By BEATRIZ JAGUARIBE Blank Spaces and Amazonian Imaginaries LIBRARIES EVOKE other libraries. The turning of pages leads to other geographies of letters that emerge as tokens of memory. Reading in the Benson Latin American Collection and scanning the archives for references about the … [Read more...] about Lost and Future Cities: Explorations in the Wilderness and Imaginaries of Modernities in Brazil
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Black Feminist Epistemologies: Learning with Sueli Carneiro
Ler em português. By ANA CAROLINA ASSUMPÇÃO and ANA LUIZA BIAZETO Antes de ser um tema acadêmico, o feminismo negro é uma causa, é uma luta, e é uma forma de insurgência contra toda a opressão que as mulheres negras sofrem na sociedade. [Before being an academic topic, Black feminism is a … [Read more...] about Black Feminist Epistemologies: Learning with Sueli Carneiro
Street Protests and Land Use: Theorizing Spatial Inequality in Brazil
By FERNANDO LUIZ LARA IN JUNE OF 2013, over forty UT Austin faculty members and a similar number of Brazilian officials met in the halls of Congress in Brasília, celebrating the signing of agreements and research partnerships. The future looked so bright then, and I remember stressing the … [Read more...] about Street Protests and Land Use: Theorizing Spatial Inequality in Brazil
Reconceptualizing Trans-Centered Research in 21st-Century Brazil
BY JOSHUA REASON FOR DAY OF THE DEAD LAST YEAR, toward the end of my Fulbright research in Salvador da Bahia, I attended “Elas Não Morreram” (They Did Not Die), a drag show commemorating the five-year anniversary of Coletivo das Liliths, an LGBTQI1 theater collective I had become acquainted with … [Read more...] about Reconceptualizing Trans-Centered Research in 21st-Century Brazil
