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Introduction: Beyond public reason Introduction : Par‐delà la raison publique
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 965-983, December 2025.This introduction situates the special issue within longstanding debates on liberal public reason, tracing its Enlightenment roots through Habermas and Rawls to contemporary political dilemmas. It highlights how anthropology has revealed the exclusions embedded in public reason's universalist claims, particularly for those marginalized by culture, race,
Charis Boutieri +2 more
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Branding Brazilian slums through 'freeware' cultural production: the case of Rio de Janeiro [PDF]
, 2012 This paper reflects on a "cultural industry model" with important potential for local development, which is the network of independent cultural producers of Brazilian slums. The landscape of favelas is unique: plagued by poverty and crime, they have come
Russo, Antonio
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Kicking Off in Brazil: Manifesting Democracy [PDF]
, 2013 On 6 June, nine days before the Confederations Cup was due to kick off in Brasília, the first of a series of public protests – ‘manifestações’ – began in São Paulo.
Conde, M, Jazeel, T
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1023-1040, December 2025.Brazilian favelas (shantytowns) are often considered as marginalized urban territories that must be better integrated into the nation‐state to obtain legitimacy under the Rule of Law. Based on years of fieldwork in one of the largest shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro (Rocinha), this article suggests that the absence of a (normative) liberal apparatus in ...
Moises Lino e Silva
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Informal Urbanism, city building processes and design responsibility [PDF]
, 2016 In the face of multiple, complex and contradictory urban phenomena, and the impossibility to define one kind of city/one urbanism, the present short contribution aims to reposition informal urbanism as one of the many existing legitimate processes ...
Astolfo, G, Boano, C
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Relational Approach to Knowledge Engineering for POMDP-based Assistance Systems as a Translation of a Psychological Model [PDF]
, 2012 Assistive systems for persons with cognitive disabilities (e.g. dementia) are difficult to build due to the wide range of different approaches people can take to accomplishing the same task, and the significant uncertainties that arise from both the ...
Czarnuch, Stephen +6 more
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Afterword: The day after liberal reason Postface : le jour d'après la raison libérale
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1136-1142, December 2025.Andrew Shryock
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Spartan Daily, October 5, 2004 [PDF]
, 2004 Volume 123, Issue 26https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/10030/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Resistance to Gibberella ear rot in maize: Insights from near‐isogenic line populations
Crop Science, Volume 65, Issue 6, November/December 2025.Abstract Gibberella ear rot (GER) of maize, caused by Fusarium graminearum, poses a serious threat to human and animal safety as mycotoxins are deposited in the grain during fungal colonization and are hazardous to human and animal health. Currently, no completely resistant germplasm has been identified, and the underlying mechanisms of resistance ...
Sarah Lipps +3 more
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Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle A Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas, 1968–2008 [PDF]
This paper describes the methodology of a longitudinal multi-generational study in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro from 1968 to 2008. Major political transformations took place in Brazil during this interval: from dictatorship to ‘opening’ to
Perlman, Janice E.
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