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- The political economy of Europe's future and identity: integration in crisis modePublication . Bongardt, Annette; Torres, FranciscoToday’s European Union (EU) finds itself in a permanent crisis mode – crises appear no longer sequentially and time distant but overlap and reinforce each other and even interact. If, as Jean Monnet put it, Europe will be forged in crises and as the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises, it is also true that multiple, major crises affecting the EU at the same time do not only stretch but risk to overwhelm its crisis response capacity. Yet, the EU needs to successfully address those crises to deliver results for its citizens and hold the ‘club’ together. There is also demand for some soul- and identity-searching, with a shared identity and values assuming special importance for facilitating collective action and leaps forward in times of crisis, such as at present, when the EU faces the need to stand by its values amidst Russia’s war on Ukraine while pursuing its main objectives and its current priorities for 2019-24, most notably the European Green Deal (EGD). Both – addressing multiple challenges and a shared identity – are fundamental for making the EU more resilient to shocks and European integration sustainable (and with a purpose) over time. And they are related.
- What way forward for European integration in permanent crisis mode?Publication . Bongardt, Annette; Torres, Francisco
- The European Green Deal at the core of the EU’s and EMU’s sustainabilityPublication . Torres, FranciscoAn initial convergence of preferences made the European Green Deal (EGD) possible. However, the revision of all policy areas in line with the objectives and a conducive trajectory of the green transition is proving a major challenge, above all because member state policies and actions are not consistent with the long-term policy objectives they had subscribed to in the first place. On the upside, EU institutions, notably the European Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB), have been responding to the challenge by adapting rules and policies, which will have a positive effect in the long run. To deliver price stability the ECB needs to take into account all factors affecting inflation and climate change is one of them. Besides the primary objective of keeping prices stable, the ECB’s secondary objectives, notably contributing to a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment, are fundamental to ensure not only environmental sustainability but also EMU’s and the EU’s sustainability. However, those rules and policies also depend on the wider EU regulatory framework, which needs the approval of member states.
- The founding of Portuguese social work training (1935): a communion of national and transnational effortsPublication . Santos, Maria IsabelIn Portugal, the founding of social work training took place in 1935, with the opening of the Lisbon Social Work Institute, whose technical direction was taken until 1944 by a French social worker: Marie-Thérèse Lévêque. This period of Portuguese history leads us to the New State’s (Estado Novo) construction phase, during a new national conjuncture in relations between Catholic Church, State and intellectual movements, and across an historical context defined by a political authoritarianism and a strong closure of Portugal to the international influences.This communication results from a doctoral research, and focuses the complex processes that cross the opening of the first Portuguese social work school, distinguishing, by its relevance, the influence of hygienist current, catholic social movement, and some feminine elites. Curiously, given the Portuguese “closure” imposed by political reasons from the 1930´s, transnational connections took here a significant role, more precisely, the relations between some national catholic groups and two “foreign” organizations: the French “Union Catholique des Services de Santé et des Services Sociaux”; and the “Union Catholique Internationale de Service Social”, seated in Brussels during that time.The primary historical sources that support the doctoral research (and, respectively, this presentation) have been collected in Portuguese and foreign archives (mainly in Paris and Brussels); and through oral testimonies (biographical-narrative interviews with social workers graduated at the Lisbon Social Work Institute between 1935 and 1944).
- Imigrantes sem-abrigo em PortugalPublication . Monteiro, Teresa Líbano; Policarpo, Verónica; Ramalho, Vanda; Santos, Isabel
- Marie-Thérèse Lévêque and the Lisbon Social Work Institute (1935-1944): a discreet pioneerPublication . Santos, Maria IsabelIn Portugal, the teaching of social work began in 1935 with the opening of the Lisbon Social Work Institute, whose technical direction was taken until 1944 by a French social worker: Marie-Thérèse Lévêque.In the present scenery of Portuguese social research, the knowledge produced about the Lisbon Social Work Institute is placed at a generic and patchy level, and although there are no specific studies about the construction of teaching in that school, many authors insist on the influence of French currents of social thought and action, for instance, as a result of the employment of French professionals and directors, as is the case of Marie-Thérèse Lévêque. Knowing the Portuguese social reality of the 1930´s, this permeability is not surprising, taking into account the social and cultural similarities of Latin reality, which stand out the small and medium industries, the Catholicism, and a personalistic view that more easily harmonized with the existing possibilities during this historical period. About the figure of Marie-Thérèse Lévêque, seventy-five years have passed after her arrival to Portugal, in 1935, and there are only a limited set of references concerning this first technical director of the school that started the teaching of social work in Portuguese territory. Unlike what happens with some social work pioneers her contemporaries, she never had her own biographer.
- Between the immigrant and the homelessness condition: challenges of a phenomenon in the Portuguese social realityPublication . Santos, Maria IsabelThis presentation is based on an exploratory study conducted in Portugal between March and November 2010, aiming to understand the phenomenon of people who are, simultaneously, immigrant and homeless in Portuguese society. The implementation of a national survey allowed designing a profile, as well as understanding the main patterns of this phenomenon. In turn, the interviews allowed, in a comprehensive logical, outline the ideal-type way of life of homeless immigrants, since their migration project until the condition of homelessness. We identified two distinct categories: the «homeless immigrants» and the «immigrants homeless». In the first situation, we found a homeless person, who is also an immigrant, i.e., his condition is not directly dependent to his immigration status: there are many similarities between his life path until the current condition and the journey of a Portuguese citizen who is in the same circumstances. His situation of homelessness always occurs after the immigrant condition, resulting from a life journey marked by social exclusion processes following a successful phase of the migratory process. In the second group, we found cases in which immigration status depends on the situation of homelessness, matching with the arrival at the Portuguese territory. The study results allow us to define some challenges to public policies and social intervention developed in Portugal, in order to prevent and minimize the vulnerability and extreme destitution that affects people who are simultaneously in the condition of immigrant and homelessness.
- Caridade enquanto geradora de sociabilidades. O caso da Associação de Serviço SocialPublication . Santos, Maria Isabel
- Knowledge production in visual arts organisations: a case study on the triangle networkPublication . Steinvorth, Sofia Ana EliseThe present research aims to advance two central questions: (1) what does ‘knowledge production’ mean in the context of contemporary curatorial practice and (2) how do VAOs fulfil this objective through their programmes.To a certain extent, the inquiry into the second question will provide insights into the first one. Looking at visual arts organisations (VAOs) from a curatorial perspective, their institutional practices of knowledge production between the realms of the local and the global stand out. Focusing on three of the Triangle Network's partner organisations – HANGAR in Lisbon, Gasworks in London and 32º East in Kampala – three means of knowledge production in VAOs are defined and elaborated on: mediation, representation, and conviviality. The study highlights the existence of various knowledge(s) and insists on their importance.
- Transinfluências: (po)ética nos contos de Mary Lavin e de Sophia de Mello Breyner AndresenPublication . Monteiro, Maria Teresa LíbanoAssumindo o papel de leitora e agente medianeira, porei as narrativas a dialogar entre si, como se uma fosse a chave para ler a outra. A comparação entre os contos de Mary Lavin e de Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen será mais bem compreendida através do termo diálogo. Este será estabelecido em pares: comparando um conto da Sophia com outro de Lavin, pondo em diálogo seis contos, sendo que os próprios pares comparados dialogam uns com os outros e que, sempre que for oportuno, será feita referência a outros contos. O propósito deste(s) diálogo(s) não é diminuir a singularidade de cada narrativa, mas, pelo contrário, realçar as suas potencialidades interpretativas, conferindo-lhe outras possibilidades de leitura. Deste modo, servindo-me da técnica de close-reading, farei um exercício de literatura(s) comparada(s), no qual as diferenças linguísticas e culturais serão um fator de enriquecimento mútuo.