Favela dá samba?: Um estudo sobre as representações da favela no carnaval carioca

Para o Desfile das Escolas de Samba do Grupo Especial do Rio de Janeiro em 2014, o Grêmio Recreativo e Escola de Samba (G.R.E.S) São Clemente escolheu o enredo “favela”. A presente dissertação analisa a escolha e o desenvolvimento desse tema pela escola, problematizando as representações da favela apresentadas no desfile e as ideias e negociações mantidas entre os membros da escola na preparação do mesmo. Mais especificamente, o trabalho procura enfrentar o desafio de pensar a favela apresentada pela G.R.E.S. São Clemente a partir dos “dogmas” consolidados em torno da favela, conforme argumenta Lícia Valladares (2005), e contrapondo o esperado luxo de um desfile de uma Escola de Samba do Grupo Especial do Rio de Janeiro com a simplicidade composta por todas as supostas “faltas” que a favela possui.

After structuralism, a development alternative for Latin America

The paper, first, summarizes Latin American structuralism, and offers reasons why it was so influential and durable in the region, as it attended to real demands, and was part of 1950s’mainstream economics. Second, says why, with 1980s’Great Crisis, structuralism eventually ended itself into crisis, as it was unable to keep pace with historical new facts, particularly with the industrial revolution or takeoff, that made Latin American economies intermediary, still developing, but fully capitalist. Third, it lists the consensus that today exists on economic development. Forth, opposes “official orthodoxy” to “developmental populism”, the former deriving from neoclassical economics, the later from structuralism, and offers, in relation to six strategic issues, a progressive development alternative.

Economic stagnation and alternative development strategies

The focus of my paper is the presentation of some thoughts on overcoming economic stagnation, with reference to the case of Mexico. In Section 2, I will describe the reasons why the policies of financial opening based on the Washington Consensus create endogenous tendencies toward economic stagnation and overvaluation of currencies. Section 3 offers a concise outline of a possible alternative development project for Mexico. Section 4 presents some proposals regarding monetary, foreign exchange, and fiscal policy oriented toward reviving economic growth. Finally, in Section 5, I present some conclusions.