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AbstractPublic resource allocation often requires the management of conflicting objectives of multiple policy actors at different spatial levels. An example is the case study on which this paper is based: the definition of an investment policy in new inter‐municipal road‐links in the Lisbon Metropolitan Region (LMR) for the period 1999–2004. The key regional (inter‐municipal) objective is to choose the sub‐set of proposed road projects that maximizes the quality of LMR's road network for a fixed available budget. Conflict arises, however, if environmental, social and economic impacts at the level of the 18 municipalities involved are significantly unbalanced. This paper describes how multi‐criteria decision analysis' concepts, techniques and software tools were used to analyse spatial conflicts in the LMR case. The study provided the decision‐making body formed by all the municipal mayors with useful information about how much it is necessary to negotiate to reach an agreement on a specific investment policy option. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Este texto foi escrito para ser apresentado no Seminário "Clareando caminhos: cultura popular, memórias e identidades no fazer acadêmico", realizado na Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, em novembro de 2018, em homenagem à professora Maria Clara Tomaz Machado em razão de sua aposentadoria. Discuto elementos da trajetória de Maria Clara a partir da leitura de sua produção intelectual, com foco na questão do ofício do historiador, do patrimônio cultural e da cultura popular.
Palavras-Chave: Trajetória profissional. Memórias. Ofício do historiador.

ABSTRACT:
This text was written to be presented at the Seminar "Clearing ways: Popular Culture, Memories and Identities in Academic Achievement", held at the Federal University of Uberlândia, in November 2018, in honor of the teacher Maria Clara Tomaz Machado due to her retirement. I discuss elements of Maria Clara's trajectory from the reading of her intellectual production, focusing on the question of the office of historian, cultural heritage and popular culture.
Keywords: Professional trajectory. Memoirs. Office of the historian.

This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, neoliberalism and political events. Elisabetta Costa uses her 15 months of ethnographic research to explain why public-facing social media is more conservative than offline life. Yet, at the same time, social media has opened up unprecedented possibilities for private communications between genders and in relationships among young people – Costa reveals new worlds of intimacy, love and romance. She also discovers that, when viewed from the perspective of people's everyday lives, political participation on social media looks very different to how it is portrayed in studies of political postings separated from their original complex, and highly socialised, context.

Bid evaluation is the process of selecting a contractor from a number of bidders. The decision analysis models currently in use at the Portuguese Electric Transmission Company (REN) to evaluate bids were developed through a decision-conferencing process supported by the MACBETH multicriteria approach and software. This paper presents the various components of this interactive sociotechnical process. Given the number of contracts awarded by REN each year, it was crucial that the models be reusable in similar calls for tenders; this required substantial care in structuring the criteria, with a focus on constructed scales, and building value function models based on qualitative pairwise comparison judgments of difference in attractiveness. Also of particular interest is the approach for weighing benefits against costs.

The last two American elections proved that the polarization in the country is high and that both political spectrums use propaganda to defend their ideas.This essay frames the policy of former President of the United States of America Donald Trump through a parallelism with the ideas of propagandist Edward Bernays. The objective is not to explain what led the electorate to support Donald Trump, but rather to demonstrate how some of the politician's practices are anchored, even if not intentionally, in Bernays' theory. For this study, the work "Propaganda" by Edward Bernays was used. In order to supplement the research, it wasalso used another complementary bibliography and some of the recent history of American politics. It was possible to infer that the techniques devised by Bernays were used by Trump and proved to be key to the 2016 presidential victory.