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Starting from a movement of attraction and repulsion between the ideas of Mário de Andrade and Walter Benjamin on cinema, in this paper are presented simultaneities in the reflection of both authors on the new art. With this aim, it develops a reflected reading of Mario's essays of the 1920s, contrasting with the Benjaminian discussion of the following decade. Although conceptually about Art as Photography the author are not in agreement each other --about a new aesthetic sensitivity that is established in modernity where the image begins to place itself as an aesthetic foundation even in non-cinematographic--, Benjamin's analytical hypothesis may sustain a reading of a novel like Macunaíma, by Mario. Then, the paper discusses the tension in the Brazilian essayist and novelist Oeuvre, paying attention to how Art as Photography stands as power in its own aesthetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Brazilian's backwoods are present in the history of the country's territorial formation. The inner borders have uncounted landscapes, different regionalizations, lifeways, and unique traditions. Through the paths of the backwoods we found the Brazilian identity in its essential diversity, source of fascination and exploration by authors and geopoetic and geoliterature expressions. This paper proposes to reflect this dual role of the brazilian's backwoods, historically and geographically, together with their geopoetic and geoliterary power and wealth. A bibliographic review of the geographical precepts and elements of the Brazilian territory is established for this work, as well as the presentation of geopetics and geoliteraries expressions from the backwoods based on their essential geographical feature, diversifying it into multiple sociocultural and natural singularities. Therefore, it is possible to take the backwoods as a beginning and final point for the discussion about the formation of the identities and inner borders from the Brazilian national state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper approaches children's literature as a field of production whose aesthetic and political effects multiplies the possible modes of existence, calling us to an ethical disposition to interrogate the world. The research about children's literature, mindful of contemporary phenomena, gains relevance when considering the welcoming processes of those who migrate, therefore, of alterity. Considering these premises, the article analyses the relations between children's literature and the great waves of contemporary migration, leaning on the works of Latin American authors. Thus, it argues that, between children's literature and the journey through seas and deserts, lines of migrant childhoods are embedded as two points of beginnings that signals the aesthetic, ethical, and political effects of literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper was to identify the vegetal resources present at the Abaetetuba-PA open street market, analyzing the pressure of use of the most commercialized Amazonian species, providing indications for conservation priorities. The study was conducted at the Abaetetuba street market, where 51 vendors were interviewed through semi-structured questionnaires. The species of CEASA, from varzea and mainland were identified through photographs, those from which taxonomic confirmation was not obtain were collected. The Salience Index (IS) was used to indicate the most commercialized species, the Use Pressure (PU) to verify the pressure on the most commercialized species and the Index of Sensitivity to Extraction (ISbE) to investigate a possible threat to the population at local level. The street market had a predominance of male marketers (62.7%), those with incomplete primary studies were the majority (39.2%). Seventytwo species of plants were recorded, distributed in 58 genera and 35 families, highlighting Solanaceae with 17,1% (n=6), Cucurbitaceae with 17,1% (n=6), Arecaceae with 17,1% (n=6) Fabaceae with 11,4% (n=4) e Rutaceae with 11,4% (n=4). The species were distributed in the categories: food, medicinal, ornamental and mystical. Three species were distinguished by the indices: pau de verônica (Dalbergia monetaria L. f.) with IS = 0,033; PU = 6; ISbE = 51%; jucá (Libidibia ferrea (Mart. ExTul.) L. P. Queiroz) with IS = 0,015; PU = 7; ISbE = 33% and buçu (Manicaria saccifera Gaertn.) with SI = 0.016; PU = 6; ISbE = 66%. As a result, it can be seen that the commercialization of these species may be affecting the maintenance of their populations and threatening their existence at the local level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research question followed by this paper: Have public policies for fighting dengue been fully implemented in border municipalities given their territorial complexity? From this, we seek to analyze the influence of the contextual characteristics of two border municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul: Corumbá (Brazil/ Bolivia border) and Ponta Porã (Brazil/Paraguay border), regarding the Dengue National Control Program (pncd in the Portuguese acronym) degrees of implementation and their influence on the observed effects. The methodology was an evaluative survey among Brazilian border municipalities. Data collection involved documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders. The evaluative analysis showed that the external context of the two municipalities was unfavorable to the implementation of dengue control actions, and did not achieve the targets proposed by the pncd. It is observable that there were concessions between the external and political-organizational contexts to implement the pncd partially. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to provide an overview of Covid-19 in the Yanomami Indigenous Land (TIY), drawing a parallel between the regions of the upper Marauiá river (AM), upper Rio Negro (AM) and the Ajarani and Apiaú river valley (RR). To place the pandemic of the new coronavirus in the Yanomami context, we start from the notion of xawara - smoke from the epidemic related to contact with non-indigenous people. This essay also aims to analize the access to health and native strategies to fight epidemics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper turned up as a kind of "patched ethnography" in which a group of anthropology students and their professor at the Federal University of Western Pará, in Brazilian Amazonia, tried to overcome the barriers of confinement and interlocked their views on the Covid-19 pandemic. Inspired by common readings they did during the classes before the suspension of university activities, these reflections, emerged by the Amazon and Tapajos rivers, twine this experience of collaborative writing, when the novel coronavirus erupts precisely in one of the most exacerbated moments of aggression to the Amazonian rainforest and its inhabitants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Imagining, -- like Aby Warburg did -- the Argentinean gestural economic heritage in the internal history of the images of the 1990's poetry and its projections, this paper proposes a reading of a series of poems that approach the subject of money or job in a critical period for Argentinians. This investigation will allow us to observe the distances or proximities of poetry with the world of work that, in those years, suffered transformations that only until today we are beginning to understand. Therefore, some of the poets will propose an economic reading of the recent past and others will look at the present. In all cases, poetry will not remain unscathed and will see its aesthetic presuppositions modified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Latin America has the greatest volume of fresh water per capita in the world. However, part of its population does not have regular access to safe water sources or has to make do with precarious water provision services. Although Argentina is one of the countries in the region with higher percentages of population served by drinking water networks, the latter are unequally distributed. Among the most affected sectors are those residing in informal settlements in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, the country's largest city. In this respect, the article poses the following questions: How do those sectors access drinking water networks? Why do they have less access than other sectors? On the basis of ethnography and other research tools, the paper argues that: 1) they access drinking water networks through alternative means that necessarily entail the co-participation of neighbors; and 2) their limited access is due, among other things, to the way they relate to the State in order to have the service extended to their neighborhoods. In view of these results, the article discusses notions regarding the private, public, and community management of the service and questions ideas such as governance and coproduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the main results of a Master's in Geography thesis written in the University of Chile, titled Residential Segregation and Inequality in the Access to Collective Education, Culture, and Recreation Services in Bogotá-Colombia. It carries out a critical discussion of the factors that influence the socio-spatial segregation of the population and their effects on accessibility to urban services faculties. On the basis of a territorial and statistical analysis, it shows how the characteristics of Bogotá's urban model have led to a strong correlation between spatial patterns of high socioeconomic segregation and low quality of life. This segregation reinforces the low-income population's negative conditions, deriving from unequal access to collective services, mainly education, culture, and recreation, which are spaces theoretically recognized due to the production of social capital and, therefore, of social integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the production of territory in two port cities dedicated to the export of agro-industrial products: San Lorenzo and Puerto General San Martín, located on the northern coast of the metropolitan area of Rosario, Province of Santa Fe. It examines the differential struggles of social actors for the appropriation and use of the territory, which result in interventions that benefit global corporate actors and facilitate the free circulation of capital. The research was based on a qualitative-quantitative methodology that made it possible to understand and analyze the different strategies used by the social actors involved, as well as the interactions among the global, national, and local scales. Results highlight the numerous affectations to local territories and the tendency to unequal distribution of urban services and externalities, due to priority granted to port and agro-industrial activities, which generates multiple situations of spatial injustice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies on the management of river basins with a geographic approach have not yet been widely disseminated; thus, this paper provides a proposal aimed at contributing to advances in this field, through the applications of geo-technologies to the analysis of the integrated management of the Lajeado Amarelo river basin, in Três Lagoas, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Results were obtained by applying a systemic approach as the basis of the integrated management, as well as through a theoretical and technical discussion regarding the study of river basins. The management of this particular river basin was addressed on the basis of the analysis of types of land use and the assessment of their impacts (according to the management of the river). The article also analyzes the influence of each type of land use on the conservation of the basin and makes proposals for changing land use and their viability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to critically discuss the issue of territorial planning, usually understood as an instrument of public policy aimed at solving territorial problems and conflicts and at defining a desirable territorial model. The discussion is based on an understanding of planning as an intrinsic dimension of the production of space, which regulates appropriation and use according to a certain, always disputed order. The article analyzes two empirical situations in the province of Misiones (Argentina), which the State usually conceives as "territorial planning problems": the production of living spaces in situation of informal land ownership and the tensions between the conservation of nature and productive activities. The research is grounded in the systematization of primary information (deriving from interviews with members of public, private, and social organizations) and secondary sources (specialized bibliography and institutional documents), gathered during fieldwork. The paper shows different practices and meanings of order through which planning is displayed, in both State policies (housing, zoning, environmental education, productive reconversion, among others) and the local population, in a complex, inseparable relation of order/disorder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Eating is an everyday exercise that beyond the ingestion / incorporation of food reveals human action in society, connecting identities and differences, to questions of gender, to socialization and to nutrition itself. However, eating has been moving increasingly away from that association, evidenced by the observation that certain foods begin to dance in the global food market and come to occupy a place of privilege. This movement is part of a path that aims at the homogenization and standardization, not only of food, but also of the bodies produced by this food. On the other hand, many "ancestral" and / or traditional foods and their legacies of food practices are drawn from their local realities and away from their referential matrix. In this paper, we wonder why only a small number of foods (soy, corn and wheat, milk, and beef) are chosen as the basis of the human diet. How do we get to this food stage? And, is it possible to speak in terms of a "food coloniality"? (Herrera Miller, 2016). We begin arguing that development and its devices (agribusiness, transgenics, etc.) are enterprises that make up the modernity / coloniality of Western rationality. A second step is to evaluate if the set of practices and knowledge involved in agribusiness and food production originates from the commodities point to a "food coloniality". The work will be based on data from the literature and some empirical data from the research for doctoral thesis of one of the authors in the Bolivian Amazon where you can see how in this scenario re-existence practices emerge that are located on the margins of the modern system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Present paper identifies care and healing practices, as well as reveals the perception about the results obtained with the use of plants in a quilombola community. The research used the qualitative as well as the quantitative approach, so it is a research by mixed methods, developed through the basis of the model of single case studies, carried out by questionnaire to 22 interlocutors, and analyzed through content analysis Thematiccategorial. This study was carried out in a quilombola community, located in the municipality of Ananindeua-PA. The results state that 100% of the participants know and use some kind of integrative / complementary practice, these being 85 plants, with the most diverse purposes. It was also identified the practices of care and cure used by the quilombolas, being the use of teas the most recurrent practice followed by the blessing, smoking, praying and bath of smell. The research made it possible to draw up guidelines for health professionals according to cross-cultural theory, respecting individuality according to beliefs and values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze the importance of literary translation in terms of intercultural and intellectual opening to other forms of thought in the literary supplement Letras & Artes (1946-1954), as well as to show how literary translation becomes an important mechanism for cultural, social, and political education from a synchronic perspective of literature. The methodology employed was the review of the catalogue compilation of translations published in the literary supplement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the result of the discussions developed in the third chapter of the Master's Degree thesis on Geography and its objective is to understand how the new category of "sustainable" development was incorporated into the new actions carried out by the State in its effort to achieve space/time adjustment in the post-1990 neoliberal context. In general, the article seeks to understand the construction of this concept in international organizations, the process of neoliberalization in Brazil, the redefinition of the State's role, and the regional development strategies for established for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]