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Abstract The objective of this study was to reveal how refugees who live in Brazil perceive the macro-dynamics of the local society and how their response to them varies in accordance with their different psycho demographic profiles. We interviewed 24 refugees from different countries, genders, ages, and races. The interviews were taped, transcribed, and subjected to critical discourse analysis, resulting in three a priori categories: social, discursive, and textual practices. We found out that social practices did differ in terms of their countries of origin, gender, and race. The analysis of their discourses revealed three different places and roles: hero, victim, or faker. Finally, the textual analysis indicated the choice of words that subverted the hegemonic discourse of refugees, revealing resistance to the place refugees are relegated to in Brazilian society.

Inspired by studies on emerging literacy, which indicate the importance of interactional processes and discursive practices in the constitution of the literate subject, in this article, we propose a discussion about oral discursive practices involving interactional situations between a Brazilian child and its different interlocutors. In this perspective, we highlight the practices in which there is the presence of printed materials containing fictional narratives mediating the interactions. The set of data considered in the study is part of a broader research proposal, involving the “narrative path” of ‘E’, this child. The collected material has a longitudinal and naturalistic character, being composed of daily filming done by the parents. Among the data, we separate records corresponding to the second year of life of ‘E’. Our preliminary analyzes highlight a predominance of interactional situations and oral discursive practices involving children’s storybooks and classic children’s literature texts read to ‘E’, mainly by the mother. From the theoretical references to which we are affiliated, we understand that the establishment of these practices is the key to the child’s “capture” (LEMOS, 2002) for this symbolic universe and for their entry into the functioning of the language, marked both by their gestures, vocalizations, and speech, as well as the adult’s interpretation and their relation to the narrated history

In the Introduction to this special issue, the editors review the field of curriculum history to date and present new ways of investigating the past of the course of study. Relying on the notion that curriculum is comprised of the discursive practices in educational settings that transcend location and time, they discuss research on the social and political forces that shaped school subjects and how researchers rely on textbooks as primary sources. After an overview of each essay, the editors reveal that new directions in curriculum history are focusing on transnational influences and curriculum as enacted outside of schools in such places as voluntary organizations and prisons.

Besides receiving large numbers of tourists, the Algarve is also becoming home to growing communities of migrants whose first language is not Portuguese. Besides the so-called “economic migrants” who have arrived from eastern European countries, attracted by the employment opportunities in construction and the service sectors that have resulted from the development of mass tourism, there are also growing numbers of northern European “lifestyle migrants” in search of a better way of life in the sun. The transformations in the ethnoscape of the region due to these tourism-related mobilities have impacted on its semiotic landscape. Notably, English is seemingly everywhere, whilst the languages of the eastern European migrant communities are almost entirely absent. In this paper, I explore how some of the texts that appear in the semiotic landscape can be viewed as nexus points for various circulating discursive practices. Such practices are spatially and temporally embedded in a dialectical relationship with the politics of place and, ultimately, contribute to the discursive construction of the inclusion/exclusion of different social groups.

Frames and Discursive Practices between State and Black Populations in Colombia: Structural Racism and Human Rights Abstract This article discusses the way the discourses and counter-discourses have been used in the construction of frames on behalf of the actor-network, Process of Black Communities, in its dialogue with the Colombian government within the framework of the hearings of the Inter-american Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) between 2007 and 2013. Theoretically, the notions of biopower, biopolitics, governmentality and discursive practices developed by Michel Foucault are addressed , as well as the theory of frames by Snow and Bendford. Methodologically, audios and videos of the hearings before the Commission are analyzed. In the analysis of the interaction between State and Afro petitioners there were identified frames, discourses and counter-discourses related to racism, territoriality, victimization of afro populations and women, and armed conflict. The findings identify frames around the issue of human rights, aimed at harnessing the discursive and political opportunities opened by the Commission to influence the decisions of the state actor.

The provision of water in the municipality of São Paulo depends on a system of reservoirs, of which two are particularly important: Cantareira, located in the north, and Guarapiranga-Billings, in the southern part of the city. Preservation of the headwaters of both systems is at present in conflict with the urgent need for housing, especially in the case of poorer sectors of the population that depend on informal settlements or social housing systems. This article derives from research carried out in the region where the headwaters of the Guarapiranga reservoir are located. It has a double aim. On one hand, it traces how environmental protection of the reservoir area has become a governmental issue; on the other hand, based on interviews and ethnographic approaches, it aims to discuss how environmental protection issues are dealt with on a day-to-day basis.

Ao estudarmos as peculiaridades do modelo ideológico de letramento, percebemos que ele possui semelhanças com o que propõe a concepção de escrita como trabalho. Assim, este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar os pontos em comum entre essas duas vertentes, a fim de mostrar que o letramento ideológico é possível de ser aplicado em sala de aula por meio do trabalho complexo que se faz com a escrita. Nesse contexto, apresentamos a noção de letramento como prática social, as concepções de escrita e o paralelo entre as teorias para cumprirmos com nossas expectativas. O modelo ideológico de letramento evidencia práticas que abrangem diferentes contextos em que um indivíduo está presente e, em se tratando da escrita, ele pode ser aplicado em sala de aula por meio da concepção de escrita como trabalho, já que esta considera as práticas discursivas, desenvolvidas em situações comunicativas efetivas, nas quais finalidade, interlocutor e gênero discursivo são os elementos que as compõem.By studying the peculiarities of the ideological model of literacy, we can note that it has similarities with what the writing conception as work proposes. This way, this paper has as objective to present the common points between these two visions, in order to show that the idealized literacy can be applied in classes through the complex work that can be done with the writing. In this context, we present the literacy notion as a social practice, the writing conceptions and the parallel between the theories, so that we can fulfill our expectations. The ideological model of literacy points practices which cover different contexts where a person can be and, in the case of writing, it can be applied in classes through the writing conception as work, since it considers the discursive practices, developed in effective communicative situations, where purpose, interlocutor and discursive genre are elements that compose them.

O objetivo neste artigo foi analisar o processo de construção da identidade coletiva do Grupo Galpão, um grupo de atores de teatro fundado em 1982 e sediado em Belo Horizonte. O tema da identidade foi abordado em relação ao contexto da indústria cultural. Para o estudo da identidade, partiu-se do nível individual para entender significados coletivamente partilhados, notadamente em relação aos objetivos e à estrutura do grupo. Sendo a identidade individual construída a partir das práticas discursivas e sendo essas últimas sempre relacionadas a estruturas sociolinguísticas e aos gêneros discursivos, a identidade individual é revelada em determinado contexto e em relação a outras identidades, individuais e coletivas. Entende-se, na pesquisa aqui apresentada, que os espaços de interação delimitados pelas identidades coletivas fornecem limites para a expressão das identidades individuais. Entretanto, ocasionalmente, o indivíduo lograria transformar-se e transformar ativamente os espaços que lhe impõem relações de dominação. Para penetrar na realidade cotidiana do Grupo Galpão, foram realizadas observações e entrevistas em profundidade, as quais foram tratadas pela análise do discurso. Ao final da pesquisa, foram evidenciados aspectos identitários do Grupo Galpão que comprovam a estabilidade do grupo, mas que revelam tensões entre a racionalidade do mercado de bens culturais e a racionalidade intrínseca à produção artística autêntica.El objetivo de este artículo fue analizar el proceso de construcción de la identidad colectiva del Grupo Galpão, un grupo de actores de teatro fundado hace veinte y nueve años y que se queda en Belo Horizonte. Se abordó el tema de la identidad en relación al contexto de la industria cultural. Para estudiar la identidad, se partió del nivel individual para comprenderse los significados colectivamente compartidos, en relación a los objetivos y a la estructura del grupo. Siendo la identidad individual construida a partir de las prácticas discursivas y siendo estas siempre relacionadas a las estructuras sociolinguísticas y a los géneros discursivos, la identidad individual es revelada en un contexto y en relación con las otras identidades, individuales o colectivas. Se comprende, en esta pesquisa, que los espacios de interacción delimitados por las identidades colectivas traen límites para la expresión de las identidades individuales. Ocasionalmente, el individuo lograría transformarse y transformar activamente los espacios que le imponen relaciones de dominación. Para penetrar en la realidad diaria del Grupo Galpão, fueron realizadas observaciones y entrevistas, las cuales fueron tratadas por el análisis del discurso. Al fin de la pesquisa, fueron evidenciados aspectos de la identidad del Grupo Galpão, que comprueban la estabilidad del grupo, pero, revelan tensiones entre la racionalidad del mercado de bienes culturales y la racionalidad inherente a la producción artística auténtica.In this paper, we aimed at analyzing the construction process of Grupo Galpão's collective identity. Grupo Galpão is a group of theater actors from Belo Horizonte. It was founded twenty nine years ago. Our goal was to study identity related to the context of cultural industry. In order to perform it, we started from individual level to comprehend collectively shared meanings, basically, considering the group's objectives and structure. Since individual identity is built by discursive practices and since discursive practices are always related to sociolinguistic structures e discursive genres, individual identity is revealed in certain context and in relation to other identities, individual or collective ones. In this research, we understand that interaction spaces defined by collective identities may limit the expression of individual identities. However, occasionally, an individual can be able to transform him/herself and actively transform spaces where domination relationships take place. In order to get inside Grupo Galpão's quotidian reality, the researcher collect data during twelve months, including observations and in depth interviews. By the end, we highlight Grupo Galpão's identitary aspects that demonstrate the group's current stability. On the other hand, results also reveal some tension between the rationality of the cultural goods market and the rationality inherent of authentic arts production.

On the basis of an empirical example, we offer in this article a methodological discussion of the challenges and pitfalls gender studies scholars face when analyzing how gender norms are attributed to epistemic cultures in science and engineering. Faced with actors who claim neutrality and objectivity for themselves and their work, the challenge is to analyze gender norms that are mostly implicit without reifying gender differences. Committed to the goal of opening this black box, we propose an analytical strategy for qualitative empirical research to unveil these subtle, highly normalized, discursive practices of attributing gender norms to the epistemic subjects, objects and activities in science and engineering, and exemplify it with reference to our own empirical study. By comparing the patterns of distinction with respect to epistemic boundaries and to gender differentiations, it is possible to trace connections between the symbolic gender order and epistemic cultures within the data. The allegedly neutral scientist as well as the engineering scholar is then shown to be the androcentric construction of a masculine coded epistemic subject. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1603138

Este artigo objetiva apresentar uma análise discursiva da telenovela Senhora do Destino (Rede Globo, 2004-2005). A postura construcionista, aliada a uma leitura feminista, permitiu compreender a noção de lesbianidade como uma construção social na qual os discursos e a linguagem empregados variam segundo o contexto social e histórico específico. O foco de análise se deu a partir das práticas discursivas, entendidas como linguagem em ação, sempre múltiplas, situadas e dialógicas. Os resultados desta pesquisa apontam para um duplo efeito na introdução da temática lesbianidade na novela. Se, de um lado, o processo de assimilação da categoria lésbica provoca uma maior "familiarização" na sociedade, bem como a circulação de códigos/modelos propiciam a legitimação de relações afetivo-sexuais entre pessoas do mesmo sexo, de outro, o modo como ocorrem os processos de legitimação/aceitação não propicia uma desestabilização de normas sociais e de modelos hegemônicos.This article aims to present a discursive analysis of the soap opera Senhora do Destino (Rede Globlo, 2004-2005). The constructionist perspective together with a feminist reading allowed to understand the notion of lesbianity as a social construction in which the discourses and the language adopted vary according to the social and historical context. The analysis was centered on discursive practices, understood as language in action, always multiple, situated and dialogical versions of conversation. The results of this research suggest parallel effects of the introduction of the issue of lesbianity in the soap opera. On one hand, the process of assimilation of the lesbian category provokes a broader "familiarity" in society, as well as the presence of codes/models that allow the legitimacy of same sex relations. On the other hand, the legitimizing/acceptance processes occur in ways that do not provoke the destabilization of social norms and hegemonic models.

Neste estudo, buscou-se compreender os efeitos da discriminação racial na identidade e subjetividade de mulheres negras atendidas no programa SOS Racismo/Porto Alegre/RS. Essa pesquisa fundamentou-se em um grupo dispositivo, cujo objetivo foi ouvir as narrativas das mulheres que sofreram atos de racismo/discriminação e agenciar outras referências identitárias. O referencial teórico-metodológico utilizado para analisar o material empírico produzido nos grupos foi o das práticas discursivas, entendidas como a forma pela quais as pessoas produzem sentidos para experiências como as da violência racial. Os repertórios interpretativos presentes nos diálogos enunciados pelas mulheres referiam-se à discriminação racial e ao racismo e sinalizavam a construção de estratégias de enfrentamento e resistência. Acreditamos que a intervenção produziu efeitos políticos de reflexão e mudança, na medida em que o grupo construiu novos sentidos para as violências sofridas, transformando a narrativa pessoal em uma denúncia pública.In this study, we investigated the effects of racial discrimination on the identity and subjectivity patterns of black women assisted through the SOS Racism Program in Porto Alegre/RS. The research was based on a discussion group whose objective was to listen to the women's narratives of racial discrimination and agency other identity references. The theoretical and methodological support used to analyze the information was the discursive practice. This practice refers to the way by which people produce meaning in social interactions, like experiences of racial violence. The interpretative repertoires used by the women in the group dialogues were about racial discrimination and racism and pointed to the construction of resistance strategies. We believe that this intervention produces political effects of reflection and change, in the way that the group worked out new meanings for the violence suffered, changing from a personal narrative to a public denounce.

This paper intends to discuss the anti-epistemological proposal in Michel Foucault’s philosophy. The main reference are the conferences given by this French philosopher at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 1973, in which discursive production of truth is linked to judicial practices of domination and control. From that approach, many problematic consequences are identified under the contemporary interpretation of philosophical scientific questions, regarding specially the annullment of any intrinsic relationship between meaning and validityof truth. Due to this perspective, inspired by Nietzsche, discursive production is reduced to an epiphenomenon of the will of power and social practices.

The article presents the investigative results of a case study that was realized between 2006 and 2007 around the politics of attending displaced populations in Bogotá, Colombia. The discursive practices and social representations that are constructed around these policies by the involved subjects are analyzed; in this case, the users of the programs and services, as well as the official employees of the entities that provide those services in the “Attention and Orientation Units.” The information collected through detailed interviews and careful observation is analyzed using tools of critical analysis of discourse and grounded theory.

Neste texto realizamos um exercício teórico estudando a situação de homens que cometem violência contra mulheres. Buscando pesquisar como as pessoas se posicionam e são posicionadas em práticas de poder e jogos de verdade, pressupomos ser imprescindível compreender os recursos discursivos e não-discursivos que instauram, constroem e mantêm uma prática, no caso a de violência às mulheres. Colocamos em discussão a atenção dada aos homens autores de violência nas diretrizes governamentais, dando ênfase a Lei Maria da Penha, concluindo que temos em jogo duas direções de análises e intervenções que se imbricam: por um lado, discussões e manifestações que incluem homens e mulheres, difundindo críticas ao modelo hegemônico sexista, por meio de produções artísticas, jornalísticas, publicitárias, conferências, pesquisas etc.; por outro lado, ações de mobilização voltadas para os "agentes sociais" que já atuam nas situações de violência contra a mulher para que mudem a perspectiva de suas intervenções, dando também atenção aos homens.In this text, we performed a theoretical exercise by focusing our analysis on the men who commit violence against women. In order to understand how people situate themselves and are situated within empowerment practices and truth games, we think that is absolutely essential to comprehend the narrative and the non-narrative resources that install, create and maintain any given practice, such as the violence against women. The goal of the study is to discuss the attention paid to the men who commit violence considering the government policies with special emphasis to the "Maria da Penha" Law. We concluded that there are two directions of analyses and interventions that are interconnected, such as: on one hand, there are forums and demonstrations that involve men and women spreading criticisms to the hegemonic sexist model through artistic, media, publicity, conferences, research work and so on. On the other hand, there are a series of practices taking place to support the work of the "social agent", who already work with the situations of violence committed against women, in order to change their perspective of intervention so that more attention can be given to the men as well.

Esta pesquisa focalizou o uso de imagens de risco-aventura em revistas em uma perspectiva diacrônica, de modo a investigar sua legitimação e a emergência de novas estratégias de gestão do risco na contemporaneidade. Utilizamos uma amostra da revista Veja relativa ao período de 1968 a 2003, totalizando 212 exemplares. A análise sugere que a presença de atividades de risco-aventura na mídia, numa perspectiva temporal, teve dois movimentos: o primeiro remete à profissionalização de atividades que até muito recentemente eram consideradas exóticas. No segundo movimento, esses esportes de aventura são tornados accessíveis ao público que é seduzido pela oferta de pacotes turísticos e cursos especializados. As imagens de risco-aventura na mídia contemporânea constituem parte da informação e apoio ao texto. Mas há outros efeitos, entre eles, permitir a vivência de acontecimentos aos quais não teríamos acesso direto, seja pelos custos envolvidos nessas atividades, seja pela falta de competência técnica para tal.This research focused the use of images of risk-adventure in magazines in a diachronic perspective in order to investigate their legitimation and the emergence of strategies of governing risk in contemporanity. A sample of 212 issues of Veja published in the period between 1968 and 2003 was used. The analysis suggests that the presence of risk-adventure activities in the media, in a temporal perspective, had two stages: the first concerns the profissionalization of activities that until recently were considered exotic. In the second stage adventure sports became more accessible and the public is seduced through the offer of tourist packages and specialized courses. Images of risk-adventure in contemporary media are intrinsic information resources and support for the text. But they have other effects, such as promoting the experience of events to which one would not have direct access because of the costs involved or the lack of the necessary technical competence.

Este artigo apresenta o movimento construcionista como uma perspectiva crítica em Psicologia Social que propõe compreender os processos de institucionalização que tornaram certos acontecimentos essencializados. Para tanto, enfoca o estudo das práticas discursivas, considerando a linguagem como prática que provoca efeitos. Essa perspectiva possibilita estudos que focalizam acontecimentos na interface entre os usos da linguagem e as condições de sua produção e veiculação. O movimento indica que é necessário direcionar pesquisas para os regimes de verdade que as práticas discursivas sustentam ou rompem e, também, para as relações de poder que controlam, selecionam e organizam os enunciados.This paper presents the constructionist movement as a critical perspective in Social Psychology, which proposes to understand and explain the processes of institutionalization that have made certain facts essentialized. For such, it focuses on the study of discursive practices, regarding language practice as a cause of effects. This language perspective makes research possible that focuses happenings in the interface between the uses of language and the conditions of its production and propagation. The movement indicates the need to redirect research to the regimes of truth that the discursive practices sustain or break and, also, for the relations of power that control, select and organize enunciations.

Este artigo analisa uma oficina de contadores de histórias, uma intervenção fundamentada nos referenciais das narrativas orais, que ocorreu em uma organização não governamental sediada no Município de São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. A oficina foi construída em três momentos, compreendendo: a narração de uma história com o foco em violência de gênero, a discussão da narrativa e a realização de pinturas corporais. O referencial usado foi o das práticas discursivas e, nas falas dos oficineiros, foram identificados pelo menos dois repertórios interpretativos: um deles pautado na categoria gênero e o outro, ancorado na cotidianidade e na rememoração das histórias de vida dos participantes. Além dos repertórios, ressaltamos a variabilidade manifesta nas contradições e nas incongruências que permearam os diálogos presentes nas argumentações. As narrativas, enquanto ferramentas para trabalhar com mulheres em situação de violência, têm sido pouco exploradas, sobretudo como possibilidade de intervenção em saúde coletiva. Nesta pesquisa, as histórias foram analisadas como possíveis estratégias para enfrentar as desigualdades de gênero, mostrando-se uma ferramenta analítica poderosa para avaliar ações de saúde coletiva.This paper analyzes a storytelling workshop, an intervention based on the referential elements of oral narratives, held at an NGO in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. The workshop was divided into three different stages: narration of a story with a focus on gender violence, a discussion based on the narrative, and an activity with body painting. The theoretical framework was based on discursive practices, and when workshop participants' discourse was assessed, at least two interpretive repertories were identified: one based on the gender category and the other on everyday life and recollections from participants' life stories. There was also considerable variety in the arguments, manifested in the contradictions and incongruence permeating the discourse. Narratives used as tools to work with abused women (especially for public health interventions) have received little attention thus far. In the current study, stories were analyzed as possible strategies to deal with gender inequalities, a powerful analytical tool for evaluating public health actions.

Este artigo apresenta resultados de pesquisa de tese que buscou contribuir para o entendimento do teletrabalho, abordando-o da perspectiva teórica do poder/ saber. Trata-se de entender o teletrabalho como discurso que subjuga os indivíduos, mas que, ao mesmo tempo, constrói novos sujeitos e subjetividades. A pesquisa investigou esse processo de assujeitamento, explorando como os teletrabalhadores fazem sentido da experiência do teletrabalho, pela análise de suas práticas discursivas. Para isso, foram realizadas entrevistas abertas com 25 teletrabalhadores em arranjo de home office, residentes na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Todos os entrevistados mantêm vínculo empregatício com as empresas para as quais teletrabalham e desenvolvem tarefas que podem ser caracterizadas como intensivas em conhecimento.This paper article presents the research results of a thesis that aimed at understanding telecommuting from the power/knowledge theoretical perspective. In this sense, telecommuting is understood as a discourse that simultaneously subjugates and builds subjectivities. The article explores how telecommuters make sense out of their experience through the analysis of their discoursive practices. Twenty-five telecommuters residing in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were interviewed. All of them hold steady job positions and perform knowledge-intensive tasks.

What notion of action is compatible with constructionist research? Taking this question as a provocation, we use a study carried out to evaluate the role of the National Aids Committee (CNAIDS) of the Brazilian Ministry of Health as a starting point for the formulation of a concept of action that might be compatible with a constructionist position. Starting by questioning the classic notion of action, it goes on to propose alternative conceptualisations of action, exploring the implications of notions such as Varela’s enaction for constructionist research. The CNAIDS research is used as an example of possible ways of conducting intervention-research with a constructionist spin. The expression intervention-research is used in this paper as a discursive strategy to emphasize that all research has consequences and is necessarily a process of making sense of events in our life

El presente trabajo aborda la educación física como espacio escolar particularmente significativo en la producción de la identidad genérica. Desde un planteo foucaultiano sobre el discurso/saber como constitutivo de la vida social, se utiliza el término prácticas discursivas en tanto posibilita reconocer la interrelación entre las ideas, la institución escolar y las tecnologías específicas que producen la vida escolar. En este artículo procuramos visibilizar la articulación de las prácticas discursivas que estructuran las experiencias, las clasificaciones y distinciones de varones y mujeres. La categoría currículum oculto es resignificada como dispositivo articulador de ciertas relaciones de saber-poder. De ese modo, intentamos entender los particulares efectos de poder, desde una perspectiva de género, en los cuerpos de niñas y varones en las clases de educación física.The present work approaches physical education as a schooling space particularly significant in the production of the gendered subjectivity. From a Foucaultian perspective on discourse, as constitutive of social life, we use the term discursive practices in the sense that habilitates the recognition of the interrelation among ideas, the schooling institution and the specific technologies that produce life in schools. In this article we intend to make visible the articulation of discursive practices that structure experiences, classifications and distinctions of men and women. The category 'hidden curriculum' is re-signified as a dispositive articulating certain relations of knowledge and power. From a gender perspective, we try to understand the particular power effects on the bodies of girls and boys in the classes of physical education.

A indústria de seguros vem respondendo à crescente exposição deliberada ao risco no contexto do turismo de aventura. Os seguros constituem apenas uma das possíveis aplicações de tecnologias do risco, mas têm se tornado um dos elementos centrais nos diferentes tipos de contratos estabelecidos pelas operadoras de turismo. Procuramos, neste artigo, responder à pergunta: de quem é a responsabilidade pelos danos, quando o risco é ativamente procurado como forma de lazer? Abordaremos inicialmente a inserção da proposta de estudo no contexto da literatura sobre risco e aspectos gerais da regulação do turismo de aventura no Brasil. A seguir, por meio de estudo de caso de uma operadora de turismo de aventura, analisaremos como é garantida a segurança do usuário no jogo de relações entre mercado de turismo, seguros e Estado. Concluiremos com breves considerações sobre a partilha dos danos e responsabilidades entre operadoras de seguros e de turismo, Estado e usuários, apontando ainda para possíveis mudanças no cenário atualmente configurado.The insurance industry has been quick to respond to the increase in deliberate exposure to risk in the context of adventure tourism. Although insurance is only one aspect of the possible applications of risk technologies, it has become a central element in the variety of contracts established between tourism operators and clients. This article addresses the question: who has responsibility for damages incurred when risk is actively sought in leisure pursuits? Initially we'll discuss risk-adventure in the context of the literature on risk and the regulation of adventure tourism in Brazil. Based on a case study of a tourism office offering leisure activities in nature, it proceeds with an analysis of how client safety is guaranteed in the network of relationships involving tourism market, insurance industry and State regulation. It concludes with brief considerations about the distribution of damages and responsibilities between tourism operators, insurance agents, clients and the State, with emphasis on potential changes in the scenario presently configured.

The aim of this paper is to examine the discursive strategies articulated with the construction of a tourist Argentina (attractions, destinations, valuations and tourist practices) within the context of the first peronist government. We are interested in analyzing, in general terms, the configuration of a tourist Argentina, in relation to the construction of objects and places’ attractiveness during the peronist administration. Specifically, we examine the discursive practices involved in the construction of a set of tourist images included in a tourism promotion document elaborated by an official department. In first place, we explore the development of both institutions and tourist practices in Argentina during that period. In second place, we analyze An Outline of Argentina (Visión de Argentina, 1950), a publication released in 1950 by General Management of National Parks and Tourism.

Se expone la perspectiva foucaultiana en tanto propuesta de un análisis de la relación entre discurso y acción que pone fin a la dualidad entre ambos términos. El eje de esta propuesta consiste en señalar que el orden del discurso no se resuelve en su movimiento proposicional sino en los efectos de su acontecer estratégico. Se instala una nueva problematización de las prácticas discursivas para detectar en el espesor inestable de los espacios enunciativos las formas de regularidad que los gobiernan. Considerando que el estatuto del discurso coincide con la vigencia de las cosas dichas, lo que se pone en cuestión no es ya la consistencia del texto sino la fuerza que ejercen sus enunciaciones en la superficie de las prácticas culturales. Al mismo tiempo, se deja atrás la posibilidad de trabajar la legitimidad de la acción a partir de la revisión del discurso que la justifica y se interrogan los mecanismos de estabilización de las políticas de verdad que consolidan las formaciones discursivas. Desde una perspectiva crítica que se pretende antidialéctica, las categorías del análisis foucaultiano intentan restablecer la tensión entre el orden del discurso y una pragmática de lo múltiple.The foucaultian perspective is exposed in this essay, as a proposal of an analysis of the relation between speech and action that puts an end to the duality between both terms. The axis of the proposal consists in indicating that discourse order is not solved in its propositional movement, but in the effects of its strategical occurrence. A new problematization of discursive practices is set up, so as to detect, in the unstable thickness of the enunciative spaces, the forms of regularity that govern them. Considering that the status of discourse coincides with the actuality of 'what is said', what is under discussion does no longer concern the text's consistency, but the strength that its statements exert on the surface of cultural practices.At the same time, the possibility of dealing with the legitimacy of action by reviewing its discursive justification is left behind, and the mechanisms of stabilization of the truth policies that consolidate discursive formations are cross-examined. From a critical perspective that claims itself to be antidialectic, the categories of foucaultian analysis seek to restore the tension between discourse order and a pragmatics of the multiple.

Over the last decade, interdisciplinary discourse research in the tradition of Michel FOUCAULT has been evolving constantly in the German-speaking world. It also takes linguistic methodologies as a point of orientation and establishes itself in the framework of qualitative social research. At the international interdisciplinary conference "Language—Power—Knowledge" in Augsburg from 10 – 12 October 2007, participants explored and discussed the current state of discourse theory and analysis. With the present conference essay, we intend to provide insight into the discussions that took place there. We first outline the questions and goals of the conference, and then present a brief summary of the lectures. A number of focal points emerged at the conference that were taken up repeatedly and discussed in a variety of contexts: the relation between discourse analysis and critique, the relation between the subject (subjectivity) and discourses, the relation between power, discourse and dispositive, and the relation between discourse analyses and visuality. In systematizing these four points, we undertake a critical consideration of the "results" of the conference. In conclusion, we highlight two current network initiatives on interdisciplinary discourse research that were introduced at the conference. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0802181

Resumo: Dois agentes de mediação na luta pela terra se destacaram no período de democratização da sociedade brasileira: a Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT) e o Movimento de Trabalhadores e Trabalhadoras Rurais Sem Terra (MST). O presente texto discute a atuação do MST, tomando como base de diálogo o Construcionismo Social, a fim de reconhecer como as práticas discursivas veiculadas por ele foram capazes de se converter em práticas sociais geradoras de sentidos junto aos trabalhadores e trabalhadoras do campo. As reflexões apontam que o MST investiu na unidade identitária de sua base social, produzindo a figura discursiva do sem-terra e avançando politicamente enquanto destacado movimento social no processo de democratização.