Worlding Brazil: Intellectuals, Identity and Security

ISBN-13: 9780815377856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str.

Lima, Laura

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of thinking about security in Brazil. Lima develops a new framework for considering intellectual history in Brazil and applies it to the development of knowledge on security.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Politics of Worlding Brazil  Part I “The Art of Quickly Saving Brazil”: Intellectual Thinking in Brazil  1 Conservative Revolution, late modernization and intellectuals in Brazil  2 Being, Becoming, and The Method: a framework for thinking about intellectual work in Brazil  Part II Worlding Brazil  3 Security as Scrutiny  4 Security as Conservative Modernization  5 Security as Academic Thinking  Part III: Re-Worlding Brazil  6 Security as Emancipation in Contemporary Brazil

O autorze

Laura Lima holds a PhD from Aberystwyth University. Prior to her studies in the UK, she attended universities in Natal and Rio de Janeiro in her native Brazil where she obtained her undergraduate degree in History and three masters’ degrees in International History (2003), Human Rights (2003) and International Politics (2005). She is the editor, with Shannon Brincat and João Nunes, of the volume Critical Theory in International Relations and Security Studies: Interviews and Reflections, published by Routledge in December 2011.