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A colonização da justiça pela justiça penal: potencialidades e limites do Judiciário na era da globalização neoliberal

The purpose of this paper is to show how the paradox of knowability loses its paradoxical character when we correctly interpret one of its premises. It is then shown how this new interpretation can be used to logically define analytical and synthetic truths. In this way, the paradox of knowability is traced back to the harmless affirmation that, in order to know every proposition with certainty, there must be no propositions whose truth is synthetic.

When translating Charles Baudelaire’s posthumous Mon coeur mis à nu stemmed from its many unfinishments, I offered a rewriting space in which three possible translations run simultaneously, each one of them presenting a specific dimension of its unfinishments: material marks of the manuscript; the inexistence of a defined ordering; a grid of historicities of earlier editions and translations. In this essay, I undertake specifically the case of Mon coeur mis à nu’s (non) ordering, seeking to reveal how the strategy of preparing a commentary-essay understood as a translation allowed me to establish a relation to Mon coeur mis à nu that neither appeals to rushed solutions (random digital ordering, loose leafs edition etc.) nor limits itself to an impractical linear chronological restoration of the manuscripts. In traversing the text in an essayistic way, in a specific form of commentary that Antoine Berman came to outline theoretically in its also unfinished L’âge de la traduction, a possible translation of this text is produced, drawn from lines of force that, crossing essayistic reading and writing, carves, shatters and rearranges the original. In order to discriminate essayistic commentary of translation from translator’s note, Ana Cristina Cesar’s work on Katherine Mansfield’s tale Bliss is also briefly handled.

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Modal agnosticism is the view that we must be agnostic about whether things could have turned out differently. I argue that claims about unrealised possibilities (what I term ‘merely metaphysical modal claims’) are not justified by our modal intuitions, nor are they justified by any of the means proposed by philosophers. It follows that we do not have merely metaphysical modal knowledge, and that we must adopt modal agnosticism.

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The controversial themes has been a way to highlight the link between science and social context to achieve scientific literacy. The aim of this research is to identify and characterize the perceptions of a group of university students about the controversial topic: relations between science and oppression. The method used was arts-based educational research, adopting the Theater of the Oppressed as artistic language. From collaborator’s perception, science can be used to oppress and the oppression through science is characterized by similarities with oppressions imposed by the work, the media and the education system. The results suggest discussions of science and oppression result knowledge growth about science and may result in positive attitudes towards science. And shows the profitability of arts-based educational research in science education.

This study presents partial results of a master’s research that examines the sociability of adolescents in conflict with the law in the city of Uberlândia (MG) in 2017. The research focuses specifically on male adolescents who are in the city’s juvenile center Centro Socioeducativo de Uberlândia (CSEUB). The aim is to understand the meanings the subjects attribute to their social experiences, using historical and dialectical materialism as a theoretical-methodological basis. The study is grounded on the sociability of the subjects around the work. As well as the field research at the CSEUB, a bibliographic review was conducted identifying the authors and their contribution to the literature on the issue. The analysis observed the subjects within a macro-social context, regarding the productive restructuring and new configurations of the world of work. This perspective allows understanding that the sociability of the adolescents observed in the context of the research (and their social group) is shaped by the socio-metabolism of capital, contributing to its reproduction and maintenance.

Arthur Fine presented the Natural Ontological Attitude (NOA) as a third alternative between scientific realism and anti-realism by identifying a core position contained in both and rejecting any philosophical addition to this core. At first, Fine’s proposal was understood as offering a doxastic middle ground between believing in the truth of a theory and believing in its empirical adequacy. In this reading, NOA was widely disregarded after Alan Musgrave’s criticisms of it, which characterized Fine’s proposal as a form of realism. After that, NOA was reinterpreted as a local variety of realism focused in changing the attitude used to settle the scientific realism debate, by rejecting global philosophies with an approach external to science, and by considering only the scientific evidence with a contextualist mood. Although this reading clarifies how to understand NOA, there is still no consensus about what is Fine’s argument to support it. I organize the four main interpretations of Fine’s defense and point their main flaws. Finally, I develop some clarifications about NOA in order to solve the flaws of the preceding interpretations, defending that NOA is based upon a prevalence of the epistemic values actually used in scientific practice.

Although the civilizing conquests of human rights are undeniable, their recognition and enactment have required, in addition to increasingly intense historic struggles, the involvement of the Judicial Branch. The judicial treatment of social issues overlaps the responsibilities of the Judiciary with other public institutions. Access to justice takes place, as a rule, individually and by a select group of subjects – those who know how to access this legal channel. But the effective enactment of rights depends on other factors that include not only its recognition, but the capacity to attend to and finance the demand presented. Given this situation, this paper discusses the process of the effective enactment of rights, which by increasingly emphasizing judicial channels, leads to a reduced commitment of the State as a whole, to face social issues and toward the depoliticization of the public sphere. This adverse situation challenges social assistants to take an ethical-political direction in their professional responses to the demands of judicialization of the social question that is presented daily to the Judicial Branch.

The study selected 69 issues of the journals Revista Katálysis and Serviço Social & Sociedade to analyze how the category of alienation was used in the articles published. The research identified the authors and theoretical works that supported the use of alienation, and the most significant ways it was represented were classified based on four central aspects: politics, work, subjectivity, and methodology. The results showed the prominence of authors of Marxist tradition. These authors, however, did not agree on a univocal basis for the category of alienation. The broad bibliographic and heuristic scope pointed to uses related to colloquialism and to concise disregard of categorical precision.

The decolonial studies show us that coloniality has as its fundamental dichotomy the division between humans and non-humans. What processes, however, produce or fill this opposition? This article seeks to discuss sex as a discursive production that is part of the processes of humanity distribution of western coloniality. In order to do so, it works with the notion of talking bodies, as a way to break with the idea of the body as a blank canvas, nature to which a sense is imprinted through culture. In this way, it becomes possible to question sexual dimorphism and to think of the magnification of the ways in which we attribute the language of sex and thus reconstruct language over bodies in order to allow more, so that we can say that although we only know the bodies through of language, they always exceed it.

It is intended to present a case study, taken from the existentialist philosophy, which the women and philosophy relationship approach depicts two great relevant questions. Firstly, the alleged universality of conceptual system coined by the phylosopher that, upon the scrutiny of concrete existence, discloses a somewhat selective and partial reality that, oftenly, rather than combating, reinforces certain commonplace opinions and prejudices about the differences and gender oppression. Secondly, on the other hand, the interest apparently located in the status of the women, that drives the female phylosopher to open and, to some extent, unleash the philosophical field of the investigations, towards the achievement of their connection to human life. That is one of the key steps taken toward the constitution of women as an authentic subject, and of knowledge as well.

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How species interact with each other and how the environment affects species are subjects that ecologists still need to better understand. Our objectives were to evaluate the effect of (i) the abundance of Gerromorpha adults, (ii) habitat integrity, and (iii) morphological conditions (width, depth and slope) of streams on the abundance of nymphs of semiaquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha). Sampling was carried in 21 streams in the region of Barro Alto and Niquelândia, in the state of Goiás. The abundance of Gerromorpha adults has a positive effect on the abundance of nymphs. The morphological conditions (width, depth and slope) and habitat integrity had no effect on the abundance of Gerromorpha nymphs and adults. In tropical environments, adults and nymphs of Gerromorpha coexist without harming each other and environmental variables have no effect on the abundance of the nymphs. The protection of nymphs is important from a population point of view, since it ensures the maintenance and growth of populations in a community and, consequently, prevents local extinctions of species. 

This study analyzes the dynamics and impacts of artistic and cultural projects implemented in prisons. Based on the data collected in three Portuguese prisons, within an intensive methodological framework, the study sought to understand the implications of artistic and social interventions in such institutions. Based on observations and interviews, it was possible to capture some dynamics associated with the development of the activities. Different typologies of impacts on the structure, professionals, and prisoners were identified. Inter-relationship dynamics were verified within the structures and associated with the dialogue with the territorial context. The research found categories that showed how the artistic activities proposed had repercussions for the people who participated. Three major categories of impacts on the life of the inmate population were identified: intrapersonal level, interpersonal level, and the inmates’ relations with the institution.

This article presents research focusing on the characterization of the current context of socio-environmental conflicts in Northeast Brazil as part of the expressions of the “environmental issue” and its confrontation nowadays. These conflicts are pointed out as new challenges to the field of Social Work. This is an exploratory bibliographic and documentary research. The results show a significant growth of conflicts in the region; land as a major environmental resource in dispute; and who are the main political subjects involved in these conflicts, representing the capital and the labor. The conclusion is that the current economic development model is constitutive and a constituent of the observed worrying scenario, as it is based on taking the national economy back to produce primary goods, commodity, and deepening the associated, dependent, and unequal place historically assigned to Brazil within the capitalist world market.

In this article, we start with a survey of the approaches on Atlantic slavery, aiming to assess the relevance of global history when dealing with specific themes. Firstly, a historiographical balance is presented, tracing past and present approaches on the theme produced within the framework of compared history and, more recently and explicitly, of global history, whose contributions provide important subsidies for our field of interest. Next, some theoretical and methodological considerations are presented to support the construction of an agenda of research that has as its core concern the temporal multiplicity of Atlantic slavery in its relation with the dynamics of capitalism.

This theoretical paper aims to depict, position and discuss the market and customer-orientation concepts in the Brazilian sports clubs in order to increase revenues and profits. In effect, the market and customer-orientation improve the professional management in a club, the responsible governance principles to stakeholders – including partners and sponsors –, the client-fan perspective and, also, provide revenues and profits to a sports club. However, reports provided by consulting have been shown that market-orientation and professional management are more in theory than in practises. While Brazilian football clubs squeeze have debts, European clubs have revenue and profits through marketing and client-fan focus.

Callithrix penicillata is a non-human primate endemic to Brazil. It is widely used in biomedical studies; however, little is known about the anatomy of this species, including the vascular aspects. Therefore, this work describes the aortic arch of this species, in order to corroborate comparative studies and hemodynamic tests for experimental models. Five C. penicillata were evaluated, which presented two distinct types of aortic arch angioarchitecture, one commonly found in other mammals, and another similar to Saguinus niger, suggesting that this pattern may be related to the fact of both species belong to the family Callithrichidae.