In the Remains of Progress

Henrique Costa is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of São Paulo, holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas, and was a visiting scholar at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Foreword


Acknowledgements


List of Maps


Introduction: In the Remains of Progress

 1 Wageless Life


 2 Structure of Feelings


 3 Questions of Approach


 4 Book’s Guide




Part 1

Ethnography

1 The Sun Shines for Everyone: The New Peripheral Middle Class

 1 Utopia in Paraisópolis


 2 Middle Class in the Quebrada


 3 Through Generations


 4 Possible Goals


 5 Strugglers


 6 Recognition


 7 Onwards




2 Between Lights and Shadows: Stories of Suffering and Religiosity

 1 Guiltless World


 2 Us and Them


 3 Mistrust


 4 Prosperity


 5 Family Ties


 6 God Willing


 7 Uncertainty


 8 Know-How




3 Mirages: Utopias of Modernity in Social Entrepreneurship

 1 Anti-capitalist


 2 Social Impact


 3 Two Sides of the Bridge


 4 Spreading Wings


 5 Powers


 6 Competence


 7 Peripheral Subject




Part 2

Structure of Feelings

4 Reconfigurations

 1 Family, Community and Social Classes


 2 Social Entrepreneurship and the Classless Society


 3 From Precarious Labour to Popular Entrepreneurship




5 Utopia and Suffering

 1 Self-Management and Therapeutic Narrative in Two Exemplary Cases


 2 The Guiltless World and Its Deconstruction




 Conclusion: The Moral Economy of the Brazilian Wageless Lives


 References


 Index