Brazilii͡ --- Federat͡siėm Respublikė Brazil --- Fedėratyŭnai͡a Rėspublika Brazilii͡ --- Gweriniaeth Ffederal Brasil --- Pa-hsi --- Pa-se --- Pa-se Liân-pang Kiōng-hô-kok --- Pederatibong Republika sa Brasil --- Pindorama --- República Federal del Brasil --- Republica Federale di u Brasile --- Republica Federativa del Brazil --- República Federativa do Brasil --- Rèpublica fèdèrativa du Brèsil --- Republik Kevreel Brazil --- République fédérative du Brésil --- Tantasqa Republika Wrasil --- Tetã Pindorama --- Wrasil --- Prefeitura de Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre (Brazil) --- Public housing. --- Government housing projects --- Social housing --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Political aspects. --- Management --- Public housing --- Political aspects --- Sociology of environment --- Community organization --- Social geography
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