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The situation in Gaza cries out for a broad coalition of countries committed to a just and permanent peace.

Sex workers (SWs) based in Portugal are not (yet) organized in a trade union or as a social movement. However, they are not voiceless. This study aims to identify the needs of nineteen street-based female SWs, considering the rights they advocated. Data were gathered during participatory action research and were collected through informal interviews, in-depth semi-structured interviews and group discussions. We identified three major categories of rights: the right to work, to be protected by the law and to be free from violence. We also identified barriers they encountered in the process of being heard, including stigma. These findings suggest that they have opinions and the will to make a difference, but they claim from an individual standpoint. Some recommendations to social work practice, such as right-based and relationship-based approaches, and research with SWs are suggested to promote human rights and SWs' participation in the public sphere.

The social dominance–environmentalism nexus proposes that orientations for inequality and domination are expressed both in human–human and human–nature relations. In two studies, the present work applies and extends this proposition to understand endorsement of environmental values, concern with climate change, support for climate policies, and responsibility for climate action. In study one, using a representative random sample from Portugal (N = 1270, 53.3% female; European Social Survey, ESS8), social dominance orientation showed unique associations with concern with climate change. Moreover, opposition to immigration (as expression of anti-egalitarianism in intergroup relations) showed unique associations with all four measures of environmentalism. In study two, multi-level analyses using representative random samples from 20 other countries in Europe (N = 38830, 51.5% female; ESS8) confirmed the associations between opposition to immigration and environmentalism, controlling for a set of sociodemographic covariates, political orientation, and nesting at the country level. However, there were differences in the strength and direction of these associations based on country levels of societal development (i.e., Human Development Index; HDI). These differences reinforce the notion that context or situational variables may shape the links between diverse expressions of (anti-)egalitarianism and (anti-)environmentalism. Inputs for applied research on hierarchy-affirming tendencies toward others and the natural environment are proposed and discussed. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

The social dominance-environmentalism nexus proposes that orientations for inequality and domination are expressed both in human-human and human-nature relations. In two studies, the present work applies and extends this proposition to understand endorsement of environmental values, concern with climate change, support for climate policies, and responsibility for climate action. In study one, using a representative random sample from Portugal (N=1270, 53.3% female; European Social Survey, ESS8), social dominance orientation showed unique associations with concern with climate change. Moreover, opposition to immigration (as expression of anti-egalitarianism in intergroup relations) showed unique associations with all four measures of environmentalism. In study two, multi-level analyses using representative random samples from 20 other countries in Europe (N=38830, 51.5% female; ESS8) confirmed the associations between opposition to immigration and environmentalism, controlling for a set of sociodemographic covariates, political orientation, and nesting at the country level. However, there were differences in the strength and direction of these associations based on country levels of societal development (i.e., Human-Development-Index; HDI). These differences reinforce the notion that context or situational variables may shape the links between diverse expressions of (anti )egalitarianism and (anti-)environmentalism. Inputs for applied research on hierarchy affirming tendencies toward others and the natural environment are proposed and discussed. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Present economy and society are under a "digital revolution". Digital platforms connect service and product suppliers to recipients all around the world creating new businesses and changing business models in place. Old-fashioned informal gig-economy and sharing practices by using the new technology seem to change consumption and production patterns to more efficient and sustainable ones… or maybe not. This "new economy" also poses several challenges to law questioning the adequacy of concepts and regulations in force. Disputes with authorities and incumbent industries end up in violence or in courts, including the European Court of Justice. We intend to give an overview of those challenges, especially in light of European Union law and following a multilevel constitutionalist approach, which we believe is best suited to respond to the regulatory challenges of this "new economy".

In this paper we will discuss the question of landscape representation as a crossing between art and design as from the project Drawing the Place's Soul. Underlying the project is the idea - that serves as an argument for landscape representation - of drawing as a visual language and as project's matter (medium). In the field of Visual Studies, images and, in this case, drawing are an unavoidable presence of the 21st century, as an iconographic bond, politically participative in the ethical valorization of people and territories. The choice of the medium (drawing) promotes craft as a bodily action, also deeply associated with the landscape. Methodologically, it was sought that the experience, free of constraints, would be able to provide information for the internal evaluation of the territories and for the way they are disclosed. The initial experiment was carried out in three territorially and circumstantially differentiated villages (whose territory is deeply deserted and which, in summer 2017, was hit by violent forest fires) and will be presented and analyzed here from a perspective that sees landscape as a purpose for the interception of art and design through the practice of drawing. ; published

Na primeira parte do artigo se apresentam algumas reflexões sobre a gênese das classes sociais no capitalismo, a partir de formulações em obras selecionadas de Marx e Engels, ressaltando a historicidade das classes em suas configurações em diferentes conjunturas, bem como a compreensão de classe como relação social. Na segunda parte, discutem-se criticamente algumas análises sobre classes ou sobre a classe trabalhadora em particular, no atual contexto da acumulação flexível, globalização e hegemonia das finanças e do neoliberalismo, buscando indicar alguns elementos para se compreender as metamorfoses das classes sociais hoje, dialogando com autores estrangeiros e brasileiros acerca da relação entre classe e "precariado". Palavras-Chave: classes sociais; metamorfoses; capitalismo contemporâneo. Abstract – The first part of this article presents some reflections on the genesis of social classes in capitalism, based on formulations of selected works of Marx and Engels, highlighting the historicity of classes in their different configurations and the understanding of class as a social relation. In the second part, we critically discuss some analyses of class or specifically of the working class in the current context of flexible accumulation, globalization, and the hegemony of finance and neoliberalism, trying to indicate some elements to understand the metamorphoses of social classes today. We carry out this analysis debating with foreign and Brazilian authors over the link between class and the "precariat."Keywords: social classes; metamorphoses; contemporary capitalism.

Este curto ensaio pretende refletir sobre a natureza poética e política da linguagem, entendida a partir da materialidade da sua construção social e histórica, sempre em processo de adequação ou de resistência ao que é. Partindo da poética de energias formulada pela teoria open field (autoproclamada herdeira de algum modernismo), procura-se observar como alguns e algumas poetas contemporâneos resistem às diferentes hierarquias de poder no discurso que regula o que entendemos ser a objetividade, o senso-comum, o legível e/ou o compreensível, o real. Expondo a artificialidade da construção, expõem-se as formas de teor colonial com que se naturaliza a subalternização do que é − e de quem é − o "Outro" da/na linguagem. ; This short essay aims at reflecting on both the poetical and the political nature of language, observed in the materiality of its social and historical construction, and always in its process of adjustment or resistance to what is. Based on the poetics of energies formulated by the open field theory (self-proclaimed heir to some modernist projects), it tries to envisage the ways in which some contemporary poets resist the different hierarchies of power in the discourse that regulates our understanding of objectivity, common-sense, the legible, the comprehensible, the real. Exposing the artificiality of this linguistic construction, these poets simultaneously expose the colonialist basis of forms naturalizing the subordination of what is − and of who is − the "Other" of/in language.