The understanding of Rio de Janeiro's favelas as a problem is not recent. The representations of poverty territories and violent territories have guided the type of interaction that is established with these territories ...

This thesis deals with the urban conflict in contemporary Brazil, which in recent decades has had violence as the core of its figuration. Specifically, it reflects on the contours assumed by state management in the ...

The object of this thesis is the work of the collector of recyclable materials, in the context of the institutional changes that had as a milestone the approval of the Solid Waste Law (12.305/2010). The experiences of ...

The objective of this study is to analyze the political and partisan behavior of politicians linked to the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR). The choice of this religious segment is due to the reasonable number of ...

Contemporary Brazilian cinema, particularly the one committed to revisiting the urban periphery, ends up refreshing some aspects of relation between the film and the social context, aesthetics and politics, theme and form, ...

This doctoral thesis resulted from a research process that was developed along a stretch of the Brazil-Bolivia border, in the southwest of Mato Grosso. In order to develop the study, the period 1940-2016 was delimited and ...

The issue of sexual violence against children and adolescents has not always been a concern, but the transformations towards childhood and the institution of children and adolescents as subjects of special rights have made ...

This thesis describes and analyses the recent transformations in the informal commerce in São Paulo, especially with regard to the changes in the work for the agents involved. Given that the term “informal commerce” evokes ...

This text aims to discuss the current policies concerning affirmative actions, especially the racial cotes, which in 2002 were implemented in Brazilian universities, above all in the public ones. After nearly one decade ...

From the mid-1990s, the debate surrounding the Brazilian agrarian question began to incorporate the issues related to the conservation of natural resources. In this perspective, speeches and projects based on the concept ...