This paper explores the challenges and potentialities of establishing a shared paradigm of transformative knowledge based on the dialogue between East Asian experiences and the rest of the global South, particularly Latin America. It gathers and organizes a general overview of significant attempts of framing East Asian struggles within resistances against Western hegemonic epistemological impositions. It makes the case for seeking shared links and critical differences that can help to incorporate East Asian experiences within the paradigm of epistemologies of the South. This study also problematizes the articulation of a propositional methodology of comparison that could nurture the production of local, decolonial approaches and foster the exchange of practices and knowledges from and to East Asia.
{"title":"Decolonial Theory in East Asia? Outlining a Shared Paradigm of Epistemologies of the South*","authors":"Jordi Serrano-Muñoz","doi":"10.4000/RCCS.11430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/RCCS.11430","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the challenges and potentialities of establishing a shared paradigm of transformative knowledge based on the dialogue between East Asian experiences and the rest of the global South, particularly Latin America. It gathers and organizes a general overview of significant attempts of framing East Asian struggles within resistances against Western hegemonic epistemological impositions. It makes the case for seeking shared links and critical differences that can help to incorporate East Asian experiences within the paradigm of epistemologies of the South. This study also problematizes the articulation of a propositional methodology of comparison that could nurture the production of local, decolonial approaches and foster the exchange of practices and knowledges from and to East Asia.","PeriodicalId":54161,"journal":{"name":"Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais","volume":"1 1","pages":"5-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47825658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article aims to analyze the social status, role and artworks of women artists in a society which defined itself as egalitarian and utopian, through the case study of women artists on Israeli kibbutz. My argument is that the social status, role and artworks of women artists on the kibbutz express genderlessness, as defined by Erik Olin Wright (2011). A social-historic analysis of the status and role of kibbutz women artists, and an artistic analysis of artworks by Idit Levavi Gabai, Marion Fuchs and Tzila Liss, will demonstrate how the kibbutz, at least from the aspect of its artists, could be addressed and used as an example of a genderless society.
{"title":"Genderlessness in the Status, Role and Artworks of Kibbutz Women Artists","authors":"Ruth Yurovski","doi":"10.4000/RCCS.11705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/RCCS.11705","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to analyze the social status, role and artworks of women artists in a society which defined itself as egalitarian and utopian, through the case study of women artists on Israeli kibbutz. My argument is that the social status, role and artworks of women artists on the kibbutz express genderlessness, as defined by Erik Olin Wright (2011). A social-historic analysis of the status and role of kibbutz women artists, and an artistic analysis of artworks by Idit Levavi Gabai, Marion Fuchs and Tzila Liss, will demonstrate how the kibbutz, at least from the aspect of its artists, could be addressed and used as an example of a genderless society.","PeriodicalId":54161,"journal":{"name":"Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais","volume":"1 1","pages":"179-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41894060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This book is a compilation of different stories that explore a common theme: the complex relation between the meto (the indigenous/familiar) and the kase (foreign) modes of life in the enclave of Oecussi, Timor-Leste. Written by anthropologist Michael Rose, the book draws on the author’s experience in the region initially as a United Nations (UN) advisor and later on as a researcher. The meto/kase relationship is discussed in the context of different dynamics at play in the highlands and low...
{"title":"Rose, Michael (2020), Indigenous Spirits and Global Aspirations in a Southeast Asian Borderland*","authors":"R. Maschietto","doi":"10.4000/RCCS.11763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/RCCS.11763","url":null,"abstract":"This book is a compilation of different stories that explore a common theme: the complex relation between the meto (the indigenous/familiar) and the kase (foreign) modes of life in the enclave of Oecussi, Timor-Leste. Written by anthropologist Michael Rose, the book draws on the author’s experience in the region initially as a United Nations (UN) advisor and later on as a researcher. The meto/kase relationship is discussed in the context of different dynamics at play in the highlands and low...","PeriodicalId":54161,"journal":{"name":"Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais","volume":"1 1","pages":"206-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45528559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper deals with prison memory spaces located in Brazil and Portugal. The focus is on paintings and drawings, created by prisoners and ex-prisoners, understood as places of knowledge/power which not only contain visual information about the activities performed within the confinement space but also make it possible to look into the paths and choices that shape prison heritage. These collections are understood here as visual objects producing and receiving sense, and endowed with agency, vectors that allow us to think about the relationships established from them as potentialities enabling discussion of the notion of prison heritage. I will dwell on other supports, such as murals and graphics, examining their weaknesses and absences.
{"title":"Confined Collections: Prison Heritage and Its Objects (in Brazil and Portugal at the Present Time)","authors":"Viviane Trindade Borges","doi":"10.4000/RCCS.11454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/RCCS.11454","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with prison memory spaces located in Brazil and Portugal. The focus is on paintings and drawings, created by prisoners and ex-prisoners, understood as places of knowledge/power which not only contain visual information about the activities performed within the confinement space but also make it possible to look into the paths and choices that shape prison heritage. These collections are understood here as visual objects producing and receiving sense, and endowed with agency, vectors that allow us to think about the relationships established from them as potentialities enabling discussion of the notion of prison heritage. I will dwell on other supports, such as murals and graphics, examining their weaknesses and absences.","PeriodicalId":54161,"journal":{"name":"Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49468400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This scoping review synthetizes research published between 2011 and 2017 (n = 46), that aimed to analyse emergencies and variations of the Sexual Double Standard (SDS) in western societies. A consistent emergence of the SDS is observed in the evaluation of different sexual contexts/behaviours. There is also evidence of positive (egalitarian, liberal) and negative (egalitarian and conservative, and reversed) alternative sexual standards. The emergence of the SDS and the variation with negative standards indicates that, in western societies, (hetero)sexual experience is marked by gender inequality and by restrictive and punitive sexual standards. Also, because these standards may limit sexual autonomy and men’s and women’s access to a positive sexuality, they must be deconstructed and replaced by others that are more equitable.
{"title":"Manifestação do Duplo Padrão Sexual nas sociedades ocidentais (2011-2017): uma revisão abrangente","authors":"Helena Amaro, Maria-João Alvarez, J. Ferreira","doi":"10.4000/RCCS.11509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/RCCS.11509","url":null,"abstract":"This scoping review synthetizes research published between 2011 and 2017 (n = 46), that aimed to analyse emergencies and variations of the Sexual Double Standard (SDS) in western societies. A consistent emergence of the SDS is observed in the evaluation of different sexual contexts/behaviours. There is also evidence of positive (egalitarian, liberal) and negative (egalitarian and conservative, and reversed) alternative sexual standards. The emergence of the SDS and the variation with negative standards indicates that, in western societies, (hetero)sexual experience is marked by gender inequality and by restrictive and punitive sexual standards. Also, because these standards may limit sexual autonomy and men’s and women’s access to a positive sexuality, they must be deconstructed and replaced by others that are more equitable.","PeriodicalId":54161,"journal":{"name":"Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42133524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O presente artigo debruca-se sobre os coletivos de artistas a partir do enquadramento teorico da ciencia social emancipatoria de Erik Olin Wright. A analise comparativa de coletivos teatrais em Portugal e no Brasil evidencia o carater precario do trabalho artistico, mas revela tambem multiplas resistencias atraves de diferentes dinâmicas de organizacao e acao coletiva. Atraves de dois estudos de caso procura-se demonstrar como alguns coletivos teatrais, tal como proposto por Wright, (1) elaboram um diagnostico e critica do mundo e do sistema capitalista, (2) imaginam e procuram colocar na pratica alternativas “viaveis” e (3) debrucam-se sobre os obstaculos e as possibilidades de transformacao. O argumento central e que estes coletivos constituem organizacoes emancipatorias que articulam a sua linguagem artistica com novas formas de organizacao social e de producao.
{"title":"Transformar o mundo pelo trabalho, pela estética e pela política: uma análise de coletivos teatrais como utopias reais","authors":"Joana S. Marques","doi":"10.4000/RCCS.11669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/RCCS.11669","url":null,"abstract":"O presente artigo debruca-se sobre os coletivos de artistas a partir do enquadramento teorico da ciencia social emancipatoria de Erik Olin Wright. A analise comparativa de coletivos teatrais em Portugal e no Brasil evidencia o carater precario do trabalho artistico, mas revela tambem multiplas resistencias atraves de diferentes dinâmicas de organizacao e acao coletiva. Atraves de dois estudos de caso procura-se demonstrar como alguns coletivos teatrais, tal como proposto por Wright, (1) elaboram um diagnostico e critica do mundo e do sistema capitalista, (2) imaginam e procuram colocar na pratica alternativas “viaveis” e (3) debrucam-se sobre os obstaculos e as possibilidades de transformacao. O argumento central e que estes coletivos constituem organizacoes emancipatorias que articulam a sua linguagem artistica com novas formas de organizacao social e de producao.","PeriodicalId":54161,"journal":{"name":"Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais","volume":"1 1","pages":"157-178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41333510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Em 2014, a Comissao Economica para a America Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL) afirmava que uma estrategia de desenvolvimento direcionada para maior equidade economica, maior justica social e maior protecao ambiental poderia ser adotada em varios paises da America Latina – um cenario que, no entanto, se desfigurou nos ultimos anos. Este artigo tem assim tres objetivos: (1) analisar o carater utopico da agenda da CEPAL para a promocao de sociedades mais igualitarias na America Latina; (2) elencar os principais determinantes da reducao da desigualdade de renda no Brasil no periodo 2004-2014; e (3) examinar a interrupcao da trajetoria de reducao da desigualdade de renda – a partir do golpe politico de 2016 e da aprovacao de reformas neoliberais que aumentaram a precariedade dos empregos e enfraqueceram o sistema de protecao social –, como evidencia da interdicao de uma estrategia de desenvolvimento inclusivo no Brasil.
{"title":"A visão utópica da CEPAL e a desigualdade de renda no Brasil","authors":"F. A. M. Mattos, João Hallak Neto, M. W. Proni","doi":"10.4000/RCCS.11605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/RCCS.11605","url":null,"abstract":"Em 2014, a Comissao Economica para a America Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL) afirmava que uma estrategia de desenvolvimento direcionada para maior equidade economica, maior justica social e maior protecao ambiental poderia ser adotada em varios paises da America Latina – um cenario que, no entanto, se desfigurou nos ultimos anos. Este artigo tem assim tres objetivos: (1) analisar o carater utopico da agenda da CEPAL para a promocao de sociedades mais igualitarias na America Latina; (2) elencar os principais determinantes da reducao da desigualdade de renda no Brasil no periodo 2004-2014; e (3) examinar a interrupcao da trajetoria de reducao da desigualdade de renda – a partir do golpe politico de 2016 e da aprovacao de reformas neoliberais que aumentaram a precariedade dos empregos e enfraqueceram o sistema de protecao social –, como evidencia da interdicao de uma estrategia de desenvolvimento inclusivo no Brasil.","PeriodicalId":54161,"journal":{"name":"Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49357060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article was prepared for the inter-national congress “Transforming Capitalism with Real Utopias: Around the Legacy of Erik Olin Wright” promoted by Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in January 2020. Its main objective is a reflection of the union struggles in Brazil, involving two segments of the intermediate working classes: public servants and bank workers, in the light of Wright’s analysis of classes and real utopias. In both cases, in addition to the understanding of more general working conditions, the union movements were approached, with emphasis on strikes and their social and political consequences. The article is divided into three parts: in the first one it discusses the union movements of public servants; in the second one it analyses the trade union struggle of bank workers; in the last one it elaborates an analysis of the middle classes in Brazil in the light of Wright’s concepts.
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O tratamento das tematicas politico-institucionais devera, na medida do possivel, passar por algum foco comparativo, sob pena de a riqueza contextual dos trabalhos enfermar do reducionismo paroquialista ou do afunilamento explicativo. As influencias estruturais que tocam hoje na vida organizacional de cada nacao, comunidade ou territorio merecerao, pois, ser esbocadas, em nada isto obstaculizando ao conhecimento profundo do terreno empirico em causa. Seguidamente, sabe-se como os objetos e no...
{"title":"Teles, Filipe (2021), Descentralização e poder local em Portugal","authors":"Daniel Francisco","doi":"10.4000/RCCS.11748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/RCCS.11748","url":null,"abstract":"O tratamento das tematicas politico-institucionais devera, na medida do possivel, passar por algum foco comparativo, sob pena de a riqueza contextual dos trabalhos enfermar do reducionismo paroquialista ou do afunilamento explicativo. As influencias estruturais que tocam hoje na vida organizacional de cada nacao, comunidade ou territorio merecerao, pois, ser esbocadas, em nada isto obstaculizando ao conhecimento profundo do terreno empirico em causa. Seguidamente, sabe-se como os objetos e no...","PeriodicalId":54161,"journal":{"name":"Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48547413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Released in October 2020, Our Sixties: An Activist’s History is Paul Lauter’s new book, a fine piece of social history masterfully woven into a very moving, honest, and personal memoir. In carefully conceived 13 chapters tracing the various phases of the activist’s history, the book combines history, politics, pedagogy, and theory. Beautifully written, it offers solid information and sound, sharp commentary on the events that marked the revolutionary era of the 1960s in the United States (US)...
{"title":"Lauter, Paul (2020), Our Sixties: An Activist’s History","authors":"Maria Irene Ramalho","doi":"10.4000/RCCS.11755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/RCCS.11755","url":null,"abstract":"Released in October 2020, Our Sixties: An Activist’s History is Paul Lauter’s new book, a fine piece of social history masterfully woven into a very moving, honest, and personal memoir. In carefully conceived 13 chapters tracing the various phases of the activist’s history, the book combines history, politics, pedagogy, and theory. Beautifully written, it offers solid information and sound, sharp commentary on the events that marked the revolutionary era of the 1960s in the United States (US)...","PeriodicalId":54161,"journal":{"name":"Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43746615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}