Brazil and the Americas: convergences and perspectives (Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana)

The book that the reader has in hand, the fruit of an interdisciplinary seminar held in Berlin in December 2004 which brought together scholars from Germany and different regions of the Americas, is guided by a dual perspective and objective, a fact reflected by the authors and themes that it brings together. It is on one hand, a view from outside Brazil that seeks to understand how Brazilian society is responding to the processes of global integration. At the same time, there is also an internal perspective of observation that documents the plurality of ways that social actors and analysts interpret the transformations underway. The common thread of the various perspectives of analysis involved, which, therefore, unifies the different articles joined here, is not their focus on Brazil, but more properly the interest in the relations between Brazil and the world, based on the context of the Americas. It can be said that it is not a book about Brazil, but of a set of reflections, oriented by the case of a specific country, about the way that local, regional and global processes and contexts have been interweaving in various fields. The Editors Introduction ...................................................................................... 7 Jorge Larraín Latin America in the Post-national World ........................................ 13 Gustavo Lins Ribeiro Post-imperialism. A Latin American Cosmopolitics ........................ 31 Jean Daudelin Joining the Club: Lula and the End of Periphery for Brazil .............. 51 Marcos Antonio Macedo Cintra Successes and Limits of Brazilian Macroeconomic Policy in the Period 1999-2004 .................................................................... 79 Alberto J. Olvera The Discourses of Participation and Accountability in the International Context at the End of the Twentieth Century ............ 105 Bila Sorj/Aparecida Fonseca Moraes Paradoxes of the Expansion of Women’s Rights in Brazil ............. 121 Patricia Pinho Brazil in the Map of Africanness: Examining Roots Tourism and International Black Relations ................................................... 135 Marjo de Theije Migration and Religious Transnationalism: Recent Research and the Case of the Brazilians in Suriname ......... 151 Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda A short Sketch on some Signs of Transformation in Brazilian Urban Imaginary ............................................................................. 171 6 Contents Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha The Sensitive Territory of the Favelas: Place, History, and Representation ................................................................................ 185 Esther Hamburger Wired Up to the World: Performance and Media in Contemporary Brazil ...................................................................... 199 Robert Stam Tropicalia, Transe-Brechtianismo and the Multicultural Theme ............................................................................................. 223 Authors and Editors ......................................................................... 239 Peter Birle, Sérgio Costa, Horst Nitschack (eds.). Proceedings Of An Interdisciplinary Seminar Held In Berlin, December 2004. Includes Bibliographical References.