Cultural Resistance and Security from Below: Power and Escape Through Capoeira

ISBN-13: 9780367024932 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 168 str.

Zoe Marriage

Opis

This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how security has been pursued from below and what significance this has for security analysis and policy.

Spis treści

1. "I left Congo and passed by Angola"  2. Capoeira – from marginalisation to cultural icon  3. Security – blind-spots, rejection and failure to conform  4. Game of life  5. Black Bahian labourers of the early 20^th century: the who, where and when  6. Tricks and magic: the how and why  7. How has security been distributed through capoeira?  8. What is significance of capoeira to insecurity in contemporary Brazil?  9. What are implications for security analysis and policy?  10. Structural violence and cultural resistance

O autorze

Zoë Marriage is a Reader in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS University of London, UK.