Donna M. Goldstein
Donna Goldstein has written extensively on the intersection of race, gender, poverty and violence in Brazil. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown (University of California Press 2003), focusing on the lives of impoverished domestic workers who deploy humor and laughter as strategic forms of resistance in their day-to-day struggle for survival. Currently, she is writing about pharmaceutical politics, bioethics, regulation, and neoliberalism in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and the United States. |
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Selected Publications:
- 2009 Goldstein, Donna. "The Perils of Witnessing and the Ambivalence of Writing: Everyday Violence in the Shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro," In: Martha K. Huggins and Marie-Louise Glebbeek, eds., Women Fielding Danger: Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research. Boulder and New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., pp. 227-249.
- 2008 Goldstein, Donna. Book Review of Desmond Arias' Drugs and Democracy in Rio De Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security, Contemporary Sociology 37(6): 578-9.
- 2007 Goldstein, Donna. "Life or Profit?: Structural Violence, Moral Psychology, and Pharmaceutical Politics." Anthropology in Action, vol. 14, No. 3, Winter 2007. In Special Issue titled, "The Location of Culture and Politics in Latin American and Caribbeanist Anthropology," pp. 44-58.
- 2007 Goldstein, Donna. "Gun Politics: Reflections on Brazil's Failed Gun Ban Referendum in Rio de Janeiro," In: Charles Fruehling Springwood, ed., Open Fire: Understanding Global Gun Cultures, Oxford, England: Berg, pp. 28-41.
- 2003 Goldstein, Donna M. Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Winner of the Margaret Mead Award, Society for Applied Anthropology and American Anthropological Association 2004, Eaton Faculty Award, CU-Boulder 2006-7).
- 2001 Goldstein, Donna. "Microenterprise Training Programs, Neo-Liberal Common Sense, and the Discourses of Self-Esteem." In: Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky, eds. The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Politics, Policy and Impoverished People in the United States. New York: New York University Press, 236-272.
- 2000 Debert, Guita and Donna M. Goldstein, eds. Políticas do corpo e o curso da vida. (trans. Body Politics and the Life Course) São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Sumaré.
- 1999 Goldstein, Donna. "'Interracial' Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts?" American Anthropologist 101 (3):563-578.
- 1998 Goldstein, Donna. "Nothing Bad Intended: Child Discipline, Punishment, and Survival in a Shantytown in Rio de Janeiro." In: Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargeant, eds. Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood. Berkeley: University of California-Berkeley Press, pp. 389-415.
- 1995 Goldstein, Donna. "From Yellow Star to Red Star: Anti-Semitism, Anti-Communism, and the Jews of Hungary." PoLar, Journal of Political and Legal Anthropology, 18(1): 1-12.