Conviviality on the Brink

Heil, Tilmann

doi:10.46877/heil.2019.14

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“…They did not compare or interlink racial and sexual, or racial and religious discrimination. The relations between my interlocutors and Afro-Brazilians, which we discussed on other occasions (Heil, 2019b), was equally troublesome since my interlocutors reproduced – consciously or not – some of the racial prejudice against black Brazilians. As a consequence, several possible solidarities among oppressed populations remained underexplored.…”

Section: Local Repercussions Of Global Inequalitiesmentioning

confidence: 83%

Muslim–queer encounters in Rio de Janeiro: Making sense of relational positionalities

Heil

2019

Ethnography

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For recently arrived West African migrants in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro, the virtual and street encounters with travesti sex workers and queer beach goers provoked questions of relative power and status as experienced from a social margin of local Brazilian society. Based on ethnographic fieldwork since 2014, I address the question of how my Muslim interlocutors’ encounter with queers facilitate a particular and partial reading of Brazilian social relations, their legal mediation and their individual and social valuations. Moving between queer, postcolonial, queer of color and Muslim queer scholarship, I situate the local encounters of Muslim West Africans and queer subjects to differentiate and transcend the global framework of homonationalism and queer necropolitics. Situational positionalities result from the interplay of multiple geographical and social locations that, in their contradictions and interdependencies, are characteristic of contemporary urban configurations.

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Section: Local Repercussions Of Global Inequalitiesmentioning

confidence: 83%

Muslim–queer encounters in Rio de Janeiro: Making sense of relational positionalities

Heil

2019

Ethnography

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“…Thus, in most freedom letters, we find expressions such as "for the good services" rendered; for the slave's "good conduct, loyalty and friendship"; "for the love, loyalty and obedience, and for having served us well"; and so on. 14 These words were written on freedom letters in which slaves paid their way out of bondage with other slaves they owned.…”

Section: Law and Customsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Slaves Who Owned Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Bahia, Brazil

Reis¹

2021

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It was not uncommon in Brazil for slaves to own slaves. Slaves as masters of slaves existed in many slave societies and societies with slaves, but considering modern, chattel slavery in the Americas, Brazil seems to have been a special case where this phenomenon thrived, especially in nineteenth-century urban Bahia. The investigation is based on more than five hundred cases of enslaved slaveowners registered in ecclesiastical and manumission records in the provincial capital city of Salvador. The paper discusses the positive legal basis and common law rights that made possible this peculiar form of slave ownership. The paper relates slave ownership by slaves with the direction and volume of the slave trade, the specific contours of urban slavery, access by slaves to slave trade networks, and slave/master relations. It also discusses the web of convivial relations that involved the slaves of slaves, focusing on the ethnic and gender profiles of the enslaved master and their slaves.

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“…Amid such a negative impact, the first movement linked to the New Right, the Movimento Endireita Brasil (MEB), was founded in 2006 in São Paulo by young lawyers led by Ricardo Salles (currently President Bolsonaro's Minister of Environment). 14 The group intended to promote a campaign for Lula's impeachment. Nevertheless, the idea did not gain enough support due to the country's economic bonanza at the time, according to one of MEB's members, the historian Rodrigo Neves:…”

Section: The New Right: Mises and The Fight Against Globalismmentioning

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The New Brazilian Right and the Public Sphere

Rocha¹

2021

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This paper traces the origins of the New Brazilian Right, regarding the emergence of new leaders, new forms of expression and organization, as well as new sets of ideas, namely libertarianism and anti-globalism. Based on more than thirty in-depth interviews, conducted between 2015 and 2019 with right-wing leaders and activists; on a collection of historical data from right-wing organisations’ archives between 2015 and 2018, and on public data, I argue that this phenomenon started in the mid-2000s, after the onset of a corruption scandal related to the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) and the dissemination of the pioneering social network Orkut in Brazil. This social network, founded in 2004, preceded Facebook’s popularity in Brazil and enabled the creation of alternative and disruptive spaces of debate, referred to here as “counterpublics”. By mid- to late 2010s, during the 2014 protests for the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and Jair Bolsonaro’s 2018 presidential campaign, this emerging new right would be at full throttle.

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Conviviality on the Brink

Cited by 26 publications

References 53 publications

Muslim–queer encounters in Rio de Janeiro: Making sense of relational positionalities

Muslim–queer encounters in Rio de Janeiro: Making sense of relational positionalities

Slaves Who Owned Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Bahia, Brazil

The New Brazilian Right and the Public Sphere

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