Emancipação

Occupations as new collective actors: Resignifications and disputes over urban daily life

2024-10-23T13:59:13+00:00

The article asks what is new about the Urban Occupations that have taken shape over the last two decades in Belo Horizonte and eventually in the metropolitan region (RMBH). It argues that the Urban Occupations constitute new collective actors whose broader frame in the struggle for housing is for control over better conditions for the exercise of daily life. From the interrelationship with previous strategies and actors, it is possible to identify the Urban Occupations as new collective actors, highlighting that their relationship with other social actors, characterized as supporters or rivals from the past or present, is a dimension of the collective’s own urban daily life. The work is based on contributions from the new social movements
perspective, fundamentally Alberto Melucci (1980; 1989; 1996;2003), in order to understand the processes of constitution of contemporary collective actors, their identities and forms of action. The methodology is based fundamentally on a bibliographical review for convenience and documentary surveys.

New clothes and old struggles in the use of information and communication technologies in contemporary rural extension

2024-11-11T18:00:20+00:00

The study aims to analyze the potentialities and weaknesses of the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by the public rural extension service in Brazil, reflecting on recent proposals for digital rural advisory service. The results of this intellectual exercise made it possible to consider not only the strengths, but also and mainly the weaknesses of the digitalization process of the rural extension service, which is especially relevant in the contemporary moment, in which coalitions are formed in the fields academic and politician in favor of constructing a totalizing, and therefore fallacious, narrative that digital rural advisory service would be the best alternative to promote service to family farmers through the public rural
extension service, in terms of quality and quantity.

The Law of Institutional Violence and the symbolic effect of criminal law

2024-09-25T12:37:01+00:00

The purpose of this article is to reflect on the symbolic effect of Law 14.321/2022 – the Law on Institutional Violence – and to demonstrate the flaws in its symbolic application in order to understand the impact of symbolic criminal norms regarding institutional violence. It studies the trajectory of
the penal system in defense of women’s rights, particularly gender-based violence. The approach used in the research is supported by the deductive method, employing bibliographic, documentary, and analysis of previous studies conducted by the author. The results indicate that institutional violence against women is a reality present both in social everyday life and within institutions, including those that have the duty to protect human rights, such as the judiciary. However, this violence often remains invisible,
appearing in the news only sporadically as extraordinary events. This highlights the urgent need to promote effective discussions, reflections, and the demand for concrete actions by institutions. Furthermore, it is crucial to foster academic, social, and institutional debates aimed at changing behaviors rooted in a patriarchal society, rather than creating new symbolic legislation that, due to its ineffective application, generates insecurity in society and
does not reduce crime or gender-based violence.

Family farmers and the National School Feeding Program (PNAE): associative participation and economic autonomy

2024-09-13T14:45:49+00:00

The objectives of this article are to highlight the trajectory of the associated family farmers inserted in the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) and to verify the role played by the program in the socioeconomic conditions and autonomy of these women. This is a case study carried out
in a community association in a municipality of the Recôncavo region of Bahia. Ten family farmers were interviewed, organized in an experience highlighted by the results achieved by the collective. The research revealed
that the situation of social vulnerability still persists, the division of labor in the domestic environment is not equitable and the PNAE is the main tool for the flow of production. In addition, we found that associative participation constituted a formative space to unveil the inequalities experienced and, to some extent, an instrument for economic autonomy.

From “fire fighting” to planning: the intersectoriality in the mental health care of children and youth

2024-06-17T19:46:20+00:00

This article aims to identify the challenges and potentialities found in the management, planning and execution of intersectoral work focused on mental health care of children and youth. The empirical study dealt with the
reality of Teresina, capital of Piauí, where intersectoriality was investigated from the public policies of mental health, health, social assistance, education and socio-legal. For the investigation, at the master’s level, it was necessary to carry out bibliographic, documental, and field research, with data collection from semi-structured interviews and focus groups, and a qualitative approach. The results point to a work dynamic permeated by punctual actions and
by personalism, which highlights the importance of planning and of the institutionalization of intersectoriality. Therefore, it is concluded that there are several challenges and potentialities that permeate the implementation of intersectoriality, but it is necessary to invest in this strategy of care for children and youth.

Social determinants of the commodification of human organs

2024-11-05T19:48:43+00:00

The global shortage of organ donations, combined with socioeconomic inequalities, drives organ trafficking, a transnational phenomenon that exploits physical, psychological, social, and economic vulnerabilities. Based on a bibliographic survey and a review of national and international literature, this study aimed to examine, through a critical approach grounded in historicaldialectical materialism, the process by which human organs are transformed into commodities within the context of the capitalist mode of production. The dynamics of criminal networks, their structures, agents, and the specificities of the victims involved were outlined. Additionally, the influence of global capitalism and the relations of imperialism and dependency on the commodification of organs was analyzed. By understanding the operational,
economic-political, and structural determinants underpinning the object of this analysis, it was possible to deepen the level of abstraction and theoretically demonstrate how human organs are transformed into commodities.

Characteristics of social assistance policies aimed at homeless in latin american countries

2024-10-23T17:22:54+00:00

The aim is to present a study on the characteristics of social
assistance policies for the homeless in Latin American countries. In the field of social work and social policy, it is based on a critical-dialectical framework. The results show that in Latin America access to social policies is reduced and they are designed according to the residual model, which provides for targeting and selectivity to achieve greater effectiveness, but they provide reduced assistance to one of the groups that, according to the principle of selectivity, should be selected: the homeless. This is a documentary and field study, defining the countries according to the criteria of having a survey, having a census of the homeless and having legislation regulating their rights. For the field and documentary research, a script was prepared and the
interviews were semi-structured.