Daedalus articles from March 2000

Daedalus archives from March 2000

Preface to the Issue "Brazil: The Burden of the Past; The Promise of the Future".(Brazil brings its own unique past and demographics to the quest for democracy)
March 22, 2000... NO ONE WHO HAS DONE BATTLE with the stalled automobile traffic of Rio or Sao Paolo, who has gazed with wonder at the twentieth-century glass palaces of Brasilia or observed the heavily guarded skyscraper residences of the well-to-do and smelled...

Politics in Brazil: From Elections without Democracy to Democracy without Citizenship.(Brazil continues its steps toward democracy)
March 22, 2000... A LITTLE OVER TEN YEARS AGO, Brazil became, for the first time in its history as an independent state, a fully fledged democracy, with regular free, fair, and competitive elections for both the executive and legislative branches of government...

Brazil: The Social Agenda.(the need for social change as Brazil moves toward democracy)
March 22, 2000... A BAD REPUTATION WHEN IT COMES TO SOCIAL ISSUES, Brazil has a terrible reputation. The official statistics are bad enough, and the images conveyed by the international press are arresting: children wandering and being killed in the streets...

Dreams Come Untrue.(the Portuguese colonization of Brazil continues to set it apart from it neighboring countries)
March 22, 2000... Jos[acute{e}] Murilo de Carvalho L'oubli, et je dirai m[acute{e}]me l'erreur historique, sont un facteur essentiel de la cr[acute{e}]ation d'une nation. Ernest Renan, 1882 ANOTHER AMERICA VICISSITUDES IN THE SCRAMBLE of Spain...

Politics, Nationality, and the Meanings of "Race" in Brazil.
March 22, 2000... GIVEN THAT BRAZIL has "imported" people and ideas throughout its history and celebrated its "anthropophagous" absorption of them, it becomes particularly interesting to know why just a few outside ideas seem so indigestible. After all, however...

Democratic Governance, Violence, and the (Un)Rule of Law.(Brazil struggles with the rule of law as it moves toward democracy)
March 22, 2000... Paulo S[acute{e}]rgio Pinheiro DEMOCRATIC LEADERS during political transitions in Brazil have held an overly optimistic view that civilian government and the strengthening of civil society would be sufficient to consolidate the rule of law....

Brazil's Decentralized Federalism: Bringing Government Closer to the Citizens?
March 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION A NEW "WASHINGTON CONSENSUS" has been emerging, which says that increased decentralization is not only good for the economy but good for the politics of democratizing countries also. Why? Because it brings government closer to...

Modernization, Citizenship, and Stratification: Historical Processes and Recent Changes in Brazil.
March 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION THE 1930 REVOLUTION was a turning point in the process of political incorporation in Brazil. The model of citizenship that was adopted imparted peculiar characteristics to the public sphere. The prominence of social over...

Muddling Through Changing References: From Late Nation-Building to the Crisis of the Nation-State.
March 22, 2000... THIS ESSAY EXAMINES a long-standing relationship between intellectuals and politics in Brazil and discusses how recent changes in the national and international environments have reversed political references and values concerning what used to...

Brazilian International Identity and Foreign Policy: Past, Present, and Future.
March 22, 2000... "Brazil has always been conscious of its size and has been governed by a prophetic sentiment with regard to its future." Joaquim Nabuco, 1908 [1] TODAY'S INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM IS characterized by an intense interaction between two...

Class, Ethnicity, and Color in the Making of Brazilian Football.
March 22, 2000... Jos[acute{e}] Sergio Leite Lopes INTRODUCTION THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE 1998 WORLD CUP in France made it possible to envision the strength of Brazilian football as a symbol for the diffusion of world football. The fact that Brazil had...

Whatever Happened to What Used to be the Largest Catholic Country in the World?(Brazil)
March 22, 2000... Patr[acute{i}]cia Birman M[acute{a}}rcia Pereira Leite ORIGINALLY CALLED the "Land of the Holy Cross," the Portuguese colony of Brazil came into being at the beginning of the sixteenth century under the aegis of the crown and the...

Education: Way Behind but Trying to Catch Up.(Brazil)
March 22, 2000... EDUCATION IN BRAZIL is a source of embarrassment and perplexity: embarrassment because the system is deficient; perplexity because it is difficult to understand how a country with such a weak education system has done so well in matters of...

Indigenous People, Traditional People, and Conservation in the Amazon.
March 22, 2000... IN A STUNNING REVERSAL OF IDEOLOGICAL FORTUNE, traditional people in the Amazon, who until recently were deemed, at best, candidates for, if not hindrances to, "development," have been promoted to the forefront of modernity. This change has...

Brazil and Economic Realities.
March 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION THE BRAZILIAN ECONOMY until 1980 enjoyed one of the highest rates of growth in the twentieth-century world, despite the unorthodox economic policies favored during this time. This phenomenon was not merely the product of a...