Tag Archives: Brazil
Futile Political Gestures: The Reversible World: the Brazilian election as a method of hope
Maya Mayblin
Oustinova-Stjepanovic asks why ‘we are admonished against assuming futility or succumbing to despair in politics’? The question, to me, is both a welcome critique of the anthropological compunction to read intention, or at the very least, coherence into social life, and an (Aristotelian) plea that we return tragedy and failure to their rightful place inRead more
Creative Destruction: Missionaries of Disruption: How Digitisation Reshapes Unevenness
Ana Flavia Badue
Silicon Valley has become a model that many countries in the Global South try to emulate with the expectation to solve their economic and social impasses (Irani, 2019). In Brazil, entrepreneurs, financial investors and state sponsors join efforts to create innovation ecosystems, where a multiplicity of businesspeople works with startups, venture capital, high technology andRead more