Cordiality and intimacy in contemporary Brazilian culture: introduction

Randall, Rachel

doi:10.1080/14701847.2018.1531224

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“…No obstante, si observamos las características sociales, culturales o "psíquicas" de quienes viven en las ciudades latinoamericanas más modernas y densamente pobladas de hoy, podemos advertir que aquel tipo de individuo urbano que nos presenta Simmel es más bien atípico en las grandes urbes de América Latina, donde, en contraste, el tipo de sujeto predominante es el que valora la reciprocidad y calidez en las relaciones sociales (antes que los intercambios despersonalizados), y que en variados ámbitos de su vida tiende a actuar guiado por afectos, sentidos e ideales colectivos que se resisten a ser desplazados por el cálculo y la racionalidad de la economía monetaria. De ello dan cuenta variados estudios que destacan la importancia que muchos latinoamericanos le otorgan a la cordialidad, amabilidad y cortesía en sus interacciones cotidianas, incluyendo la personalización del trato, las emociones y la etiqueta social tradicional (Ateca-Amestoy et ál., 2014;Diaz-Guerrero, 1959;Duarte, 2011;Randall, 2018).…”

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Pautas urbanas de interacción social: modelos de Lima y la Ciudad de México versus el tipo ideal de Georg Simmel

Nureña

2023

Letras (Lima)

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Con base en el caso de Berlín a fines del siglo XIX, Georg Simmel sostiene que la sobreexposición a estímulos del medio urbano moderno, sumada a la despersonalización y racionalización de la vida bajo la economía monetaria, operan para producir un tipo de sujeto caracterizado por una actitud individualista, indiferente y reservada que privilegia el lado intelectual. Este modelo ha sido empleado en estudios urbanos en América Latina, donde sin embargo predominan tipos sociales muy distintos. Este trabajo presenta observaciones etnográficas y de fuentes diversas acerca de algunas pautas culturales de interacción social en Lima y la Ciudad de México, con un enfoque en las concepciones sobre el tiempo y los modos cotidianos de gestionar los acuerdos. Se muestra así que, en estas urbes, el tipo social predominante es aquel que valora la reciprocidad y la calidez en las relaciones sociales, y que en variados ámbitos actúa guiado por afectos, sentidos e ideales tradicionales, contrastando en estos y otros aspectos con el arquetipo de Simmel. Partiendo de esta comparación, se plantea una discusión acerca de cómo el uso acrítico de esquemas teóricos puede contribuir a la reproducción de prejuicios y estereotipos sobre los latinoamericanos.

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Pautas urbanas de interacción social: modelos de Lima y la Ciudad de México versus el tipo ideal de Georg Simmel

Nureña

2023

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An outsider’s insights from the inside: implications of emic concepts on qualitative international management research

Bausch,

Barmeyer,

Guttormsen

2024

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PurposeRecent calls in international management (IM) research ask scholars to conduct more context-sensitive research, however; little attention has been paid to the methodological particularities that inform such context sensitivity. This paper aims to addresses this shortcoming by exploring how emic concepts implicate IM research processes during qualitative field studies.Design/methodology/approachWe carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Brazilian subsidiaries of three German multinational enterprises. We relied on the researchers’ experiences and data from a larger research project including 63 semi-structured interviews, 7 focus groups, documents and field notes. Adopting a culturally sensitive and self-reflexive lens, we reflect on the researchers’ experiences in the Brazilian sociocultural context from an interpretive paradigm.FindingsOur findings reveal how seven identified emic concepts affect four prototypical phases of the research process: securing access, collecting data, analyzing data and presenting findings. We discuss how these seven emic concepts influenced the research process and impacted research outcomes, as experienced by the researchers.Research limitations/implicationsFindings are limited by our self-reflexive capabilities as foreign researchers, the limited explanatory power of emic categories, our paradigmatic positioning and the research context.Practical implicationsWe contribute to research practice by providing eight suggestions for conducting international fieldwork and proposing avenues for future research.Originality/valueThis research contributes to the epistemological and methodological debate on context-sensitive research by arguing that intercultural sensitivity needs to be managed as an integral dimension for any form of international fieldwork. Findings contribute to interpretive approaches showing how emic concepts affect research practices, with implications for critical management perspectives.

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“Beyond the kitchen door”: Racialised female domestic labourer’s mobility experiences in Anna Muylaert’s The Second Mother

dos Santos Velho

2024

Alphaville

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The successful Brazilian fictional film The Second Mother (Que horas ela volta?, 2015), directed by Anna Muylaert, illustrates that mobility is chiefly limited or stagnant for the main character, Val (Regina Case), a live-in racialised female domestic labourer who migrates from the Brazilian northeast to the southeast to work in the house of a wealthy family in São Paulo. However, the film subtly shapes Val’s mobility as a more active, unrestrained experience once her daughter arrives in town ten years later. My goal is to understand the fundamental factors influencing Val’s range of motions. Building upon on the cultural geography notion of mobility as a socially produced movement of time and space, I look at how control over Val’s ability to move derives from the embodiment of practices of power built on derogatory discourses around the ideas of the doméstica (“maid”) and the domestic spatial and interpersonal emotional relations ingrained in class, gender, and the racial dimensions of Brazil’s former colonial, plantation-based patriarchal society. On the other hand, Val begins to disembody the powerful practices that previously controlled her mobility. I argue that the spatial, social, emotional, and bodily mobility gained by Val, echoing the Brazilian period of empowerment for the working classes, reflects gains from law such as PEC das Domésticas EC 72/2013 and Lei Complementar 150/2015.

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Cordiality and intimacy in contemporary Brazilian culture: introduction

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Pautas urbanas de interacción social: modelos de Lima y la Ciudad de México versus el tipo ideal de Georg Simmel

Pautas urbanas de interacción social: modelos de Lima y la Ciudad de México versus el tipo ideal de Georg Simmel

An outsider’s insights from the inside: implications of emic concepts on qualitative international management research

“Beyond the kitchen door”: Racialised female domestic labourer’s mobility experiences in Anna Muylaert’s The Second Mother

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