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SOFIA ABOIM
sofia.aboim@ics.ul.pt
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Aboim, Sofia
Plural masculinities: the remaking of the self in private life (2010)
Ashgate
Proceeding from the premise that it is impossible to fully understand masculinity without
considering its connection with family change and women's change, Plural
Masculinities offers a contemporary portrait of the plural dynamics of masculinity. From
an analysis of 'complicit men' as partners and fathers, it becomes apparent that right at
the centre of the hetero-normative definition of masculinity, men's practices and
identities are changing into multiple, hybrid, even paradoxical, forms. Rather than
pursuing a radical metamorphosis, by embracing 'new expressive roles' within the
private sphere, men transform the features of masculinity as traditionally conceived
through a combination of old and new. Combining an empirical study based in Portugal
with cross-national analyses of attitudes towards ideal gender arrangements in Europe
and the US, this book examines the various ways in which men come to define their
identities and will appeal to those working in the fields of masculinities, gender studies
and the sociology of the family.
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RUY BLANES
Fedele, A. & Blanes,
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Social scientists and philosophers confronted with religious phenomena have always
been challenged to find a proper way to describe the spiritual experiences of the social
group they were studying. The influence of the Cartesian dualism of body and mind (or
soul) led to a distinction between non-material, spiritual experiences (i.e., related to the
soul) and physical, mechanical experiences (i.e., related to the body). However, recent
developments in medical science on the one hand and challenges to universalist
conceptions of belief and spirituality on the other have resulted in body and soul
losing the reassuring solid contours they had in the past. Yet, in Western culture, the
bodysoul duality is alive, not least in academic and media discourses. This volume
pursues the ongoing debates and discusses the importance of the body and how it is
perceived in contemporary religious faith: what happens when body and soul are
un-separated entities? Is it possible, even for anthropologists and ethnographers, to
escape from natural dualism? The contributors here present research in novel
empirical contexts, the benefits and limits of the old dichotomy are discussed, and new
theoretical strategies proposed.
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Toren, C. &
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PEDRO LAINS
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FILIPE CARREIRA
DA SILVA
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Silva, Filipe
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This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)
- one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early twentieth century sociology.
Mead is an exceptional case amongst sociological classics in that, until now, there has
been no comprehensive reader of his work. As the first one-volume, comprehensive
edited collection of Mead's published and unpublished writing, this book fills this gap. It
is the first to critically assess all of Mead's writings and draw out the aspects that are
central to his system of thought. The book is divided into three parts (social psychology,
science and epistemology and democratic politics), comprising a total of 30 chapters a third of which are published here for the first time.
G.H. Mead: A Reader provides a unique and timely contribution to the understanding of
this key theorist. It is essential reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate
students in the fields of sociology, social psychology, philosophy of social science,
social and cultural anthropology, and social and political theory.
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ANNE COVA
Cova, Anne
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STEFFEN DIX
Dix, Steffen & Pizarro, J. (Eds.)
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PEDRO MAGALHES
Sanders, D.; Magalhes,
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ANDRS MALAMUD
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In recent years the agenda of how to 'deal with the past' has become a central
dimension of the quality of contemporary democracies. Many years after the process of
authoritarian breakdown, consolidated democracies revisit the past either symbolically
or to punish the elites associated with the previous authoritarian regimes. New factors,
like international environment, conditionality, party cleavages, memory cycles and
commemorations or politics of apologies, do sometimes bring the past back into the
political arena.
This book addresses such themes by dealing with two dimensions of authoritarian
legacies in Southern European democracies: repressive institutions and human rights
abuses. The thrust of this book is that we should view transitional justice as part of a
broader 'politics of the past': an ongoing process in which elites and society under
democratic rule revise the meaning of the past in terms of what they hope to achieve in
the present.
This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.
Revisiting the major themes of research into, and interpretation of, the nature of fascism
that have been developed over the past few decades, some of the foremost experts in
the study of European fascism have united in this volume to provide a contemporary
analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism. During the past twenty years the
comparative study of fascism has moved from a 'sociological' to a more 'political'
perspective, giving both ideology and culture much more importance than was
previously the case. On the other hand, this area has become more restricted in
disciplinary terms, with historians clearly dominating over sociologists and political
scientists. Rethinking the nature of fascism: comparative perspectives asks about the
most recent debates on the subject and how the changes that have taken place in the
social sciences over the past forty years have impacted on the study of fascism.
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JAIME REIS
Battilossi, S. & Reis,
jaime.reis@ics.ul.pt
Jaime
State and financial systems in Europe and the USA: historical perspectives on
regulation and supervision in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (2010)
Ashgate
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During the twentieth century the financial sector became possibly the most regulated area of the
economy in many advanced and developing countries. The interwar years represented the defining
moment for the escalation of governments' intervention, turning the State into the core of financial
systems in its capacity of regulator, supervisor or owner. The essays in this collection shed light on
different aspects of the experience of financial regulation, ownership and deregulation in Europe and the
USA from a secular historical perspective.
The volume's chapters explore how the political economy of finance changed in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries and how such changes were related to shifting attitudes towards globalization. They
also investigate how regulation responded to governance problems of financial intermediaries and
markets, and how different legal frameworks and institutional architectures influenced such response.
The collection engages with a set of issues as diverse as they are interrelated across countries and over
time: the regulatory attitude of British authorities toward the banking system and the stock exchange
market in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the comparative evolution of bankruptcy laws and
procedures; the link between state, regulation and governance in the evolution of the US and French
financial systems; the emergence of banking regulation and supervision by central banks; the regulation
and supervision of international financial markets since the 1950s; and the connection between
deregulation and banking crises at the end of the past century.
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RICARDO ROQUE
ricardo.roque@ics.ul.pt
Roque, Ricardo
Headhunting and colonialism: anthropology and the circulation of
human skulls in the portuguese empire, 1870-1930 (2010)
Palgrave MacMillan
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With contributions from established as well as younger scholars, the authors here offer a
set of rich case-studies that demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study
of colonial knowledge. The volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German,
Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific,
from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Taking into consideration the most recent
scholarship and theories of colonial and post-colonial studies, the authors employ
various reading strategies to explore the potential and limitations of the European
colonial archive. As a whole, Engaging Colonial Knowledge thus presents a
commitment to generating new historical, anthropological and sociological insights
about human phenomena from older archival traces; insights about the nature of crosscultural interactions, indigenous social life, land tenure, political authority, marginalised
activities, epistemologies of governance, or rites of power.
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What do Mexico's Zapatistas, the French National Front, Slow Food, rave subculture,
and al-Qaeda all have in common? From right-wing to left-wing to no-wing, they all
proudly proclaim their mission to defend their distinctive identities against modernity's
homogenizing processes, and often with fundamental similarities in their approach.
Drawing on the original writings and actions of various anti-globalist groups, the authors
reveal a common tendency toward charismatic leadership, good versus evil
worldviews, the quest for authentic identity, concern with ritual, and unbending
demands for total commitement. These movements, however they pursue world
transformation and personal transcendence, are a prominent and continuing aspect of
our present condition. The Struggle for the World is a strong reminder that, no matter
what the cause, revolution is not a thing of the past and the fervent search for another
world continues.
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Political Studies
Ethnos
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Social Anthropology
Anlise Social
Public choice
Latin American Research Review
Ecological Economics
Tempo
Ethnography
Electoral Studies
Childhood
Tempo Social
Estudios de Psicologia
Ambiente e Sociedade
Personality and Individual Differences
SOFIA ABOIM
sofia.aboim@ics.ul.pt
Aboim, S. (2010)
Gender cultures and the division of labour in
contemporary Europe: a cross-national perspective
The Sociological Review. 58 (2), 171-196
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Drawing on the vast literature concerned with the cultural aspects of gender, this article explores the
ways in which individuals living in different national contexts value the ideal of a dual earner/dual carer
couple at the expense of the male breadwinner model.Via a comparison of fifteen European countries
included in the Family and Gender Roles module of the 2002 International Social Survey Programme
(ISSP), three attitudinal patterns were identified: the unequal sharing that portrays a male breadwinner
norm, the familistic unequal that also endorses a gender-segregated arrangement though with a greater
wish for men's involvement in housework and childcare, and the dual earner/dual carer model, which,
despite covering nearly 40 per cent of respondents, is very unequally distributed across countries. It is
proposed that societal gender cultures are of major importance to an understanding of cross-national
variations in attitudes and their relationship with the real forms of gender division of labour. The
connection between couples' attitudes and practices is thus examined in order to assess the extent to
which support for the dual earner/dual carer model encourages couples to engage in more equal sharing
of paid and unpaid work. Findings reveal the importance of the normative dimension insofar as the
impact of attitudes on practices seems to depend on the historical pathways of gender cultures and the
ways in which they underpin welfare policies and female employment.
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Neste texto propomos uma interpretao crtica da dicotomia histrica entre pblico e privado como
dinmica fundamental da modernidade. A partir de uma perspectiva de gnero, discutimos as fronteiras
construdas entre espao coletivo de cidadania e de sociabilidade e espao individual de intimidade e
desigualdade. Argumentamos a favor de uma relao de cumplicidade, ainda que tensa, entre as duas
esferas, observando que a vida privada foi, em grande medida, moldada pelas mudanas operadas na
vida pblica. Recorrendo a diferentes definies de pblico, notamos que, medida que as
sociabilidades tradicionais, essencialmente masculinas, estudadas entre outros por Aris ou Sennett,
sofriam uma eroso, crescia o sentimento de intimidade, aumentando igualmente a incluso do privado no
pblico atravs do alargamento da cidadania, em consequncia das lutas travadas na esfera pblica por
vrios movimentos de emancipao, como o operrio ou o feminista. medida que a pessoa era retirada da
comunidade, do cl, do grupo de parentesco, em que eram naturais as desigualdades, no sentido
aristotlico do termo, ia-se reencontrando progressivamente como indivduo portador de cidadania. Se o
espao privado se tornou central na definio de uma identidade, ele tambm crescentemente
atravessado por mecanismos pblicos de regulao. Nesse sentido, o movimento de ascenso do privado,
que nas ltimas dcadas tem ocupado espao de debate, deve ser cuidadosamente reinterpretado.
On the basis of a representative survey carried out in 2007 of the Portuguese population aged between
18 and 65, this study investigates the impact of factors during the course of sexual life on risk-taking
behavior and perceptions among 3055 heterosexual men and women. A number of sexual biography
profiles were identified through cluster analysis of indicators related to the identity, number and
sequence of partners throughout life.
We discovered different profiles, from systematic occasional partnerships and use of paid sex, more
frequent among men, to the single partner profile, which is more prevalent among women. By carrying
out several linear regression analyses, we were able to evaluate the predictive impact of biographical
factors on condom use and prevention behavior. Our results indicate that sexual biographies are more
important in explaining the prevalence of condom use with different sexual partners.
On the other hand, fear of infection and information on HIV transmission seem to influence the cognitive
mobilization of prevention strategies and change of sexual behavior. However, condom use is still more
dependent on sexual life pattern and interaction with sexual partners.
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ANA DELICADO
ana.delicado@ics.ul.pt
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This article discusses the heterogeneity in children's appropriation and use of the
internet that make up contemporary digital divides. Based on a survey of Portuguese
children in mandatory education (8- to 17-year-olds), it relies on multivariate statistical
procedures to build a topological mapping of internet use patterns. Variations in digital
practices and parental mediation are analysed in relation to social backgrounds and
demographic traits. Four clusters of users were thus identified: 'self-reliant cybernauts',
'nurtured cybernauts', 'nurtured beginners' and 'unguided rookies'. This article aims to
contribute to deepening the debate on digital divides and digital diversity within the
sociology of childhood.
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OLIVIA BINA
bina@ics.ul.pt
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The importance of improving the effectiveness of Plan EIA and SEA-type evaluations in China cannot be
overstated: at a time when the country's economy is being boosted by a stimulus package worth over RMB 400
trillion - largely for infrastructure - the pressure on China's already strained environment and resource base is
bound to increase. The aim is to propose the criteria for plan EIA's effectiveness to raise the awareness of the
need to strengthen the performance of the assessment and maximize its potential benefits. The authors first
review critically the discourse on the effectiveness of the impact assessment, identifying three dimensions:
substantive, procedural and incremental. The resulting conceptual framework allows them to interpret the
weaknesses of the Chinese discourse on the effectiveness and of the practice of the Plan EIA to date. The result
is the identification of a clear gap, both in terms of the breadth of the concept, and in terms of the quality of the
existing criteria, which tend to be very generic to the point of inapplicability. The analysis also reveals a need for
transitioning from formal models of the Plan EIA to more strategic approaches, in a gradual manner that is
consistent with context-specificities. The proposal of a set of preliminary criteria for effectiveness is therefore
structured on three levels. This framework is meant to input into the ongoing debate on how to improve the
practice of PEIA and the SEA-type evaluations in China, and provide ideas for a government strategy aimed at
maximizing the positive impact of PEIAs on planning, as well as on the contexto of application.
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The debates questioning the meaning of growth point to a need for a more holistic
understanding of human beings and of the economic actor, fundamental to economic theory
and practice. This contribution turns to virtue ethics in order to reframe the self in more
reflexive, relational and environmental terms. We explore the significance of understanding
humans' sense of responsibility that is quintessentially relational, and of their capacity and
need to relate to nature as well as community and society. We begin by reviewing the main
arguments in the thriving debate in ecological economics, around what the characteristics of
the human being can contribute to implement an ecologically sustainable development. Our
aim is then to draw a link between this debate and that of virtue ethics, that leads to a different
understanding of the human being, of what can contribute to individual wellbeing (and a good
life): responsibility, we argue, is not only a value but a virtue, that enables individuals to find
meaning in acting responsibly towards the environment, emphasising the multiple benefits
that arise from framing good lives in active terms. We conclude reflecting on the challenges
to, and implications of our proposition for government institutions, particularly education.
The paper analyses six international-scale responses to the financial and climate change 'double
crisis' in order to: review how they define problems and solutions, analyse what underpins the policy
choices revealed in these responses (the 'green turn'), reflect on the implications of the proposed
solutions in terms of sustainability and global environmental justice, and to suggest three elements for
a paradigm shift towards na 'alternative' turn embedded in ecological economics theory. The analysis
reveals that responses by leading international organisations continue to appeal to the precepts of
neoclassical economy. We argue that from na ecological economics perspective, policy responses
under the various labels of green economy, green growth, sustainable growth, green new deal, fall
well short of what is needed to fight the environmental crisis and rising inequality across and within
countries. The idea of justice and equity that underpins the mainstream approach seems inadequate
in terms of sustaining our environmental base and global environmental justice.
Based on this critical review, we propose an 'alternative turn', centred on three elements of a paradigm
shift leading to a new economy where the environmental base and global environmental justice are at
the centre of the discourse.
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RUY BLANES
Investigador Associado
Associated Researcher
Blanes, R. L. (2011)
Unstable Biographies. The ethnography of memory and
historicity in an Angolan prophetic movement
History and Anthropology. 22(1), 93-119
abstract
In this article I discuss issues of memory and historicity in a contemporary African
prophetic movement, the Tokoist church. I do so by focusing on the multiple processes
of biographization of the prophet's (Simo Toko) life from the different allegiances
within the movement. I suggest that, despite recent critiques on the biographical
method, the ethnography of those (unstable and heterogeneous) processes can be
very helpful to understand the place of memory and historical consciousness in
contemporary Christianity.
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pina.cabral@ics.ul.pt
Cabral, J. de P. (2010)
Xar: namesakes in Southern Mozambique
and Bahia (Brazil).
Ethnos. 75 (3), 323-345
abstract
In Maputo (Southern Mozambique) and Bahia (Brazil), the most commonly used word to
refer to namesakes is xar - a word of Amerindian origin. Although the institutions in
question diverge considerably in each of these contexts, the two usages come together
in that the sharing of a personal name establishes an alliance not only between the two
persons involved but also among their relations. In this way, it is argued that the
namesake institution is both supervening upon filiation and is a way of closing the local
universe of relatedness upon itself. By superimposing a set of crossing ties, the
namesake institution consolidates the entities at play and their relations. Nevertheless,
much like filiation, upon which it is dependent, the namesake relation is one of coresponsibility and fusion between the partners, not of reciprocal responsibility. The
latter is the product of the triangulation that such relations of alliance produce.
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Portuguese-speakers, when asked about their personal names, often respond with a
notion of the 'truth of' their names. Basing itself on ethnographic data collected by the
author in Macao (southern China), Bahia (Brazil), and Portugal, the article interprets this
notion of truth as a form of ontological weighing that postulates the unitariness of the
person by reference to a subjection to a bureaucratic order and to a cultural and
linguistic universe associated to it.
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Cabral, J. de P. (2011)
Afterword: what is an institution?
Social Anthropology. 19(4), 477-494
abstract
What is an institution? We successively examine definitions provided by Durkheim,
Mauss, Parsons, Goffman and Berger, and Luckman. Whilst anthropologists
acknowledge that the stuff of human institutions is 'the combination of modes of action
with modes of thinking', somehow they have seen the epitome of that embodied in the
compulsory organisations of modern, state-run, Western society. The paper argues for
the abandonment of representational solutions, which operate with a Cartesian view of
mind; sociocentric solutions, which view groupness as unitary and teleological; and
individualist solutions that fail to see people as constituted in ontogeny through
intersubjective attunement. Human sociality and human understanding must not be
separated from the world, but persons do not pre-exist intersubjective attunement and
this operates through a process of triangulation between self, other and world where all
elements are intrinsically involved.
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jcardoso@ics.ul.pt
Cardoso, J. L. (2010)
Novos elementos para a histria do Banco do Brasil (1808-1829):
crnica de um fracasso anunciado
Revista Brasileira de Histria. 30 (59), 167-192
abstract
The first Bank of Brazil was founded in 1808 and is usually referred to as one of the most
relevant initiatives put forward by the government of D. Joo VI when the Portuguese
court established the capital of the empire in Rio de Janeiro. However, our knowledge of
the history of this institution, whose creation was conceived as a key element of the
economic and financial policies to be implemented during the stay of the Portuguese
court in Brazil, is still rather incomplete. It is the aim of this article to explain the main
reasons for both the creation and the failure of the Bank of Brazil. The article provides a
critical survey of the main secondary literature available on the history of the Bank, while
also exploring and revealing unknown and less studied primary sources that shed new
light into the activities and scope of the first Bank of Brazil.
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Cardoso, J. L. &
Cunha, A. M. (2012)
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Cardoso, J. L. &
Cunha, A. M. (2012)
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In this article we discuss the role of political economy in the design and implementation of
economic and political reforms that occurred in Brazil in the second half of the eighteenth
century. Brazil was during this period still a part, the most important part, of the Portuguese
empire. The reading of economic texts of this period allows for an interpretation of the role
played by the enlightened economic literature to challenge and transform the existing
structures of the old colonial regime, as well as to prepare Brazil for its future path of
economic and political independence. The new visions and representations of the empire
were put forward by authors faithful to enlightened mercantilist and cameralist doctrines
supporting the reform of colonial administration. However, the most relevant policy
measures were implemented under the shadow of Adam Smith, whose system of political
economy also included a new way of looking at both the nature of colonial trade and the
need for its reform.
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Cardoso, J. L. (2012)
Ecos da grande depresso em Portugal:
relatos, diagnsticos e solues
Anlise Social. 203, 47 (2), 370-400
abstract
This article discusses the impact of the Great Depression in Portugal during the crucial
period when the foundations of the new authoritarian political regime of the Estado Novo
(New State) were being laid out. Special attention is given to the technical and political role
played by Salazar, who managed to use his position as Finance Minister to establish an
image of trustworthiness and solid leadership. In this article, we focus on the news about
the crisis that circulated in the public sphere as well as on the solutions put forward by
diverse representatives of political and economic interests, thus attempting to cast a new
light on the already well developed historiographic tradition concerning the impact of the
Great Depression in Portugal.
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LUCIA COPPOLARO
lcoppolaro@ics.ul.pt
Coppolaro, L. (2011)
US policy on European integration during the GATT Kennedy round
negotiations (1963-67): the last hurrah of America's Europeanists
The International History Review. 33(3), 409-429
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This article illustrates US policy on European integration and the European Economic Community (EEC) by
focusing on the General Agreement on Tarriff and Trade (GATT) Kennedy Round negotiations (1963-7).
However underestimated in the history of international relations, GATT provides in fact an outstanding
framework for analysing the foreign policy of its members. Whilst analyses of the Round per se already exist,
no scholar thus far has focused on US policy towards European integration. Moreover, no previous author
has utilised the European archives and has examined the stances of the EEC. This article shows that US
support for European integration, which both Kennedy and Johnson followed at the behest of the
'Europeanists' in their respective administrations, conditioned the bargaining position of the United States
in Geneva. The US negotiators tried to enhance US trade interests while at the same time attempting to
encourage European regional integration. In so doing, the United States played a role in the strengthening
of European regional integration by favouring the unity of the area.
Moreover, contrary to previous accounts, this article shows that US negotiators were able to direct and
move forward a complicated negotiation, showing Washington's leadership. The article concludes by
showing that the Kennedy Round ended a period of about twenty years during which the United States
acted to promote the unity of Western Europe.
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ANNE COVA
anne.cova@ics.ul.pt
Cova, A. (2010)
International feminisms in historical comparative
perspective: France, Italy and Portugal, 1880s-1930s
Women's history review. 19 (4), 595-612
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ANA DELICADO
ana.delicado@ics.ul.pt
Delicado, A. (2012)
Environmental education technologies in a social void:
the case of 'Greendrive
Environmental Education Research. 18 (6), 831-843
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This article is based on a case study that follows the trajectory of a technological device aimed at
environmental education from the engineering laboratory in which it was designed into the contexts in
which it is used. 'Greendrive' is a driving simulator that accurately reproduces the performance of a
vehicle in terms of fuel consumption and greenhouse gases emissions, in order to instill the principles of
safe and environmentally friendly driving. The text is divided into three parts. The first part introduces the
issue of transport behavior as one of the causes of climate change and the role of eco-driving in reducing
emissions.
The second part describes how a team of Portuguese engineering researchers developed the driving
simulator and how a local authority and a consulting and training company are using it. Finally, the
discussion part aims
to show that despite the intentions of its creators and their clients, the driving simulator is unlikely, by
itself, to generate changes in behavior. An information-deficit approach to environmental education that
fails to consider the social embeddedness of human action and disregards the engagement of citizens
has a very limited chance of success.
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STEFFEN DIX
Investigador Associado
Associated Researcher
Dix, S. (2010)
As esferas seculares e religiosas na sociedade portuguesa
Anlise Social. XLV(1)194, 5-27
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This article seeks to redesign the borders and the overlaps between the secular and
religious spheres of Portuguese society. In methodological terms, I propose an historicalsociological approach, comparing especially the reconfigurations of Portuguese
Catholicism under different socio-cultural conditions during the 19th and 20th centuries. On
the basis of this analysis, I revisit the dual perspective of being either religious or secular,
and try to recognize the simultaneous existence and the link between the religious and
secular spheres in a modern European society.
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NUNO DOMINGOS
nuno.domingos@ics.ul.pt
N. (2012)
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This paper examines a Slow Foodsponsored project to recreate and promote Serpa
Velho, a hard aged cheese historically produced in the Alentejo region of Portugal. The
authors examine the historical forces behind three changes that the project sought to
reverse, namely the abandonment by cheese makers of the Merino breed, the move
away from aging the cheese on straw mats in the cheese room rafters to aging in
refrigerated stores, and the sale of younger, softer cheeses.The authors contend that
the pursuit of these aims by the project ironically contradicts Slow Food's stated aims of
fostering the production of food that is 'good, clean and fair'. The paper concludes not
only that more rigorous historical analysis exposes Slow Food's romanticism and
elitism, but also that such analysis is necessary to the improvement of the food we eat.
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NUNO DOMINGOS
nuno.domingos@ics.ul.pt
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Curto, D. R.;
mbjeronimo@ics.ul.pt
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The article examines Benedict Anderson's contribution to studies of the nation and
nationalism in the social and human sciences, taking as its pretext the reissue in Portuguese
of his most well-known work, Imagined Communities. The text begins with a brief
genealogical survey of studies of the nation and nationalism, which seeks to emphasize and
question the relative disinterest that classical social theories devote to the idea of the nation
and its specific forms of political, economic and sociocultural incorporation. Next it turns to
the author's intellectual and civic career, contextualizing his interests and his analytic
propositions, specifically in terms of the imagination of national identities and communities
and their organization into nationalist movements, but also the notions of power and the
virtualities and limits of the comparative method, and the role of ideas and cultural
phenomena. Finally the text concludes with a critical and reflective exploration of the notions
of imagination and community in Anderson's work, connecting their meanings, uses and
appropriations with the historical, academic and political contexts of his intellectual career.
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SUSANA DURO
Investigador Associado
Associated Researcher
Duro, S. (2011)
The police community on the move: hierarchy and
management in the daily lives of Portuguese police officers
Social Anthropology. 19(4), 394-408
abstract
In this article, I argue that in order to maintain some organisational uniformity the
Portuguese police institution must ensure a high level of individual mobility that is, a
professional community on the move all over the country. Based on in-depth fieldwork in
Portuguese police stations, I treat police bureaucracy not only as an institution with fixed
boundaries but also, and simultaneously, as a unit continuously sustained by broader
environments and the officers' own domestic rationales.
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ana.espirito.santo@ics.ul.pt
Santo, A. (2012)
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In August 2006, Portugal approved a new quota law, called the parity law. According to
this, all candidate lists presented for local, parliamentary, and European elections must
guarantee a minimum representation of 33 per cent for each sex. This article analyses
the proximate causes that led to the adoption of gender quotas by the Portuguese
Parliament. The simple answer is that the law's passage was a direct consequence of a
draft piece of legislation presented by the Socialist Party (PS), which enjoyed a majority.
However, the reasons that led the PS to push through a quota law remain unclear. Using
open-ended interviews with key women deputies from all the main Portuguese political
parties, and national public opinion data, among other sources, the role of four
actors/factors that were involved in the law's adoption are critically examined: notably,
civil society actors, state actors, international and transnational actors, and the
Portuguese political context.
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This article explores the significance of notions of materiality in the practice of Cuban
espiritismo and in the Afro-Cuban religious cults of santera and palo monte. In
particular, it pursues an understanding of the kinds of relations that are seen to emerge
between the practitioners of these cults and the spirits of the dead relations produced
through their varying interpretations and uses of 'matter', in which corresponding moral
implications obtain. The author further examines the importance of 'things' and their
absence through an ethnographic analysis of the radically diverging discourses on the
nature of spirit mediumship among competing spiritist groups in Havana. At one end of
the spectrum lies the highly syncretic practice of espiritismo cruzado (crossed
spiritism), characterized by its cosmological and ritual inclusivity, while at the other end
is the doctrine-based espiritismo cientifico, where a popular concept of science places
stricter limits on what can be understood as legitimately 'spiritual'.
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MAARTEN VINK
Investigador ICS entre 2007 - 2010
ICS Researcher between 2007 -2010
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Party group switching in the European Parliament (ep), where parliamentarians
individually or collectively switch from one party group to the other, is a well-known
contributor to the volatility of the ep party system. We present a new dataset that
contains party group information on all meps from 1979 to 2009. As a first step to a more
comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of party group switching in the ep we
describe characteristics of all switches that have occurred in these six legislatures, with
a focus on the trends across time, variety between member states, party groups, and
ideological party families.
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vitor.ferreira@ics.ul.pt
Ferreira, V. S. (2011)
Becoming a heavily tattooed young body:
from a bodily experience to a body project
Youth & Society. doi: 0044118X11427839, first published on November 15, 2011
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Why some young people start to tattoo their bodies? And why some of them keep going on with this
practice, until having all body tattooed? What doing so means to them? These are some of the
questions that underlie a qualitative research project carried out in Portugal on heavily tattooed
young people. In this article, the author discusses their embodied trajectory from the first
experiences to their involvement in a body project, and explains the meanings involved in this
extreme corporeality. The analysis takes into consideration the structural dynamics that define how
young people live their transitions and their identity construction nowadays to contextualize what
appears as individual experiences and projects without reifying the individual as a privileged site of
knowledge. Based on in-deph comprehensive interviews, the author demonstrates that the
engagement of young people in this permanent body modification project represents an embodied
struggle for the maintenance of a desired subjectivity. In an increasingly liquid and uncertain society,
some young people ink larges extensions of their bodies searching for social recognition as
different, authentic, and autonomous individuals and trying to maintain their core identity during
transitional turning points.
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jlgarcia@ics.ul.pt
Jernimo, H. M. and
Garcia, J. L. (2011)
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The decision to incinerate hazardous industrial waste in cement plants (the socalled 'co-incineration' process) gave rise
to one of the most heated environmental conflicts ever to take place in Portugal. The bitterest period was between 1997
and 2002, after the government had made a decision. Strong protests by residents, environmental organizations,
opposition parties, and some members of the scientific community forced the government to backtrack and to seek
scientific legitimacy for the process through scientific expertise. The experts ratified the government's decision, stating
that the risks involved were socially acceptable. The conflict persisted over a decade and ended up clearing the way for a
more sustainable method over which there was broad social consensus - a multifunctional method which makes it
possible to treat, recover and regenerate most wastes. Focusing the analysis on this conflict, this paper has three aims:
(1) to discuss the implications of the fact that expertise was 'confiscated' after the government had committed itself to the
decision to implement co-incineration and by way of a reaction to the atmosphere of tension and protest; (2) to analyse
the uses of the notions of 'risk' and 'uncertainty' in scientific reports from both experts and counter-experts' committees,
and their different assumptions about controllability and criteria for considering certain practices to be sufficiently safe
for the public; and (3) to show how the existence of different technical scientific and political attitudes (one more closely
tied to government and the corporate interests of the cement plants, the other closer to the environmental values of reuse
and recycling and respect for the risk perception of residents who challenged the facilities) is closely bound up with
problems of democratic legitimacy. This conflict showed how adopting more sustainable and lower-risk policies implies
a broader view of democratic legitimacy, one which involves both civic movements and citizens themselves.
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Garcia, J. L. (2012)
El discurso de la innovacin en tela de juicio:
tecnologia, mercado y bienestar humano
Arbor: ciencia, pensamiento y cultura. 188 (753), 19-30
abstract
The main trend in sociological studies of innovation has a positive outlook on innovation,
bearing no distinction from the political and economic discourses that conceive it as an
end in itself or as means at the service economic and commercial production.
This article questions such vision and attempts to map out the main assumptions and
factors that explain the dynamics of innovation as framed by the ongoing
transformations of the current world. It suggests a focus on social studies in which
innovation is interpreted as a social action, with its own ends, articulated with other
activities of human life and, therefore, susceptible to ethical and moral valorization.
Such focus would allow the clarification of the social and historical meaning of
innovation processes as well as to extend them in the vast plan of unforeseen
consequences, risks and uncertainties for society, human existence and the global
eco-system.
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PEDRO LAINS
pedro.lains@ics.ul.pt
P. (2012)
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The analysis of the evolution of the location of economic activity in Portugal between
1890 and 1980 depicts a strong concentration of productive activity in the coastal
regions. We estimate data for regional GDP per capita, which show that the evolution of
regional inequality followed an inverted U-curve, in line with that observed in other
regions of Europe, but with a rather late peak, in 1970. The reasons for this behaviour
may be found in the limits to industrialisation in the interior regions and the benefits
generated by the agglomeration economies in the more developed coastal regions.
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marinus.lima@ics.ul.pt
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The article explores the theme of best practices in the context of collective bargaining.
Building on workplace agreements made in Autoeuropa and the mediation of labor
dispute involving sata and snpvac, we examine the steps that enabled the development
of a negotiation and mutual understanding between trade unions and employers.
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MARCO LISI
Lisi, M. (2010)
O voto dos indecisos nas democracias recentes:
um estudo comparado
Anlise Social. XLV (1)194, 29-61
abstract
This paper examines the characteristics of late deciders in recent democracies.
Several studies have emphasized the distinct rationale that characterizes the choices of
undecided voters compared to more stable electors. Yet, there are controversial results
with regard to the main factors that explain late deciders' voting. After analysing the
specific traits of undecided voters in Spain, Greece and Portugal, this study
investigates the main determinants of the time of vote decision. The findings suggest
that political predispositions are particularly important in explaining differences
between types of voters, while short-term factors have a marginal role, especially for
right-wing voters.
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marina.costalobo@ics.ul.pt
Lewis-Beck, M. S. &
Lobo, M. C. (2011)
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While Portuguese democracy is no longer so new, its national postelection surveys are,
with the first in 2002. On the vital question of what provides the voter a socialpsychological anchor, initial evidence gave the nod to party identification over
ideological identification. However, party identification was poorly measured, data
were cross-sectional, and the models single equation. Fortunately, panel studies are
now available for the 2005 legislative and the 2006 presidential elections. Estimating
dynamic, multi-equation models with two-stage, instrumental variable regression
procedures establishes the preeminence of ideologically driven voting. Furthermore,
ideological identification appears composed of a unique pre-democratic component,
in addition to the more usual social, moral, and economic elements.
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This paper introduces the articles in the symposium which address the issue of
democratic accountability and economic voting in polities on the European periphery.
The economic crisis that hit the world economy in 2008 has severely challenged the
capacity of governments to steer the national economy and has had a strong impact on
their electoral support. The papers discuss whether economic voting and democratic
accountability are increasing or, on the other hand, they could be depressed by
globalisation and by shifts of ruling competence from the national to the supranational
European arena.
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PEDRO MAGALHES
pedro.magalhaes@ics.ul.pt
P. C. (2010)
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In this article, we focus on the consequences of quorum requirements for turnout in
referendums. We use a rational choice, decision theoretic voting model to demonstrate
that participation quorums change the incentives some electors face, inducing those
who oppose changes in the status quo and expect to be in the minority to abstain. As a
result, paradoxically, participation quorums decrease electoral participation. We test
our model's predictions using data for all referendums held in current European Union
countries from 1970 until 2007, and show that the existence of a participation quorums
increases abstention by more than ten percentage points.
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The behavior of the individual Spanish voter has come to be rather well-understood,
thanks to a growing body of literature. However, no models have appeared to explain or
forecast national election outcomes. This gap in the research contrasts sharply with the
extensive election forecasting work done in other leading Western democracies. Here,
we fill this gap. The model, developed from core political economy theory, is
parsimonious but statistically robust. Further, it promises a considerable level of
prediction accuracy for legislative and European election outcomes, six months before
the contest actually occurs. After presenting the model and carrying out extensive
regression diagnostics, we offer an ex ante forecast of the November 2011 legislative
election, then discuss the model and the forecast in light of what the actual election
result turned out to be.
This article looks into the factors that explain foreign direct investment (FDI) in Brazil by
country of origin. We collected a sample of 180 countries with and without FDI in Brazil.
We use multiple estimation techniques and controls to isolate the effect of country
political risk on outward foreign direct investment and show that countries with lower
levels of political risk undertake more FDI in Brazil, and that features of the policy
environment of home countries drive the negative relationship between risk and FDI.
Furthermore, we show that the aspect of the political and institutional environment that is
most likely to drive this negative relation between risk and investment into Brazil is
related to the effectiveness of national governments. Our findings broaden the
understanding of the puzzling influence of political risk on FDI observed in previous
studies, correct for sampling and selection biases, and have substantive implications
for policy design to attract FDI.
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Spectral analysis and ARMA models have been the most common weapons of choice
for the detection of cycles in political time series. Controversies about cycles, however,
tend to revolve around an issue that both techniques are badly equipped to address:
the possibility of irregular cycles without fixed periodicity throughout the entire time
series. This has led to two main consequences. On the one hand, proponents of cyclical
theories have often dismissed established statistical techniques.
On the other hand, proponents of established techniques have dismissed the
possibility of cycles without fixed periodicity. Wavelets allow the detection of transient
and coexisting cycles and structural breaks in periodicity. In this article, we presente
the tools of wavelet analysis and apply them to the study of two lingering puzzles in the
political science literature: the existence of cycles in election returns in the United States
and in the severity of major power wars.
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ANDRS MALAMUD
amalamud@ics.ul.pt
Malamud, A. (2011)
A Leader Without Followers? The growing divergence between the
regional and global performance of Brazilian Foreign Policy.
Latin American Politics & Society. 53(3), 1-24
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Brazilian diplomats and academics alike have long regarded regional leadership as a
springboard to global recognition. Yet Brazil's foreign policy has not translated the
country's structural and instrumental resources into effective regional leadership.
Brazil's potential followers have not aligned with its main goals, such as a permanent
seat on the UN Security Council and Directorship-General of the World Trade
Organization; some have even challenged its regional influence. Nevertheless, Brazil
has been recognized as an emergent global power. This article analyzes the growing
mismatch between the regional and global performance of Brazilian foreign policy and
shows how both theoretical expectations and policy planning were luckily foiled by
unforeseen developments. It argues that because of regional power rivalries and a
relative paucity of resources, Brazil is likely to consolidate itself as a middle global
power before gaining acceptance as a leader in its region.
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RICCARDO MARCHI
riccardo.marchi@ics.ul.pt
Marchi, R. (2011)
Movimento Sociale Italiano, Alleanza Nazionale, Popolo delle
Libert: do neofascismo ao ps-fascismo em Itlia
Anlise Social, XLVI (4)201, 697-717
abstract
This article discusses the evolution of the Italian extreme right after the Second World
War, with an emphasis on its leading political party, the Movimento Sociale Italiano
(Italian Social Movement), its successor, Alleanza Nazionale (National Alliance - 19952009), and the latest strategies arising from its merger with the party of Silvio Berlusconi
(2009). An outline of the Party's history is coupled with an analysis of the changes in its
political culture. We seek to account for how and why an anti-establishment party - the
longest-lived party in Italian politics - renounced its radicalism in favor of popular
liberalism values.
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ana.nunes@ics.ul.pt
Nunes, A. P. (2012)
abstract
Discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, disability, gender
orientation, and other characteristics continues to distort employers' hiring decisions
and thereby limit employment opportunities for historically excluded groups. Research
in psychology, sociology, economics, and management provides insights concerning
the mechanisms of bias and interventions to mitigate their effects, but important
questions remain. The innovative research technique of matched pair testing offers
laboratory-like controlled conditions in quasi-experiments in real-world hiring
situations. We propose seven types of testing studies to advance conceptual
understanding of hiring bias and improve hiring practices.
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machado.pais@ics.ul.pt
Pais, J. M. (2011)
Mothers, whores and spells: Tradition and change
in Portuguese sexuality
Ethnography. 12(4), 445-465
abstract
This article presents a case study looking at the social upheavals generated by the
presence of young Brazilian women in a town in northern Portugal (Bragana) with
strong traditionalist traits. Due to their situation as prostitutes, seducers and immigrants,
these women were regarded as disturbing the social order. A number of women of the
town, calling themselves the Mothers of Bragana, organized themselves into a social
movement to drive the Brazilian women out of the town, accusing them of bewitching
their husbands with charms and magic. Focusing on issues of social change, the
research takes up the challenge of interpreting the mothers' movement, the stereotypes
associated with this movement and the Brazilian incomers, and also certain dilemmas
of masculinity.
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CCERO PEREIRA
Canto, J. M.; lvaro, J. L.; Pereira, M. E.; Torres, A. R.;
cicero.pereira@ics.ul.pt
Pereira, C. R (2012)
Jealousy and infidelity: the role of gender identity and culture of honour
Estudios de Psicologa. 33 (3), 337-346
abstract
This research is aimed at examining whether gender and the culture of honour were
associated with the type of infidelity (sexual or emotional) that is perceived as most
disturbing. A total of 748 Spanish university students (336 men and 412 women),
answered to six dilemmas which raised the type of infidelity that had greater impact on
them (sexual or emotional), a scale of gender identity and a scale of culture of honour.
The results showed that both men and women were more affected by emotional
infidelity. In addition it was found that the effect of sex on the type of infidelity that
stresses the participants more was moderated by sociocultural variables such as the
culture of honour, masculinity and femininity.
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cicero.pereira@ics.ul.pt
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jorge.vala@ics.ul.pt
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This research analyses the mediational role of threat perception in the relationship
between prejudice and discrimination (opposition to immigration and opposition to
naturalization of immigrants). In the first study, using representative samples in 21
European countries (N=36 566) from European Social Survey (2002), we showed that
the relationship between prejudice and opposition to immigration was more strongly
mediated by realistic than by symbolic threat perceptions. In Study 2, using
representative samples in two countries with different traditions of immigration
(Switzerland, N=940; Portugal, N=1514), we showed that realistic threat more strongly
mediated the relationship between prejudice and opposition to immigration, while only
symbolic threat perception mediated the link between prejudice and opposition to
naturalization. The theoretical implications of considering threat perceptions as factors
that legitimize discrimination are discussed.
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acpinto@ics.ul.pt
Pinto, A. C. (2012)
European Fascism: The Unfinished Handbook
Contemporary European History. 21(2), 287-300
abstract
Fascism continues to fascinate scholars within the social sciences, perhaps as much as
communism, that other great non-democratic '-ism' of the twentieth century. The topic
also seems to be of continuing interest to the student and commercial book markets. In
some cases bland repetition is the norm, but the pressure from commercial publishers
often results in some excellent syntheses, even if based on secondary material, and that
is not to mention the biography genre, which is always attentive to charismatic leaders
and dictators - the more cruel the better. Moreover, the already voluminous academic
literature on contemporary dictatorships often returns to the fascist and dictatorial
regimes of the inter-war period.
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ALICE RAMOS
alice.ramos@ics.ul.pt
Schwartz, S. H.,
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bruno.reis@ics.ul.pt
Reis, B. C. (2011)
The myth of British minimum force in counterinsurgency
campaigns during decolonisation (1945-1970)
Journal of Strategic Studies. 34(2), 245-279
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This article argues that the dominant paradigm in studies of British small wars positing a central role of
minimum force in doctrinal guidelines for counterinsurgency needs to be even more fundamentally
revised than has been argued in recent debates. More specifically, it argues that minimum force is
nowhere to be found in British doctrine during the small wars of decolonisation.
The need for revision also applies to the way British counterinsurgency is usually sharply contrasted with
French counterinsurgency. British doctrine during this period is better understood when placed in its
proper historical context. This means comparing it with the other two most significant examples of
doctrinal development for small wars of decolonisation - those of France and Portugal.
This comparison shows that British counterinsurgency was not uniquely population-centric, and this
characteristic cannot, therefore, be the reason for its arguably superior if far from infallible performance.
Evidence for these arguments comes primarily from doctrinal sources developed specifically to deal with
counterinsurgency, complemented with insights from key military thinkers and archival sources of
relevance practices. Some wider implications of this analysis for the relationship between combat
experience and doctrinal development as well as for counterinsurgency are identified.
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RAMON SARR
Investigador Associado
Associated Researcher
Sarr, R. (2012)
Postscript: The Love Boat, or the Elementary
forms of Charismatic Life
Journal of Religion in Africa. 42 (4), 453-459
abstract
An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the
issue on topics including Christianity in Central Africa, Pentecostalism and God.
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LUSA SCHMIDT
Schmidt, L.; Gil Nave, J.; Guerra, J. (2010)
schmidt@ics.ul.pt
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The aim of this study was to identify, characterise, collect and systematise data on
initiatives of environmental education in Portugal.
Currently, there is no integrated governmental program on environmental education in
this country, but only unrelated voluntary initiatives. Although surveys indicated a
growing concern by young people on environmental issues, systematic studying on the
issue was lacking. The field seemed to be characterised by wide diversity and disperse
voluntary action by non-governmental agents and self-mobilised teachers. In the
context of the Decade Dedicated to Education for Sustainable Development of
UNESCO, governmental and non-governmental organisations dedicated to the
environment now have a new opportunity to enhance and coordinate contributions to
make environmental issues a priority for the next generation.
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Environmental education (EE) emerged in Portugal as an organized field of collective action
about 30 years ago. At this time of the return to democracy, major social and environmental
changes had begun to occur. Yet, after 30 years of EE, together with significant improvements
in the education system and curricula, the real impacts of these mostly voluntary and
aggressive efforts aimed at preparing future citizens to deal effectively and sensitively with
environmental problem solving are not yet evident. The pathways and social context of these
efforts aimed at upgrading EE in Portugal, and their apparent failure to meet their objectives,
form the basis of the analysis in this paper. The authors examine the results of a survey
questionnaire sent to 15,000 public and private schools all running projects formally associated
with both EE and education for sustainable development (ESD). The primary purpose of the
analysis was to identify the trends, constraints, and potentials for these EE/ESD projects and
initiatives within primary and secondary schools. In addition, perspectives as to the emerging
trends in ESD in Portugal are discussed, bearing in mind the shifting educational context.
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schmidt@ics.ul.pt
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TIAGO SARAIVA
Investigador Associado
Associated Researcher
abstract
The Portuguese coast is one of the most threatened by coastal erosion in Europe, a phenomenon that
will be intensified by climate change, due to sea level rise and changes in the wave system in the Atlantic
coast. Along with this physical fragility, the coast has witnessed an accelerated urban and tourist
pressure, which increased in Portugal since the 60's. This phenomenon creates social fragility, which in
turn links with a political fragility resulting from the state's inability to deal with coastal management in a
consistent way. The main response to coastal problems has been investing in heavy defence structures
strongly supported by EU funds. However, this type of investment is increasingly compromised due to
the economic downturn and the prospective reduction of European funds. Based on three case studies in the North, Centre and South of Portugal - we will address the current social condition of risk perception
in three unstable areas of the Portuguese coast, where urban centres with a strong touristic motivation
were installed: Vagueira, Costa da Caparica and Quarteira. Despite having in common recent growth
dynamics, these areas show different occupation processes and different levels of coastal erosion. The
paper addresses these three places from the point of view of its administrative condition and the effects
of public policies for coastal planning. Furthermore we propose a reflexion about the need for new
institutional models of governance and sustainable coastal management.
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Seixas, J. (2010)
Urban governance in the south of Europe:
cultural identities and global dilemmas
Anlise Social. XLV (4)197, 771-787
abstract
The concept of governance has been evolving into one of the most important but also
dubious concepts in urban politics. The enlightening perspectives of cooperation,
participation and collective construction are accompanied by shadowed fears of public
demission, oligarchic regimes and less local democracy. These lights and shadows
and the dilemmas they bring along are particularly relevant when observing the cities of
the south of Europe, whose socio-cultural specificities very much structure local
political and policy materialisations. Joining urban Mediterranean socio-political and
cultural perspectives - including when gaining cosmopolitanism, and thus reducing
North-South dualisms - this paper proposes a systematisation of governance
tendencies and directions for deeper analysis of the Mediterranean urban world.
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This text was based on a research project that observed and interpreted forms and flows
of socio-political and cultural governance associated to urban creative dynamics. It
results from a theoretical, critical reflection focused on basic concepts - namely,
creativity, vitality and governance in the city - and from an empirical projection of such
perspectives in three metropolitan territories - Lisbon, So Paulo and Barcelona. Different
perspectives are identified regarding the concepts and respective dynamics offs
complementarity and connectivity among these; and also the structuring and metabolic
conditions for sustained development of creativity in the contemporary city, whether with
regard to spatial/geographical configurations, or to associated socio-cultural and
economic spheres. Furthermore, forms of public and private promotion and support for
urban creativity are raised, leading to discussion of political strategies and governance
processes for its potentiation.
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DENIS SINDIC
denis.sindic@ics.ul.pt
Sindic, D. (2011)
Psychological citizenship and national identity
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. 21(3), 202-214
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In this paper, I raise the question of whether psychological citizenship (i.e. the subjective sense of being a citizen)
is necessarily intertwined with a sense of national identity in our contemporary world.
First, I argue that psychological citizenship is always dependent upon a sense of shared identity with the
community (be it national or other), and I explore some of the reasons why this is the case.
Second, I argue that such sense of shared identity can nevertheless sometimes remain implicit so that in order to
assess its impact one may need to look beyond people's explicit statements of identification. Third, I turn to the
more specific question of national identity and argue that such identity presents particular characteristics that
make it consonant with the notion of citizenship (and thus able to sustain a subjective sense of citizenship) in ways
that other identities might not always be.
Finally, I compare a psychological citizenship based on national identity to one which would be based on a 'global'
or 'cosmopolitan' identity. I argue that, whilst the former constitutes a pervasive social psychological reality, doubts
can be raised as to whether this is the case for the latter, and thus as to whether it can form a credible alternative to
national identity as the psychological substrate of citizenship. I conclude with some reflections concerning what
different approaches of social psychology can bring to the study of the psychological aspects of citizenship.
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MONICA TRNINGER
monica.truninger@ics.ul.pt
Trninger, M. (2011)
Cooking with Bimby in a moment of recruitment : exploring
conventions and practice perspectives
Journal of Consumer Culture. 11(1), 37-59
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Every two minutes, one Bimby is sold somewhere in the world. This multi-food processor (also known as
Thermomix) has gained wide sales success in many southern European countries and promises to revolutionize
the way people cook, learn about cooking, coordinate and plan food practices at home. In a period where debates
about cooking skills are paradoxical: some voices concerned with deskilling, while others enhance the visibility of
cooking education in the media, this domestic technology is heralded as a 'magic' gadget that turns dreadful
cooks into notable 'chefs'. This processor cannot be purchased in shops; it is being directly sold by salespersons
that make a demonstration in future clients' houses. These are usually social events where the host invites friends
and family for a free meal swiftly produced by Bimby under the demonstrator's supervision. Demonstrators can be
seen as cultural intermediaries both marketing the product and conveying normative and symbolic messages
about cooking, and also instructing on technology use. The event mixes economic, social and cultural elements,
and offers a good illustration of the cultural economy workings operating in it. Based upon a case study of a
demonstration - seen as a moment of recruitment of new cooking practitioners - the article examines issues around
cooking competence informed by theories of practice (Shove and Pantzar, 2005; Shove et al., 2007) and
conventions theory (Boltanski and Thevnot, 2006 [1991]; Thevnot, 2006). It is suggested that bringing a
conventions together with a practice perspective offers up the possibility of developing a distinctly sociological
account to analyse cooking competences in particular, and practices more generally.
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JORGE VALA
jorge.vala@ics.ul.pt
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Studies presented in this article show that participants attribute greater validity to opinions
supported by heterogeneous groups than by homogeneous ones, that this effect occurs
whether participants anticipate group belonging or not and that the relationship between
heterogeneity and the attribution of validity to opinions is mediated by the perception of
participation within heterogeneous groups. More specifically, an experimental scenario was
tested in a pilot study (N = 299): group heterogeneity was manipulated and perceived group
participation as well as perceived validity of group opinions was measured. Results show the
expected effect of heterogeneity on the validation of opinions and also a mediating effect of
perceived participation. The main study (N = 336) shows that the effect of heterogeneity occurs
not only when participants are mere observers of groups but also when they anticipate group
belonging. Furthermore, this study shows that whereas the effect of group heterogeneity was
mediated by perceived participation, the effect of group belonging on perceived validity of
group opinions was mediated by trust.
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Correia, I.; Alves, H.; Sutton, R.; Ramos, M.; Gouveia-Pereira, M.;
Vala, J. (2012)
When do people derogate or psychologically distance themselves
from victims? Belief in a just world and ingroup identification
Personality and Individual Differences. 53(6), 747-752
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This research investigates the possibility for men to promote feminist movements. In two
experiments, we used the social influence technique of reassociation, known to reduce the
rejection of feminists by blaming the target for forgetting that feminists have promoted
women's rights. An influence source, either same-gender (lower threat) or different-gender
(higher threat), confronted participants with the reassociation technique and blamed them
in a more versus less threatening manner. This procedure is known to induce positive
attitude change when threat is lower. Results of two experiments showed that a less
threatening ingroup source induced a more positive attitude change toward feminists when
reassociation was less threatening than when it was more threatening, while a more
threatening outgroup source achieved equally lower levels of attitude change in all
conditions. In sum, the reassociation procedure can be used to ameliorate attitudes toward
feminist movements, but within the framework of intragroup, not intergroup, social influence
communications.
Two factors increase the threat for individuals' belief in a just world (BJW) posed by an
innocent victim: the degree of the observer's explicit endorsement of BJW and the fact
that the victim shares a common identity with the observer. In this paper, we aim to
investigate whether or not these two factors (BJW and ingroup identification) have an
interaction effect on each of two mechanisms that reduce the threat to BJW: victim
derogation and psychological distancing from the victims. In two studies with university
students we predicted and found that BJW interacted with identification with an ingroup
victim to predict victim derogation (Study 1) and disidentification from the group shared
with the victim (Study 2). In Study 1, the positive relationship between BJW and
derogation was significant for strongly identified participants but not for weakly
identified participants. In Study 2, high BJW was associated with low ingroup
identification only when group salience was activated.
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JORGE VALA
jorge.vala@ics.ul.pt
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This paper analyses youth attitudes toward difference and cultural diversity. Firstly, we
analyse data from 65 countries showing that youths are more tolerant than older people
toward both stigmatised groups and groups perceived as racially or ethnically different.
Findings also show that political conservatism is a very stable predictor of intolerance to
difference. Secondly, we study the appraisals of cultural diversity in 21 European
countries, showing that youths express greater openness to cultural diversity than older
people. In this new study, while values of conservation correlate negatively with
openness to cultural diversity, values of self-transcendence correlate positively.
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The purpose of this paper is to critically review the research conducted on the relationship
between intergroup similarity/dissimilarity and intergroup attitudes and present an
integrative explanation for competing theoretical approaches and empirical results. Jetten,
Spears and Postmes (2004) found ingroup identification to be the moderator solving the
contradicting predictions derived from Social Identity Theory and Self-Categorization
Theory. However, we challenge the universal scope of this mechanism proposing that it
only applies for symbolic aspects of intergroup similarity/dissimilarity. For instrumental
aspects of intergroup similarity/dissimilarity, another crucial factor in group dynamics
emerges as the moderator: goal interdependence. Thus, this paper aims to advance an
integrative approach, by considering how the dimension (symbolic vs. instrumental) to
which intergroup similarity/dissimilarity refers to may serve to reconcile the competing
approaches, defining the conditions in which each moderator (ingroup identification or
goal interdependence) comes into play. Hypotheses within this new approach are
developed.
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jorge.vala@ics.ul.pt
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cicero.pereira@ics.ul.pt
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Within the framework of intergroup relations, the authors analyzed the time people spent
evaluating ingroup and outgroup members. They hypothesized that White participants
take longer to evaluate White targets than Black targets. In four experiments, White
participants were slower to form impressions of White than of Black people; that is, they
showed na intergroup time bias (ITB). In Study 1 (N = 60), the ITB correlated with implicit
prejudice and homogeneity. Study 2 (N = 60) showed that the ITB was independent of
the type of trait in question (nonstereotypical vs. stereotypical). Study 3 (N =100)
demonstrated that ITB correlates with racism measured 3 months beforehand, is
independent of motivation to control prejudice, and is not an epiphenomenon of
homogeneity. In Study 4 (N = 40) participants not only showed the ITB in a racialized
social context but also displayed it following a minimal group manipulation.
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MARTA VARANDA
marta.varanda@ics.ul.pt
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Faysse, N.; Rinaudo, J.-D.; Bento, S.; Richard-Ferroudji, A.; Errahj, M.;
Varanda, M.; Montginoul, M. (2012)
abstract
There is an increasing call for local measures to adapt to climate change, based on foresight analyses in
collaboration with actors. However, such analyses involve many challenges, particularly because the actors
concernedmay not consider climate change to be an urgent concern. This paper examines the methodological
choices made by three research teams in the design and implementation of participatory foresight analyses to
explore agricultural and water management options for adaptation to climate change. Case studies were
conducted in coastal areas of France, Morocco, and Portugal where the groundwater is intensively used for
irrigation, the aquifers are at risk or are currently overexploited, and a serious agricultural crisis is underway.
When designing the participatory processes, the researchers had to address fourmain issues:whether to avoid
or prepare dialogue between actors whose relations may be limited or tense; how to select participants and get
them involved; how to facilitate discussion of issues that the actors may not initially consider to be of great
concern; and finally, how to design and use scenarios. In each case, most of the invited actors responded and
met to discuss and evaluate a series of scenarios. Strategieswere discussed at different levels, from farming
practices to aquifer management. It was shown that such participatory analyses can be implemented in
situations which may initially appear to be unfavourable. This was made possible by the flexibility in the
methodological choices, in particular the possibility of framing the climate change issue in a broader agenda
for discussion with the actors.
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filipa.vicente@ics.ul.pt
Vicente, F. L. (2012)
A photograph of four orientalists (Bombay, 1885): knowledge
production, religious identities, and the negotiation of invisible conflicts
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 55(2/3), 603-636
abstract
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By analyzing the history of a photograph taken in a Bombay photo studio in 1885, this
article explores notions of the production of knowledge on India and cultural dialogues,
encounters, appropriations, and conflicts in colonial British India in the late nineteenth
century. The photograph was taken after a Hindu religious ceremony in honour of the
Italian Sanskritist Angelo de Gubernatis. Dressed as a Hindu Brahman, he is the only
European photographed next to three Indian scholars, but what the image suggests of
encounter and hybridity was challenged by the many written texts that reveal the
conflicting dialogues that took place before and after the portrait was taken. Several
factors were examined in order to decide who should and who should not be in the
photograph: religion, cast, and even gender were successively discussed, before the
category of knowledge became the bond that unified the four men who studied,
taught, and wrote on India.
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susanadematosviegas@gmail.com
Viegas, S. M. (2012)
Pleasures that differentiate: transformational bodies among the
Tupinamb of Olivena (Atlantic coast, Brazil)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 18(3), 536-553
abstract
In this article I propose an ethnographic analysis of change and continuity as a
transformational process lived in the body by the Tupinamb of Olivena (Brazil). This
perspective provides an alternative to the models of either acculturation or ethnic
resurgence that currently pervade approaches to indigenous people such as the
Tupinamb, who were settled on the Brazilian Atlantic coast, by missionaries, in the
seventeenth century. The ethnographic analysis suggests that in the Tupinamb case,
transformational ethnic processes partially depend on corporeal dispositions towards
drinking manioc beer. The argument is informed by multiple comparisons with
reference to Americanist debates about Amazonian studies as well as to sixteenthcentury ethnological sources about the Tupi of the Atlantic coast.
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abstract
For some time, a sense of crisis has surrounded welfare states. Deregulatory pressures, sluggish
economic growth, deindustrialisation of labour markets, rising unemployment, demographic
ageing, declining birth rates and family restructuring are commonly listed among the most
pressing challenges facing mature welfare regimes.Together, such challenges contribute to an
explosive mix by simultaneously exerting pressure for increases in social welfare expenditure
while contracting the fiscal foundation on which states rely to deliver it. While such pressures are
not new, they have been severely aggravated by the financial crash of 2008 and the global
recession now under way.As governments struggle to finance their large and increasing budget
deficits, they advance plans for welfare cutbacks while bracing themselves for backlash over
austerity measures. Conflicts over coming changes in social policy, and especially over the new
distributional inequalities they are likely to generate, look set to intensify in coming years. This dim
prospect provides a timely background for this collection of articles. If there was ever a time when
it was critical to dig deeper into the operating conditions, mechanisms and strategies of austerity
management and welfare restructuring in this era of unwavering austerity, that time is now.
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MAARTEN VINK
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This special issue of JEMS deals with the challenges of migration for citizenship
attribution in Western Europe. In this introductory paper we analyse recent developments
in citizenship attribution across Western Europe over the past 25 years. Despite the
contradictory impact of the instrumentalisation and politicisation of citizenship policies,
and the fact that countries have different citizenship traditions and migration
experiences, we observe six broad trends. These relate to the descent-based
transmission of citizenship by women, men and emigrants; ius soli provisions for secondand third generation immigrants; the acceptance of multiple citizenship; the introduction
of language and integration requirements for naturalisation; the avoidance of
statelessness; and the increasing relevance of EU membership. We describe the
background and core features of each of these six trends and provide empirical
examples from citizenship policies in 18 West European countries since the early 1980s.
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angela.xavier@ics.ul.pt
Xavier, A. B. (2011)
"O lustre do seu sangue" : bramanismo e tpicas de
distino no contexto portugus
Tempo. 30, 71-99
abstract
Este artigo visa analisar o modo como os discursos bramnicos que circulavam no
espao indiano (nos quais a pureza ritual e a endogamia eram topoi recorrentes) foram
percebidos, experienciados e apropriados pelos agentes ao servio da coroa de
Portugal. Entre outros aspectos, interessa-me perceber em que medida que esses
discursos tiveram paralelo em (ou dialogaram com) os discursos linhagsticos que
alimentaram os estatutos de limpeza de sangue, cada vez com maior expanso e
aplicao no contexto metropolitano ibrico e seus respectivos territrios imperiais.
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This article explores the impact of the leadership of Francisco S Carneiro, the first
leader of the Portuguese Social Democratic Party, and Prime Minister, in the tumultuous
years of Portugal's transition to democracy in the 1970s. S Carneiro was and still is
revered as a unique charismatic figure within the party, and is viewed today as the
founder of the Democratic Right in Portugal. This qualitative analysis emphasizes major
aspects of S Carneiro's career and leadership, paying special attention to the
development of charismatic dynamics between the leader and his supporters. The
author argues that S Carneiro's discourse and actions throughout the years were a
major factor in the emergence and consolidation of a charismatic community around
the leader that persists to this day.
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Since the turn of the millennium, academic research has pointed to anti-Muslim
sentiment as a key feature of the European extreme right. This article discusses the
background and validity of the term Islamophobia, as well as the coining and spread
of the term Eurabia in extreme right ideology. We also examine how the concept of
rising Muslim power in Europe has helped to alter extreme right ideology and forge new
alliances across the political landscape.
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