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- Encounters of curiosityPublication . Iyer , Aishwarya
- Biopolitics and wildlife photographic representationPublication . Brant, AlfredoThis communication examines contemporary wildlife photographic representations in the context of the current environmental crisis. Scientists and academics acknowledge the urgency of the rapidly deteriorating situation, but how is this awareness expressed in our visual representation of nature, and specifically of animals? Today, the proliferation of wildlife photography competitions attests to an increasing interest in wildlife imagery, as does the avidity with which their prize-winning photographs - mostly plastic images obtained by impressive technical skills - are shared on the Internet. The present study investigates the meanings and the biases embedded in the winning images from the last five editions of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, organized by London's Natural History Museum. In 2019, the contest comprised 16 different categories and received 48,000 entries. For the sake of clarity, we will analyze only photographs of animals, aiming to elucidate the social-political discourses behind the uniformity of these images. The study explores a trend in which human behaviors are transposed to animals' gestures and facial expressions, and questions whether these representations are relevant to overcoming the current ecological crisis.
- Food and gender: the "Cozinha Portuguesa" column in Jornal O Século and the gender roles in the Estado Novo RegimePublication . Fernandes, Inês FerreiraTaking FAOs reflexion on gender inequalities and women’s role as “pivotal in ensuring the nutritional security of their households”, one can perceive an underlying interconnection between food practices and gender roles worldwide. In Portuguese society such connection is still relatively common, but was more so during the Estado Novo Regime. In fact, the role given to women and its connection with food, nutrition and household was one that the regime defended as of core value for the Portuguese along with the idea that women are those who are naturally destined for housework. Aiming to convey this message and values the National Propaganda Secretariat even distributed the publication Economia Doméstica (1945). Against this background, this research aims to understand the dissemination of these values through the newspaper O Século column entitled Cozinha Portuguesa. Through content analysis, this research explores not only the content of such column, but also the language used to portray the idea of the perfect housewife that the regime defended as the role of women at that time. How the role of women is portrayed in the column? Is the discourse clear and align with the regimes propaganda? Has the message evolved during the 48 years of the regime? Can we find similarities in contemporary society? Going beyond the modern idea of gastronomic journalism and food writing in newspapers, this research aims to understand the connection between food and gender roles in Portugal in an authoritarian regime and contribute to the historiography of that time.
- O refugiado climático - uma nova categoria político-jurídicaPublication . Pereira, AlexandraClimate change has given rise to increasing phenomena involving the displacement of affected people or groups across different regions or countries around the world. Climate displacement accompanies global inequalities. However, the concept of climate refugees corresponds to a status of legal-political protection that has not been internationally recognized yet. Based on a systematic literature review comparing definitions of the category of “climate refugees” proposed by different authors, as well as based on online media data, I propose a broader and more humanistic definition for the concept of “climate refugees”. Desirably, contributing to the societal debate on the harmonized international legal framework required for the recognition of such legal protection status and juridical-political category. Thus, I open the way to a definition of “climate refugees” within the framework of integral human development and its correlative concept of integral ecology.
- Fake news e polarização política no Brasil: o antibolsonarismo no twitter desde a pandemia Covid-19 até às eleições presidenciais de 2022Publication . Pereira, Alexandra“Fake news” include a diverse mesh of false information, defamation and slander – disseminated in an organized and strategic way, or through organic networks (Zhuravskaya et al, 2020). This is a qualitative investigation, combining participant observation with data collected through a prolonged online ethnography, carried out between the Spring of 2020 (beginning of the pandemic crisis), through the CPI of Covid in the Brazilian Senate (April-October 2021), and until to Autumn of 2022 (Brazilian presidential elections). It was carried out through the social network Twitter, and data were analyzed by using NVivo 11. The results allow the analysis of the typical modus operandi of both Bolsonarism and anti-Bolsonarism, including the graphs shared by data analysts (Barciela and Malini, 2020-2022). They will be particularly relevant to European sociologists who are interested in the American influence on Brazilian politics and on the ways how new media influence and interact with political events.
- A typology of content creatorsPublication . Roberts, Jessica; Steiner, Linda
- Decoding silence in thematic analysis: cancel culture, narrative control, and image rehabilitationPublication . Müller, Naíde; Tavares, Patrícia; Simão, JoãoIntroduction: This study examines the innovative concept of decoding silence through thematic analysis, focusing on Taylor Swift’s Reputation album. After a period of silence following a public feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian in 2016, Swift reemerged with Reputation, providing a context for exploring the role of strategic silence as a communicative tool in the context of cancel culture. This research is significant as it addresses the underexplored role of silence in narrative control and image rehabilitation, particularly in the realm of celebrity culture. Goals and Methods: The primary aim is to investigate how Swift utilizes thematic elements in her lyrics, visuals, and music videos to reshape the public narrative post-silence. Employing thematic categorical content analysis, the study will analyze all 15 songs from the Reputation album. This methodology allows for the identification of recurring themes related to silence, power dynamics, identity, and resilience. Additionally, the analysis will incorporate selected media articles and fan reactions to enrich understanding of Swift’s narrative strategies. Results: Expected findings suggest that Reputation serves as a platform for Swift’s narrative rehabilitation and reflects a strategic use of silence as resistance. The thematic analysis is anticipated to reveal the complex interplay between silence and voice, highlighting her reestablished agency in the public eye. Conclusions: This study emphasizes the importance of decoding silence in thematic analysis, positioning it as a crucial element in understanding celebrity narrative management. By showcasing how silence can be a strategic tool, the research contributes to discussions of cancel culture and image rehabilitation in the music industry, illustrating how artists, particularly women, reclaim their narratives through nuanced storytelling.
- Failed hostesses, precarious guests, and familiar parasites: sites of (in)hospitality in dulce Maria Cardoso’s ElietePublication . Lino, Verena LindemannThe traditional locus of hospitality is the welcome of an unknown, foreign guest. As Derrida (1999) famously argues, usually this sort of welcome does not only go along with a set of (violent) conditions, but also involves the appropriation of a space as one’s own. By saying welcome, the host asserts himself as the master and owner of a house or land over which he holds the right to decide who is admitted and who is not. But what happens to hospitality when we leave this locus? When we do not look at master and stranger, but instead on other members of the household that do inhabit but not own the house? Or guests that are well-known? And what about a home whose master seems to be absent? In the present paper I propose to explore these and similar questions in the context of Dulce Maria Cardoso’s novel Eliete: a vida normal (2018) [Eliete: A Normal Life, 2024]. Focusing on three specific sites of (in)hospitality, I argue that Cardoso’s text uses situations of welcome/intrusion to problematize processes of subjectification and social stratification in contemporary Portuguese society. Placing emphasis on ambiguous constellations in which a host-guest dichotomy is unsettled, I analyse how the novel articulates the complexity of the self-other relationship, accentuating not only precarious attempts of (female) identity formation, but also how the private, normal life of the protagonist is haunted by the memory of fascism/authoritarianism and empire.
- Haunted ties: queering the memory of violence in Yara Nakahanda Monteiro’s Essa Dama Bate BuéPublication . Lino, Verena LindemannPublished in 2018, Yara Nakahanda Monteiro’s first novel Essa Dama Bate Bué (translated into English as Loose Ties in 2021) explores the complex ongoing effects of Portuguese colonialism and succeeding wars (first of liberation and then civil) in Angola. In this paper I explore how socio-political and historical dimensions of the memory of colonial violence and armed conflicts moves between the collective and personal and is mapped on the life of the female protagonist of Monteiro’s novel, Vitória Queiroz da Fonseca. Essa Dama Bate Bué follows Vitória from Portugal to Angola on her quest to find her mother, who left her as a baby to be raised by her grandparents. Having no own memory of her, Vitória only knows that her mother abandoned her family and joined the armed fight for independence before she was born. While her mother stayed in Angola, Vitória was brought to Portugal with her grandparents, to be raised in a village within a traditional catholic setting. A few days before she is supposed to get married to the brother of her secret female lover, Vitória runs away to Angola to find her mother. The search leads her not from Portugal to Angola and from Luanda to Huambo, without finding what she had hoped for. In this paper I propose use ‘queerness as a conceptual — ontological and epistemic — tool of analysis‘ (Phiri 2022, 5) for the articulation of trauma and the mode of working through violent histories in Monteiro’s novel. I argue that in Essa Dama Bate Bué ‘queerness’ functions as a way to address the complex entanglements between private and public memories and histories in view of various layers of traumatic gendered and racialized violence. By focusing on female charterers and the figure of the mother, Monteiro articulates not only complex modes of implication (Rothberg 2019) that trouble any clear definition of innocence and guilt, but also emphasizes how the gendered, heteronormative ‘colonial project’ continues to reverberate in the present. Through the traumatic history of the mother daughter relation, Monteiro seeks to write beyond masculinist narratives that circumscribe women to “mothers and mates needed to create male heirs” (Wright 2004, 138). Foregrounding instead female agency and violence, Monteiro does not only work through the echoes of Portuguese imperial propaganda and the marginalized memory of women during the Angolan process of independence and following civil wars, but also through the ‘gendered hierarchies and asymmetries that pervade blackness and black diaspora studies’ (Phiri 2022, 4). While the traumatic (gendered and racialized) violence continues to haunt the protagonist, I argue that in Monteiro’s novel, losing all the ties of memory may also enable the protagonist not to redeem the past but to begin anew despite all.
- Convivial society, the (im)possible future? The gifted and the question of being (non-)humanPublication . Gonçalves, DianaThe beginning of the 21st century has been characterized by a growing uneasiness regarding humans and their role as the only species with enough power to both transform life on the planet and endanger it to the point of extinction. Departing from these concerns about the environment, this paper wishes to look at the human ecosystem and try to evaluate the possibility of the creation of an ecologically literate society that promotes conviviality and a sustainable and interconnected existence.For this purpose, I intend to analyse the science fiction TV series The Gifted (2017) as a challenge to the anthropocentric discourse that focuses on man’s distinguished and dominating condition. Based on Marvel Comics’ X-Men series, this show introduces a society in ebullition, with humans and mutants in opposing ideological poles and in the midst of a fight for civil rights and social justice. The society portrayed in The Gifted is deeply marked by a wide range of conflicts and tensions, many of them derived from the inability to accept and integrate difference, especially when one feels threatened by an Other who may constitute the next step in the evolution of species.By means of an ecocritical reading of the show and the issues it raises (evolution/regression, humanity/animality, homogeneity/diversity, cooperation/segregation, among others), this paper investigates the (im)possibility of creating a convivial society where fear and anxiety are replaced by constant acts of negotiation that allow for a more inclusive culture and pacific coexistence.