Editora Elefante
Editora Elefante was founded in May 2011 and publishes titles mainly in the areas of sociology, anthropology, feminism, Latin American studies, anti-racism, and political essays.
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Elefanta Editorial
Elefanta Editorial is a Mexican company born in 2011 and based in Mexico City. It publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, illustrations and photography.
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Who's gonna cook this food?
women, housework and healthy diet
by Bela Gil
Today, after decades of scientific research and questioning of the fast-food industry, we know that ultra-processed foods are major promoters of chronic non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, as well as contributing to the destruction of nature, since they are based on monocultures of commodities such as soy, wheat, corn and sugar cane. We also know that home cooking with fresh or minimally processed ingredients is the best option for nourishing the body, strengthening regional cultures and respecting the environment. But, as Bela Gil asks in her new book, who is going to make this food? Based on this question, the chef, presenter and activist links healthy eating, feminism and domestic work, complexifying a debate ignored by cookbooks and cooking shows. Is it the housewife, the mother, the grandmother, the wife, the migrant domestic worker, the poor black woman from the periphery who will continue to have to man the stove? And who will make her food, her family's food? In Who's going to make this food?, Bela Gil criticizes the historical devaluation of the act of cooking, which has its roots in slavery, and calls for the payment of wages for domestic work, a theme of the work of thinkers such as Silvia Federici. “Is it right that, for a few to have fresh food and be healthy and free to pursue their dreams, many others have to make do with ultra-processed products that are bad for the body and the planet - and that's when they don't go hungry?”
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Political organization of Brazilian agribusinees
by Caio Pompeia
What is agriculture? In this essential book for understanding contemporary Brazil, Caio Pompeia scrutinizes the political intricacies of the self-proclaimed most important sector of the national economy. From the origins of the concept of agribusiness at Harvard University in the 1950s - soon used as a front for imperialist expansion by the United States - to the first years of the Jair Bolsonaro government, through to the internal disputes between entities that represent Brazilian agribusiness on and off the farms, the author explains in detail, naming the oxen, how agribusiness entered the state and imposed its agenda on the country, with successive attempts to run the tractor over agrarian reform, indigenous rights, environmental preservation and the will of the ballot box.
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Searching for community
ways of critical thinking in global south
by Fabricio Pereira da Silva
As a response to the widespread social, economic and ecological malaise that is a consequence of the expansion of modernity, Fabricio Pereira da Silva gives voice to a quest that has long been a banner of the left: the yearning for a fairer, more equitable way of life, free from the modern values of individualism, exploitation and inconsequential and disproportionate economic growth, based on the recovery and re-reading of pre-capitalist ways of life. This book is driven by the urgency of a utopia that recovers the ideas of communality gestated in the global periphery to inspire another kind of future. In Search of Community presents a list of theoretical perspectives created in the so-called Global South, with the aim of overcoming a “monoculture of knowledge”. Fabricio Pereira da Silva analyzes Mariátegui's Indo-American socialism, the concepts of negritude and ubuntu, 20th century African socialisms, the idea of Good Living (sumak kawsay/suma qamaña) and Bhutan's gross internal happiness. By “illustrating the richness of proposals from the periphery”, the author offers us other theoretical resources, capable of dealing with the “crisis of modernity, the crisis of Western Marxism and socialist projects in a modernist key”.
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The futures of Darcy Ribeiro
by Darcy Ribeiro
This book contains a careful selection of Darcy Ribeiro's writings, forming a panorama of his visions for the future. By going through the different phases of Darcy's thought, it is possible to understand the complexity of Brazilian social formation and glimpse ways to overcome chronic problems, which, in the author's words, would enable us to “flourish tomorrow as a new civilization, mestizo and tropical, proud of itself”. Returning today to the futures undertaken by Darcy between the 1960s and 1990s makes it possible to see what we could have been, helps us understand why we are still far from being so and reveals some of the reasons why we repeatedly turn a deaf ear to emancipatory projects.
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Afro-atlantic voices
autobiographies and memories of slavery and freedom
by Rafael Domingos de Oliveira
The lives of Africans were not limited to enslavement and the destruction of their previous forms of social organization. After the remarkable experience of crossing the Atlantic, millions of lives were reinvented even under terribly adverse conditions. New devotions, family formations, languages, new foods: everything had yet to be done in the different forms of resistance mobilized for survival. And survival was the greatest resistance, not to mention that learning to tell one's own story in a way that was understandable to the interlocutors one wanted to reach was undeniable proof of vitality. [...] The author did not let himself be intimidated by the unusual source in the environment of professional historians in Brazil and tackled subjects on which authoritative authors seemed to have already said it all, such as the meanings of freedom for those who built them. Facing these challenges is proof of Rafael's intellectual maturity. If this proof serves to qualify him in his craft, the book also brings the reader a fine, well-constructed and pleasurable writing.
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History of LSD in Brazil
the first medicinal uses and the beginning of repression
by Julio Delmanto
In História social do LSD no Brasil, Júlio Delmanto analyzes the details of the first court case for trafficking lysergic acid diethylamide in the country, which took place thirteen months after the dictatorship was hardened by AI-5. The book covers the long road between the discovery of LSD in Switzerland in 1943 and the arrest of a young artist in the city of São Paulo in 1970, a case crossed by episodes of torture and journalistic sensationalism. In this journey, the author discusses the first uses of the substance in Brazil - in scientific research that, as early as the 1950s, sought to investigate the effects of the new drug on the human mind - and the political and social background that made acid an icon of counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, playing a catalyzing role in artistic movements that influenced generations.
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Rebel territories
by Raúl Zibechi
Raúl Zibechi is one of the most important researchers of social struggles in Latin America, and his work expresses a fundamental tradition of radical thought in the region, which is closely connected to territories and collective movements. Despite his immense relevance, only a very small part of his work has been published in Portuguese. This collection aims to help remedy this publishing gap in Brazil, but also to reverberate a type of intervention that takes up the autonomist hypothesis of struggles, in order to continue thinking and walking with those who resist on a continent conflagrated by the permanent war against peoples. It is not as an intellectual or illustrious avant-garde theoretician that this Uruguayan writer, activist and journalist appears to those who come across his texts and interventions. Zibechi appears to us, first and foremost, through the movements he accompanies, through his complicity with those who fight and think with their feet on the ground. This attitude is reflected in the form of his texts, which are marked by direct and open language, without academicism and committed to the circulation of issues as they are formulated in the contexts in which they arise.
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Amazonas
towards an economy of knowledge of nature
by Ricardo Abramovay
This text offers arguments and empirical data to challenge the all-too-frequent view that economic growth in the Amazon involves replacing forest areas (generally occupied by indigenous and riverside populations) with traditional agricultural activities such as soy and cattle ranching. It also shows that forest destruction, in addition to depriving Brazil and the world of ecosystem services that are indispensable to life itself, is based on illegal activities and, very often, banditry. The consequences of the advance of deforestation are disastrous for the economy of the Amazon and for Brazilian democracy itself. Instead of the bonds of trust that could emerge as a result of the sustainable exploitation of the standing forest, the current model for occupying the Amazon strengthens criminality and spreads insecurity throughout the region.
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Litigious captives
indigenous demands for freedom in Portuguese Amazonia (1706-1759)
by Luma Ribeiro Prado
This book reveals that the original peoples of the land we now call Brazil have long resorted to justice as one of the possible arenas for fighting against the advance of colonization over their bodies and territories. Anyone who is still surprised by indigenous lawyers defending their “relatives” in the highest courts in the country and the world should know that their ancestors had been filing lawsuits in colonial courts since at least the 18th century, appealing decisions if necessary until the matter was heard by the king of Portugal. These are the “captive litigants” described in these pages: indigenous people, mainly women, who went to the courts of the time with the aim of freeing themselves and their families from the slavery to which they were subjected in the regions of Pará and Maranhão - and, more often than not, they succeeded. With this award-winning research, Luma Ribeiro Prado sheds light on little-known issues in the history of ancestral peoples and the leading role of indigenous women in an incessant and admirable process of resistance to erasure.
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Agrotoxics and chemical colonialism
by Larissa Mies Bombardi
Pesticides hit women, children, indigenous people and peasants living around commodity crops much harder, but they are part of the daily lives of the entire population, as they are present in the water and food of more and more people. Brazil is the world's largest consumer of these substances, with more than 700,000 tons per year. This book compiles alarming data that allows us to begin to understand the seriousness of the problem represented by the massive use of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides for human health and the environment, a direct consequence of the globalization of agriculture, the concentration of Brazilian land and the omnipresence of agribusiness in the country. From the reading, it emerges that agricultural production is no longer synonymous with food production, and that the way out lies in agroecology.
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From body to dust
chronicles of kaiowá and guarani territoriality in the vicinity of death
by Bruno Martins Morais
This book was written in clear, direct language and with poetic tones, which allowed the author to disagree on the complex and heavy theme of Kaiowá and Guarani death in a sensitive and profound way, without the easy appeal to the tragic situation of violence and abandonment experienced by the communities where the research was carried out. The treatment given to the data reveals the Kaiowá ways of transforming the meanings of death and the dead, through the activation of elements of their own cosmology. Such transformation is carried out in close dialogue with current historical experience, understanding and confronting situations of vulnerability and land conflicts. In this movement, communities strive to guarantee fundamental rights that are daily denied, especially access to land. The dead become another ingredient in this fight.
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The doctor and the monster
a reading of latin american progressivism and its opposites
by Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos & Daniel Feldmann
In Stevenson's classic novel, The Doctor and the Monster, the respectable Dr. Jekyll, after disastrous experiments, frees his cruel alter ego, Mr. Hyde, which makes the work a metaphor for the dual nature of individuals. Borrowing this analytical key from literature, Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos and Daniel Feldmann discuss the contradictions of progressivism in Latin America. Divided into two parts — the first focused on the general panorama of the continent, the second dedicated to the context of the Bolsonaro government — this book seeks to elucidate how progressive politics strengthened an economic logic incapable of definitively breaking with neoliberal practices and, in light of this, it deepened the “social fractures that its government techniques intended to mitigate”. In response, the rise of a conservative wave was encouraged, even more committed to the interests of those “above” and even more violent with the contesting response from the streets. In the end, the authors identify valuable points for a future of emancipated nations, committed to effective solutions to popular problems and that reject any form of “lesser evil”.
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Fighting within the forest
a political ecology of martyrdom in defense of the Amazon
by Felipe Milanez
The interior of Brazil has been coveted by internal and external colonialists since the Conquest. Even today, land grabbers continue to steal land in the Amazon, replacing the forest with cattle and soybeans for export. But indigenous peoples and squatters are resisting. And one form of resistance has been to combat destructive production by setting up agro-extractivist reserves, which reproduce life through the long-lasting extraction of rubber or Brazil nuts, among other gifts from nature. Since Chico Mendes, murdered in 1988, there have been many examples of popular resistance against the depredation of the Amazon. Maria and José Cláudio defended the forest to the death with true daring, without greed and with a passionate altruism for other living beings. This book recounts the facts and explains the social and ecological values at stake in the couple's murder - yet another of the many attacks that victimize true environmentalists: the poor, the subaltern, the indigenous, the vanguard of preservation, whom Felipe Milanez's work elevates to symbol and example.
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Philosophical discourse on primitive accumulation
study on the origins of modern thinking
by Pedro Rocha de Oliveira
In his study of the English Renaissance, Pedro Rocha de Oliveira revealed an extremely topical fact: that modernity - which is confused with capitalism, primitive accumulation and progress - is a machine that necessarily needs a peripheral population, external or internal, which is disposable, that is, killable. The “populace” is outside the oligarchic agreement that defines a democracy - which belongs to the experts, the owners, who have a monopoly on rationality. All the nations of the world have done this from the beginning: England, the United States, Germany, Italy, etc. Brazil too, of course, from the beginning, because this is the Colony regime, i.e. the entire killable population administered from outside by a metropolis. Later, the metropolis was internalized, with the same objectives. That's why, to this day, people are killed in the countryside and on the outskirts of this country, with impunity. This is the common denominator of all Brazilian elites, whether left or right: they are all progressive, because that's what progress is. And anyone who doesn't conform to this reality is considered “obscurantist”, “medieval”, “backward”, “pre-modern”, etc. For people who receive these nicknames, the “superior” world of knowledge, science and public administration means nothing. The state is always seen as an enemy of the people. Capitalism, progress and modernity can be summed up as a civil war between citizens and non-citizens. Modernity is the assumption that there is a superior side (civilization, progress, rationality, public administration, critique of superstition), and an inferior side, which are the non-citizens, disposable, killable. The price of progress is the sacrifice of the poor, blacks, Indians, peasants, women, etc.
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Hoarse and sufocatted
the tobacco industry is alive and killing
by João Peres & Moriti Neto
Few people know that Brazil, the world's largest exporter of tobacco leaf since the 1990s, fills the world's lungs with nicotine. Robbed and Suffocated offers a unique portrait of the Rio Pardo Valley, in Rio Grande do Sul, the heart of the national tobacco industry. It is from there that the discourse - and the lobby - in defense of cigarettes emanates. The authors analyze the rhetoric that mixes the survival of small farmers with the interests of megacorporations in search of ever greater profits, and reveal how this articulation is used to halt public health and tobacco control policies. Behind the smokescreen, politicians, the media, trade unions, organizations claiming to fight smuggling and even fake internet profiles are intertwined. Deputies and senators, mayors, former ministers, members of the Supreme Court and former IRS secretaries: a vast and powerful network of favors emerges in the disguised defense of an economic sector that kills half of its own clientele.
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Personal & social issues: disability & special needs (Children's/YA)March 2015Kaitlyn queire ver patos
Una historia real que promueva la inclusión y la autodeterminación
by Jo Meserve Mach, Vera Lynne Stroup-Rentier, Mary Birdsell, Karen Diaz Anchante
Kaitlyn ama los patos. A su familia le encantan todos los animales. Pero ver monos, leones, elefantes, cabras, jirafas y osos, no es exactamente lo que Kaitlyn quiere hacer. ¿Qué debe hacer una niña durante un día familiar en el zoológico?
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Children's & YAThe Elephant's Dream
by Sarah Khoury
I dreamed of an elephant. He didn’t look like anything special. He was big, clumsy and heavy... just like an elephant... A little girl dreams of an elephant. And her elephant has a dream. A dream with a fresh breeze scent and sparkling with stars. A dream that becomes more vivid than reality, in which an elephant could choose the wings that most fit him and finally fly. The author of Ciacio presents us an unexpected and engaging good night book. A book for the sweetest good night.
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Children's & YA2019Animal Love
A Crazy Flirt
by Ángeles Quinteros, Ángeles Vargas
We hug, kiss and cuddle when we are in love. We want to always be close to that special person and even surprise them with gifts. All these actions also take part in the animal kingdom, but not only that! Animals also present a range of endless strange behaviors that will leave you speechless: chases, choreographies and tricks are only some of the things animals do to flirt their mating partners in order to stay together. A book with a sense of humour, but with a scientific and theoretical basis, full of unusual and amusing facts that aim to arouse your curiosity through simple texts, but incorporating the terms used in this specific field, what will broaden the reader's lexicon.
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Early learning: verse & rhymes2020On the Web of A Spider
by Pilar Muñoz, Matías Acosta
A toucan, a monkey, a lion, a crocodile and an elephant were swinging on the web of a spider but… Hoy many animals can it resist? Pilar Muñoz Lascano, author of multiple children’s books, is inspired by a popular children’ song to give life to this fun story whose characters are masterfully illustrated by the renowned Uruguayan illustrator Matías Acosta. “One elephant was swinging over the web of a spider, because he saw, that he didn’t fall another elephant was called Two elephants were swinging over the web of a spider…” —extract of The Elephant Song (nursery rhyme), source of inspiration for this book
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April 2016Elefantes en el cuarto
by Infante, Sindy
The innocent task of organizing the room unleashes in Sindy a chain of memories of her youth and childhood, of her love for sports, for drawing, of her first boyfriends and girlfriends. She always felt out of place until she discovered which team she wanted to play for. This autobiographical comic book explores Sindy Infante's childhood and youth, her family relationships, her love for sports and, above all, the fact that she grew up in Bogotá as a lesbian. The book reconstructs with an innocent drawing style the story of the protagonist/drawer, who evokes memories from objects in her room. The result is an honest story, which does not fall into the predictable and with which it is very easy to identify.
