Desigualdades e violência: um debate interdisciplinar como estratégia de resistência

Abstract

The e-book “Desigualdades e violência: um debate interdisciplinar como estratégia de resistência” is an important collective work, led by the Research Group on Social Policies, Social Issue and Exploitation/Oppression Relations (GPEXO) from the Social Service Course at UNIPAMPA, Campus São Borja, created and accredited by the CNPQ in 2018. This e-book is the result of a proposal approved in INTERNAL CALL number 07/2020 - SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH GROUPS - AGP-2020, which included financial resources for its feasibility. It presents results of studies and researches carried out by GPEXO members, as well as researchers from other universities that are added to this production, such as, Federal University of Santa Maria - UFSM, Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC, Federal University of Paraná - UFPR Campus Litoral and Federal University of Paraíba - UFPB. The aim of the e-book is to present a set of articles containing the production of knowledge on various topics of studies, which relate to social inequalities and violence (re)produced historically in capitalist society, considering the relations of exploitation and oppression. The interest in organizing is related to the need for critical debate on the categories intrinsic to the theme - Inequalities and Violence, given the political, economic, social, cultural situation in Brazil and the world in the 21st century, which indicates a worsening process of the social life in the working class and with it, the unrestrained production of expressions from the social question, aggravated by the structural crisis of capital, by the neoliberal State and, more recently, by the health crisis caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic, which demonstrates the need for a protective state and effective public policies to meet the demands of the population. The discussion between the inseparability of oppression and exploitation should not only have a stronghold in feminist studies, as many social relations are based on hypotheses of domination that lead to oppression, intensified by the naturalization of exploitation that is not restricted to the economic sphere, but to use of, minds, restriction of freedom, political gains, others among the forms of domination that pervade different situations and audiences. In conjunction with this debate, there are two other themes - violence, which is surrounded by controversies that indicate a fierce process of expression about conservatism, which is renewed in its positions, but which does not change in its structure and foundation, and also the theme about the role of the State has been essential in the main debates on violence, mainly due to its public duty to promote a set of protective initiatives, as a way to curb the manifestations that put human life at risk. Altogether the e-book is organized with 10 articles, organized in two parts. The first part, composed of five articles, is entitled - Violence, Inequalities and Subjects in a situation of social vulnerability, and the second part, also composed of five articles, is entitled State, Public Policies, and its contradictions: challenges for the realization of rights.