Area of concentration
SOCIAL ISSUES, HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL POLICIES
Understanding that it is impossible to analyze the social issue, rights and/or social policies dissociated from the capitalist context, the Course has as its articulating axis studies on social policy, understanding it as a result of the articulations and convergences of interests that permeate the State-Society relationship, constituting a current form of exercise of power used to confront the manifestations of the social issue. Among the demands presented by the social reality, where social protection services are precarious and mediated by relationships of dependence and guardianship, contrary to constitutional principles, there is a need for in-depth analysis, from a critical and multidisciplinary perspective, of social policies in an interrelated manner with social and human rights, highlighting their characteristics in the globalized world, in Brazilian society, and its processes of regionalization mediated by border territories.
Research Lines
Research Line State, Social Rights and Social Policy
Under a critical framework, it studies Social Policy from a multidisciplinary perspective, analyzing the processes of formulation and implementation of social policies, highlighting the elements that give them institutionality – management processes, financial framework, evaluation designs and focuses, and the exercise of social control. It also researches the work processes of different areas related to the development of social policies, with an emphasis on the search for interdisciplinarity, intersectorality and verification of the impact on the quality of life of users. It includes comparative studies on Social Protection Systems in Southern Countries of South America, highlighting the particularities of border regions and Border Lines.
Professors linked to this Research Line:
Profa. Dra. Ana Caroline Montezano Gonsales Jardim
Profa. Dra. Leticia Oliveira de Menezes
Profa. Dra. Mara Rosange Acosta de Medeiros
Profa. Dra. Mónica de la Fare
Prof. Dr. Sandro Schreiber de Oliveira
Profa. Dra. Vini Rabassa da Silva
Research Line Human Rights, Security and Access to Justice
Taking Human Rights as a transversal parameter in its research agenda, in addition to being an object of study in itself, it investigates, under critical and interdisciplinary references, the policies and practices linked to the social rights of security and access to justice. In this sense, it also encompasses the administration of justice and the dynamics, instances and institutions of social control, with an emphasis on the performance of the criminal justice system (legislation, police, judiciary and prison). Its research commitment includes racial and gender approaches and, in the territorial context, it engages in dialogue with Latin American perspectives – theoretical and empirical – with a special focus on the leading role of municipalities in public security policies, in addition to the peculiarities of border contexts.
Professors linked to this Line of Research:
Prof. Dr. Aknaton Toczek Souza
Profa. Dra. Christiane Russomano Freire
Prof. Dr. Luiz Antônio Bogo Chies
Line of Research: Social Issues, Work, Sociabilities and Political Resistance
It investigates, under a critical and interdisciplinary framework, the different theoretical perspectives in the context of social relations and policies, giving special emphasis to participation in the processes of realization of social and human rights. It covers topics involving social issues, the relationship between the State and civil society, the various relationships of violence and social and territorial expropriation, the space of contemporary social movements, the processes of resistance and social struggles, work and the different ways of producing and living expressed in other economies, the effects of colonialism and patriarchy as forms of oppression, urban and environmental conflicts in the face of the pattern of sociability of capital in the peripheral context.
Teachers linked to this Line of Research:
Profa. Dra. Carla Silva de Avila
Profa. Dra. Cristine Jaques Ribeiro
Prof. Dr. Tiago de García Nunes