The BVPS publishes today the sixth round of posts in the international symposium Capitalism and Authoritarianism: What Is to Be Done?, which invited specialists from Brazil and abroad, drawing on three major fields of the social sciences—social theory, the sociology of labor, and Brazilian social and political thought—to answer four questions concerning the intricate relationship between authoritarianism and capitalism in the contemporary world. The responses will be published in installments every Wednesday. To access the other symposium contributions, click here.
Today’s contributors are:
Patricia Hill Collins is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland, where she has been affiliated since 2005, dedicating her work to the study of race, social class, Black feminist thought, sexuality, and critical social theory. In 2008, she became the 100th President of the American Sociological Association, the first African American woman elected to that position in the organization’s 104-year history. Among her many published works are Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990), From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism (2005), and Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media and Democratic Possibilities (2009).
Valter Roberto Silvério is Full Professor in the Department and Graduate Program in Sociology at the Federal University of São Carlos. Since 2013, he has served as Vice-President of UNESCO’s International Scientific Committee of the General History of Africa (GHA). He has expertise in the field of Sociology, with an emphasis on postcolonial studies, working mainly on the following themes: Black transnationalism, the African diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, education, and affirmative action. He is the author of Equidade Racial: reflexões acerca da gestão escolar no ensino médio (2019), Transnacionalismo negro diáspora africana: uma nova imaginação sociológica (2022), Agência criativa negra: rejeições articuladas e reconfigurações do racismo (2022), among others.
Jacob Carlos Lima is Full Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Federal University of São Carlos. He served as Coordinator of the Sociology Area at CAPES (2011–2014), chaired the Social Sciences–Sociology Advisory Committee of CNPq (2016–2019), and was President of the Brazilian Sociological Society for the 2019–2021 and 2021–2023 terms. His research focuses on the Sociology of Work and Economic Sociology. Among his publications are Trabalho, mercado e formação de classe (1996), As artimanhas da flexibilização: o trabalho terceirizado em cooperativas de produção (2002), and Ligações perigosas: trabalho flexível e trabalho associado (2007).
The international symposium Capitalism and Authoritarianism: What Is to Be Done? is organized by Fabrício Maciel (UFF) and Maurício Hoelz (UFRRJ and editor of the BVPS Blog), and has the editorial assistance of Miguel Cunha (PPGCS/UFRRJ).
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