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How is ethnic and national identity negotiated in
Brazil? By asking how Jews fit into a broadly constructed ethnic Brazil,
this article argues that the field of Jewish Studies will benefit
more from cross-group comparison. It further argues that feelings of
insecurity among Brazilian Jews stem more from a sense that in Brazil
ethnicity should be practiced at home than from actual public attacks
on Jewish ethnic life.

Brazilian Politics, Alfred P. Montero, Cambridge: Polity
Press, 2005, pp. 167.Brazil is a country of contrasts. This is one of the first, and most
ubiquitous, phrases that one encounters with respect to this intriguing
country. Visitors to Brazil soon echo this sentiment as they note its
cultural sophistication in the arts, technological expertise in a number
of industries, its vast, diverse territory, as well as its extreme
economic and social disparity. It is the ninth-largest economy in the
world, yet it is also one of the most inequitable; the top 1 per cent of
the population retains 40 per cent of the country's wealth (5). It is
fitting then that this reality provides the integrative theme in Alfred
Montero's primer on Brazilian politics. The topic is first introduced
with an effective depiction of Brazilian president "Lula" da
Silva as he struggles to bridge competing social and economic imperatives
when he attends the World Social Forum held at Porto Alegre, Brazil, and
the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland. The text concludes with an
observation that the president's adoption of a pragmatic agenda in
order to secure economic growth through global markets will not adequately
satisfy the desperate and immediate need for social reform where millions
suffer and comparatively few prosper. Montero asserts that the root of
this misery can be traced to the state's historic pattern of
clientelistic politics, oligarchical rule and
bureaucratic-authoritarianism (25).

"Engaging, highly personal introduction to contemporary Brazilian society by a leading US historian adopts a bottom-up perspective, emphasizing frustrations of popular aspirations to dignity and justice. Essays on various topics - race, mobility, marginal 'outsiders' (includes women), informal political culture and corruption, coping strategies of the poor, and popular culture. Draws on a rich array of scholarly perspectives, personal anecdotes, and newspaper clippings"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"Brazilian Mobilities presents an overview of the diversity of Mobility studies developed in Brazil, it builds a picture of a strong Latin-American perspective emerging in the field of mobilities research, which provides unique insight into the complex dynamics of mobilities in the emerging countries from the Global South. Addressing such different areas as Tourism, Urbanisation, Media Studies, Social Inequalities, Marketing and Mega-events, Transport and Technology, among others, the contributors use the New Mobilities Paradigm- NMP (Sheller & Urry, 2006) as a starting point to reflect about the social changes experienced in the country and they also engage with newer literature on mobilities, including work done by Brazilian and Latin-American authors depending on the subject of each individual chapter. Illustrating to scholars the uniqueness and complexity of the Brazilian social-political and economic context, the book was organized in order to be a representative sample of the studies carried in Brazil, as well as to contribute to other academic investigations on (im)mobilities and different social realities in emerging countries"--

Interpretation des brasilianischen Dezentralisierungsprozesses im Zusammenhang mit Tendenzen zur Umbildung der politischen Allianzen und zur Neubestimmung der regionalen Prioritäten im Zuge weltweiter Veränderungen im kapitalistischen Klassengefüge. Erklärung der spezifischen Ausprägung des Regionalismus und der Autonomiebestrebungen aus den Disparitäten in der Produktionsstruktur und der fortbestehenden Dominanz der exportorientierten Landwirtschaft