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Alzheimer\u0027s and the Aging Society: Legal Recommendations in Treating the Elderly Image
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Alzheimer's and the Aging Society: Legal Recommendations in Treating the Elderly

Ensuring the healthy aging of the population, with quality and access to public health policies, has been the target of global concerns, especially the World Health Organization. The theme of this research deals not only with those who are reaching the best age, but also and in equal importance, the family, the caregiver, as well as institutions legally responsible for the care of the elderly in the face of the obvious social and economic repercussions of the question of the population growth of elderly people and in the face of society's moral obligation to care for the elderly. The research started from the inductive method, with data collection in public information banks, such as the Ministry of Health, institutions that act in the defense of the rights of the elderly, such as the Public Ministry, and national and International bibliographic research to analyze the quality standards adopted in Brazil. There is a growing concern of the Brazilian State to define criteria and regulate the performance of the Unified Health System in the care of the elderly, with its own laws and policies.
The Black African Migrant Faced with the Myth of the Great Stories in Donato Ndongo\u0027s the Metro and Nativas by Vi\u002DMakomè Image
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The Black African Migrant Faced with the Myth of the Great Stories in Donato Ndongo's the Metro and Nativas by Vi-Makomè

Evidence suggests that the question of migrations nowadays has become a major challenge of political, social and imaginary life of the “Tout-Monde“. For this reason there is an undeniable heightening of the intraAfrican, transAfrican and transcontinental migrations. In addition to South-South migrations, migrations to Europe continue to attract more media attention. If mass migration is widespread in the world, it arouses painful memories in the particular case of the post-colonial Black African migrant. The general objective that is intended here is to put in tension, through the two novels El metro and Nativas, respectively by Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo and Inongo Vi Makomè, the myth of the “great story” of the supposedly vigorous sexual prowess of the Black. Another major task of this article is to contribute modestly to the work of demystifying the (sexual) figure of the Black African migrant in Europe/Occident. The choice of these two novels has double importance here. The first one is that they belong to the category of novels called migration novels (which are fully inscribed nowadays in what one can call the “littérature-monde”. Secondly, they are novels that bring to light a large part of the problem of migrations, of “migrances” in general and, particularly, the problem of the advent of the postcolonial Black African migrant. The study has largely been based on the theoretical formulations of Victorien Lavou Zoungbo through is book Outsidering… (2007), in which he deals extensively with the question of the “great story of the sexual vigor-prowess of Black”. His theoretical formulations in which he proposes a dynamic and operative articulation of the history of Blacks in the Americas seem to fit well with the question of the “presence-history” of Black African migrants in Europe. The study has shown that the myth of “great stories” (particularly the sexual vigor-prowess of Black) can be a factor of visceral rejection or “successful” integration of Black African migrants in Europe/Occident.
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The Original Accumulation in Bolivia: Leave and Return to Life in the Field Image
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The Original Accumulation in Bolivia: Leave and Return to Life in the Field

This article aims to examine and understand the original process of accumulation that took place in Bolivia until the promulgation of “Buen Vivir” as a constitutional principle that points to a perspective of return to non-capitalist society. A qualitative and descriptive study was used in which the available literature on Bolivia and Good Living was analyzed. A priori, it can be concluded that Buen Vivir is presented as an alternative to the chaos of exploitation, to unbridled globalization and to the capitalist system that has been imposed since colonial times. One of the ways out of this scenario is recampesinization.
The Transfiguration of the Permanent Revolution in Latin America: a Dialogue Between Adolfo Gilly and Florestan Fernandes Image
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The Transfiguration of the Permanent Revolution in Latin America: a Dialogue Between Adolfo Gilly and Florestan Fernandes

The article seeks to dialogue with the production of Adolfo Gilly and Florestan Fernandes on the relevance of the concept of permanent revolution in the capitalist realities of Latin America. It presents a description of the processes of the bourgeois revolution in Mexico and Brazil, illustrating Gilly's concepts of interrupted revolution and permanent counter-revolution in Fernandes. It also analyzes some strategic formulas derived from various understandings of the capitalist transition in the region. Finally, some questions about the actuality of the categories of permanent revolution interrupted revolution, and autocracy are listed in order to analyze the Latin American realities of the 21st century.
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Race and Territory in the Configuration of Land Disputes in Southern Brazil Image
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Race and Territory in the Configuration of Land Disputes in Southern Brazil

The mobilization of quilombola communities for the recognition of their rights has revealed territorialities that are different from the forms of space occupation determined by the Brazilian government, some of which configure conflicts related to land ownership. In Brazil, the disputes about legal lands claims and boundaries of quilombola and indigenous territories trigger ethnic-racial questions that have been circumvented in studies focused on the rural environment. In order to address this issue, data obtained during a qualitative research, carried out in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, was used, with the empirical object of processes of titling territories in which conflicts were registered. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to articulate concepts of coloniality and racialization in the approach these conflicts. We intend to understand the dimensions of power relations at stake. It also aims to analyze how the emergence of quilombolas as political subjects introduces new meanings to the strive for lands; and influences the dynamics of social struggles in the countryside, based on data from a survey conducted in the state.