https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/5497 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:12:59 GMT 2026-09-30T15:12:59Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/50393 Title: A geopolítica das mudanças climáticas: as violações de direitos humanos e as políticas ambientais globais Abstract: The climate crisis constitutes one of the most complex expressions of contemporary socio-environmental contradictions, intertwining ecological degradation, territorial inequalities, geopolitical disputes, and human rights violations on a global scale. This dissertation analyzes the anthropogenic climate crisis through the intersection of geopolitics, international climate governance, and human rights, with particular attention to the historical and structural asymmetries between the Global North and the Global South. It is grounded in the understanding that climate change is not merely an environmental phenomenon, but rather a crisis produced by historical processes of industrialization, the expansion of fossil capitalism, and the unequal appropriation of natural resources, whose impacts fall disproportionately on historically vulnerable populations and territories. Methodologically, this study adopts a qualitative approach based on bibliographic and documentary research, drawing on specialized academic literature, scientific reports, and international normative documents related to climate governance and human rights. The analysis examines the consolidation of the scientific consensus regarding the anthropogenic origin of the climate crisis, the trajectory of international climate governance and its main institutional milestones, as well as the structural limitations of multilateral regimes designed to address the crisis, marked by the centrality of state sovereignty, geopolitical disputes, the influence of economic interests associated with fossil fuels, and the growing financialization of climate responses. In the field of human rights, the dissertation argues that the climate crisis constitutes a structural and multidimensional violation of fundamental rights, undermining rights such as life, health, food, water, housing, and the self-determination of peoples, while also placing pressure on international mechanisms of accountability and protection. It concludes that current climate governance models remain insufficient in the face of the magnitude of the crisis, insofar as they reproduce historical power asymmetries and constrain the development of responses genuinely guided by climate justice. Finally, it argues that addressing the climate crisis requires not only greater institutional ambition, but also structural transformations in development models, global power relations, and contemporary forms of socio-environmental governance. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/50393 2026-05-27T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49186 Title: O agronegócio de olho na educação: o movimento De Olho no Material Escolar e a Geografia da Educação Abstract: This research aims to understand the intervention vectors of the "De Olho no Material Escolar"(DONME) (Focusing on School Supplies) and their implications for the Geography of Education. The analysis of DONME is anchored in three central intervention vectors: politics, media, and education. To this end, the expansion of Brazilian agribusiness was analyzed from both an economic and a political-ideological perspective, understanding DONME as a Private Apparatus of Hegemony (Aparelho Privado de Hegemonia - APHs) in the educational field. Regarding the political intervention vector, it is argued that the rural caucus played a fundamental role in the legislative access to public policy formulation for the association, achieving its initial objective of entering the public debate to alter textbooks. In the media as avector, it is understood that the association used digital media spaces to articulate its discourses, transforming technopolitical surveillance into interference in civil and political society. Ineducation, DONME is understood as a political-educational actor mediating global educational policies on a local scale, assisting in the implementation and permanence of neoliberaleducational policies in Brazil. In this way, DONME operates within a global network of educational policies that finds fertile ground in the digital environment, entering public spaceswith the goal of reshaping Brazilian educational policies. To achieve the research objectives, we structured the dissertation methodology as qualitative, bibliographic, and documentary research, systematizing and analyzing data from news reports, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), and official materials from DONME. Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49186 2026-03-23T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48771 Title: A Geografia e a Luta Antirracista: uma leitura crítica do Novo Ensino Médio (2017) e da BNCC (2018) Abstract: This thesis confronts the neoliberal education project embodied in the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) and the New High School (NEM), analyzing its impacts on Geography teaching and the anti-racist struggle in Minas Gerais. The investigation denounces how "perverse globalization" (Milton Santos) operates a kidnapping of geographical consciousness, replacing critical thinking with competence-based pedagogy and resulting in an "adulterated adolescence". The objective is to reveal the abyss between the Minas Gerais Reference Curriculum (CRMG) and the urgency of an anti-colonial educational praxis. Through qualitative research and a teaching experience report (2023-2025), the work mobilizes the "hegemony-liberation-new man" triad, based on Gramsci, Paulo Freire, and Samora Machel. The analysis demonstrates that the current reforms impose a logic of passivity in the face of power structures, silencing structural racism, socio-spatial contradictions, and territorial sovereignty. It concludes that school geography must break with the logic of precarious employability to reaffirm itself as an instrument of re-existence and emancipation for black and working-class youth. Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48771 2026-03-03T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48699 Title: Mães trabalhadoras em hospital de ensino: readaptação funcional na gestação e lactação Abstract: Work in a hospital environment is permeated by numerous health risks. In the case of pregnant or lactating women, ergonomic, physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial risks can cause irreparable harm to maternal and infant health. Therefore, Brazilian legislation guarantees temporary job security from the confirmation of pregnancy until five months after childbirth, and removal from hazardous work without loss of salary. The general objective of this study was to analyze how female workers in a teaching hospital undergoing functional readaptation due to pregnancy and/or lactation have experienced these functional changes. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, conducted in a hospital in the Southeast region of Brazil. Participants included pregnant and lactating healthcare professionals reassigned from hazardous activities and workers responsible for monitoring the functional readaptation process. Data collection was carried out using a socioeconomic characterization form and semi-structured interviews. Thematic content analysis resulted in three categories: Working women's rights; job reassignment process; health monitoring; and motherhood. The results showed that motherhood associated with hospital work is permeated by emotional ambivalence, psychological suffering, and difficulties in reconciling caregiving, breastfeeding, and professional performance. It was found that the workers' knowledge of their rights is focused on issues related to salary, maternity leave, and breastfeeding, and that there are weaknesses in the provision of institutional guidance and in the articulation between the fields of health and work. Job reassignment, although necessary for the protection of maternal and child health, was frequently limited to measures for managing environmental risk, especially changes in the workplace and caregiving functions, with predominantly reactive monitoring dependent on immediate supervisors. It is concluded that strengthening institutional policies, implementing continuous monitoring protocols, and systematic educational actions are fundamental to guaranteeing the realization of rights and promoting the health of pregnant and breastfeeding women in the hospital environment. Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48699 2026-02-27T00:00:00Z