Corpos em movimento na cidade: uma flanêrie pela Avenida Paulista

Introdução: As relações entre o corpo e a cidade são objetos de estudo de vários campos disciplinares e, ao mesmo tempo, produzem diferentes planos de análise. Objetivo: Este trabalho teve por objetivo identificar sentidos e analisar conexões na relação entre corpo e cidade, tendo a experiência empírica da pesquisadora na avenida Paulista como suporte contextual para a produção do texto. Métodos: Partindo da pergunta “como a experimentação da cidade e os efeitos no “corpo-pesquisadora” produzem conhecimento em saúde?”, a pesquisadora se utiliza da imagem conceitual do flâneur como figura sensível que inspira o modo de olhar a cartografia, modo este em que a escrita é produzida e que configura uma metodologia de pesquisa. Neste texto também é problematizado o processo de abertura para uma escrita cartográfica e os anseios produzidos a partir de uma formação pautada na ciência positivista. As principais contribuições teóricas estão no campo da saúde coletiva, das ciências sociais e humanas e das ciências do movimento. Resultados: No primeiro capítulo, “A pesquisadora: sujeito ou objeto de pesquisa?”, é posta em análise as sensações e memórias da pesquisadora ao se propor a uma “outra escrita acadêmica”. No segundo capítulo intitulado “A caminhada e o olhar pela flânerie”, a pesquisadora faz as primeiras aproximações de sua experiência na avenida Paulista em diálogo com alguns autores. No terceiro capítulo descreve sobre as inspirações metodológicas. No quarto capítulo “Domingo de sol na Paulista”, a pesquisadora explora cenas da experiência como fragmentos que vão se unindo para compor a produção do conhecimento. No último capítulo, antes das considerações finais, intitulado “Corpos em Movimento e Diversidade”, a pesquisadora produz composições com o conceito de corpografia propondo aberturas para trabalhos futuros. Aplicabilidade: No seu todo, a dissertação apresenta contribuições teóricas e metodológicas para analisar as relações entre o corpo e a cidade, o corpo e a saúde, o corpo e o movimento e a produção social do corpo.Introduction: The body and the city are the objects of study in several disciplinary fields and produce different ways of analysis. Objective: This work aimed to identify meanings and analyze connections in the relationship between body and city, from the empirical evidence produced at Paulista Avenue (Sao Paulo-Brazil), as contextual support to produce the writing of experience. Methods: Departing from the question "how do the experimentation of the city and the effects on the "body-researcher" produce knowledge in health?", the researcher uses the conceptual image of the flâneur as a sensitive figure, inspiring the way of Deleuzian cartography, in which writing is produced and that configures a research methodology. This dissertation also questions the “cartographic writing” and the desires that emerged in positivist science. The main theoretical contributions of the research are in the fields of collective health, social and human sciences, and movement science. Introduction: The body and the city are the objects of study in several disciplinary fields and produce different ways of analysis. Objective: This work aimed to identify meanings and analyze connections in the relationship between body and city, from the empirical evidence produced at Paulista Avenue (Sao Paulo-Brazil), as contextual support to produce the writing of experience. Methods: Departing from the question "how do the experimentation of the city and the effects on the "body-researcher" produce knowledge in health?", the researcher uses the conceptual image of the flâneur as a sensitive figure, inspiring the way of Deleuzian cartography, in which writing is produced and that configures a research methodology. This dissertation also questions the “cartographic writing” and the desires that emerged in positivist science. The main theoretical contributions of the research are in the fields of collective health, social and human sciences, and movement science

Cozinhando mudanças: o ato de cozinhar como ferramenta de enfrentamento aos desafios do Antropoceno

O ato de cozinhar engloba dimensões culturais, ambientais, sociais, econômicas e políticas, bem como compõe as atividades contidas em um sistema alimentar, sendo uma ação promotora de diálogos e transformações. Este estudo objetiva descrever e analisar elementos cotidianos relacionados ao cozinhar e suas relações com o sistema alimentar, a partir da experiência de um grupo de mulheres agricultoras urbanas da zona leste da cidade de São Paulo. Foram utilizados os mapas corporais narrados, método de pesquisa visual criativo no qual, por meio da realização do desenho dos contornos corporais dos participantes, foram produzidos dados visuais e orais sobre os significados do ato de cozinhar. Participaram do estudo sete mulheres, que desenvolvem ações relacionadas à agricultura e ao cozinhar. Os dados gerados foram analisados por meio de análise temática. O ato de cozinhar se mostrou como um conector do campo à mesa, fortalecendo e sendo fortalecido pelas práticas da agricultura urbana e periurbana, sendo uma interessante ferramenta para promover saúde, contemplando o bem-estar biopsicossocial em consonância com questões de sustentabilidade social, econômica e ambiental. Compreender tal conexão possibilita apoiar políticas públicas para a promoção de sistemas alimentares sustentáveis e o enfrentamento aos desafios do antropoceno.The act of cooking encompasses cultural, environmental, social, economic, and political dimensions, as well as composing the activities contained in a food system, being an action that promotes dialogues and transformations. This study aims to describe and analyze everyday elements related to cooking and its relationship with the food system from the experience of a group of urban women farmers in the east side of the city of São Paulo. Body-map storytelling was used, a creative visual research method, in which, by drawing the participant’s body contours, visual and oral data were produced on the meanings of the act of cooking. Seven women participated in the study, who develop actions related to agriculture and cooking. The generated data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The act of cooking proved to be a connector from the field to the table, strengthening and being strengthened by the practices of urban and peri-urban agriculture, and is an interesting tool to promote health, contemplating biopsychosocial well-being in line with issues of social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Understanding this connection makes it possible to support public policies to promote sustainable food systems and facing the challenges of the Anthropocene

Cartographies of the Body in Pandemic Times Cartografias do corpo em tempos pandêmicos

Como Fox e Alldred (2020) consideram, o dualismo Cultura / Natureza forneceu aos filósofos, cientistas e cientistas sociais pós-iluministas uma maneira elegante de estabelecer limites para as respectivas preocupações das ciências sociais e naturais (ver também Barad, 2007; Braidotti, 2013; Fullagar et al., 2019). Este dualismo tem permitido a criação de distinções entre corpos e modos de estar no mundo “modernos” (leia-se “civilizados”) e “tradicionais” (leia-se “primitivos”). No entanto, quando questões pertencentes à incorporação do social são exploradas criticamente, a influência sobre o bem-estar do entorno construído, as transições climáticas e a pandemia de Covid-19 em curso começam a problematizar tais formas, como é argumentado nas últimas três décadas por autores com perspectivas feministas, pós-humanas, novo-materialistas e político-ecológicas, entre outras. Dando continuidade a um diálogo permanente iniciado em 2018 entre acadêmicos e ativistas da América Latina e Europa, organizamos o seminário online “Religando o nexo natureza-cultura-corpo: práticas e epistemologias”. O evento virtual desenvolvido em duas partes explorou como os territórios inter-relacionados de saúde, atividade física e educação podem ser repensados a partir de perspectivas que desestabilizam as fronteiras ontológicas estabelecidas entre natureza, cultura e corpo, e suas possíveis articulações. Este artigo é a transcrição da segunda sessão, denominada “Cartografias do corpo em tempos de pandemia”, e apresenta os diálogos entre Alice del Gobbo, Carla Panico, Gianluca De Fazio, Alexandre Fernandez Vaz e Eduardo Galak, pesquisadores da Itália, Portugal, Brasil e Argentina.As Fox and Alldred (2020) note, culture/nature dualism has supplied post-Enlightenment philosophers, scientists and social scientists with a neat way to set limits on the respective concerns of the social and natural sciences (see also Barad, 2007; Braidotti, 2013; Fullagar et al., 2019). This dualism has also enabled the creation of distinctions between “modern” (read “civilised”) and “traditional” (read “primitive”) bodies and ways of being-in-the-world (Denowski and Viveiros de Castro, 2014). Yet, when critically exploring issues of embodiment, the influence of the built environment on well-being, climate transitions and/or the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic such distinctions start to become problematic, as eloquently argued in the last three decades by feminist, post-human, new-materialist and political ecological –among others– debates and propositions. Giving continuity to an ongoing dialogue started in 2018 between scholars and activists from Latin America and Europe (see Donato, Tonelli, Galak, 2019) this seminar explored how the interrelated domains of health, physical activity, and education can look like from perspectives that de-stabilise established ontological boundaries between nature, culture, the body, and their relationship. It did so through a dialogue between Alessandro Bortolotti, Simone Fullagar, Bruno Mora, Niamh Ni Shuilleabhain, four scholars from Australia, Italy, United Kingdom and Uruguay. The online event took place as the first of a two-parts online seminar series on Re-assembling the nature-culture-body nexus: practices and epistemologies

More-than-human Perspectives on Physical Activity, Health and Education

As Fox and Alldred (2020) note, culture/nature dualism has supplied post-Enlightenment philosophers, scientists and social scientists with a neat way to set limits on the respective concerns of the social and natural sciences (see also Barad, 2007; Braidotti, 2013; Fullagar et al., 2019). This dualism has also enabled the creation of distinctions between “modern” (read “civilised”) and “traditional” (read “primitive”) bodies and ways of being-in-the-world (Denowski and Viveiros de Castro, 2014). Yet, when critically exploring issues of embodiment, the influence of the built environment on well-being, climate transitions and/or the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic such distinctions start to become problematic, as eloquently argued in the last three decades by feminist, post-human, new-materialist and political ecological –among others– debates and propositions. Giving continuity to an ongoing dialogue started in 2018 between scholars and activists from Latin America and Europe (see Donato, Tonelli, Galak, 2019) this seminar explored how the interrelated domains of health, physical activity, and education can look like from perspectives that de-stabilise established ontological boundaries between nature, culture, the body, and their relationship. It did so through a dialogue between Alessandro Bortolotti, Simone Fullagar, Bruno Mora, Niamh Ni Shuilleabhain, four scholars from Australia, Italy, United Kingdom and Uruguay. The online event took place as the first of a two-parts online seminar series on Re-assembling the nature-culture-body nexus: practices and epistemologies

A aventura crítica da semiótica

The critical adventure of semiotics courses through the main theses about semiotics and communication that have been discussed during the first stage of the research Critical Semiotics: Towards a theory of materialities in communication. In it, the Semiotics and Communication Cultures Research Group (GPESC) discussed the potentialities and limits of a communicational perspective not only based on the founding works of semiotic research (Saussure, Peirce) and developed in its structuralist models (Jakobson, Barthes, Hjelmslev, Lotman), but also revisited by ideas that deconstructed structuralism through the postulates of this very structuralism (Derrida, Kristeva, Deleuze, Guattari). The paper presents this suggestion by means of ten deconstructions related to concepts and theoretical problems which are key to the debate around the materialities of communication: semiotics, communication, materialities, presence, phenomenon, representamen, mediums, sign and significant, structure and system. In so doing, it suggests a move from materialities towards the immanence of a micropolitical and post- human communication.A aventura crítica da semiótica percorre as principais teses sobre a semiótica e a comunicação conforme trabalhadas na primeira etapa da pesquisa Semiótica Crítica, denominada Por uma teoria das materialidades na comunicação. Nela, o Grupo de Pesquisa Semiótica e Culturas da Comunicação procurou discutir as potencialidades e limites de uma perspectiva comunicacional não somente fundamentada nos trabalhos fundadores da semiótica (Saussure, Peirce) e desenvolvida em seus modelos estruturalistas (como em Jakobson, Barthes, Hjelmslev e Lotman), mas também revisitada pelos textos que operaram uma desconstrução do estruturalismo pelo interior dos postulados deste próprio estruturalismo (Derrida, Kristeva, Deleuze, Guattari). O artigo apresenta esta proposta pelos modos como a pesquisa trabalhou com dez desconstruções ligadas a conceitos e problemas teóricos centrais ao debate das materialidades da comunicação: semiótica, comunicação, materialidades, presença, fenômeno, representâmen, meios, signo e significante, estrutura e sistema, sugerindo uma passagem das materialidades à imanência de uma comunicação micropolítica e pós-humana

A aventura crítica da semiótica

A aventura crítica da semiótica percorre as principais teses sobre a semiótica e a comunicação conforme trabalhadas na primeira etapa da pesquisa Semiótica Crítica, denominada Por uma teoria das materialidades na comunicação. Nela, o Grupo de Pesquisa Semiótica e Culturas da Comunicação procurou discutir as potencialidades e limites de uma perspectiva comunicacional não somente fundamentada nos trabalhos fundadores da semiótica (Saussure, Peirce) e desenvolvida em seus modelos estruturalistas (como em Jakobson, Barthes, Hjelmslev e Lotman), mas também revisitada pelos textos que operaram uma desconstrução do estruturalismo pelo interior dos postulados deste próprio estruturalismo (Derrida, Kristeva, Deleuze, Guattari). O artigo apresenta esta proposta pelos modos como a pesquisa trabalhou com dez desconstruções ligadas a conceitos e problemas teóricos centrais ao debate das materialidades da comunicação: semiótica, comunicação, materialidades, presença, fenômeno, representâmen, meios, signo e significante, estrutura e sistema, sugerindo uma passagem das materialidades à imanência de uma comunicação micropolítica e póshumana.The critical adventure of semiotics courses through the main theses about semiotics and communication that have been discussed during the first stage of the research Critical Semiotics: Towards a theory of materialities in communication. In it, the Semiotics and Communication Cultures Research Group (GPESC) discussed the potentialities and limits of a communicational perspective not only based on the founding works of semiotic research (Saussure, Peirce) and developed in its structuralist models (Jakobson, Barthes, Hjelmslev, Lotman), but also revisited by ideas that deconstructed structuralism through the postulates of this very structuralism (Derrida, Kristeva, Deleuze, Guattari). The paper presents this suggestion by means of ten deconstructions related to concepts and theoretical problems which are key to the debate around the materialities of communication: semiotics, communication, materialities, presence, phenomenon, representamen, mediums, sign and significant, structure and system. In so doing, it suggests a move from materialities towards the immanence of a micropolitical and posthuman communication

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study

Background: The impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on postoperative recovery needs to be understood to inform clinical decision making during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This study reports 30-day mortality and pulmonary complication rates in patients with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection. Methods: This international, multicentre, cohort study at 235 hospitals in 24 countries included all patients undergoing surgery who had SARS-CoV-2 infection confirmed within 7 days before or 30 days after surgery. The primary outcome measure was 30-day postoperative mortality and was assessed in all enrolled patients. The main secondary outcome measure was pulmonary complications, defined as pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, or unexpected postoperative ventilation. Findings: This analysis includes 1128 patients who had surgery between Jan 1 and March 31, 2020, of whom 835 (74·0%) had emergency surgery and 280 (24·8%) had elective surgery. SARS-CoV-2 infection was confirmed preoperatively in 294 (26·1%) patients. 30-day mortality was 23·8% (268 of 1128). Pulmonary complications occurred in 577 (51·2%) of 1128 patients; 30-day mortality in these patients was 38·0% (219 of 577), accounting for 81·7% (219 of 268) of all deaths. In adjusted analyses, 30-day mortality was associated with male sex (odds ratio 1·75 [95% CI 1·28–2·40], p\textless0·0001), age 70 years or older versus younger than 70 years (2·30 [1·65–3·22], p\textless0·0001), American Society of Anesthesiologists grades 3–5 versus grades 1–2 (2·35 [1·57–3·53], p\textless0·0001), malignant versus benign or obstetric diagnosis (1·55 [1·01–2·39], p=0·046), emergency versus elective surgery (1·67 [1·06–2·63], p=0·026), and major versus minor surgery (1·52 [1·01–2·31], p=0·047). Interpretation: Postoperative pulmonary complications occur in half of patients with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection and are associated with high mortality. Thresholds for surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic should be higher than during normal practice, particularly in men aged 70 years and older. Consideration should be given for postponing non-urgent procedures and promoting non-operative treatment to delay or avoid the need for surgery. Funding: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, Bowel and Cancer Research, Bowel Disease Research Foundation, Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons, British Association of Surgical Oncology, British Gynaecological Cancer Society, European Society of Coloproctology, NIHR Academy, Sarcoma UK, Vascular Society for Great Britain and Ireland, and Yorkshire Cancer Research