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This issue of the journal Em Pauta: social theory and contemporary reality focuses on the pertinence of analyzes on the ways in which social classes present themselves and forge in their diverse intertwining of race, ethnicity, gender, Northern-Southern and Southern-Southern global relations, as well as reflections on the fundamental strategies of social struggle. Present times and spaces are complex and require the reinvention of analytical instruments. In our case, in constant dialogue with classical and contemporary authors of the field of critical theory. Such complexity runs through the very construction of this number which, in order to make itself possible, challenges the historical time that we live in Brazil, and more particularly in Rio de Janeiro, in the space of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, which quite possibly is suffering its greatest attack in 67 years of existence. In the wake of nefarious measures caused by another crisis of capital, which penalize the working classes, the academic activities of teaching, research and extension at UERJ suffer successive interruptions, creating a horizon of expectations of institutional and political instability. However, it is our belief in the need to resist collectively and the understanding that intellectual production is part of this process that makes us, in face of all obstacles, focus our greatest efforts on producing this issue. In this direction, we present another edition of the journal Em Pauta, proposing that they consider this set of works as reading, analysis and action strategies for the difficult times we live in.
The articles in the Thematic Dossier present the views of the authors of various regions on social classes and their resistance strategies in the context of contemporary capitalist society, based on important theoretical, philosophical, and political influences. Some studies also emphasize the debate about strategies and tactics of social struggles and their relation with the State, an issue that within the framework of Latin American societies cannot be overlooked. In Masculinity and Diaspora: class, racial ization, and feminization of the Other, the authors discuss new ways of constructing masculine identities from migratory movements from the global South to the global North, particularly the diasporic masculinities of Brazilian immigrant men living in Lisbon, Portugal. The study aims to "explore the ways in which ethnicized identities are constructed in a gendrified way by men living displacement processes." In order to do so, the analysis critically reconsiders the notion of hegemonic masculinity, coined from Gramscian thought, aiming to base its reflections on the processes of construction of masculinities along the borders of the dominant pattern. In the article Organic and inorganic concepts in the sociohistorical formation of Brazil according to Caio Prado, Jr., we see an extension of the debate as the particularities of Brazilian socio-historical formation are deepened, in their dialectic of ruptures and permanences, which will conform to a pattern of capitalist accumulation in Brazil. In dialogue with the classic work of Caio Prado Jr., The colonial background of modern Brazil (Berkeley, 1967), the article examines social classes, based clearly on ethnic-racial, regional, and gender/ sex perspectives, within a dependent economy riddled with authoritarian political processes in a restricted democracy. This study creates a continuity line with the current Brazilian conjuncture, highlighting the growing conservative agenda in the National Congress, their goals "disguised as 'fighting corruption' or 'coping with the economic and political crisis', such as: incentive to outsourcing; relaxation of labor laws; more privatization of the public sector; regression in sexual, reproductive, and social rights (especially in health and education); restrictions on the processes of demarcation of indigenous and quilombola lands; criminalization of social movements, to name a few." The third article also relates to the previous two. Culture and labor: integration of Black people in Rio de Janeiro exposes the process of universalization of work alienated from the institution of free work that demarcates the differentiated condition of Black people in Brazilian society, without losing sight of the movement of expropriation and resistance through popular culture in the suburbs of Rio. The article resumes the debate on "racial segregation in its diffuse form," by Florestan Fernandes, and Marx's writings, the Grundrisse, to analyze "the generalization of alienated labor in its relation with the instrumentalization of culture." In the article The political ecology of Enrique Dussel: approaches for social struggles in Latin America we see the demand for knowledge in the Latin American perspective, beyond the Eurocentrism intended by modern philosophy. Argentine philosopher Enrique Dussel is considered the source of the construction of a "Latin American ethic of liberation," which, by repositioning Latin America in the production of knowledge, favors reflection on ecological processes...
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