Allan Souza Queiroz
Biographic Data
| ID | 278772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Souza Queiroz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan Souza |
| FAMILY NAME | Queiroz |
| SIGNATURE | QUEIROZ A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5262-6860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Who Moves the Sugar Frontier? A Comment on The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years by Ulbe Bosma
The World of Sugar by Ulbe Bosma offers an ambitious and sweeping account of the global history of sugar. Readers interested in sugar’s role in shaping economies, environments, and societies will find it a captivating synthesis of its past and present trajectories. In this commentary, I engage critically with the book, focusing on the areas most closely aligned with my own research on the Brazilian sugar industry. I highlight key points related t…
Controlling precarious work through documents: The carteira de trabalho on the sugarcane plantations of Northeast Brazil
This article explores the Brazilian carteira de trabalho (work card) and its usage on the sugarcane plantations of Alagoas, Northeast Brazil. It draws on photography and interviews with rural workers to analyse how documents have been used to manage and reproduce precarious work. On the plantations, work cards function as a managerial tool allowing workforce surveillance and control. Moreover, sugar mills can control rural workers' mobility and s…
Labor Commodification in the Sugarcane Plantations of Alagoas, Northeast Brazil
Since the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, Brazil's ruling classes - who have always disputed labor regulations and protections with the complicity of state authorities - reorganized themselves around an authoritarian project of power. This project is widely backed by agribusiness and industrialists, given Bolsonaro’s promises to boost market freedoms by reducing social and labor rights. In this article I focus on the case of the sugarcane pla…
Unintended consequences of job formalisation: Precarious work in Brazil's sugarcane plantations
This article focuses on the shift from informal to formal employment in the sugarcane plantations of Alagoas, Northeast Brazil, and its unintended consequences. Drawing on the employment experiences of sugarcane cutters, the authors stress the main mechanisms that produce precarity within formal employment structures. Precarity is forged by means of employers' hiring practices, which turn formal employment contracts into insecure and temporary on…
Entrevista: Bernard Lahire
Entre os dias 24 e 25 de Novembro de 2011, o sociologo Bernard Lahire, professor da Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, ministrou o curso Problemas e metodos de uma sociologia disposicional e contextualista para docentes e discentes integrantes do Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Sociologia da UFRGS. Naquela ocasiao, o mesmo concedeu uma entrevista que oportunizou, de modo complementar ao curso, uma melhor compreensao de algumas de suas contribuicoes t…
Unintended consequences of job formalisation: Precarious work in Brazil's sugarcane plantations
This article focuses on the shift from informal to formal employment in the sugarcane plantations of Alagoas, Northeast Brazil, and its unintended consequences. Drawing on the employment experiences of sugarcane cutters, the authors stress the main mechanisms that produce precarity within formal employment structures. Precarity is forged by means of employers' hiring practices, which turn formal employment contracts into insecure and temporary on…
Controlling precarious work through documents: The carteira de trabalho on the sugarcane plantations of Northeast Brazil
This article explores the Brazilian carteira de trabalho (work card) and its usage on the sugarcane plantations of Alagoas, Northeast Brazil. It draws on photography and interviews with rural workers to analyse how documents have been used to manage and reproduce precarious work. On the plantations, work cards function as a managerial tool allowing workforce surveillance and control. Moreover, sugar mills can control rural workers' mobility and s…
Entrevista: Bernard Lahire
Entre os dias 24 e 25 de Novembro de 2011, o sociologo Bernard Lahire, professor da Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, ministrou o curso Problemas e metodos de uma sociologia disposicional e contextualista para docentes e discentes integrantes do Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Sociologia da UFRGS. Naquela ocasiao, o mesmo concedeu uma entrevista que oportunizou, de modo complementar ao curso, uma melhor compreensao de algumas de suas contribuicoes t…
Entrevista: Bernard Lahire
Entre os dias 24 e 25 de Novembro de 2011, o sociologo Bernard Lahire, professor da Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, ministrou o curso Problemas e metodos de uma sociologia disposicional e contextualista para docentes e discentes integrantes do Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Sociologia da UFRGS. Naquela ocasiao, o mesmo concedeu uma entrevista que oportunizou, de modo complementar ao curso, uma melhor compreensao de algumas de suas contribuicoes t…
Unintended consequences of job formalisation: Precarious work in Brazil's sugarcane plantations
This article focuses on the shift from informal to formal employment in the sugarcane plantations of Alagoas, Northeast Brazil, and its unintended consequences. Drawing on the employment experiences of sugarcane cutters, the authors stress the main mechanisms that produce precarity within formal employment structures. Precarity is forged by means of employers' hiring practices, which turn formal employment contracts into insecure and temporary on…
Labor Commodification in the Sugarcane Plantations of Alagoas, Northeast Brazil
Since the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, Brazil's ruling classes - who have always disputed labor regulations and protections with the complicity of state authorities - reorganized themselves around an authoritarian project of power. This project is widely backed by agribusiness and industrialists, given Bolsonaro’s promises to boost market freedoms by reducing social and labor rights. In this article I focus on the case of the sugarcane pla…
Controlling precarious work through documents: The carteira de trabalho on the sugarcane plantations of Northeast Brazil
This article explores the Brazilian carteira de trabalho (work card) and its usage on the sugarcane plantations of Alagoas, Northeast Brazil. It draws on photography and interviews with rural workers to analyse how documents have been used to manage and reproduce precarious work. On the plantations, work cards function as a managerial tool allowing workforce surveillance and control. Moreover, sugar mills can control rural workers' mobility and s…
Who Moves the Sugar Frontier? A Comment on The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years by Ulbe Bosma
The World of Sugar by Ulbe Bosma offers an ambitious and sweeping account of the global history of sugar. Readers interested in sugar’s role in shaping economies, environments, and societies will find it a captivating synthesis of its past and present trajectories. In this commentary, I engage critically with the book, focusing on the areas most closely aligned with my own research on the Brazilian sugar industry. I highlight key points related t…
Political science (5 works) · Economics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Precarity (2 works) · Workforce (2 works)