bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Defence Budgets
Authors: Nemeth Bence
Published: January 2023

This chapter applies the concept of ‘the arithmetic of defence policy’ to highlight the relevance of defence budgets in launching new subregional defence collaborations in Europe. This concept points out that European armed forces faced two choices because of significant defence budget cuts after the end of the Cold War and a decrease in the purchasing power of defence budgets as a result of high defence inflation. They either cut their armed forces or started significant military cooperation. This section looks at three case studies (Lancaster House Treaties, NORDEFCO, CEDC) and concludes that low defence budgets do indeed contribute to the willingness of militaries to start new defence collaborations. However, defence budgets that are too low will not allow them to cooperate, drawing off the resources necessary for cooperation too.
Previous Defence Collaborations
Authors: Nemeth Bence
Published: January 2023

This chapter points out that, in most cases, new defence collaborations are not created from scratch; rather, they are based on long-standing previous collaborations. The reason for this is that it is easier to cooperate with a partner we already know than with someone completely new to us. To explain this phenomenon, this section applies the concept of ‘path-dependence’ regarding the launch of three European subregional defence collaborations (Lancaster House Treaties, NORDEFCO, CEDC). The concept of ‘path-dependence’ shows that early organizational choices influence later processes because the costs of replacing existing structures with new ones are usually too high. In this chapter, these dynamics are explained by the four self-reinforcing mechanisms of the concept of ‘increasing returns’. These are: large set-up costs, learning effects, coordination effects and adaptive expectations.
Conclusion
Authors: Nemeth Bence
Published: January 2023

This chapter briefly concludes the book and highlights the major innovations that the book offers. Based on these innovations, the chapter also offers insights that are relevant for both scholars and practitioners.
Introduction: Interpretive Approaches in the Study of Religion
Authors: Johnston Erin F.
Published: January 2023

This chapter provides an accessible introduction to interpretive approaches in the study of religion and identifies core themes and ideas that cut across the volume’s diverse chapters. In tracing areas of similarity and divergence across the different interpretive lenses that contributors bring to their empirical cases, this chapter will help readers see the relative merits of each approach and equip scholars interested in the interpretive study of religion with a useful orientation to the field.
Making Sense Of Queer Christian Lives
Authors: O’Brien Jodi
Published: January 2023

This chapter uses an interpretive framework to explore the expanding repertoire of narratives through which LGBTQ Christians make sense of themselves and their lives within a dominant narrative of exclusion. An interpretivist lens highlights the significance of situated cultural contexts, reference groups, and cognitive migrations in understanding collective social change as well as individual sense-making. An interpretive framework also reveals the complexities of supposedly dominant or hegemonic institutions, such as religion, as sources of both inclusion and exclusion; of meaningful self-understanding and simultaneous oppression.
Totalitarianism as Religion
Authors: Wang Yong
Published: January 2023

This chapter examines the rise of communism in 20th century China in terms of a historical break that installs a symbolic order unfamiliar to most Chinese. Yet, the convergence of Chinese-style historical repetition and the radical break yields fluid boundaries between the sacred and the profane that appear overwhelming and precarious at the same time. Tracing the historical unfolding of Chinese communism as a secular religion, this chapter focuses on the founding gesture/moment, the creation of the sacred and the profane spheres with an emphasis on the splitting of the sacred itself: the distinction between the auspicious and the inauspicious sacred (or the abject). In addition, the chapter also explores the transition from the totalitarian to the post-totalitarian moment, the redrawing of the boundaries, and the shift from the politics of inevitability to the politics of eternity. The chapter consistently draws on Durkheimian and Lacanian analyses of religion, but strives to maintain a minimal distinction between the secular and the religious proper.
Human Trafficking in the Era of Global Migration
Authors: Hupp Williamson Sarah
Published: January 2023

Inequality. Gender. Globalization. Corruption. Instability. These are factors we know matter when it comes to human trafficking. But does corruption work the same way in Cambodia as it does in Bolivia? Is it important for instability to be present with inequality to lead to human trafficking? Why do we typically see human trafficking flows in the same areas as migration flows? This book examines these questions by developing an integrated theoretical framework that draws from migration, feminist, and criminology scholars. Among the questions tackled by Sarah Hupp Williamson in this book are the following: How did the emergence of global economic policies from international financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank contribute to the emergence of these conditions? How do these conditions combine in various ways in different countries creating unique pathways for human trafficking to flourish? What is the relationship that these human trafficking pathways share with migration flows? Using cross-national comparative and in-depth historical analysis, these questions are answered through case studies on Cambodia in Southeast Asia, Bolivia in South America, and The Gambia in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book argues that neoliberal economic policies imposed by international financial institutions contributed to the conditions which both drove migration and allowed human trafficking to flourish. Critiquing existing anti-trafficking policy, the book concludes that to truly be effective, anti-trafficking efforts must address the root causes creating these pathways that often place migrants in a context vulnerable to human trafficking.
Ridicule in the Qur’an: The Missing Link in Islamic Humour Studies
Authors: Abedinifard Mostafa
Published: January 2023

While successfully refuting the contention that Muslims are humourless, much scholarly literature on Islam and humour draws on ḥadīth and sunnah while shunning the Qur’an’s preoccupation with ridicule as a condemnable practice. Aiming at resolving this contradiction, the chapter adopts a contextualist—as opposed to a traditionalist ethical—approach to ridicule in the Qur’an, drawing on invective (hijā); the contextuality of revelation; and the hierarchical nature of Qur’anic values on ridicule as an informal social control strategy. It argues that the Qur’an’s obsessive disapproval of ridicule served as a defensive strategy against the possible dwindling of prophet Mohammad’s nascent community of believers, and not an immutable principle against humour/ridicule. Linking this argument with recent understandings of blasphemy in Islam, the chapter concludes that while satirizing Islam/the Qur’an may be perceived as blasphemous by many Muslims, it does not, according to the Qur’an itself, entail any human retributions.
Laughter in the Discursive Tradition? Emotions of Muḥammad as the Topic of a Pious Arabic–English Reader
Authors: Leube Georg
Published: January 2023

Arabic-Islamic discursive traditions are characterized by dynamic negotiation and redeployment. The compilation of thematic selections of prophetic ḩadīth represents one of the standard formats introducing non-scholarly Muslim and non-Muslim audiences to the normative traditions of Islam. This contribution examines a bilingual Arabic-English anthology of ḩadīths or sayings and deeds of Muḩammad, focussing on contexts in which the prophet of Islam is depicted as laughing. At the intersection of Arabic-Islamic scholarly traditions and strategies aimed at the dissemination and propagation of Islamic knowledge, this anthology suggests how the bodily laughter of Muḩammad may be foregrounded notwithstanding the prophetic gravitas widely expected from the founder of a contemporary world religion.
A ‘Stupid Lur’ Mocks Allah and Mullah: Sociocultural Implications of the Luri Jokes Cycle
Authors: Esfahani Fatemeh Nasr
Published: January 2023

Humour in general and ethnic jokes in particular play significant roles in Persian literature and in Iranian folklore. This chapter examines the Luri joke cycle of Iran as a unique, unstudied version of Persian ethnic jokes, identifying both the origins and the socio-cultural implications of these jokes. The analysis reveals that the stereotyped character of ‘the Lur’ is mocked based on three key characteristics: stupidity, coarseness, and irreligiosity. Moreover, the chapter delves into the jokes’ long history, going from initially funny stories to an entire joke cycle with different functions. While Luri jokes initially served as pedagogic means for socializing and educating Lurs and other ethnic minorities, they have recently played a significant role in cultural resistance against Islamic fundamentalism and Shia totalitarianism. The dual functions of the Luri joke cycle are explained with reference to socio-cultural changes in Iranian society over the past decades.
‘Putting the Fun Back into Fundamentalism’: Toying with Islam and Extremism in Comedy
Authors: Abdel-Fadil Mona
Published: January 2023

Through mockery and humorous exposure of the random violence and ideological absurdities committed by militant groups like ISIS, political satire can serve to undermine their appeal. While English-language parodies of ISIS are often hailed for being daring and innovative, YouTube features a plethora of ISIS parodies in Arabic, which receive less international attention. This contribution compares two skits The Real Housewives of ISIS (English) and Daesh (Arabic) in order to analyse the stylistic and genre-specific choices and the intertextual references embedded in each production. The contribution examines to what extent contextual factors, such as where the skit is produced and who the target audience is, dictate the kinds of jokes being used. While the two skits serve as both comic relief and political critique, this chapter argues that their comedic approach is influenced by their proximity to the target of ridicule and by the pressure ISIS exerts in the lives of the creators and imagined publics.
Fiber Optic Analysis of Different Materials and
Geometry for Sensor Application
Authors: Sharma Ashish , Agrawal Tanvi
Published: January 2023

In this paper, we analyze optical waveguides for
creating optomechanical sensors. We investigate to find the most
optimal geometry and material by simulating the system through
various scenarios. We test the light guide against Frustrated
Total Internal Reflection(FTIR), compression and bending. We
run simulations for light guides for varying overlaps, types of
cladding, size of cladding, and angle of bending. The simulation
has been done on COMSOL’s Ray Tracing module.
Do we rely on good-enough processing in reading under auditory and visual noise?
Authors: Zdorova Nina , Malyutina Svetlana , Laurinavichyute Anna , Kaprielova Anastasiia , Ziubanova Anastasia , Lopukhina Anastasiya
Published: January 2023

Noise, as part of real-life communication flow, degrades the quality of linguistic input and affects language processing. According to predictions of the noisy-channel and good-enough processing models, noise should make comprehenders rely more on word-level semantics instead of actual syntactic relations. However, empirical evidence supporting this prediction is still lacking. For the first time, we investigated whether auditory (three-talker babble) and visual (short idioms appearing next to a target sentence on the screen) noise would trigger greater reliance on semantics and make readers of Russian sentences process the sentences superficially. Our findings suggest that, although Russian speakers generally relied on semantics in sentence comprehension, neither auditory nor visual noise increased this reliance. The only effect of noise on semantic processing was found in reading speed under auditory noise measured by first fixation duration: only without noise, the semantically implausible sentences were read slower than semantically plausible ones. These results do not support the predictions of the study based on the noisy-channel and good-enough processing models, which is discussed in light of the methodological differences among the studies of noise and their possible limitations.
Hand hygiene of kindergarten children—Understanding the effect of live feedback on handwashing behaviour, self-efficacy, and motivation of young children: Protocol for a multi-arm cluster randomized controlled trial
Authors: Dangis Glenda , Terho Kirsi , Graichen Joanna , Günther Sebastian A. , Rosio Riitta , Salanterä Sanna , Staake Thorsten , Stingl Carlo , Pakarinen Anni
Published: January 2023

Early implementation of interventions at a young age fosters behaviour changes and helps to adopt behaviours that promote health. Digital technologies may help to promote the hand hygiene behaviour of children. However, there is a lack of digital feedback interventions focusing on the hand hygiene behaviour of preschool children in childhood education and care settings. This study protocol aims to describe a study that evaluates the effectiveness of a gamified live feedback intervention and explores underlying behavioural theories in achieving better hand hygiene behaviour of preschool children in early childhood education and care settings. This study will be a four-arm cluster randomized controlled trial with three phases and a twelve-month follow-up by country stratification. The sample size is 106 children of which one cluster will have a minimum number of 40 children. During the baseline phase, all groups will have automated monitoring systems installed. In the intervention phase, the control group will have no screen activity. The intervention groups will have feedback displays during the handwashing activity. Intervention A will receive instructions, and intervention B and C groups will receive instructions and a reward. In the post-intervention phase, all the groups will have no screen activity except intervention C which will receive instructions from the screen but no reward. The outcome measures will be hand hygiene behaviour, self-efficacy, and intrinsic motivation. Outcome measures will be collected at baseline, intervention, and post-intervention phases and a 12-month follow-up. The data will be analysed with quantitative and qualitative methods. The findings of the planned study will provide whether this gamified live feedback intervention can be recommended to be used in educational settings to improve the hand hygiene behaviour of preschool children to promote health.

The trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (registration number NCT05395988 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05395988?term=NCT05395988&draw=2&rank=1).
The relationship between Chinese university students’ learning preparation and learning achievement within the EFL blended teaching context in COVID-19 post-epidemic era: The mediating effect of learning methods
Authors: Hua Meng , Wang Lin
Published: January 2023

The effectiveness of the blended teaching model in improving university students’ English learning achievement has been frequently reported in China in the post-pandemic era. However, such research has seldom explored the students’ entire EFL (English as a foreign language) learning process and mechanism from the perspective of learners within this model. This study therefore used the 3P (presage, process and product) teaching and learning theory to explore the mediating role of learning methods (i.e., learning engagement and academic procrastination) in the relationship between learning preparation (i.e., academic self-concept and course experience) and learning achievement within the Chinese EFL blended teaching context from the perspective of learners. In this study, 942 Chinese university students (male:N= 447; female:N= 495) participated in a survey and completed electronic questionnaires on EFL-related academic self-concept, learning engagement, academic procrastination, and learning achievement. The data were analyzed using AMOS software and a structural equation modeling (SEM) technique. The results showed that both students’ academic self-concept and course experience directly and positively predicted their English learning achievement. Moreover, students’ academic self-concept of learning achievement was partially mediated by learning engagement and academic procrastination, whereas the effect of course experience on learning achievement was fully mediated by learning engagement and academic procrastination. After discussing these findings, suggestions as well as limitations for future studies will be given.
Physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep in the Thai population: A compositional data analysis including 135,824 participants from two national time-use surveys
Authors: Liangruenrom Nucharapon , Dumuid Dorothea , Pedisic Zeljko
Published: January 2023

Purpose

To determine the amounts of time spent in physical activity (PA), sedentary behaviour (SB), and sleep in the Thai population, as well as their sociodemographic correlates and changes over time.

Methods

We analysed cross-sectional data collected in a population-representative, stratified random sample of 135,824 Thais aged 10 years and over as part of the two most recent Thai National time-use surveys (2009 and 2015). Daily activities reported by the participants were coded using the International Classification of Activities for Time-Use Statistics (ICATUS) and categorised as PA, SB, or sleep.

Results

In the latest survey, participants spent on average the largest amount of time sleeping (geometric mean [g] = 9.44 h/day; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 9.42, 9.47), followed by PA (g = 8.60 h/day; 95% CI: 8.55, 8.64) and SB (g = 5.96 h/day; 95% CI: 5.93, 6.00). The time spent in PA was higher on weekdays, while the amounts of SB and sleep were higher on weekends (p < 0.05). Males, older age groups, and unemployed people spent less time in PA and more time in SB, compared with other population groups (p < 0.05). We found a relatively large increase in SB (mean difference [d] = 39.64 min/day; 95% CI: 36.18, 42.98) and decrease in PA (d = 54.33 min/day; 95% CI: -58.88, -49.30) over time. These findings were consistent across most sociodemographic groups, with the most concerning shifts from active to sedentary lifestyle found among people with a higher education degree and on weekends.

Conclusions

Our findings revealed a shift to a more sedentary lifestyle in the Thai population. Public health interventions should focus on improving time use among males, older age groups, and unemployed people, while preventing the rapid decrease in PA and increase in SB among those with a higher education degree and on weekends.
Backwards is forward: Reclaiming sexual and gender diversity in Galicia through literature
Authors: Reimóndez María
Published: January 2023

In this article, I try to explore to what extent queer lives, expressions and representation have been obscured in Galicia by the mainstream narrative of ‘atraso’ (backwardness), applied not only to the economy, but also to social structures. After I situate myself in the discussion, I will explore the way Galicia as a nation has been constructed as a place where queer lives are at risk or simply do not exist. The narrative of ‘atraso’ will be unveiled as a tool to assimilate diverse identities to a single Spanish one, especially when we analyse the facts, traces and gaps through which diverse sexual/gender identities have expressed themselves in Galician culture(s). I will finally explore how literature has operated in this complex scenario as a way to reclaim queer lives on our own terms. I will present some historical background to then analyse current trends in the way queer readings are introduced in contemporary Galician literature.
Twenty-first-century Galician food femininities in Lorena Conde’s Santa Inés and Oliver Laxe’s O que arde
Authors: Liñeira María
Published: January 2023

Food metaphors and symbols are found everywhere in contemporary cultural production in Galicia, where food constitutes a key identity marker. Given the close connections between food and gender, the artistic representation of food is an excellent field to investigate Galician food femininities. This article examines two such examples. The playSanta Inés(), written and directed by Lorena Conde, and produced by A Feroz Teatro, is a feminist response, rich in food symbolism, to the Judeo-Christian metaphor of woman as sacrificial lamb. Drawing on the historical figure St Agnes of Rome (CE 291–304) and the childhood memories visiting a local convent of Inés Salvado, who plays the only characters onstage, the play discusses bodily autonomy and female mysticism. The filmO que arde(2019) by Oliver Laxe, a key filmmaker of theNovo Cinema Galego, is a spiritually oriented work about middle-aged Amador who returns home to his elderly mother, Benedicta, after serving an arson sentence for burning a forest down. In the film, food, constantly present but in a subtle way, is both an earthly and a spiritual element that plays a key role in the construction of Benedicta’s gendered ageing identity.
Institutional desires, individual endeavours: Contemporary Galician narrative in English translation
Authors: Linares Laura
Published: January 2023

Literary translation is an essential component of international exchanges and cultural diplomacy. For minority and minoritized languages, in particular, it is not only a window to other audiences but also a source of legitimacy among their own readerships. In this sense, governments and institutions often provide funding for translations to counter the difficulties that smaller literatures have to access the competitive global market and avail of its opportunities. This article explores the current state of the internationalization of contemporary Galician narrative to the anglophone world at a moment in which the latter is experiencing a period of increasing openness to translation driven mostly by independent presses. Why is it that, despite the institutional supports in place, most Galician narrative is struggling to find readerships in the English-speaking world?
Cruces de fronteras: globalización, transnacionalidad y poshispanismo, José Colmeiro (2021)
Authors: Nappo Daniel J.
Published: January 2023

Review of: Cruces de fronteras: globalización, transnacionalidad y poshispanismo, José Colmeiro (2021)

Madrid: Iberoamericana, 376 pp.,

ISBN 978-8-49192-178-3, h/bk, €36.00

Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 376 pp.,

ISBN 978-3-96869-081-0, p/bk, €36.00

ISBN 978-3-96869-082-7, e-book, €36.00
Kinemorphic cursives: Self-imaging and the non-mimetic source of photoimaging
Authors: Wall-Romana Christophe
Published: January 2023

The motive for late eighteenth-century proto-technics of photography and cinema was never quite mimetic representation: it was generating autonomous impressions of natural phenomena within the tradition ofNaturphilosophie. The article analyses a series of connections between ‘natural hieroglyphs’ (von Lichtenberg), Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles’s ‘megascope’, Wedgwood’s pre-photography, Lavater’s silhouettes and antecedents of Marey’s ‘graphic method’. The goal is to document precursor ideas, devices, setups and frameworks of photoimaging medias to show that the genealogy of photography and cinema intersected through many polymath transverses within the ambit of natural philosophy (and the context of slavery).
To scan a memory: On Anouk De Clercq’s LiDAR film Thing
Authors: Beugnet Martine
Published: January 2023

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a remote sensing technology. It needs no ambient light, nor the guidance of the human eye to capture and reproduce a likeness of the world around us. Although LiDAR generates a constant stream of technical literature, LiDAR images, once envisaged for their aesthetic and expressive value, seem to call for alternative modes of analysis. How do we approach the fast-expanding archive of scanner images? How do we adequately describe the intriguing, spectral visualizations that its blind process of recording produces? Following a general introduction, I look at Anouk De Clerk’s filmThing(2013), a work entirely comprised of LiDAR images. De Clerk encourages us to envisage LiDAR counterintuitively, not as the product of technological novelty, but as part of an interdisciplinary history of the arts.
Revisión del EQUAR (Estándares de Calidad en Acogimiento Residencial) como guía para la actuación profesional
Authors: Fernández Sánchez Joanna , Salas Martínez María D. , Palma García María de las Olas
Published: January 2023

Introducción. El Acogimiento Residencial (AR) sigue siendo un recurso indispensable para la protección de la infancia en España, por lo que es prioritario velar por su buen funcionamiento para garantizar el bienestar de los menores acogidos. Para ello se requiere de un marco de evaluación y actuación profesional que garantice la calidad en la gestión y atención de los centros de protección de menores. Metodología. Se realizó una revisión de los principales documentos (guías y/o protocolos), legislaciones y otros recursos, tanto nacionales como internacionales, a partir de los que se desarrollaron los Estándares de Calidad en Acogimiento Residencial (EQUAR). La recopilación y el análisis de los datos comprendió dos etapas: (1) revisión de los documentos y legislaciones mencionadas con el fin de determinar en qué medida seguían estando vigentes y/o eran aplicables, y (2) comparación de los estándares del EQUAR con las leyes nacionales y autonómicas vigentes actualmente en España. Resultados. La mayoría de los documentos y marcos legales en los que se basaba EQUAR se han renovado desde entonces y ya no están vigentes o son aplicables. Por ello, aunque la EQUAR sigue siendo una guía útil para evaluar la calidad de los centros residenciales en España, es necesario revisar y actualizar algunos de sus estándares para adecuarlos a la legislación vigente y a las versiones más recientes de documentos sobre los que se elaboró. Así, existen actualizaciones y novedades que afectan a diferentes ámbitos relacionados con el bienestar de la infancia y adolescencia acogida. Discusión y Conclusiones. La actualización y uso del EQUAR para desarrollar herramientas de evaluación específicas para la gestión de los centros, ayudaría a orientar la práctica profesional y a proporcionar criterios estandarizados para la gestión y la evaluación de la calidad del AR en España. Con este trabajo se ofrece un punto de partida que pueda servir de orientación profesional para la mejora de la calidad en el acogimiento residencial.
Rosa PERELMUTER (ed.). La recepción literaria de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: un siglo de apreciaciones críticas (1910-2010). Nueva York: IDEA, 2021.
Authors: Rodríguez-Mansilla Fernando
Published: January 2023

Reseña de Fernando Rodríguez-Mansilla sobre La recepción literaria de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: un siglo de apreciaciones críticas (1910-2010) (IDEA, 2021) de Rosa Perelmuter (ed.). 621 p. ISBN: 9781938795695.
The theater of motherhood
Authors: Scheflan Katzav Hadara
Published: January 2023

The basic premise of this article is that despite the many representations of mothers in the history of art, the maternal image has almost invariably been presented in the status of object, i.e., a reflection of the value system, interests, and perspective of the patriarchal culture, and not of the mother herself. This study examines the construction of the maternal ideal in western, particularly Israeli, culture, and suggests the turning point over the past twenty years as contemporary artist-mothers (mama’artists) have undermined this ideal. To avoid the traditional structure into which the mother has been relegated, the article adopts the matricentric perspective of Canadian scholar Andrea O’Reilly, who places the mother at the center of feminist discourse. With the understanding that the category mother intersects with, but is distinct from, the category woman, art scholarship must formulate more valid narratives. This paper has two goals. One is to examine how matricentric research can contribute to analysis of the work of artist-mothers. The second is to identify the tools in art that enable expression of the political-maternal subjectivity. The methodology proceeds from these goals, and includes the voice of the artist, her personal story, and her perspective as she creates an imagined art world. These were obtained by studio meetings with the artist, personal interviews, and a gender analysis of the art. The video series under study was created between 2005 and 2015 by Mali De-Kalo, an Israeli mother-artist. The research revealed an original, thought-provoking, and ironic artistic reaction with dramatic theater-of-the-absurd elements that reflect her critique of the mechanisms of construction and replication of the social order and its expectations of the Israeli mother. De-Kalo represents a new spirit in Israeli art –a contemporary artist in courageous defiance of the social norm that casts the mother as object; she depicts in her art a political-maternal subject who exposes and opposes patriarchal power in the social and artistic realms.
To be or not to be a mother: doubtful, fraught, and denied access to motherhood in contemporary Catalan theatre
Authors: Nicolau Jiménez Adriana
Published: January 2023

Like many other regions in Europe, Catalonia has seen significant changes in the demographics of motherhood over recent decades, with decreasing fertility rates and an increase in the average age of women at the birth of the first child. Together with increased social awareness of gender and identity issues such as gestational loss or the sexual and reproductive rights of people with disabilities, this changing landscape seems to have had a noteworthy impact on contemporary Catalan theatre. Indeed, throughout the long 2010s, a significant number of female-authored plays focused on motherhood premiered in Catalan venues, and a significant portion of these addressed doubtful, fraught, and denied access to motherhood. This essay analyses four important works associated with this trend: Júlia & The Empty Lot (2018) and To Be a Mother (2021) by Clàudia Cedó, Conversations With My Uterus and Other Interlocutors (2018) by Núria Planes Llull, and Stigmas (2019) by Concha Milla. These plays respectively address the experience of perinatal loss, the desire of women with disabilities to become mothers, doubts concerning one’s maternal desire, and the consequences of infertility and assisted reproductive technology processes. The analysis is based on dramatic and video criticism, accompanied by a study of performance documentation and paratexts. This essay contends that the analysed plays shed light on the tension between hegemonic narratives around motherhood and the actual experiences of contemporary Catalan women in terms of access to motherhood, which can be fraught with social, political, or physiological obstacles, as well as denied to certain subjects who have historically been excluded from womanhood, such as women with disabilities. In so doing, the plays expand the available narratives for what we understand as motherhood while elaborating feminist responses to the lived experiences they bring to the stage.
Evaluación del cambio del paisaje boscoso y su impacto en la distribución de Dipsas elegans en el norte de Ecuador
Authors: Arévalo-Morocho Cristian , Jácome-Aguirre Gabriel , Ortega-Andrade Sania , Rosales-Enríquez Oscar , Rodríguez-Echeverry James
Published: January 2023

La cuenca hidrográfica del río Mira en Ecuador posee una alta biodiversidad, sin embargo, el uso intensivo del suelo ha ocasionado cambios en el paisaje y ha generado alteraciones en la distribución de especies. El presente estudio evalúa los patrones espaciales del paisaje boscoso y sus impactos en la distribución de Dipsas elegans (Boulenger, 1986) mediante mapas temáticos de uso y cobertura de suelo derivados de imágenes satelitales Landsat de los años 1991, 2000 y 2017, y la generación de métricas para la evaluación del paisaje boscoso. Adicionalmente, se analizó la distribución potencial de D. elegans usando el modelo de máxima entropía (MaxEnt). Los resultados obtenidos evidenciaron que existió una pérdida del bosque de 235.726,96 ha (10,28%) con una tasa de deforestación anual del 0,44%. Además, se registró un incremento del número de parches (1.249-1.741) y su densidad (0,23-0,33), lo que demuestra fragmentación del bosque nativo debido al avance del uso de suelo agrícola y la deforestación. D. elegans se distribuye principalmente en la cuenca media del río Mira, la cual registra la presencia de bosque nativo y otras coberturas con un área de 104.747 ha (19,6%). La pérdida de hábitat de D. elegans, respecto al modelo de distribución fue de 33.859,33 ha (32,32%), lo que demuestra que la especie es susceptible a la reducción del tamaño de parche, efectos borde y aislamiento de hábitat.
Análisis y alternativas para paliar el déficit hídrico en la Demarcación Hidrográfica del Segura (2022-2027), sureste de España
Authors: Redondo Orts Jose Alberto , López Ortiz María Inmaculada , Melgarejo Moreno Joaquín , Fernández Aracil Patricia
Published: January 2023

En el sureste de España se sitúa la Demarcación Hidrográfica del Segura, afectada por un escenario de déficit estructural, como consecuencia de contar con una precipitación muy baja —la menor del continente— y que, ante los escenarios de cambio climático, puede agravarse durante los próximos años. Esta situación de escasez ha requerido la combinación de recursos de diversos orígenes, que pueden clasificarse en los naturales y los no convencionales, que intentan alcanzar en conjunto un grado satisfactorio de atención de las demandas, principalmente en las más importantes por su volumen, como son el regadío y el abastecimiento. El objetivo principal del presente estudio es el análisis detallado del déficit mediante la información recogida por la planificación hidrológica, identificando aquellas áreas donde se concentra esta anomalía y que coinciden en gran medida con las zonas regables del Trasvase Tajo-Segura. Como objetivo secundario, se plantean las alternativas que permitan la movilización de nuevos recursos que consigan aumentar la oferta actual, específicamente, aquellos procedentes de la desalinización. Para ello, será necesaria la ejecución de nuevas infraestructuras, que ya contempla la planificación actual, pero que pueden añadir nuevos condicionantes, esencialmente económicos, motivados por los sobrecostes sobre el ya elevado precio del agua desalinizada y que cuestionaría la viabilidad económica del sector agroalimentario dependiente de este insumo fundamental.
Adoção do nome social pela população transgênera: uma análise do processo histórico da conquista do direito à isonomia de gêneros
Authors: Santos André Filipe Pereira Reid dos , Ramos Gabriela Cardoso Dilascio Campos , Silva Gabriela Lacerda Andrade da
Published: January 2023

O presente estudo pretende construir uma análise acerca do processo histórico da conquista do direito à isonomia de gêneros. À luz dos conceitos de Judith Butler acerca da performatividade de gênero e da desconstrução crítica da heteronormatividade, discorrer-se-á a respeito da importância do reconhecimento da identidade de gênero autodefinida. Após, abordar-se-á os avanços realizados na consolidação dos direitos sexuais da população transgênera, assim como suas eventuais ambivalências.Por fim, por meio da análise da evolução das decisões dos tribunais superiores, demonstrar-se-á o caminho  jurisprudencial percorrido até o momento, chegando até a marcante decisão do Supremo Tribunal Federal, no sentido de possibilitar a alteração do prenome e do gênero diretamente nas serventias extrajudiciais.
Refugee labour: análise dos possíveis impactos da reforma trabalhista (Lei nº 13.467/2017) nas relações de trabalho de refugiados no Brasil
Authors: Serau Júnior Marco Aurélio , Lavezzo Yara Cristina Maria
Published: January 2023

O artigo trata das principais alterações feitas pela Lei nº 13.467/2017 na legislação trabalhista brasileira, bem como os aspectos em que tais mudanças podem afetar significativamente os trabalhadores refugiados no país. Ressalta-se que, em que pese a situação dos migrantes e refugiados não ter sido objeto específico de alteração normativa, as modificações promovidas pela ReformaTrabalhista no tocante à maior flexibilização no trabalho, intensa precarização laboral, restrição ao acesso formal à Justiça do Trabalho somadas à vulnerabilidade dos diversos grupos de refugiados trazem impactos a tal parcela de trabalhadores presente no Brasil. Desse modo, faz-se necessário repensar a forma como as medidas de caráter liberal adotadas por vários Estados nas últimas décadas acabam impactando determinadas categorias de trabalhadores ao desconstituir a lógica e as premissas protetivas do Direito do Trabalho em prol do capital, submetendo o trabalhador a uma condição de miséria diante da promessa de um suposto crescimento econômico nacional.
A inovação tecnológica como instrumento de efetividade do desenvolvimento nacional: análise comparativa entre o potencial inovador e o número de patentes
Authors: Ortiz Rodrigo Meireles , Lobato Anderson Orestes Cavalcante
Published: January 2023

Na atualidade, a inovação tecnológica detém prestígio na produção de riqueza e bem-estar social, além de consistir em um importante indicador do desenvolvimento econômico e social dos países. Assim, este trabalho pretende investigar o contexto da inovação tecnológica no Brasil, a partir da comparação entre o atual potencial inovador do país com o número de depósitos nacionais de patentes no Brasil e no mundo. Para a análise do potencial inovador selecionou-se seis indicadores internacionais, quais sejam, o número de publicações, o investimento em pesquisa público e privado, o número de pesquisadores, a economia, a população e o território, identificando-se a colocação do Brasil no cenário internacional. Já para a análise do número de patentes foram observadas informações da Organização Mundial de Propriedade Intelectual e do Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia, Inovação e Comunicação. Os dados coletados indicam a existência de um contraste, denotando que o país, embora detenha um significante potencial inovador, deixa a desejar na hora de transformar esta capacidade em tecnologia e, consequentemente, em patentes. A constatação deste descompasso demonstra a necessidade do incentivo ao desenvolvimento de inovações e à proteção desta atividade realizada no país, em harmonia com o avanço de políticas públicas nesse sentido, tais como a Lei nº 10.973/2004, a Emenda Constitucional nº 85/2015 e a Lei nº 13.243/16. Estas medidas, além do incentivo ao desenvolvimento de tecnologias e, consequentemente, de títulos de propriedade, acabam por exigir um tratamento atento e responsável com este patrimônio intangível na busca da soberania e do desenvolvimento nacional.
“Colonialismo mascarado” no século 21: análise geopolítica da crise ambiental e os desafios para a América Latina
Authors: Fabris Bruna , Caovilla Maria Aparecida Lucca , Bones Ubiratan Alegransi
Published: January 2023

O artigo propõe uma análise acerca da crise ambiental sob a ótica geopolítica de Fernando Estenssoro, buscando compreender se a América Latina tem avançado em seu processo de descolonização. Os objetivos consistem em: apontar as noções conceituais e históricas do novo constitucionalismo latino-americano; Refletir a crise ambiental na América Latina; e, compreender os desafios enfrentados perante as grandes potências do Norte que administram um “colonialismo mascarado”. A metodologia empregada tratou de análise lógica indutiva, enquanto que as técnicas de pesquisa foram bibliográficas e documentais. Conclui-se que a colonização latino-americana ainda existe, mas permanece “mascarada”, acentuando-se com o passar do tempo. A maneira viável para trabalhar este cenário é através de métodos e estratégias de ação unitária entre os Estados da América Latina pelos seus próprios interesses comuns.
A efetiva ação de políticas públicas de atendimento aos usuários de drogas como fomentadora da redução de danos
Authors: Santos Almilene figueira dos , Aguiar Denison Melo de , Braga Mauro Augusto Ponce de Leão
Published: January 2023

O presente artigo aborda a temática das políticas públicas brasileiras referentes às drogas, bem como a influência da família na recuperação dos usuários. Visualiza-se também o poder da motivação para a solução de questões ligadas ao uso e dependência de drogas, com o objetivo de resgatar o histórico da estratégia de redução de danos (RD) no Brasil. A metodologia efetiva-se a partir de pesquisa bibliográfica em livros, revistas e diversos sites como bases de dados disponíveis na internet, se rastreou o surgimento da estratégia de redução de danos no País, que teve como marco foi a epidemia da AIDS no início da década de 80 e as políticas que a antecederam. Os dados coletados suscitam as grandes reflexões sobre os desafios contemporâneos enfrentados pelo uso da estratégia de RD no campo do uso e do abuso de drogas lícitas e ilícitas, como álcool e crack, o preconceito vigente em relação ao usuário de drogas e a exigência de intervenções intersetoriais no enfrentamento do fenômeno do consumo de drogas. Além disso, mantém-se até a atualidade o descompasso histórico entre as políticas sobre drogas oriundas do campo da segurança e aquelas provindas da saúde pública, com predominância da cocaína e da maconha.
A necessidade da inclusão social e do respeito aos direitos fundamentais de pessoas com síndrome de down
Authors: Leite Leonardo Canez , Lima Ellen Ramos
Published: January 2023

Este estudo visa apontar a evolução histórica e legislativa em âmbito constitucional e as declarações que buscam proteger os direitos humanos fundamentais. Primeiramente é analisado de forma breve sua evolução histórica, indicando as dificuldades enfrentadas pelas pessoas com síndrome de down e com deficiências, desde os tempos primórdios, até os avanços atuais e barreiras ainda existentes. Apontando inclusive as características físicas, limitações, desenvolvimentos e o que é a síndrome, reportando os tipos existentes e como funciona geneticamente. Adiante elenca-se as normativas legais brasileiras e a evolução quanto ao espaço que vem sendo conquistado, além de diversas leis apontadas, é analisada a lei 13.146/2015 conhecida como Estatuto da Pessoa com deficiência, que consigo reporta inúmeros direitos que já vinham sendo conquistados ao longo do tempo com leis nacionais e declarações universais, além de princípios como a dignidade da pessoa humana e de igualdade, resguardando a conquista de espaço para as pessoas com síndrome, como direito a trabalhar, estudar e se relacionar socialmente sem discriminações. Este referencial teve fundamento bibliográfico e legislativo, buscando por meio da leitura jurídica compreender a utilização da norma e os pontos que precisam ser revisados e melhorados socialmente.
O tráfico de pessoas no Brasil
Authors: VERAS GEOVANNA MONTEIRO , SOUZA MARIA FERNANDA SANTOS , SOUZA LUIZA CATARINA SOBREIRA DE
Published: January 2023

Este artigo aborda como o Brasil tem atuado no combate ao maior crime de violação dos direitos humanos, que é o crime de tráfico de pessoas. Esse crime organizado é o que mais cresce no mundo, ocupando hoje o terceiro lugar na lista dos maiores negócios ilícito do globo, movimentando bilhões de dólares todos os anos.  As principais vítimas desse crime são as mulheres, por terem um retorno financeiro maior decorrente da exploração sexual, todavia, homens e crianças também são largamente utilizados, seja para a venda de recém-nascidos ou de órgãos. O principal objetivo desse artigo foi descrever as principais medidas que estão sendo adotadas pelo Estado brasileiro no combate a este delito, encontrando-se, inicialmente, como resposta, a realização de campanhas visando a conscientização e combate ao tráfico de pessoas. Ademais, constatou-se que não há o rigor necessário para a erradicação do problema, muito menos a divulgação dos casos na mídia, para alertar a população. Quanto à metodologia, esse trabalho utilizou como procedimento técnico o levantamento bibliográfico, usando dados de fontes já publicadas sobre o assunto.
Preocupação excessiva do estado na produção de provas nos casos de grande repercussão na esfera penal
Authors: De Paula Junior Ecleziast
Published: January 2023

O presente artigo objetiva discutir diferenças na maneira em que o Estado reage no momento de criação de provas nos casos de grande repercussão quando comparado com outros de menor impacto social. Tal discussão justifica-se no fato de que em crimes que chocaram o país, como o de Isabella Nardoni, foi utilizada a mais alta tecnologia disponível na perícia criminal; enquanto outros crimes permanecem sem desfecho. Assim, faz-se uma análise da importância da prova pericial, informando também como é a realidade da estrutura pericial brasileira. Em seguida, apresenta-se quatro estudos de casos, os dois primeiros( casos Nardoni e Leonardo Lívio) de grande repercussão e que contaram com provas periciais de ponta, enquanto os dois últimos casos (Fabrício Krettli e Oriovaldo Ferreira Júnior) carecem de um responsável pelo crime. Posteriormente, é exposta a pesquisa de campo: três profissionais operadores do direito demonstram suas opiniões sobre o assunto e a realidade profissional em suas áreas. Finalmente, ao analisar os casos estudados juntamente com a pesquisa de campo, conclui-se que em crimes de grande impacto social o Estado consegue apresentar uma perícia de ponta, ao contrário de casos com menor repercussão, em que ficam expostas as deficiências da estrutura investigativa brasileira.
O implante de chip em trabalhadoras e trabalhadores: as vicissitudes da Lei Geral De Proteção De Dados (LGPD) brasileira e da General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) europeia
Authors: Stolz Sheila , Pino Estrada Manuel Martín
Published: January 2023

O implante de chip em trabalhadoras(es) tem como diretriz ético-jurídica o consentimento livremente manifestado, única forma de capaz de salvaguardar, segundo as normativas legais brasileiras e europeias que serão analisadas no decorrer deste ensaio, as questões pertinentes a privacidade e a intimidade. Não obstante, considerando-se que através dos chips os empregadores poderão saber on line e full time a localização de suas(seus) subordinadas(os) e, também, monitorar continuamente a sua saúde – posto que terão acesso, por exemplo, à pressão sanguínea, o ritmo da respiração e dos batimentos cardíacos – convém realizar-se a pergunta: a implantação do chip não extrapola o poder de direção do empregador? Salienta-se, ademais, que a exigência prevista nas normativas legais mencionadas de que o consentimento das(os) trabalhadoras(es) pressupõe como válida a aceitação do implante do chip, não toma em consideração que este instrumento (consentimento) não reflete a plena autonomia e liberdade das pessoas que trabalham, pois o consentimento não é um mecanismo hábil a salvaguardar este polo da relação laboral que não dispõem de poder de negociação e transação, menos, ainda, de manifestar-se livremente em um contexto de flexibilização laboral inaugurado pela Reforma Trabalhista (LEI Nº 13.467 de 13 de julho de 2017), de colapso político-econômico agravado pela crise sócio-sanitária provocada pela pandemia do Corona Vírus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19), temáticas que serão discutidas neste ensaio.