1st Edition

Living (Il)legalities in Brazil Practices, Narratives and Institutions in a Country on the Edge

Edited By Sara Brandellero, Derek Pardue, Georg Wink Copyright 2020
196 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Reflecting on some of Brazil’s foremost challenges, this book considers the porous relationship between legality and illegality in a country that presages political and societal changes in hitherto unprecedented dimensions. It brings together work by established scholars from Brazil, Europe and the United States to think through how (il)legalities are produced and represented at the level of... Read more

Introduction: living (il)legalities in Brazil

Sara Brandellero, Derek Pardue and Georg Wink

PART I Producing (il)legalities

1 Borders of (il)legality

Jean Wyllys

2 The government of street vending: formalizations of informality and use of force

Daniel Hirata

3 Migrant refugee spatialities lived and legislated in São Paulo

Igor Machado and Derek Pardue

4 Jeitinho revisited

Georg Wink

5 Political sexology

Márcia Tiburi

PART II Representing (il)legalities

6 Drinking lime juice to throw up, and the right way to beat an old lady: policing punk in late dictatorial Brazil (1978–1982)

Alexander S. Dent

7 Illegal realities in the lyrics by Racionais MC’s

Gabriel Feltran

8 Kafka and lawfare in Brazil: Maria Ramos’s The Trial

Stephanie Dennison

9 Night trespassing in contemporary Brazilian cinema: unveiling (il)legalities in Neighbouring Sounds

Sara Brandellero

10 Something to declare: illegal immigrants in contemporary Brazilian literature

Claire Williams

11 Painting racism: protest art by contemporary Indigenous artists

Lúcia Sá and Felipe Milanez Pereira

Biography

Sara Brandellero is Assistant Professor in Brazilian Literature and Culture at Leiden University, the Netherlands, where she is co-Chair of the Latin American Studies programmes. Her research focuses on Brazilian literature and film, and Lusophone cultures more broadly. Her publications include the book On a Knife-Edge: The Poetry of João Cabral de Melo Neto (2011) and the edited volume The Brazilian Road Movie (2013).

Derek Pardue, PhD, is Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies within the Global Studies Department at Aarhus University in Denmark. His scholarship focuses on issues of migration, and urbanism throughout the Black Atlantic, specifically the Luso-African world of Brazil, Portugal and Cape Verde.

Georg Wink, PhD, is Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies and Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on contemporary Brazilian society, politics and culture with special emphasis on the rise of the "new right" in Brazil.