Angela Torresan
Biographic Data
| ID | 102480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Torresan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela |
| FAMILY NAME | Torresan |
| SIGNATURE | TORRESAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8247-4979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Views of Vidigal: Negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence. This article examines a neighbourly dispute over an ocean view in Vidigal – a favela in one of R…
Postcolonial social drama: The case of Brazilian dentists in Portugal
By the late 1990s, when I was conducting ethnographic fieldwork research in Lisbon, the 'dentists' case' had become a familiar trope for the presence of Brazilian immigrants in Portugal. Although it involved a small group of Brazilian and Portuguese professionals, it gained visibility in the media of both countries, escalating into a political and diplomatic quarrel, and culminating in the amendment of the 1966 Cultural Accord. I use Victor Turne…
Guto and Graça: Ethnographic Films and Storytelling
It may be tautological to claim that ethnographic films are a form of storytelling; one that combines concomitance and linearity between images and words to show and tell particular stories. However, drawing on Guto and Graça, a 9-minute film on the impact of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro, I argue that ethnographic films carry the elements of storytelling in Arendt’s (1958) and Jackson’s (2013) sense. They work as multi-layered forms of ‘…
Visual Anthropology From Latin America: An Introduction
The idea of Latin America as an unified geopolitical entity has been called into question How can we then justify a special issue in visual anthropology with a focus on the region? What would it show us beyond a sampling of audio-visual anthropological work produced in and about Latin America? Given the dynamic exchange of technical and intellectual expertise between Latin American visual anthropologists and their counterparts across the globe, h…
Retornos: O Poder De Conceitualizar Com Filmes Etnográficos / Returns: Conceptualizing With Ethnographic Films
Partindo da ideia colocada por David MacDougall de que imagens produzem um tipo de conhecimento específico diferente da escrita, neste artigo uso o exemplo de um filme que realizei sobre Eugênia, uma imigrante brasileira em Lisboa, para explorar a capacidade conceitual do filme etnográfico. O potencial duplo das imagens, como índice e ícone, pode gerar um modo particular de análise antropológica. No caso que observo aqui, a filmagem da primeira v…
A Middle Class Besieged: Brazilians' Motives to Migrate
ResúmenUsando material etnográfico coletado durante minha pesquisa entre imigrantes brasileiros em Lisboa, exploro nesse artigo como a migração internacional se tornou uma das alternativas usadas por pessoas jovens da classe média para manter sua posição de classe. Analizo o papel da crise brasileira das décadas de 80 e 90 na decisão que muitos tomaram de migrar e afirmo que além da situação de privação econômica relativa, muitos brasileiros da c…
RoundTrip: Filming a Return Home
Visual anthropologists are aware that we can effectively use cameras (photo or video) as methodological devices. We can document events, create relationships, and present our findings in visual format. But few of us have discussed the conceptual capacity of the images we create in ethnographic research. Taking M ac D ougall's argument that images produce a different kind of knowledge, I use the example of a film I made about a B razilian immigran…
Strange Bedfellows: Brazilian Immigrants Negotiating Friendship in Lisbon
In the late twentieth century, international migration became one of the strategies a number of Brazilians deployed to create and maintain a middle-class lifestyle. Many went to Portugal to seize the new opportunities offered by an expanding Portuguese economy and a skilled job market. As qualified Brazilians arrived with the required skills to fill these jobs and as they achieved a lifestyle that could be equated to a middle-class position in ec…
Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil
Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil. Maureen O'Dougherty. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. ix. 262 pp., maps, graphs, photographs, figures, notes, bibliography, index
Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of Home in a World of Movement
Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of Home in. World of Movement. Nigel Rapport and Andrew Dawson. eds. London: Berg, 1998. ix. 246 pp., list of contributors, index
Ser brasileiro em Londres
A migração de brasileiros para a Inglaterra, em especial para Londres, não é um fenômeno isolado. Ele faz parte de um movimento de procura pelo exterior que vem ocorrendo com maior intensidade desde o final dos anos 80. Brasileiros jovens, pertencentes ao extrato médio da sociedade de origem e, geralmente, com alguma formação escolar especializada, saem de seu país em busca de algo que acreditam não poder alcançar ai. Em sua maioriavãoparaosEstad…
A Middle Class Besieged: Brazilians' Motives to Migrate
ResúmenUsando material etnográfico coletado durante minha pesquisa entre imigrantes brasileiros em Lisboa, exploro nesse artigo como a migração internacional se tornou uma das alternativas usadas por pessoas jovens da classe média para manter sua posição de classe. Analizo o papel da crise brasileira das décadas de 80 e 90 na decisão que muitos tomaram de migrar e afirmo que além da situação de privação econômica relativa, muitos brasileiros da c…
RoundTrip: Filming a Return Home
Visual anthropologists are aware that we can effectively use cameras (photo or video) as methodological devices. We can document events, create relationships, and present our findings in visual format. But few of us have discussed the conceptual capacity of the images we create in ethnographic research. Taking M ac D ougall's argument that images produce a different kind of knowledge, I use the example of a film I made about a B razilian immigran…
Strange Bedfellows: Brazilian Immigrants Negotiating Friendship in Lisbon
In the late twentieth century, international migration became one of the strategies a number of Brazilians deployed to create and maintain a middle-class lifestyle. Many went to Portugal to seize the new opportunities offered by an expanding Portuguese economy and a skilled job market. As qualified Brazilians arrived with the required skills to fill these jobs and as they achieved a lifestyle that could be equated to a middle-class position in ec…
Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil
Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil. Maureen O'Dougherty. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. ix. 262 pp., maps, graphs, photographs, figures, notes, bibliography, index
Ser brasileiro em Londres
A migração de brasileiros para a Inglaterra, em especial para Londres, não é um fenômeno isolado. Ele faz parte de um movimento de procura pelo exterior que vem ocorrendo com maior intensidade desde o final dos anos 80. Brasileiros jovens, pertencentes ao extrato médio da sociedade de origem e, geralmente, com alguma formação escolar especializada, saem de seu país em busca de algo que acreditam não poder alcançar ai. Em sua maioriavãoparaosEstad…
Ser brasileiro em Londres
A migração de brasileiros para a Inglaterra, em especial para Londres, não é um fenômeno isolado. Ele faz parte de um movimento de procura pelo exterior que vem ocorrendo com maior intensidade desde o final dos anos 80. Brasileiros jovens, pertencentes ao extrato médio da sociedade de origem e, geralmente, com alguma formação escolar especializada, saem de seu país em busca de algo que acreditam não poder alcançar ai. Em sua maioriavãoparaosEstad…
Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of Home in a World of Movement
Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of Home in. World of Movement. Nigel Rapport and Andrew Dawson. eds. London: Berg, 1998. ix. 246 pp., list of contributors, index
Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil
Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil. Maureen O'Dougherty. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. ix. 262 pp., maps, graphs, photographs, figures, notes, bibliography, index
RoundTrip: Filming a Return Home
Visual anthropologists are aware that we can effectively use cameras (photo or video) as methodological devices. We can document events, create relationships, and present our findings in visual format. But few of us have discussed the conceptual capacity of the images we create in ethnographic research. Taking M ac D ougall's argument that images produce a different kind of knowledge, I use the example of a film I made about a B razilian immigran…
Strange Bedfellows: Brazilian Immigrants Negotiating Friendship in Lisbon
In the late twentieth century, international migration became one of the strategies a number of Brazilians deployed to create and maintain a middle-class lifestyle. Many went to Portugal to seize the new opportunities offered by an expanding Portuguese economy and a skilled job market. As qualified Brazilians arrived with the required skills to fill these jobs and as they achieved a lifestyle that could be equated to a middle-class position in ec…
A Middle Class Besieged: Brazilians' Motives to Migrate
ResúmenUsando material etnográfico coletado durante minha pesquisa entre imigrantes brasileiros em Lisboa, exploro nesse artigo como a migração internacional se tornou uma das alternativas usadas por pessoas jovens da classe média para manter sua posição de classe. Analizo o papel da crise brasileira das décadas de 80 e 90 na decisão que muitos tomaram de migrar e afirmo que além da situação de privação econômica relativa, muitos brasileiros da c…
Retornos: O Poder De Conceitualizar Com Filmes Etnográficos / Returns: Conceptualizing With Ethnographic Films
Partindo da ideia colocada por David MacDougall de que imagens produzem um tipo de conhecimento específico diferente da escrita, neste artigo uso o exemplo de um filme que realizei sobre Eugênia, uma imigrante brasileira em Lisboa, para explorar a capacidade conceitual do filme etnográfico. O potencial duplo das imagens, como índice e ícone, pode gerar um modo particular de análise antropológica. No caso que observo aqui, a filmagem da primeira v…
Guto and Graça: Ethnographic Films and Storytelling
It may be tautological to claim that ethnographic films are a form of storytelling; one that combines concomitance and linearity between images and words to show and tell particular stories. However, drawing on Guto and Graça, a 9-minute film on the impact of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro, I argue that ethnographic films carry the elements of storytelling in Arendt’s (1958) and Jackson’s (2013) sense. They work as multi-layered forms of ‘…
Visual Anthropology From Latin America: An Introduction
The idea of Latin America as an unified geopolitical entity has been called into question How can we then justify a special issue in visual anthropology with a focus on the region? What would it show us beyond a sampling of audio-visual anthropological work produced in and about Latin America? Given the dynamic exchange of technical and intellectual expertise between Latin American visual anthropologists and their counterparts across the globe, h…
Postcolonial social drama: The case of Brazilian dentists in Portugal
By the late 1990s, when I was conducting ethnographic fieldwork research in Lisbon, the 'dentists' case' had become a familiar trope for the presence of Brazilian immigrants in Portugal. Although it involved a small group of Brazilian and Portuguese professionals, it gained visibility in the media of both countries, escalating into a political and diplomatic quarrel, and culminating in the amendment of the 1966 Cultural Accord. I use Victor Turne…
Views of Vidigal: Negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence. This article examines a neighbourly dispute over an ocean view in Vidigal – a favela in one of R…
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