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Research conducted over the past decade examining the impact of social movements on urban politics and housing policy has significantly enhanced our understanding of how these movements resist housing financialisation through direct action, social protest, and advocacy. However, further investigation is still required to comprehend the influence of housing movements on policy design and implementation, in order to understand the paths taken and how social movements shape housing and urban policies. This paper focuses on the self-management branch of the My House, My Life – Entities (Minha Casa, Minha Vida - Entidades), a mass housing programme in Brazil. The paper has two objectives. Firstly, it identifies the strategies that nationally organised urban and housing movements employ to advocate for the inclusion of housing self-management in federal mass housing programmes. Secondly, it examines the policy implications of implementing a participatory governance model (co-management) in national housing programmes, with an emphasis on policy lessons learned. To accomplish this, policy documents, housing movement reports, and news media items were utilised to systematically trace the trajectory to success and examine the policy lessons for participatory governance. This paper makes two contributions: it enriches the literature on social movements against housing financialisation by analysing citizen participation in housing policy design and implementation and it contributes to the field of research on the consequences of social movements by examining the influence of social movements in shaping and housing policies.

AbstractThis article examines the implications of the artworks and public performances of the robot artist Ai-Da. While the project claims to advance AI public literacy and foster critical debate around intelligent systems, it instead ends up perpetuating popular misunderstandings about AI creativity, agency, and consciousness. Built in 2019, Ai-Da is a humanoid robot capable of creating drawings, paintings, and composing poetry. However, the project often conceals or miscommunicates the technical aspects of Ai-Da's capabilities in a manner that encourages the public to misattribute human-like traits to the robot. This lack of transparency in the presentation of Ai-Da's abilities and the creative processes involved risks reinforcing existing misconceptions about AI, rather than promoting a more nuanced understanding. By employing discourse analysis and drawing on scholarship on machine and computational creativity, anthropomorphism in social robots, and posthuman embodiment, this article uses the Ai-Da project as a case study to illustrate how the dangers of AI hype can be obscured when presented through the lens of public art. The analysis examines how the Ai-Da project, despite its stated goals of advancing AI literacy, fails to effectively challenge and may even exacerbate public misperceptions about the nature of AI-generated art and creativity.

La relation migration-développement s'est construite sur plusieurs mythes, déconstruits mais réalimentés jusqu'à présent. Mis à l'agenda global dans le milieu des années 2000, ce nexus s'est banalisé, masquant les chemins rugueux empruntés par les acteurs incarnant cette interrelation, pour faire advenir leur légitimité dans le champ du développement. À travers une lecture diachronique, cet article revisite cette relation au prisme des espaces locaux, les villages de départ, dans la région Kayes au Mali. Puisant sa matière dans une longue temporalité, il interroge les formes évolutives de cette relation et les dynamiques de politisation et de dépolitisation aux échelles locale et nationale. Les pratiques originales des associations de développement des migrants ont façonné des territoires particuliers, leur conférant une reconnaissance a posteriori. Après avoir revendiqué un engagement apolitique, elles sont devenues des contre-pouvoirs. Ainsi les résultats proposés éclairent la complexité et les remous politiques de la relation migration-développement, bien éloignés du tableau lisse, mis en avant par les institutions dominantes.

Partindo de uma entrevista de história de vida ao realizador português Edgar Pêra, este artigo questiona a relação entre a arte, comunicação e biografia. A entrevista apresenta-se, no contexto desta investigação, como uma opção metodológica central, que estimula a prática da comunicação ritual (ligada ao tempo e à memória) e desafia a auto-reflexão sobre o papel do investigador, num diálogo construído entre entrevistador e entrevistado. Situando-me num enquadramento teórico que tem como referências os Estudos Culturais norte-americanos (James Carey) e o pragmatismo (John Dewey, Richard Shusterman e Nathalie Heinich), procuro, através de um processo em que trabalho de campo e a reflexão teórica se influenciam mutuamente, compreender, mais do que explicar, o que faz e como faz Edgar Pêra, extraindo, daí, ilações sobre as trocas simbólicas que geram novos discursos no todo social, tendo a arte por veículo.

Texto por Lima Barreto.

Texto por Lima Barreto.

This article examines Levi's treatment of eugenics in "I sintetici" and "Procacciatori d'affari" from Vizio di forma. The study builds upon Francesco Cassata's analysis, which established that Levi held complex and conflicting views on the topic. These views mirrored his strong belief in avoiding limitations on scientific research while also revealing his ethical concerns. To further understand this predicament, the study reads Levi's stories against the debate on eugenics that took place in England in the 1920s-1930. This debate engaged scientists and writers who significantly influenced Levi beyond this subject, including the Huxley brothers and Bertrand Russell. In this intellectual milieu, science fiction emerged as a favoured genre for exploring the intricate facets of eugenics and its ethical ramifications. By undertaking a comparative analysis between these antecedents and Vizio di forma, this study investigates how and why Levi turned to science fiction to articulate his conflicting thoughts on eugenics.

Mario Losano presenta los principales hechos políticos de la campaña electoral del presidente brasileño Jair Bolsonaro relacionados con la libertad de enseñanza. El autor demuestra cómo las universidades brasileñas fueron escenario de varias manifestaciones contra el autoritarismo y el fascismo que la campaña de Bolsonaro había llevado al debate público. Para aportar elementos legales al texto, Losano describe la forma en que el Poder Judicial manejó las protestas en las universidades, ya que está prohibido hacer propaganda política en una universidad pública de Brasil. En conclusión, Losano enfatiza la importancia de las instituciones judiciales para garantizar la libertad de enseñanza en las sociedades democráticas y cómo los intentos de limitar el debate académico no son un fenómeno exclusivo de Brasil.

Abstract "Labor is not a commodity": One of the earliest understandings of this maxim concerns the intermediation of employment by supporting policies to extinguish the fees charged to workers for their placement. In Brazil, employment agencies fees never disappeared. The article goes back to the period of expansion of private intermediation in Rio de Janeiro, from 1950 to 1975, to observe their market practices. In order to attract job seekers and convince them to pay for an intermediation service, we argue that those actors performed the commodityhood of job vacancies. We analyzed a sample of 3556 job and employment agencies ads published in the Jornal do Brasil, from 1945 to 1975, highlighting three social processes of commoditization of job vacancies: the objectivation of job vacancies as "real things to be bought," the performing of profusion and collection of job vacancies as "things to be chosen," and the social ascension rhetoric of the unemployed to the status of customer. With the employment agencies work market, the world of labor appears as colonized by techniques, codes, and expectations from world of mass consumption.

Resumo: Na passagem do quadragésimo aniversário do livro Relações sociais e Serviço Social no Brasil, este artigo tem por objetivo socializar uma estratégia de articulação acadêmica. Por meio do Programa de Pós-graduação em Serviço Social e Desenvolvimento Regional e do curso de graduação da UFF, houve uma mobilização de assistentes sociais e da comunidade universitária com o objetivo de celebrar o livro, homenagear Marilda Iamamoto e demonstrar a atualidade de sua obra na formação em Serviço Social.