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In line with developments observed in several Latin American countries, inequalities in Brazil have significantly declined since the Workers' Party, PT, came to power in 2003. During the two administrations of former President Lula da Silva (2003-2006 and 2007- 2010) and the first administration of President Dilma Rousseff (2010-2014), economic growth, improvements in labor market, progress in deprived regions and pro-poor policies interacted positively as drivers of inequality reduction. But due to the recent economic stagnation and political instability, Rousseff, in her new administration (2015- 2018), is facing serious difficulties in sustaining the social gains obtained during the last twelve years. It seems that continuing the progress in inequality reduction in times of low economic growth requires deeper structural changes such as a progressive tax reform in order to effectively redistribute resources from the rich to the underprivileged classes. This paper discusses recent developments in Brazil from the perspective of entangled inequalities, a concept applied here with the objective of enlarging the narrow definition of inequality brought forward by hegemonic scholarship. After a brief introduction into the conceptual framework of entangled inequalities, the paper presents, in its second section, an overview of recent changes in Brazilian social structure. The third section discusses the role of the Brazilian state in reducing inequalities. Finally, recent developments in Brazil with regard to the entangled inequalities framework are assessed.

Based on a multi-sited ethnographic case study on transnational care chains between Milan (Italy) and Lima, Huancayo, and Cuzco (Peru), the book explores how social inequalities are reproduced through the care practices that follow the introduction of Peruvian migrants into home-based elderly care.Anna Katharina Skornia adopts an innovative approach in combining research on transnational care and migration with a perspective on entangled inequalities. In particular, the study sheds light on the role of state regulations in contributing to these inequalities as well as their ambiguous implications from the perspectives of both caregivers and receivers.

1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptualizing transnational care chains -- 3. Methodological framework for the study of transnational care chains -- 4. Peruvian emigration and the transnationalization of care practices -- 5. Peruvian migrants in the sector of home-based elderly care in Milan, Italy -- 6. The transnational care practices of Peruvian migrant women and men -- 7. Child and aged care in transnational household in Peru -- 8. Conclusion

From primitive accumulation to entangled accumulation: developments in the Marxist theory of capitalist expansion -- Port, capital and the capital city -- Capitalism and slavery in the port of Rio de Janeiro -- From the first attempts at industrialisation to financialisation: 'Little Africa' vs Porto Maravilha -- Crisis anchored at the port.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Convivial bonds -- 1. The neglected nexus between conviviality and inequality -- 2. Political conviviality and the role of opposition and opponents in late twentieth-century Latin American political discourse -- 3. Railways and conviviality: The fringes of progress in Minas Gerais, 1841-1930 -- 4. In search of conviviality in Latin American cities: An essay from urban anthropology -- PART TWO: Conviviality between norm and praxis -- 5. Imperial conviviality: Producing difference in the TransAtlantic Iberian world -- 6. Mestizaje and conviviality in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico -- 7. Syncretism and pluralism in the configuration of religious diversity in Brazil -- PART THREE: Contested conviviality -- 8. Conviviality on the brink: Blackness, Africanness and marginality in Rio de Janeiro -- 9. Routine violence and the limits of conviviality in a colonial society -- 10. Fighting against or coexisting with drought?: Conviviality, inequality, and peasant mobility in Northeast Brazil -- 11. Epistemologies for conviviality, or zumbification -- Final reflections -- Index.

Examining the inequalities imposed on borderland inhabitants by the de facto one-way cross-border bridge between French Guiana and northern Brazil, and the ways in which they deal with them, this book shows how the region s European-American borderland illuminates entangled histories and their concomitant inequalities on a large scale

"In light of an unprecedented constitutional acknowledgement of diverse epistemologies and stipulation making the protection and advancement of so-called 'ancestral knowledges' a duty of the state, this research provides an analysis of the uptake of historically subalternized knowledges by the state during the government of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), as well as of the strive for epistemic justice by peoples and nationalities organizations' in the context of struggles for social change, decolonization, and self-determination. On the basis of rich empirical material, the analysis traces state discourses and practices and mechanisms to govern 'ancestral knowledges' in the framework of the government's Knowledge Society project and delineates how leaders of peoples and nationalities' organizations struggle for the decolonization of knowledge. This monograph will be of interest to those concerned with relations between peoples and nationalities and Latin American states, politics of recognition and collective rights, the workings of purportedly post-neoliberal governments and the possibilities and limits for alternatives to development, the struggle of peoples and nationalities' organizations for (epistemic) decolonization, as well as ongoing (re-)conceptualisations of cosmopolitanisms against restructurations of the coloniality of knowledge and being"--

"This book explores the dynamics of the 'middle-class global rebellion' born of the frustration at declining living standards. Addressing narratives constructed by different social and political agents and groups, it examines contexts of social crisis in Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, understanding the middle classes as a set of complex and conflicting political relationships. With attention to the manner in which people create 'situated habits', consolidating new expectations and desires through a concrete biography, it analyses continuities and changes in classed self-perceptions based on performative use. With new perspectives, including historical and intersectional approaches, Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis transcends disciplinary boundaries to explore the hybridity of research methods and techniques and challenge established analytical frameworks. It will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in class and questions of class identity"--