Revista Em Pauta: Teoria Social e Realidade Contemporânea

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Authors: Mariela Natalia Becher

This article aims to discuss the ideas of social disintegration as part of the birth of Brazil and the Latin American colony. It is based on the central thesis of Caio Prado Jr. who analyzed colonization as a “big trade company” that never aimed to populate these territories. A social fracture that at successive moments of Brazil’s history acquires different characteristics, but never ceases to exist and deepen. In front of the capital’s structural crisis, this breakdown deepens and reproduces in an exponential manner and with new features.

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Authors: Carolina Mamblona; Lorena Ugarte

In this paper, we propose to synthesize the course of the post-2001 territorial movements, specifically identifying the movement of unemployed workers that belongs to the suburban third ring of the Argentinean capital city or “Big Buenos Aires”. We make a balance of what happened during the days of December the 19th and 20th of 2001, the fundamental milestone of the period of resistance to neoliberalism in its most acute implementation during the 90s, to understand the state’s intervention produced from 2003 in Nestor Kirchner´s government. We want to highlight the return to a “popular national” matrix in the territorial intervention, occupying the social space “opened” by unemployed workers’ autonomous organizations (autonomy in respect to the State and the traditional forms of political exercise, including diverse experiences or traditions that act together with segments of the “popular national” matrix turned to the anti-liberal struggle), who lost their unified strength, fragmenting and relegating spaces to the traditional politics. Finally, we mention territorial implementation strategies of the period and their implications for the professional intervention of social work.

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Authors: Silene de Moraes Freire

Briefly, the present article aims to map some important aspects that permeate the debate, the defense and the active intervention in the field of human rights in Brazil. Replacing the need to rethink the ambiguities and persistent pitfalls generated by it, as well as the possibilities created by the subject in times of barbarism.

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Authors: Magali da Silva Almeida

This paper presents some reflections about the genocide of the black population, expression of institutionalized racial violence in Brazil. We focused on the analysis of socio-racial indicators for understanding racial inequality in the African Diaspora and the experience of the black population is characterized by multiple and contradictory anti-black processes. The critical and contemporary studies of the Diaspora are the basis for an interpretation of anti-black racism. The roots for this go back to the emergence of the modern colonial state and its ideologies and discriminatory practices reconfigured along capitalist development. The study adopts the concept of African Diaspora as genocide, but opens up the possibilities of multiple resistances and struggles for human emancipation and materialization.

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Authors: Marco Aurélio Santana

The article reflects on the trajectory of Brazilian workers and their representative bodies during the military regime (1964-1985), as well as the political and academic views on the work of the same period. In this regard, indicating that would be effective concealment of the activities performed by such players, either in the sense of resistance to the military system or supporting it. It is pointed out what could be the future research vectors on the theme.

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Authors: Pedro Henrique Pedreira Campos

This article aims to analyze the state policies of Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1964-1988) for the construction workers, in view of the interests and favoring the businessmen of this sector, particularly public works contractors. From a theoretical and conceptual framework arising from historical materialism, we discuss in general terms the working conditions provided at sites for construction workers, their forms of organization and the limitations imposed on unionization and the mobilization during the dictatorship. We also approach the safety and health of the worker, accidents occurred in the sites and the ways of action of these workers in strikes, riots and smashing, particularly in the final period of the regime. Our conclusions indicate that policies for workers in general and construction in particular along the Brazilian dictatorship were intensely beneficial for the contractors.

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Authors: Alcina Maria de Castro Martins; Virgínia Alves Carrara

Higher education, in all four corners of the world, has nowadays the theme and reality of the internationalization process that has intensified the circulation of students, teachers and researchers to conduct studies and research abroad. This article is an approximation, through literature research and document analysis, of the dialogue established between the Portuguese and Brazilian Social Work from 1960 on, to identify international relations within the qualification and training of teaching staff and researchers in Social Work in the context of the transformation of education and internationalization of higher education.

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Authors: Adrian Celentano

Since the mid-sixties, in presence of the rise of the political and ideological radicalization in Latin-American, the young argentine universities students founded a series of fronts and groups involved in the struggle against the military dictatorship led by General Juan C. Onganía. An innovative range of trends competed for the organization of the student movement. They characterized by breaking with the traditional left (the Communist and the Socialist Parties) by questioning the academic and scientific institutions established controlled by the paradigm “desarrollista” of the development. Also by taking part in the revolutionary movements emerged between 1969 and 1971. This papers maps the student groups linked to parties and currents of the “New Left”, specifically four Maoist groups of unequal dimensions.

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Authors: William Berger

This article aims to present briefly the revolutionary character of the life and work of Brazilian playwright and political activist Augusto Boal and his collective creation in Theatre of the Oppressed. Boal became known worldwide for creating this method now practiced on the five continents. He starts from seven topics that seek to connect the search path with Augusto Boal’s trajectory: from the Nucleo Arena Theatre of São Paulo to the current expansion of the method “Inside Brazil and around the world”, passing through the military dictatorship in Brazil. The topics are the following: 1. Methodology; 2. The Oppressed and the Revolution: a dialogue between concepts and processes; 3. Augusto Boal: background, dictatorship and creation of the Theatre of the Oppressed; 4. Theatre of the Oppressed: the initial steps of the method; 5. Brief Historiography of Theatre of the Oppressed; 6. The Theatre of the Oppressed is it a revolutionary theater? and 7. The Tree of Theatre of the Oppressed. Finally he draws some final thoughts about the direction of Theatre of the Oppressed in the current conjuncture.