ABSTRACT
The introduction contextualizes the book’s topic: ‘Brazil’s emergence to the future and to global stage’. It lays out the questions and conversations this book aims to contribute to. How are conditions and processes for the representation of Brazil as a country coming to the future or as an emergent and falling actor on the global stage articulated and performed? What can these conditions and processes reveal in terms of spatiotemporal boundaries and possibilities? First, this chapter reviews contemporary representations of the world and world politics that inspire this analysis. Second, it analyzes the importance of studying world politics as a matter of discourse, and of exploring ontological claims in traditional theoretical accounts of world politics that have been forgotten or ignored in the context of discourses about globalization and deterritorialization common to late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century international politics. Finally, it discusses how particular representations of the world and world politics shape the way the topic ‘Brazil’s emergence’ has been defined.
