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Wasting Away: De(Composing) Trash in the Contemporary Brazilian Documentary [PDF]

, 2012
This essay examines the metaphor of garbage in contemporary Brazilian documentary to problematize issues of race, class, and gender, focusing, especially, on Marcos Prado’s feature-length “Estamira” (116 mins., 2004).
Butterman, Steven F.
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Tópicos para uma reflexão democrática em uma civilização tropical Topics for a democratic thinking in a tropical civilization

Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política, 2012
Este ensaio buscou conceber em que medida o pensamento político e social brasileiro, ao interrogar as possibilidades de constituição de uma civilização brasileira, legou tópicos e subsídios para o pensamento sobre democracia nesse território.
Thais Florencio de Aguiar
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Guerreiro Ramos, a redução sociológica e o imaginário pós-colonial

Caderno CRH
O aprimoramento recente da sociologia latino-americana caminha no sentido de reforçar e valorizar a produção científica própria. Isso permite consolidar uma autointerpretação de sua realidade social capaz de promover o desenvolvimento das diferentes ...
Fernando de Barros Filgueiras
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Pedagogical dimensions for the promotion of citizenship within social control

Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação, 2007
This paper is about the social control practices found in the Brazilian National Health Care System (SUS) regarding its pedagogical dimensions. Social control practices have been deemed as alternatives to direct democracy and as a space for the defense ...
Giovanni Gurgel Aciole, Evanir Brunelli
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Artificial Host‐Guest Recognition Directs Glycometabolically Engineered Macrophages to Tumors

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Glycoengineered supramolecular macrophages (GSAR‐M) are developed using glycometabolic labeling for bioorthogonal host‐guest tumor targeting. This engineering approach unexpectedly enhances macrophage migration, phagocytosis, and pseudopodia formation. Consequently, GSAR‐M demonstrate robust tumor‐targeting specificity, effectively arrest tumor growth,
Zhiqing Yang, Qian Cheng, Ziyi Wang, Jianwen Wei, Qun Guan, Huazhong Yu, Qingwen Zhang, Caixia Yin, Ruibing Wang   +8 more
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The Sérgio Buarque de Holandas Weberian thought as an Explanation for Corruption in Brazilian Society [PDF]

, 2020
The present article aims to expose more precisely the influences of Max Weber s thinking on S rgio Buarque de Holanda s main work Ra zes do Brasil Considering that the work of Holanda represents a fundamental contribution to the sociological studies ...
Jordana de Moraes Neves, Eduardo Rosa Guedes, Eduardo Lopes Cabral Maia   +2 more
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A Global Methane Observation System to Reduce Uncertainty for Anthropogenic and Natural Sources and Sinks for Detecting and Attributing Climate Feedbacks

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Conceptual illustration of a Global Ecosystem Methane Observing System (GEM‐OS) integrating satellites, aircraft, atmospheric networks, and ecosystem measurements to quantify methane emissions from anthropogenic and natural sources. The multi‐scale observing framework improves source attribution, reduces uncertainty in regional methane budgets, and ...
P. Ciais, S. Peng, J. Chang, F. Li, Q. Zhu, K. Yuan, G. Hugelius, H. Li, Y. Cai, F. Chevallier, K. Tibrewal, E. A. Kort, K. Arndt, J. Watts, B. Buma, N. Besic, P. I. Palmer, H. Cadillo‐Quiroz, E. Euskirchen, M. J. Gondwe, A. Hoyt, R. Jackson, S. Malone, D. Monteverde, S. Natali, M. Ramonet, C. Rey‐Sanchez, L. B. Sagang, E. A. G. Schuur, R. Vargas, R. Varner, Z. Zhang, B. Poulter   +32 more
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(Não) Reconhecimento e subcidadania, ou o que é ''ser gente''? (Non) Recognition and undercitizenship or what is it ''to be a human being''?

Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política, 2003
Este texto discute e combina algumas teorias contemporâneas sobre a origem e a dinâmica do reconhecimento social, como a de Charles Taylor, com abordagens socioculturais acerca da temática da desigualdade, como as de Pierre Bourdieu e Reinhard Kreckel ...
Jessé Souza
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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A nation free of criminals : social defense and eugenics in Brazilian criminological thought (1917-1945) [PDF]

A eugenia foi uma corrente de pensamento científico, político e social que pregava o controle da reprodução humana como forma de melhoramento da raça e da nação, afirmando-se que, assim, não seriam eliminadas apenas as doenças do corpo, mas toda sorte de
Ferrarini, Luigi Giuseppe Barbieri
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