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The War of the Rebellion: Army Records
, 1902 Errata sheets for the Records of the War of the Rebellion include additions and corrections to the text and the index for Series 1, Volume ...
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The Trans-Man: re-writing subjectivity in Teatro Oficina Uzyna Uzona`s Rebellion in the Backlands [PDF]
, 2010 This paper focuses on the way in which renowned São Paulo-based theatre company Teatro Oficina Uzyna Uzona challenges and deconstructs hegemonic concepts of subjectivity in their 2000 - 2007 25 hour-long production of Euclides da Cunha’s seminal Brazilian novel Os sertões (“Rebellion in the Backlands”), and how this radical re-writing of the subject ...
Campbell, Patrick
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A Court in the Backlands: a nomadic justice in Brazilian literature [PDF]
, 2022 This paper explores a conception of justice through a reading of the Brazilian novel The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, written by João Guimarães Rosa. In this novel, the character of Zé Bebelo is tried by a group of jagunços, which were nomadic bandits ...
Nery Porto, R.
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MEDIEVALISMS AND MEDIEVAL TIMES: CONFRONTING CHRONOPOLITICS WITH MEDIEVAL TEXTURES OF TIME
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 142-156, December 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This review essay examines Nadia R. Altschul's discussion of medievalism in nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century South America in Politics of Temporalization: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth‐Century South America. She explores a chronopolitics whereby the notion that late medieval Iberia lagged developmentally behind the rest of Europe ...
Hannah Skoda
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Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 50, Issue 21, 16 November 2023., 2023 Abstract Due to their choked geometry, coastal lagoons can attenuate extreme water levels compared to the open sea. However, this protective property is expected to decrease due to sea‐level rise. By studying idealized lagoons in a non‐dimensional parameter space, this study describes non‐linear interactions between tides, storm surges, freshwater ...
Marvin Lorenz, Arne Arns, Ulf Gräwe
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Antipode, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 397-417, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper discusses the relevance of radical scholarship by exploring the case of the Centre International pour le Développement (CID), founded by Brazilian geographer Josué de Castro during his exile in Paris. Drawing upon Latin American works on the “Lettered City” and the evolving role of intellectuals in constructing critical knowledge, I
Federico Ferretti
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Landscape semaphore: Seeing mud and mangroves in the Brazilian Northeast
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 626-641, September 2021., 2021 In 20th‐century Northeast Brazilian representations of the landscape of the estuarine Atlantic coast we find a re‐calibration of perspective that is foreshortened, embodied, and muddied. These works produce a counter‐hegemonic political aesthetics of nature that unsettles the fixities of colonial ways of seeing space, nature, and territory.
Archie Davies
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The racial division of nature: Making land in Recife
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 270-283, June 2021., 2021 In this paper I analyse the making and unmaking of amphibious urban modernity in Recife in the Northeast of Brazil between 1920 and 1950. I argue that the transformation of the city was predicated on an absorptive and eradicative notion of whiteness that necessitated the creation of dry, enclosed land.
Archie Davies
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American Ethnologist, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 65-79, February 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Historically, policing in Rio de Janeiro has been shaped by the equation of racialized violence and masculinity. Attempts to reform the police have paradoxically drawn on forms of male violence that are centered on the rational and professional use of force and on “softer” practices, such as dialogue and collaboration, symbolically coded as ...
TOMAS SALEM, ERIKA ROBB LARKINS
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Geologia e metáforas geológicas em Os sertões Geology and geological metaphor in Os sertões
História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 1998 Neste artigo é feita uma interpretação da construção do conhecimento geológico do principal livro de Euclides da Cunha. Visando caracterizar este conhecimento, são buscadas em cadernetas de anotações, reportagens e artigos de e sobre Euclides da Cunha e ...
José Carlos Barreto de Santana
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