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This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women#x92;s use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women#x92;s use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
Based on a year's research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously in…
This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women's use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
Repairing the broken city -- Community technology centers as mundane technologies -- Social media for survival -- Proud faveladas : resisting gendered oppression in territory of good -- Geographies of oppression : uncovering spaces of silencing -- Technology of the oppressor -- …
"A look at the role technology (ICTs) plays in the lives of Brazilian favela dwellers, which the author explores through his own notion of "mundane technologies""--
"A look at the role technology (ICTs) plays in the lives of Brazilian favela dwellers, which the author explores through his own notion of "mundane technologies""--
