Facing Poverty and Marginalization: Fifty Years of Critical Research in Brazil

by Michalis Kontopodis (Editor), Maria Cecília Camargo Magalhães (Editor), Maria José Coracini (Editor)

Overview

This volume presents the new critical research originated from a long history of poverty, marginalisation, discrimination, colonialism and struggle for social justice in Brazil. It proposes original theoretical tools that can inspire social-scientific discussions on facing poverty and marginalization in South America and the rest of the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781906165642
Publisher:	Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	08/25/2016
Series:	(Post-)Critical Global Childhood & Youth Studies , #1
Edition description:	New
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michalis Kontopodis is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Sheffield. He has held post-doc positions and visiting scholarships at Humboldt University Berlin, University of Amsterdam, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Jawaharlal Nehru University and City University New York. His research explores global educational and social inequalities, marginalization and social movements.

Maria Cecília Camargo Magalhães is Professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics and Language Studies at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil. She is well known for her research on critical thinking, collaboration and intervention-oriented research.

Maria José Coracini is Professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) and researcher of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico in Brazil. Her numerous publications explore the links between identity, otherness, migration and reading/writing in mother and foreign tongues.

Table of Contents

(Post) Critical Global Studies: A Note from the Series Editors vii

Introduction: Fifty Years of Critical Research in Brazil Michalis Kontopodis Maria Cecilia Camargo Magalháes Maria José R. F. Coracini 1

1 Life at the Landfill: Portraying Exclusion and Resistance in the Documentary Estamira by Marcos Prado Marcia Aparecida Amador Mascia 13

2 Struggling for Housing: The November 20 Occupation in Porto Alegre Denise Comerlato Caroline Stumpf Buaes Jacqueline Britto Pólvora 29

3 Educating in Itinerancy: Countryside Life and Novel Forms of Schooling Iabela Camini Michalis Kontopodis 53

4 Indigenous Children and Identity Politics: Numeracy Practices among the Kaiabi from Xingu, Mato Grosso Jackeline Rodrigues Mendes 65

5 "Special" and "Normal" in Students' Voices: Meaning Production at a State-Funded School in Campinas Ana Luiza Bustamante Smolka Lavínia Lopes Salomão Magiolino Elizabeth Dos Santos Braga Ana Lucia Horta Nogueira 81

6 The Dis-order of Discourse: Young People Confined in CASA (São Paulo) and a Poet Considered Insane in Colônia Juliano Moreira (Rio de Janeiro) Maria José R. F. Coracini 103

7 In-Famous Cyberhomelessness: The "Homeless" Writer Tião Nicomedes Elzira Yoko Uyeno 115

Instead of an Epilogue. Youth "in Movement" in Contemporary Brazil: Sharing Intense Moments with José, Carlos, Raquel, and Werá Mirim Michalis Kontopodis 127

Notes on Contributors 147

Index 153