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Against Fatalism: Brazilian Utopian Thought and Practice 1960s-Present
Against Fatalism: Brazilian Utopian Thought and Practice 1960s-Present
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103050
- ISBN
- 9798286426010
- DDC
- 300
- 서명/저자
- Against Fatalism: Brazilian Utopian Thought and Practice 1960s-Present
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : New York University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 222 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-12, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Taylor, Diana.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Against Fatalism: Brazilian Utopian Thought and Practice 1960s-Present proposes a distinct understanding of utopianism coming from the Global South. It draws on Left thinkers, artists, and social movements from Brazil to theorize utopianism as a mode of thought and practice that combats fatalism, understood in two interrelated senses: a capital-apologetic discourse that speaks of injustices as fatalities and their perpetuation as an unavoidable fate; and an attitude of resignation promoted by this discourse. From the perspective of the Global South, then, utopianism is not simply an antifatalistic thought; it is an activist praxis, in Paulo Freire's sense of an indissociable unity of reflection and action aimed at changing unjust conditions.Yet, how can utopianism itself be repaired in a moment in which many of us find ourselves submerged in fatalism? As various studies of utopianism from recent years, this dissertation shifts attention from utopian literature to utopian practice, especially performance: Freire's pedagogical essays and educational practice; projects by the Landless Workers' Movement (MST); Augusto Boal's set of techniques known as Theater of the Oppressed; and the theater of contemporary group Estudo de Cena. It also shifts attention from representation. In contrast to utopian literature, these practices do not represent alternative societies. Rather, they transmit elements that are vital for sustaining activist utopianism, such as a Freirean understanding of the future as a challenge to be addressed in the present through political action. Drawing on such utopian practices, then, my dissertation argues that the promotion of such views nurtures utopianism, which, thus nurtured, can sustain us against fatalism.
- 일반주제명
- Latin American studies
- 일반주제명
- Literature
- 일반주제명
- Theater
- 일반주제명
- Modern literature
- 키워드
- Brazil
- 키워드
- Fatalism
- 키워드
- Global South
- 키워드
- Latin America
- 키워드
- Utopia
- 키워드
- Utopianism
- 기타저자
- New York University English
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-12A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17356857▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


