11 Back to medical authority: how trust defines the way older people in Sao Paulo search for health information and care

Este artigo reconstrói a trajetória de Gilvan Samico mobilizando algumas de suas produções artísticas e apreciações de críticos de arte. O intuito é evidenciar a relação assimétrica entre produtor e críticos, o que impacta nas opções estéticas e na forma como elas são interpretadas. A circulação deste artista entre Recife, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro e Olinda imprime aspectos específicos, formais e temáticos às suas gravuras. A incorporação de uma gramática visual difundida pelos centros, a busca por uma temática vinculada a uma noção de brasilidade e, ao mesmo tempo, a forma como os críticos analisam suas produções vinculando-as ao universo popular evidencia uma relação específica entre centro e periferia na produção artística brasileira. Palavras-chave: Arte brasileira. Sociologia da arte. Centro e periferia. Arte pernambucana. Circulação intelectual.Center and periphery in the production and evaluation of the Gilvan Samico artistic worksAbstractThis article traces a trajectory of Gilvan Samico mobilizing some of its artistic productions and critical assessments of his art. The aim is to highlight the asymmetrical relationship between producer and critics, which impacts on aesthetic options and how they are interpreted. The circulation ofthis artist from Recife, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Olinda print specific aspects, formal and thematic in his engravings. The incorporation of a visual grammar diffused by the centers, the search for a theme linked to a notion of Brazilianness and, at the same time, the way critics analyze theirproductions by linking them to the popular universe shows a specific relation between center and periphery in the Brazilian artistic production.Keywords: Brazilian art. Sociology of art. Center and periphery. Intellectual circulation. Art in pernambuco.

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The PCC

Sharing This Walk ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469623405.003.0002 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Karina Biondi

Keyword(s):

Sao Paulo ◽

São Paulo ◽

Prison Life ◽

Everyday Practices ◽

The Everyday ◽

History Of ◽

The Way

This chapter presents a short and fairly standard history of the First Command of Capital (Primeiro Comando da Capital - PCC) and the individuals and spaces that will follow in successive chapters. Some official characteristics of the penitentiary system in São Paulo, Brazil, are intertwined with the everyday operation of the prisons and its informal (although sometimes official) aspects. This chapter introduces the way inmates rules are taught and learned by the prisoners, in order to absorb everyday practices and come to understand the importance and the central characteristics of the PCC. Biondi focuses on how to practice equality and humility without confusing it with weakness, and how it is coherent with the ideals of the PCC. The knowledge produced in these practices constitutes trul theories of prison life, and the specialists in these theories are invited to join the PCC.

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Two Interviews, Images of the Mobility Paths

Revista Nacional de Gerenciamento de Cidades ◽

10.17271/2318847297320213013 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (73) ◽

Author(s):

Maria Isabel Imbronito ◽

Biagio Antonio Barletta Jr

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Sao Paulo ◽

Urban Life ◽

São Paulo ◽

Road Infrastructure ◽

Jane Jacobs ◽

Quality Of Urban Life ◽

The Way

This document compares two videos that date from the same year (1969) and provide a basis for discussion about two different paradigms of urban thinking present in the 1960’s: an interview with Jane Jacobs on the show "The way it is", on Canadian broadcaster CBC, in which she disputes the plans to build Spadina Expressway in Toronto, and a presentation by the then Mayor of São Paulo, Paulo Salim Maluf, on the plans to build Elevado Presidente Costa e Silva (currently named Elevado João Goulart, nicknamed Minhocão [the Big Worm]), an elevated expressway in São Paulo. By confronting the videos, the antagonism of the discourses regarding the role of road infrastructure, the value given to the urban environment, and the idea of quality of urban life becomes clear. The materials are also an illustration of two different outcomes: the halting of the Spadina Expressway works in Toronto and the completion of the Minhocão works in São Paulo.

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Expected impact of COVID-19 outbreak in a major metropolitan area in Brazil

10.1101/2020.03.14.20035873 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Tarcísio M. Rocha Filho ◽

Fabiana Sherine Ganem dos Santos ◽

Victor Bertollo Gomes ◽

Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha ◽

Julio Henrique Rosa Croda ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Older People ◽

Metropolitan Area ◽

Sao Paulo ◽

World Health ◽

São Paulo ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization ◽

The Impact ◽

The City

AbstractIn January 2020 China reported to the World Health Organization an outbreak of pneumonia of undetermined origin in the city of Wuhan, Hubei. In January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Interest (PHEI).ObjectivesThe aim of this study is to assess the impact of a COVID-19 epidemic in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil.MethodsWe used a generalized SEIR (Susceptibles, Exposed, Infectious, Recovered) model, with additional Hospitalized variables (SEIHR model) and age-stratified structure to analyze the expected time evolution during the onset of the epidemic in the metropolitan area of São Paulo. The model allows to determine the evolution of the number of cases, the number of patients admitted to hospitals and deaths caused by COVID-19. In order to investigate the sensibility of our results with respect to parameter estimation errors we performed Monte Carlo analysis with 100 000 simulations by sampling parameter values from an uniform distribution in the confidence interval.ResultsWe estimate 1 368 (IQR: 880, 2 407) cases, 301 (22%) in older people (≥60 years), 81 (50, 143) hospitalizations, and 14 (9, 26) deaths in the first 30 days, and 38 583 (IQR: 16 698, 113, 163) cases, 8 427 (21.8%) in older people (≥60 years), 2181 (914, 6392) hospitalizations, and 397(166, 1205) deaths in the first 60 days.LimitationsWe supposed a constant transmission probability Pc among different age-groups, and that every severe and critic case will be hospitalized, as well as that the detection capacity in all the primary healthcare services does not change during the outbreak.ConclusionSupposing the reported parameters in the literature apply in the city of São Paulo, our study shows that it is expected that the impact of a COVID-19 outbreak will be important, requiring special planning from the authorities. This is the first study for a major metropolitan center in the south hemisphere, and we believe it can provide policy makers with a prognosis of the burden of the pandemic not only in Brazil, but also in other tropical zones, allowing to estimate total cases, hospitalization and deaths, in support to the management of the public health emergence caused by COVID-19.

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Balbúrdia: a polissemia enquanto interpretante do confronto entre vozes sociais (“Balbúrdia”: polysemy whilst interpreting of conflict between social voices)

Revista Eletrônica de Educação ◽

10.14244/198271994459 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

pp. 4459142

Author(s):

Débora Luciene Porto Boenavides

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Sao Paulo ◽

São Paulo ◽

Dominant Group ◽

Current Management ◽

Oppressed People ◽

The Social ◽

Theory Of Discourse ◽

Do So ◽

The Way

This article aims to analyse the polysemy as an interpreting of conflicts between social voices, and it is based on the dialogical theory of discourse and on the enunciation theory of Benveniste. To do so, it is verified the way polysemy marks the confrontation between social voices: a) as an oppressive designation given by dominant groups to the oppressed people and as a strategy of revaluation of the oppressive words by oppressed groups and b) as a critical designation of the dominated groups to their oppressors and as an attempt of the dominant group to revaluate/neutralize the critical dominations given to it by the oppressed groups. Then, it is observed a contemporary example of the mentioned phenomenon: the word revaluation of “balbúrdia”, in 2019, used by Brazilian university students, in response to a polemic statement of Abraham Weintraub, Minister of Education of the current management. It is found that the social contradictions do not enclose in one or other statement, they should be observed through the dialogue stablished between different social voices.ResumoEste artigo objetiva analisar a polissemia enquanto interpretante dos confrontos entre vozes sociais, tendo como base a teoria dialógica do discurso e a teoria enunciativa de Benveniste. Para isso, verifica-se de que modo a polissemia marca o confronto entre vozes sociais: a) como designação opressora dada pelos grupos dominantes aos oprimidos e como estratégia de revalorização de vocábulos opressores por grupos oprimidos; b) como designação crítica dos grupos dominados aos seus opressores e como tentativa do grupo dominante de revalorizar/neutralizar as denominações críticas dadas a ele pelos grupos oprimidos. Após, observa-se um exemplo contemporâneo do citado fenômeno: a revalorização vocabular da palavra “balbúrdia”, em 2019, por estudantes universitários brasileiros, em resposta a um enunciado polêmico de Abraham Weintraub, enquanto Ministro da Educação da atual gestão. Constata-se que as contradições sociais não se encerram em um ou outro enunciado, devendo ser observadas através do diálogo travado entre as diferentes vozes sociais.Palavras-chave: “Balbúrdia”, Contradições sociais, Polissemia, Revalorização vocabular. Keywords: “Balbúrdia”, Social contradictions, Polysemy, Word revaluation.ReferencesBAKHTIN, Mikhail Mjkhailovitch. Estética da criação verbal. Tradução feita a partir do francês por Maria Emsantina Galvão G. Pereira. 5ª Ed. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1997.BAKHTIN, Mikhail Mjkhailovitch. Estética da criação verbal. Tradução feita a partir do russo por Paulo Bezerra. 2ª Ed. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2010.BENVENISTE, Émile. Problemas de linguística geral II. Tradução Eduardo Guimarães. Campinas, SP: Pontes, 2006.BOENAVIDES, Débora Luciene Porto. Ressignificar e resistir: a Marcha das Vadias e a apropriação da denominação opressora. Revista Estudos Feministas, Florianópolis, v. 27, n. 2, e48405, 2019.BOURDIEU, Pierre. A Economia das Trocas Linguísticas: O que Falar Quer Dizer. Prefácio Sergio Miceli. 2. ed. São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 2008CALVET, Louis-Jean. Linguistique et colonialisme: petit traité de glottophagie. Paris: Payot, 1974.ENGELS, Federico. Anti-Dühring. La revolución de la ciencia por el señor Eugen Dühring. Colección Clásicos Del Marxismo. Madrid: Fundación Federico Engels, 2014.VOLOCHÍNOV, Valentin Nikolaevich. A construção da enunciação e outros ensaios. São Carlos: Pedro & João Editores, 2013.VOLÓCHINOV, Valentin Nikolaevich. Marxismo e Filosofia da Linguagem: problemas fundamentais do método sociológico na ciência da linguagem. Tradução, notas e glossário de Sheila Grillo e Ekaterina Vólkova Américo; ensaio Introdutório de Sheila Grillo. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2017.Notícias, memes etc.Estadão, 30/04/2019. Disponível em: https://educacao.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,mec-cortara-verba-de-universidade-por-balburdia-e-ja-mira-unb-uff-e-ufba,70002809579Estadão, 15/05/2019. Disponível em: https://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,entenda-o-que-levou-a-balburdia-as-ruas-de-todo-o-pais,70002830399O Dia, 1º/05/2019. Disponível em: https://odia.ig.com.br/brasil/2019/05/5638622-mec-recua-de-punir-universidades-por--balburdia--e-propoe-corte-linear.html#foto=1e4459142

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Geological Surveys in the Tropics: The Brazilian Experience (1875-1934)

Earth Sciences History ◽

10.17704/eshi.26.1.l8hx2723w881380r ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 151-171 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Silvia Figueirôa

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Mineral Resources ◽

Sao Paulo ◽

São Paulo ◽

Geological Surveys ◽

Scientific Organizations ◽

Geological Sciences ◽

The Tropics ◽

The Way

This paper presents and discusses three case studies of scientific organizations involving geology, based on successive institutional models of geological surveys, namely: the "Geological Commission of Brazil", the "Geographical and Geological Commission of São Paulo", and the "Geological and Mineralogical Survey of Brazil". The issues linked to the exploitation of the land opened the way to the development of geological sciences in Brazil. Contrary to what one might expect, in view of Brazil's considerable mineral resources, the institutionalization of geology was linked more directly to agriculture rather than to mining. It was the interests of agriculture, especially those related to coffee planting, that influenced the direction of research and the results obtained.

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“Saudades da festa!”: Triggering sensory memories of DIY electronic music through multimodal practices

Multimodality & Society ◽

10.1177/26349795211027553 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 263497952110275

Author(s):

Mihai Andrei Leaha

Keyword(s):

Electronic Music ◽

Sao Paulo ◽

São Paulo ◽

Involuntary Memory ◽

Virtual Scene ◽

Elicitation Methods ◽

New Type ◽

The Way

DIY electronic music parties in São Paulo are deeply immersive, corporeal and sensorial. In March 2020, due to the pandemic, the parties stopped, and the scene gradually moved online manifesting itself on a new type of canvas. However, the digital manifestations of the virtual scene lost their performative and multisensorial appeal. By using multimodal elicitation methods (photos, videos, audio tracks, internet memories) this article is exploring the triggered or involuntary memory of embodied and sensorial affects that are being recalled and missed by the “clubbers.” The article intends to exhibit autoethnographic memories of party participation while problematizing the way in which the memory of this missed intense experience comes from a regular attendance to electronic music gatherings and its relationship with the complex feeling of “saudade.”

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In the Light of Hoasca

Fieldwork in Religion ◽

10.1558/firn.v2i3.319 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 319-349

Author(s):

Sérgio Brissac

Keyword(s):

Subjective Experience ◽

Sao Paulo ◽

The State ◽

Religious Practices ◽

São Paulo ◽

Symbolic System ◽

The Subject ◽

The Way

This article deals with the symbolic experiences of urban participants of the União do Vegetal (UDV), in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Through the analysis of participant speech, it seeks to identify the discursive axes of disciples of the UDV. Subjects’ experiences under the effects of the tea are strongly liminal, and frequently act as mediators through which the subject articulates elements of his life with those of the UDV worldview, experiencing them as a single reality. This experience is labeled by the author as encompassment in the force of the burracheira (the UDV designation for the ‘strange force’ that accompanies ingestion of the tea). As elaborated by Brissac, this idea denotes both the subjective experience of being ‘swept up’ by the effects of ayahuasca, and the way in which the UDV as a symbolic system draws to itself elements of other religious practices.

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