Argumentum
type: channel
description: Argumentum was a semi-annual publication from 2009 to 2015, becoming quarterley from 2016. It is linked to the Postgraduate program in Social Policy at the Federal University of Espírito Santo. It is classified as A1 by Qualis Periódicos. Of an academic nature, it has an interdisciplinary character and publishes research, articles and discussions on the themes of Social Policy, State and Society and their diverse interactions. It also opens up spaces for other relevant works on the theme according to Section Policies. The mission of the journal is to be a periodical of excellence in the area of Social Service by means of the publication of research, articles and discussions on the themes of Social Policy, State and Society and their diverse interactions.
publisher: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Política Social da UFES
language: pt-BR
publication name: Argumentum
issn: 2176-9575
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items: Expediente
items: Editorial
items: Forms of capital, fictitious wealth, and the externalisation of recent capitalist crises
items: Universality in digital health: digitalisation and datafication in the Unified Health System (SUS)
items: Brazilian immigration in Portugal: State and power relations
items: The status of occasional benefits within Social Assistance Policy: some notes
items: Determinations of class, race and sex in the Sergipe prison system
items: Fundamentals of Social Work: analysis of the debate present at XVII ENPESS
items: Gramsci and Social Work: philology as a method of study
items: Anti-crime package and drug policy in Brazil under the Bolsonaro government
items: Political polarization in the presidential elections (2018 and 2022): the Northeast and the “others”
items: The aging process and challenges for the job market in Brazil
items: Samba: symbol of national culture?
items: Epistemological and historical aspects of the anti-racist fight in Brazilian education
items: Contributos foucaultianos sobre racismo: aproximações entre soldados Indígenas estadunidenses e brasileiros
items: Professional ethics and the labyrinth of precarisation: challenges and resistance in the work of Social Workers
items: Bolsonarismo: da guerra cultural ao terrorismo doméstico: retórica do ódio e dissonância cognitiva coletiva
items: Direitos humanos e dependência no período Pós-Independência em Moçambique
items: Crise capitalista, degradação ambiental e lutas dos povos originários na América Latina
items: The gold rush in the Yanomami Indigenous Land: mining and the Haximu genocide
items: Towards the creation of the neo-corporate military state in Mexico
items: Child and adolescent rights at the interface with racism
items: Social
items: PEC das domésticas 10 anos depois (2013-2023)
items: Nature in György Lukács and Alfred Schmidt: Marxist reflections on the beginning of the Anthropocene
items: The “possible futures” that force us to move
items: Nature, technology, and the breakdown of the capitalist order
items: Catastrophe, capitalism, and a lurking fatalism
items: Conflicts and expropriation of traditional territories in the Brazilian Amazon

Expediente
type: item
description: Expediente: Argum., Vitória, v. 17, 2025.
subject: Expediente
  topic: section
subject: Política Social
  topic: keywords
subject: Serviço Social
  topic: keywords
creator: Eugênia Magna Broseguini Keys
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-12-31
publication date: 2025-12-31
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.51345

Editorial
type: item
description: Editorial Argumentum, v. 17, 2025 (Publicação contínua).
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
subject: Social Work
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Policy
  topic: keywords
creator: Silvia Neves Salazar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: 1
ending page: 4
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.51343

Forms of capital, fictitious wealth, and the externalisation of recent capitalist crises
type: item
description: This article identifies the characteristics and particularities of recent capitalist wealth and crises based on the functional forms of capital and its processes of autonomisation and Marx’s (1985) fictitious capital in particular. In addition to explaining the constitution of the forms of capital, it discusses some indicators that point to the expressions of capitalist crises observed at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Fictitious capital
  topic: keywords
subject: crises
  topic: keywords
subject: fictitious wealth
  topic: keywords
subject: contemporary capitalism
  topic: keywords
creator: Paulo Nakatani
creator: Marcelo Dias Carcanholo
creator: Mauricio de Souza Sabadini
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-12-31
publication date: 2025-12-31
starting page: 1
ending page: 17
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.50948

Universality in digital health: digitalisation and datafication in the Unified Health System (SUS)
type: item
description: This article analyses how universality is addressed in Brazil’s Digital Health Strategy (ESD28). It starts, Centre for from the idea that this principle, enshrined in the 1988 Federal Constitution, emerged as an ethical imperative in modern times but became an adjective under neoliberalism. Using a qualitative methodology and bibliographic and documentary sources, it was observed that ESD28 led to the development of telehealth in remote areas and offered specialties but that it reproduces technological dependence and the risk to digital sovereignty. Access to information should not be confused with universal access to comprehensive healthcare, although it can contribute to this end. The weaknesses of infrastructure and interoperability in the Unified Health System (SUS) in Brazil together with digital inequality constrain universality.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Universality
  topic: keywords
subject: Universal health coverage
  topic: keywords
subject: Digital Health Strategy
  topic: keywords
subject: Digitalisation
  topic: keywords
creator: Rita de Cássia Cavalcante Lima
creator: Vanessa Barreto Corrêa Passos
creator: Priscilla dos Santos Peixoto Borelli Tavares
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-12-27
publication date: 2025-12-27
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.49475

Brazilian immigration in Portugal: State and power relations
type: item
description: Recently, migratory determinants of countries in the global North have shifted public opinion, policies, and relations between countries and human rights. This article presents the results of a doctoral research project and analyses the relationship between immigration and the mechanisms of State power. It focusses on the living conditions of Brazilian immigrants awaiting regularisation in Portugal. The methodology follows qualitative procedures with a mixed approach, using semi-structured interviews and online questionnaires directed at the immigrant population. Results point to the Portuguese state's governmental tactics that create a bureaucratic limbo, block fundamental rights, and result in the precariousness of immigrant life and citizenship.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Power relations
  topic: keywords
subject: Human rights
  topic: keywords
subject: Relações de Poder
  topic: keywords
subject: Waiting
  topic: keywords
subject: Direitos humanos
  topic: keywords
subject: Espera
  topic: keywords
subject: Brazilian immigration in Portugal
  topic: keywords
subject: State
  topic: keywords
creator: Mary Help Ibiapina Alves
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-11-13
publication date: 2025-11-13
starting page: 1
ending page: 13
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.47933

The status of occasional benefits within Social Assistance Policy: some notes
type: item
description: This article reflects on occasional benefits within Social Assistance Policy, problematising the main challenges to their implementation from a rights perspective. It employs bibliographic research and documentary sources from a survey available on the World Wide Web, based on historical-dialectical materialism. It concludes that the trajectory of occasional benefits has faced obstacles related to their definition, regulation, and funding, and that this has hindered their achievement as a social right.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Occasional benefits
  topic: keywords
subject: Social assistance policy
  topic: keywords
subject: Social protection
  topic: keywords
subject: Social law
  topic: keywords
creator: Ana Carolyna Ribeiro Sales
creator: Vera Núbia Santos
creator: Maria da Conceição Vasconcelos Gonçalves
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-12-14
publication date: 2025-12-14
starting page: 1
ending page: 14
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.49285

Determinations of class, race and sex in the Sergipe prison system
type: item
description: This article offers a critical reflection on the prison system and its class, race, and gender determinants, and its implications for Black women in Sergipe. Using an exploratory survey and Marxist analysis based on documentary sources, it problematises indicators that demonstrate a process of the mass incarceration of women, based primarily on the feminisation of poverty and the so-called war on drugs. It reveals that these women are subject to rights violations and exposes the involvement of the racist-patriarchal policies operated by the Brazilian/Sergipe State under the aegis of the current capitalist stage.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Sergipe prison system
  topic: keywords
subject: Women
  topic: keywords
subject: Racism
  topic: keywords
subject: Violation of rights
  topic: keywords
creator: Jarina Ébano Avelina Ferraz Alves
creator: Laryssa Gabriella Gonçalves dos Santos
creator: Paulo Roberto Felix dos Santos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-12-31
publication date: 2025-12-31
starting page: 1
ending page: 12
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.42774

Fundamentals of Social Work: analysis of the debate present at XVII ENPESS
type: item
description: This article quantitatively and qualitatively analyses the presence of the debate on the Fundamentals of Social Work in the annals of the XVII ENPESS, held in 2022 in Rio de Janeiro. The analysis considers the various perspectives on the understanding of the Fundamentals of Social Work. The article highlights authors who have dedicated themselves to this debate and demonstrates the varied definitions that they have constructed on the fundamentals of the profession. It points out the existence of three main trends in the discussion and, finally, presents the results of the research through an analysis that points to a paucity of output on this theme in the XVII ENPESS and signals a lack of clarity around a conception of Fundamentals among these authors.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Social work.
  topic: keywords
subject: History
  topic: keywords
subject: Theoretical and methodological foundation.
  topic: keywords
subject: Sociohistorical foundations.
  topic: keywords
creator: Luciana Gonçalves Pereira de Paula
creator: Ana Clara Serpa Cardoso
creator: Isadora das Graças Freitas
creator: Jude de Oliveira Bento da Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-10-01
publication date: 2025-10-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 16
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.46268

Gramsci and Social Work: philology as a method of study
type: item
description: This article presents the methodologies developed since the 1970s for the reading and study of the Cadernos do cárcere. The appropriation of the Cadernos by Social Service is investigated and an interpretive hypothesis is made associated with two cycles of Gramscian research in which the outcome depends on the sources of access to the work. Finally, a reading of Gramsci is suggested that seeks the “rhythm of thought” through a chronological reading of the entirety and fragmentary nature of the notes, understanding their nuances, developments, and reformulations, and how the Brazilian “critical-thematic” edition can offer endurance in this regard. It concludes that the eventual incorporation by social workers of updated reading tools and even new interpretations will, once again, generate important research.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Gramsci
  topic: keywords
subject: Serviço social
  topic: keywords
subject: Cadernos do Cárcere
  topic: keywords
subject: Filologia
  topic: keywords
subject: Metodologia
  topic: keywords
creator: Renato de Brito Gomes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-06-08
publication date: 2025-06-08
starting page: 1
ending page: 15
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.44901

Anti-crime package and drug policy in Brazil under the Bolsonaro government
type: item
description: This text analyses measures taken by the Bolsonaro government, specifically: the Anti-Crime Package and Law nº 13,840, of June 5, 2019, which instituted the New National Drug Policy. It identifies the use of crime as a strategic issue, especially for political purposes, as a way of earning positive evaluations of the government by the population. It also recognises the use of fear and a sense of insecurity as elements to justify the removal of fundamental rights, through the enactment of more onerous laws and increased control, as witnessed in daily city-life.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Anti-crime package
  topic: keywords
subject: Drugs
  topic: keywords
subject: Penal state
  topic: keywords
creator: Jaqueline Carvalho Quadrado
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-06-08
publication date: 2025-06-08
starting page: 1
ending page: 12
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.45386

Political polarization in the presidential elections (2018 and 2022): the Northeast and the “others”
type: item
description: This research analyses the discourse surrounding Northeastern migration in social media posts on Instagram and Twitter (X-Twitter) during the 2018 and 2022 presidential elections. The study reveals that perceptions of the Northeast are symbolic and shaped by stereotypes that reinforce inequality and prejudice. Employing a qualitative approach, using Content Analysis, the research investigated how these narratives place Northeasterners in a subordinate position and what these stereotypes reveal about the “social question” in Brazil. The results show that the posts often stigmatise the Northeast, blaming the region for socioeconomic problems, and exploit the “social question” as a form of entertainment without addressing its structural causes. These representations reinforce misleading imaginaries and strengthen exclusionary discourse and historical violence.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Migration
  topic: keywords
subject: Politics
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Networks
  topic: keywords
subject: Brazil
  topic: keywords
creator: Fabiano Eloy Atílio Batista
creator: Rita de Cássia Pereira Farias
creator: Débora Pires Teixeira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-06-09
publication date: 2025-06-09
starting page: 1
ending page: 18
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.47599

The aging process and challenges for the job market in Brazil
type: item
description: This article sets out the insertion rates of elderly people within the Brazilian job market to highlight the challenges of aging in capitalist society. It is based on mixed documentary research, focused on indexes provided by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, the Institute of Applied Economic Research, the Annual Social Information List, and the National Employment System, supported by a bibliographic survey. There is an evident age bias towards the inclusion of elderly people in the job market. The elderly population is not the most likely to experience unemployment and joblessness, it is in second place in terms of access after young people. Research bodies indicate that since 2016 the number of unemployed elderly people has been increasing, and that, faced with this scenario, they have been entering the informal job market.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Aging
  topic: keywords
subject: Elderly
  topic: keywords
subject: Job market
  topic: keywords
creator: Elisângela Maia Pessôa
creator: Paula Machado Gouvêa
creator: Bruna Silva de Mattos
creator: Andreia Cristina da Silva Almeida
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-10-13
publication date: 2025-10-13
starting page: 1
ending page: 15
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.43494

Samba: symbol of national culture?
type: item
description: This article discusses samba and considers it’s denotations as presented in recent academic publications. Bibliographic research was conducted through a survey of the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações, BDTD) on the subject. The research indicates that the statement that samba is a musical genre symbolic of national culture, and not of African-Brazilian culture, conspires with the violent erasure of references to an African culture that was reinvented in Brazil by the diaspora, and that it is functional to the myth of racial democracy in the country. Samba stands out as one of the main expressions of inventiveness and Black resistance of African roots in Brazil, whose contributions were decisive in the conformation of Brazilian society in its social, economic, political, and cultural aspects.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Samba
  topic: keywords
subject: Raízes afro-brasileiras.
  topic: keywords
subject: Cultura Afro-brasileira.
  topic: keywords
subject: Samba
  topic: subjects
subject: African-Brazilian roots
  topic: subjects
subject: African-Brazilian Culture
  topic: subjects
creator: Yanne Angelim Dias
creator: Maria Zelma de Araújo Madeira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-12-02
publication date: 2025-12-02
starting page: 1
ending page: 16
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.47276

Epistemological and historical aspects of the anti-racist fight in Brazilian education
type: item
description: Considering that the coloniality of power is impregnated in Brazilian schools and universities, institutionally reproducing racism, the aim of this article is to analyze the historical-normative process of resistance of the black movement for the anti-racist struggle through the epistemological disputes and tensions existing in the elaboration and implementation of educational policies. With an emphasis on Law 10.639, which made it compulsory to teach Afro-Brazilian history and culture in schools, it was possible to see that the law in question is an important milestone, but it is still far from achieving the reach and effectiveness needed to identify and make progress that, beyond hegemonic Western epistemologies in the field of education, makes it possible to confront and overcome racism and promote human rights.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Decoloniality.
  topic: keywords
subject: Human rights.
  topic: keywords
subject: Education.
  topic: keywords
subject: Racism.
  topic: keywords
creator: Sérgio Luís do Nascimento
creator: Rodrigo Alvarenga
creator: Cezar Bueno de Lima
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-07-28
publication date: 2025-07-28
starting page: 1
ending page: 13
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.46632

Contributos foucaultianos sobre racismo: aproximações entre soldados Indígenas estadunidenses e brasileiros
type: item
description: Este artigo tem como objetivo empreender um esforço reflexivo acerca da participação de indígenas nas Forças Armadas (FA) estadunidense e brasileira, na qualidade de profissional militar, a partir da perceptiva foucaultiana sobre o racismo. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa, com base em análise bibliográfica e documental, além de coleta de dados e informações em sites (YouTube) e vídeos institucionais, com o termo indutor soldados Indígenas. Como resultado destacou-se o racismo biológico, seja na expectativa do estereótipo de guerreiros naturais ou na ideia do compartilhamento de saberes do efetivo indígena, reduzido a perspectiva da troca de conhecimento, estabelecendo uma maior distinção de classes, caracterizada pela diferença de patentes e valores recebidos pelo ofício.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Indigenous Soldiers
  topic: subjects
subject: Foucault
  topic: subjects
subject: Racism
  topic: subjects
subject: United States of America
  topic: subjects
subject: Brazil
  topic: subjects
creator: Nádia Xavier Moreira
creator: Cláudia Pinheiro Nascimento
creator: Viviane Machado Caminha
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-12-06
publication date: 2025-12-06
starting page: 1
ending page: 14
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.42766

Professional ethics and the labyrinth of precarisation: challenges and resistance in the work of Social Workers
type: item
description: This article analyses the professional ethics of social workers in the context of labour precarisation based on bibliographic and empirical research conducted with 168 professionals in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The findings reveal a resurgence of conservatism in everyday professional practice, shaped by processes of alienation, sickness, and intensified exploitation. Against this background, the study identifies ethical-political strategies as both individual and collective forms of resistance. It highlights the paradox between the formal adherence to the ethical-political project and the persistence of conservative personal values. The study concludes by emphasising the need to overcome alienation and to strengthen professional ethics as a critical mediation between objective conditions and professional action, reaffirming its historical, collective, and emancipatory character.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Ética Profissional.
  topic: keywords
subject: Precarização do Trabalho.
  topic: keywords
subject: Serviço Social.
  topic: keywords
creator: Anderson da Silva Fagundes
creator: Tatiano Reidel
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-10-01
publication date: 2025-10-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 16
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.44981

Bolsonarismo: da guerra cultural ao terrorismo doméstico: retórica do ódio e dissonância cognitiva coletiva
type: item
description: Resenha do livro Bolsonarismo: da guerra cultural ao terrorismo doméstico: retórica do ódio e dissonância cognitiva coletiva, publicado pela editora Autêntica, em 2023, com 167p, autoria de João Cezar de Castro Rocha.
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Bolsonarismo
  topic: keywords
subject: Extrema-direita
  topic: keywords
subject: Polarização
  topic: keywords
creator: Anthony Gabriel da Silva Frota
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-07-11
publication date: 2025-07-11
starting page: 1
ending page: 4
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.47315

Direitos humanos e dependência no período Pós-Independência em Moçambique
type: item
description: This study analyses the determining correlations of Human Rights in the context of peripheral countries, with a particular focus on Mozambique’s dependency on core economies in the post-independence period (1975–present). It aims to describe the dialectic of human rights development in peripheral countries based on World-Systems Theory and to analytically delineate the “human rights issue” in Mozambique in the post-independence period. Methodologically, this is a qualitative study with a descriptive objective, carried out through bibliographic and documentary reviews. The study found that although Mozambique has legislation addressing human rights issues, civil war, poverty, and economic dependency have eroded human rights. There has been a resurgence of hun@ger hotspots, precarious primary healthcare and education, and a lack of freedom of expression and assembly.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Human Rights
  topic: keywords
subject: Dependency
  topic: keywords
subject: Mozambique
  topic: keywords
creator: Adérito Arlindo Magule
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-11-13
publication date: 2025-11-13
starting page: 1
ending page: 13
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.47313

Expediente
type: item
description: Expediente do v. 16, n. 3 (2024).
subject: Expediente
  topic: section
creator: Eugênia Magna Broseguini Keys
creator: Rubia Pereira da Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Argumentum http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-12-28
publication date: 2024-12-28
starting page: 1
ending page: 4

Crise capitalista, degradação ambiental e lutas dos povos originários na América Latina
type: item
description: Editorial do v. 16, n. 3 de 2024, tema Crise capitalista, degradação ambiental e lutas dos povos originários na América Latina.
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
creator: Camilla dos Santos Nogueira
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Argumentum http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-12-28
publication date: 2024-12-28
starting page: 5
ending page: 7
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v16i3.46897

The gold rush in the Yanomami Indigenous Land: mining and the Haximu genocide
type: item
description: This study investigates the gold rush in the Yanomami Indigenous Land between 1987 and 1993. It examines the events, causes, developments, and implications of what should be considered one of the worst chapters in the history of relationships between indigenous communities and the impacts of mineral exploration on indigenous land. It highlights that one of the darkest results of the process of the invasion of Yanomami territory manifested itself in the Haximu genocide in 1993. The study sheds light on the understanding of the recurring processes of violence suffered by the Yanomami, which are still little known by the general population.
subject: Thematic Articles
  topic: section
subject: Gold Rush
  topic: keywords
subject: Yanomami
  topic: keywords
subject: Haximu Genocide
  topic: keywords
subject: Prospectors
  topic: keywords
creator: Corrado Dalmonego
creator: Márcia Maria de Oliveira
creator: João Paulo Roberti Junior
creator: Tiago Siqueira Reis
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Argumentum http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-12-29
publication date: 2024-12-29
starting page: 150
ending page: 163
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v16i3.43952

Towards the creation of the neo-corporate military state in Mexico
type: item
description: This paper analyses the recent reconfiguration of state power in Mexico from the perspective of political economy. It argues that during the most recent presidential term under López Obrador (2018-2024), the foundations of a new state model were been laid. In an effort to address the legitimacy crisis experienced under previous administrations, this model retains neoliberal economic policies and the militarised and coercive character established through the so-called 'war on drugs.' It, however, promotes a social policy based on monetary assistance programmes, which have become the foundation of a politically subordinated social consensus that underpins a new military-neocorporate state.
subject: Temas Livres
  topic: section
subject: Mexico
  topic: keywords
subject: Neoliberalism
  topic: keywords
subject: State
  topic: keywords
subject: Monetary transfer social programmes
  topic: keywords
creator: Mateo Crossa
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Argumentum http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-12-28
publication date: 2024-12-28
starting page: 236
ending page: 250
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v16i3.46282

Child and adolescent rights at the interface with racism
type: item
description: This article addresses racism, children's rights and the system that guarantees the rights of children and adolescents. It reflects on the possibilities of resistance in the face of a protective system that developed in a context of racist sociability. The methodology was a bibliographic review of primary and secondary sources, and observation of the implementation of a university extension course aimed at professionals who work with children and adolescents. It became evident that racism is latent in childhood and is little debated. Teaching emerged as the best strategy for breaking with racism in childhood.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Black children
  topic: keywords
subject: Structural and Institutional Racism
  topic: keywords
subject: Resistance
  topic: keywords
subject: System for Guaranteeing the Rights of Children and Adolescents
  topic: keywords
subject: University Extension
  topic: keywords
creator: Vanessa Cristina dos Santos Saraiva
creator: Cyntia Gomes Damasceno Basílio
creator: Caroline Pires Neves
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-05-20
publication date: 2025-05-20
starting page: 1
ending page: 13
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.42638

Social
type: item
description: This article problematises the relationship between Brazilian Social Work and the national policy for preventing and combating torture. With an emphasis on the deprivation of liberty, it discusses historical and political aspects of torture in Brazil and its confrontation by means of professional action. This is qualitative research drawn from bibliographical study and documentary analysis of reports produced by the first team responsible for the national policy for the prevention and combating of torture. It concludes that academic output on the topic of torture in Social Work is scarce. Political and professional intervention strategies for the category are also highlighted.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Torture
  topic: keywords
subject: Policy to prevent and combat torture
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Work
  topic: keywords
creator: Ionara dos Santos Fernandes
creator: Fábio do Nascimento Simas
creator: João Rafael da Conceição Dias
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-05-20
publication date: 2025-05-20
starting page: 1
ending page: 17
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.46308

PEC das domésticas 10 anos depois (2013-2023)
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description: Em 2013 entrou em vigor o Projeto de Emenda Constitucional 72/2013, conhecido como “PEC das Domésticas”, cujo objetivo foi estender às trabalhadoras domésticas uma série de direitos trabalhistas válidos para as/os demais trabalhadoras/es brasileiros desde 1988. A expectativa era a de que haveria um ciclo de crescimento da formalização do trabalho no setor e uma melhoria generalizada da qualidade do emprego doméstico, o que entretanto não se concretizou. Os dados empíricos encontrados indicam que a taxa de informalidade cresceu, houve um aumento expressivo das trabalhadoras sem carteira de trabalho assinada e sem proteção previdenciária, além de se constatar a estagnação dos rendimentos da categoria e a ampliação das desigualdades raciais. Examinamos três hipóteses para tentar explicar esse quadro, nomeadamente as recentes crises econômicas, as mudanças demográficas e finalmente a sobrecarga das unidades familiares com os custos da formalização.
subject: Artigo Original
  topic: section
subject: Women’s Work
  topic: keywords
subject: Domestic Workers
  topic: keywords
subject: PEC for Domestic Workers
  topic: keywords
subject: Informality
  topic: keywords
creator: Brena Paula Magno Fernandez
creator: Geanny Paula Thiesen
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Argumentum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-04-24
publication date: 2025-04-24
starting page: 1
ending page: 16
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v17.2025.45367

Nature in György Lukács and Alfred Schmidt: Marxist reflections on the beginning of the Anthropocene
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description: This paper critically contrasts György Lukács’ and Alfred Schmidt’s 1960s interpretations of Marxist reflections on nature. It argues that Schmidt’s position on nature produces a literal constructivism that Lukács’ ontological perspective avoids. It also argues that Lukács generalises Marx’s theory of value in a way that hinders the historical analyses of different social metabolisms, in contrast to Schmidt's more historicised interpretation of value, which draws out important considerations regarding capitalism’s relationship with nature. It further argues that both positions, in analysing the Marxist perspective of an emancipated society, not only depart from Marx’s positions but also fall into what environmental sociology has termed exemptionalism. Finally, it demonstrates how the theorising of István Mészáros and the so-called Metabolic Rift School skilfully reframe the positive aspects and limitations of Schmidt and Lukács’ interpretations.
subject: Thematic Articles
  topic: section
subject: Marxism
  topic: keywords
subject: Ontology
  topic: keywords
subject: Nature
  topic: keywords
creator: Murillo van der Laan
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Argumentum http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-12-28
publication date: 2024-12-28
starting page: 135
ending page: 149
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v16i3.46206

The “possible futures” that force us to move
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description: Iniciamos essa reflexão em meio à catástrofe socioambiental que assola o estado do Rio Grande do Sul, por meio de uma enchente sem precedentes que atinge uma grande extensão territorial do estado e 90% do total de municípios, em zonas costeiras e zonas interioranas, desde áreas da planície costeira que margeiam a Lagoa dos Patos até áreas da Serra Gaúcha; áreas urbanas e áreas rurais; bairros centrais e periféricos; comunidades campesinas, pesqueiras, marisqueiras, ribeirinhas e quilombolas, territórios de povos originários indígenas.
subject: Debate
  topic: section
creator: Simone Raquel Batista Ferreira
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Argumentum http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-12-28
publication date: 2024-12-28
starting page: 23
ending page: 31
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v16i3.46032

Nature, technology, and the breakdown of the capitalist order
type: item
description: Métodos reducionistas de observação da realidade, assim como ocorre em outros temas das ciências sociais, são recorrentes para a discussão sobre a crise climática. E, por isso, o esforço de debate também já vem sendo acumulado pelo mainstream. Em seu texto, o professor Eduardo Sá Barreto se preocupou em citar e analisar os limites das proposições nos termos da ordem liberal, previstas no princípio do poluidor pagador, da análise do custo-benefício e do cálculo de valoração econômica para serviços ambientais. Também fez alusão a formas contemporâneas de vinculação destes princípios. É notável a introdução de novas modalidades de contrato para incentivar a produção sustentável e o conservacionismo florestal, sempre por medidas que envolvem práticas padronizadas de manejo e uso de recursos naturais para a produção, em estratégias de marketing e operações em mercados futuros, como são os casos dos certificados de origem – terroir, na sua expressão francesa – os mercados de carbono e as estratégias ESG – do inglês Environmental, Social and Governance.
subject: Debate
  topic: section
creator: Evaldo Gomes Júnior
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Argumentum http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-12-28
publication date: 2024-12-28
starting page: 32
ending page: 41
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v16i3.46031

Catastrophe, capitalism, and a lurking fatalism
type: item
description: O artigo aborda o entrelaçamento do colapso climático e da crise estrutural do capitalismo com a incapacidade, também estrutural, de oferecer respostas efetivas aos riscos e impactos daí oriundos. Com a finalidade de demonstrar as limitações insanáveis das alternativas em circulação, mesmo das que propõem reformas mais ambiciosas, procura-se examinar as condições objetivas de (im)possibilidade de sua realização. A principal conclusão é que a necessária rejeição ao fatalismo que tende a aparecer em circunstâncias tão desafiadoras não precisa e não deve recorrer à diluição do diagnóstico de extrema gravidade que será apresentado aqui.
subject: Debate
  topic: section
creator: Eduardo Sá Barreto
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Argumentum http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-12-28
publication date: 2024-12-28
starting page: 8
ending page: 22
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v16i3.46030

Conflicts and expropriation of traditional territories in the Brazilian Amazon
type: item
description: This article analyses the conflicts and expropriation processes in the Amazon region. It highlights the resistance strategies implemented by local peoples to counter the appropriation and dispossession of their assets and way of life. The methodology employed was a systematic literature review, and a review of audiovisual materials that presented reports from leaders of social movements and traditional communities, these were identified and classified as: strengthening of identity; mobilisations, political organisation/links; and; use of counter-information. The use of counter-information, which emerged as an identified process of r-existence, was ultimately the basis for the analysis, which reflects on the conflicts and the processes of expropriation experienced in the Amazon region.
subject: Thematic Articles
  topic: section
subject: Conflicts
  topic: keywords
subject: Traditional People
  topic: keywords
subject: R-existence
  topic: keywords
subject: Amazon
  topic: keywords
creator: Solange Maria Gayoso da Costa
creator: Marcel Theodoor Hazeu
creator: Larissa Marinho da Costa
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Argumentum http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-12-28
publication date: 2024-12-28
starting page: 107
ending page: 121
doi: 10.47456/argumentum.v16i3.45509