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The commercialization of water expresses the aggravation of social inequalities in rural areas, increasing conflicts involving the possession, ownership, and use of water by the local population. This article discusses the conflicts over water conflicts in the Northeast of Brazil, considering the structural determinations around the issue: the expansion of agribusiness and its impacts on rural populations. The study conducts extensive bibliographic research, carried out during doctorate studies, in addition to the analysis of institutional documents around the theme. The intensification of water conflicts in the region is linked to the private appropriation of land, establishing the confrontation between classes and parts of the fundamental classes. On the one side is the agribusiness, and on the other riverine, quilombola, fishermen, indigenous, and small farmers, who establish their “social metabolism” (FOSTER, 2005) with close dependence on natural resources.

This article analyzes the Marxian theory of alienation in the Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Grundrisse, and Volume I of Capital. The study assumes that the category of alienation acquires new determinations in Marx’s social theory, which are organically connected to the development of the capitalist mode of production and the consequent maturation of Marx’s critique of political economy. Such determinations materialize in the so-called “commodity fetishism,” the particular manifestation of alienation observed in the developed bourgeois sociability.

This article analyses three works by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo: Las dos Fridas (The Two Fridas), Autorretrato en la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos (Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States), and Lo que el agua me dio (What the Water Gave Me). Each work is first analyzed separately and then connected with the others. The analysis of the first two is guided by the national/foreign dichotomy present in Kahlo; the analysis of the third shows the overcoming of the dichotomy through the concept of intimate map – in which a feeble and ever-changing territorialization of memory via plastic expression comes to show.

This article presents the impact that the changes in the thoughts of philosopher György Lukács in the early 1930s had on his intellectual itinerary. In addition to highlighting the meaning of all his post-1930 production, the article attempts to show how – and for what reasons – the later thoughts of Lukács adopt the word ontology to express the core of Marx’s philosophy.

This article discusses how the electronic game Tomb Raider constructs processes of subjectivation in relation to gender and sexuality. To develop this argument, two main questions were taken: Who does this game imagine ‘you’ are? Who does this game suggest ‘you’ to be? Both were built based on the Foucaultian Theory about processes of subjectivation, together with the concept of ‘mode of address’, developed by Elizabeth Ellsworth and some discussions about gender and sexuality. Based on this, this investigation wants to show how culturally built marks of gender and sexuality are used on elaborations of the main character of the game: Lara Croft. However, in conclusion, those marks cannot set the possible choices up, but are creations and inventions made by the game designers and the players.

According to the theory of political-economic cycles, both the electoral calendar and party ideology may exert influence over economic fluctuations, so there may be both opportunist and partisan cycles. In this sense, this study aims to highlight the possible existence of opportunistic and ideological political-economic cycles on social and investment spending in Brazilian state governments between 2003 and 2014. As a source of estimation, an econometric data analysis on panel. The results pointed to an influence of the electoral calendar only on the budget expenditures of investment expenditures of the states during the period considered. In addition, party ideology has not been shown to be related to the expenditures analyzed. This study contributed to the theory by showing that the oscillations incurred in the economy, in the sphere of fiscal expenses related to investment expenditures, are also explained by political variables, and not only by purely economic questions.

This work investigates the social representations of the body in the TRIP For Woman magazine, considering the body and gender theories systematically elaborated by the existing feminisms. It is assumed that the beliefs, the representation and the meanings of what it is to be a man or a woman in a certain society and moment are crystallized in the bodies. Thus, it is possible to infer the gender representations that are mediated and inscribed in the body.

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This article explains how Revista Estudos Feministas has related academic debates and feminist movement discussions in its trajectory, taking into consideration the way its publication, in which there have always been articles, dossiers and thematic sections, has been organized.

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The continuation of an academic journal in Brazil depends on financial and institutional support in addition to the -sometimes overwhelming- editors’ hard work. Revista Estudos Feministas, at once an academic and an activist journal, has had the participation of many unpaid collaborators. This article discusses the journal’s continuation possibilities, the difficulties it faces when it is identified by many as an activist journal, although it gets voluntary support for the same reason.

After a bibliometric update of the number of articles published on Latin America as the main topic of study in the Journal of World History and Journal of Global History, it was ratified that there is a peripheralization of the continent. The objective of this article is to question whether this is a quantitative phenomenon or if there are exceptions in this regard; that is, what are the institutional factors that underlie this phenomenon? The exposition is divided in three parts. First, the findings related to the bibliometric update are detailed; then, four examples in which the role of Latin America is relevant in influential narratives that connect with global history are presented; finally, some factors that try to explain the nature of these manifestations are shown, displaying a panorama of lights and shadows on Latin America in the interpretations of global history.

The  study  of  equipotential  surfaces  is  a  common experiment in the undergraduate Physics courses, it acts as an articulating element of the teaching and learning process of  fundamental concepts of classical electromagnetism, such as the electric field and potential. However, its traditional execution method presents some technical difficulties that makes this experimental practice discouraging for the students, disfavoring the meaningful learning of these concepts. In this context, we propose a re-reading of this experiment, in which a resistors lattice is used as an analogical simulation of an electrically homogeneous environment. The experimental results obtained are fully satisfactory with respect to the simulation of basic electrostatic configurations, such as point charges or charged parallel flat conducting surfaces, allowing, even, to explore subjects that are not approached in the traditional experiment, like the configuration of lightning rods.

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This article focus on how, during the last 15 years, the periodical REF (Feminist Studies Review) has debated with the various women’s movements and contributed to the discussion of issues and proposal for feminism in Brazil. It recalls the main themes of several dossiers, which, in general, focused on issues of extreme relevance and importance for the political agenda of feminism. It reviews some of these dossiers as examples of a good articulation of the academy with social movements in the construction of a feminist agenda.

This article focuses on the new editorial model launched in Revista Estudos Feministas in 2002, that is, three years after its installation in Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). While firstly detailing the memories of such metamorphosis, the text refers to the transitions of REF’s editorship format, to the purposes and criteria of the new structure, as well as the meanings of the team expansion in relation to some national and international feminist publications. Eventually the article briefly discusses the advantages and challenges implicated in this new editorial policy.

This article intends to establish a dialogue between Luis Alberto Warat ́s project of a critical semiotics of law, one that avoids the common reductionisms of the legal epistemology from the beginning of the twentieth-century, and a few remarks of Deleuze/Guattari regarding semiotics. We take as our main reference the works of Deleuze and Guattari ́s scholars that read them within the framework of legal theory, our conclusion is that the authors, Warat and Deleuze/Guattari, develop philosophical centered on the creation and the uncanniness of Law instead of them being concerned with truth and the conditions of possibility of the scientific legal knowledge, two common features of earlier legal epistemological concerns.

Based on Norbert Elias' s framework, the research had the objective of analyzing the implications of the configuration between trainees and supervising teachers in the Supervised Curricular Internship in the training of Physical Education teachers. A total of 90 academics from the Physical Education (undergraduate) course and 63 trainee supervisors participated in the study. As instruments were used a questionnaire and the analysis of documents. Quantitative data were presented using descriptive statistics (%). The qualitative data were treated through content analysis and organized in the NVivo 10 software. It was verified that the analyzed indicators present a configuration of interdependence and possible implications in the accomplishment of the Supervised Curricular Internship in the initial formation in Physical Education, since the experience of the teacher, his or her qualification and professional status may favor or limit the relations established between those involved during this formative moment.

For Carlos Alchourron and EugenioBulygin, a judicial sentence is justifiableaccording to law only if it contains a logicalsequence of rules and the description of a case.Manuel Atienza and Juan Ruiz Manero deny theapplication of this theory to the legal reasoning.They assert that a different conceptualapparatus is needed that understands law as anactivity where society participates and the juristhas the function of deploying it. This articleexamines and confronts the main theses of theauthors mentioned, emphasizing characters thatshould not be ignored when a judicial decisionis justified.

The article develops a discussion about the Section Debates, recently introduced in Revista Estudos Feministas. While discussing the theoretical propositions where the Section is embedded, the text focuses on the contribution of the cultural translation practices to contemporary feminism in its reading, interpretation and knowledge diffusion strategies, as well as in its current political agenda.