Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies: Announcements

Volume 12 Issue 2: Legacies of the Kiss Nightclub Fire

2024-01-22T20:22:41+01:00

We are delighted to present Legacies of the Kiss Nightclub Fire, guest-edited by Prof. Bryan McCann and Prof. Ceres Gomes Victoria.

Call for Papers: Latest Issue and Call for Papers!

2023-10-23T10:55:12+02:00

Dear friends and colleagues:

We are delighted to be sharing the latest issue of Brasiliana - Journal for Brazilian Studies. Volume 12, Issue 1 brings together a fantastic range of works, tackling topics such as new social movements, the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, educational cultures, political trends, and memory of dictatorship. The issue also includes four book reviews. You can view the issue here.

On another note, we are delighted to be sharing with you our next call for papers, guest edited by REBRAC - Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Análise Cultural / European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis. See the call for papers here.

The deadline for first abstract submissions is 6th November 2023. Full manuscripts of accepted papers will be due by 1st Marh 2024.

Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Special Issue: Ruptures and Continuities in Brazilian Cultural Production

2023-10-23T10:54:02+02:00

Special Issue: Ruptures and Continuities in Brazilian Cultural Production

Guest Editors:

Sara Brandellero, Leiden University
Stephanie Dennison, University of Leeds
Tori Holmes, Queen’s University Belfast

The year 2022 was a significant one in Brazil’s cultural calendar: it marked the bicentenary of Brazil’s independence from Portugal and the centenary of the Modern Art Week in São Paulo, the latter heralded by many as a point of cultural rupture with Brazil’s past. A series of events and publications commemorated the Modern Art Week centenary (13-17 February 2022), both in terms of reflecting on the richness and creativity of Brazilian modernism, and, importantly for this call for contributions, of what has been overlooked/excluded in discussions of this period.

At the same time, the then Federal Culture Secretariat ignored the Modern Art Week centenary, opting instead to promote what it described as works created by “real artists”: Brazilian painting, literature and music that pre-dated the Modern Art Week. In relation to the bicentenary, the Culture Secretariat invested heavily in the promotion of an unrevised history of independence that celebrates “freedom”, while making no reference to the continuation of slavery in the newly independent Brazil. Even with the re-election of Lula in late 2022, the reinstatement of the Ministry of Culture and a nominal return to the cultural policies associated with Lulapetismo, there continues to be resistance to measures that promote diversity and inclusion in the cultural sector.

Faced with such contrasting perspectives, this proposed volume seeks to address the following questions:

What are the implications for culture and cultural production of these very differing views on what constitutes “real art”, and of what should be commemorated in the nation’s past?
What recent currents and developments have contributed to rethinking and democratising the idea of Brazilian culture?
How can Brazilian cultural studies respond critically and productively to past and present entanglements of culture and politics, and/or culture and history/memory?

We encourage articles that engage with “the 22s” and their legacy, as well as those that take a decolonial approach to an analysis of Brazilian cultural production.

We invite 300-word abstracts in English or Portuguese in the first instance with title of proposed article, name and affiliation of contributor, and a bio-sketch of 50 words by 6th November 2023. We expect to communicate decisions on abstracts by 4th December 2023 and to receive full articles following Brasiliana guidelines (here) by 1st March 2024.

Abstract submissions and any inquiries should be sent to rebrac.network@gmail.com

Call for Papers: Call for papers: Legacies of the Kiss Nightclub Fire

2023-04-14T09:42:09+02:00

Call for papers: Legacies of the Kiss Nightclub Fire

The Kiss Nightclub Fire of January 27, 2013, in Santa Maria, Brazil, killed 242 people and left hundreds more injured and traumatized. Brazilians and international observers immediately struggled to make sense of this horrific tragedy. Nine years of judicial proceedings, culminating in the criminal trial of four defendants in December, 2021, have been the most prominent forum for investigation and analysis of the fire. But family members of victims, journalists, artists and citizens of Santa Maria have also pursued other avenues of inquiry and modes of reflection, ranging from exhaustive long-form journalism to esoteric communications with departed family members.

These widely varying perspectives on an event known as the Tragedy of Santa Maria invite scholarly reflection. The Kiss Nightclub Fire can be understood as emblematic of and pivotal to larger transitions in Brazil’s recent history. In January, 2013, Brazil was riding the crest of a long commodities boom, one accompanied by federal programs designed to bring millions of citizens out of poverty and to create opportunities to join a growing middle class.

The fire ushered in a new period of political crisis, one marked by a successive wave of national tragedies (Mariana, Museu Nacional, Marielle, Brumadinho, etc.) How does the Kiss Nightclub Fire fit into this trajectory? Do the omissions and acts which allowed this tragedy to unfold reveal larger patterns that ultimately contributed to a broader national crisis? Do the struggles for justice, reckoning or remembrance illuminate larger political, social and cultural struggles in recent Brazil?

The objective of this dossier is to produce an inter-disciplinary, multi-methodological exploration of the Kiss Nightclub Fire and its broader meanings. We welcome anthropological, historical, political, and legal research and analysis.

All submissions must follow Brasiliana guidelines, which can be found here. Any inquiries may be emailed to the two Lead-Editors and copied to the Chief Editor. The deadline for submissions is Monday 8^th May, 2023** We are open to slightly extended deadlines in some cases, please get in touch.

Bryan McCann, Lead Editor
Georgetown University
bm85@georgetown.edu

Ceres Víctora, Lead Editor
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
ceresvictora@gmail.com

Anna Grimaldi, Chief Editor
University of Leeds
a.grimaldi@leeds.ac.uk

Call for Book Reviews

2022-10-12T22:12:36+02:00

Dear readers and contributors

This is a reminder that we continue to accept book reviews for books relating to Brazil published in the past two years. We currently have the following available for review - please get in touch with the chief editor if you are interested in reviewing one of these books or any others.

Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox, by Steven F. Butterman (2022)
Soccer and Racism, by Rosana Barbosa (2022)
Amazonian Indigenous Cultures in Art and Anthropological Exhibitions, by Cinthya Lana (2022)
Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction, by Karl Erik Schollhammer (2022)
Brazil’s International Ethanol Strategy, by Thomas Fröhlich (2022)

Call for Papers: New Issue and Updates

2022-09-25T17:27:28+02:00

Dear friends, contributors, and readers of Brasiliana

We are delighted to be publishing Volume 11 Issue 1 of Brasiliana, Brazil and the Global South, which looks at the ways Brazil relates to the concept, community, and political project of the so-called 'Global South'. This has been a very exciting topic to begin exploring and we hope that the issue provokes further debate.

We continue to accept general articles for the next issue, due for publication at the end of this year. The deadline for submissions is Monday, 24th October 2023.

We would also like to make a special announcement. As Brasiliana begins its tenth year, the role of Chief Editor will be passed to Dr. Anna Grimaldi, who has been working for the journal for seven years. On behalf of the Brasiliana team we would like to give a warm welcome to Anna in her new role, and to thank Dr Felipe Botelho Correa for all his fantastic efforts in leading the journal for the past 5 years.

Call for Papers: Brazil in the Global South

2022-03-03T10:59:11+01:00

Since the second half of the twentieth century, Brazil has been increasingly associated with the 'Global South', a concept that transcends the nation-state, encompassing marginalised groups even in the geographical Global North, and more broadly representing a shared political agenda.

Various efforts have been made to characterise and define Brazil’s place within this transnational space, in particular in terms of its relationship with other Global South nations. In this context, Brazil’s diplomatic relations, trade agreements, development programs, and even military deployments have been analysed in terms of South-South Cooperation (SSC).

But if the Global South also reflects a transnational imagined community and political project, then Brazil’s relationship to it takes place through various other mechanisms. Critical spheres of knowledge exchange, such as academia, cultural-artistic production, social movements, and solidarity more broadly, all represent the transnational spaces within which Brazilians relate to the concept and project of the Global South.

In a world of rapidly growing inequality and environmental challenges, the Global South as a collection of nations and a political identity is fast becoming an important source of alternatives to mainstream definitions and practices surrounding political and social relations, human rights, development, and sustainability, among other key areas of global significance. Brazil’s place within, and modes of engagement with, the Global South can therefore provide a window to a multitude of scholarly fields of study.

The objective of this special issue is to make use of this more expansive definition to produce an interdisciplinary, and multi-methodological exploration of Brazil’s relationship with the Global South. This thematic issue will be guided by the following questions:

How have Brazilian thinkers contributed to the conceptualisation of the so-called Global South?
What is the relationship between Brazil’s South-South Cooperation and the ideals of the Global South as a political project?
How do Brazilian social movements transcend borders to engage with the Global South? What is the role of transnationalism in this context?
What lessons are learned by and from the Global South in terms of Brazilian grassroots organisations and development projects?

Call for Papers: Dossier: Brazil in the Global South

2022-03-03T10:57:36+01:00

The Associacao de Brasilianistas na Europa is looking for a Communications Executive

2022-03-03T10:43:31+01:00

UPDATE: Military in Politics in Brazil

2021-12-14T13:16:02+01:00

Dear friends, readers, and contributers of Brasiliana

We are writing to inform you that the publication of our next special issue on the topic of the Military in Politics in Brazil, due for publication this month, will be delayed. Due to the exceptionally high number of articles submitted, we have to move the publication of the issue to January 2022.

We very much look forward to sharing the issue with you soon.

Wishing you all the best for a much-deserved and restful winter break!

The Brasiliana Team

Call for Papers: Call for papers: Dossier 'THE MILITARY AND POLITICS IN BRAZIL'

2021-04-14T21:53:18+02:00

Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies will publish an interdisciplinary dossier in December 2021 on the relationship between the military and politics. The aim of this thematic issue is to provide a multifaceted contribution to understand how Brazil’s military has developed such a highly contentious position within the country’s modern socio-political history.

Scholarship on the Brazilian Military regime, re-democratization, and civil-military relations in Brazil is consolidated and robust. However, there still lacks a multidisciplinary approach to understand the pervasive presence of the military in the Brazilian political arena from a broader perspective. Brazil is seeing an increasing presence of military in power today. Academia and civil society alike are questioning the potential implications of such levels of militarization within a democracy, especially in a country still under the shadows of a military dictatorship (1964-1985). Furthermore, civil-military relations in Brazil have not developed in the same way as in the Europe or North America, and the case of Brazil can provide a significant addition to the global debate on the relationship between the military and politics.

The editors welcome submissions addressing questions and topics such as:

The relationship between the military and politics in Brazil in a global and/or comparatist perspective.
What does it mean to have military forces at the centre stage of a nation’s historical trajectory and construction?
What has been the consequences and impacts of the presence of the military on Brazil’s domestic and foreign politics?
What conceptual and methodological tools might be helpful to better understand civil-military relations in Brazil?
How does such presence has influenced the social imaginary of the country?
Relevant responses (e.g. cultural; creative; societal etc.) to the presence of the military in government in Brazil.
Other relevant topics related to the theme of the dossier.

We accept publications in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Authors must adhere to the guidelines and submit texts onlineusing the appropriate template by the 30th August 2021. Submission link: https://tidsskrift.dk/bras/about/submissions

This issue will have as guest editors Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho, Eleonora Natale, and Anna Grimaldi, alongside the editor-in-chief Felipe Botelho Correa (King’s College London).

We look forward to reading your submissions.

Best Regards,

Brasiliana Editorial Team

Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Archaeology & Brazilian Studies: Past and Present

2020-05-17T22:17:40+02:00

Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies will publish a dossier (late 2020) focusing on archaeology showcasing scholarship on the history, development and/or recent expansion of this field in Brazil. With the aim to communicate with a broad, transdisciplinary academic readership, this dossier will feature excellent works discussing the contributions of archaeology to Brazilian studies from various perspectives and methodologies.

Despite the alleged lack of monumentality in terms of archaeological heritage in Brazil, the field has experienced an exponential growth over the last decades. From the pioneering professional practices in the mid twentieth century – mostly supported by international teams conducting research and training local human resources –, the field has now established itself, particularly after the first generation of archaeologists graduated in Brazil in the 1970s. The current 16 undergraduate and 10 post-graduate degrees as well as the 7 PhD programmes offered throughout the country attest to the strength of this field of studies in Brazil today.

Topics of particular interest to this dossier are material culture, heritage, memory, migration, diaspora, ethnicities, human behaviour, traditional populations, indigenous people, afro-Brazilians, environment, landscape, urbanism, conflict, technology, gender, museum, tourism, mitigation impact, public engagement, political action, revisions of early works, case studies, theoretical and methodological approaches, but we also welcome articles related to the broad theme of the dossier.

Texts should be submitted online by 15 Sep 2020 in Portuguese, English or Spanish

Submission guidelines can be found here:

https://tidsskrift.dk/bras/about/submissions

This issue will have as guest editor’s Dr Diogo Menezes Costa & Dr Renata de Godoy, both from the Federal University of Pará.

Dossier Beyond the Hard News: Periodical Print Culture in Brazil

2020-05-17T22:14:35+02:00

Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Beyond the Hard News: Periodical Print Culture in Brazil

2020-01-02T23:32:40+01:00

Call for Papers

Beyond the Hard News: Periodical Print Culture in Brazil

Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies will publish a dossier (mid 2020) focusing on the periodical print culture in Brazil. This dossier will feature recent research on periodical studies from various perspectives and methodologies. We welcome articles discussing how newspapers and magazines have contributed to the kaleidoscope of Brazilian affairs from the early nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. We also invite scholars working on periodical studies (art history, history, literature, journalism, media and communications), to submit articles focusing on transnational aspects analysing contents (texts and images), actors (writers, illustrators, editors), and periodicals that have crossed local, regional, and national borders, contributing to the dynamic, circulatory aspects of the periodical print culture in Brazil.

Some topics of particular interest:

The circulation patterns of magazines within Brazil or in connection with other countries
The spread of printing and distribution technologies
The evolution and diffusion of business models
Periodicals as catalysts in cultural dissemination, alternative identities/communities, and social movements
Periodical circulations and networks
Texts, topics, and visuals across periodicals
Interrelationships between periodical publishing and book publishing
A history of periodical studies across national, disciplinary, and institutional borders
Reading and writing practices
Travel and migration in periodicals
Media change and periodical innovation

Texts should be submitted online by 30 April 2020 in Portuguese, English or Spanish

Submission guidelines can be found here:

https://tidsskrift.dk/bras/about/submissions

This issue will be edited by Dr Isabel Lustosa (Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation) and Felipe Botelho Correa (King’s College London).

We look forward to reading your submissions,

The editors of Brasiliana: Journal of Brazilian Studies

Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Archaeology & Brazilian Studies: Past and Present

2020-01-02T23:23:22+01:00

Texts should be submitted online by 15 Sep 2020 in Portuguese, English or Spanish

Submission guidelines can be found here:

https://tidsskrift.dk/bras/about/submissions

This issue will have as guest editor’s Dr Diogo Menezes Costa & Dr Renata de Godoy, both from the Federal University of Pará.

Academic Events: Centenary of Camoes Chair at King's College London & Portuguese Language and Culture Day

2019-12-04T16:59:50+01:00

Call for Papers: Update on the dossier Afro-Brazilian Studies

2019-07-01T20:19:46+02:00

Call for Papers: CALL FOR PAPERS: Dossier on “Afro-Brazilian Studies”

2019-04-17T23:26:36+02:00

Policy Papers Series

2018-07-27T10:57:27+02:00

Brésil(s)

2018-06-11T00:00:00+02:00

Le CRBC - Mondes Américains/EHESS et les éditions de la FMSH sont heureux de vous annoncer la publication

Brésil(s) n°13 | Gouvernance et Environnement
Coordonné par Julien Blanc et Marcelo Sampaio Carneiro

Depuis le début des années 1990, le champ environnemental a connu une révolution. Au Brésil, des nouvelles orientations étaient en maturation dans le cadre du processus de re-démocratisation des années 1980 ; elles se sont affirmées via le référentiel néolibéral et, avec lui, celui du New Public Management qui domina l’action publique au cours des années 1990. Dans les années 1980-1990, la décentralisation, la gouvernabilité, la citoyenneté, la participation sont devenues des thématiques phares. Pourtant les politiques environnementales ont plutôt "favorisé des groupes économiques régionaux et locaux selon un modèle technobureaucratique et ce malgré un processus concomitant de décentralisation administrative". Les articles contenus dans ce dossier s’attaquent de manière frontale à ces différentes mises en tensions. Leurs auteurs analysent, chacun à leur manière, comment les problèmes d’environnement s’y construisent, et s’y déconstruisent. Les domaines abordés sont ceux de l’agriculture, de l’activité minière, de la gestion des ressources hydriques ou encore celui de la gestion des terres quilombolas. Autant de domaines qui, comme le montrent ces textes, ont été profondément remaniés tant par la crise environnementale que par les renouvellements des modes de gouvernement.

Sommaire

Dossier Gouvernance et Environnement

Julien Blanc et Marcelo Sampaio Carneiro
Le Brésil et l’environnement au XXI^e siècle : déficit démocratique, carences environnementales
Stéphane Guéneau
Durabilité des chaînes globales de valeur du soja et de la viande de bœuf en Amazonie : conséquences d’une gouvernementalité néolibérale
Paulo André Niederle et Evandro Pedro Schneider
L’inclusion d’éco-conditionnalités dans les indications géographiques brésiliennes. Enjeux et contradictions
Ève-Anne Bühler et Valter Lúcio de Oliveira
Néolibéralisation de la nature sur la frontière agricole du Cerrado nordestin
Bruno Milanez et Rodrigo Salles Pereira dos Santos
Extraction minière, stratégie d’entreprise et flexibilisation de la réglementation environnementale au Brésil : le cas du projet Minas-Rio
Pedro Roberto Jacobi, Nicolas Luis Bujak et Alexandre do Nascimento Souza
Pénurie hydrique et crise de gouvernance dans la Région métropolitaine de São Paulo
Céline Raimbert
La gouvernance environnementale brésilienne à l’épreuve des communautés quilombolas : conquêtes nouvelles, ambiguïtés persistantes

Varias

Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães
Classes sociales, races et nation au Brésil

Eric Sabourin
Analyse socio-historique de la politique d’agriculture familiale au Brésil

Jessica Graham
Question raciale, production culturelle et image démocratique du Brésil pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies: Announcements

Volume 12 Issue 2: Legacies of the Kiss Nightclub Fire

Call for Papers: Latest Issue and Call for Papers!

Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Special Issue: Ruptures and Continuities in Brazilian Cultural Production

Call for Papers: Call for papers: Legacies of the Kiss Nightclub Fire

Call for Book Reviews

Call for Papers: New Issue and Updates

Call for Papers: Brazil in the Global South

Call for Papers: Dossier: Brazil in the Global South

The Associacao de Brasilianistas na Europa is looking for a Communications Executive

UPDATE: Military in Politics in Brazil

Call for Papers: Call for papers: Dossier 'THE MILITARY AND POLITICS IN BRAZIL'

Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Archaeology & Brazilian Studies: Past and Present

Dossier Beyond the Hard News: Periodical Print Culture in Brazil

Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Beyond the Hard News: Periodical Print Culture in Brazil

Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Archaeology & Brazilian Studies: Past and Present

Academic Events: Centenary of Camoes Chair at King's College London & Portuguese Language and Culture Day

Call for Papers: Update on the dossier Afro-Brazilian Studies

Call for Papers: CALL FOR PAPERS: Dossier on “Afro-Brazilian Studies”

Policy Papers Series

Brésil(s)

Sommaire

Dossier Gouvernance et Environnement

Varias

Comptes rendus