The impact of privatisation on the banking sector in the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Os movimentos sociais de juventude e os direitos dos jovens no Brasil

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A abordagem neoconservadora da crise na sociedade estadunidense e sua influência no governo de George W. Bush

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Towards universal social protection: Latin American pathways and policy tools

This book reflects on the public policies, programmes and regulatory frameworks that are taking a rights-based approach to expanding social protection coverage and benefits in Latin America, with a view to achieving universal coverage. The book’s discussion of the policy tools and programmes pursued in the region aims to provide the reader with technical and programmatic insights for assembling and coordinating public policies within consistent and sustainable social protection systems. The combination of normative orientations and stock of technical knowledge, together with advances regarding the rights-based approach to social protection within a life cycle framework, afford the reader not only a tool box of specific social protection instruments, but also an in-depth examination of related political economy aspects.

Trabalho docente e saúde: tensões da educação superior

Nesse estudo - abordamos as metamorfoses do mundo do trabalho, determinadas pelo esgotamento do modelo taylorista-fordista de produção, erigido no sentido de superar a crise da década de 1930, que assolou as sociedades capitalistas. Também é estudada a consolidação de um tipo de Estado que deu suporte ao período de maior desenvolvimento do capitalismo, o Welfare State, assentando, nos países desenvolvidos, suas bases nos pressupostos keynesianos – propunha imprimir ao Estado um papel estratégico no desenvolvimento do capitalismo global, e que tem sua derrocada com a crise econômica da década de 1970, com o aprofundamento do processo de mundialização dos mercados e a consolidação, aí, do poder político-econômico das empresas multi e transnacionais. Problematiza-se a centralidade do trabalho enquanto categoria social fundamental e os nexos entre trabalho, saúde e educação. O papel que Estado desempenha no quadro mais amplo da sociedade capitalista, marcado pela introdução de uma nova regulação social, concretizada por meio da implementação de reformas de cunho neoliberal, as quais podem ser observadas no âmbito das políticas públicas na sociedade brasileira, viabilizando a implementação de uma lógica mercantilista no campo educacional, principalmente na Educação Superior, que se traduz na reorganização e realização do trabalho docente nesse nível de ensino, com precarização, intensificação desse trabalho e sua repercussão sobre a saúde do docente. Analisamos os nexos entre trabalho e saúde, marcados pela submissão do corpo e da “alma” do trabalhador, aos interesses da acumulação capitalista e enfatizamos o momento em que novas questões se colocaram para as diferentes áreas do saber e das práticas, principalmente, no campo da saúde e da educação, de modo a exigirem uma reorientação dos velhos padrões de compreender o mundo, reorientação que implica a necessidade de um encontro entre a Saúde do Trabalhador e a Educação

Considerações sobre a pobreza no Brasil e suas manifestações nas cidades da Amazônia

Neste artigo, destinado a não especialistas, tecem-se considerações sobre a pobreza, analisando-se suas manifestações nas cidades brasileiras, em particular nas cidades amazônicas, no contexto do liberalismo econômico. Na primeira parte, discutem-se diferentes definições de pobreza, na perspectiva dos países em desenvolvimento. Em seguida, examinam-se as causas estruturais da pobreza e a evolução da compreensão do problema por parte das autoridades no país. Na seqüência, são abordadas as políticas liberais de combate à pobreza recomendadas pelo Banco Mundial e seu impacto sobre as políticas públicas herdadas do Estado de Bem-Estar Social. Seguem-se informações a respeito da abordagem recente do problema pelo governo brasileiro. Por último, são apresentadas as estratégias liberais aplicadas às cidades nas últimas décadas e seus ecos nas cidades amazônicas.

Liberdade de expressão e discurso do ódio: um exame sobre as possíveis limitações à liberdade de expressão

In a view to determining the outlines of the Freedom of Speech and to specify its contents, we face hate speech as an offensive and repulsive manifestation, particularly directed to minority groups in contemporary society. Thus, the study sought to promote, in the foreground, a study of the Freedom of Speech, in the liberal molds. Considered this way, Freedom of Speech will tend to accept hate speech as a legitimate manifestation, albeit at the injury of the victims. On the other hand, when we are dealing with the exhaustion of the liberal paradigm and the affirmation of the Welfare State, we note the recognition by the social state of the asymmetries and commitment to redistributive justice. The Freedom of Speech, warded by welfare state will tend to suffer major restrictions on its self-determination power, rejecting hate speech.

A política antipobreza no governo Lula: uma análise do discurso

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Sobre a imigração ilegal na Europa e os espaços de exceção: o caso dos centros de internamento para estrangeiros na Espanha

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Comunicação no terceiro setor: novos paradigmas para transformação social

This study is the result of a bibliographical research on the performance of the Third Sector in the current society. From references the study tried to locate the sprouting of the Third Sector in the international scene, whit the bankruptcy of welfare state, until its insertion in the Brazilian scene. Following this historical context, the paper of Communitarian Communication, Social Marketing and Communitarian Public Relations is discussed the importance of the communication of this Sector. Moreover, it has the effort of making one brief conceptualization and definition of the present terms. Working whit the concepts of Communitarian Communication and Communitarian Public Relations the study tried to focus the importance of creating a bond whit the development of a new educational model. Finally, the relation and the paper of the Communication in the construction of a new conception of citizenship was discussed. The hypothesis that crossed this study with respect to the potentialities of the Third Sector are considered an answer to the current social economic and political questions. Confiding, thus, a dynamic and stimulating field for the professional of Public Relations that, opposing what some studies had tries to show, are not necessarily the service of the market or private interests, but can collaborate whit its expertise to help to rescues the ethical values capable to change the life into a more solidary society

Espanha e Brasil na construção da participação democrática: clivagens e consensos

The article searches to launch some analyses and investigations on the historical reach of produced participative processes in Spain and Brazil. Evidently, both the processes if had uncurled in historical, social, economic contexts and distinct politicians, but, exactly thus, keep some approaches that we intend to give prominence in the present article. For example, the popular mobilization in the two presented cases after occurred a long period of not attendance of social demands socials. In the same way, the processes of democratic renewal of both are related with historical landmarks “end of the Cold War” and the dismantlement of the Walfare State that introduced new rationalists in the relation between governing and governed dynamic, over all in the coinage and offer of public politics. How much to the dismantlement of the Welfare State, we present, still, that in the case of Spain it provoked consequences in the modus operandi of the formularization process and implementation of public politics. It occurred, in other words, a decentralization of its formulator power to decide arrangement of public politics that started to count on the participation of social actors in the called relational city (BECERRA, 2011). In the case of Brazil, the dictatorial period (1964-1985), the fast urban growth and the generation of precarious peripheries in the main cities, the distension and the Constituent (1986-1988) had generated the enough forces of pressure so that, gradually, if it incorporated the participative arrangement in the power to decide process. We identify that in both the cases, kept the had ratios, the instauration of a critical scene of suppression/absence of formulated public politics from an interface with the social movements were the propeller spring of the transformations in the power to decide mechanisms of formularization and implementation of public politics.

Juventude sobre pressão: um fórum alemão e uma obra de Octávio Ianni

In the 20th century, youth has become a western myth rather than an important social category in the projection of future societies. The Right-wing was ahead of left-wing movements supporting national political projects. The crisis in the Welfare state and socialism system disoriented the right and left-wing movements. The myth of youth as reference for the progressive development of history was destroyed. Youth movements, consolidated in some student movements and supported by some religious organizations took over this reference position. However, these new youth movements are rarely engaged in political or environmentalist projects. The violence that originates from disturbing practices of social reproduction puts youth under pressure.

Matizes do pensamento político norte-americano na virada conservadora de 1970

This paper examines how the reinvigoration of the exceptional American historical experience appears as a solution to some of the leading neoconservatives, considering Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol as emblematic, regarding the fall of the American empire, beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, after its rise during the Cold War, the so-called 25 glorious years. We note that the arguments of these authors is rooted in the revival of reactionary rhetoric as an antidote to the decadence of American virtue supposedly caused by Communism, by the counterculture movement and the alleged perverse effect of the welfare state.

Tradition, Change and Variation : Past and Present Trends in Public Old-age Care

The general aim of this dissertation is to describe and analyse how public old-age care in Sweden has developed and changed during the last century. The study applies a provider perspective on how care has been planned and professionally carried out. A broader social policy perspective, studying old-age care at central/national as well as local/municipal level, is also developed. A special focus is directed at the large local variation in care and services for the elderly. The empirical base is comprised of official documents and other public sources, survey data from interviews with elderly recipients of public old-age care, and official statistics on publicly financed and controlled old-age care and services. Study I addresses the development of old-age care in Sweden during the twentieth century by studying an important occupation in this field – the supervisors and their professional roles, tasks and working conditions. Throughout, the roles of supervisors have followed the prevailing official policy on the proper way to provide care for elderly people in Sweden; from poor relief at the beginning of the 1900s, via a generous level of services in the 1960s and 1970s, to today’s restricted and economy-controlled mode of operation. Study II describes and compares two main forms of public old-age care in Sweden today, home help services and institutional care. The care-load found in home-based care was comparable to and sometimes even larger than in service-homes and other institutions, indicating that large care needs among elderly people in Sweden today can be met in their homes as well as in institutional settings. Studies III and IV analyse the local variation in public old-age care in Sweden. During the last decades there has been an overall decline in home help services. The coverage of home help for elderly people shows large differences between municipalities throughout this period, and the relative variation has increased. The local disparity seems to depend more on historical factors, e.g., previous coverage rates, than on the present municipal situation in levels of need or local economy and politics. In an introductory part the four papers are linked together by an outline of the demographic situation and the social policy model for old-age care in Sweden. Trends that have been apparent over time, e.g. professionalisation and market orientation, are traced and discussed. Conflicts between prevailing ideologies are analysed, in regards to for instance home-based and institution-based care, social and medical culture, and local and central levels of decision-making. ’Welfare municipality’, ‘path dependency’, and ‘decentralisation’ are suggested as a conceptual framework for describing the large and increasing local variations in old-age care. Finally, implications of the four studies with regard to old-age care policy and further research are discussed.