https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/18091 2026-04-28T15:30:56Z 2026-04-28T15:30:56Z Frehse, Fraya https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/19818 2020-01-31T16:28:09Z 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desigualdades no uso corporal dos espaços públicos urbanos na América Latina Frehse, Fraya Social science research on social inequality in Latin America emphasizes the role that residential distribution of social groups in urban space plays in the production and/or reproduction of asymmetries of social positioning there in conjunction with the acceleration of economic globalization in the 1990s. Meanwhile, spaces absolutely receptive to social diversity, such as public streets and squares in Latin American historical centers during the shop opening hours, are less studied. This paper presents the analysis of a Brazilian case, São Paulo’s cathedral square, where I gathered ethnographic data on 39 occasions (Monday and Friday afternoons) in 2013. Applying particular dialectical and phenomenological perspectives, a Lefebvrean and Goffmanian one, I aim to answer how and why the bodily use pedestrians made of this place may interfere in the (re)production of social equality in São Paulo at this point in time. From this research, secular body-behavioral and moral inequalities emerge as important issues.

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Fritz, Barbara Paula, Luiz Fernando de Prates, Daniela M. https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22044 2025-03-24T10:48:44Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Developmentalism at the Periphery Fritz, Barbara; Paula, Luiz Fernando de; Prates, Daniela M. The 2000s have brought a renewed debate on strategies of ‘developmentalism’ in emerging market economies, especially in Latin America. We consider new concepts of developmentalism to be strategies in which the state deliberately pushes the process of development, in terms of structural change, and aims at income redistribution. In our paper, we seek to systematize this debate, comparing the concepts of new developmentalism and social developmentalism. We argue that of particular relevance for this discussion are the policy space constraints for emerging market economies imposed by international monetary and financial asymmetries. We conclude that the latter of the two approaches does not consider appropriately the policy constraints related to these asymmetries, which reduce the space for the implementation of developmentalist policies, while the former sees redistribution as a mere result of export-led industrialization.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Lavinas, Lena https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/19963 2020-01-31T16:28:09Z 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

How Social Developmentalism Reframed Social Policy in Brazil Lavinas, Lena How Social Developmentalism Reframed Social Policy in Brazil Lena Lavinas Abstract This paper proposes to critically situate the social-developmentalist current of the last decade within the broader moment of finance-dominated accumulation regime, wherein, crucially, credit and access to financial markets have become the core motifs for the new mass-consumption market society. This structural move is, from our point of view, radically distinct from the very framework which inspired the tenets of early structuralist thought and which prevailed during the Keynesian post-war period. Today, highly segmented credit loans, private insurance, and other new financial products such as payment protection insurance have synthesized into indispensable elements for growth. In this new financialized framework, social policy has been used to underwrite a financial inclusion model that sowed the seeds of its own demise—while it enabled Brazil’s transition into a society of mass consumption, it also deepened the indebtedness of households, partially transforming social insurance and welfare benefits into financial rents.

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Torre, Juan Carlos https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22039 2020-01-31T16:28:09Z 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Shadow of the Neoliberal Reforms Torre, Juan Carlos For many years social studies classified the mobilization of the unemployed as a highly unlikely phenomenon; it was argued that the loss of jobs generates individual apathy, resignation and impotence. In the last twenty years, this conclusion has been the object of substantial revision. The reason is well known: the rebellion of the unemployed has become a reality in many countries, as it was the case in Argentina in recent years. This unexpected development had roots in the specific development of the country’s economy and society in the post-World War Two era. In the context of the neoliberal reforms in the 1990s, and their aftermath, the emergence of this movement had tremendous consequences for social equality, even today. This paper presents the specific factors which gave rise to this movement, its peak, and subsequent decline. Throughout, the focus is on the consequence for inequality among workers and in society.

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