CONTENTS

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