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

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-171 ◽  
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.

scholarly journals International Migration and Federative Co-ordination in Brazil: São Paulo and Porto Alegre Case Studies between 2013 and 2016

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-301
Author(s):  
Guilherme Arosa Prol Otero ◽  
Gabriela Spanghero Lotta
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
State Governments ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Civil Society Participation ◽  
Public Policy Implementation ◽  
The City

Abstract This article analyses the co-ordination between national and municipal governments in Brazil regarding migration policy between the years of 2013 and 2016, using the concept of policy institutional arrangements and case studies of two Brazilian cities, São Paulo and Porto Alegre. The results reveal that the City of São Paulo government has advanced considerably in the sense of institutionalisation of the subject in the municipality by decentralising skills and assuming responsibilities for its migrant population, with relative autonomy from federal government. The City of Porto Alegre government shows a less institutionalised arrangement, with little technical and financial capability, less autonomy from federal and state governments, and great emphasis on civil society participation. Finally, it is advocated that the regulation of the New Migration Law may deal with a series of problems in the current federative arrangement, constituting federative-articulated policies, with greater capacity for public policy implementation, and more active participation of subnational governments in the development of the national migration policy.

scholarly journals Centro e periferia na produção e avaliação da obra de Gilvan Samico

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Eduardo Dimitrov
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Specific Relation ◽  
Brazilian Art ◽  
Sociology Of Art ◽  
The Way

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.

The PCC

2016 ◽  
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.

scholarly journals THE EXPLORATION OF THE TIETÊ RIVER BY THE COMISSÃO GEOGRÁFICA E GEOLÓGICA (1905): CARTOGRAPHIC ASPECTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-326
Author(s):  
Jorge Pimentel Cintra
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
State Agency ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Parana River ◽  
Tietê River ◽  
Magnetic Declination ◽  
Agricultural Potential ◽  
Great Region

This paper studies the cartographic products associated with the Tiete River Exploration Report, (1905) published by the Geographical and Geological Committee of the São Paulo Province. The expedition, from the Bar of the Jacaré-Guassú River to the Paraná River, led to the mapping of the Tietê River, which, along with others, is part of the efforts made by this state agency so that there was no longer a great region called "Unknown hinterland inhabited by Indians" in the official map of the Province of Sao Paulo. The purpose was not only to map, but also to raise the mineral resources, the geology, focused on the types of soil and its agricultural potential, and the navigability of rivers for transporting people and goods. The data obtained are studied (altitudes, longitudes, magnetic declination), surveys paths, equipment used, work methodology and the Cartography produced: General Map, Partial Maps, Profile, Cross Sections and others.

scholarly journals Two Interviews, Images of the Mobility Paths

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.

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

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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