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The scholarly purpose of this manuscript is to provide a resource for academics and researchers looking into cities, space and power in emerging economies. It also takes into consideration the relationship between emerging economies and developing contexts, as well as the lessons that may be shared between them. This book presents a unique perspective and aims to highlight issues not addressed much in writing on the built environment. Based on substantiation and references to numerous other sources and authors, alternative theoretical frameworks for the study of the built environment are developed. This is a very relevant contribution at this time, especially as cities will most probably go ...
This edited collection explores how contemporary Latin American cinema has dealt with and represented issues of human rights, moving beyond many of the recurring topics for Latin American films. Through diverse interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches, and analyses of different audiovisual media from fictional and documentary films to digitally-distributed activist films, the contributions discuss the theme of human rights in cinema in connection to various topics and concepts. Chapters in the volume explore the prison system, state violence, the Mexican dirty war, the Chilean dictatorship, debt, transnational finance, indigenous rights, social movement, urban occupation, the right to housing, intersectionality, LGBTT and women’s rights in the context of a number of Latin American countries. By so doing, it assesses the long overdue relation between cinema and human rights in the region, thus opening new avenues to aid the understanding of cinema’s role in social transformation.
A XVI Jornada de Iniciação Científica da Universidade Católica de Petrópolis faz parte do espírito de celebração acadêmica, de diálogo científico e de reconhecimento que movem nossa comunidade de ensino e pesquisa. Dentre as principais tarefas da XVI Jornada de Iniciação Científica, destacam-se a celebração das metas já alcançadas, a consciência dos limites dos saberes adquiridos, o reconhecimento da complementariedade na diversidade dos temas, problemas e métodos científicos, e, a projeção do futuro de nossa comunidade sobre o vasto universo da pesquisa. A ampliação dos horizontes de nossa Universidade exige sempre mais daqueles que se unem em razão da busca da ver...
Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema highlights the bold, inspiring, and diverse work of female filmmakers—including directors, screenwriters, and producers—and female protagonists in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry. This volume examines the diverse production and distribution spaces these filmmakers are working in, including documentary, experimental, and short filmmaking, as well as commercial feature films. An intersectional approach runs throughout the chapters with complex considerations around gender, race, sexuality, and class. The book features a mix of research methods and genres, with macro-level political, economic, and industry-wide views of gender disparities appearing alongside in-depth conversations with contemporary filmmakers Maria Augusta Ramos, Petra Costa, Mari Corrêa, and Paula Sacchetta, focused on micro-level personal experiences. In bringing together original essays and interviews, the volume provides valuable information for students of Brazil in general and of Brazilian film in particular.
REDD+ is one of the leading near-term options for global climate change mitigation. More than 300 subnational REDD+ initiatives have been launched across the tropics, responding to both the call for demonstration activities in the Bali Action Plan and the market for voluntary carbon offset credits.
The book discusses how division affect the fabric of cities, and people’s sense of identity and agency, and are reflected in physical features, architecture, and urban planning. The question of divided cities represents a complex and multistranded urban Ecology—at once both social and spatial; it cannot be limited to a single science or discipline, such as social or spatial fields. This suggests integrated and cross- disciplinary understandings, as well as integrated or parallel approaches and solutions. Urban ecologies of division manifest in multiple forms. One of their most palpable expressions is conflict, with parallels around the world, and often with correlations in the spatial fa...
Fruto de uma árdua pesquisa de Doutorado, esta obra traz uma contribuição para os estudos da Audiodescrição, apresentando um referencial teórico que vai desde a deficiência visual, suas causas, perpassando por algumas das mais importantes teorias sobre cores. Apresento também, querido leitor, a Audiodescrição e algumas de suas produções pelo mundo, destacando-se o grande campo de estudo e pesquisas existente no Brasil. Mas, para falar desse recurso de acessibilidade tão importante, foi necessário navegar pelas águas do livro ilustrado, suas origens e as relações texto-imagens que tanto enriquecem o universo literário de crianças e jovens. Daí surgiu uma proposta de parâmetros para audiodescrever livros ilustrados, uma vez que não foi encontrado nenhum material específico para acessibilizar este tipo de obra. Espero que esta obra possa, de alguma forma, enriquecer os estudos sobre o recurso, tão valioso e necessário não somente para pessoas com deficiência visual, seu público primário, mas para todo aquele que o necessite.