scholarly journals On the border between culture and religion. Public policies for Afro-Brazilian religions in Brazil

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Cordovil
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Afro Brazilian

This paper aims to discuss some of the recent questions concerning the promotion of public policies for Afro-Brazilian religions. To access to these policies, these groups have organized over the last few decades in the form of civil society associations and their leaders have attended many ministerial board meetings and committees. Because of this engagement, Afro-Brazilian religions were classified as "traditional terreiro peoples" and more recently received the label of "traditional peoples and communities of African origin." The paper analyses the various arguments underpinning the discursive construction of Afro-Brazilian religions as representatives of a black cultural heritage in Brazil.

scholarly journals A Pandemia Covid-19 e o Estado de Emergência em Portugal: Breves Considerações Sobre Políticas Públicas

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Leandro Berenguer ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Top Down ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Time

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted States to adopt exceptional measures to contain their spreads rates and therefore mitigate their effects. In Portugal there was a need to resort to the figure of the state of emergency, being used for the first time since the foundation of the third Republic. To respond to a situation of public calamity, the suspension, albeit partial, of fundamental rights, freedoms and guarantees was used, adopting measures with repercussions in the most varied areas of civil society. Based on the security context of a State, this article intends to analyse the declarations of the state of emergency in Portugal in the light of the theoretical framework of public policies, reflecting on the process of implementing the state of emergency. To this end, the top-down and bottom-up approaches are placed in confrontation as the main theories of public policies implementation in the analysis of the unprecedented political context in Portugal.

scholarly journals Um ministério com cultura: Gilberto Gil e os exercícios de antropologia aplicada

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (57) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Segata ◽  
Adriana Donato
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Culture System ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
The Relationship

Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre o Ministério da Cultura na gestão do Ministro Gilberto Gil e o processo de formulação das principais políticas gestadas no período 2003 a 2008. O primeiro tópico apresenta os principais mecanismos da gestão Gilberto Gil: Sistema Nacional de Cultura, reformulação da Lei Rouanet, Programa Cultura Viva – Pontos de Cultura, Plano Nacional de Cultura e Vale-Cultura. O segundo tópico faz uma reflexão sobre a relação da “ampliação do conceito de cultura” em sua dimensão antropológica e simbólica – ideia implementada pelo ministro – para novas diretrizes das políticas culturais gestadas em seu mandato. Por fim, traz uma reflexão sobre a contribuição da abertura não somente conceitual, mas também a abertura do diálogo entre diversos atores da sociedade civil neste processo de construção das novas diretrizes e das novas políticas culturais no Brasil a partir de 2003.Palavras-chave: Gilberto Gil. Cultura. Antropologia. Democratização. Políticas Públicas  A ministry with culture: Gilberto Gil and the exercises in applied anthropologyAbstract: This paper presents a study on the Ministry of Culture in the administration of Minister Gilberto Gil and formulating the central policies implemented from 2003 to 2008. The first topic presents the main mechanisms of the Gilberto Gil administration: the Sistema National Culture System, the reformulation of Lei Rounet, the Program Cultura Viva – Pontos de Cultura, the Plano Nacional de Cultura and the Vale-Cultura. The second topic reflects the relationship between the “expansion of the concept of culture” in its anthropological and symbolic dimension – an idea implemented by the minister – for new guidelines for cultural policies created during his term. Finally, the work reflects on the contribution of conceptual opening and the opening of dialogue between different civil society actors in this process of construction of new guidelines and new cultural policies in Brazil from 2003 onwards. It reflects on how a set of anthropological defenses to traditional, popular and ethnic knowledge, practices, and knowledge converted into an “anthropological concept of culture” guided a vision of democratizing government that is resistant to European models of culture.Keywords: Gilberto Gil; Culture; Anthropology, Democratization; Public Policies

scholarly journals Heritage digitization. Are there common practices and common reasons?

1970 ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Bengt Wittgren
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Common Practices ◽  
Public Museums

The article will examine the digitization of heritage and use of digital heritage within the civil society in Sweden. Three parties: Swedish local heritage communities, Swedish handicraft societies and the Sami community will be in focus. Are there intersections and gaps in linked, shared and networked cultural heritage between these parties and the public museums? Who have the preferential rights of interpretation? What are selected for digitization and why?

scholarly journals The EU’s hegemonic interventions in the South Caucasus: Constructing ‘civil’ society, depoliticising human rights?

2020 ◽  
pp. 001083672095447
Author(s):  
Laura Luciani
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
The South ◽  
South Caucasus ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
Financial Survival ◽  
Transitioning Countries ◽  
Human Rights Standards

This article draws upon poststructuralist and postcolonial theories to examine the European Union’s (EU’s) policies of human rights promotion in the South Caucasus – notably, the EU’s engagement with local human rights activists and organisations in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Contrary to most literature, which has been concerned with policy (in)effectiveness, this article is interested in problematising the discursive foundations of this EU-civil society ‘partnership’ in the realm of human rights promotion, as well as in retrieving the agency of actors who are ‘at the receiving end’ of EU policies. It is argued that the discursive construction of ‘civil’ society as a ‘good-Other’ of the EU-Self serves as a means to depoliticise the EU’s interventions, aiming at the approximation of ‘transitioning’ countries to the EU’s human rights standards. Although the hegemonic relation requires subaltern actors to perform the ‘civil’ society identity, processes of hybridisation and subversion arise as external interventions interact with local realities and meanings. Building on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations, the article shows how the hegemonic identity of ‘civil’ society is negotiated by South Caucasus ‘not-quite-civil’ actors striving for local legitimacy, financial survival or ownership of their human rights work.

Reconstructing the “Cradle of Brazil”: The Detachability of Morality and the Nature of Cultural Labor in Salvador, Bahia's Pelourinho World Heritage Site

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Collins
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Historical Center ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Brazilian Identity ◽  
Afro Brazilian

AbstractThis essay examines theories of value and property in relation to conceptions of morality, correct comportment, and their influences on Afro-Bahians subject to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural heritage initiatives in the Pelourinho neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. This urban space is the nation's most expressive site for the performance of Afro-Brazilian identity and the commemoration of tradition. In analyzing the role of morality in Pelourinho-based cultural property-making, I focus on popular critiques of heritage discourse to argue that, in conjuring a particular form of cultural heritage that bears a distinct resemblance to UNESCO's immaterial patrimony programs, the Bahian state has piggybacked on social scientific evaluations of local people's moral comportments in order to put together an archive of everyday life that exists as a standing reserve for histories of Brazil and the marketing of cultural heritage. This data produced in an effort to regulate the historical center has revolved around the state's evaluation of the moral probity and everyday habits of the Pelourinho's overwhelmingly Afro-Brazilian populace. The result is a conceptualization of cultural labor that emanates not from the capacities and struggles of producers, but from a decentered or distributed view of production, which I tie to the existence of this archive. Consumers, or visitors to the historical center, as well as historical archives thus play a critical role in this form of constructing property and understanding the sources and fungibility of labor in a global economy for multicultural difference that depends on an emphasis on futurity and market reflexivity.

Administrative reforms and performance of local public policies

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 462-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Santos Curto ◽  
Álvaro Dias
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
State And Local

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between administrative reform in Portugal and the impacts on the dependence of local governments in the face of budgetary resources of state and local municipal revenue collection, which is understood as a form, among others, participation civil society in local public policies. Design/methodology/approach – The study opts for an exploratory analysis using the grounded theory approach, including the use of data relating to local government structures and partnerships with the private sector, based on the main lines of the public administration reform. The data were supplemented by documentary analysis, including legislative documents and papers in specialized area of administrative decentralization and civil society participation in local public policies. Findings – The paper provides empirical insights about how the increased participation of civil society in local public policies is associated with less reliance on state budgets and a greater number of local managerial structures. Research limitations/implications – Due to the chosen research approach, the results cannot be generalized. A comparative study between several countries could bring several interesting insights. Social implications – The paper includes implications for economic and social development of new public policies in the context of administrative reforms. Originality/value – This paper makes several theoretical and empirical contributions on this research field specially about local public manager's decisions for financial resources transfers within the active policy of sustainable local development.

scholarly journals RILA, Porto Murtinho and its cultural heritage: perspectives for preservation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1227-1242
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Mendes De Souza ◽  
Juliana Villela Junqueira ◽  
Maria Margareth Escobar Ribas Lima ◽  
Érika Santos Silva ◽  
Mariana De Barros Casagranda Akamine
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
South American ◽  
American Continent ◽  
The South ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
South American Continent

As part of the studies developed by the University Network of the Latin American Integration Route (UniRila), this proposal intends to contextualize the municipality of Porto Murtinho in the process of occupation of the interior of the South American continent, understanding the Latin American Integration Route (RILA) as the culminating event of the process of territorialization-deterritorialization-reterritorialization of the region. For this purpose, historical, economic, geographic and geological aspects are considered, without which the conditions of urbanization would not be fully understood and public policies would be deficient. Thus, it is intended to draw attention to the impact that the production and export of commodities has on the territory in question.

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