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International Studies Review, 2024
As part of recent years’ efforts at reaching a more context- and diversity-sensitive study of int... more As part of recent years’ efforts at reaching a more context- and diversity-sensitive study of international relations, the nexus between fields of IR and Area Studies (AS) has received a renewed attention. While AS is usually presented as the “contextualizer” of the disciplines, this forum reverses the perspective by suggesting that an awareness of both diversity and context is also relevant when it comes to understanding the evolution of the field of AS and its relations to IR. In this forum, a selection of scholars with diverse backgrounds (US, Middle East, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Central Asia), different (inter)disciplinary trainings and regional orientations examines how various fields of AS and its relations to the disciplines vary, and what follows from a stronger attention to such kind of diversity. By contextualizing the contextualizers, the forum brings attention to how a context-sensitive field can also suffer from its own provincialism. While the US-centric narrative about AS might have been almost “hegemonic,” at closer inspection, it turns out that AS in different (sub)disciplinary and geographical settings have evolved differently, and in some places the so-called Area Studies controversy (ASC) has been almost absent. A broadening of the perspective also reveals how the challenges to a successful cross-fertilization are not limited to those outlined in the “classic” ASC, but the forum does simultaneously offer encouraging lessons on how dialogues between area specialists and discipline-oriented scholars can help to overcome epistemological, theoretical, or methodological blind spots. Rather than presenting the IR/AS nexus as a panacea per se, the aim of the forum is therefore to invite to a broader and more self-reflective discussion on some of the opportunities as well as challenges associated with this strategy for making the study of international relations more context-sensitive and attentive to different forms of diversity.
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Promises and Pitfalls of Intersectional Politics: The Black Coalition for Rights in Brazil, 2023
Abstract: Based on evidence collected in a collaborative research project, this article studies t... more Abstract: Based on evidence collected in a collaborative research project, this article studies the Black Coalition for Rights created in Brazil in 2019. Compared to previous experiences of antiracist struggles in Brazil, the Coalition stands out for its decentralized organization, its ability to convey political content through adequate aesthetic forms, its capillarity in the domestic sphere, and its transnational articulations. Equally striking is its intersectional character understood as both the emphasis on the transversal character of racism and the stress of the interdependent character of social struggles against different forms of inequalities (with regard to gender, race, class, etc.). The Coalition has so far proven to be particularly successful in terms of its mobilization capacity, its public visibility, and its agenda-setting power. According to our preliminary findings, its success can be explained, to a great extent, by its ability to vocalize a broad set of political claims and, consequently, to fill the gap left by other civil society actors demobilized by the far right-wing backlash in Brazil and the pandemic. Since January 2023, in the context of a new progressive government, the Coalition has started facing difficulties in preserving its intersectional and socially encompassing character.
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Novos estudos CEBRAP, 2019
Starting from a detailed review of recent publications oriented by the concept of conviviality an... more Starting from a detailed review of recent publications oriented by the concept of conviviality and etymologically related expressions (convivialisme, Konvivenz, Konvivialität), the article explores a common analytical deficit in these different contributions: the disregard of the reciprocal constitution of conviviality and inequality. To overcome this deficiency, the essay develops an analytical framework, according to which inequalities defined along four complementary and interdependent axes (material, power, environmental and epistemological asymmetries) are always signified, reproduced, and negotiated within convivial interactions.
Keywords: conviviality; inequality; critique to sociocentrism; critique to anthropocentrism.
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Caderno CRH, 2019
This article studies the tensions and overlaps between inequality and difference starting from tw... more This article studies the tensions and overlaps between inequality and difference starting from two complementary questions: When do differences become politically relevant? How do inequalities and differences correlate? The argument is first developed through a critical discussion of three influential approaches in contemporary academic and political debates: the recognition-redistribution paradigm, as developed by N. Fraser and A. Honneth, the categorical inequalities approach of C. Tilly and the horizontal-vertical inequalities approach of F. Stewart. In spite of their divergences, these three approaches present a common conceptual limitation, which is to treat dynamic differences as binary and fixed categories: black-whites, men-women, mestizos-indigenous, etc. To overcome this deficit, I develop in the present article, starting from the concept of articulation, an analytical matrix according to which differences represent positionalities or sites of enunciation within hierarchical social relations. The nexus between differences and inequalities is illustrated by the recent articulation of the quilombolas in Brazil.
Key words: Difference. Inequality. Articulation. Positionality. Quilombolas.
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OR Books, 2019
In Spite of You brings together voices of a new Brazilian resistance that opposes Bolsonaro. It i... more In Spite of You brings together voices of a new Brazilian resistance that opposes Bolsonaro. It includes chapters by Dilma Rousseff, former
president of Brazil; Fernando Haddad, former mayor of São Paulo, who was runner-up to Bolsonaro in the 2018 election; and Eugenio Aragão, former minister for justice in Dilma´s last government. It also gives a voice to feminists, environmentalists, land rights activists and human
rights defenders, who explain the background to Bolsonaro´s election
and present a manifesto for reviving democracy in Brazil.
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In Spite of You: voices of the Brazilian resistance, 2018
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DADOS – Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2018
Orientando-se em trabalhos que combinam as tradições marxista e weberiana na análise da estrutura... more Orientando-se em trabalhos que combinam as tradições marxista e weberiana na análise da estrutura social, o texto estuda a crise brasileira contemporânea como conflito distributivo, envolvendo quatro classes ou estratos (pobres, outsiders, estabelecidos, milionários) definidos a partir de cinco vetores determinantes da desigualdade social: riqueza, posição em contextos hierárquicos, conhecimento, associação seletiva e direitos existenciais. A hipótese orientadora é que a aliança de classes comandada pelo PT trouxe, entre 2003 e 2013, em geral, mais riqueza, conhecimento e direitos existenciais, mas perda de posição para os estabelecidos já que seu poder de excluir outsiders e pobres diminui. A partir de 2014, a crise econômica faz com que todos os grupos percam riqueza, ainda que em proporções distintas. Ao mesmo tempo, as investigações sobre corrupção desarticulam as associações seletivas dos milionários com políticos e o estado. Diante deste quadro, o arranjo distributivo entre capital, trabalho assalariado e estado estabelecido pelo PT em 2003 (o "lulismo") perde sua sustentação na esfera pública e no âmbito parlamentar, culminando com o afastamento de Rousseff. Seu sucessor, Temer, reajustou, sistematicamente, o arranjo distributivo em favor do capital. O novo governo conduzido pelo político de extrema direita Bolsonaro segue na mesma linha.
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desiguALdades.net Working Paper Series 99, 2016
The present paper draws on works that combine Marxist and Weberian traditions of social structure... more The present paper draws on works that combine Marxist and Weberian traditions of social structure analysis to interpret the contemporary Brazilian political crisis as a distributive conflict involving four classes or strata (precariat, outsiders, established, millionaires), defined using five determinant vectors of social inequality: wealth, position, knowledge, selective association and existential rights. The four classes or strata considered saw their wealth, their existential rights, and their knowledge grow in the period between 2003 and 2013. However, in this period, the precariat and the outsiders ascended significantly in their social position, while the established lost social position to the extent that their power to exclude outsiders from social spaces formerly reserved for their own usage diminished. The same logic applies to selective associations with regard to gender and race, since during the Workers’ Party (PT) administrations there was a decrease in the power of men and whites to discriminate against women and blacks. This loss of position in the hierarchies of class, gender and race fed the resentment of the established against the PT government even in times when, in terms of wealth, they experienced an ascendant trajectory. Starting in 2014, the picture changed. The exacerbation of the economic crisis caused all of the strata, especially the outsiders, to lose wealth. The established, though less threatened by the outsiders (the most affected by the crisis), also experienced social decline as the recession advanced. Finally, the millionaires who had until then been gaining at all of the levels of inequality with the PT governments, lost at least part of their selective associations as the investigations into corruption advanced. It is precisely when the millionaires began to lose that effective changes in favor of the removal of the president began to occur.
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Current Sociology , 2016
Recent decades are marked by an impressive expansion of actors and legal structures intended to g... more Recent decades are marked by an impressive expansion of actors and legal structures intended to globally extend a certain 'Western' catalog of human rights. Recently, too, legal scholars have developed concepts to justify normatively the expansion of human rights (e.g. Habermas, Walker, Koskenniemi). This article reviews recent legal literature on global constitutionalization of human rights to reveal its blind spots, at two levels: i) the reaffirmation of European precedency for establishing the sources of human rights and ii) a lack of sociological tools for describing interpenetrations between law, power and social inequalities. In order to empirically illustrate these objections, the article analyses the recent global expansion of human rights of minorities, using two examples: cases treated by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Brazilian legalization of ancestral territories of afro-descendants. Finally, the article argues for a decentered perspective that (at the local level) connects human rights with concrete claims for justice.
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desiguALdades.net Working Paper Series 100, 2016
The following working paper (the English translation of “Soziale Ungleichheiten und globale Inter... more The following working paper (the English translation of “Soziale Ungleichheiten und globale Interdependenzen in Lateinamerika: eine Zwischenbilanz” desiguALdades.net Working Paper Series 4, 2013) lays out the baseline from which the research approach of the research network desiguALdades.net was developed. Starting from diverse social inequality phenomena in Latin America, the network seeks to underline the multidimensionality of inequalities and their transregional interdependencies, taking a synchronic as well as a diachronic perspective into account. It thereby draws, first, on the discourse on global approaches to the study of inequalities, particularly world system approaches and transnationalism. Secondly, it is based on a critical examination of key concepts (like figuration and regime). Lastly, it seeks to link these to subjects and areas, especially the environmental dimension, that until now have received little consideration in research on inequalities.
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desiguALdades.net Working Paper Series, 2015
In line with developments observed in several Latin American countries, inequalities in Brazil ha... more In line with developments observed in several Latin American countries, inequalities in Brazil have significantly declined since the Workers’ Party, PT, came to power in 2003. During the two administrations of former President Lula da Silva (2003-2006 and 2007-2010) and the first administration of President Dilma Rousseff (2010-2014), economic
growth, improvements in labor market, progress in deprived regions and pro-poor policies interacted positively as drivers of inequality reduction. But due to the recent economic stagnation and political instability, Rousseff, in her new administration (2015-2018), is facing serious difficulties in sustaining the social gains obtained during the last twelve years. It seems that continuing the progress in inequality reduction in times of low economic growth requires deeper structural changes such as a progressive tax reform in order to effectively redistribute resources from the rich to the underprivileged classes. This paper discusses recent developments in Brazil from the perspective of entangled inequalities, a concept applied here with the objective of enlarging the narrow definition of inequality brought forward by hegemonic scholarship. After a brief
introduction into the conceptual framework of entangled inequalities, the paper presents, in its second section, an overview of recent changes in Brazilian social structure. The third section discusses the role of the Brazilian state in reducing inequalities. Finally, recent developments in Brazil with regard to the entangled inequalities framework are
assessed.
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Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales⎥ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Nueva Época, 2015
RESUMEN
El artículo expone las bases desde las que se desarrolló la perspectiva de investigación ... more RESUMEN
El artículo expone las bases desde las que se desarrolló la perspectiva de investigación de la red de investigaciones desiguALdades.net. Partiendo de las diversas dimensiones de la desigualdad social en América Latina, se busca poner énfasis en la multidimensionalidad de las desigualdades y sus interdependencias transregionales, tomando
en cuenta una perspectiva sincrónica y diacrónica. De esta manera abreva, en primer lugar, del discurso de los puntos de vista globales para el estudio de las desigualdades, en particular del enfoque del
sistema-mundo y del transnacionalismo. En segundo lugar, se fundamenta en el examen crítico de conceptos clave (configuración y régimen). Por último, busca vincular estos conceptos a temas y
áreas, en especial a la dimensión medioambiental, que hasta ahora ha recibido poca consideración en la investigación sobre desigualdades.
ABSTRACT
The following working paper lays out the baseline from which the research approach of the research network desiguALdades.net was developed. Starting from diverse social inequality phenomena in Latin America, the network seeks to underline the multidimensionality of inequalities and their transregional interdependencies, taking a synchronic as well as a diachronic perspective into account. It thereby draws, first, on the discourse on global approaches to the study of inequalities, particularly world system approaches and transnationalism. Secondly, it is based on a critical examination of key concepts (like figuration and regime). Lastly, it seeks to link these to subjects and areas, especially the environmental dimension, that until now have received little consideration in research on inequalities.
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Revista Sociedade e Estado, 2014
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desiguALdades.net Working Paper Series 41, 2013
The struggles for land discussed in this paper have occurred in contexts characterized by some im... more The struggles for land discussed in this paper have occurred in contexts characterized by some improvement of laws and policies designed to protect ethnic and cultural minorities in Brazil and Colombia, following the “multicultural turn” in international law. The paper discusses to a greater extent the cases of communities of Afro-descendants who live in areas disputed by agribusiness companies interested in expanding palm plantations mostly for biodiesel production. We found out that the introduction of new rights has first unleashed a local process of ethnic re-identification. In a certain way, minority rights themselves have created those minorities they are supposed to protect. Nevertheless, new minority rights have also reframed the conditions under which struggles for land are conducted and negotiated in Colombia as well as in Brazil. Seen as relays in an electrical circuit, minority rights serve to modulate power at the local level: in some cases, new rights amplify minorities’ power; in other situations, they can help contain the problems of abuses of power.
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Der Bürger im Staat, 2013
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desiguALdades.net Working Paper Series 4, 2013
Im Folgenden werden die grundlegenden Überlegungen dargelegt, von denen aus der Forschungsansatz ... more Im Folgenden werden die grundlegenden Überlegungen dargelegt, von denen aus der Forschungsansatz von desiguALdades.net entwickelt wurde. In diesem Kompetenznetz geht es darum, ausgehend von in Lateinamerika beobachteten Phänomenen sozialer Ungleichheiten die Mehrdimensionalität von Ungleichheiten und ihre transregionalen Interdependenzen in synchroner und diachroner Perspektive zu berücksichtigen. Diese Überlegungen speisen sich erstens aus der Auseinandersetzung mit Ansätzen, die Ungleichheiten global erforschen – insbesondere im Feld des Weltsystemansatzes und der Transnationalismusforschung. Zweitens basieren sie auf einer kritischen Reflexion von Schlüsselbegriffen (wie Figuration und Regime). Sie versuchen drittens, bislang von der Ungleichheitsforschung nicht berücksichtigte Themen, insbesondere Umweltfragen, mit dieser zu verbinden.
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O Brasil em dois tempos. História, pensamento social e tempo presente. Belo Horizonte: UFMG, 2013
A imagem de uma brasilidade mestiça, culturalmente assimilacionista e politicamente integradora, ... more A imagem de uma brasilidade mestiça, culturalmente assimilacionista e politicamente integradora, conforma o núcleo da ideologia que configura a nação brasileira a partir das primeiras décadas do séc. XX. O elogio do hibridismo constitui, assim, a forma de superação dos biologismos racistas predominantes nos debates político e intelectual de até então. Tal modelo de nacionalidade, contudo, perde crescentemente, ao longo da democratização, sua força legitimadora. Muitas das manifestações culturais recentes assim como alguns dos atores sociais importantes no Brasil contemporâneo buscam a identificação étnica que os distinga da nação que assimilou em seu bojo as diferenças
culturais. Tratam, dessa forma, de exprimir o descontetamento com as desigualdades estruturais associadas ao processo de construção ideológica da nação mestiça. O artigo descreve tais processos de etnização e discute as conseqüências destes para a construção democrática.
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Sociologia, Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto , 2012
O artigo examina os regimes de coexistência interétnica no Brasil e Alemanha, a partir de três ní... more O artigo examina os regimes de coexistência interétnica no Brasil e Alemanha, a partir de três níveis de análise: discursos, marcos regulatório e esfera cotidiana. A despeito das diferenças observadas nos dois casos, o trabalho postula que os regimes de coexistência vigentes em ambos países passam por uma crise de legitimidade. No Brasil, o elogio da nação mestiça, harmônica e igualitária, choca-se com a profusão de grupos étnicos a reivindicar, publicamente, justiça e equidade. Na Alemanha, prevalece ainda o ideal romântico da nação predestinada definida pelos laços de ancestralidade. Essa imagem destoa da realidade de uma sociedade culturalmente plural e etnicamente heterogênea.
Palavras-chave: Coexistência interétnica; Brasil; Alemanha.
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Schlüsselwerke der postkolonialen Studien, 2012
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Sociologia crítica no Brasil., 2012
Este ensaio faz um diagnóstico das transformações institucionais parque vem passando o campo das ... more Este ensaio faz um diagnóstico das transformações institucionais parque vem passando o campo das ciências humanas nos últimos anos. Em seguida, examina distintas concepções surgidas no âmbito dos estudos decoloniais e pós-coloniais com o intuito de superar as hierarquias inerentes às estruturas hegemônicas de reconhecimento dos conhecimentos produzidos nas distintas regiões do mundo. Em sua conclusão, discute as chances de sucesso das diferentes estratégias pós-coloniais e decoloniais discutidas.
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Human sciences and the new geopolitics of knowledge Abstract The essay outlines a diagnosis of sorne institutional transformations observed currently in the field of social sciences and humanities. Afterwards, it analyses sorne concepts formulated by postcolonial and decolonial scholars in arder to overcome hierarchies that are inherent in the hegemonic structures for recognizing knowledge produced in different world regions. ln its conclusion, the essay discusses chances of success of these postcolonial and decolonial strategies.
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Keywords: conviviality; inequality; critique to sociocentrism; critique to anthropocentrism.
Key words: Difference. Inequality. Articulation. Positionality. Quilombolas.
president of Brazil; Fernando Haddad, former mayor of São Paulo, who was runner-up to Bolsonaro in the 2018 election; and Eugenio Aragão, former minister for justice in Dilma´s last government. It also gives a voice to feminists, environmentalists, land rights activists and human
rights defenders, who explain the background to Bolsonaro´s election
and present a manifesto for reviving democracy in Brazil.
growth, improvements in labor market, progress in deprived regions and pro-poor policies interacted positively as drivers of inequality reduction. But due to the recent economic stagnation and political instability, Rousseff, in her new administration (2015-2018), is facing serious difficulties in sustaining the social gains obtained during the last twelve years. It seems that continuing the progress in inequality reduction in times of low economic growth requires deeper structural changes such as a progressive tax reform in order to effectively redistribute resources from the rich to the underprivileged classes. This paper discusses recent developments in Brazil from the perspective of entangled inequalities, a concept applied here with the objective of enlarging the narrow definition of inequality brought forward by hegemonic scholarship. After a brief
introduction into the conceptual framework of entangled inequalities, the paper presents, in its second section, an overview of recent changes in Brazilian social structure. The third section discusses the role of the Brazilian state in reducing inequalities. Finally, recent developments in Brazil with regard to the entangled inequalities framework are
assessed.
El artículo expone las bases desde las que se desarrolló la perspectiva de investigación de la red de investigaciones desiguALdades.net. Partiendo de las diversas dimensiones de la desigualdad social en América Latina, se busca poner énfasis en la multidimensionalidad de las desigualdades y sus interdependencias transregionales, tomando
en cuenta una perspectiva sincrónica y diacrónica. De esta manera abreva, en primer lugar, del discurso de los puntos de vista globales para el estudio de las desigualdades, en particular del enfoque del
sistema-mundo y del transnacionalismo. En segundo lugar, se fundamenta en el examen crítico de conceptos clave (configuración y régimen). Por último, busca vincular estos conceptos a temas y
áreas, en especial a la dimensión medioambiental, que hasta ahora ha recibido poca consideración en la investigación sobre desigualdades.
ABSTRACT
The following working paper lays out the baseline from which the research approach of the research network desiguALdades.net was developed. Starting from diverse social inequality phenomena in Latin America, the network seeks to underline the multidimensionality of inequalities and their transregional interdependencies, taking a synchronic as well as a diachronic perspective into account. It thereby draws, first, on the discourse on global approaches to the study of inequalities, particularly world system approaches and transnationalism. Secondly, it is based on a critical examination of key concepts (like figuration and regime). Lastly, it seeks to link these to subjects and areas, especially the environmental dimension, that until now have received little consideration in research on inequalities.
culturais. Tratam, dessa forma, de exprimir o descontetamento com as desigualdades estruturais associadas ao processo de construção ideológica da nação mestiça. O artigo descreve tais processos de etnização e discute as conseqüências destes para a construção democrática.
Palavras-chave: Coexistência interétnica; Brasil; Alemanha.
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Human sciences and the new geopolitics of knowledge Abstract The essay outlines a diagnosis of sorne institutional transformations observed currently in the field of social sciences and humanities. Afterwards, it analyses sorne concepts formulated by postcolonial and decolonial scholars in arder to overcome hierarchies that are inherent in the hegemonic structures for recognizing knowledge produced in different world regions. ln its conclusion, the essay discusses chances of success of these postcolonial and decolonial strategies.
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution
Keywords: conviviality; inequality; critique to sociocentrism; critique to anthropocentrism.
Key words: Difference. Inequality. Articulation. Positionality. Quilombolas.
president of Brazil; Fernando Haddad, former mayor of São Paulo, who was runner-up to Bolsonaro in the 2018 election; and Eugenio Aragão, former minister for justice in Dilma´s last government. It also gives a voice to feminists, environmentalists, land rights activists and human
rights defenders, who explain the background to Bolsonaro´s election
and present a manifesto for reviving democracy in Brazil.
growth, improvements in labor market, progress in deprived regions and pro-poor policies interacted positively as drivers of inequality reduction. But due to the recent economic stagnation and political instability, Rousseff, in her new administration (2015-2018), is facing serious difficulties in sustaining the social gains obtained during the last twelve years. It seems that continuing the progress in inequality reduction in times of low economic growth requires deeper structural changes such as a progressive tax reform in order to effectively redistribute resources from the rich to the underprivileged classes. This paper discusses recent developments in Brazil from the perspective of entangled inequalities, a concept applied here with the objective of enlarging the narrow definition of inequality brought forward by hegemonic scholarship. After a brief
introduction into the conceptual framework of entangled inequalities, the paper presents, in its second section, an overview of recent changes in Brazilian social structure. The third section discusses the role of the Brazilian state in reducing inequalities. Finally, recent developments in Brazil with regard to the entangled inequalities framework are
assessed.
El artículo expone las bases desde las que se desarrolló la perspectiva de investigación de la red de investigaciones desiguALdades.net. Partiendo de las diversas dimensiones de la desigualdad social en América Latina, se busca poner énfasis en la multidimensionalidad de las desigualdades y sus interdependencias transregionales, tomando
en cuenta una perspectiva sincrónica y diacrónica. De esta manera abreva, en primer lugar, del discurso de los puntos de vista globales para el estudio de las desigualdades, en particular del enfoque del
sistema-mundo y del transnacionalismo. En segundo lugar, se fundamenta en el examen crítico de conceptos clave (configuración y régimen). Por último, busca vincular estos conceptos a temas y
áreas, en especial a la dimensión medioambiental, que hasta ahora ha recibido poca consideración en la investigación sobre desigualdades.
ABSTRACT
The following working paper lays out the baseline from which the research approach of the research network desiguALdades.net was developed. Starting from diverse social inequality phenomena in Latin America, the network seeks to underline the multidimensionality of inequalities and their transregional interdependencies, taking a synchronic as well as a diachronic perspective into account. It thereby draws, first, on the discourse on global approaches to the study of inequalities, particularly world system approaches and transnationalism. Secondly, it is based on a critical examination of key concepts (like figuration and regime). Lastly, it seeks to link these to subjects and areas, especially the environmental dimension, that until now have received little consideration in research on inequalities.
culturais. Tratam, dessa forma, de exprimir o descontetamento com as desigualdades estruturais associadas ao processo de construção ideológica da nação mestiça. O artigo descreve tais processos de etnização e discute as conseqüências destes para a construção democrática.
Palavras-chave: Coexistência interétnica; Brasil; Alemanha.
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Human sciences and the new geopolitics of knowledge Abstract The essay outlines a diagnosis of sorne institutional transformations observed currently in the field of social sciences and humanities. Afterwards, it analyses sorne concepts formulated by postcolonial and decolonial scholars in arder to overcome hierarchies that are inherent in the hegemonic structures for recognizing knowledge produced in different world regions. ln its conclusion, the essay discusses chances of success of these postcolonial and decolonial strategies.
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There are forms of inequality that the Gini coefficient cannot show. These are the forms that explain the different experiences of poverty someone goes through depending on whether they are a woman or a man, a native or a migrant, of indigenous origin, living in an area contaminated by nearby industries, born in a high-income country or a less resourced one, practicing a minority religion, or living in a country with a history of ethnic segregation. For several decades, an academic perspective has been emerging that invites us to revitalize and complicate the analysis of inequalities, to think of them in plural, intertwined, and operating on a global scale, beyond the mere distribution of income, education levels, and labor market positions. This book is an updated compendium of this renewed analytical perspective. The works presented here delve into the reverse side of the fabric of inequalities, describing the concrete ways in which millions of people on the continent are deprived of well-being and rights and documenting the resistance strategies many of them deploy. They show how, despite the progress made by compensatory policies in several countries of the region at the beginning of the 21st century, social distances in terms of opportunities, valued skills, and power persist and even widen in our communities to this day. This book also highlights a trend often overlooked by perspectives restricted to national borders and statistics: the policies some countries implement against inequalities are immersed in the global dynamics of the capitalist economy, which inevitably tends to create inequality.
El presente libro ofrece una genealogía de estas desigualdades a lo largo de cinco siglos de historia. Para ello, analiza los dispositivos empleados para crearlas, normalizarlas y legitimarlas, comparando experiencias de la región atlántica (Brasil) con las zonas del Pacífico (Colombia y Ecuador), con énfasis en antiguas zonas de minería aurífera basadas en mano de obra esclava.