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El objetivo fue explorar las situaciones universitarias en las que se ejercen prácticas y actitudes de exclusión/inclusión hacia las personas trans en Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES) de Sonora, México. Empleamos la técnica de Grupo de Discusión con 16 personas trans de Sonora, y para el análisis, la hermenéutica reflexiva. Los resultados evidencian ejercicios de exclusión/inclusión en situaciones de pase de lista, uso de baños, trámites universitarios, invisibilización de personas no binaries, formación pedagógica, currícula, pánico moral, y acceso al capital cultural. Se concluye que estos reflejan la realidad macrosocial del cisexismo como un sistema de opresión; no es sólo cómo, sino también por qué y con qué se ejerce esta exclusión. A la par, la inclusión emerge como una respuesta abanderada por las personas trans como sujeto político. Este estudio demuestra que sólo desde esta población puede surgir una legítima subversión a la matriz cisexista que perpetúa su exclusión.

This special collection builds on a two-day interdisciplinary workshop held in November 2022 at the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies (NILAS) at Stockholm University. The workshop was part of the network project “New Approaches and Synergies in Nordic Latin-American Studies: Applying Area Studies in a Multipolar World” (2022-2024), funded by the Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS) and including researchers from five Nordic universities (Copenhagen, Oslo, Gothenburg, Stockholm, and Helsinki). The discussions Nordic and Latin American scholars at different career stages had in Stockholm shaped the articles included in this special collection. The articles approach these aspects in a transdisciplinary perspective – based on the joint discussions during the workshop – which includes political science, geography, economy, anthropology and law studies.

Garbage - that which is excluded, put aside, hidden, buried, taken out of sight, and rejected - is the starting point of this paper. Approached as refuted matter, garbage circulates between private and public arenas, between centers of power and forgotten peripheries. Approached as a social metaphor, garbage marks the limits between categories, between those things and people considered to have value, and those considered to be useless and disposable. In this paper, I discuss the use of language as a strategy for social positioning by analyzing some everyday interactions taking place among women from different social classes gathered during fieldwork in Southeastern Brazil. As I show, when practiced in asymmetric interactions, these garbage speeches not only classify people in terms of status and value, but also reinforce already existing differences. At focus in the present analysis are oral practices of social positioning where status and social exclusion are harshly negotiated.

Le "rebut" – ce qui est exclu, mis de côté, caché, enterré, ôté de la vue, rejeté – est au point de départ de cet article. Considéré comme matière repoussée, il circule dans les espaces publics et privés, entre les centres de pouvoir et les périphéries oubliées. Vu comme métaphore sociale, il marque les limites entre catégories, entre ce, celui ou celle qui ont de la valeur et ce, celui ou celle qui sont inutiles, bons à jeter. Je m’interroge ici sur l’usage de la parole comme stratégie de positionnement social grâce à l’analyse de quelques interactions du quotidien entre femmes de classes sociales différentes, recueillies à diverses périodes d’un travail de terrain dans le Sud-est brésilien. Comme je le montre, les « voix du rebut », lorsqu’elles sont pratiquées dans des interactions asymétriques, non seulement classent les individus en terme de statut et de valeur, mais aussi renforcent la différence entre des personnes occupant des positions sociales inégales. J’analyse ici les jeux oraux de positionnement lorsque le statut et l’exclusion sociale sont durement négociés.

Lixo – aquilo que é excluído, posto de lado, escondido, enterrado, retirado do foco de atenção, rejeitado – é o ponto de partida do presente artigo. Visto como matéria rejeitada, o lixo circula entre arenas públicas e privadas ; entre centros de poder e periferias esquecidas.  Visto como metáfora social, o lixo marca limites entre categorias, entre aquilo e aquelas(es) que têm valor e aquilo ou aquelas(es) que são inúteis, descartáveis. Discuto aqui o uso da fala como estratégia de posicionamento social através da análise de algumas interações cotidianas entre mulheres de diferentes classes sociais, coletadas durante diversos períodos de trabalho de campo no sudeste brasileiro.  Como será mostrado, as « falas do lixo », quando praticadas em interações assimétricas, não só classificam indivíduos em termos de status e valor, como também reforçam a diferença entre pessoas ocupando posições sociais desiguais. Analisa-se aqui jogos orais de posicionamento onde status e exclusão social são duramente negociados.

This article examines how middle-class households in the city of Belo Horizonte, southeastern Brazil, deal with the waste that pervades their lives. Processes of classification and disposal are examined and related to consumption practices, the division of labor, and environmental issues. This research also examines how waste is implicated in the performance of middle class-ness, in notions of morality, and in norms and codes classifying and distinguishing the valuable from the worthless. The present study suggests that members of the ethnographic sample seem worried about issues regarding social hierarchies and class belonging, to a much greater degree than they are concerned with the environmental aspects of consumption and waste management. Out of sight, out of mind? In an explicit context of social inequality, behavior toward waste passes first through the lens of class.

Brazil is a highly unequal and socially segregated society. Within this context, Brazilians' everyday lives are marked by the constant reading of bodies: Who is/could be/looks dangerous? Who should be avoided? Poor working-class people are painfully aware of readings merging poverty and criminality. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork among middle-class and lower-income persons in southeastern Brazil, this photo essay investigates some visual mechanisms at play in processes of social categorization. With a point of departure in the rhetorical question 'Have you ever seen a thief wearing a uniform?' uttered by unskilled workers at moments when their moral status is questioned, this essay examines the dynamic tensions linking physical appearance, morality and social hierarchies in contemporary Brazil. It highlights some of the ways through which unskilled workers' uniforms can be a marker of both marginality and morality as they provide a visual basis for classism in everyday interaction and signal, in other situations, group affiliation, honesty and worker pride.