Emancipação

What does the racialized profile of the prison population in Brazil have to tell us? An analysis of mass incarceration and structural racism on the periphery of 21st century capitalism

Mirele Hashimoto Siqueira — 2025-06-10

This article aims to problematize the relationship between mass incarceration and structural racism, seeking to support the debate by characterizing the profile of the prison population in Brazil between the years 2018-2021. This is a theoretical reflection drawn from a documentary survey of the statistical data present in the reports of the National Penitentiary Information Survey (INFOPEN). In this sense, it was possible to verify that the Brazilian prison system has been extremely selective: a specific population
is often the target of the State’s social control practices – the black, brown, poor and peripheral population. Under it, the State plays a substantively criminal role, in order to reinforce its criminalization and association with a “delinquent” and “dangerous” population. However, it turns out that, on the periphery of capitalism, the marginalization of this population is neither recent nor new: it establishes a relationship with the structural racism that permeates our social relations, reiterating itself in the 21st century.

Black atlantic: decolonizing movements of resistance and fight for rights

Anna Paula Bagetti Zeifert — 2025-06-06

This article investigates the relevance of the expression Black Atlantic as an analytical narrative, not just a geographical and cultural one. It demonstrates the importance of the African diaspora in the colonization
processes as a constitutive element of modernity itself. It highlights the attempt to erase and silence black struggles during the process of enslavement and trafficking across the Black Atlantic, representing forms of appropriation
of history always told and theorized from the perspective of the European colonizer. Based on the elements presented, it approaches the decolonization movement represented by the Haitian Revolution and the quilombola struggles in Brazil. Developed based on qualitative research, it focuses its understanding and interpretation on the study of resistance phenomena, social and cultural contexts. In conclusion, it shows that the Black Resistance Movements in Haiti and Brazil represented/represent important mechanisms for the search for freedom of black populations and for the fight for social justice and the effectiveness of human rights.

What meanings do the etymologies that characterize the street population have in recent Brazilian scientific production (2013-2023)?

Pollyanna de Souza Carvalho — 2025-06-02

This study, based on a systematic review, having as its pillar the National Policy for the Street Population, aims to encourage reflection on
the terminologies about the street population in recent Brazilian scientific production (2013-2023). We used the Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations (CTD) of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), from 2013 to 2023, to comprehend researchers views on this case, analyzing the meanings they attributed to street situation. We identify more than twenty terminologies associated this public, like: street dweller and
population, subjects, women and street users, miserable, invisible, urban wanderers, among others. There is no consensus in the literature on the use of these terminologies in the years investigated. Each researcher assigns a meaning, considering the legislation, or considering theories associated this public.

The outsourcing of care: the service in a welcoming family in the face of the dismantling of social policies.

Uélma Nascimento — 2025-06-02

This article is the result of bibliographic and documentary research that investigated the Foster Family Service (SFA). To this end, we sought
the necessary theoretical framework, as well as data presented by official bodies and legislation relevant to the topic. The study pointed out how the current scenario of crisis and dismantling of the Brazilian State, in the face of neoliberalism, and in its current phase, ultraneoliberalism, with its counter-reform proposals, reduce investments in public policies, resulting in the social lack of protection of families, favoring various forms of violence against children and adolescents, leading to their institutional or family fostering. In this scenario, the State has intensified practices previously used, such as volunteer work, offered by the SFA. The study concludes that the reduction of the State’s burden required by neoliberal policies and its outsourcing of child care by civil society through volunteering will compromise the continuity, in the medium or long term, of the SFA.

Non-revictimizing hearing to girls victims of sexual violence: a political issue of access to justice

Vanessa Nascimento Viana — 2025-05-15

Analysis of the impact of Argentine Law nº 25,852, of 2003, art. 250 bis and ter of the National Code of Criminal Procedure, the first regulation in South America on specialized hearings for girls, boys and adolescents victims
of sexual violences, which are increasing on a global scale. In the analysis of 27 sentences for sexual crimes mostly against girls, a change in the institutional culture of the courts was observed. On the socio-political aspect of access
to justice, problems were found in the incorporation of the norm, such as different appropriation by judges and asymmetries rooted in inequalities between men and women. A transition was envisaged from the traditional
legal format anchored in the judge (inquiries and judges) to one of respectful listening, not without controversy, carried out by specialized professionals. It was considered that the regulations establish a new paradigm of access to justice for children victims, a trigger to consolidate new jurisprudence on sexual crimes against girls and women.

The impact of cultural diversity on the brazilian educational political agenda: an assessment of social demands

Thiago Felipe Sebben — 2025-05-06

The debate in favor of recognizing Brazilian cultural diversity has been intensifying over the last few decades, through successive struggles by identity-based social movements. Data presented by IBGE in 2022 show that public policies to recognize cultural diversity are still not sufficient. The aim of this article is to evaluate the impact of this discourse on the agenda of Brazilian educational policies. The adopted procedure consisted of bibliographic
research organized into three stages. The struggles of identity-based social movements influenced by the theories of Multiculturalism, Cultural Studies and Black Studies contributed to the centrality of the cultural diversity theme
on the international agenda, subsequently impacting the national educational policy agenda through a non-linear process of advances and setbacks. It is concluded that policies for cultural diversity need to be enhanced, with the
participation of historically marginalized social groups in deliberative and public policy management instances.

The university learns to count: the census of the homeless population in the city of Recife

Otávio Augusto Alves dos Santos — 2025-05-06

The objective of this article is to present the methodological
design developed by a group of researchers from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco and the initial findings of the census investigation of the homeless population in the city of Recife, research that was distinguished by the participation of social movements and institutions that work with this population. Based on the presentation of this action-research path, we propose to make a brief description of the methodology and instruments, as well as the protocols used in census research aimed at understanding the reality of tis population. In addition, we present some of the results and their impacts on the field of public management, observing the consequences of these data in the formulation of policies for access to income, housing, food, health, education and culture. Thus, the reflections on the research in question allow us to recognize the scientific and pedagogical exercise carried out by the university so that a political literacy of society and its institutions can be achieved, challenging prejudices, stigmas, myths and bringing to light that which is sought at all costs to hide in urban social reality, and to which the discourse of so-called “invisibility” contributes.

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

Luiz Felipe Velloso Leal — 2025-04-22

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

Laila Mayara Drebes — 2025-04-22

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

Bruna Balsano — 2025-04-16

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

Fabiane Oliveira dos Santos — 2025-04-16

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

Sayonara Genilda Sousa Lima — 2025-04-16

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 Work, Popular Education, and the Integration of University Extension into the Curriculum

Angela Maria Moura Costa — 2025-05-15

Public universities and professional training in Social Work are facing a recent and signicant challenge: the curricular integration of university

extension activities. University extension is an essential tool for academic education, as it aims to establish a dialogical interaction between the university and society. In this context, the objective of this paper is to advocate for the importance of a dialogical and emancipatory approach to university extension in the professional training of Social Work students, as well as to problematize

both longstanding and emerging challenges arising from this integration. To this end, we revisit the connection between Social Work, Paulo Freire, and Popular Education; we question whom the public university serves; and we critically examine university extension, its integration into the curriculum, and the challenges it poses to Social Work education. Therefore, our findings

suggest that the university must undergo transformation and incorporate extension activities as an essential component of professional education. A dialogical and emancipatory university extension fosters interaction between academia and society, promoting social transformation and the development of professionals who are conscious and committed to social justice.

Social determinants of the commodification of human organs

Vinícius Araújo Pereira — 2025-04-16

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

Verônica Martins Tiengo — 2025-04-01

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.

digital inclusion in family farmimng: public policies and social justice

Emili Everz Golombiéski — 2025-07-03

This article presents research into the issue of digital inclusion in family farming, highlighting the challenges faced by small farmers in adopting digital technologies. Despite the potential of technological innovations to improve productivity and equity, the lack of infrastructure, high costs and resistance to change limit their implementation. The methodology adopted combines literature review and case study analysis, allowing an understanding of the necessary practices and policies. The results indicate that collaboration between government, research institutions and farmer organizations makes it possible to overcome barriers and promote inclusion. It is concluded that adaptive public policies, integrating technical support and training, guarantee benefits from digital technologies, contributing to fair and sustainable
agricultural development.

Cannabis Patient Associations in Brazil: mapping and democratic contribution

Paulo José dos Reis Pereira — 2025-06-30

The article investigates Cannabis Patient Associations (CPAs) in Brazil, focusing on their role in democratizing access to healthcare and advocating for rights. The objective is to map the presence, characteristics, and functioning of these associations. The research uses a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative and qualitative data collection through an online survey answered by 61 CPAs. The analysis is based on the theoretical framework of democratic associativism and cannabis regulation. The results reveal a diversity of practices and legal, structural, and stigmatization challenges faced by CPAs. In addition to providing medicinal products, these associations promote education, legal support, and advocacy for cannabis regulation for therapeutic purposes. The article concludes that the APCs
play a crucial role in promoting social inclusion and transforming public health policies, despite regional inequalities and the still repressive legal environment surrounding cannabis.

Environmental Education and Agroecology: The Collective Construction of the Econorte Group (RS)

Elisângela Lazzari — 2025-06-25

This research aims to understand how environmental education actions take place among the participants of the agroecology group Econorte, located in the municipality of São José do Norte – RS, Brazil. A qualitative methodological approach was employed, using both primary and secondary data. Based on the investigation, it was observed that the Econorte agroecology group develops environmental education actions grounded in a conception of environment and life considered healthy. This is expressed in the group’s experiences of production, organization, and commercialization, as well as in the exchanges between producers and consumers. It was possible to identify changes in understanding and practices, such as: agroecological consumption
within family units; the overcoming of the perception that agroecological production is an exclusively female activity; the expansion of political participation in the municipality; and engagement in the construction of movements with environmental agendas, such as the struggle against the presence of large-scale mining enterprises in the territory.

Ideología e impacto social en los usos de la palabra innovación

Jorge Kulemeyer — 2025-06-09

This text makes critical reference to the widespread use with which, in current and recent times, the concept of innovation is associated, which does not contemplate the diversity of situations and consequences inherent to the
undirected use of the word. As a whole, innovations of all kinds, their uses and effective or possible applications, have had and continue to have a decisive impact on social behavior. This paper aims to critically evaluate aspects that lead to the emergence of the conception of technological innovation, driven by private companies whose leaders are labeled “entrepreneurs”, as the main engine of the economic development of society as a vector of commercial profitability. The generalization of this conception translates, in practice, into one of the main pillars of an individualistic society in which the impulse for the common good loses consideration and incentive.

Emergencies and innovation in the Unified Social Assistance System

Jucimeri Isolda Silveira — 2025-06-06

This article analyzes the context of emergencies and the challenges in resuming the foundational structures of the Unified Social Assistance System, understood as institutional innovations. The developed study employs exploratory research to identify the use of resistance strategies against the dismantling of social protection. At the same time, institutional challenges are presented, fostering participatory processes that enhance a decolonial social policy, and therefore, innovative, in the face of the challenge of overcoming hygienist, conservative, and ultra-neoliberal conceptions. The conclusion points to the need for a decolonial focus, with the enhancement of participatory processes and greater impact towards an emancipatory direction.

Solar energy for rural communities from Amapá Amazon: premises and narratives

Martinho Felizardo Guimarães de Oliveira — 2025-05-26

This paper aims to show the importance of energy inclusion as an inducer of development in small rural communities in Amapá, based on the experience of a public policy of the state government that provided funds for the acquisition of photovoltaic systems to entities representing these communities in 2022. Methodologically, it is characterized as a bibliographical review and a descriptive, explanatory work, with a qualitative approach to the analysis of technical reports and quantitative data on the funding volume and
the program’s respective developments. Among the preliminary results, it is worth noting that investments in photovoltaic kits for these representative entities totaled R$8,641,650.00, distributed among 19 associations, serving 432 families, which is associated with a productive arrangement (rearing shrimp in captivity). This initial data shows a development perspective for these rural territories, with the premise of a policy that enables inclusion and productive autonomy rather than programmed dependence.

Social technologies forged in academy as tools for social development: an analysis from an emancipatory perspective

Jairo de Carvalho Guimarães — 2025-05-26

The objective of this study is to establish direct connections
between the social issue, represented by numerous examples of social inequality; academia, a privileged locus for the production of knowledge aimed at mitigating these inequalities; social technologies, understood as tools for enabling solutions designed and structured in academia; the State, characterized by public management, as the power to embrace possible solutions for addressing the social issue; and the emancipation of the social subject, a key element in the reception of public policies that effectively promote the reduction of social asymmetries, so evident in Brazil. As a method, the study is based on bibliography that includes the guiding elements of the conceptual structure of the research and on documents
that constitute a theoretical scope capable of fulfilling the objective. It has a qualitative approach, of a descriptive-exploratory nature. It is concluded that academia has a relevant social role in the production of social technologies,
by suggesting public policies capable of curbing social inequalities, activating innovative solutions and guaranteeing the emancipation of the individual, thus strengthening citizenship.

The contributions of social work to water resource management

Guilherme Siqueira — 2025-05-26

Sustainability is a relevant professional field, but one that is still little explored by social workers in Brazil. The participation of these professionals in environmental issues is growing, especially with the multidimensional approach to sustainability, which integrates ethical, social and political aspects. This study focuses on the challenges related to water resources, highlighting water as a resource threatened by human activities. The aim is to analyze how social workers can contribute to public and social policies on the water issue, considering the legislation in the Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiaí River Basins. The research uses a qualitative approach, through documentary and bibliographic analysis, and is based on the theoretical-methodological competencies of the profession. The results indicate that Social Work can offer answers to the worsening of socio-environmental issues, but it remains to be seen whether the category is willing to deepen its work in this field.

Power relations in knowledge discourses: Scientific popularization as a dispositive

Phillipp Dias Gripp — 2025-05-26

The article discusses the system of dissemination of scientific-academic knowledge through a dialogical and emancipatory perspective, debating theoretical weaknesses, such as the consolidation of research in
the informational paradigm and the designation of non-specialist subjects as scientific illiterates. This dialogism is sought by reviewing and grounding the conceptual strands of scientific communication, scientific dissemination, and scientific journalism as discursive formations. It is understood that these are conditioned by the ideological formation of the will to know, which is evidenced by the perception that science exercises a state of domination over common sense in the sphere of knowledge. Thus, the notion of scientific popularization is problematized, taking it as a strategic dispositive that that helps the exercise of power relations in the scope of scientific knowledge by non-specialist subjects. From the perspective of the challenges of the materiality of actions aimed at the popularization of science, the social innovation actions of the post-doctoral research project developed by the authors are presented, which seeks to promote public policies in scientific popularization with a view to emancipating the social actors involved.