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O artigo situa a cidade como território de produção e disseminação de práticas artísticas organizada pelas múltiplas e plurais formas de resistência, ativismo e contestação utilizadas nas lutas culturais, sociais, políticas e identitárias. Destacamos, como característica da arte ativista contemporânea, as narrativas e estratégias tem estetizado os pólos de conflito e presenças a partir das dimensões macro e micropolíticas de territórios e corpos-políticos de enunciação. Entre essas performances visuais chamamos atenção para as estratégias de visibilidade e exposição a partir de práticas artísticas e poéticas contra-coloniais. Por fim, relatamos um percurso de organização de olhares cruzados sobre arte, imagem e resistências urbanas tema da edição número 56 da Revista Iluminuras (PPGAS/UFRGS).Palavras-chave: Arte. Cidades. Resistências. Subjetividades. Imagem. CROSSED LOOKS ABOUT ART, IMAGES AND URBAN RESISTANCES Abstract: The article locates the city as a territory for the production and dissemination of artistic practices organized by the multiple and plural forms of resistance, activism and contestation used in cultural, social, political and identity struggles. We highlight narratives and strategies as a characteristic of contemporary art activist have aestheticized the poles of conflict and presence from the macro and micro-political dimensions of territories and political-bodies of enunciation. Among these visual performances, we call attention to the strategies of visibility and exposure based on counter-colonial artistic and poetic practices. Finally, we report a path of organization of crossed views on art, image and urban resistance, theme of issue number 56 of Revista Iluminuras (PPGAS/UFRGS).Keywords: Art. Cities. Resistance. Subjectivities. Image.

Resumo Ao longo de décadas, o rap tem sido central na construção de um discurso antirracista em Portugal. Com músicas a denunciar a violência policial, a exclusão social, o legado colonial e o racismo, os rappers negros das periferias de Lisboa desempenham um papel de vanguarda na luta contra a opressão racial, particularmente aqueles que cantam em crioulo cabo-verdiano. Apoiados por dispositivos e redes digitais, estes jovens constroem circuitos de sociabilidade e de produção musical impulsionadores de uma estética insurgente capaz de desafiar o estatuto de subalternidade que lhes é imposto. O presente trabalho debruça-se sobre a importância do rap na exposição do problema do racismo na sociedade portuguesa. Recorrendo a diferentes pesquisas de natureza qualitativa, analisamos os estilos de vida, as letras de música, o acesso às redes digitais e os engajamentos dos rappers no movimento antirracista.

International audience ; In this paper, we present GTE-Cluster an online temporal searchinterface which consistently allows searching for topics in a temporalperspective by clustering relevant temporal Web search results. GTE-Cluster isdesigned to improve user experience by augmenting document relevance withtemporal relevance. The rationale is that offering the user a comprehensivetemporal perspective of a topic is intuitively more informative than retrieving aresult that only contains topical information. Our system does not pose anyconstraint in terms of language or domain, thus users can issue queries in anylanguage ranging from business, cultural, political to musical perspective, tocite just a few. The ability to exploit this information in a temporal manner canbe, from a user perspective, potentially useful for several tasks, including userquery understanding or temporal clustering.

International audience ; In this paper, we present GTE-Cluster an online temporal searchinterface which consistently allows searching for topics in a temporalperspective by clustering relevant temporal Web search results. GTE-Cluster isdesigned to improve user experience by augmenting document relevance withtemporal relevance. The rationale is that offering the user a comprehensivetemporal perspective of a topic is intuitively more informative than retrieving aresult that only contains topical information. Our system does not pose anyconstraint in terms of language or domain, thus users can issue queries in anylanguage ranging from business, cultural, political to musical perspective, tocite just a few. The ability to exploit this information in a temporal manner canbe, from a user perspective, potentially useful for several tasks, including userquery understanding or temporal clustering.

Popular and Visual Culture: Design, Circulation and Consumption is a transnational project that fosters a dialogue with multiple origins, both in geographical and academic terms. From the onset, this book questions the concepts of visual and popular culture, terms which are currently applied both to describe scientific fields, as operative concepts in theoretical discourse, and to characterize specific cultural contexts. The book's analysis and categorization of visual and popular culture p

Low-lying atoll islands are especially threatened by anticipated sea-level rise, and migration is often mentioned as a potential response of these island societies. Further, small island states are developing population, economic and adaptation policies to plan the future. Policies, such as raising of islands or land reclamation, require a long-term vision on populations and migration. However, population and migration systems in small island settings are poorly understood. To address this deficiency requires an approach that considers changing environmental and socio-economic factors and individual migration decision-making. This article introduces the conceptual model of migration and explores migration within one small island nation, the Maldives, as an example. Agent-based simulations of internal migration from 1985–2014 are used as a basis to explore a range of potential demographic futures up to 2050. The simulations consider a set of consistent demographic, environmental, policy and international migration narratives, which describe a range of key uncertainties. The capital island Malé has experienced significant population growth over the last decades, growing from around 67,000 to 153,000 inhabitants from 2000 to 2014, and comprising about 38 percent of the national population in 2014. In all future narratives, which consider possible demographic, governance, environmental and globalization changes, the growth of Malé continues while many other islands are effectively abandoned. The analysis suggests that migration in the Maldives has a strong inertia, and radical change to the environmental and/or socio-economic drivers would be needed for existing trends to change. Findings from this study may have implications for national development and planning for climate change more widely in island nations.

AbstractAddressing sources and drivers of precarity among marginalized migrant populations in urban spaces is central to making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable for all. Yet dominant policy discourses continue to frame migrants as problematic causes of insecurity and tend to exclude them from policy processes. Deliberative democratic theory suggests that inclusive processes have the potential to create innovative solutions for resilient cities. This study elicits and reports on self‐identified sources of precarity and insecurity as experienced by new low‐income migrant populations. It combines visual ethnography and deliberative democracy tools in an action research process that facilitated dialogue between migrant populations, urban planners and policy stakeholders. The objective is to elicit policy opportunities and constraints for changing dominant discourses, with a view to enhance marginalized lives and to implement sustainable urban infrastructure in Chattogram, the second largest city of Bangladesh. The results show options for addressing precarity, developed through facilitating migrants and planners to engage with each other's perspectives. Priorities include focusing on insecure tenure, exposure to environmental hazards, and representation in planning processes. Integrating the perspectives and lived experiences of migrant urban populations into policy processes potentially leads to more effective, sustainable and legitimate solutions.

It is widely suggested that migration is a key mechanism linking climate change to violent conflict, particularly through migration increasing the risks of conflict in urban destinations. Yet climate change also creates new forms of insecurity through distress migration, immobility and vulnerability that are prevalent in urban destination locations. Here we examine the extent and nature of human security in migration destinations and test whether insecurity is affected by length of residence and environmental hazards. The study develops an index measure of human security at the individual level to include environmental and climate-related hazards as well as sources of well-being, fear of crime and violence, and mental health outcomes. It examines the elements of human security that explain the prevalence of insecurity among recent and established migrants in low-income urban neighbourhoods. The study reports on data collected in Chattogram in Bangladesh through a survey of migrants (N = 447) and from qualitative data derived using photo elicitation techniques with cohorts of city planners and migrants. The results show that environmental hazards represent an increasing source of perceived insecurity to migrant populations over time, with longer-term migrants perceiving greater insecurity than more recent arrivals, suggesting lack of upward social mobility in low-income slums. Ill-health, fear of eviction, and harassment and violence are key elements of how insecurity is experienced, and these are exacerbated by environmental hazards such as flooding. The study expands the concept of security to encompass central elements of personal risk and well-being and outlines the implications for climate change.