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Resistance to Chronic Violence in Informal Workplaces: The Strategies of Domestic Workers in Brazil (2003–2018)by JEAN FRANÇOIS MAYER,
8/2/2021This article analyses the repertoire of individual strategies utilised by domestic workers to resist routinised workplace violence in the cities of São Paulo and Ilhéus, Brazil. Findings suggest that domestic workers favour two strategies of resistance: exit (quitting work without prior notice) and voice (negotiating workplace conditions). The latter strategy is divided into two subtypes: voice-pleading (appealing to decency) and voice-confrontation (warning and rights-claiming). Voice strategies appear more effective than exit in ameliorating patterns of chronic workplace violence, particularly when they incorporate labour rights claims and when emotional ties exist between workers and employers.
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Introduction to: Exploring the Repertoire of Strategies of Resistance to Routinised Violence in Informal Workplacesby JEAN FRANÇOIS MAYER,
8/2/2021This Special Issue results from two panels organised for the 2018 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in Barcelona: ‘Informal and Precarious Labour After the Pink Tide: New Challenges and Emerging Responses’ and ‘Exploring the Repertoire of Everyday Forms of Resistance to Routinised Violence in Informal Workplaces’.
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One year after her death, Marielle is still presentby DANIELLE COENGA-OLIVEIRA,
14/3/2019In 2018, the world knew about the story of Marielle Franco, the Brazilian city councillor brutally murdered in Rio de Janeiro. On March 14, the car in which Marielle was travelling received 14 shots, killing the councillor (with four bullets in the head) and Anderson Gomes, who was driving the car. Investigations to date indicate that the projectiles with which Marielle and Anderson were shot were purchased by the Brazilian Federal Police.
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Judith Butler the instrumentalization of religious discourse and the violence of a conservative societyby DANIELLE COENGA-OLIVEIRA,
1/12/2017Discussion on feminist philosopher Judith Butler s trip to Brazil in a conservative context
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Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: Subnational Structures, Institutions, and Clientelistic Networksby TINA HILGERS,
19/6/2017Late one night in Quito, Ecuador, two women were held in the office of a jail. One, a pregnant local woman with dark hair and skin, had been found in possession of a drawer full of watches.
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Identidade, território e política no contexto de violência na América latinaby TINA HILGERS,
1/1/2017Este livro é resultado do workshop “Clientelismo e Violência na América Latina e no Caribe”, realizado em dezembro de 2013, na Universidade de Carleton, Ottawa, Canadá.
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