https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/19492 2026-08-08T04:02:43Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49354 Title: “Ciclos de poder e lucro: corporações transnacionais, elites políticas e religiosas e a superexploração do Brasil” Abstract: This paper is an essay that seeks to analyze how the articulation between global financial capital, political elites, and evangelical leadership has reconfigured Brazil’s structural dependence, establishing a regime of “financialized impunity” in which socio-environmental crimes and corporate fraud are treated as operational costs. The study historically reconstructs this subordination, from the influence of the United States in the 1964 dictatorship to the 2016 impeachment and the Lava Jato operation, with impacts on Petrobras. Cases such as the Vale disasters (Mariana and Brumadinho), Lojas Americanas, and Eletrobras illustrate how the logic of dividend maximization intensifies exploitation, inequality, and the loss of sovereignty. The methodology employed is qualitative and exploratory, based on bibliographic review, documentary analysis, and examination of audiovisual materials. The results indicate that Brazil is experiencing a “modernization of dependence,” characterized by financial flows, indebtedness, and institutional capture rather than military occupation. The analysis highlights the need for stronger financial system regulation and the reconstruction of state capacity to address structural inequalities. 2026-03-24T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48308 Title: Caim e Abel, Jacó e Esaú: Análise da disputa entre conservadores e progressistas no protestantismo brasileiro 2025-12-12T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48257 Title: O dispositivo de racialidade e a necropolítica no Brasil: uma análise a partir de Sueli Carneiro Abstract: This work aims to analyze the concepts of Raciality Device and Necropolitics in contemporary Brazil based on Sueli Carneiro and Achille Mbembe. The research establishes that Carneiro's Raciality Device functions as the historical and operational structure of Brazilian necropolitics, tracing its roots to the slave regime of the 16th century and perpetuating the marginalization and dehumanization of the Black population. Using the conceptual lens of Achille Mbembe's necropolitics, which exposes the state power to dictate who may live and, mainly, who must die and how, the work seeks to understand how the dynamics of racism are articulated with these two concepts that draw upon Michel Foucault's notion of biopower. The central objective is to highlight contemporary manifestations of extermination and control, analyzing necropolitical practices in their multiple dimensions, with an emphasis on gender intersectionality. To this end, the study delves into the genocide of black male youth, interpreting police violence and mass incarceration as active strategies of death, in accordance with the concept of "violence as a mode of subjectivation", and into the gender dimension of necropolitics concerning black women, manifested by "letting die" (omission and neglect in the health system, resulting in high rates of "preventable and avoidable deaths") and by reproductive control. Instead of focusing on resistance strategies, this study concentrates on demonstrating the permanence and functioning forms of this machine of death and subalternization in the current Brazilian scenario. 2026-02-04T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48127 Title: Moldar e padronizar: um estudo sobre o padrão estético feminino e as redes sociais Abstract: This final course project seeks to analyze beauty standards as instruments for maintaining gender oppression and social control over women, bringing these reflections to the current context, which is marked by digital intentions. The objective is to understand how aesthetic standards, currently disseminated and reinforced by social networks, impact female subjectivity, reinforcing structures and patterns of patriarchal control. The research was divided between the bibliography, which articulates the ideas of Bourdieu (2019), Foucault (2009), Beauvoir (2016), and Wolf (2022) to understand the social construction of the female body and its relationship with aesthetic pressures, also bringing in Castells (1999) and Miskolci (2011) to contextualize the discussion within the environment of social media, and the empirical part carried out through the application of a questionnaire with young students who use Instagram and TikTok. Based on the literature review, analysis of the dynamics of these networks, and the application of the questionnaire, the study highlights how aesthetic standards have been reinforced in the digital environment, contributing to the perpetuation of subtle mechanisms of symbolic oppression that keep women in a cycle of dissatisfaction and subordination. 2025-10-28T00:00:00Z