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Did urbanism in Brazil appropriate the urban tradition to the same extent as pioneering modern architecture? This article builds an answer to this question, which goes through the theoretical unraveling of the definition of the term space from the recognition of two historically accepted conceptions. It starts with a brief presentation of the main genealogies and principles of these conceptions, as methodological support to read their impact on the work of Oscar Niemeyer. It looks at the design strategies used in two works of the architect: the project for Praça XV in Rio de Janeiro (1991) and the urban complex of Pena Furada, in Portugal (1965). With notions borrowed from other disciplinary fields an interpretation of the incorporation of time as a mediating element of spatial experience is proposed: as a literal landmark - printed in concrete references to tradition - and as a generating element of spatial decisions - when incorporated into the experience of displacement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The geography of what happens is an expression linked to works associated with Non-representational Theories (TNR), an acronym coined by Nigel Thrift in the mid-1990s and which commonly came to be understood as a participant in more-than-representational geography. The expression "geography of what happens" is associated with representational transcendence and the quest to narrate space-time through the daily pursuit of actors involved in heterogeneous networks. This paper, essentially epistemological, aims to elucidate the geography of what happens, little explored in geographic works in Brazil, pointing out its theoretical framework, exposing its assumptions and critically evaluating its potentialities and challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is an effort to understand part of the genesis and of the processes that took place in the protection of the right to access mineral wealth over space-time. In addition to the laws that directly interfered with the use and occupation of the soil / subsoil, and the way in which the space is produced, with most of the deposits located in the countryside, this debate also runs through geographic science, the agrarian question, the reflection about nature and the territory category. The route covered important periods in the history of the formation of Brazilian territory, reaching the implementation of the New Mineral Code (2019). Thus, it corroborates for the understanding of the injustices in the legal propositions in the formation of the extractive-mineral territories, demonstrating the popular absence in the decisions and formulations of mineral public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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On March 11th, 2020, the COVID-19 disease has declared a pandemic. In Brazil, the first official record of the disease was on February 25, 2020, a total of 90,982 cases and 6,367 deaths were counted until May 1st of the same year. Using the spatial and space-time statistical tools of the SaTScan™ software, it is possible to develop a robust retrospective and prospective scanning analysis to identify and monitor the occurrence of the spread of the disease. In this context, the MONITORA-CLUSTERS project was created, which aims to verify and monitor high-risk clusters of confirmed cases and deaths by COVID-19 in Brazil. Throughout the study period, the results showed spatial and space-time significant clusters. To identify active clusters of cases and deaths, the prospective spatio-temporal analysis shows where and when such clusters began, pointing out critical locations for control measures. It was noticed in both approaches that all Brazilian macro-regions present clusters with an excess of registered cases and/or deaths. This powerful epidemiological tool has the potential to collaborate in assisting pandemic decision-making in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Death and the "catholic funeral ritual complex" are events that may inspire ethnographic reflections about the relations between death (particularly its ritual dimension), time, space, memory and saudade. Here I want to explore some of these possibilities by looking at the events occurring after the death of catholic people in the Casa Amarela neighbourbood of Recife (Brazil). It seems to be possible to establish a structural-temporal relationship between these dimensions and hence to construct different times/types of memories based upon, on the one hand, an affective dimension (particularly saudade), and, on the other, a ritual dimension (as in the Day of the Dead), in the production of the "beloved being". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conformation of a city and the organization of its spaces form a material base starting from which it is possible to think a possible range of sensations and social practices. The city, while interaction and hybridity space, builds and reconstructs in time identities, it produces and reflects meanings, moving the attention to those social processes. It is presupposed that to understand the urban space through the consideration of its culture and of its intermediate spaces - streets, neighborhoods and equipments such as bars and restaurants - it is a way of looking for best means to manage it. This study has as objective to describe the cultural meanings attributed to the intermediate spaces, involving the emerging of bars and restaurants in three contiguous neighborhoods of Fortaleza, discussing the reflexes in terms of social-territorial development of the city. For such it was used, as methodological focus, an ethnographic research, combining varied collection techniques. The Thematic Analysis technique, which belongs to the Analysis of Content techniques group, was applied in the analysis of the collected information. Simultaneous times and differentiated spaces were evidenced, in which "places" and "non places" coexist meaning the "between places" and characterizing the emerging of intermediate spaces in the context of a city divided in two, rich in symbolisms and interaction, fragmented and solitary, unable to share the cultural codes suggesting challenges to its administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: to analyze composing aspects of verbal narratives of 5 and 6-year-old children. Methods: 50 children took part in this research. There were 23 boys and 27 girls in pre-school classes of four private schools in Praia do Canto, an upper class neighborhood of Vitoria, Espirito Santo. The sample is composed of a verbal narrative of a story and personal account in a formal interaction in which the child was asked to tell the story Little Red Riding Hood, as it is a well-known story, and make a personal narrative. The analysis criteria were based on Perroni (1992) and Brandão & Spinillo (2001). Results: the analyzed group displayed knowledge of narrative structures; satisfactory domain of temporal relations in narrated events; use of clauses which express temporal dependence with action verbs in past tenses; use of connectors with the predominance of "'aí" (a colloquial form similar to then) and "depois" (after that); proper use of time and space reference points; well-organized space-time relations and causative relations being developed. The study also pointed out the importance of the participation of an interlocutor in structuring the narratives. Conclusion: the children showed more ease in structuring the story rather than the personal narrative; they answered all kinds of eliciting questions; most of them needed mediation only in the personal narrative; they followed the time sequence not only in the story, using correctly the story-related flashcards, as for the personal narrative, they use "aí" as the main connector for causative and temporal cohesion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]