Screen LibraryModernization dreams, lusotropical promises : a global studies perspective on Brazil-Mozambique development discourse /
"What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense? As a member of Brazil's upper middle class, Ana Beatriz Ribeiro grew up with the image that to be developed was to be as European as possible. However, as a researcher in Europe during...
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Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; volume 23. 1574-6925 |
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"What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense? As a member of Brazil's upper middle class, Ana Beatriz Ribeiro grew up with the image that to be developed was to be as European as possible. However, as a researcher in Europe during her country's Workers' Party era, she kept reading that Africans should be repaid for developing Brazilian society--via Brazil's "bestowal" of development upon Africa as an "emerging power." In 'Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises,' the researcher investigates where these two worldviews might intersect, diverge and date back to, gauging relations between representatives and projects of the Brazilian and Mozambican states, said to be joined in cooperation more than others"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxiii, 340 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-334) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004420106 (paperback) : 900442010X (paperback) 9789004432765 (electronic book) 9004432760 (electronic book) |
| Index Number: | HF1514 |
| CLC: |
D777.762 F177.755.471 |
| Call Number: | F177.755.471/R484 |