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Precarious Democracy
Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century’s second decade. In 2010, the country’s outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval. As the presidency passed to his Workers' Party successor, Dilma Rousseff, many across the world hailed Brazil as a model of progressive governance in the Global South. Yet, by 2019, those progressive gains were being dismantled as the far right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of a bitterly divided country. Digging beneath this pendulum swing of policy and politics, and drawing on rich ethnographic portraits, Precarious Democracy shows how these transformations were made and experienced by Brazilians far from the halls of power. Bringing together powerful and intimate stories and portraits from Brazil's megacities to rural Amazonia, this volume demonstrates the necessity of ethnography for understanding social and political change, and provides crucial insights on one of the most epochal periods of change in Brazilian history.
Jesus Loves Japan
A study of ethnic Japanese, Brazilian, Pentecostal Christians living in Japan. After the introduction of the “long-term resident” visa, the mass-migration of Nikkeis (Japanese Brazilians) has led to roughly 190,000 Brazilian nationals living in Japan. While the ancestry-based visa confers Nikkeis’ right to settlement virtually as a right of blood, their ethnic ambiguity and working-class profile often prevent them from feeling at home in their supposed ethnic homeland. In response, many have converted to Pentecostalism, reflecting the explosive trend across Latin America since the 1970s. Jesus Loves Japan offers a rare window into lives at the crossroads of return migration and global ...
Ella
When Jennifer's water broke at only 18 weeks of pregnancy, she knew her baby was going to die. As she sat in the darkness of her closet, she asked God why He would let this happen. "Have Peace" was His answer . . . This is a story about Ella. And this is a story about God. A God who gives peace in the middle of devastation, hope instead of grief, and joy in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Join this family on their journey from the side of a neo-natal intensive care crib to the mountains of Peru, and on many detours between and beyond. It's a journey of faith, of learning to trust the One who cares about our pain and answers our heart's deepest questions not always in the way we'd expect, but in ways so much more beautiful than we could ever foresee.
