We will analyze new emerging vulnerabilities in the transition
from taylorist-Fordist environments or -even worse- preindustrial environments,
to post-Fordist environments and to the "knowledge society". We will
especially address important cases (in emerging countries such as Brazil) of
intense violation of population rights, where the population is forced to
migrate to the metropolis (post-fordist environments) due to a dispossession or
destruction of the rural environments they lived in.
Undoubtedly, social and technological changes always create new vulnerabilities. When populations that are empowered in one environment are relocated, they lose their
living conditions, and with this, they lose also their power “to manage their
own life”, their adaptation habits and therefore, they inevitably suffer
a huge breach in their capabilities to
deal with social threats (vulnerability increases).
Here, we will try to point out some of the
transformations that are more difficult to overcome, the ones that cause more vulnerability
and that currently affect a large part of the population in emerging countries,
like Brazil. Such transformations are
associated with the new capitalism of the 21st century, which - as everybody
knows- is becoming more neo-liberal, turboglobalized, post-Fordist and deeply marked
by the knowledge society. We will also see how these transformations affect the
development model of emerging countries –including economic, social and
educational development. In these sense, Brazil, just like the others BRICS countries
(including Russia, China, India and South Africa) is a good example of the
challenges and difficulties encountered in such situations nowadays.