The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil
The Biopolitics of Beauty explores how cosmetic practices in Brazil intersect with citizenship, belonging, and political life. Focusing on affective capital, Alvaro Jarrín examines the social and emotional value assigned to beauty and considers what appearance reveals about bodies, identity, and participation.
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The Biopolitics of Beauty examines the relationship between cosmetic practices and citizenship in Brazil.
Alvaro Jarrín explores how beauty can function as a form of social and political participation.
The book considers affective capital and the emotional dimensions attached to appearance, value, and belonging.
It offers a focused study of how bodies and beauty become connected to broader questions of public life.
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