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The ongoing debate concerning the Amazon's crucial role in global climate and biodiversity is entirely dependent upon sustainable development in the region. Recognizing that forests are an integral part of the social fabric in the region, initiatives such as community forestry, small-scale tree plantations and agroforestry, as well as payments for environmental services have aimed at conserving the natural forest landscape. At the same time these attempt to protect and enhance the well-being of poor local smallholders including indigenous groups, traditional communities and small farmers. Against this background, this book analyses numerous promising local tree and forest management initiati...
Listening to Others is the first English-language volume dedicated solely to the vast corpus of the preeminent Brazilian director, Eduardo Coutinho (1933–2014). From his early work in the 1960s to his last, posthumous film in 2015, Coutinho transformed documentary filmmaking in Brazil and beyond. Described as an informal linguist and savage anthropologist, Coutinho filmed encounters with people different from himself that foregrounded their voices and his role as an attentive listener, creating a "cinema of listening." This collection brings together leading scholars of film, literature, visual culture, Brazilian studies, and Latin American studies, from the United States and Latin America...
Includes reports of the committees on academic freedom.
Includes reports of the committees on academic freedom, as follows: Vol. I, pt. 1 Annual address of the president and General report of the Committee on academic freedom and academic tenure. December 1915. Vol. II, no. 2, pt. 2. Reports of committees concerning charges of violation of academic freedom at the University of Colorado and at Wesleyan University. April 1916. Vol. II, no. 3, pt. 2. Report of the Committee of inquiry on the case of Professor Scott Nearing of the University of Pennsylvania. May 1916.
De que maneira nossa incômoda condição de inacabamento tem sido vivida por nós na atualidade? E de que modo essa vivência está relacionada com o reconhecimento da teatralidade que nos constitui? Tais questionamentos tecem o fio condutor do presente livro, fruto da pesquisa de doutorado da autora defendida no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social na UERJ. Através de um diálogo entre o campo da Psicologia fenomenológico-existencial Sartriana e o campo da arte teatral, o livro parte da tese de que para que a incompletude deixe de ser uma ameaça, e possa ser vivida como uma potente "força", é fundamental que o inacabamento seja experimentado como condição inseparável d...