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The paper examines the effects of subordinate financial integration on workers in peripheral countries. The objective is to link the financial, productive and social reproduction spheres, taking into account the centre-periphery dynamic in the global process of capital valorisation. In this sense, the main contribution is the proposition of an analytical framework on the subject, based on Marxist and post-Keynesian inspired literature. Considering the asymmetric international relations within the hierarchical monetary system, the dynamics of capital cycles and the external imbalances of peripheral economies, five transmission channels are proposed concerning: (i) the burden of wealth transfer, (ii) the rise in household indebtedness, (iii) the effects of exchange rate volatility on real wages, (iv) the increased pressure for fiscal discipline which contributes to labour and social security reforms, and (v) the regressive specialisation of the productive structure and its impacts on employment. The secondary contribution refers to the comparative analysis of the cases of subordinate financialisation of Brazil and Colombia. The results of this analysis reveal the relevance of the proposed channels in terms of the dynamics of workers' social reproduction in a contemporary context, particularly with regard to wages, employment, household indebtedness and labour and social security rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to demonstrate the existence of viable margins for the construction of rural development projects that take advantage of the small gaps in the configuration of the current economic system. The paper supports the idea that policies can serve as instruments for democratic appropriation of the State and markets, favoring the social reproduction of family farming, a central segment from the perspective of development herein adopted. The methodology employed relied on theoretical reflection and interviews with farmers, extension workers and public managers in the municipality of Pelotas-RS, Brazil. From the analyses of the empirical setting of this work and other spatial contexts, the paper discusses examples where the use of public institutions and markets led to advances or mitigated problems faced by historically deprecated segments, such as family farming in Brazil. This demonstrates the potential of local contexts to act as protagonists in coping with a structurally imposed unequal logic. The study concludes that there is no need to break with the economic system to then pursue the construction of future alternatives, and the multiple open possibilities in places may be a starting point for the construction of new projects towards the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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• Milk donation in Brazil is shaped by racialized and gendered norms of care labour. • Milk flow is a socionature influenced by colonial-capitalist development. • Donor milk banking devalues milk expression due to concerns over exploitation. • Donor networks are multi-scalar, shaped by processes from the globe to the body. • Feelings of altruism and breast fullness motivate donation. Brazil is currently home to the most extensive, publicly funded donor human milk banking network in the world. While this formalized donor network is only a few decades old, it is haunted by long histories of exploitative wet-nursing in the country. In this paper I examine how Brazil's human milk banking network is a metabolism – founded on social reproductive, breastfeeding labour – that is based in, but also transforms, racialized, gendered, and classed assumptions of milk and motherhood. Drawing on interviews, policy analysis, and participant observation, I argue that this social reproductive metabolism is constituted through: biomedical understandings of milk and lactation; gendered and racialized norms of altruism in the public sphere; legal infrastructures to curb exploitative wet-nursing; public health policies to decrease infant mortality; and embodied sensations of breast fullness. I pay particular attention to how human milk sharing in this context is a multi-scalar metabolism, drawing together global and national health policy with intimate dynamics and affects of breast engorgement and care. Overall, examining this human milk flow demonstrates how metabolisms are embodied, racialized, multi-scalar, and social reproductive in ways that are geographically situated and that relate to, but exceed, commodification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent years, the border shared by Peru, Colombia and Brazil has become an enclave of drug production and trafficking for the international markets. It is a territory whose control is disputed by non-state actors and where state security forces suffer from severe material and transport limitations. This paper takes an ethnographic approach to explain the limitations of border security and the institutional challenges of controlling drug and wood trafficking in this context. It places the ideas of reproduction and social change at the centre of the discussion on drugs and borders, as key ways of thinking about the dynamics of growing and processing coca-derived drugs in the global South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The formation of subjects' temporal frames of thought and action has long been central to the study of social stratification. However, theorisation of these processes has tended to focus on highly institutionalised environments in the global North. By contrast, the peripheries of Brazilian cities constitute "heterogeneous fields" of subjectivity formation, in which state institutions act in highly uneven ways and coexist with other actors and processes. To account for these contextual differences, this article proposes we reimagine linear processes of social reproduction, characteristic of structuralist models, as processes of "individuation", whereby subjects emerge through interaction with heterogeneous pre-individual fields. As they individuate, subjects encounter diverse "rhythms", generating experiences of "eurhythmia" and "arrythmia" that influence individual decisions and shape life trajectories. To illustrate the approach, these analytical tools are applied to case studies of three young people drawn from ethnographic research conducted in the periphery of São Paulo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]