This article discusses the main lines of the anti-crisis policy in Portugal, its consequences on the citizens’ well-being and health inequalities and the impasses in health reforms planned both to ensure the financial sustainability of the health system and to improve equity. Different studies reveal that health inequalities in Portugal have been consistently higher than those...
This text aims to discuss the tensions in the relationship between the public and the private sectors in the Brazilian Unified Health System (UHS). The celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the UHS took place in a political conjuncture in which the country was facing an unprecedented setback in the political and institutional process and a disintegration of the guarantee of...
The debate proposed here is part of a concern assumed in previous studies about the impact of the conservative shift on social work and it is inspired by Josep Baqués’s study, El liberalismo-conservador: Fundamentos teóricos y recetario político ss. XVIII-XX. Based on Baqués’s contribution, this article presents a comparative analysis of the notions of ideology – a recurring...
Both the impact of the crisis unleashed in 2008 and its management through austerity policies have had a clear effect on health and health services both in Spain and in Portugal. Some evidences of this impact are analyzed in this article from a dual perspective: the objective indicators related to health and health services in both countries, and the subjective indicators on...
As transformações em curso no sistema mundial evidenciaram, dentre outros aspectos, a necessidade de (re) significação da noção de desenvolvimento e a compreensão das modificações significativas na relação Estado, mercado e sociedade. Nesse cenário, redefinem-se papéis de atores sociais, que passam a fazer parte da efetivação de propostas de desenvolvimento que se materializam...
In recent years, the interest in the so-called folk arts has grown among many people, institutions and areas of knowledge. Some routes have shown to be relevant, such as: patrimonialisation processes; government cultural policies; (re)musealization projects; artification processes; and inclusion in certification systems, such as Geographical Indications.This text aims to provide...
This article presents the experience of collaborative creation of a community museum in an island of the Parnaíba River delta, in Brazil. Based on the principles of Social Museology, the wishes and needs of the island community and a process of participatory inventory, we created a new museological typology: the Museum-Workshop. We thereby combine museology and revitalization of...
Written in collaboration – four hands and three disciplinary gazes – and revisiting “Literatura e emigração: poetas emigrantes nos estados de Massachusetts e Rhode Island” (Capinha, 1993), this article illustrates how a literature of/in e/immigration contributes to understand acts of identification and meaning-making in contemporary societies permeated by mobilities. Writing...
At the beginning of the 21st century, we can observe the consolidation of the institutionalization and the beginning of the internationalization of the Portuguese sociology of law, in which the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra plays a central role, although other institutional actors begin to emerge. However, the gap between the disciplinary fields of...
The austerity imposed following the Memorandum of Understanding has triggered a dissatisfaction that extended to broad sectors of the Portuguese society. Besides trade union action, which was going through a particularly critical period between 2010 and 2013, other collective actors emerged from civil society and mobilised against labour precariousness and austerity expansion...
The Portuguese society, at the turn of the century, was confronted with migratory dynamics that, although not new, presented some specifics, namely the coincidence of entries and exits, as well as new immigrants coming from Eastern European countries. In face of the theories then available, sociologist Maria Ioannis Baganha put forth a pioneering theoretical proposal in which...
Today’s urban accelerationism makes the act of walking in the city anachronistic. The rapid displacement of the subjects leads to a distracted understanding of the urban territories and social relations. In the 20th century, the renowned urban walking (Dadaists, Surrealists, Situationists, flânerie) sought to recognize other cultures and other modes of social existence. City...
This article problematizes the ways in which subjectivities and agencies, from which the meanings of struggle are traced and resignified, are constituted in contexts of state violence. Starting from an ethnographic work (2003-2007) with mapuche political prisoners – i.e. those indigenous leaders imprisoned after the Chilean state applied several emergency laws (Anti Terrorist Act...
In this article we analyze two cases of socio-environmental impact and dispossession (as used by David Harvey, 2004), produced by the expansion of a conglomeration of hydroelectric companies operating in two indigenous regions in Mexico: the region Nahua of the Sierra de Zongolica in the state of Veracruz, and the Nahua Totonaca region of the Sierra Norte, in the state of Puebla...
This article highlights the social and environmental impacts that occur due to the process of exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons (oil and gas) in the municipality of Papantla, Veracruz, indicating some of the changes that took place as a result of the neoliberal policies applied in the energetic sector. In the first section, I point out the effects that oil activities...
In this essay I focus on the paradigmatic case of the Yaqui tribe’s resistance against the construction of the Acueducto Independencia (Independence Aqueduct), with a view to analyze the politics and legal strategies of territorial defense, the role of indigenous rights, and the positions and criteria of the Supreme Justice Court of the Nation (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la...
Socioterritorial conflicts and movements in Bolivia have highlighted the ways infringe the collective rights of indigenous peoples have been infringed and seem to challenge and dispute the imaginary of societal/state change that emerged in this country in the past decade, such as the “pluri-nationality”, the “indigenous autonomies”, the “Living Well” and the “decolonization”. In...
Based on a reflection on an environmental policy for the creation and implementation of parks which isruled by the dominant conservationist frame of mindthis paper aims to discuss how the top-down imposition contributes to the social exclusion of traditional and indigenous populations who get involved in these processes. The situation of the Pataxó of Barra Velha Indigenous Land...
Tania Bruguera ranks among the foremost contemporary conceptual artists. Both in her life and in her art, she has defied and crossed borders and boundaries. This article intends to demonstrate the paradoxical nature of Bruguera's artistic enterprise: even as she adopts a post-modern stance, mostly through live performances, her work is deeply rooted in Cuba's indigenous...
This essay, “Picture Windows: Architecture of Privacy and Surveillance,” explores how privacy became a public concern within the context of U.S. suburbanization during the 1950s. Suburban spaces and architecture represent changed notions of privacy, publicity, property and selfhood that correspond to broader ideological and historical transformations. Techniques, functions, and...
This article is based on the results of a research about the mediatic coverage on the Novo Recife project, which is a huge urban enterprise to be built in the city of Recife, on the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The research identified an alignment between the discourse produced by print newspapers and the publicity conveyed by the consortium of private contractors who finance the...