Jeffrey Lesser: Living and Dying in São Paulo

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There is a saying in Brazil: "Mosquitoes are democratic: they bite the rich and the poor alike." Why then is bad health---from violence to respiratory disease, from malaria to dengue---dispersed unevenly across different social and national groups? In Living and Dying in São Paulo, Jeffrey Lesser focuses on the Bom Retiro neighborhood to explore such questions by examining the competing visions of well-being in Brazil among racialized immigrants and policymakers and health officials. He analyzes the fraught relationship between Bom Retiro residents and the state and health care agencies that have overseen community sanitation efforts since the mid-nineteenth century, drawing out the connected systems of the built environment, public health laws and practices, and citizenship. Lesser employs the concept of "residues" to outline how continuing historical material, legislative, and social legacies structure contemporary daily life and health outcomes in the neighborhood. In so doing, Lesser creates a dialogue between the past and the present, showing how the relationship between culture and disease is both layered and interconnected.

Über den Autor

Jeffrey Lesser is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History at Emory University. He is the author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980 and Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil, both published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Long Set of Acknowledgments xi
An Introduction: Selling a Gun 1
1. Naming a Death 31
2. Bom Retiro Is the World? 59
3. Bad Health in a Good Retreat 80
4. Enforcing Health 102
5. A Building Block of Health 130
6. Unliving Rats and Undead Immigrants 163
A Conclusion: Light and Dark in a Saintly City 195
Notes 201
Bibliography 249
Index 295

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781478030980
ISBN-10:	1478030984
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lesser, Jeffrey
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Jeffrey Lesser
Erscheinungsdatum:	28.04.2025
Gewicht:	0,522 kg