Cultural studies as the new humanities

The purpose of this study is to argue that Cultural Studies may be regarded as the new humanities. Cultural Studies focus on ethnic, post-colonial, communication, anthropological, ethnographic and feminist studies, and only ���very marginally��� have they shown an interest in literature and literary studies (Aguiar & Silva, 2008). But those fields, which ���Social Science��� rather than the ���Arts��� have invested in (Ibid., p. 254), are the touchstone of modernity. Today, the concept we have of humankind is, to a large extent, played out in these areas. The questioning of both humankind and modernity has as backdrop the technologically-driven shift of culture from word to image (Martins, 2011 a). My proposal takes into account this debate, while underscoring how Cultural Studies are engaged in what is current and contemporary, which means, in the present and everyday life.

Interpersonal and attitudinal factors in women's work role: Cross-cultural comparison

The last four decades have seen a dramatic increase in the number of women entering employment. This is particularly true in Europe and although more European women are working outside the home, the patterns of female employment have changed very little. An analysis of these patterns is presented. It was found that women continue to dominate specific fields, particularly teaching and service providing. An investigation of the interpersonal behavior differences among 117 American women from the southeastern United States in three work roles--homemakers, women in traditional occupations, and in nontraditional occupations--was conducted and the sex-role orientation, attitudes toward success, and demographic indicators were examined in order to consider the interplay of these variables with female occupational role and interpersonal behavior. A second focus of the study is on the cross-cultural comparison of the psychological and work variables in women of two different cultures: America and Portugal. Thirty-one Portuguese women were a preliminary comparison sample. The American results showed significant differences between groups in self-perceived interpersonal behaviors and the findings contradicted current stereotypes. The cross-cultural data, although preliminary, indicates differences between the countries in social desirability, aggressive and assertive behaviors, and in sex-role attitudes, which seem to reflect the different stages of economic development. (MKA)

Estudo do mercado cosm��tico chin��s

Relat��rio de est��gio de mestrado em Estudos Interculturais Portugu��s / Chin��s: Tradu����o, Forma����o e Comunica����o Empresarial

Comedy shows: humour, crisis and the resilience of radio

Being a part of many radio stations' progra

Os estudos culturais como novas humanidades

�� meu prop��sito, neste estudo, argumentar a ideia de que os Estudos Culturais podem ser encarados como novas humanidades. Os Cultural Studies centram a aten����o nos estudos ��tnicos, p��s-coloniais, comunicacionais, antropol��gicos, etnogr��ficos e feministas, e apenas ���muito marginalmente��� t��m-se interessado pela literatura e pelos estudos liter��rios (Aguiar e Silva, 2008). Mas s��o precisamente esses dom��nios, investidos pela ���Social Science���, e n��o pelas ���Arts���, que se constituem como pedra de toque da modernidade. E �� neles que se joga, hoje, em grande medida, a ideia que temos do humano. A interroga����o que hoje �� feita, tanto sobre o humano como sobre a modernidade, tem como pano de fundo a transla����o tecnol��gica da cultura, da palavra para a imagem (Martins, 2011a). A minha proposta tem em aten����o esse debate, sublinhando entretanto o compromisso que os Estudos Culturais t��m com atual e o contempor��neo, o que tamb��m quer dizer, com o presente e o quotidiano.

Conflito e trauma: XVI Col��quio de Outono

It has been the main concern of CEHUM, as a Research Centre within the Humanities which operates in an inter and transdisciplinary structure to listen attentively to the ���noise of the world��� and attempt a global interpretation of the signs of the times issuing from the world around us, as vibrant echoes of many social and cultural pressing issues. Every year each new Col��quio de Outono attempts to give evidence of that concern through the topic chosen for debate, ample enough and challenging enough to trigger a lively multidisciplinary dialogue amongst the diff erent research groups that compose this centre, the participants and our invited guest speakers. Throughout the three days of this 16th Col��quio de Outono we had the privilege to debate the propositions of a vast number of national and international specialists in the manifold fi elds of inquiry here represented, engaging keynote speakers, project advisors, members of research teams and external researchers attached to the various research projects currently running in CEHUM, in the fi elds of literature, linguistics, philosophy, ethics, visual arts, cultural studies, music and performance. Each specifi c fi eld of studies was however never seen isolated, but always embodied in a geo-cultural context and within the scope of a wide variety of critical debates and current theories of knowledge, as a signal of our understanding of the Humanities as a rich and plural territory which engages us all, scholars, researchers, students.

Estudo da influ��ncia cultural no Design de Cal��ado

Disserta����o de mestrado em Design e Marketing

Intera����o cultural e interpretatio na epigrafia votiva: o caso da fachada ocidental do conuentus Bracaraugustanus

Disserta����o de mestrado em Arqueologia

Cultural circuits of climate change in U.K. broadsheet newspapers, 1985���2003

This article argues for a cultural perspective to be brought to bear on studies of climate change risk perception. Developing the ���circuit of culture��� model, the article maintains that the producers and consumers of media texts are jointly engaged in dynamic, meaning-making activities that are context-specific and that change over time. A critical discourse analysis of climate change based on a database of newspaper reports from three U.K. broadsheet papers over the period 1985���2003 is presented. This empirical study identifies three distinct circuits of climate change���1985���1990, 1991���1996, 1997���2003���which are characterized by different framings of risks associated with climate change. The article concludes that there is evidence of social learning as actors build on their experiences in relation to climate change science and policy making. Two important factors in shaping the U.K.���s broadsheet newspapers��� discourse on ���dangerous��� climate change emerge as the agency of top political figures and the dominant ideological standpoints in different newspapers.