In Brazil, the working class has been losing rights and suffering with the discontinuation of public policies. The current government’s actions have been reflected in the increase of extreme poverty and, consequently, in the country’s return to the hunger map. The new coronavirus pandemic has aggravated this circumstance. It is in this context that...
In Brazil’s highly segregated urban centers, geographic location is known for its power to instantiate class positionality. Drawing on long term ethnographic engagements with housing beneficiaries of Brazil’s now revamped Minha Casa Minha Vida, I argue that, in the aftermath of the move, first-time homeowners activate remembrances of the hills (the...
Feminists take a variety of different approaches to discussions of the law, and many researchers have focused on studying the possibility of employing feminist legal methods of “doing” and “knowing” in law. Feminist authors discuss the possibility of applying feminist methods to question truth claims in law and challenge the power relations the law...
This article analyzes the emergence of Brazilian transnational corporations during the 2003-2018 period in relation to the restructuring of global cap-italism occurred through the last decades, a process characterized by the internationalization of production and the development of Global Value Chains; the concentration and centralization of capita...
Après près d’un siècle passé en marge du système migratoire mondial, le Brésil y reprend progressivement une place depuis les années 2000. Alors que les politiques des pays du Nord se durcissent à l’égard des migrants, ce « grand émergent » est devenu la destination de nouvelles migrations Sud-Sud. Si ces mouvements migratoires sont principalement ...
With the emergence of Covid-19, discussions on vaccines caused greater repercussions around the world. In social networks, spaces where different publics produce content and express their perceptions and interests, publications about immunizers have become major topics of public debate. In this article, we aim to identify and analyze the feelings a...
Objective: The indication of the places of memory of the military dictatorship in Brazil is still incipient in this country. Thus, this work intends to indicate such places in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, protagonist of the 1964 coup to democracy, not only because General Mourão Filho’s troops were stationed there a materialization of what was alrea...
The objective of this research is to report on academic practices focused on innovation at a community university in the South of Brazil. For this, we conducted a bibliographical review and a qualitative experience report, based on the authors; observations at a community university about their innovative actions, including physical and methodologi...
This research analyzed the country and corporate characteristics influencing companies’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure in Brazil and Germany. The methodology is descriptive, quantitative, and documentary, analyzing the period from 2010 to 2019 of Brazilian companies from Brasil, Bolsa e Balcão (B3) and German companies from ...
This article studies surrogacy as one of the most popular assisted human reproduction techniques in the world and focuses on Latin America to review the regulation in some countries of the region: Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama and Peru. As a main finding, it is found that in none of these nations the legislative body has issued ...
