The Revista de Estudios Brasileños (REB) is edited by Ediciones Universidades de Salamanca with the support of the Universidade de São Paulo. The objective of the magazine is to encourage and establish academic-scientific discussions and disseminate ideas and research, constituting a platform for Brazilian studies.
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#FicaEspanhol: theory, action, and resistance in defense of Spanish in Brazil
The book Movimento #FicaEspanhol: lutas e resistências brings together academic and experiential reflections on the homonymous social movement that emerged in Brazil in 2016, initially on social media, and later expanded into various physical spaces — from public squares and streets to schools and universities. The work traces the movement’s trajectory at the national level, as well as in nine Brazilian states, and analyzes the dialogues that these regional initiatives maintained among themselves, with public authorities, and with civil society.
Copyright (c) 2024 Elisa Tavares Duarte https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Suspended Beauty: Art, Science, and Nature in the Photography of Tony Genérico
Tony Genérico (Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1940) is one of the major figures of contemporary Brazilian photography. A recognized specialist in high-speed photography, he developed most of his career in the field of advertising, becoming a pioneer in the use of innovative techniques that combine technical rigor and artistic sensitivity. His experience in advertising enabled him to master the photographic instant, exploring light, movement, and time with remarkable precision. This interview is devoted to exploring not only his biographical and professional trajectory but also his most important personal project: Beleza ameaçada. Organized into three series, the project brings together images of Brazilian birds at risk of extinction, the result of a creative process that combines high-speed shooting with the use of splashes—an ultrafast photographic technique involving controlled liquid flows introduced in Brazil by Tony Genérico himself. The photographs, with strong visual impact, highlight both the delicacy and vulnerability of the species portrayed, while inviting reflection on the preservation of biodiversity. With Beleza ameaçada, Tony Genérico reaffirms the potential of photography as a medium of artistic expression and environmental awareness, expanding the dialogue between art and science and consolidating his position as a key reference in Brazilian photography.
Memories of incipient citizenship: two perspectives on Brazilian urban people
Abstract: The aim of this article is to present and analyze two objects of Brazilian social communication concerning the urban reality of the First Republic (1889–1930). These modern narratives, brought together as if in a documentary film, were constructed by the chronicler João do Rio and the photographer Vincenzo Pastore. Journalistic information of the time acted as if social problems had to be hidden, silenced, forgotten, and magically resolved. The authors’ interpretative approach highlights, through two cities—Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo—the activities of those excluded from Brazilian society, seeking to break with the hegemonic perspective of social communication (newspapers and magazines). The theoretical framework, which discusses Brazilian urban transformations, is structured around the references of Nicolau Sevcenko (1998), whose argument is that, in the modern context, the new cosmopolitan elites commanded political and capitalist management. The result of this retrospective gaze is the recovery of an empirical inventory, based on primary sources, aimed at unveiling meanings in light of the asymmetrical principles of Modernity proposed by Bruno Latour (1994): the rupture in the regular flow of time and the conflict between winners and losers. After the Bicentennial of Independence (1822–2022), the country remains a fragile point, synthesizing in its tropical lands the inhumanity frozen in time.
Copyright (c) 2024 Atílio Avancini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Initial containment plan and non-pharmacological measures adopted by Brazilian states at the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic
The purpose of this text is to survey the initial containment plan for COVID-19 and the first non-pharmaceutical measures adopted in different Brazilian regions and states at the beginning of the pandemic. The methodology is documentary research, which involved gathering information from official state websites, state health departments, and state attorney general offices. The first decrees issued at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil were used, as they portray the “first decisions” at the state level. The data were analyzed through content analysis. From the emergence of the first COVID-19 cases in the country, the 27 Brazilian states instituted, between February and June 2020, through various decrees, non-pharmaceutical and immediate restrictive measures related to commercial, educational, sports, cultural, religious, and scientific activities, generally maintaining only services considered essential, such as health institutions and services, pharmacies, supermarkets, gas stations, basic sanitation, among others. In this sense, the restrictive measures adopted were of great importance and contributed to building hospital-level healthcare capacity, with some regional differences.
Copyright (c) 2024 Marli Terezinha Stein Backes, Maria Vitória de Azeredo Knoblauch, Samanta Felippe Will https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Language and Nation(s), Compêndio da Gramática da Língua Nacional by Antônio Coruja
This article aims primarily to investigate the publication, in 1835, of Compêndio da gramática da língua nacional by Antônio Álvares Pereira Coruja, regarded as a landmark in Brazilian linguistic studies. We seek to reconstitute, on different levels of analysis, the publication of the work and its recognition as a historical milestone in the 1930s, in order to reflect on certain tensions between language and nation(s) in the negotiations surrounding the newly founded Brazilian Empire. For this historical reconstruction, focused on Coruja and the Compêndio, we consider the strengthening of “print capitalism”, drawing on Benedict Anderson, as well as recent transformations in the educational and political systems, regional tensions, and elements of the history of linguistic ideas.
Copyright (c) 2024 Carlos Pires, Juliana Borges https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Intermedicality and differentiated care: asymmetries and Challenges in the Encounter of Sciences in the Indigenous Health Care Subsystem (SasiSUS) of the Xukuru do Ororubá People
The healing science of the Xukuru do Ororubá people, who live in the state of Pernambuco (Brazil), is the science of the forest—a centuries-old practice present in the traditional therapeutics of this Indigenous territory. In contrast, the predominant science in Indigenous health policies within the Indigenous Health Care Subsystem (SasiSUS) is Western biomedicine. How can such distinct realities coexist in dialogue? This article aims to reflect on the different and overlapping layers underlying Indigenous health policies and their implementation through SasiSUS, considering everyday life, its universe of experiences, and strategies aimed at differentiated care as a path toward therapeutic proximity dialogues through the promotion of intermedicality. The cultural differences present and imposed by technical health practices are factors that reinforce and reproduce asymmetries and unilateral therapeutic perspectives. The reflections shared here should be regarded as preliminary within a research context that, although now in a new phase, remains ongoing with the holders of local traditional knowledge and Indigenous Health Agents (AIS) to further develop this theoretical field on interculturality in health, with medicinal flora as a driving and transformative element.
Copyright (c) 2024 Mônica Dias Souza, Paulo Henrique de Oliveira Léda https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Science and Technology in Amazon during the military dictatorship: development in view
This article analyzes the dimensions of developmentalism promoted during Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964–1985), focusing on the state of Pará. It examines the writings of scientists affiliated with institutions dedicated to promoting development projects, such as Sudam, BASA, and NAEA, with the aim of understanding the receptions, reinterpretations, and criticisms directed at the public policies of the military governments in the Amazon. Science and technology were among the main fields from which economic and social development projects were justified and implemented. The theoretical framework draws on debates in the fields of history and sociology concerning concepts such as the Amazon, development, science, and technology. The main sources used include academic works, books and articles, analyzed through the methodology of Discourse Analysis.
Copyright (c) 2024 Pere Petit, Tayanná Santos de Jesus Sbrana https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The (in)dependence of small municipalities on the FPM in Brazil: federative obligations and local development
After the promulgation of the 1988 Constitution, there was a significant increase in the number of small municipalities within Brazil’s federative structure. In this context, the present study aims to examine the financial capacity of municipalities in the state of Paraná with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants to carry out federative functions and their impacts on local development. The methodology is characterized as quantitative, employing statistical techniques, and is also applied, descriptive, explanatory, bibliographic, and documentary in nature. The results show that most small municipalities in Paraná demonstrate a high dependency on external transfers and low Financial Capacity (FC). Finally, the correlation/linear regression analysis allows us to infer a positive correlation between the variables; however, the result proved to be low and not very significant for the study, indicating that FC does have an influence, but not a significant one, on the Local Development of small municipalities.
Copyright (c) 2024 Débora Tazinasso de Oliveira, Antonio Gonçalves de Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Abandoning modern addictions and doing environmental science in the light of Actor-Network Theory
In a world experiencing a new climatic regime, phenomena such as deregulation, exploding inequalities, and denialism are the result of the historical construction of modernity. To contribute to politics in this context, we propose replacing dominant models of doing science with research carried out considering Actor-Network Theory. Accordingly, this article reports on the practices of environmental science research, localized, hybrid, and grounded based on the notion that doing research is doing politics. This account is preceded by a brief presentation of certain explanatory principles of reality formulated by classical social science authors, which underpin research across various fields of knowledge, including environmental sciences. The aim of this section is to warn that such principles can become potential intellectual traps that lead to the adoption of modern thought patterns in scientific knowledge production. The empirical studies reported here reveal a growing movement of resistance to the modern way of producing science and engaging with the world. These studies followed carbon, jaguars, distance education, sempre-vivas (everlasting flowers), river basins, mineral waters, community-based tourism, and Indigenous peoples—contributing to the creation of an articulated and collaborative reality composed of affective alliances, collective learning, and connections with non-equals.
Copyright (c) 2024 Fátima Teresa Braga Branquinho, Fátima Kzam Damaceno de Lacerda, Viviane Fernandez de Oliveira, Joana Macedo, Edilaine Albertino de Moraes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
“Morte e vida Severina”: a cartography between sounds, images and education in the TV miniseries
This article examines the version of “Morte e vida Severina”, originally written by João Cabral de Melo Neto, adapted into a special miniseries produced by TV Globo in 1981. We aim to understand certain sound-musical parameters and concepts, as well as the imagery present in this work, as possibilities for music and visual education. To this end, we ask how the music, sounds, and images were produced in this cultural product and what they might teach us. This is a qualitative research study, methodologically inspired by cartography, using as data construction procedures the partial breakdown (decoupage) of the audiovisual production and analysis according to the documentary method of image analysis. We consider that the cinematographic, sound, and musical languages that make up the audiovisual production contribute not only to the aesthetic conception of the work but also enable crossings that affect us—provoking in the viewers a range of feelings, emotions, and sensations that actively participate in our visual, sound, aesthetic, and sensitive education.
Copyright (c) 2024 Luciano de Barros Carneiro, Giovana Scareli https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Rural-hospitals and hydrotherapy: medical science in the plantations of Paraiba Fluminense Valley in the 19th century
This article aims to analyze how healthcare practices were incorporated into administrative strategies for the effective management of coffee-growing complexes in the interior of the Province of Rio de Janeiro during the second half of the 19th century. The so-called Paraíba Valley (Fluminense) was an important region for the Brazilian Empire’s economy at the time, due to its high coffee production and exportation, which depended on enslaved labor. Following the Eusébio de Queiróz Law (1850) and the prohibition of the international slave trade, maintaining the health of enslaved individuals became a recommended strategy to prolong their productive life on the coffee plantations, thus mitigating the consequences of this new reality. Among the initiatives observed in the region, we highlight the construction of rural hospitals and even the use of hydrotherapy as a treatment method. This context reveals the popularization of medical science as it became integrated into social practices, through a rural elite receptive to scientific knowledge—adapting it to their most pressing needs, thereby validating, valuing, and reconstructing it through everyday use.
Copyright (c) 2024 Anne Thereza de Almeida Proença https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Personal archives: the case of scientist’s personal archives, trajectories and methodologies
This article deals with the introduction of personal archives under the institutional and theoretical aegis of archival science and the particularities of scientists’ archives as sources for the history of science. The supposed artificiality in personal archives and the inclination of archival science theorists toward administrative history have led to personal archives not being considered archives. With the Annales School and the renewal of historiography, new themes and methodologies come to the fore, and interest in personal archives becomes emerging. In Brazil, institutionalization and the first studies on the treatment of personal archives come from the 1980s with the insurgency of documentation and memory centers, which began to preserve collections of artists, politicians and scientists, introducing guidelines for document treatment and collection policies. In the archives of scientists, we saw that their preservation and archival treatment derives from this historiographical movement and the renovation of memory institutions. Scientists’ archives bring the specialty of operating as sources for the history of science, configuring portions of scientific memory, especially for the processes of creation and development of science. Archival processing stems from the study of the professional and personal activities of the archive’s owner.
Copyright (c) 2024 Juliana Cabral da Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The emergence and proliferation of the “biobank” research infrastructure. A preliminary analysis of the Brazilian situation
Biobanks, dedicated to the preservation, indexing, and storage of human biological material for technoscientific research in health, represent an emerging infrastructure in Brazil. Their center-periphery shift is associated with the molecularization of the biological and health sciences, as well as with the intensification of their relationships with the globalized market. However, a deep analysis of this infrastructure requires researchers interested in dialogue with Science and Technology Studies (STS) to understand its local manifestations. Thus, the aim of this article is to characterize the biobanks certified in Brazil by the CEP-CONEP system up to December 2021 and still active as of August 2022, while also offering preliminary reflections on the emergence and proliferation of this infrastructure in Brazil during the early decades of the 21st century. To this end, we present a brief contextualization of the biobank research infrastructure, supported by a literature review on the topic; and an inventory of the biobanks certified in Brazil, based on data made available by the CEP-CONEP system and complemented by research on the websites of the biobanks and their affiliated institutions. Finally, we outline the main characteristics of the biobank infrastructure in Brazil.
Copyright (c) 2024 Márcia de Oliveira Teixeira, Vinicius Pellizzaro Klein https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Social capital and human capital: paths to local development in PDS Bonal and RECA Project
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of non-economic elements, such as social capital and human capital, for local development in two communities in the Amazon: the PDS Bonal and Projeto Adensado RECA settlements. The work includes variables to represent social capital based on studies by Putnam (1993) and representative variables in the construction of human capital (Knack & Keeffer, 1997). This is exploratory and descriptive research, with the purpose of answering questions regarding the importance of elements to leverage local development. The results indicate that the management of productive and social life occurs differently for communities, non-economic entities are proportional to the political quality of each location, minimizing problems. The RECA Project presented indicators of a community with significant gains in relation to network sharing, while PDS Bonal has not yet developed mechanisms for teamwork.
Copyright (c) 2024 Ana Paula Diniz Brito, Claudio Ruy Vasconcelos da Fonseca https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Presentation text of Issue 23 (volume 11) of the Revista de Estudios Brasileños.
Copyright (c) 2024 Ignacio Berdugo Gómez de la Torre, Rubens Beçak https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The fight against contemporary slave labor in Brazil: from the Amazon to the universities, an interview with Ricardo Rezende Figueira
In 2023, the Contemporary Slave Labor Research Group (GPTEC) celebrates its 20th anniversary. Linked to the Suely Souza de Almeida Center for Public Policy Studies on Human Rights at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (NEPP-DH/UFRJ), it has a recognized performance in Brazil and important connections with other groups, with organized civil society and with the international press. Much of this is due to the figure of its coordinator, the professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Ricardo Rezende Figueira, anthropologist and priest, who lived for two decades in the Amazon region, specifically in southern Pará. Ricardo welcomed workers, recorded and denounced practices of violence and enslavement, along with other activists and organizations, at a time when the Brazilian State itself financed companies and initiatives responsible for rights violations. The following pages, mediated by Ricardo's life story, tell a little about the construction and maintenance of the policy to combat slave labor in Brazil, one of the main and most symbolic in the country. The interview was conducted on November 29, 2022, in the context of the interviewer's doctoral research stay at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Copyright (c) 2025 Lucas Isaac Soares Mesquita https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Researching Identity(ies): an itinerary under construction from life history narratives
This article sought to share the production of new social technologies in Critical Social Psychology. In this context, weaving a praxis committed to transforming reality and understanding subjects as being, at the same time, products and producers of their stories, Ciampa (1986) formulated the concept of Identity as a process of metamorphosis with possibilities of emancipation. By moving away from imported numbers, percentages, rulers, and compasses, this perspective loosened the Brazilian population from explanations created by theories, imported until today, that transform us into the “other,” not of “understanding,” but of formulas enshrined in the countries of the so-called First World, thus reflecting a certain (dis)consideration for autochthonous productions, produced by “us.” Developing the research method “narratives of life history and future project”, the study on Identity resulted in the understanding of a phenomenon that is not fixed or immutable but as a process in transformation and constantly renewed construction, fundamental for the apprehension of possibilities and impossibilities of becoming a subject in contemporary society.
Copyright (c) 2025 Vanessa Meirelles, Suélen Cristina de Miranda, Cecília Pescatore Alves https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The use of pedagogical translation as a didactic tool in the context of teaching foreign languages: bibliographic overview of Brazilian academic theses
In this research, I seek to reflect on the use of pedagogical translation as a didactic tool in the context of teaching foreign languages. The theoretical framework is based on the areas of Translation and Language Teaching and the Theory of Didactic Sequence, with a focus on the conceptual foundation of Translation and Pedagogical Translation. The research methodology is bibliographical. In this research, there is a survey and compilation of eight academic theses, in a Brazilian context, focusing on pedagogical translation and language teaching. The main questions of the research will be to answer whether it is possible to use translation as a didactic tool and what academic theses present about the use of pedagogical translation as a teaching method for teaching foreign languages.
Historiography of language teaching methods
Copyright (c) 2025 Glauber de Souza Lemos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The formation of higher education in Brazil as a system and as a field of investigation
Since the last decades of the 20th century, higher education, in Brazil, as in other emerging countries, has undergone a great process of massification and diversification, both in terms of enrollments and in terms of institutions. Parallel to this great growth, there was also a notable increase in publications and research on the most varied themes and issues related to national higher education, in different areas of the social sciences. Today, it can be said that studies in higher education constitute a true autonomous field of knowledge in the country. The objective of this article was precisely to characterize, in a critical and historical way, the formation of higher education in Brazil as a system and as a field of investigation.
Copyright (c) 2025 Everton Garcia da Costa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Doctors and the State: between projects and alliances in Teresina (1930 -1940)
This article analyzes medical performance and its relationship with the State in Teresina, because of the incorporation of public health policies, expanded in the 1930s and 1940s, based on projects and alliances, which made it possible for the state to mediate in health, through the intermediation of the Board of Public Health of Piauí and the management of physicians in hospital institutions, bureaucratic sectors and health positions. The methodology used consisted of the systematization of the bibliography related to the theme and analysis of the jornal Diário Oficial do Piauí. It was concluded that the growth of scientific medical protagonism occurred especially with the partnership established between physicians and the State, which enabled them to work in institutions and bureaucratic health bodies, assuming positions of directors of public health, clinical physicians and in politics. At the same time, they also worked in medical societies and associations, medical journals, offices and clinics, improving knowledge and adding value to medical work.
Copyright (c) 2023 Ana Karoline de Freitas Nery, Elizangela Barbosa Cardoso https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Use of online languages in information to combat violence against women: analysis of Revista AzMina
The present research seeks to identify and understand the language structures belonging to online journalism in the publications of the Revista AzMina website, a so-called feminist and independent vehicle that proposes to confront violence against women through information organized in editorials and opinion columns. This article uses discourse analysis to investigate, in news and reports belonging to the politics, violence and culture sections, the presence or absence of the seven characteristics of online journalism: hypertextuality, multimediality, interactivity, memory, instantaneity, personalization and ubiquity, to highlight the importance of using these languages to effectively reach the user audience.
Copyright (c) 2023 Juliana Castelo Lima, Patrícia Rakel de Castro Sena https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
“Morte e Vida Uterina”: neo-baroque perspectives in Paula Cavalciuk’s song
This article proposes a dialogue permeated by neo-baroque perspectives between the song “Morte e Vida Uterina”, by the singer and composer Paula Cavalciuk, and the poem “Morte e Vida Severina”, by the Pernambuco poet João Cabral de Melo Neto. Thus, it briefly permeates the discussion on Comparative Literature in contemporary times and its mediating role that allows dialogue between literary texts and other human creations, such as cinema, painting, and music. In order to build this study, we based ourselves on authors such as Carvalhal (1991), Cecchetto (2011) and Coutinho (1996), as well as presenting some points about the Baroque and Neo-Baroque from the studies of Chiampi (2010), Ávila (1994), Sarduy (1987) and Carvalho (2012); to, then, enter into the analysis of the song and the poem.
Copyright (c) 2023 Rafael Barros de Alencar , Samuel Anderson de Oliveira Lima https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The historiography of German immigration fictionalized in the novel A ferro e fogo: the economic development of the Colony of São Leopoldo
History and Literature, when approaching the past, produce narratives that transit very close to each other, mainly, genres such as the historical novel. That said, in this article we seek to understand the literary representation about the economic development of the Colony of São Leopoldo through the construction process of the narrative of the work A ferro e fogo, by Josué Guimarães. Thus, we developed a comparative study between the novel and the historiographical works used by the author to compose his narrative through analyzes built from the traces left by the novelist in the copies of historiographical works that make up his collection, the ALJOG/UPF.
Copyright (c) 2023 Eduardo Ortiz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
From independence to the Lei Áurea: the Brazilian slave state and its main legal landmarks
This article focuses on the main aspects and legal instruments that legitimized slavery during the Brazilian imperial period, seeking to bring contributions to the social history of labor to outline the normative frameworks on which the exploitation of labor in the country was based and which influence it even today. The methodology used is a literature review and legislation analysis. Despite the illuminist ideas that permeated the Brazilian independence from the Portuguese metropolis, the emancipation of the country did not result in the abolition of black slavery. The Lusitanian traffickers were replaced by Brazilian ones, Portuguese laws and customs were internalized and there was an intensification of trade and exploitation of slave labor so that the country was responsible for imported approximately 46% of the slaves destined for the Americas and was the last in the Occident to abolish trafficking and slavery.
Copyright (c) 2023 Lucas Isaac Soares Mesquita https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The coffee century. The cultivation of Coffea arabica and the consequent transformations of the 19th century Brazilian landscape in the works of the digital collection of the Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin of the Universidade de São Paulo
This article addresses the planting of Coffea arabica in Brazil and the resulting transformations in the Brazilian landscape throughout the 19th century. According to sources consulted in the digital collection of the Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita and José Mindlin at the University of São Paulo, these transformations took place, particularly, in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. These changes in the landscape refer mainly to the devastation of forest areas and the implementation of a new rail transport system to ensure the movement of production. The resulting transformations impacted on the countryside, cities and society’s way of life. The objective of this article is to analyze the transformations resulting from the planting of coffee throughout the national territory, and its implications for the urban area and social repercussions. Thus, issues such as the diffusion of coffee in Brazil, the devastation of forests to create farms, changes in urban architecture, and the replacement of enslaved labor by European immigrants in farming and their reverberation in society are some of the main aspects covered throughout the text.
transformations of the Brazilian landscape
Copyright (c) 2023 Solange de Aragão https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The natural riches of the Amazon, which have always been exploited as commodities, favor external markets capable of adding innovations and, invariably, returning to the original owners at extremely high values, almost prohibitive for Amazonians. Structuring a promising system for using biodiversity and the information it contains with environmental conservation and income generation in and for the Amazon, requires actions in multiple dimensions. The investments should not only contemplate the strengthening of teaching and research institutions in the region but also expand the capacity to produce robust information aimed at social inclusion and income generation, bioeconomy, environmental conservation, health, and education, among others. Note that it is necessary to go beyond the conventional as sectored or partial investments - a complex system such as Amazon requires strategic and holistically realized investments.
Copyright (c) 2023 Claudio Ruy Vasconcelos da Fonseca, Adalberto Luis Val https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The possible granting of legal personality to the Amazon. A way for its protection
The purpose of this article is to study a possible legal response to environmental damage, considering its measurable nature. Specifically, it examines the path of legal personality recognition, as well as its meaning for the Amazon because of its immeasurable value for biodiversity, climate and people, especially for indigenous communities. In this way, steps and issues that need to be considered to achieve recognition of the Amazon as a subject of law are analysed. This is an ambitious measure as it would represent a revolution in the legal sphere, since the Amazon territory include different countries, each one with its own environmental legislation. Moreover, it would enable an effective response to the destruction of the Amazon as it would come to possess rights and values of its own, independent of human utility or benefit.
Copyright (c) 2023 Irene Martí García https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Presentation text of Issue 22 (volume 10) of the Revista de Estudios Brasileños.
Copyright (c) 2023 Ignacio Berdugo Gómez de la Torre, Rubens Beçak https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The memories of the eugenics movement in the symbolic field of health in Brazil
This book is a memorial. In the history of Brazilian medicine such memories have been little valued, more interesting to forget them. We understand that by bringing them to the debate in undergraduate courses and specializations focused on the training of health professionals, the interests for a professional ethical training stand out. For, although it refers specifically to a historical period (entreguerras), when using the sociology of the symbolic field of Pierre Bourdieu, applied to the field of health, we contemplate the inheritance of the slavery period, the eugenic and racist ideals that influence why not say, until today, when we celebrate the Bicentenary of our Independence. This is a living moment of our history that could not fail to be told, especially today, in which there is a leading role aimed at strengthening an ethical awareness for anti-racist ideals.
Copyright (c) 2023 Rodolfo Franco Puttini, Adriana Dutra Gonçalves, Mariana Pimenta Bernardes, Amanda Gabrielle Osório, Lea Aparecida de Carvalho Ribeiro , Giovanna Soler Donofre , Edilaine Aparecida Murgi Alves https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
In his book, A religião distrai os pobres? O voto econômico de joelhos para a moral e os bons costumes, Victor Araújo discusses the voting trends that altered the result of the presidential election in Brazil in 2018, presenting what I call the “Pentecostal factor”. Among the main arguments, he proves by crossing geographic information of the conservative electorate and the location of Pentecostal churches, that the evangelical public, especially Pentecostals, demonstrates a voting preference aligned with the moral guidelines defended by candidates who demonstrate a more conservative bias. It is seen, then, the possibility of a dialogue with Pierucci by resuming the theory of “secularization” proposed by Weber, in a new guise considering the Brazilian scenario, the religious presence in public spheres, the visible rise of Pentecostalism in the national scenario, and the paradigm shift that we have been living in the last decades.
Copyright (c) 2023 Thais Santana Galvão https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0