Emergent Brazil : key perspectives on a new global power /
edited by Jeffrey D. Needell.
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (309 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: An attempt to grasp the moment / Part I: Brazil, today and yesterday -- The country of the present, or, leaving the future in the past / Brazilian spring or Brazilian autumn? First impressions of the June days of 2013 / Part II: Brazil's political scene -- Understanding the increasing popularity of Brazilian presidents / Too soon to give up, too late to really matter: impasses, self-deception, and Brazil's media-democratization agenda / Part III: Brazil's urban scene -- Crime victimization in Brazil, 2009: risks by race, class, and place / Pacification urbanism: a view from Rio's old industrial suburbs / Popular culture in emergent Brazil / Part IV: Brazilian religions and the world -- Neo-Pentecostals on the pitch: Brazilian football players as missionaries abroad / The global spread of Brazilian religions / Part V: Brazilian forest and field to the world -- Biofuels: energy for the world / Agribusiness and sustainability of the orange juice and sugar and ethanol industries of Sao Paulo and Florida / Environmental governance and technological innovations for sustainable development in the Amazon / Emergent socio-environmental development in Amazonia / Part VI: Brazil's new diplomatic role in the world -- Brazil: an emerging nuclear power / The strange case of the missing relationship: Brazil and the United States / Jeffrey D. Needell -- Marshall Eakin -- Fernando Lattman-Weltman -- Daniela Campello and Cesar Zucco Jr -- Fernando Lattman-Weltman -- Charles H. Wood and Ludmila Ribeiro -- Mariana Cavalcanti -- Bryan McCann -- Carmen Rial -- Cristina Rocha and Manuel A. Vásquez -- Roberto Rodrigues -- James A. Sterns, Thomas H. Spreen, and Paula M. Mercadante -- Judson F. Valentim -- Marianne Schmink -- Carlo Patti -- Peter Hakim.
This collection of sixteen essays examines the impact of Brazilian trends, institutions, culture, and religion on the world through accelerating processes of globalization.