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Violence against women is a reality in Brazil. Although the country has advanced in terms of legislation, with emphasis on Law n. 11.340/2006, Maria da Penha Law, and Law 13.104/2015, known as the femicide law, there are still many challenges in dealing with violence against women, which permeate legal, social, cultural and political issues. One of the points that draws attention is that not every crime is reported, which ends up impacting the consolidation of indicators on violence that can be used in the construction of public policies to support women and combat violence. There are still obstacles and challenges regarding the collection of these data, which are mostly obtained from the civil and military police of each state of the Federation, which use different structures and methodologies to measure this social phenomenon. The repercussion of cases of violence against women in the media is remarkable, which opens the opportunity to explore the news as sources of data. This paper explores the use of data mining solutions aimed at identifying themes explored in the context of violence against women from news pieces broadcast in digital media in order to seek an understanding of positions and articulations in the observed narratives. Therefore, a case study is carried out on a sample of journalistic texts extracted from the G1 Goiás news portal. The results obtained suggest patterns, in terms of temporality and themes explored, and highlight the issue of the invisibility of domestic violence against women and the exacerbation of extreme, unusual and so-called spectacular situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Brazilian President doesn't decide alone. The Executive and Legislative branch are close because of the Brazilian Coalitional Presidentialism. It demands better presidential justifications when the President decides. This article explores the argumentative complexity of the Brazilian Executive Branch in the presidential decision of the veto. The paper uses a bibliographic review of Law and Political Science. It's qualitative research about vetoes and arguments. The article aims to study the arguments brought to the Brazilian President during the production of law. The research seeks to answer two questions: how does the argumentative decision-making debate of presidential sanction and veto occur? Can the Argumentation Theory help in decision process of veto? In response, it demonstrates that there is no solipsistic presidential decision. It's a complex decision-making process, based on merit and legal reasons. Legal arguments can help in the construction of such justifications and bring the branches together. The work seeks to offer a fertile field for future research using Argumentation Theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the importance of the negativity bias in the media, and how this dimension appears today with new forms and a deeper reach. From a sample of 160 young adults, he appreciates the relationship between interest in political issues and the choice of the main source of information, in order to question, in light of this choice, the differences in satisfaction with democracy that individuals have. It starts from the hypothesis that the privileged consumption of information on social media or conventional media will have different effects on satisfaction with the functioning of democracy. Quantifies the activity levels of individuals on social networks (publications and shares), crossing them with the levels of satisfaction. Having assessed these data, and confirming the underlying hypotheses, the paper suggests the existence of a negativity bias about political issues in social networks, built by many of its users, which tends to promote dissatisfaction in those who use them as a main source of information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective of the study: This paper touched upon the major issues that are related to intention towards the use of ERPBI in the Saudi private sector - Saudi Arabia is an example of a developing country Methodology / approach: This paper used a qualitative approach and the sample of the study comprised of 30 experts from the Saudi private sector, who were involved in ERPBI. Originality / Relevance: According to prior studies in literature, there is no specific model that supports and explains ERPBI, and as such, this increases the chances of ineffective adoption and use of ERPBI. This study found that ERPBI adoption models are lacking, and those that exist are inapplicable as they exclude several significant factors for successful adoption. Main results: The findings indicated that for the promotion of the ERPBI model, the entire significant factors have to be considered and incorporated. Those factors are: system quality, service quality, and information quality factors, change management, effective communication, training factors, clear vision and planning, competitive pressure, and government role. Theoretical / methodological contributions: This study's results open door for future research based on the gap in theories applied and the factors investigated in the context of developing nations. Social / management contributions: Shedding light on the factors and their relationship with ERPBI use success would assist top management in minimizing losses through system use for enhanced cash flow, and improved performance of employees and that can eventually bring about the overall performance of the organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we reflect on the bodies of fat women who manifest themselves on Instagram as they disrupt media regulation and standardization by using the aforementioned platform as a mobilization tool. The theoretical framework is organized from an intersectional perspective in connection with studies on the body, the ‘place of speech’ and the concepts of ‘semiosphere’ and semiotic ‘explosion’. The proposed method for investigating the profiles of three digital influencers is based on the semiotics of culture in relation to intersectionality and the place of speech. In this scenario, we find an important and insurgent movement of resignifying the body in the media and expressing the active subjectivities of subalternized fat women who impose cultural and political issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In contemporary social and political theory, thinkers from the left as well as those from the right very often start from the basis of an antogistic social ontology. They take it for granted that there are irreconcilable conflicts and divergencies of interest between social groups such that, as Laclau, Rancière and others would have it, eternal struggle is not just unavoidable, but desirable, since its absence signifies nothing but the unchecked hegemony of a particular social faction. This view corresponds to a social reality in which political actors simply perceive of each other as allies or as enemies and obstacles that need to be fought or silenced. Such a reality inevitably produces a growing sense of political alienation. By contrast, this contribution claims that we should start from a relational social ontology which implies that social relations are not a priori given, but are themselves a product of social and political institutions and practices. Hence, relationships between social groups need not be antagonistic, but can take on a wide variety of forms. Critical Theory therefore should focus on the nature and quality of social, physical, temporal and spatial relationships established in social institutions. The paper then goes on to delevop the conceptual framework for such an analysis based on the theory of resonance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is characterized as original theoretical research, based on literature review, which propose a systematization literature from the following hypothesis: the minorities concept results from a construction historical-political--philosophical-social-theoretical, which basic elements derived from conceptual-pairs used by Social Sciences, namely: the conceptual-pairs minority-majority (political science), to par-conceptual dominance-subjugation (sociology) and to par-conceptual identity-difference/differentiation (anthropology). The following conclusion was reached: The review of the debate on the term minorities in the field of law demonstrates that the hypothesis proposed above is confirmed, as it made it possible both to systematize the literature and to understand the main arguments used by the different analytical strands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to reflect on the political function of the arbítrios, through a memorial written by Luis de Ribera, which deals with a topic related to the ecclesiastical government of Peru. The arbítrios were proposals addressed to the king for the solution of problems in several spheres of the government, especially financial matters. They had their heyday in Spain from the middle of the 16th century, and from the first decades of the 17th century we can observe an arbitrism centered on American issues, although to a lesser extent than the Castilian arbitrism. Ecclesiastical issues were of great importance in the Spanish territories in America, due to the fact that sovereignty over the new lands was justified by the evangelization of the natives. Ribera's memorial offered a solution to one of these issues, the rivalry between the religious orders and the secular clergy; from this we will consider the influence of these writings on political issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within a complex social reality, specific circumstances and existential contingencies confound juridical and political issues. Juridical intervention may not be alien to the phenomenon and must be adequate, dynamic and flexible, with the personality as a value. Current paper discusses the free development of the personality and related rights as a means of materializing citizenship, frequently hindered by social exclusion. Citizenship is equivalent to freedom and the autonomy to vindicate rights and occupy spaces that involve personal rights. Current research and bibliographic analysis of the theme coupled to phenomenological hermeneutics are a means to understand the experience of people, agents of personal rights, generally excluded, and their relationship with the juridical system. Renovation of access to justice should be of prime importance to understand subjectivity, since the person in undivided and, therefore, the core and gravitational center of juridical thought [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theoretical horizon of the Political Analysis of Discourse (APD) affirms the political ontology of all identity, from a particular conception of language, of social discourses and of the subject. By postulating the ultimate impossibility of the society as a meaningful totality fully and stably articulated, this transdisciplinary perspective investigates the conflict inherent in the historicity and contingency of any identity process, analyzing the struggles for hegemony around differences and antagonisms in the social space. The APD incorporates conceptual tools from different fields of knowledge (such as post-structuralist linguistics, post-Marxist political theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophical thinking of deconstruction). In this paper we present a review and assessment of its main contributions to social analysis in Latin America, as it constitutes a particular epistemological elaboration to address the political-discursive dimension of disputes over hegemony and social meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Black holes are arguably the most counter-intuitive consequence of general relativity. They are super dense objects surrounded by unidirectional membranes, each hiding a singularity inside. A black hole traps everything that enters it, including light. The history of the discovery of those enigmatic objects starts in 1916, with the first solution to Einstein's Equations for the gravitational field of a massive spherical-symmetric dimensionless body. But the publication that introduced them appeared only in 1939. This paper presents the historical events of the initial phase of research that led to the rise of the black holes as a concept. It presents a social, philosophical, and political analysis of the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Perhaps because it does not contain any complicated scenes of seduction and because it promotes a moral lesson considered important about the characters' reactions to dilemmas that force them to choose between private interest and the common good, Julius Caesar has been one of the most discussed Shakespearean plays in the context of the British school system. The representation of the Roman society that the play offers and, in particular, of Julius Caesar, is one of the most debated issues, and there have been many voices accusing Shakespeare of having distorted the "truth of History", having transformed Julius Caesar into a tyrant who deserved to die and his killers into true heroes. The play shows, however, a remarkable knowledge of Rome's history by Shakespeare. This paper proposes an analysis of the representation of Rome and Caesar that the play promotes and a reflection on the political message that Shakespeare may have tried to convey to the contemporary audience. Taking into account issues such as the anachronistic elements present in the play and the political and social context of the turn from the 16th to the 17th century, this article describes how, through Julius Caesar, Shakespeare shaped the English popular imagination about Roman times to intervene in pressing political issues of his time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The community is built from the integration and different exchanges between collectives. As a human form of groupment, it is defined by two central elements: politics and space. Thus, with modernity, the dependence from what is outside outweighs what is within, where the hegemonic actors manage to renew the social relations, the means of production and even the understanding about these spaces. Human sciences are also responsible in reproducing different views about the concept of community and its' applications. In Brazil, the political relations stand out on the conformation of communities. The authoritarianism of hegemonic classes imposed in the daily living and the discourse based on local relevance hide the conflicts lived within the communities and hinder internal and external political action of the populace. This paper discusses these questions from a theorical review of authors who work with the theme in order to explain a given local reality. It is stressed the necessity of a political and historical analysis about how the communities spatialize, their dynamics and transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazilian redemocratization has profoundly transformed the relations between State and society and the marriage between democracy and representation. The changes were not restricted to electoral and state representation, but reached civil society's spheres of action. The direct incorporation of citizens into policymaking processes is one of the most significant innovations of democratization in Brazil. This article argues that the new institutional architecture that expands the connections between State and society inaugurates a new moment of political representation in the country. Here, social actors represent along with government agents the interests of society in relation to certain types of public policy, without being incorporated by the state, and vice versa. In order to understand the democratizing potentials of these transformations, this paper proposes, based on international debates, a reinterpretation of the concept of political representation, as well as its criteria of legitimacy, namely, accountability and responsiveness. In addition, the paper highlights the specificities of representation in Brazilian participatory institutions. It argues that its institutional placement and intersection with state and societal arenas are characteristics that influence the practice of accountability and responsiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intents to show the relationship between the Brazilian geopolitical thought with the economics progress, working for industrialization. Beyond the paper wishes to known why the Brazilian Army searched immediately the geopolitics thought in opposite to west Europe where that task was searched by universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at outlining a concept of deliberation compatible with the theory of recognition. Despite fostering different bodies of knowledge, these two theoretical perspectives emphasize the emancipatory potential of intersubjective communication. In order to suggest a joint approach, the article challenges four questions that seem to indicate incompatibilities between recognition and deliberation. The paper advocates a deliberative approach marked by: 1) a non-altruist conception of reciprocity; 2) a focus on meta-consensus; 3) a non-cognitive understanding of communicative forms; 4) a broad comprehension of deliberative processes; and 5) an understanding about the importance of civil society associations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a research devoted to the censored words in stage plays. The studied plays belong to the Archive Miroel Silveira, a collection of censorship processes related to theatre in the State o São Paulo, Brazil, covering from 1925 to 1970. The Archive is object of a wide study project, sponsored by Fapesp, and includes the present research. We classifi ed the cuts and, by its frequency, we reached a quantitative overview, in relation to each censorship type. The comparative observation of frequency allowed us todraw conclusions about the censorship peculiarities and its mobilizations, according to the social or political context. It permitted, as well, to determine aspects of the censorship nature and its social meaning effect. The results of such investigation have been published last year. In this paper we intend to share a few questioning about these results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author analyzes the process in implementing a National Innovation System (NIS) at Uruguay. Throughout the paper, he explains how historic, cultural, social, economic and political factors blocked Uruguay from having such an Innovation systemstructured as a necessary instrument to leverage development policies and a competitive insertion at the international scenario; as to the example of most industrialized countries members of the OECD. By the end of the paper, the author explains that, althoughdifferences arise from Brazil’s and Uruguay’s focus regarding priorities and future paths for the Mercosur, the Brazilian National Innovation System, by means of governmental policies, along with its promotion agencies, research institutions and top science-focused businesses, have created a positive influence in the participation of integrated projects with Uruguay’s research institutions as well as the strengthening of the local innovation system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After discussing the meaning of the word politics, this paper shows that there are four possible approaches to the issue of the relationships between language, discourse and politics: a) the intrinsic political nature of language; b) the relations of power between discourses and their political dimension; c) the relations of power between languages and the political dimension of their usage and; d) linguistic policies. This paper addresses only the first two of these items. Languages have an intrinsically political nature because they subject their speakers to their order. The acts of silencing operationalized in discourse manifest a relation of power. The spread of discourses in the social space is also subject to the order of power. The use of language may be the space of pertinence, but is also that of exclusion, separation and even the elimination of the other. Therefore, language is not a neutral communication tool, but it is permeated by politics, by power. Because of the dislocations that it produces, literature is a form of swindling language, unveiling the powers that are imprinted on it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present paper, we analyze possible articulations between memory and ideology, highlighting the mechanisms that render memory an ideological construction. We are aware that "memory" and "ideology" are complex and controversial concepts which have originated a plurality of conceptions and have fostered intense discussions. Recognizing the difficulty of such an enterprise, we believe that it is important to understand the relations between both phenomena, and to highlight the peculiarities of a memory that is constituted from ideologies. It should be mentioned that not every memory is ideological - only those that, as a result of social disputes, legitimate an official version of the past, distort representations, promote oblivion of political events and institutionalize the memory of winners in order to hide domination relations and to consolidate the constituted power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The persistence of indexation in Brazil post-Real. The paper analyzes the shortcomings of the Real Plan combining political science and economics, considering evidences on difficulties in implementing a complete plan of deindexation, namely: the distributional conflict, the corporatist relations between the State and society and the bureaucratic isolation of a highly specialized technocracy. The announcement of the plan triggered defensive reactions, fueling distributive tensions during the URV period, forcing the economic team to take measures that contradicted the overall guidelines followed. The persistence of indexation mechanisms indicate the resulting obstacles in seeking a reform of the State through a stabilization plan, even though the latter has the former as a precondition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is of interest to discuss how we are currently governed. A way that seems to operate through a given type of mentality every day helps to produce and disseminate means of conduct. ADM know-how, which circulates in the field of administration and extrapolates it, takes part in the production and dissemination of a business mentality which, in turn, is at the basis of current governability. This paper addresses the notion of government, one that does not only refer to political structures and to State management, but also to the means of action over the possibilities of action by others. It then addresses the notion of governability in different times, focusing on company or business governability, a sort of mentality that governs all. Based on that, it is possible for government to think of administration know-how as it is exercised nowadays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to demonstrate that the motivations of China's engagement in Africa go beyond the exploitation of natural resources, revealing political interests of international insertion, external recognition of its status as an international power and participation in the definition of the rules governing the International Order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses an approach of International Political Sociology (IPS) inspired by a relational and processual methodology, questioning the assumptions of International Relations concerning the boundaries of the international, the vision of politics at the core of political sciences, and the methodological nationalism concerning society. In order to avoid dualisms, IPS discusses the different episteme at work and analyses the socio genesis of the practices of actors in their different professional and cultural universes, looking specifically to their struggles for power and to the processes of politicisation and (in)securitisation. IPS is therefore constructivist in the sense that its authors are reflexive and deconstruct essentialist claims to knowledge. IPS is also empiricist inasmuch as the authors are sensitive to the practices of human beings and their relationships to objects, and start their theories from these sociological and historical relationships always embedded in specific locations and time. Of course empiricism does not mean positivism, and constructivism does not mean an idealistic perspective where norms, ideas and beliefs lead the world. The aim of this perspective is to decolonize the study of practices of the "transnational societies of individuals" from the so-called great debates of the Anglo-American visions, reproduced in their philosophies and approaches of social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades obesity has become one of the main concerns in public health. According to WHO by 2015 there will be 700 million obese adults. This scenario reflects on news-making, particularly the way the media continuously stresses the problem of obesity. In Brazil, the statistics show that overweight and obesity have also grown significantly. Moreover, poverty, a social problem earlier linked to hunger and underweight, is now one of the faces of obesity in that country. This work was made by the analysis of the news connecting obesity to poverty published from 1996 to 2005 in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo. The study of 65 news items revealed a theme most influenced by political disputes, especially between 2003 and 2005 when 48 news items were found on this subject. The aim of this paper is to observe how the journalistic sources have build the relationship between obesity and poverty in the media, in order to legitimate certain political rationale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The principal aim of this paper is to provide a intuitive introduction to cluster analysis. Methodologically, we use data from Coppedge, Alvarez e Maldonado (2008) regarding the two dimensions of polyarchy proposed by Dahl (1971): contestation and inclusiveness. Based on these dimensions we classify political regimes in different groups (clusters) according to their similarity level. On substantive grounds, we hope to suggest a methodological tool to classify political regimes and facilitate the understanding of cluster analysis in Political Science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is linked to the republican theory of fundamental rights. Its goal is to establish connections between fundamental social rights and the notion of the constitutional common good. The criticisms and justifications are grounded in a neorepublican political theory of the Constitution. The method of approach to the subject is analytical, empirical and critical. The paper starts with the analysis of legal concepts established in the normative material, to follow an empirical adequacy, based on case law, and develops argumentative criticism from various theoretical references relevant to fundamental rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we propose a refection on contemporary practices in mental health in Brazil. The discussion is based on a study organized as part of a curricular internship in psychology devel-oped at a Psychosocial Attention Center (CAPS). The Center is responsible for the assistance of adult patients with severe mental suffering. This article begins with a short panorama of CAPS since its instauration. We, then, present our experience in of these centers in order to describe the vicissitudes of psychology clinic and the discussions elicited by them. This experience, in turn, has allowed a critical perspective in relation to work in mental health, especially as regards to unreflect aspects that become habitual by repetition. This critical perspective highlights nodal points to consider in the discussion of Brazilian Psychiatric Reform and the insertion of the psy-chologist, such as: the not yet overcome dichotomy between clinic and politics that promote dis-connected interventions; psychologists' lack of theoretical and technical resources when facing severe and persistent suffering - which reproduces a clinical model that must be overcome; the bureaucracy that prevents or hinders new solutions, as well as an unsuspected employment of the asylum paradigm in services that were created to substitute the hospital-centered assistance model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of private life is largely dependent on written sources. As it is anchored in material sources, the research method is based on a material memory so as to reach an immaterial history, understanding the manner in which human beings sees themselves and behave with others. The gentlemen's duels of the 19th-20th centuries in Portugal, as a field of study on private life, possess this dynamic between material and immaterial. The need for a duel code from which ideas and rules were taken for duelling among gentlemen that took place on the margins of State regulation, punishable by law but socially accepted, was visible in the 19th century. Thus the «Ponto de Honra» (Point of Honour) appeared in the 20th century, in an act to officialise that which had been long practiced in the country. This paper intends to analyse how this written code affected the ways of duelling, studying the cases before and after the code's existence, and determining the probable impact on the men of having an accessible national object on which they could justify a tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many scholars have written on money and elections, especially on how expenditures can explain the performance of the candidate. Our paper aims at describing some features of finance campaign for the Brazilian National Congress in 2002 and 2006, based on the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) data. We tried to capture: a) donations and expenditures variation of incumbents and challengers; b) regional variations, given the socioeconomic cleavages of the electoral district, that may affect donations and expenditures; c) cameral variations, given the incongruent character of the Brazilian bicameralism; d) party variations, that is, if there are candidates that cost "more" or "less", depending on party affiliation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

20 years after democracy was reestablished in Brazil, Brazilians give support to the democratic regime but distrust public institutions. The paper exams the meanings of democracy according to common people's answers to an open-end question: "What is democracy?", included in surveys undertaken by the author in 1989, 1990, 1993 and 2006. Bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses were undertaken in order to advance the knowledge about the meanings of democracy, its determinants and the nature of the growing normative adherence to the democratic regime in the country. Data has shown that Brazilians define democracy in terms of liberties, freedom and institutional procedures; surprisingly the dimension relative to social benefits has no important impact on the results. Both definitions, related to a normative and a pragmatic perspectives, are relevant for democratic consolidation and the quality of democracy, and are integral components of the democratic process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to contribute to the production of connections between the diffuse field of sociology of culture and cultural studies and the more specific -but no less diffusetopic of biopolitics. Specifically it asks whether it is possible to elucidate a line of inquiry about the notion of biopolitics that may have interesting effects on certain aspects of the present debate in cultural studies. For that purpose, it discusses the interest in biopolitics, and then analyzes this concept and its connections with the concepts of population and life. On that basis, it proposes a redefinition of the concept of public and a new way of problematizing this concept that is central in cultural studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We know that Brazilian citizens, just like those living in other democracies of the world, know very little about politics. We know less, however , about the consequences of political ignorance on the democratic process? Some scholars argue that the lack of political information has minimal effect of people's political attitudes and behaviors. Others, however, claim that the effects are substantial. In this paper, we examine this question using a survey-experiment conducted in Brazil in 2004. Specifically, we explore how information about the federal government affects attitudes toward government spending and taxing policies. The experiment has a control group and a treatment group where subjects in the latter were provided political information before measuring their preferred level of government spending and taxing. Results indicate that those who received political information tended to prefer less government spending and taxing, as compared to those who did not receive any information. These results carry important implications for the democratic process because they indicate that a more knowledgeable Brazilian electorate would hold different political preferences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the study and development of those institutional innovations conceived to promote participatory practices in contemporary democracies. In a first moment, one considers some of the main arguments addressing the scope, limits and the effects of the institutional design on the political game. Then, the article explores, through a brief history regarded the configuration modes of modern democracies, the relationship between institutional design and political participation. This fact calls the attention to the need of a change in the current institutional design of democracies. Finally, one proposes the idea that three features must be taken into account in any attempt to offer effective mechanisms of participation in the decision-making process: (a) to improve citizens' repertoire of skills and political information; (b) to pay attention to motivational factors that encourage the involvement in politics; (c) to be careful about the setting and the availability of input channels whose goal is to lead the contributions of civil sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Marshall and the critics to the classical political economy. This paper analyzes the period of transition between the millian orthodoxy and the marshallian orthodoxy with special emphasis on the influence of the economic debates of the 1870's and 1880's in the genesis of Marshall's conceptions. It is argued that in these decades Political Economy was questioned in three different fronts: by the theoretical critics, by the adepts of the historical method, and by the humanists. It is also argued that Marshall answered these criticisms, sometimes by accepting and incorporating them, sometimes by rejecting them, and in doing so he was able to construct a new disciplinary consensus - that gave the foundations to the practice of the next generation of economists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary debates on health, biomedicine and citizenship emerge among a set of accounts that is marked, on the one hand, by the transformations taking place in the field of biomedicine and (bio)power, and, on the other hand, the reconfigurations introduced by several collective actors. In a theoretical and conceptual analysis, those contemporary debates are drawn along a boundary between biology and politics. The paper also proposes the hypothesis that some of the most visible redefinitions, in progress within the current healthscape, take place, particularly, in the mutual constitutions of two processes: biomedicalization of politics and politization of biology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate the actions and the political interests of entrepreneur and former Sen. Arnon de Mello (1911-1983) in their involvement in business of mass communication - through the media group that bears his name and is led by the newspaper Gazeta de Alagoas. The work aims to contribute to the discussion of the regional media in Brazil, especially in Alagoas, where there is the deep problem of the intervention of the local media - by means of ideological dissemination and information management - in the political arena. The methodology adopted in developing the article includes: search in the literature and in documents - made by search in the collections of newspapers - and interviews, through which it was established that Gazeta was used to promote the politically their owner and / or allies, and has supported the modernization-conservative coup of 1964. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on some preliminary results of a survey applied to Portuguese municipalities, this paper will discuss and analyze existing conditions for participation in municipal sustainability initiatives in Portugal. However, signs of participatory citizenship in Portuguese society —as well as participation in representative democracy— can not be dissociated from the new socioeconomic conditions emerged from the 1974 revolution (institutionalization of democratic rule of law, accession to European Community/European Union, integration in an increasingly globalized international market and political arena). That is why the difficulties and successes in these participatory processes have to be read i) in the light of a relatively new democratic path and ii) as a result of the growing momentum of international governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the limits of the unidisciplinary approach to public administration and organizational studies and the development of the inter-, multi- and transdisciplinary approaches in the field. The adopted methodological strategy is structured in two stages. The first consists of a theoretical analysis of the subject in which discipline is conceptualized, the advantages and the limitations of uni-, inter-, multi- and transdisciplinary approaches are theoretically explored, and an analysis of the fields of public administration and organizational studies is carried out. The second stage consists of an empirical study in which the advantages and the limitations of the uni-, inter-, multi- and transdisciplinary approaches are investigated. The empirical study is conducted in the divisions of Public Administration and Social Management, and Organizational Studies of the National Association of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Admnistration Meeting (EnANPAD). It can be concluded that these EnANPAD divisions prioritize, with some difficulty, the unidisciplinary approach, and present interand multidisciplinary approaches without systematization. Thus, the divisions are unable to benefit from possibilities or overcome limitations of the various approaches to disciplinarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to show, from a literary standpoint the relevance of latin american thought and ibero-american studies for modern contemporary portuguese thought, in particular the thinking on portuguese postcolonialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates, from an anthropological point of view, some aspects of the restorative justice's implementation in Brazil. Through the anthropological research, it is possible to say that restorative justice articulates an assembly of diverse actors and conjugates ideas of self-management and individual transformation with modernization of justice and promotion of the culture of peace. This paper aims to understand the emergency of this new technology of life management, as well as to discuss some tensions in its dissemination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with discourse based on two previous studies with newspaper texts that interpret not only the discourse process but also the political aspect concerning the linkage of language with history and ideology. Thus, it evaluates the theoretical-methodological principles and procedures of the French Discourse Analysis (DA), based on its use in the Social Sciences field, especially byPolitical Science. It shows that the connection between the social scientist and DA allows the awareness that it is not a field exclusive to Linguistics, but is formed by both Psychoanalysis and Marxism, with close relation to the Social Sciences. Guided by Althusser's analysis of Marx, it reviews concepts of ideology and subject as well as the relation that is established between them in the subjectivation process. The use of this methodology, which is also a theory, places the social scientist, during the process of understanding the studied object, up against theoretical-methodological challenges that may lead him/her to review this reflection based on his/her own education and disciplinary fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present the methodological proposal and the results of the research "Communication, culture and politics: dimensions of representation" in which we aim at understanding the positions of slam dwellers subjects built by television programs. From the presupposition that television is an important dimension of social life, we try to unravel its productions from a methodological approach which matches content analysis with television gender analysis to understand the ways the narratives suggest for the presentation of those subjects. The corpus is composed of four programs exhibited by Rede Globo Television: Central da Periferia (2006), Linha Direta (2004), Globo Repórter (2004) and Cidade dos Homens (2002). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Georges Bataille's novel Blue of Noon (1935) appraises itself as disposing of a premonitory vision on 30th and 40th political and social convulsions. As a heterocritical narrative, it evokes an alternation of dreams and reality, quotidian events and historical facts, ammounting to comments about revolutionary values of its age. This paper aims to expose some notes on the narrative schemes of Blue of Noon. As a contest between writing and its own impossibility, Bataille's text shows fiction as the other side of theoretical optimism and reveals literature as the realm of transgressions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper intends to settle a relationship of reciprocal elucidation between two surprising platonic utterances. The first one, in Republic (428 E), is "a city established on principles of nature" (kata physin oikistheisa polis); the second one, in the Statesman (308 D), speaks about a "the true natural art of statecraft" (kata physin alethos ousa politike). The comprehension of the two platonic formulas, in their contexts, allows to verify the coherence of the political thought of Plato in his late works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to develop certain of tyranny in Plato's Republic, Book IX. It takes into account not only the pleasures as principle of the dissolution of "logismos" but also the platonic intention of structuring the man's negative paradigm, its thinking, its affections, its actions -the tyrant-, as the opposite of the philosophical soul in its "celestial paradigm" or the man's paradigm, who uses "logismos", who has autarky and who knows what one's care is. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to promote a dialogue with the Edgar Morin's intellectual autobiography, with the three greatest relevant subjects in his work "My demons": the epistemology, the ethics and the politics; and to enhance the importance of the complex thought in the process of producing health. The continuous investigating attitude makes Morin reflect on the provisionment of the "truths" and "conclusions ". Mainly that the knowledge is never total, but multidimensional. The knowledge is proposed to be constructed which re-links, which is unaccomplished and unaccomplishable. It works with the concept of auto-ethics, the urgency of "constitution" of a humanitarian identity, a planetary conscience, the native land idea. In the politics it designates the necessity of a conscience of resistance among men, in all the times and areas, the mental, ideological, cultural and historical forces that can rouse errors and thus it strengthens the belief in the imperious necessity to rethink the politics. The logic of the complex thought of Morin has illuminated many of the arguments in the health field, since in that the phenomena that involve the health and illness process presents multiple dimensions, what makes us reflect on the complexity of the concept of health necessities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current paper aims to describe how rational and political factors in the decision-making process concerning budgeting of a great Brazilian state-owned enterprise have taken place. In order to do so, a case study research has been made in which the same process was analyzed under different perspectives, using as theoretical background the Allison's rational, organizational and political models. The utilized methodological procedures underlie descriptive and qualitative nature and the collected data, from different sources - in-depth interviews, observations and documents -, have been analyzed through a thematically categorical content analysis kind. The obtained results show a complex process where both rationality and politics have taken place and influenced decisions and the process per se. It is noticed that the budget, although being an idealized technology under instrumental rational premises and utilized to impose a mechanic behavior to organizational processes, has also a political dimension. This dimension takes its shape as far as the situations of decision become arenas where individuals and groups interact in different interests and approaches about the same problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]