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The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil
The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book hist... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1968 -
Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement (Politics of Repair #2)
The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now part of our lives. Humanity is confronted with a variety of affordable and non-invasive 'enhancement technologies': anti-ageing medicine, aesthetic surgery, cognitive and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
by Sean T. Mitchell • John Collins • David Rojas • Rosana Pinheiro-Machado • Patrick McCormick • Lila Moritz Schwarcz • Benjamin Junge • Jessica Jerome • Isabela Kalil • Lucia Mury Scalco • Patricia De Pinho • Karina Biondi • Lucia Cantero • Andrezza Alves Olival • Alexandre De Olival • Falina Enriquez • Moisés Kopper • Sarah LeBaron Baeyer • LaShandra Sullivan • Carlos Eduardo Henning • Alvaro Jarrin • Melanie A. Medeiros • Erika Schmitt • James KaleBrazil changed drastically in the 21st century’s second decade. In 2010, the country’s outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval. As the presidency passed to his Workers' Party successor, Dilma Rousseff, many across the world hailed Brazil as a model of progressive governance in t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021