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16. “BARBIE E KEN CIDADÃOS DE BEM”: Memes and Political Participation among College Students in Brazil

  • Melanie A. Medeiros , Patrick McCormick , Erika Schmitt and James Kale
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Precarious Democracy
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© 2021 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. ACRONYMS ix
  4. INTRODUCTION: Ethnographies of the Brazilian Unraveling 1
  5. CRITICAL OVERVIEW: A Plan for a Country Still Looking for Democracy 13
  6. Part I: THE INTIMACY OF POWER
  7. 1. “FAMILY IS EVERYTHING”: Generational Tensions as a Working-Class Household from Recife, Brazil, Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections 25
  8. 2. AMONG MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: Economic Mobility and Political Identity in a Northeastern Periferia 38
  9. 3. DREAMING WITH GUNS: Performing Masculinity and Imagining Consumption in Bolsonaro’s Brazil 50
  10. 4. WHITENESS HAS COME OUT OF THE CLOSET AND INTENSIFIED BRAZIL’S REACTIONARY WAVE 62
  11. Part II. CORRUPTION AND CRIME
  12. 5. CRUEL PESSIMISM: The Affect of Anticorruption and the End of the New Brazilian Middle Class 79
  13. 6. THE EFFECTS OF SOME RELIGIOUS AFFECTS: Revolutions in Crime 91
  14. 7. “LOOK AT THAT”: Cures, Poisons, and Shifting Rationalities in the Backlands That Have Become a Sea (of Money) 103
  15. 8. “THE OIL IS OURS”: Petro-Affect and the Scandalization of Politics 116
  16. Part III. INFRASTRUCTURES OF HOPE
  17. 9. DESPAIRING HOPES (AND HOPEFUL DESPAIR) IN AMAZONIA 129
  18. 10. TEMPERED HOPES: (Re)producing the Middle Class in Recife’s Alternative Music Scene 142
  19. 11. WITHERING DREAMS: Material Hope and Apathy among Brazil’s Once-Rising Poor 155
  20. 12. BOLSONARO WINS JAPAN: Support for the Far Right among Japanese Brazilian Overseas Labor Migrants 169
  21. Part IV. OLD CHALLENGES, NEW ACTIVISM
  22. 13. HOLDING THE WAVE: Black LGBTI+ Feminist Resilience amid the Reactionary Turn in Rio de Janeiro 183
  23. 14. LGBTTI ELDERS IN BRAZIL: Subjectivation and Narratives about Resilience, Resistance, and Vulnerability 195
  24. 15. DISGUST AND DEFIANCE: The Visceral Politics of Trans and Travesti Activism amid a Heteronormative Backlash 206
  25. 16. “BARBIE E KEN CIDADÃOS DE BEM”: Memes and Political Participation among College Students in Brazil 218
  26. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 233
  27. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 235
  28. INDEX 239
https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978825697-019

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. ACRONYMS ix
  4. INTRODUCTION: Ethnographies of the Brazilian Unraveling 1
  5. CRITICAL OVERVIEW: A Plan for a Country Still Looking for Democracy 13
  6. Part I: THE INTIMACY OF POWER
  7. 1. “FAMILY IS EVERYTHING”: Generational Tensions as a Working-Class Household from Recife, Brazil, Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections 25
  8. 2. AMONG MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: Economic Mobility and Political Identity in a Northeastern Periferia 38
  9. 3. DREAMING WITH GUNS: Performing Masculinity and Imagining Consumption in Bolsonaro’s Brazil 50
  10. 4. WHITENESS HAS COME OUT OF THE CLOSET AND INTENSIFIED BRAZIL’S REACTIONARY WAVE 62
  11. Part II. CORRUPTION AND CRIME
  12. 5. CRUEL PESSIMISM: The Affect of Anticorruption and the End of the New Brazilian Middle Class 79
  13. 6. THE EFFECTS OF SOME RELIGIOUS AFFECTS: Revolutions in Crime 91
  14. 7. “LOOK AT THAT”: Cures, Poisons, and Shifting Rationalities in the Backlands That Have Become a Sea (of Money) 103
  15. 8. “THE OIL IS OURS”: Petro-Affect and the Scandalization of Politics 116
  16. Part III. INFRASTRUCTURES OF HOPE
  17. 9. DESPAIRING HOPES (AND HOPEFUL DESPAIR) IN AMAZONIA 129
  18. 10. TEMPERED HOPES: (Re)producing the Middle Class in Recife’s Alternative Music Scene 142
  19. 11. WITHERING DREAMS: Material Hope and Apathy among Brazil’s Once-Rising Poor 155
  20. 12. BOLSONARO WINS JAPAN: Support for the Far Right among Japanese Brazilian Overseas Labor Migrants 169
  21. Part IV. OLD CHALLENGES, NEW ACTIVISM
  22. 13. HOLDING THE WAVE: Black LGBTI+ Feminist Resilience amid the Reactionary Turn in Rio de Janeiro 183
  23. 14. LGBTTI ELDERS IN BRAZIL: Subjectivation and Narratives about Resilience, Resistance, and Vulnerability 195
  24. 15. DISGUST AND DEFIANCE: The Visceral Politics of Trans and Travesti Activism amid a Heteronormative Backlash 206
  25. 16. “BARBIE E KEN CIDADÃOS DE BEM”: Memes and Political Participation among College Students in Brazil 218
  26. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 233
  27. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 235
  28. INDEX 239
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