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An enduring puzzle of race relations in Brazil is that for most of the 20th century this topic was conspicuously absent from politics, in spite of deep-rooted inequalities between whites and non-whites. The ideology of "racial democracy" effectively depoliticised the issue until the late 1990s, when a wide-ranging programme of affirmative action policies for Afro-Brazilians was implemented. / Beginning with the idea that the myth of racial democracy functioned as an ideological hegemony in the Gramscian sense, this dissertation seeks to explain the process through which public policies ceased to reflect this hegemonic ideology, and instead began to represent a counterhegemonic project. Contrary to traditional Gramscian analysis, I argue that a counterhegemonic project can be defended not only by civil society actors, but also by the state, and that the relative strength of counterhegemonic actors is often influenced by transnational factors. Indeed, I argue that when civil society actors lack the necessary strength to reach a leadership position in civil society that can counter the hegemonic order, a counterhegemonic confluence of civil society, state and transnational actors can produce this change. / An analysis of the evolution of racial politics in Brazil since the return of democratic rule in the 1980s demonstrates that such a confluence did indeed take place in Brazil, culminating at the United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban in 2001. A study of the implementation of admissions quotas for Afro-Brazilians in the state universities of Rio de Janeiro serves to confirm the importance of the contribution of the state and transnational actors, as well as to examine the limits of the confluence.

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In Brazil, the coincidence of massive growth and growing inequalities was also combined with an authoritarian regime. This coincidence led the dependency scholars to link the Brazilian economic model and the repressive and authoritarian nature of the political regime. However, the Brazilian democratization process, taking roots in the mid-70s, reformulated the issue. Indeed, while remaining committed to transnationalism, a democratization process was underway. This paper argues that the democratization process is consistent with, and even motivated by, the regulation imperatives of the regime of accumulation. However, these regulation imperatives limit the nature and scope of democratic reforms. Nevertheless, transnationalism also lay the foundations for more progressive and democratic option to emerge in formal politics and in civil society.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-04-10Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:27:04Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 garrido_fm_me_fran.pdf: 931312 bytes, checksum: 36e70a3fb4335266a0e11c704f574e2b (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Na década de 1790 as vilas do Norte da capitania de São Paulo tiveram expressivo desenvolvimento de sua agricultura. Alinhados com a administração régia lusitana, influenciados pelas luzes, os produtores desta parte da América procuraram fomentar o cultivo de diferentes gêneros úteis à Fazenda Real. Através dos maços de população, contido no Arquivo Público de Estado de São Paulo, arrolei os principais agricultores e o cultivo de seus fogos. E, utilizando os documentos do Conselho Ultramarino, intentei verificar de que forma a Coroa influenciou nas residências paulistas e, ao mesmo tempo, como os principais potentados fizeram pedidos de privilégios para a Monarquia / In the 1790's decade the northern villages of the captaincy of São Paulo had expressive development of their agriculture. Aligned with the Portuguese Royal administration, influenced by the Enlightenment, the producers of this part of America sought to promote the cultivation of different genres useful to Real Fazenda. Through the Maços de população, contained in the Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo, I listed the main farmers and the cultivation of their farms. And, using the documents from the Conselho Ultramarino, I tried see how the Crown influenced households of São Paulo's population and at the same time as the main rulers made requests for privileges of the Monarchy

Orientador: Denise Aparecida Soares de Moura / Banca: Antonio Carlos Jucá de Sampaio / Banca: Ricardo Alexandre Ferreira / Resumo: Na década de 1790 as vilas do Norte da capitania de São Paulo tiveram expressivo desenvolvimento de sua agricultura. Alinhados com a administração régia lusitana, influenciados pelas luzes, os produtores desta parte da América procuraram fomentar o cultivo de diferentes gêneros úteis à Fazenda Real. Através dos maços de população, contido no Arquivo Público de Estado de São Paulo, arrolei os principais agricultores e o cultivo de seus fogos. E, utilizando os documentos do Conselho Ultramarino, intentei verificar de que forma a Coroa influenciou nas residências paulistas e, ao mesmo tempo, como os principais potentados fizeram pedidos de privilégios para a Monarquia / Abstract: In the 1790's decade the northern villages of the captaincy of São Paulo had expressive development of their agriculture. Aligned with the Portuguese Royal administration, influenced by the Enlightenment, the producers of this part of America sought to promote the cultivation of different genres useful to Real Fazenda. Through the Maços de população, contained in the Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo, I listed the main farmers and the cultivation of their farms. And, using the documents from the Conselho Ultramarino, I tried see how the Crown influenced households of São Paulo's population and at the same time as the main rulers made requests for privileges of the Monarchy / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-08-30Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:59:27Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 casaroes_gsp_me_mar.pdf: 773809 bytes, checksum: c3239c301cd5ac083fa1f82eee2433e7 (MD5) / Este trabalho tem como objetivo jogar luz sobre o processo de mudança que marcou a política externa do governo Collor, a partir dos três níveis analíticos propostos: sistêmico, domésticosocietário e burocrático. Argumenta-se que as inflexões observadas na política externa daquele governo devem-se a uma conjugação específica de transformações observadas nos três planos, diante de um contexto de crise global que marcou a década de 1980. No plano sistêmico, observou-se um câmbio estrutural da ordem internacional, bem como a corrosão econômica e política do Terceiro Mundo. Prevaleceu a lógica do poder no direcionamento da política externa brasileira, isto é, o país mostrou-se vulnerável às pressões exercidas no plano econômico, sobretudo dos Estados Unidos. Ao mesmo tempo, no plano doméstico, a ruptura do Estado desenvolvimentista abria espaço para a emergência de posições neoliberais, que conduzirão a política externa brasileira à abertura econômica, inicialmente tímida no governo Sarney, e empreendida com mais ênfase no governo Collor. Por fim, no plano burocrático, argumenta-se que o presidente valeu-se de uma dissonância no próprio corpo diplomático, entre liberais e nacionalistas, para avançar uma nova agenda internacional, embora conservasse os princípios da política externa. A síntese dessas mudanças pode ser entendida como uma nova estratégia a partir de velhos pressupostos, qual seja, a busca da “autonomia pela modernização” / This work intended to shed light on the process of change that characterized Fernando Collor’s foreign policy, from a level-of-analysis perspective: system, society, and bureaucracy. Our hypothesis is that the shifts observed in that government’s foreign policy are due to a juxtaposition of transformations in those three levels, in the context of the global crisis of the 1980s. In the systemic level, one could notice a structural shift in the international order, as well as the downfall, both political and economically, of the Third World. The logic of power politics prevailed in Brazil’s international politics, that is, the country became vulnerable to external pressures exerted on it, especially by the United States. At the same time, in the domestic level, the breakdown of the developmental state would allow for the emergence of neoliberal positions, that will ultimately lead Brazilian foreign policy towards economic liberalization – in a timid way during the Sarney administration, and more emphatically during the Collor government. Finally, in the bureaucratic level, we argue that the president benefitted from a dissonance within the diplomatic body, between liberals and nationalists, to advance a new international agenda, even though maintaining the very principles of our foreign policy. The synthesis of these changes can be interpreted as a new strategy based on old premises, to which we call “autonomy through modernization”