List of Acronyms
Editors' Introduction: Ethnographies of the Brazilian Unravelling by Benjamin Junge, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero, and Sean T. Mitchell
A Plan for a Country Still Looking for Democracy: A Critical Overview by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Part I: The Intimacy of Power
Chapter 1: "Family is Everything": Generational Tensions as a Working-Class Household from Recife, Brazil Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections by Benjamin Junge
Chapter 2: Among Mothers and Daughters: Economic Mobility and Political Identity in a Northeastern Periferia by Jessica Jerome
Chapter 3: Dreaming with Guns: Performing Masculinity and Imagining Consumption in Bolsonaro's Brazil by Isabela Kalil, Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, and Lucia Mury Scalco
Chapter 4: Whiteness Has Come Out of the Closet and Intensified Brazil's Reactionary Wave by Patricia de Santana Pinho
Part II: Corruption and Crime
Chapter 5: Cruel Pessimism: The Affect of Anti-Corruption and the End of the New Brazilian Middle Class by Sean T. Mitchell
Chapter 6: The Effects of Some Religious Affects: Revolutions in Crime by Karina Biondi
Chapter 7: "Look at that": Cures, Poisons, and Shifting Rationalities in the Backlands that have become a Sea (of Money) by John Collins
Chapter 8: The Oil is Ours: Petrobras, Corruption and Extractive Global Lawfare by Lucia Cantero
Part III: Infrastructures of Hope
Chapter 9: Despairing Hopes (and Hopeful Despair) in Amazonia by David Rojas, Andrezza Alves Spexoto Olival, and Alexandre de Azevedo Olival
Chapter 10: Tempered Hopes: (Re)producing the Middle Class in Recife's Alternative Music Scene by Falina Enriquez
Chapter 11: Withering Dreams: Material Hope and Apathy among Brazil's Once Rising Poor by Moisés Kopper
Chapter 12: Bolsonaro Wins Japan: Support for the Far Right among Japanese-Brazilian Overseas Labor Migrants by Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer
Part IV: Old Challenges, New Activism
Chapter 13: Holding the Wave: Black LGBTI+ Feminist Resilience Amidst the Reactionary Turn in Rio de Janeiro by LaShandra Sullivan
Chapter 14: LGBTTI Elders in Brazil: Subjectivation and Narratives about Resilience, Resistance and Vulnerability by Carlos Eduardo Henning
Chapter 15: Disgust and Defiance: The Visceral Politics of Trans and Travesti Activism Amidst a Heteronormative Backlash by Alvaro Jarrín
Chapter 16: "Barbie e Ken, Cidadãos de Bem": Memes and Political Participation among College Students in Brazil by Melanie A. Medeiros, Patrick McCormick, Erika Schmitt, and James Kale
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index