Family, Households and Women's Empowerment in Bahia, Brazil, Through the Generations: Continuities or Change?

This article identifies changes and continuities in gender relations in a working class neighbourhood in Salvador, Bahia, through the generations. Based on data collected over a period of nearly 20 years, it seeks to identify processes of women's empowerment. It confirms the relevance of women's economic independence to their participation in decision?making and in gaining autonomy; it gave them the power to assert control over their own lives. To this end, female solidarity has also played a special role, propitiating the exercise of power with to bring about the desired changes in one's lives. However, neither economic independence nor female solidarity alone seems to have automatically led to conscious ‘gender rebellion’ and a break with traditional roles in the family. This only becomes possible when new values and attitudes in favour of alternative models, such as those proposed by contemporary feminisms, gain greater expression

Estudo sobre as convenções coletivas da categoria canavieira. São Paulo, Pernambuco e Goiás, 1989-2005

Series NEAD Estudos Vol. 17Nesta edição da Série NEAD Estudos, apresentamos a segunda parte desse trabalho, em que são analisadas algumas das mais importantes cláusulas constantes das convenções coletivas de trabalho firmadas nos estados selecionados. A seleção desses três estados deuse em função de sua importância na produção de cana-de-açúcar no Brasil, bem como pela abrangência dos contratos coletivos de trabalho, que compreendem todos os trabalhadores e trabalhadoras canavieiros dessas unidades da federação. Quanto à definição dos contratos a serem examinados, optou-se por considerar os de 1989, 1995 e 2005. Pretende-se, assim, detectar as mudanças ocorridas na regulamentação das relações de trabalho desde a retomada das negociações coletivas da categoria, que ocorreu no final dos anos 70 no estado de Pernambuco, e a partir de meados da década de 80 em Goiás e São Paulo, até os dias atuais, passando pelo período de intensa reestruturação produtiva do setor nos anos 90, que causou impactos signifi cativos na organização do trabalho e na forma de produção

Affirmative actions in terms of special rights:Confronting structural violence in Brazilian higher education

Made available in DSpace on 2019-10-04T12:14:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2019-07-01Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)In this article, the authors interpret affirmative actions with reference to structural violence, which is accompanied by legitimizing discourses that tend to make discrimination appear natural and unquestionable. They illustrate the extension of structural violence in Brazilian society with particular reference to access to higher education. It has been common to talk about some groups of students as having special needs. However, the authors see groups of students suffering structural violence as being groups with special rights, and explore affirmative actions through the notion of special rights. The authors find that special-rights terminology establishes the discussion of affirmative actions in higher education in a broader and, at the same time, more profound conceptual framework related to interpretations of social justice. Simultaneously, special-rights terminology brings an educational specificity to the discussion of affirmative actions. Thus, the authors see affirmative actions as being both a general sociopolitical and specific educational challenge.Univ Fed Alfenas, Dept Math, 700th Gabriel Monteiro da Silva St, BR-37130001 Alfenas, MG, BrazilAalborg Univ, Dept Learning & Philosophy, Aalborg, DenmarkState Univ Sao Paulo, Dept Math Educ, Sao Paulo, BrazilState Univ Sao Paulo, Dept Math Educ, Sao Paulo, BrazilCAPES: 2014/05584-

How Brazil's Agrarian Dynamics Shape Development Cooperation in Africa

Submitted version of Bulletin articleThis article shows how Brazil’s history of agrarian dynamics shapes development cooperation. In particular, Brazil’s dualistic agrarian structure frames policy discourse, and shapes development cooperation thinking and practice. Given Brazil’s recent experience of rural poverty reduction, the article argues that a focus on ‘family farming’ is potentially the most productive form of engagement in development cooperation. This is illustrated through an analysis of Brazilian cooperation promoted by the Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA), and in particular its More Food International Programme. While Brazilian family farms are very different to those found in Africa, there can be a productive exchange of experience, expertise and equipment. Key lessons from the Brazilian experience is the need for state backing and support, providing social security for the poor, offering financial support and technical expertise for family farming and the existence of effective social mobilisation by civil society.ESRC, DFI