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Wealth and Poverty in Contemporary Brazilian Capitalism
This book analyses contemporary capitalism from Brazil and from the Marxian critique of political economy, particularly; the co-dependency of wealth...
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Chinese Migration and Changes in Brazilian Society
In this paper, I provide an account of the role of migrants of Chinese background in transforming Brazilian society over six distinct moments of...
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Looking Ahead: Socialism is not the “After” of Capitalism
This last chapter is not really a conclusion. Rather, it aims to look ahead towards what possible meaning “socialism” can have in today’s world, if...
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Pre-capitalism, Capitalism, and Workers’ Resistance—Elements for a Theory of Union Action
This chapter deals with the relationship between, on the one handWorkers’ resistance, the global structure (economy, politics, ideology) of the modes...
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Marx and the Category of Fictitious Profits: Some Notes on the Brazilian Economy
Financialisation theories have occupied an important place in the debate about contemporary capitalism and its transformations, involving a set of...
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Brazilian Society as the Obstacle to Self-Modification
The author observes the debates among Brazilian sociologists around the growth of a new middle class in Brazil. In reality, it was the growth of a...
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Notes on Social Movements and Education: Challenges of the Struggle Between Capital and Labour in Brazil
This chapter aims to outline the relationship between social movements and education in light of the particularities of Brazilian capitalism. We...
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Brazilian Journalists’ New Media Arrangements: Journalism Made in the Periphery
This chapter presents initiatives by peripheral journalists in the city of São Paulo, the largest in Brazil. They are young people from the outskirts...
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Capitalism and the African Context
This chapter explores and interrogates conceptual issues about capitalism in general and the African context, appraising the contradictions that have...
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Complementarities and Comparisons
This chapter integrates the empirical analyses of the preceding chapters and adds an important theoretical contribution. By drawing on the notion of...
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Education, Training, and Labor
This chapter deals with the Brazilian skill and labor regimes and their effects on human capital formation and labor productivity growth. It combines...
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Manifestations of Barbarism
We saw in the previous section that the “civilising” phase of capitalism ended in the late 1960s. Since then, capital has systematically denied...
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Dysfunctional Versions of Capitalism and the Political Economy of “Eating”
This chapter explores the institutional context of capitalism in postcolonial Africa, as well as the various dominant versions of dysfunctional...
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The Demise of Brazilian Developmental State: Political Constraints and the Role of Finance
This chapter analyses the demise of the Brazilian developmental state. It argues that Dilma Rousseff’s deposition in Brazil in 2016 is a result of...
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A wonderful global city? Resisting urban regeneration in Olympic Rio
This article engages with debates about the role of ‘global cities’ in international relations and in the governance of global capitalism. Much of...
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Constructing a sustainable ‘tomorrow’: iconic architecture and progressive neoliberal place-making in Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Little Africa’
Rio de Janeiro’s long-marginalised, majority Afro-descendant old port area, home to the remains of the Americas’ largest slave disembarkation wharf...
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Foreign Direct Investment
Foreign direct investments by multinational corporation can have a transformative impact on national models of capitalism. In a second image...
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The Institutional Construction of Post-1988 Austerity
Based on the theoretical-conceptual mobilization of the literature on public finance and policy dismantling, the objective of this chapter is to...
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Finance
From a second image perspective, the financialized US model of a liberal market economy had a major influence on the postnational global financial...
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Sustainable Funds and “Cuddly Capitalism”: Indigenous Land Defenders and the Greenwashing of Investment Management
This chapter examines the role played by the private sector in global environmental governanceGlobal environmental governance, with a focus on the...