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Universidade Federal do Paraná
2015
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- One or two nation projects? Discourse on inequalities and equality-related policies in South Africa and Brazil Bernhard Leubolt Sociología Brazil inequality South Africa social policies historical institutionalism This contribution focuses on the social production and reproduction of social inequalities in Brazil and South Africa. It aims at interlinkingdifferent theoretical perspectives and applying them to a comparative analysis of inequality-related policies. Resorting to strategic-relational institutionalism, the historical heritage of discourse formation and the institutionalization of inequality regimes in thetwo countries to inform the analysis of the more recent conjuncture will be analysed. While South Africa is an example of formal racistdiscrimination, the Brazilian inequality regime worked on more informal patterns. The different historical heritage influences currentfoci of equality-related policies, which tend to be dominantly anti-racist in South Africa, while focusing on poverty reduction in Brazilduring the recent years. The latter experience tended more towards a discourse of a ‘common interest’ and was better able to institutionalizepolicies to reduce income inequalities. South Africa is still discursively divided into ‘two nations’. Social uplifting for Africanslinked to the governing parties was only partially accompanied by improved living conditions for the poor majority of Africans. Bothcountries are significantly structured by the respective historical heritage concerning both the creation and the reduction of inequalities.The Brazilian ‘one nation’ discourse was more successful in promoting equality-related policies than its ‘two nations’ counterpartin South Africa. Despite important improvements, both countries are now in critical junctures and societal contradictions are beginningto create new crisis tendencies. 2015 artículo científico 0104-4478 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=23842212003 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=238 Revista de Sociologia e Política application/pdf Universidade Federal do Paraná Revista de Sociologia e Política (Brasil) Num.55 Vol.23