Income redistribution is essential to reduce economic inequality and, consequently, to reduce food insecurity. In addition, they ensure the maintenance of children and adolescents in school, the effectiveness of childhood illnesses and for the safety of the health of pregnant women. Over the past twenty years, income transfer programs have been developed in Latin America, with emphasis on those created in Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay, serving a total of 68 million people in the three countries. However, the recent change in Brazil to the new Auxílio Brasil program represents a setback in the then consolidated advance of the Bolsa Família Program.

For the last decades, the Latin-American democracies have combined relative consolidation and institutional stability with extremely unequal societies regarding class, ethnicity, and gender. This text aims to discuss the use of gender in the television campaigns of four women for important Brazilian capitals, in 2020: Cinthia Ribeiro (PSDB), a candidate in Palmas; Joice Hasselmann (PSL), a postulante in São Paulo; Manuela D'ávila (PCDOB), from Porto Alegre; e Marília Arraes (PT), from Recife. When observed together, the construction of political leadership has gone through two main strategies: the first one sought for a way for the candidature to have attention to acceptance within the collective imagination related to gender; the second one, from Joice, tried to show a woman who was different from others, who highlighted the fact of being able to give meaning to the presence of more love, care and sensibility in politics, mobilizing what we call "emotional capital".

This essay seeks to discuss the politicization of bureaucracy. Through a critical literature review, I argue that studies tend to deem politicization a negative characteristic of the bureaucracy. Drawing upon the work of Max Weber, several authors associate politicization to other phenomena, such as patronage and pork-barrel politics. In contrast, I claim politics is inevitable as everyone has views regardless of how little they may be interested in politics. In addition, I point out other relevant problems to understand the challenges Brazilian public service faces. Bearing upon datasets made available by the government and previous studies, I focus on three elements: endogenous inequality, levels of turnover, and recruitment processes. In the end, I claim administrative reforms should focus on these three elements to strengthen the Public Administration and bring more transparency and responsiveness.

From a prominent position in international relations to distrust and outcast, Brazil has been suffering from the current president's deadly lack of governance and leadership capacity. His incompetence and misleading statements slashed Brazil's environmental agenda, and it is isolating the country in a World that needs cooperation to solve global challenges, such as climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Talking with spirits and entities, observing mediums and believers in the subtlety of their behavior, establishing new methodologies, and improvising on research techniques in the heat of uncatalogued rituals. The ethnographic experience ends up imposing itself, and this imposition is all the measure that is needed: it is up to the ethnographer to recognize, contain and locate the moment of interpretation, submitting cabinet wishes the need to let the world around you speak.

Solidarity selective waste collection is an area of ​​action that inherently encompasses inter, multi, and transdisciplinarity characterized by a diversity of relationships and objects, bringing at its core the call to propose new perspectives on politics, environment, and society.