Cet article traite des défis auxquels est confronté un psychologue utilisant la méthode ethnographique. Il part d’une enquête de terrain de quinze mois auprès des enfants vivant dans les environs de la décharge (le lixão) de Gramacho, dans la région métropolitaine de Rio de Janeiro, au Brésil. Autorisations, immersions et le silence traverseront le...
The digitization of food systems is well underway. The digital ecosystem and its actors have increasing influence over how food is produced, what food people buy, and flows of information among farmers, supply chain actors and consumers. Efforts to transform food systems towards sustainability, including climate change resilience and mitigation, si...
/ Can governance reforms like Brazil’s get us to net-zero? One narrative present among climate change discussions is that reducing agricultural greenhouse gas, or GHG, emissions would compromise food security and the availability of food in the global south. We agree that reducing GHG emissions comes with trade-offs, but this does not mean we shoul...
Brazil is internationally known for having a very progressive legislation and inclusive policieswhen it comes to land and property rights. Despite all the legal mechanisms created by recent legislation to reverse exclusionary patterns of land use, nonetheless, the Brazilian judiciary is ordering the eviction of thousands of marginalized families. I...
Raymundo Faoro (1925-2003) was a Brazilian jurist, historian, and writer. He is considered one of the most prominent social interpreters in 20th century Brazil. He wrote 20 volumes of diaries between 1943 and 1952, totalizing, almost, 6.800 manuscript pages with a fully unprecedented content. In this article, I will investigate the construction pro...
Published in Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research
The new coronavirus pandemic has appreciably impacted morbidity and mortality, as well as having an economic impact worldwide. New vaccines are a potential way forward to reduce transmission rates and subsequent infection. In Brazil, vaccines are being distributed via the public sector; however, in the future, they will be available in the private ...
This study investigates how the feminist movement in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, relates to the International Women’s Strike – a transnational feminist mass strike launched by the Argentinian feminist collective Ni Una Menos in 2017. Based on a qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with representatives of 10 feminist organ...
Published in Cureus
There is a gender gap in the representation of women in the authorship of surgical literature worldwide. In Brazil, data on the gender distribution of the authorship of articles are scarce; and hence, there is a lack of awareness about the contemporary situation of women surgeons within the academic surgery in the country. In light of this, we cond...
In the United States of America, coffee and its ever-evolving culture has become a focal point of everyday life. However, we did not just stumble upon this phenomenon; the popularity of coffee was carefully calculated by leaders of the wealthiest coffee companies of the early 20th century in America’s biggest city, New York. In this paper, the hist...
