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Decades of campaigns and policy efforts have brought significant progress in women's economic and political status and pushed gender equality up the global policy agenda. The goal of gender equality, however, still remains largely out of reach, as illustrated by the recent wave of women's protests against sexual harassment, assault and gender violence (e.g. #MeToo movement). Some European countries (e.g. Poland, Hungary and Lithuania) have even seen their performance on gender equality backslide in recent years, and in parallel to calls for increased equality, a wave of mobilisation against gender equality has appeared in the public discourse. Conservative, authoritarian and populist voices ...
An in-depth critical analysis of the effects of the right to health in Brazil over the past thirty years.
Police torture in Brazil
This book presents a collection of ethnomathematical studies of diverse mathematical practices in Afro-Brazilian, indigenous, rural and urban communities in Brazil. Ethnomathematics as a research program aims to investigate the interrelationships of local mathematical knowledge sources with broader universal forms of mathematics to understand ideas, procedures, and practices found in distinct cultural groups. Based on this approach, the studies brought together in this volume show how this research program is applied and practiced in a culturally diverse country such as Brazil, where African, indigenous and European cultures have generated different forms of mathematical practice. These stud...
Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Hip hop is a global form of creative expression. In Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, rappers refuse the boundaries of hip hop’s US genesis, claiming the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face of postcolonial racial and class violence. Despite the geographic and linguistic borders that separate these artists, Charlie Hankin finds in their music and lyrics a common understanding of hip hop’s capacity to intervene in the public sphere and a shared poetics of neighborhood, nation, and transatlantic yearnings. Situated at the critical intersection of sound studies and Afro-diasporic poetics, Break and Flow draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork and collaboration, as well as an archive of hundreds of songs by more than sixty hip hop artists. Hankin illuminates how new media is used to produce and distribute knowledge in the Global South, refining our understanding of poetry and popular music at the turn of the millennium.
Este livro foi escrito para os amantes das lutas marciais, da defesa pessoal, da medicina, filosofia e psicologia do Oriente. Esta edição, revista e ampliada, em 3 volumes, torna este livro quase uma "Bíblia" do Aikido, contendo preciosas informações ensinadas pelos grandes mestres, fruto da profunda e extensa pesquisa realizada pelo autor. Um pequeno dicionário de termos técnicos de lutas marciais, bem como exercícios especiais para a melhoria da saúde, estendem o valor do livro a outras àreas. Pensamentos filosóficos orientais ilustram a obra transmitindo ao leitor profundos ensinamentos de sabedoria. Sem dúvida este livro é indispensável na biblioteca de qualquer apaixonado pelo Budô.
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Como é possível notar, desde a capa, este livro é inspirado no trabalho de Nelson Traquina, de modo que uma justa homenagem possa ser feita a este importante autor das Teorias do Jornalismo. Esperamos que a obra proporcione uma leitura agradável e instigante para os que acreditam na relevância social do jornalismo e na defesa da democracia que os jornalistas devem cumprir. Questionar as práticas jornalísticas é fundamental no processo de consolidação e avanço de democracia. Nessa perspectiva, as pesquisas em teorias do jornalismo, expostas nesta obra, almejam dar uma contribuição inovadora e potente para a academia e para o aprimoramento do processo democrático na sociedade bra...
Investigating the incessant technology growth and the even higher complexity of engineering systems, one of the crucial requirements to confidently steer both scientific and industrial challenges is to identify an appropriate measurement approach. A general process can be considered effective and under control if the following elements are consciously and cyclically managed: numeric target, adequate tools, output analysis, and corrective actions. The role of metrology is to rigorously harmonize this virtuous circle, providing guidance in terms of instruments, standards, and techniques to improve the robustness and the accuracy of the results. This book is designed to offer an interdisciplinary experience into the science of measurement, not only covering high-level measurement strategies but also supplying analytical details and experimental setups.