Lost for Words?: Brazilian Liberationism in the 1990s

by Goetz Frank Ottmann

Lost for Words? explores the rise and decline of progressive Catholic grassroots activism and its drive for social justice and democratic change in four low-income neighborhoods in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. Ottmann focuses on the obstacles faced by the poor who took seriously the claim that \u0022the people\u0022 were to transform Brazilian society \u0022from the bottom up.\u0022 He follows their travails through periods of democratization, mass unemployment,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822941813
• ISBN13: 9780822941811
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"