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Ageing with smartphones in urban Brazil : a work in progress
Duque, Marília

With people living longer all over the world, ageing has been framed as a socio-economic problem. In Brazil, older people are expected to remain healthy and autonomous while actively participating in society. Based on ethnographic research in São Paulo, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil shows how older people in a middle-class neighbourhood conciliate these expectations with the freedom …

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ISBN/ISSN
9781787359963
Collation
x, 293 p. ill;
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Call Number
303.4833 AGE M
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future history of water
Ballestero, Andrea

Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four technolegal devices—formula, index, list and pact. She arg…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781478004516
Collation
xvii, 232p.: ill.
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Call Number
333.339 BAL f