In the nineties, specially while President Fernando Henrique Cardoso was governing (1995-2002), and Paulo Renato de Souza was in charge of the Ministry of Education, radical educational reforms occurred, which were taken ...

This paper analyzes the way to build political subjectivity of neoliberal capitalism using tools from Lacan´s theory of discourses. I concludes that neo-liberalism was constituted as a new master discourse during the 1990s. ...

The present text aims to give an overview of the teachers' union struggle against neoliberal reforms based on the comparison between Brazil and France. With this, we elected two unions, APEOESP (Union of Teachers of the ...

Based on Antonio Gramsci's ideas about common sense, this article presents an analysis of obscurantist neoliberal common sense and its impacts on Brazilian contemporary society and education. Contrary to some interpretations ...

Cities of global leisure face a historical movement of urban neoliberalization that instrumentalizes urban space, subjecting society to the domination of the market and the very institutions that regulate it. In this sense, ...

Neoliberalism, sometimes considered an obsolete concept, is essential to analyze state-market relations. Its heuristic potential is due to the coexistence between on one hand a common base in the competition as a mechanism ...