Article ID: CBB733642746

Varig, “a Real Brazilian Embassy Outside”: Anthropological reflections on aviation and national imaginaries (2019)

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Carolina Castellitti (Author)


The Journal of Transport History
Volume: 40
Issue: 1
Pages: 82-105


Publication Date: 2019
Edition Details: Special issue: Flying the history of commercial aviation in Latin America
Language: English

This paper proposes some anthropological notes on aviation and national imaginaries, taking Varig, an important Brazilian airline with international projection and recognition, as a starting point. The analysis is based on an explorative perspective, which included fieldwork among Varig’s former employees, especially female flight attendants who joined the carrier in the 1970s and 1980s and remained until the closure of its activities. Alongside the testimonies of these employees, it analyses magazine and television advertisements from Varig and other Brazilian airlines, in order to throw some light on the pertinence of gender, class and race as social markers that structured the aviation field in the second half of the twentieth century. Through a critical perspective, this work launches heterodox interpretative challenges on the nation-building process, hoping thus to contribute to a better understanding of the political and ideological games that characterised the formation of the nation.

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Authors & Contributors
Morgan Spencer
Bilotkach, Volodymyr
Diego Barría Traverso
M. Houston Johnson
Denton, Sally
Jordi Nadal
Concepts
Business history
Aviation, commercial
Technology and State
Public policy
Transportation
International relations
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Latin America
China
Brazil
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Saudi Arabia
Institutions
Hispano-Suiza (firm)
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)
Compañía Mexicana de Aviación
Línea Aérea Nacional
Lufthansa
Iberia, Líneas Aéreas de España
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