Alvaro Jarrin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 595973 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alvaro Jarrin |
| PRENOMES | Alvaro |
| SOBRENOME | Jarrin |
| ASSINATURA | JARRIN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | College of the Holy Cross |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5963-089X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Black, fat and travesti
Trans and travesti artivists in São Paulo, Brazil use their artistic production to critique transphobic violence and celebrate gender nonconformity. Some of the key voices in that movement, like Jup do Bairro, Ayô Tupinambá, Beta Boechat and Letícia Carolina Nascimento, centre much of their work on the harms of Eurocentric and cisnormative beauty standards for their own existence as Black, fat and gender nonconforming Brazilians from working-clas…
Technologies of Beauty: The Materiality, Ethics, and Normativity of Cosmetic Citizenship
The underbelly of Homo Plasticus
The perfection industry: human or post-human?discussion Chiara Pussetti's text carries with it a clear warning: within the context of late capitalism, we remake our bodies at our own risk.Even though the subtitle of Chiara Pussetti's essay describes our post-human present as moving towards "freedom," she does not portray freedom as a liberation from want or from inequality.Quite the contrary.Homo plasticus is a consumer par excellence, "free" to …
“They are mar-vel-ous, and they all want me!”
This article explores the geographies of desire that inform contact between gay Brazilian tourists and the men they encounter abroad. It argues that Brazilian men largely embrace the sexualized image of themselves that circulates globally and value foreign men according to their proximity to whiteness. By studying tourists who hail from the Global South, their imaginings of the Global North, and the ways they exoticize themselves, the article bri…
The Circulation of Beauty
This chapter, which is based on ethnographic interviews with Brazilian patients, discusses the ways in which beauty makes bodies matter. Focusing first on class, then on gender, and ending with race, it explores how the beauty/ugliness dyad combines powerfully with other bodily signs and provides legitimacy to forms of inequality, simultaneously producing the terrain on which these forms of inequality can be questioned. It is argued that beauty s…
The Eugenesis of Beauty
This chapter, which is based on archival research, demonstrates that beauty developed as a central concern for the Brazilian eugenics movement in the early twentieth century as it became associated with improved hygienic practices and ongoing racial mixture, which eugenicists believed would inevitably whiten the nation as whole. The beauty of women—as the imagined bearers of future generations and as the objects of (male) medical scrutiny—was of …
Cosmetic Citizens
This chapter analyzes the affective and biopolitical structures that produce low-income patients as willing experimental subjects. It argues that the experimental settings of plastic surgery create medical and legal rationalities that externalize the risks of surgery onto the bodies of patients, diminishing the risks assumed by surgeons. It illuminate the ways in which surgeons favor innovation over safeguarding their patients by focusing on the …
Thinking of Beauty Transnationally
This concluding chapter reflects on the transnational dimensions of beauty. Beautification can be thought of as a global industry that takes on very different registers depending on the specific histories and the body politics where it emerges. Nonetheless, there are common methodologies and theoretical insights that allow us to think about beauty globally and about the ways it travels, producing certain forms of affect that transcend boundaries …
Plastic Governmentality
This chapter traces the ways by which plastic surgeons in Brazil became fused with the state at specific junctures, or nodes, within the networks of public health care, appropriating the state's biopolitical authority for themselves. Plastic surgeons deploy a type of governance, a so-called ‘plastic governmentality’—a flexible approach to the management of public health that allows them to conceal its imbrication with commercial medicine. This fl…
The Biopolitical and Affective Dimensions of Beauty
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book examines the prevailing notions of beauty in Brazil by combining ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and readings of popular culture. The research was carried out over three nonconsecutive years: between 2006 and 2008 and between 2009 and 2011. The main argument is that beauty matters in Brazil because it produces forms of affect that condense race, class, …
The Raciology of Beauty
This chapter addresses the racial logic that underpins the contemporary construction of beauty as a national health concern. Plastic surgeons portray their work as complementing the work of Brazilian miscegenation by correcting mistakes resulting from racial mixture. These corrections, however, always presume a higher desirability for whiter facial features, based on an aesthetic hierarchy that devalues and medicalizes non-European features, such…
Hope, Affect, Mobility
This chapter examines the narratives of upward mobility through beauty that are interwoven throughout diverse forms of Brazilian media—from journalistic accounts of recently discovered models to the carefully crafted storylines of soap operas and televised beauty pageants. It compares these accounts with ethnographic research among working-class parents who send their daughters to talent agencies or modeling schools. These girls' parents and teac…
Biopolitics of Beauty
Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, this book shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics, which established beauty as an index of the nation's racial improvement. From here, the book explains how plastic surgeons became the main proponents of a raciology of b…
Untranslatable Subjects
This article employs Bruno Latour's notion of “translation” to examine the ways by which anglophone discourses of transsexuality are deployed in the Brazilian context. The author argues that transsexuality is utilized by the medical class in ways that refuse to medicalize the bodies of travestis, delegitimize their access to health care, portray them as inauthentic and improper women, and render their identity untranslatable and thus invisible. I…
Towards a Biopolitics of Beauty
This article provides a historical and ethnographic perspective to explain the saliency of beauty within the reproduction of racial inequalities in Brazil. I argue that Brazil's neo-Lamarckian eugenics movement was the first to craft beauty as an index of racial improvement within the nation, and this eugenic legacy undergirds many of the contemporary discourses of beautification. Plastic surgery, in particular, inherited the biopolitical aim to …
The Rise of the Cosmetic Nation
In this article, I trace the historical and sociopolitical construction of plastic surgery as a basic health need in Brazil. I argue that plastic surgeons deploy "plastic governmentality" in order to portray their work in public settings as humanitarian in nature, while simultaneously using poor patients as experimental subjects to train new surgeons and develop new techniques. This seemingly contradictory positioning is only possible because aes…
Biopolitics of Beauty
Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, this book shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics, which established beauty as an index of the nation's racial improvement. From here, the book explains how plastic surgeons became the main proponents of a raciology of b…
Towards a Biopolitics of Beauty
This article provides a historical and ethnographic perspective to explain the saliency of beauty within the reproduction of racial inequalities in Brazil. I argue that Brazil's neo-Lamarckian eugenics movement was the first to craft beauty as an index of racial improvement within the nation, and this eugenic legacy undergirds many of the contemporary discourses of beautification. Plastic surgery, in particular, inherited the biopolitical aim to …
Untranslatable Subjects
This article employs Bruno Latour's notion of “translation” to examine the ways by which anglophone discourses of transsexuality are deployed in the Brazilian context. The author argues that transsexuality is utilized by the medical class in ways that refuse to medicalize the bodies of travestis, delegitimize their access to health care, portray them as inauthentic and improper women, and render their identity untranslatable and thus invisible. I…
Black, fat and travesti
Trans and travesti artivists in São Paulo, Brazil use their artistic production to critique transphobic violence and celebrate gender nonconformity. Some of the key voices in that movement, like Jup do Bairro, Ayô Tupinambá, Beta Boechat and Letícia Carolina Nascimento, centre much of their work on the harms of Eurocentric and cisnormative beauty standards for their own existence as Black, fat and gender nonconforming Brazilians from working-clas…
The Rise of the Cosmetic Nation
In this article, I trace the historical and sociopolitical construction of plastic surgery as a basic health need in Brazil. I argue that plastic surgeons deploy "plastic governmentality" in order to portray their work in public settings as humanitarian in nature, while simultaneously using poor patients as experimental subjects to train new surgeons and develop new techniques. This seemingly contradictory positioning is only possible because aes…
The Rise of the Cosmetic Nation
In this article, I trace the historical and sociopolitical construction of plastic surgery as a basic health need in Brazil. I argue that plastic surgeons deploy "plastic governmentality" in order to portray their work in public settings as humanitarian in nature, while simultaneously using poor patients as experimental subjects to train new surgeons and develop new techniques. This seemingly contradictory positioning is only possible because aes…
Towards a Biopolitics of Beauty
This article provides a historical and ethnographic perspective to explain the saliency of beauty within the reproduction of racial inequalities in Brazil. I argue that Brazil's neo-Lamarckian eugenics movement was the first to craft beauty as an index of racial improvement within the nation, and this eugenic legacy undergirds many of the contemporary discourses of beautification. Plastic surgery, in particular, inherited the biopolitical aim to …
Untranslatable Subjects
This article employs Bruno Latour's notion of “translation” to examine the ways by which anglophone discourses of transsexuality are deployed in the Brazilian context. The author argues that transsexuality is utilized by the medical class in ways that refuse to medicalize the bodies of travestis, delegitimize their access to health care, portray them as inauthentic and improper women, and render their identity untranslatable and thus invisible. I…
The Circulation of Beauty
This chapter, which is based on ethnographic interviews with Brazilian patients, discusses the ways in which beauty makes bodies matter. Focusing first on class, then on gender, and ending with race, it explores how the beauty/ugliness dyad combines powerfully with other bodily signs and provides legitimacy to forms of inequality, simultaneously producing the terrain on which these forms of inequality can be questioned. It is argued that beauty s…
The Eugenesis of Beauty
This chapter, which is based on archival research, demonstrates that beauty developed as a central concern for the Brazilian eugenics movement in the early twentieth century as it became associated with improved hygienic practices and ongoing racial mixture, which eugenicists believed would inevitably whiten the nation as whole. The beauty of women—as the imagined bearers of future generations and as the objects of (male) medical scrutiny—was of …
Cosmetic Citizens
This chapter analyzes the affective and biopolitical structures that produce low-income patients as willing experimental subjects. It argues that the experimental settings of plastic surgery create medical and legal rationalities that externalize the risks of surgery onto the bodies of patients, diminishing the risks assumed by surgeons. It illuminate the ways in which surgeons favor innovation over safeguarding their patients by focusing on the …
Thinking of Beauty Transnationally
This concluding chapter reflects on the transnational dimensions of beauty. Beautification can be thought of as a global industry that takes on very different registers depending on the specific histories and the body politics where it emerges. Nonetheless, there are common methodologies and theoretical insights that allow us to think about beauty globally and about the ways it travels, producing certain forms of affect that transcend boundaries …
Plastic Governmentality
This chapter traces the ways by which plastic surgeons in Brazil became fused with the state at specific junctures, or nodes, within the networks of public health care, appropriating the state's biopolitical authority for themselves. Plastic surgeons deploy a type of governance, a so-called ‘plastic governmentality’—a flexible approach to the management of public health that allows them to conceal its imbrication with commercial medicine. This fl…
The Biopolitical and Affective Dimensions of Beauty
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book examines the prevailing notions of beauty in Brazil by combining ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and readings of popular culture. The research was carried out over three nonconsecutive years: between 2006 and 2008 and between 2009 and 2011. The main argument is that beauty matters in Brazil because it produces forms of affect that condense race, class, …
The Raciology of Beauty
This chapter addresses the racial logic that underpins the contemporary construction of beauty as a national health concern. Plastic surgeons portray their work as complementing the work of Brazilian miscegenation by correcting mistakes resulting from racial mixture. These corrections, however, always presume a higher desirability for whiter facial features, based on an aesthetic hierarchy that devalues and medicalizes non-European features, such…
Hope, Affect, Mobility
This chapter examines the narratives of upward mobility through beauty that are interwoven throughout diverse forms of Brazilian media—from journalistic accounts of recently discovered models to the carefully crafted storylines of soap operas and televised beauty pageants. It compares these accounts with ethnographic research among working-class parents who send their daughters to talent agencies or modeling schools. These girls' parents and teac…
Biopolitics of Beauty
Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, this book shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics, which established beauty as an index of the nation's racial improvement. From here, the book explains how plastic surgeons became the main proponents of a raciology of b…
“They are mar-vel-ous, and they all want me!”
This article explores the geographies of desire that inform contact between gay Brazilian tourists and the men they encounter abroad. It argues that Brazilian men largely embrace the sexualized image of themselves that circulates globally and value foreign men according to their proximity to whiteness. By studying tourists who hail from the Global South, their imaginings of the Global North, and the ways they exoticize themselves, the article bri…
The underbelly of Homo Plasticus
The perfection industry: human or post-human?discussion Chiara Pussetti's text carries with it a clear warning: within the context of late capitalism, we remake our bodies at our own risk.Even though the subtitle of Chiara Pussetti's essay describes our post-human present as moving towards "freedom," she does not portray freedom as a liberation from want or from inequality.Quite the contrary.Homo plasticus is a consumer par excellence, "free" to …
Technologies of Beauty: The Materiality, Ethics, and Normativity of Cosmetic Citizenship
Black, fat and travesti
Trans and travesti artivists in São Paulo, Brazil use their artistic production to critique transphobic violence and celebrate gender nonconformity. Some of the key voices in that movement, like Jup do Bairro, Ayô Tupinambá, Beta Boechat and Letícia Carolina Nascimento, centre much of their work on the harms of Eurocentric and cisnormative beauty standards for their own existence as Black, fat and gender nonconforming Brazilians from working-clas…
Sociology (13 obras) · Aesthetics (12 obras) · Art (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Beauty (10 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 obras) · Biopower (4 obras)