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Assuming that contemporaneity has brought about numerous continuities and discontinuities, it is undeniable that technology is increasingly omnipresent, even mediating social relationships. In this paper, discuss how dating applications (apps) further enhance the existing economy of bodies through technological mediation. This economy is based on a device incorporated by the apps that incorporates a mercantile structure to facilitate interactions. Data obtained from two investigations conducted among users of gay dating apps in Belo Horizonte and Fortaleza cities through approximations and cross-referencing suggest that an economic context is institutionalized, in which interactions operate on a market-based system, ratifying and sometimes challenging concepts such as scarcity, price, supply, demand etc. The non-material condition accelerates interactions, making the use of algorithms and defined scripts a predictable element of negotiation between users who need to be clear and direct in order to get what they want. The main findings suggest that gay dating apps mediate users who take a calculating perspective on searches to maintain some form of interaction with those they desire, a process that reflects a market dynamic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the process of non-professional players and clubs claiming urban spaces for the practice of "várzea football", an amateur football mode existing in different cities, including the state capital of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte. Through this case study we aim to show new facets of the Brazilian sports universe, according to the oral narrations by anonymous actors and their respective associative entities. Which were capable of proposing approaches to community dimensions that are uncommon when compared to the international image of the "country of football". This demonstration uses sources and methods based on Oral History and whose history of development in Brazil is contextualized in this article. With the same intent, this paper presents an overview of the introduction of football studies in the country from the 1970s, when the theme was not recognized in the academia, to contemporaneity, a period when research on the topic grows with significant qualitative and quantitative range. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM) is an infectious disease whose main agent is the protozoan Sarcocystis neurona. The parasite affects the central nervous system of horses and can cause neurological alterations like ataxia, paresis, muscle atrophy and changes in mental status. With wide distribution in the national territory, it is important that this disease is part of the differential diagnosis in animals of equine species, since equines with this disease can present from discrete signs, such as a slight decrease in performance, to serious neurological signs. That is why the veterinarian must understand its characteristics and effective diagnostic methods for its identification. A five-year-old Brazilian Sport Horse mare was attended in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, with a history of atrophy in the lumbar region and rump. Also, the presence of opossums on the farm where the animal lived was reported. In neurological examination, grade 2 motor incoordination was detected. The SAG ELISA test was performed, and a positive result was obtained. All findings and the positive test result corroborate the diagnosis of EPM, which led to the recommended treatment, and visible clinical improvement. The aim of this paper is to report a clinical case of EPM in a mare in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, taking into account the importance of knowledge of the epidemiological, clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to examine the tours by grassroots football's clubs from Belo Horizonte and its bond with a popular sportive culture, as well its relations with the leisure among working class populations in Minas Gerais' capital city between the 1940s and the 1980s. This is one of the themes that emerge from a series of oral reports produced during the amateur football's inventory in the city, initiative that aims to recognize this practice as intangible heritage of the town. The content of the interviews, combined with press sources and clubs records, provide evidences to understand meanings achieved by these matches disputed by the teams in other towns, outside the capital city. Those matches are articulated with clubs' self-management efforts and entertainment alternatives for the residents in working classes neighborhoods in Belo Horizonte in that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we seek to analyze the Special Education policy of the municipality of Belo Horizonte-MG to understand the organization of this type of education in its network and the articulation with national policies. To do so, we used the analysis of national and municipal documentation that we consider representative of the Special Education policy, and the analysis of data from the School Census (2018). We can see that historically Special Education is characterized by disputes between public and private. Both nationally and at the municipal level, there has been a tendency to target private-assistance institutions, thus enabling public funding for the private network. The school census data showed that most students in Special Education were enrolled in municipal schools and 84% did not attend AEE; besides the significant number of students with intellectual disabilities enrolled (45.4%) and the existence of segregated spaces. Despite the obstacles that public school presents, we believe that this is the space where students have access to systematized knowledge and, therefore, this is the space where Special Education students should be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We seek in this paper to analyze the relationship between image, identity and style for young female executives from Belo Horizonte, through a qualitative research based on semi structured interview. Thus, theoretically we discussed the relationship between identity, image and style, on the influence of appearance in the corporate environment and about women in organizations. Their style acts mirroring their identities as well as their positioning prominently within your professional context, to provide them status and power demonstrating their commitment to the organization and social distinction, as well as being a way to combat gender bias in work. We conclude that the choice of clothing beyond aesthetic elements involving identity, symbolic, contextual aspects as well as the projection of a given image and, thus, a true wardrobe management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to find out how the points suggested by Everardo Rocha (1985) as social legitimizers of the advertising profession are present in the reports of workers from Belo Horizonte at the list Como é trabalhar aí?, an online file that circulated on the Internet with descriptions of the routines of agencies. Conceptually, the elements that constitute the profession's imaginary are presented and a discussion is made about the common practices of this occupation. Methodologically, the contents of the list are analyzed in order to identify the representations that advertisers make of their occupation within the scope of praxis. The results when compared show a negative scenario of abuse and exploitation far from what is socially represented to legitimize the profession and that, although different, both dimensions contribute to the construction of meanings of belonging to the same working class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Verbal violence, configured by multiple semioses (FAIRCLOUGH, 2003) as offensive, has a useful space in the virtual environment. Anonymity and the lack of regulation of face-to-face interaction cause social agents to mobilize lexicogramatical resources, producing violent discourses. This choice can generate offenses and insults, in order to promote and perpetuate unequal power relations. This article aims to analyze copyright voices inserted in the news published by BHAZ and by news paper O Tempo, both from Belo Horizonte – MG, about a broadcast via WhatsApp of a job offer characterized as a crime of injury. It will be analyzed not only two news texts, one from each vehicle, but also the comments of internet users about this fact. For this, we will use the categories of analysis of the verbal sociodiscursive reactions (GOMES, 2020), of the representational and identificational meanings (FAIRCLOUGH, 2003) intertwined with intersectional studies (AKOTIRENE, 2019; CRENSHAW, 2002, 2004; NASH, 2008). Our analysis allowed us to observe that verbal violence is constitutive of racist and fatophobic systems of oppression, reproducing exclusive power relations that regulate bodies, ratifying the often opaque and naturalized privilege of the white and thin body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The loss of public in Carnival festivities in Minas Gerais state hinterland is at issue in this paper, that this reduction in Carnival participants occurs in towns located in this territorial context, we believe, while Carnival in Belo Horizonte receives increasingly tourists? contingents. A phenomenological attitude was adopted to carry out the research and bibliographic research and conducting semi-structured interviews (analyzed qualitatively), were adopted as methodological tools. A festivities city like Oliveira tries to adapt to the transformations in progress. Oliveira, home of a Carnival celebration with peculiar characteristics, is the territorial focus of the research that seeks to understand how festive spatialities can be re-signified. We concluded that it is possible to observe an exceptionality of transformations experienced by Oliveira's festive place, a movement that probably should occur in Carnival cities of Minas Gerais, in an intense dispute among themselves for the hegemony as the most attractive places for visitors and in an atmosphere of symbols that thickens during the festivity period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Risk management emerges as a management model in the public health area that aims at the best use of resources while ensuring the quality of services. This paper analyzes the main indications of the impact of adopting the risk management model implemented by the Sanitary Surveillance of Minas Gerais in pharmaceutical industries of the pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients segment. The study was characterized through bibliographic, documentary and field survey with questionnaires directed to representatives of the pharmaceutical industries producing pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) of Minas Gerais, subjected to Visa supervision and semi-structured interviews with technical leaders of 4 drug industries located in the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region, Minas Gerais, Brasil, and with 2 managers and inspectors of the technical staff of the Minas Gerais Sanitary Surveillance, and participant observation in order to better understand the internal flows of the work routine of the State Visa. The research showed evidence and positive perceptions regarding the risk management model adopted by the Health Surveillance in pharmaceutical industries, and found indicative of favorable impact for both the government and the companies in question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the protests and popular demonstrations that took place in the city of Belo Horizonte between 2012 and 2015, having as theoretical background the new mobility paradigm. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of three hundred and twenty three journal articles and reports, firstly we verify he composition and intensity of the protest motives that claim the right, access and quality of urban mobility. In a second moment, it was shown how the spaces of mobility and the movement of the bodies present in those events are fundamental in the composition of performative repertoires of political groups. Our finds show that urban mobility is not only a complex and extremely important political agenda, but that the very act of moving and / or interrupting the flow of movement of this city are fundamental strategies in the search for visibility and dissemination of political challenges on the public scene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the cemeteries as a place of many devotions, devotions among them marginal. the various ways in which people worship their dead through their graves. The devotions that are manifested before these graves within the cemeteries demonstrate the practice of faith is called the marginal devotion. Ordinary people who are worshiped as a miracle worker. The paper examines how this devotion in the cemetery of Bonfim in Belo Horizonte City, more specifically in the miraculous Num Benigna's Tomb helps the devotees by the time their distress happene. It looks at how devotion is perpetuated the margin of the official belief. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present the preliminary results of a survey of about five hundred subway users of Belo Horizonte (MG), particularly in the boarding platform of the Central Station. One of the reasons offered by museologist Pierre-Yves Catel and by the staff who took part in the assembly and organization of the Museum of Arts and Crafts (Museu de Artes e Ofícios -MAO), for the occupation of the building of the Central Station and its reinterpretation, which turned it into a museum institution - dedicated to the history/memory of work and the workers -was that, at that place, it would be possible to find "a potential audience of one million visitors a year coming by underground". In this sense, the research seeks to understand, especially, the relationship that is established, at present, between the subway user and the Museum. However, before disclosing the data of this investigation, it was necessary to analyze some aspects concerning the history of MAO and also some aspects of the long-term exhibition presented to the audience since the inauguration of the mentioned institution, in 2006. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze relations between territoriality and identity in organizational context, advancing in perspective of identity about what is distinctive, enduring and core in an organization. Our research was conduced in Central Market of Belo Horizonte (Brazil), place of multiple practices -- like as bohemian, buyers, goer and tourist's ones -- in which Minas Gerais'culture is presented in several nuances, an adequate research object because it permits observation of complex phenomena. Under a qualitative approach, 40 interviews were made with professionals from Central Market of Belo Horizonte to comprehend their vision about the space where they work. This material was analyzed through French discourse analysis. The coexistence of main aspects analyzed -- distinctive (commerce), everlasting (church) and central (business office) -- demonstrates conflicts as because there is a duplication of functions, as because in organizations there is a quotidian among different people, polarized for some groups that dominate and other who resist. These relationships equilibrate through movements of social actors in their territories around the argument of mutual survival. We have observed that shared beliefs, according Albert and Whetten (1985), also serve to explicit a kind of comprehension of space. And if this is basis idea, it is because it does not limited by purely concrete elements, once it incorporates symbolic point of view. Sharing a multiple practices space, this market has a conjunct of territories which oscillate between harmony and conflicts, once they are dynamyzed by colliding forces in defense of particular group's interests. Territories, however, in the same way collide, accommodate each other under same ideology, of mutual survival. The territories are not categorized hierarchically, but they have different roles in socially constructed reality. Theirs spaces are not static, either interchangeable: once institutionalized, they become taken for granted appearance, immanent ones. However, what explains balance is that social actors move between territories playing multiples roles. To solve problem related to territory in what they are, what we can notice is a trial of "be part of the game". It demonstrates that individual essentiality looks for get closer of hegemonic group, initiating an incorporation process of dominant ideology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent interests in organizational studies suggest that the city is an oportune research subject. This paper presents how control practices are configurated in the city. From a contextual territoriality, the research locus media discourse about work of car washers and car keepers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, was chosen. Starting from a qualitative approach, 22 newspaper reports which specifically discussed this theme were collected. Qualitative content analysis was applied. Main results suggest that the use of formal control practices in teh city tries to deterritorialize and legitimate hegemonic discourses, silencing voices about other urban problems. As a result, agents without deffended rights create control pratices in the city, which should be considered at urban management, once city includes its population' experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although studies on the subject of African Brazilian religions, there still remains the ignorance and discrimination towards them for a significant part of the population. Notwithstanding the existing production, new approaches and perspectives of analysis are needed. For this purpose, the present study translates into clear language some ritual practices, the configuration of the sacred space and worship performed to the deities of the African pantheon, specifically the Candomblé. The text presents an analysis and interpretation of the religious system of that religion, based on a recent survey conducted in the "terreiros" of Contagem, a metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Finally, the paper acknowledges the complexity of the symbolic universe of that region and reaffirms the need for further research on the topic, in order to make this reality understandable and increasingly familiar. This task is not easy, but it is necessary as a legal requirement and also as a democratic right of worship for all citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite its youth (founded 1897) Belo Horizonte has witnessed a "relative" process of emptying the historic center with the demolition of some buildings, the displacement of middle-class to other regions, the reduction of areas of public space for coexistence and the presence of the elite in this region. Like in several cities, this process has mobilized the public and the private sector in the development of urban regeneration projects in their centers. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how these projects are being implemented by the government, as well as how the region has been appropriated by these actors. Our hypothesis is that the processes of urban regeneration in Belo Horizonte are not a gentrification, which would mean interventions directed only to the market, to entertainment and cultural consumption [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary society coexists with social, political and economic conditions that give rise to the desire for peace, tolerance and justice. The school is an essential institution in social organization, because it works with young people for a considerable period of time of its formation and construction of their identity. In this process, the political Pedagogical Project (PPP) has a key role because it generates an intentional action and proposes a direction from a commitment collectively constructed and articulated with the interests of education statewide and nationally. This paper presents the results of a qualitative research conducted in schools of the state of Belo Horizonte - MG. Political Pedagogical Project offers information to help schools achieve their goals and also to face challenges and to plan their future as young citizens trainers [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at discussing which rationality types may orient contemporary artistic practice. This objective emerged from a research made in Grupo Galpão, a twenty-eight years old theatre group from Belo Horizonte. As we entered into the research locus, by documental analysis, non participant observation and interviews, the rationality issue became a prominent theme to be discussed considering contemporary art production. By means of discourse analysis elements, we could identify in artists' discursive practices meanings about art-making, sometimes related to instrumental rationality and to surviving in the market of cultural goods; and sometimes, on the other hand, were related to substantive rationality and to practices oriented by ethical or esthetical ideals. By the end, despite of economic pressures from the cultural industry context, we understand that authentic art is intrinsically a transcendent practice and keeps moments of freedom and assertion of out-of-the-ordinary life values [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the as a sphere of dialogue between Police and community and, consequently, a new organization of traditionally hierarchical structures through the insertion of the citizen into the management of public policies. The matter of popular participation in public policies emerged as a focus of analysis in Brazilian social sciences, especially after the resignation of city councils, seeking to approximate public policy managers and citizens. In the specific case of public security, the motivation for the engagement of citizens in public policies acquires a more incisive connotation due to the growth of violent crime levels in the country. The present article offers a case study of the Council of Public Security in Brumadinho, a city in the Metropolitan Area of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. This case presents relevant elements for the understading of the complex interaction between social and public actors as well as their implications for the construction of public policies. In this way, it is possible to simultaneously discuss the challenges of popular participation and the new arrangement of the public structures, traditionally responsible for managing public security policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to discuss the obstacles and problems which have been encountered during the implementation process of Law 11340/2006, the Maria da Penha Law. The reflections presented are based on empirical data obtained during the research on “Access to Justice for Women in Situations of Violence. Comparative Study on Women’s Police Stations in Latin America (Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Nicaragua)”. The survey was conducted between 2007 and 2009 in Belo Horizonte, and had as its core research 15 in-depth interviews with women who experienced violence in marital relations and who sought the women police station to register the incident. From the set of results, we selected some data as well as some thoughts that help to illustrate the daily life of law enforcement in that municipality. This text has reviewed aspects concerning the role of the police, the judiciary and the network of specialist services in assisting women who are victims violence. The goal is to provide elements for the debate about the application of Maria da Penha Law and contribute to its full implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a critique of architectural production as a planned production, that is, as the achievement of a product defined prior to its construction and use. Then, it describes an experiment based on this critique, made by the research group MOM (Morar de Outris Maneiras), which in English is LOW (Living in Other Ways). The experiment regards the conception of an 'interface of spatiality' (a set of pieces for configuring real scale spaces) and its application at the Aglomerado da Serra, the biggest shantytown in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. This experiment enabled the observation and problematisation of a non-formal and non-planned procedure of spatial configuration, similar to informal self-building, though taking place in a shore period of time and with no intention of its fixing and permanence. As a conclusion the article discusses the possibilities of a revision of the architect's role: usually orientated towards the design of products, they can, and in our view, must orient themselves towards the design of instruments (interfaces) for processes in which users become designers of their own spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]