1st Edition

The Emergence of Brazil to the Global Stage Ascending and Falling in the International Order of Competition

By Francine Rossone de Paula Copyright 2018
180 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

How do discourses about Brazil’s emergence as a global actor at the beginning of the twenty-first century reinforce particular temporal and spatial formations that enable the perpetuation of international hierarchies? This volume argues that while the phenomenon of ‘emergence’ was celebrated as the conquest of more authority for Brazil on the global stage, especially as Brazil was presented as... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Conditions for ‘RE-Presentation’ in International Relations

Chapter 3: RE-Presentation between the ‘Space of Experience’ and the ‘Horizon of Expectation’

Chapter 4: Order and Progress: The RE-Production of the Space for the Future

Chapter 5: Sports Mega-Events as Trampolines to the Future?

Chapter 6: Antipoverty Policies in Brazil: Global and Local Temporal Disjunctions

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Biography

Francine Rossone de Paula is a Lecturer at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.