COMP. SIMAI, SZILVIA, HOOK, DEREK / COMP. SIMAI, SZILVIA / HOOK, DEREK
The emerging field of psychosocial studies signifies a confluence ofdisciplines for whom the fantasies, repressions and cultural practices underlying national identity represents a crucial research focus.This book presents a psychosocial portrayal of Brazil?s arrival on the international stage in the economic boom of the run-up to its hosting of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. This formerPortuguese colony is a country of contradictions in need of a newimage, a nation that needs to be able to both love and sell itself intoday?s neo-liberal reality. It argues that a contemporaryrepresentation of Brazilian subjectivity is best enabled through aninterdisciplinary perspective. Five key themes ? to be explored in all their contradictions and ambivalence ? structure the book: fantasiesof the nation, xenophobia and denial, Brazilian cultural practice,transnational mobility, and gender, race and Brazilian identity.
The emerging field of psychosocial studies signifies a confluence ofdisciplines for whom the fantasies, repressions and cultural practices underlying national identity represents a crucial research focus.This book presents a psychosocial portrayal of Brazil?s arrival on the international stage in the economic boom of the run-up to its hosting of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. This formerPortuguese colony is a country of contradictions in need of a newimage, a nation that needs to be able to both love and sell itself intoday?s neo-liberal reality. It argues that a contemporaryrepresentation of Brazilian subjectivity is best enabled through aninterdisciplinary perspective. Five key themes ? to be explored in all their contradictions and ambivalence ? structure the book: fantasiesof the nation, xenophobia and denial, Brazilian cultural practice,transnational mobility, and gender, race and Brazilian identity.
