Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power

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Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power

Jeffrey D. Needell

Abstract

Emergent Brazil comprehends Brazil’s complexity by going at it in a number of varied but interrelated ways. It is organized into six parts: Brazil, today and yesterday, combining a deft historical survey and an edgy appraisal of the street movement of 2013; it then uses specific foci to get at Brazil’s political scene; Brazil’s urban scene; Brazil’s religions in the modern world; the ongoing and potential global impact of Brazilian agriculture and Amazonia; and Brazil’s new global diplomatic role. The many anthologies about contemporary Brazil do not take on so much, because they cannot; that ... More

Keywords: Brazil, BRICS, Amazonia, economic development, international affairs, nuclear energy, urban violence, religion, commodities, consumption

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Print publication date: 2015	Print ISBN-13: 9780813060675
Published to Florida Scholarship Online: January 2016	DOI:10.5744/florida/9780813060675.001.0001

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Jeffrey D. Needell, editor
University of Florida

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Jeffrey D. Needell

I Brazil, Today and Yesterday

1 The Country of the Present, or, Leaving the Future in the Past

Marshall C. Eakin

2 Brazilian Spring or Brazilian Autumn?

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Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power

Jeffrey D. Needell

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Contents

Front Matter

Jeffrey D. Needell

I Brazil, Today and Yesterday

Marshall C. Eakin

Fernando Lattman-Weltman

II Brazil’s Political Scene

Daniela Campello and Cesar Zucco Jr.

Fernando Lattman-Weltman

III Brazil’s Urban Scene

Charles H. Wood and Ludmila Ribeiro

Mariana Cavalcanti

Bryan Mccann

IV Brazilian Religions and the World

Carmen Rial

Cristina Rocha and Manuel A. Vásquez

V Brazilian Forest and Field to the World

Roberto Rodrigues

James A. Sterns, Thomas H. Spreen, and Paula M. Mercadante

Judson F. Valentim

Marianne Schmink

VI Brazil’s New Diplomatic Role in the World

Carlo Patti

Peter Hakim

End Matter