PRÁTICAS PEDAGÓGICAS EM CONTEXTO DE MOBILIDADE ACADÊMICA INTERNACIONAL: ESTUDANTES DA COMUNIDADE DOS PAISES DE LINGUA PORTUGUESA NA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA

Os estudos recentes sobre mobilidade internacional acadêmica descortinam preocupações que não são contempladas nas abordagens monodisciplinares. As pesquisas interdisciplinares que discutem as relações entre os mecanismos de reprodução de assimetrias observadas nos crescentes fluxos de estudantes em circulação internacional, parecem mais conseqüentes. Nessa trilha, propõe-se uma reflexão acerca dos elementos que compõem a construção da alteridade em situações de mobilidade acadêmica internacional, objetivando iluminar as práticas pedagógicas exploradas pelos professores. Em situações como a da cidade de Coimbra, na qual a sociabilidade urbana sofre influência histórica da presença da Universidade, o conceito de cultura acadêmica merece ser compreendido em sua complexidade. As tradições estudantis, atualizadas e reafirmadas, fortalecem a reposição de hierarquias e pertencimentos que transbordam para os espaços da cidade. Nesse contexto, fazem-se necessárias reflexões sobre componentes político-culturais das práticas pedagógicas exploradas. A pesquisa está alinhada à abordagem qualitativa na medida em que está orientada por procedimentos típicos do método etnográfico. Seu corpus é composto por estudantes luso-falantes, de distintas nacionalidades, que no primeiro semestre de 2011 cursavam pós-graduação na Universidade de Coimbra

Combinando heterogeneidades em espaços globais de mobilização. Os casos do Fórum Social Mundial e GlobalSquare

O presente artigo propõe desenhar uma antropologia da espacialidade com um olhar crítico para compreender a emergência de diferentes espaços globais de mobilização que se inscrevem em uma perspectiva altermundialista. Para tanto, realiza-se inicialmente, um retrato do contexto histórico que permitiu o surgimento desses espaços. Em seguida, são apresentadas e analisadas comparativamente as lógicas inerentes a cada um dos dois casos selecionados, que aparentam ser particularmente representativos na trajetória dos espaços globais de mobilização (o Fórum Social Mundial e o GlobalSquare). No final, busca-se trabalhar com a hipótese de uma “epistemologia do paradoxo”, que seja capaz de reconhecer as contradições básicas próprias aos processos estudados e que contribua para a compreensão dos processos de mobilização, ampliando seu alcance e sua força.This paper seeks to propose an anthropology of spatiality to understand the emergence of different global mobilization spaces that appear into an alterglobalist perspective. First, we share a portrait of the historical context that allowed the emergence of these spaces. Then, we present, analyze and compare the inherent logic in each one of the two selected cases, which appear to be particularly representative in the trajectory of global spaces of mobilization (the World Social Forum and the GlobalSquare). In the end, we seek to work with the hypothesis of an ‘epistemology of paradox’, that would be able to recognize the basic contradictions, specific to the studied processes and contribute to understanding the processes of mobilization, expanding its reach and strength

Combinando heterogeneidades em espaços globais de mobilização. Os casos do Fórum Social Mundial e GlobalSquare

O presente artigo propõe desenhar uma antropologia da espacialidade com um olhar crítico para compreender a emergência de diferentes espaços globais de mobilização que se inscrevem em uma perspectiva altermundialista. Para tanto, realiza-se inicialmente, um retrato do contexto histórico que permitiu o surgimento desses espaços. Em seguida, são apresentadas e analisadas comparativamente as lógicas inerentes a cada um dos dois casos selecionados, que aparentam ser particularmente representativos na trajetória dos espaços globais de mobilização (o Fórum Social Mundial e o GlobalSquare). No final, busca-se trabalhar com a hipótese de uma “epistemologia do paradoxo”, que seja capaz de reconhecer as contradições básicas próprias aos processos estudados e que contribua para a compreensão dos processos de mobilização, ampliando seu alcance e sua força.This paper seeks to propose an anthropology of spatiality to understand the emergence of different global mobilization spaces that appear into an alterglobalist perspective. First, we share a portrait of the historical context that allowed the emergence of these spaces. Then, we present, analyze and compare the inherent logic in each one of the two selected cases, which appear to be particularly representative in the trajectory of global spaces of mobilization (the World Social Forum and the GlobalSquare). In the end, we seek to work with the hypothesis of an ‘epistemology of paradox’, that would be able to recognize the basic contradictions, specific to the studied processes and contribute to understanding the processes of mobilization, expanding its reach and strength

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

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 understanding 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,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 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 underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities 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 organism 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 neglected 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 lost

Towards a philosophy of waiting and permanence: time in the cinema of Elia Suleiman and Kamal Aljafari

A presente tese estuda a questão do tempo em seis filmes, que compõem duas trilogias dos cineastas palestinos, Elia Suleiman e Kamal Aljafari. No cruzamento dos regimes de visibilidade e temporalidade no qual a Palestina situou-se após a Nakba, busca-se mapear nas obras figuras temporais que permitam uma leitura política da experiência coletiva do desaparecimento e do trauma. A compreensão da catástrofe-em-continuidade, que não se circunscreve à data como momento do trauma, fundamenta a ideia de que os dois cineastas produzem uma obra estética que contém indícios da abertura de um espaço próprio à política em meio às ruínas.This thesis studies the issue of Time in six films that compose two trilogies of the Palestinian filmmakers Elia Suleiman and Kamal Aljafari. At the crossroad of the regimes of visibility and temporality in which Palestine has locate itself after the Nakba, we aim at mapping in these works the temporal figures that allow a political understanding of the collective experience of disappearance and trauma. The comprehension of the catastrophe-as-continuitiy, that is not enclosed in the date as a traumatic moment, asserts the idea that both filmmakers produce an aesthetic work that contains signs of the opening of a space for politics amongst the ruins

NEOTROPICAL ALIEN MAMMALS: a data set of occurrence and abundance of alien mammals in the Neotropics

Biological invasion is one of the main threats to native biodiversity. For a species to become invasive, it must be voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into a nonnative habitat. Mammals were among first taxa to be introduced worldwide for game, meat, and labor, yet the number of species introduced in the Neotropics remains unknown. In this data set, we make available occurrence and abundance data on mammal species that (1) transposed a geographical barrier and (2) were voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into the Neotropics. Our data set is composed of 73,738 historical and current georeferenced records on alien mammal species of which around 96% correspond to occurrence data on 77 species belonging to eight orders and 26 families. Data cover 26 continental countries in the Neotropics, ranging from Mexico and its frontier regions (southern Florida and coastal-central Florida in the southeast United States) to Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Uruguay, and the 13 countries of Caribbean islands. Our data set also includes neotropical species (e.g., Callithrix sp., Myocastor coypus, Nasua nasua) considered alien in particular areas of Neotropics. The most numerous species in terms of records are from Bos sp. (n = 37,782), Sus scrofa (n = 6,730), and Canis familiaris (n = 10,084); 17 species were represented by only one record (e.g., Syncerus caffer, Cervus timorensis, Cervus unicolor, Canis latrans). Primates have the highest number of species in the data set (n = 20 species), partly because of uncertainties regarding taxonomic identification of the genera Callithrix, which includes the species Callithrix aurita, Callithrix flaviceps, Callithrix geoffroyi, Callithrix jacchus, Callithrix kuhlii, Callithrix penicillata, and their hybrids. This unique data set will be a valuable source of information on invasion risk assessments, biodiversity redistribution and conservation-related research. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this data paper when using the data in publications. We also request that researchers and teachers inform us on how they are using the data