Thaïs Machado‐borge
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thaïs Machado‐borge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thaïs |
| FAMILY NAME | Machado‐borge |
| SIGNATURE | BORGE T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7555-3038 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Les voix du rebut
Le « rebut » - ce qui est exclu, mis de côté, caché, enterré, ôté de la vue, rejeté - est au point de départ de cet article. Considéré comme matière repoussée, il circule dans les espaces publics et privés, entre les centres de pouvoir et les périphéries oubliées. Vu comme métaphore sociale, il marque les limites entre catégories, entre ce, celui ou celle qui ont de la valeur et ce, celui ou celle qui sont inutiles, bons à jeter. Je m'interroge i…
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Middle-Class Households, Waste, Consumption, and Environmental Awareness in Southeastern Brazil
O presente artigo examina como domicílios de classe média na cidade de Belo Horizonte, sudeste do Brasil, lidam com o lixo que permeia o seu dia-a-dia. Examinam-se como processos de classificação e eliminação estão relacionados ao consumo, à divisão do trabalho e às questões ambientais. Mais especificamente, o presente artigo investiga como o lixo está implicado no trabalho de manter e afirmar um status de classe média através de noções sobre mor…
Have you ever seen a thief wearing a uniform?!' Struggling for dignity in urban southeastern Brazil
Brazil is a highly unequal and socially segregated society. Within this context, Brazilians' everyday lives are marked by the constant reading of bodies: Who is/could be/looks dangerous? Who should be avoided? Poor working-class people are painfully aware of readings merging poverty and criminality. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork among middle-class and lower-income persons in southeastern Brazil, this photo essay investigates some visual…
Middle-Class Compassion and Man Boobs
Transformations télévisuelles
Le Brésil est le pays où la télévision dispose de la plus grande audience du monde, 90 % des ménages du pays possédant au moins un téléviseur. Que diffuse la télévision brésilienne ? Du football, bien sûr, quasiment en continu. Les informations et les shows télévisés constituent également une part importante de la programmation télévisuelle. Mais l'un des types de programmes les plus diffusés - et les plus regardés - est latelenovela. Lestelenove…
O antes e o depois
The present article analyzes how women and cosmetic surgery are represented in a Brazilian magazine called Plastica e Beleza [Plastic Surgery and Beauty]. This monthly magazine is specialized, as its name indicates, in bodily aesthetics, and it addresses mostly a female audience. Situated within an anthropological analysis of media, the present article investigates how discourses about bodily aesthetics produce and reproduce certain representatio…
Only for You; Brazilians and the Telenovela Flow
Only For You! Brazilians and the Telenovela Flow is an anthropological study of the reception of a popular and commercial mass-media product – Brazilian "soap-operas," or telenovelas. Telenovelas are broadcast throughout Brazil six days a week, at prime-time. They attract an audience of more than forty million viewers, every day. Initially, this study began with a simple question: how do viewers engage with telenovelas' representations of the Bra…
Have you ever seen a thief wearing a uniform?!' Struggling for dignity in urban southeastern Brazil
Brazil is a highly unequal and socially segregated society. Within this context, Brazilians' everyday lives are marked by the constant reading of bodies: Who is/could be/looks dangerous? Who should be avoided? Poor working-class people are painfully aware of readings merging poverty and criminality. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork among middle-class and lower-income persons in southeastern Brazil, this photo essay investigates some visual…
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Middle-Class Households, Waste, Consumption, and Environmental Awareness in Southeastern Brazil
O presente artigo examina como domicílios de classe média na cidade de Belo Horizonte, sudeste do Brasil, lidam com o lixo que permeia o seu dia-a-dia. Examinam-se como processos de classificação e eliminação estão relacionados ao consumo, à divisão do trabalho e às questões ambientais. Mais especificamente, o presente artigo investiga como o lixo está implicado no trabalho de manter e afirmar um status de classe média através de noções sobre mor…
O antes e o depois
The present article analyzes how women and cosmetic surgery are represented in a Brazilian magazine called Plastica e Beleza [Plastic Surgery and Beauty]. This monthly magazine is specialized, as its name indicates, in bodily aesthetics, and it addresses mostly a female audience. Situated within an anthropological analysis of media, the present article investigates how discourses about bodily aesthetics produce and reproduce certain representatio…
Middle-Class Compassion and Man Boobs
Only for You; Brazilians and the Telenovela Flow
Only For You! Brazilians and the Telenovela Flow is an anthropological study of the reception of a popular and commercial mass-media product – Brazilian "soap-operas," or telenovelas. Telenovelas are broadcast throughout Brazil six days a week, at prime-time. They attract an audience of more than forty million viewers, every day. Initially, this study began with a simple question: how do viewers engage with telenovelas' representations of the Bra…
O antes e o depois
The present article analyzes how women and cosmetic surgery are represented in a Brazilian magazine called Plastica e Beleza [Plastic Surgery and Beauty]. This monthly magazine is specialized, as its name indicates, in bodily aesthetics, and it addresses mostly a female audience. Situated within an anthropological analysis of media, the present article investigates how discourses about bodily aesthetics produce and reproduce certain representatio…
Transformations télévisuelles
Le Brésil est le pays où la télévision dispose de la plus grande audience du monde, 90 % des ménages du pays possédant au moins un téléviseur. Que diffuse la télévision brésilienne ? Du football, bien sûr, quasiment en continu. Les informations et les shows télévisés constituent également une part importante de la programmation télévisuelle. Mais l'un des types de programmes les plus diffusés - et les plus regardés - est latelenovela. Lestelenove…
Middle-Class Compassion and Man Boobs
Have you ever seen a thief wearing a uniform?!' Struggling for dignity in urban southeastern Brazil
Brazil is a highly unequal and socially segregated society. Within this context, Brazilians' everyday lives are marked by the constant reading of bodies: Who is/could be/looks dangerous? Who should be avoided? Poor working-class people are painfully aware of readings merging poverty and criminality. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork among middle-class and lower-income persons in southeastern Brazil, this photo essay investigates some visual…
Les voix du rebut
Le « rebut » - ce qui est exclu, mis de côté, caché, enterré, ôté de la vue, rejeté - est au point de départ de cet article. Considéré comme matière repoussée, il circule dans les espaces publics et privés, entre les centres de pouvoir et les périphéries oubliées. Vu comme métaphore sociale, il marque les limites entre catégories, entre ce, celui ou celle qui ont de la valeur et ce, celui ou celle qui sont inutiles, bons à jeter. Je m'interroge i…
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Middle-Class Households, Waste, Consumption, and Environmental Awareness in Southeastern Brazil
O presente artigo examina como domicílios de classe média na cidade de Belo Horizonte, sudeste do Brasil, lidam com o lixo que permeia o seu dia-a-dia. Examinam-se como processos de classificação e eliminação estão relacionados ao consumo, à divisão do trabalho e às questões ambientais. Mais especificamente, o presente artigo investiga como o lixo está implicado no trabalho de manter e afirmar um status de classe média através de noções sobre mor…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Class (philosophy (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)