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The article examines the reasons behind young men’s choice to enrol in career-qualifying programmes for care-related professions (such as BA in Primary Education, Early Years Practitioner, Social pedagogy Practitioner) – a traditionally feminised area. The research points to three main motivations: (1) a forced choice, to accrue training credits in these courses and then enrol in a Psychology programme; (2) looking forward to the socialisation processes of educators; (3) personal aptitudes and inclinations towards this profession – or because they felt unsuited for other options and found other programmes unappealing, making it a choice by exclusion. The research aimed at understanding how students relate to the widespread male gender models, given that care and education professions require characteristics not positively associated with hegemonic masculinity. The research shows that the interviewees disapprove of certain traits associated with the hegemonic masculinity model, such as aggressiveness and inability to listen. However, they exhibit little reflexivity about the privileges linked to gender and fail to connect these with factors of oppression, especially when distancing themselves from subordinate or “homosexual” masculinities. This reflexivity, however, emerges among those who, due to their educational choices, have faced social stigmatisation, which compelled them to become more aware of the consequences of perpetuating gender roles and the resulting discrimination.

Linguistic stereotypes emerged both in relation to biological and social factors. Different studies have offered different methodologies to ascertain their emergence in children or even babies. In this paper, we present a survey on six Italian regional varieties tested on 79 children aged from 6 to 10 years old. The survey took place in two elementary schools and used a paper questionnaire in which emojis were used to express different values to be associated with different accents. Our results show that this method was reliable for studying linguistic stereotypes, even in children with a low level of literacy due to their age.

Abstract The article examines the processes of identification of women born from mixed couples (one Italian and one foreign parent), to explain the complexity in the self-determination processes of women with non-hetero-normative sexuality living in multicultural families. Based on the intersectionality paradigm, we will analyse how biosocial categories such as sex, gender, sexual orientation, class, name, skin colour, family background may influence the self-definition identity processes and generate multiple discrimination. Inspired by Gloria Anzaldúa’s thoughts, we will highlight how girls shun widespread heteronormative models not only of mainstream society, but of the LGBT community itself. We also applied a methodology used in non-formal education, which allowed us to explore how the women interviewed put different aspects of themselves to the test, negotiating them in the different scenarios of everyday life, in an attempt to counteract situations for which they can feel stigmatized and oppressed.

Nas últimas duas décadas surgiram metodologias e procedimentos técnicos, que visam avaliar o nível de efetividade das áreas protegidas, com o intuito de identificar a real capacidade dessas áreas em planejar e implementar políticas públicas, relacionadas a temática socioeconômica e ambiental. Nesse contexto o presente estudo, surge com a finalidade de analisar as metodologias (WWF (1999), Padovan (2003), Ervin (2003), Stolton et al. (2007), Marinelli (2011) e ICMBIO/WWF (2017), aplicadas e adaptadas à realidade brasileira, considerando estrutura metodológica, aplicação, vantagens e limitações. Dessa forma, intenciona-se avançar nas discussões metodológicas propostas e analisar o seu nível de contribuição para com o planejamento e gestão dessas áreas protegidas.

There is a need to expand the discussion about the dynamics of violence, as well as the importance of research that focuses on its reflection on public health. The present study seeks to broaden the understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of homicides in Brazilian capitals, based on the public database of different federal and state institutions, for the construction of longitudinal regression models. Thus, it became possible to analyze social, demographic and economic factors that influence the epidemic / endemic homicide rates in the main Brazilian cities in the period between 2012 to 2016. As a result, the availability factors of psychoactive drugs and percentage of young males were statistically significant and positively associated with homicide rates, while school performance factors and health professionals (only fixed effects model) were negatively associated with homicide rates. The results support public policies in the area of health and the prevention of lethal violence in Brazilian capitals.

This article contemplates the more widespread gender representations in women’s football compared to traditional roles and the feminization of a sport traditionally considered as a prerogative of men. It does so by investigating, by means of in-depth interviews, the imaginations and experiences of coaches, football players and their parents. After a preliminary theoretical reflection on the concept of gender – as a key to interpreting the cultural and relational dynamics characterizing sports – and its implications in sport, the essay will highlight – giving the floor to the actors of this important transition – the new demands of gender in women’s football, in an era in which emancipation from tradition and its roles is an increasingly strong and unstoppable process, and yet one that is still characterized, particularly in the context examined, by cultural and social obstacles.

The decline of economy is due to its dependency from a virtual value, the currency, the coin, that in the recent phase of consumerism is so far from real value: human capital and natural capital. If human economy wants to continue to produce wellbeing, it must accept to be a subset of natural economy, intercept flux of matter produced by its circular mechanisms, put constraints in it, i.e. machines and structures, to direct it temporarily for our advantage, and finally release it to the same original flux, in an still usable state. In this way it will assume a function no more parasitic but symbiotic. It will be connected to natural cycles without destroying it, recovering the co-evolutionary link between nature and culture, building an economic web suited to the ecological web; thus we will have a mosaic characterised by biodiversity, technological diversity, and cultural diversity, able to produce a durable prosperity.

The present study aims to analyze the social and economic dynamics of the Conservation Units of the State of Maranhão, based on the development of the Social Development Index (IDS). With the purpose of evaluating in a synthetic way the social and economic dynamic of the PAs of the state aligned with the objectives of the protected area, as well as if the UC makes possible the improvement in the quality of life of the population. Based on multidisciplinary methodological parameters capable of correlating conditioning factors that influence the level of effectiveness of PAs, the proposed methodology was applied in 11 PAs of Maranhão. The research was divided into three stages: 1) Bibliographic review and collection of primary and secondary indicators; 2) Qualification and synthesis of variables based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and 3) Spatial analysis and regionalization of conservation units using the geostatistical method of Kriging. Thus, it was possible to identify that among the PAs under analysis, 27% had an unsatisfactory level, while 46% had an unsatisfactory degree, 18% had a medium level and 9% had a satisfactory level. In this scenario, it is identified that the non-effectiveness of these areas makes it impossible to optimize land use planning on a regional scale, in addition to generating income, employment and increasing quality of life.

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