https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/19492 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:20:41 GMT 2026-08-12T12:20:41Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49411 Title: Entre a realidade e a ficção: uma reflexão acerca das representações juvenis em produções midiáticas e televisivas da atualidade Abstract: This study aims to examine how audiovisual media productions (such as films, soap operas, and TV and/or streaming series) aimed at a younger audience address and represent adolescence (specifically from 12 to 18 years old) through the narratives of their main characters. To this end, a discussion was held with a class of 3rd-year high school students from the Escola Estadual de Uberlândia, using a pre-defined set of questions and sampling two scenes from youth series, one from Euphoria (2019) and the other from Heartstopper (2022), respectively – with the intention of understanding youth through the lens of youth itself. Based on the information gathered during the discussion, this work compares the narratives of both series and the students' unique definition of being young/being an adolescent, in order to understand the extent to which these series represent real young people. Finally, this is initial work on the subject and, although there is a conclusion on the points presented, it does not exhaust everything that still needs to be researched and discussed about representation, identity, and youth. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49411 2026-04-22T00:00:00Z 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. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49354 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 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48308 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. Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48257 2026-02-04T00:00:00Z