https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/34711 Sun, 17 May 2026 06:18:10 GMT 2026-05-17T06:18:10Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44459 O EXERCÍCIO PROFISSIONAL DE ASSISTENTES SOCIAIS E A “INCLUSÃO” DAS PESSOAS COM DEFICIÊNCIA Xavier, Taís Dias dos Santos; Dias, Taís D. dos Santos Xavier Bastos, Cristiana Mercuri de Almeida This study aims to reflect on the professional practice of social workers from the perspective of defending the rights of people with disabilities, considering the challenges, limitations, and possibilities of action within the scope of Social Assistance Policy. Social workers are understood as being embedded in the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production; therefore, their work—focused on addressing social issues—also faces precarious conditions and tensions between institutional discourse and the lived realities of service users. The study examines social workers’ education and professional practice, highlighting socio-historical determinants and the relative autonomy that allows the category’s ethical-political commitment to the interests of the population served, shaping both limits and possibilities in professional practice. Labor precarization is analyzed as part of the structural transformations of capitalism, affecting both workers and the practice of social work in public policy. Grounded in the historical and theoretical-methodological foundations of Brazilian Social Work, particularly the works of Marilda Iamamoto, Maria Carmelita Yazbek, and other authors linked to the critical tradition, the study reflects on the challenge of being a critical professional committed to human emancipation in a context of commodification of rights and limitations in social policies. It highlights that so-called “inclusion” often takes the form of “integrative exclusion,” discussing structural inequalities, the living conditions of people with disabilities, ableism, and responses generated by social policies as expressions of social issues, especially within the Social Assistance field. The study focuses on social workers’ efforts to ensure the rights of people with disabilities within the Social Assistance Policy framework, emphasizing the professional practice within the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) and, in particular, the Family Protection and Comprehensive Care Service (PAIF). It is based on an experience report that illustrates daily activities, institutional limitations, and possible advances in professional practice. The final reflection points out that, although social work faces adverse conditions and structural challenges, it remains a strategic space for resistance and the promotion of social rights. The study reaffirms the importance of a critical professional practice, grounded in Marxist social theory and committed to transforming the conditions that produce and reproduce social exclusions and inequalities. This research is qualitative in nature, with an exploratory and descriptive approach. UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA Dissertação Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44459 2025-12-02T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44384 Mo Júbà Òrìsà, Ìbà Onílè: ensinamentos da cosmologia yorubá para a reverência e a regeneração da vida na Terra [e a resistência dos povos de terreiro contra a ponte Salvador-Itaparica] Machado, Camila Delgado, Josimara This dissertation aims to investigate how the ethical and ontological principles of Yoruba cosmology guide the ecological cosmoperception of candomblé communities and inform their forms of resistance and struggle for territory in the context of the Anthropocene. Initially, we situate the ecological crisis within its global and Brazilian context, presenting scientific evidence and important cases of environmental catastrophes that illustrate the severity of the current ecological emergency. We also present the case of the Salvador-Itaparica Road System as an environmental disaster, based on the current struggle of the communities affected by the project against its implementation. Following this, we discuss the main concepts and categories of analysis, developed in the academic fields of decoloniality and postcolonialism, that are related to the ecological crisis, in order to elaborate a critical bibliographic review on the theme of decolonial ecology. Finally, we highlight the intrinsic relationship between Yoruba cosmological principles and the ecological ethics of the terreiro communities, through the analysis of the narratives of this population in their struggle against the Salvador-Itaparica bridge, reflecting on the concepts of Iyá, Asé, and Orisá as ethical and ontological principles of Yoruba cosmology that prominently guide the ecological cosmoperception of the terreiro communities, in their cosmo-sociability, in their ritualistic practices, and in their resistance movements for the territory. Concomitantly, we elaborate reflections on the importance of the ecological cosmoperception of the axé people in the context of the Anthropocene. This dissertation uses the methodology of elaborating three essays, through bibliographic review, document analysis, discourse analysis, and auto-ethnographic narrative. And this dissertation seeks to denounce the Salvador-Itaparica bridge as an imminent socio-environmental catastrophe of extremely serious impact, which could violate the material reality and the mythical universe of the terreiro communities of Baía de Todos os Santos and various other traditional communities, resulting in environmental, spiritual, and socioeconomic imbalance for the entire population of Bahia. Universidade Federal da Bahia Dissertação Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44384 2026-01-20T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44124 AGÔ N’ILÊ! O legado da vivência em terreiro de candomblé e as contribuições para a ampliação do conceito de família no PAIF Matos, Marlucy Queiros Noronha, Valéria dos Santos This dissertation discusses the socio-anthropological contributions of life in a Candomblé terreiro (religious center) to broadening the concept of family within the Comprehensive Family Protection Service (PAIF), the cornerstone of Basic Social Protection in Social Assistance Policy. The central objective of the research was to understand how the organization of relationships within the Candomblé religious family can interact with the concept of family adopted by PAIF and contribute to the improvement of social assistance practices. To explore this theme, interviews were conducted with Candomblé practitioners, seeking the meanings and experiences of the concept of religious family within this Brazilian religion of African origin. The study starts from the concept of family adopted by the regulations of the National Social Assistance Policy and also by researchers in the Social Sciences, whose relationship is based not only on blood ties, but also on solidarity and coexistence. In this sense, the terreiro communities or "families of saints" were analyzed, taking as a reference anthropological and sociological studies on the subject, understanding these spaces as a potential field of action for the Basic Social Protection Policy, since, in addition to being family spaces, they eventually welcome people and families in situations of vulnerability and weakened bonds. The results indicate that the family of saints constitutes an expanded support network, based on affective bonds, ritual hierarchies, and collective care practices, configuring itself as a family experience that strengthens its members and offers relevant learning for social work with families in the PAIF (Family Support Program). UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA Dissertação Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44124 2025-12-15T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44106 Manifestações da precarização do trabalho de assistentes sociais na Universidade Federal da Bahia Santos, Cledna Marques dos Faria, Maria da Graça Druck de Public service work is circumscribed by social transformations and changes in the world of work guided by a neoliberal perspective, especially through productive restructuring. This process imposed a logic of flexibility, institutionalized by the State counter-reform, with an emphasis on managerialism that reorganizes its structure and labor management. Within this context lies UFBA, which, like other federal universities, is permeated by the process of counter-reforms. This movement is materialized in successive budget cuts and the adoption of a managerial logic, with direct impacts on the work of social workers. Although these professionals still retain guaranteed labor and social security rights, they face constant threats and progressive reductions that broadly affect public servants. In view of this, this study investigated how precarization manifests itself in the work of social workers at UFBA, based on the following specific objectives: to characterize the socioeconomic and educational profile of social workers; to understand the working conditions and labor relations of these professionals at UFBA; to identify the repercussions of labor precarization on the health of social workers; and to identify the resistance strategies adopted by social workers in the context of precarization. The research adopted a qualitative and quantitative approach, grounded in critical social theory and linked to Research Line 02, “Social Theory, Work, and Social Work,” of the Graduate Program in Social Work (PPGSS) at the Institute of Psychology and Social Work (IPSS) of UFBA. The research subjects were social workers, part of the university’s technical-administrative staff, with active employment under the Single Legal Regime (RJU). Data collection with these professionals occurred in two stages: an electronic questionnaire (Google Forms) with open and closed questions, answered by fifteen professionals; and six interviews with participants from units with the highest concentration of social workers. The results showed that precarization manifests itself in the objective and subjective conditions of professional work, with varying intensity among socio-occupational spaces. It was found that, although the number of social workers increased by approximately 65% (15) between 2004 and June 2022, this growth did not proportionally follow the expansion of demands driven by programs such as REUNI and PNAES, nor the adequacy of infrastructure and resources. Consequently, the effects include overload, an intense work pace, pressure for deadlines and targets, frequent overtime, and severe restrictions on autonomy and professional recognition, impacting the physical and mental health of professionals and creating obstacles to collective organization for more effective resistance strategies. Universidade Federal da Bahia Dissertação Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44106 2025-11-26T00:00:00Z