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The paper discusses Bacurau, by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, focusing, from the perspective of materialist-dialectical criticism in a country of dependent capitalism, the treatment of the modern-archaic binomial and melancholy, in which appear, as allegories, Brazilian artistic works. The paper also debates the figurations around the nation project, social transformation, and the resistance of the popular classes in contemporary Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will discuss the challenges of Open Acess publishing in the area of the Humanities in Latin America, using the Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI), which was founded in 1958 by the Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais and which constitutes the most influential Brazilian publication on International Relations and a leading publication on the subject in Latin America, as a case study. This paper will explain how the RBPI, which has been OA since 2007, has adapted to this new scholarly environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, based on the Actor-Network Theory, intends to analyze the dynamics of implementation of a Health Information System (HIS) in a Brazilian public hospital by following the actors involved in controversies occurred throughout the project trajectory. The changes observed over the course of the system implementation reveal that the concept of success was jointly developed via negotiation of devices ofinteressement introduced during the project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary slavery is embedded in market relations between global organizations and their suppliers, and involves people management practices that injure human rights such as curtailing freedom, degrading conditions of work and exhausting journey. The article analyzes the slave labor in Brazil and provides empirical support for a theory of contemporary slavery as a practice management. Two main aspects justify this contribution. First, the debate draws attention to the dynamics of social responsibility and the social impact of business activities in emerging countries. Secondly, it puts in evidence the discussion of poverty and its interrelations with the global system of production and consumption. The paper suggests that the field does not have the understanding of the fundamentals of poverty and how management is implicated in its reproduction and relief. The research agenda emphasizes the unsustainability aspects of the globalized production and consumption, and prioritizes the problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the impact of international rules internally in developing countries. For such a comparison is made between the rules of the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services) and the policy of privatization of telecommunications in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. Aims to assess the extent to which trading in the GATS and the rules were instrumental in the process of privatization of telecommunications in these countries or the privatization of the sector went beyond what was negotiated in this organization. That is, we seek to verify that the policy set internally allowed a larger opening than expected and negotiated in the GATS. The study allowed to note that changes in domestic politics do not necessarily follow the changes in international organizations. Instead, they often occur before changes in the international regime. However, this finding does not imply ignoring the importance of international standards in the economic game. If, in fact, they do not shy away from the predominance of the interests of powerful countries on the other hand can stop the absolute subjection of the weak. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Growth and industrialization in Brazil. In this paper, based on the writings of Kaldor and his followers, we compare two phases of Brazilian economic growth, one showing fast growth rate and other with lack of growth. Our aim is to analyze the Brazilian economic behavior in the last 40 years, pointing out economic policy intervention, structural change, foreign trade and capital flows as determinants to account for gross product development path performance. Our aim is to shed some light on which is the potential rate of growth of the Brazilian economy nowadays, considering its historical growth path and recent structural changes in the industrial sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Economic growth and foreign liquidity in Brazil after 1970. This paper assesses the relationship between the capital account and the Brazilian economic growth according to balance-of-payments constraint approach. The Thirlwall (1979)'s simple rule is extended to take into consideration capital account and several empirical evidence using time series analysis are shown. Conversely to the simple rule when fitted rates of balance-of-payment equilibrium economic growth average bellow the observed ones, fitted rates of growth using the rule extended to international liquidity are consistently greater than the observed ones. It is fair to conclude that, first, the Brazilian economy grows better during abundant international liquidity and, second, the economy sub utilizes such advantage growing far less than it could grow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the challenges in the case of the right to health, specially, the free supply of medicine. Thus, it aims to present the complexity involved in achieving public policies in undeveloped countries, like Brazil, in which the fi nancial sources are scant and the deference of some judicial demands should represent the choice between life of one and life of many people. Based in these facts, it is studied the prioritization of collective judicial actions as the better way of accomplish public policies of health, particularly, free supply of medicine. Therefore, in this article it is drawn minimal limits on the intervention of Judicial Power in Executive Power, rethinking public policies and their implications in Democratic State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies on corporate strategy, more specifically those developed from the 1990s, emphasize the importance of technological capability and innovation aspects as competitive advantage sources. Empirical studies on this issue are still scarce in the literature, especially in late-industrializing countries. Drawing on available frameworks in the international literature the aim of this paper is to present empirical evidence of corporate strategies based on the development of technological capability. To elaborate the current work, a fieldwork was carried out in Telemar Norte Leste, a big telecommunications operator in Brazil. The study covers 1998-2005 just after the privatization of telecommunications services in Brazil. Telemar put a lot of effort on the accumulation of technological capability. The evidence suggests that this had positives implications for its competitive performance. The study suggest that a corporate strategy supported by a technological capability building a approach certainly contributes to improving corporate performance corporate performance indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]