"L'engagement libertaire d'Albert Camus et la pensée de Midi", in (Re)Lire Albert Camus, Paris, Éditions Minuit, 2016

Estuda-se o pensamento político de Albert Camus a partir do seu ensaísmo e dalgumas referências à sua novelística.

L’homme face à la mort dans La Peste et As Intermitências da Morte

Nous nous proposons d’esquisser une réflexion comparative axée sur le thème de la mort, à partir de l’analyse de La Peste (1947) d’Albert Camus et As Intermitências da Morte (2005) de José Saramago. Dès lors, ces deux romans présentent au lecteur deux expériences littéraires de la mort, apparemment différentes mais, en réalité, axées sur une même interrogation de l’Homme, celle de la mort. Notre hypothèse de lecture vise donc à analyser comment cette réflexion sur la mort se développe dans les deux romans, à partir de la peste et des intermittences de la mort.

Between the centre and the margins: Services location, economic (re)structuring and quality of life in metropolitan periurban areas.

This paper aims to discuss the specificities of the role of services in the economic structuring and in the social liveliness and attractiveness of periurban areas. Drawing upon on the result of an empirical work developed in 5 different parishes of Lisbon Metropolitan area, which represent five categories of periurban spaces previously identified, it is analysed the role of services in these “in-between” territories and the way they are important in the spatial economic structuring of these areas and in the quality of life and well-being of their inhabitants and users. A tentative typology for framing the analysis of the role of services on periurban metropolitan spaces is suggested and some policy implications are pointed out.