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This paper aims to understand the meaning of the expression "making life better" in an industrialized region of Vale do Ave, considering the changes during the 1960s-1970s in Portugal and in the long term. It addresses, particularly, the expectations of improvement in living conditions that this expression condenses, conveying ideas about the future, against a past in which life "didn't run forward", and a life in which one has "always worked" to "keep earning a living". It is argued that the "work" implied in this expression reflects a tension between the need to "making a living" and the aspirations towards a "good life", articulating economy, value and time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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BRICS, the acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is the first multilateral group created and run by non-western developed countries. The group aims to influence world geopolitics and market based on the right of developing and emerging countries to participate equitably in development. The social issue lies at the core of the group's justifications to achieve its goals. In this regard, this paper aims to analyze how the social issue has been addressed by BRICS. The methodology was based on bibliographic research and documentary analysis of the Declarations resulting from the nine BRICS Summits held from 2009 to 2017. Findings indicate that the social problem was necessary for the affirmation of the group's project in the global context. While there are advances in some social indicators and poverty has been reduced, the results in many social commitments of the group are weak. This can be attributed to the centrality of national contexts in the social issue, internal differences between countries, the non-mandatory nature of the group's initiatives, or because, while showing powerful strategies for new global arrangements, the social issue remains subsumed to geopolitical and market objectives.

The emergence of gender and masculinity studies allowed the formation of groups of men who seek to transform masculinity following principles of equity and equality between genders. In this paper, we analyze the interpretive repertoires on the transformation of masculinity present in the discourse of twelve of these men. The results identify and analyze two repertoires, one of tension and flight, that traces an ontological division and describes the transformation as a flight from the influence of a model external to men. The second, self-management repertoire, describes the transformation of masculinity as an exercise in self-knowledge to generate change and alternativity. We conclude that these repertoires are complementary and function as an axiological demarcation that guides the action of change, in addition, these repertoires lead us to think of the transformation of masculinity as an ethical-political issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the formation and transformations in the identities of São Paulo's peripheries dwellers in recent decades. Our proposal here is that identity must be understood in a relational and historical way. Thus, it is sewn together with discourses, practices, and processes that produce subjectivities. The paper is based on an ethnographic work carried out in two neighborhoods on the outskirts of São Paulo. It is argued that, in the 1970s and 1980s, the identity of "workers" was formed in contrast to that of "bosses" and "bandits". This identity was the basis of a collective project to integrate workers into the wage society and the world of citizenship rights. After the productive restructuring and social changes in the 1990s and 2000s, this identity disintegrated and gave way to the identity of "peripherals". This new identity was built in cultural mobilization around cultural movements and collectives in opposition to the "elites" and in response to the stigma that these regions suffer from. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La Clínica de Asistencia Legal de la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Puerto Rico es un vehículo de acceso a la justicia. Esta reflexión expone el trabajo que se realiza en la Sección de Desarrollo económico comunitario: Organización y autogestión. En ésta el estudiantado da cumplimiento al deber ético de garantizar acceso a representación legal capacitada, íntegra y diligente. En cambio, recibe de las comunidades las experiencias y valores comunitarios de lucha, perseverancia y resiliencia contra un sistema socioeconómico que les sume en la pobreza y limita el desarrollo de capacidades. Esta reflexión analiza literatura sobre diversos abordajes a servicios legales que propenden el cambio social. A partir de éstos, expone casos sobresalientes en los que el estudiantado y las participantes de la Clínica lograron contribuir al mejoramiento de la calidad de vida y desarrollo de capacidades para un orden social sensible a las necesidades de los vulnerables. The Legal Assistance Clinic of the University of Puerto Rico School of Law is an instrument for the disadvantaged, disregarded, and discriminated population to demand justice. This reflection presents the work done by the Community Economic Development: Organizing and self-management section of the Law Clinic. As a required course, it offers the students the opportunity to start complying, early in their professional careers, with the ethics of serving the vulnerable ones by warranting access to quality legal representation. This paper analyses the different approaches to progressive advocacy for social change. Then it examines some outstanding cases worked by the Community Economic Development section of the Clinic where both the students and the clients have mutually contributed to improve the quality of life and their development. Revealing this academic model exposes its benefits and encourages its practice for giving students opportunities to serve and contribute to a sustainable social transformation. DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=3130617

The issue of capturing the dynamics of how strategic events occur and of identifying external and internal factors involved in their organization has been mobilizing researchers of the field for years. The objective of this paper is to present an analytical framework proposal on strategic process at a public university, in this case, the design and implementation of the Institutional Educational Project (IEP) of a new campus. From an analytical point of view, proceed from a less linear approach to a more interpretative strategy, in which its shaping occurs through social interaction, considering the beliefs and common interpretations of organizational members. Specifically, we intended to know how certain strategies emerge and the conjectural aspects which influence the prioritization and decision-making processes of its implementers. The proposal is based on the theories of Structure and Social Change (on the sociological field), and on the procedural and practical perspectives (on the organizational field). The scheme was built, implemented and validated during the implementation of a new university campus through qualitative research, using the case study methodology. This paper presents the preparation stage of the scheme. By undertaking a theoretical and methodological search that is able to subsidize descriptions and explanations of a dynamic process of creating and implementing strategies in a public university, we intended to find a way to comprehend the strategic phenomenon in an integrated manner, and not in a compartmentalized manner, as observed in many studies. Through the scheme, it was possible to realize the practical actions of the agents and their influence over the strategic process and how the way events develop can influence the practices of the strategists. It was possible to sense that agents in public universities use the power of their expertise to build a context favorable to their interests, even if this means significant changes in the IEP. For the organizational analyst, the blueprint is able to define levels of analysis in an integrated manner, temporally delimit the actions and outline methodological procedures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El objetivo principal de este artículo es discutir el papel originario y estructural que la explotación del trabajo indígena ha desempeñado en la formación histórica de la región de São Paulo, frontera colonial de la América portuguesa. A partir de una revisión historiográfica del problema, cinco episodios históricos concretos (sacados de fuentes documentales tales como cartas de misioneros, demandas judiciales y registros parlamentarios) serán expuestos y presentados como representativos de una variedad de situaciones coyunturales peculiares que, sin embargo, pueden leerse como momentos de un mismo proceso de larga duración: la tendencia secular a la permanencia del trabajo obligatorio de los indios en los mecanismos regionales de reproducción social. Con base en una demarcación conceptual hasta ahora no explorada en la historiografía americanista (la cual busca diferenciar las categorías de "régimen", "sistema" y "modalidad" de trabajo), se sugiere una periodización de la historia colonial paulista adoptando como criterio privilegiado los diferentes patrones de empleo del brazo indígena. Se concluye que la esclavitud indígena en São Paulo habría sido una especie de institución "elástica" que, a lo largo de cuatro siglos de historia, ha sufrido numerosas transformaciones legales, políticas y sociales, pero nunca ha dejado de presentarse como parte elemental de las relaciones hegemónicas de sociabilidad en la región. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the diffusion of social networks has led to intense cultural and linguistic transformations in our globalized society. Through the technological advancement and the multiplicity of genres that emerge in the digital world, the creation and transformation of genres is due to the multimodal language tools offered in several virtual platforms, among which we highlight Instagram - online social network for sharing content. Within this popular tool, a growing movement of young poets has gained literary prominence. The short, shareable and varied-themed texts of the instapoets - Instagram authors - are a reflection of a new generation that has been dictating a new concept of publication and communication among the reading public. In view of this strong tendency, we observed the structure of instapoetry in the light of Systemic-Functional Linguistics, Generic Structure Potential and Grammar of Visual Design. In this paper we investigate the frameworks of instapoetry as a genre in cyberspace, with the purpose of understanding some systematizations thereof. The corpus of the work is composed of texts by some exponents of this literature in the international scene (e.g. Rupi Kaur, Nikita Gill, Atticus), which have been gaining popularity by the sensitivity to what some authors define as "collective intelligence" (COSTA, 2015). Our results indicate that, despite the great diversity, there are aspects of the compositional form, theme and style that configure this new tradition of the digital era as a genre. The results revealed the influence of the collective intelligence on instapoetry, as well as evidenced other characteristics of the genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper we give an account of the development of agroecology in Argentina, specifically from the dimension of socio-political analysis. We want to analyse agroecology as a collective action, in his disruptive capacity. This means that we will analyze the agroecology as a component of the action of social movements. To achieve our objective, in the first instance present we will present a cartography of the main collective expressions, cooperatives and associations for the promotion, production and agroecological marketing in Argentina, and then we will emphasize the programmatic contents of the agroecological proposal presented in this country. social movements of rural populations. From this analysis, we will seek to answer the question of why agroecology has been proposed by indigenous peasant movements as a paradigmatic alternative that antagonizes industrialbased agriculture, and what are the scope of this approach as a process of social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Strategies to reconcile development with the protection of ecosystems will yet again be discussed at the forthcoming Rio +20 Summit. The management of solid urban waste is an issue which has barely been touched upon in such discussions. Given the institutionalization of the National Solid Waste Policy, this paper seeks to contribute to this debate and to single out alternatives to tackle this issue with an emphasis on social inclusion. For this purpose, specialized scientific literature was consulted as well as information on solid waste management. It is clearly seen that inadequate management of solid waste has immediate impacts on the environment and health, and contributes to climate change. Considering the limitations of the current options for waste disposal, it is essential to minimize the quantities produced by reducing, reusing and recycling. In this context, the role of independent waste gatherers who have been conducting work of great environmental importance is highlighted. Given the vulnerabilities of this population, it is necessary to devise public policies to ensure that waste gathering is a more respected and less risky activity that guarantees an income, so as to move towards more healthy, equitable and sustainable development.

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The turn of “almost everything” to the quality of commodity reflects a contemporary process known as commodification (or commoditization). As this process promotes long-term impacts on the constitution of societies, it calls for a reflection on the sociological field of “what” can be bought and sold and about the role of legitimizing agents of these new markets that arise. After extensive review of the transdisciplinary academic literature, this paper summarizes the multiple forms of commodification in contemporary consumer practices. The examples involve tangible goods and symbolic aspects of daily life that become alienable, revealing how the culture, music, food, natural resources, places, violence, body parts, sex, traditions, education, religion and even emotions begin to have value in the market arena. The first purpose of this paper is to understand the origins of the concept, and then be able to seize the crucial features of the phenomenon in the dynamics of social change. It also aims at stimulating the debate and rethinking critically: In a world where “everything is for sale”, individuals also come to be treated as commodities? After the analysis of the cases, it is argued that commodifying processes change the ways of everyday life and affect the social relations, leading, ultimately, to reframe the “human qualities” and to the depoliticization of the individuals to the dynamics of social change.

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This paper discusses the role of medicine, ranging from the normative and technological control of women's sexuality ad reproductive process (childbirth, breastfeeding, contraception, and treatment of infertility) through the construction of a new (biological and social) reproductive model, based on a radical change of identities, relations, and forms of union between the sexes (a break with the traditional concept of marriage, growth of open unions, serial monogamy, etc.). This model is sustained by a radical distinction between sexuality and reproduction, related to a unique and horizontal model of sexuality (in opposition to the hierarchical 19th-century two-sexes model); the new model focuses mainly on pleasure and moves progressively away from social ties and affection. In addition to the contribution of medicine (notably through assisted reproduction) and sexology (universalization of the orgasm imperative), the paper also discusses the contribution of epidemiology (through AIDS-related research) to the transformation of a moral sexual norm into an abstract and merely statistical standard