Da Guerra à Paz: o nascimento de um ator social no contexto da "nova pobreza" urbana em Salvador/Bahia

Hita, Maria Gabriela; Duccini, Luciana

doi:10.1590/s0103-49792007000200007

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“…As Hita and Duccini (2007) show in greater detail, this reflects a particular history. Militant traditions, forged at the time of the community's creation through land invasion and its resistance to eviction, have been reproduced despite social changes.…”

Section: From Poverty To Inequalitymentioning

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New Actors, New Political Spaces, Same Divided City? Reflections on Poverty and the Politics of Urban Development in Salvador, Bahia

Gledhill

Hita

2009

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Critics of Lula's administration argue that business has greatest weight in setting its priorities and that anti-poverty programmes based on conditional cash transfers have little long-term structural impact on social inequality. Yet the coherence and scope of these programmes is now an order of magnitude greater than under the previous administration, their impact on poverty has so far proved sustainable, and poor people themselves often express satisfaction with them. This paper argues that critics who see retreat from universal social benefits as undermining political commitment to reducing social inequality underestimate the countervailing force of the capacity of some poor communities to seize the opportunities that have emerged to oblige politicians to reengage with both poverty and the roots of social injustice. Analyses that focus solely on economic precariousness and the decline of sociability are ignoring the ways in which third sector activity and social change have produced new kinds of political actors and group identities, particularly amongst young people, that may be ambivalent in nature but indicate that levels of politicisation are not being reduced. Nevertheless, optimism about poverty reduction needs to be tempered by appreciation of how problems of violence and insecurity also shape state interventions in, and in some cases virtual withdrawal from, poor communities. The rationality of party politics may have a more negative effect on securing the longer-term patterns of public investment required to reduce social inequality than it has had on the administration of the Bolsa Familia programme. In the case of Salvador, Bahia, where urban real estate interests remain as politically influential as ever, change will depend on the strength of pressures from above and below on municipal and state governments, but although anti-poverty programmes help keep people invested in the political system, they can also increase aspirations for greater economic and racial equality.

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Section: From Poverty To Inequalitymentioning

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New Actors, New Political Spaces, Same Divided City? Reflections on Poverty and the Politics of Urban Development in Salvador, Bahia

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Hita

2009

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New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico

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Rethinking Amerindian Resistance and Persistence in Colonial Portuguese America

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2012

New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico

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At some point in the 1780s, during his Philosophical Journey through Amazonia, Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira spent some time in Monte Alegre and Santarém, two Indian towns on the lower Amazon noted for their ceramics production. His account of the ceramic bowls (cuias) made by the Indian women remains especially interesting for its detailed description of production techniques and volume. These villages produced five to six thousand cuias annually, earning 100 to 120 réis for each, "depending on the size, the color, the quality, or if it is smooth or in sections". Europeans purchased most of the production: "the Indian women who know that the whites will buy them, make sure to perfect them". But Ferreira seemed particularly interested in one important detail: the Indian women reserved part of their production for their own use, with not only material but also symbolic implications: The cuias are the Indians' plates, cups, and all of their tableware. Each of them reserves one for the Principal [headman] from which to drink water or wine when he visits ... The bowl is distinguished by a shell ornament, attached by a ball of wax covered with beads, and a muiraquitã [a sacred green stone in the form of an animal] on top, which serves as a handle for the Principal.

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Da Guerra à Paz: o nascimento de um ator social no contexto da "nova pobreza" urbana em Salvador/Bahia

Cited by 21 publications

References 4 publications

New Actors, New Political Spaces, Same Divided City? Reflections on Poverty and the Politics of Urban Development in Salvador, Bahia

New Actors, New Political Spaces, Same Divided City? Reflections on Poverty and the Politics of Urban Development in Salvador, Bahia

Introduction

Rethinking Amerindian Resistance and Persistence in Colonial Portuguese America

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