http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/23846 2026-09-12T14:18:11Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/87594 Título: O imperialismo monetário em Françafrique: o franco CFA como relíquia colonial Autor(es): Melo, Aquiles Chaves de Abstract: The constitution of a country as an empire within the world economic system has been strongly linked both to its military capacity and to its economic capacity. This has allowed certain nations to exercise various mechanisms of control over countries that fall within their sphere of influence. One such mechanism, in particular, has been the establishment of their currency as the basis for organizing the monetary system of their colonies or of countries under their control. The most expressive case in the twentieth century was the strong role played by the United States in establishing and preserving its currency as the world’s reserve currency – what became known as strong-dollar diplomacy – which was decisive for the consolidation of the country as the hegemon of the contemporary global monetary system. The literature addressing this topic has largely focused on understanding the effects of the use of the U.S. dollar in processes of economic coercion and inducement promoted by the United States in order to achieve specific geopolitical objectives. In addition, this literature also examines the set of advantages that the configuration of the International Monetary System (IMS) under the aegis of the dollar provides to the United States, especially what has come to be known as its “exorbitant privilege”. However, the United States is not the only country to use its currency to pursue such objectives. This study seeks to advance the understanding of the relationship between money and processes of political and economic control over peripheral nations whose currencies are subjected to the authority of countries occupying a privileged position in the international hierarchy of currencies. Our hypothesis is that the structuring of such a monetary regime establishes a channel for the transfer of value from peripheral economies to strong-currency economies, constituting a form of imperialism that remains insufficiently explored in the literature. We refer to this form of imperialism – established through a monetary regime that guarantees the transfer of value from peripheral nations to the country issuing the currency that occupies a higher rank in the monetary hierarchy, and that also allows the countries holding this currency to exercise political and economic control over other nations, as well as to contribute to their economic destabilization – as monetary imperialism. To demonstrate this hypothesis, we chose to study a case that lies outside much of the existing literature on the subject, but which vividly illustrates how monetary imperialism operates not only as a mechanism of value drainage but also as a weapon in geopolitical disputes: the case of the Franc of the African Financial Community (CFA), or simply the CFA franc. We aim to show how the establishment of the CFA franc, as well as its persistence even after the processes of independence of former colonies, constitutes the maintenance of a monetary regime of subservience of these nations to the economic and geopolitical interests of France. This grants the latter a double advantage: while draining resources from African countries, France also acts – albeit indirectly – through the mechanisms of its monetary authority to constrain the development of these nations. The monetary imperialism promoted by France today constitutes, in our view, the neocolonial core of Françafrique. In order to understand this dynamic, we begin by revisiting the debates surrounding the concept of imperialism, seeking to extract, from the historically polysemic treatment of the term, its specific determination. Once the essential determination of imperialism as a mechanism of value transfer between nations is understood, we proceed to explore the dynamics of its channels, highlighting the transmission of value through the monetary channel – a pathway still insufficiently explored and which underpins our concept. Having clarified the most abstract determinations of this dynamic, we then present the geopolitical context of the structuring of the African Financial Community, the organizational form of its monetary institutions, and a set of questions regarding the relationship between the CFA franc and the euro. The aim is to demonstrate how the use of the CFA franc by former French colonies has enabled a continuous drainage of their natural resources to supply the French market, while the subordination of these countries’ currencies to French monetary authority not only reinforces this structure of political and economic control but also makes the construction of alternative paths of development unviable. Tipo: Tese 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/87528 Título: Sobre as influências fascistas no Primeiro Peronismo, 1943-1952 Autor(es): Bralo, Fernando Lucas Abstract: This dissertation contributes to the sociological debate on Peronism as a form of political and economic domination during the period extending from its emergence following the military coup of June 1943 to Perón's first presidential administration (1946-1952). It focuses on the ideological, political, and institutional currents that gave rise to Peronism, as well as on the economic determinants that shaped its emergence and its distinctive consolidation as a mode of political rule in Argentina. Within this framework, the dissertation revisits the debates that have linked early Peronism to European fascism. It highlights the distinctive features of Peronism in order to challenge such interpretations and to demonstrate the significant theoretical and historiographical shortcomings of these approaches. Drawing on a Marxist perspective, the dissertation examines Peronism in relation to the development of Argentine capitalism and identifies the specific conditions that enabled Juan Domingo Perón's government to implement and strengthen a set of reforms –initiated before his accession to the presidency– that substantially improved the living conditions of the Argentine working class. Unlike previous interpretations, the study argues that the Peronist government's particular management of agrarian rent financed the country's early industrialization, benefiting the working class while facilitating the compensated withdrawal of medium-sized foreign capital that had controlled public utilities. To explain the emergence of Peronism, the dissertation also offers a sociological interpretation of the historical determinants of the Argentine economy, particularly those that unfolded after the 1930 coup d'état and, above all, under the dictatorship led by the United Officers Group – GOU, of which Perón became a member in 1943. It is within the context of the military regime's crisis between 1943 and 1946 that Peronism emerged and progressively consolidated itself, successfully bringing together a heterogeneous coalition of social groups and institutions under its leadership. The exercise of power by Peronism also generated extensive criticism, especially of an ideological nature, giving rise to debates that continue to shape scholarly interpretations of the movement. Such perspectives often obscure the significance of the social reforms promoted by Peronism and its leader. In contrast, this dissertation examines the regulation of capital-labour relations –that is, class struggle under Peronism– and analyzes how the elected government institutionalized a distinctive democratic political order while combining economic continuity with political change in Argentina's process of capital accumulation. Tipo: Tese 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/87242 Título: O diploma e as “novas ruralidades performadas”: trajetórias formativas, mobilidade social e reconfigurações territoriais em Araquém – CE Autor(es): Bezerra, Talita Silva Abstract: This thesis analyzes the social, economic, and symbolic effects of higher education graduation among young people and adults from rural areas who represent the first generation in their families to access university education. The research takes as its empirical locus the district of Araquém, located in the municipality of Coreaú, in northwestern Ceará, and investigates how higher education is converted into new forms of professional insertion, social recognition, and the construction of life projects, producing transformations that go beyond individual trajectories and impact the territorial and symbolic configuration of the rural space.Based on na ethnobiographical and long term approach, following educational trajectories for more than a decade, the study articulates life narratives in order to understand the meanings attributed to the diploma by subjects from farming families marked by experiences of child labor, economic precariousness, and difficulties in their schooling processes. The research dialogues with Brazilian rural sociology, studies on social mobility, and the sociology of education. As its main analytical contribution, the thesis proposes the category of “performed new ruralities,” constructed through dialogue with the notion of the “new rural” and with interactionist anthropology. This category makes it possible to understand that transformations in rural áreas are not limited to economic diversification or the expansion of services, but also involve identity performances, narratives of social ascent, and forms of self-presentation that resignify the social position of subjects, redefine collective expectations, and produce new grammars of belonging. Graduates thus become mediators between tradition and change, articulating territorial permanence, professionalization, and pluriactivity. By highlighting higher education as a vector for the reconfiguration of ruralities, the research demonstrates that the permanence of graduates in their territory does not represent immobility, but rather an active process of reinventing the rural as a “space of life.” The thesis contributes to sociological debate by showing how educational policies, individual trajectories, and territorial structures intertwine in the production of inequalities, as well as in the concrete possibilities for social mobility and symbolic transformation in the contemporary rural world. Tipo: Tese 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/87179 Título: Heimat: migrações germânicas no Paraguai Autor(es): Oliveira, Sindy Gabrielly Holanda Abstract: This thesis consists of an ethnography on the Germanic migrations to the Colonias Unidas, in Paraguay, which occurred during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. The research, from a socio-anthropological perspective, is dedicated to understanding the migratory reasons and the dynamics established by migrants in rural cities, founded by German-Brazilians in the first decades of the twentieth century: Bella Vista, Hohenau and Obligado. Such migrants, predominantly white, Protestant Christians, coming from the European middle and upper classes are incorporated into a conservative, sometimes fascist habitus, which guides both their life trajectories and their perceptions of the world. They start from a narrative that there is a civilizational decline in their countries of origin, presenting in their discourses rejections of health policies to combat the pandemic, migratory movements that reconfigure the European space, cultural pluralism, the fiscal state of European countries, and gender affirmative policies. In this way, their migratory projects of a colonial nature are directed to the reconstruction of a social and moral order in the Colonias Unidas that immigrants believe to be threatened in the European context. Paraguay becomes a space of ideological refuge and reaffirmation of racial and class privileges, an Edenic paradise. For the construction of this thesis, 50 formal interviews were conducted, in addition to participant observation, analysis of local publications and literature review. Debates around the methodological challenges inherent in ethnographic making with uncomfortable otherness, as well as discussions about Islamophobia, conspiracy theories, and the intersections between coloniality, race, and nation structure the thesis. Tipo: Tese 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z