Postulados inciertos para una praxis estético-política deconstructiva

La deconstrucción, precisamente porque no prescribe una estética ni una política, actúa como estrategia de apertura a/de lo diferente y la alteridad, y opera de este modo una propuesta nómada de pensamiento y acción. Algunas categorías que han canalizado la reflexión en estética y política durante siglos, como representación, juicio, interpretación, sentido, firma, secreto, etc. se encuentran con sus impotencias o su lado oscuro o simplemente una nueva lectura "inadecuada" a través de un análisis deconstructivo; este análisis contribuye, así, a pensar de otro modo una estética y una política por venir.

Determination and control of schistosomiasis

The subject of this conference reflects the scientific community's interest in seeking to understand the complex causal web whose various social, economic, and biological components interact in the production and reproduction of schistosomiasis and its control in relation to community participation. From the onset, the author stresses the impossibility of dealing separately with community participation, as if social components were just one more "weapon" in the arsenal for schistosomiasis control. This study begins with a brief historical review of the 71 years of control activities with this endemic disease, stressing the enormous efforts and huge expenditures in this field vis-à-vis the limited results, despite the extraordinary technological development of specific, classical control inputs such as new treatment drugs and molluscicides. The article then discusses the various strategies used in control programs, emphasizing ideological consistencies and contradictions. Interactions at the macro and micro levels are discussed, as are the determinants and risk factors involved in producing the disease's endemicity. Unequal occupation of space leaves the segregated portion of the population exposed to extremely favorable conditions for transmission of the disease. This raises the issue of how to control an endemic disease which is so closely linked to the way of life imposed on the population. The study challenges the classical control model and suggests an alternative model now undergoing medium-term investigation in the States of Espirito Santo, and Pernambuco, Brazil. The author concludes that we do not need new strategies, but a new control model, contrary to the prevailing classical model in both concept and practice. From the conceptual point of view, the new model mentioned above is different from others in that schistosomiasis control is seen from a social perspective stressing the population's accumulated knowledge in addition to the building of shared knowledge. The model's praxis has the following characteristics: (1) it is integrated with and financed by research agencies and health services; (2) it operates at the local health services level; (3) use of molluscicides has been eliminated; (4) emphasis is given to individual medical treatment and improvement of sanitary conditions.

Violence as a research object and intervention in the health field: an analysis from the production of the Research Group on Gender, Health and Nursingi

The study aimed to describe how violence is revealed in the production of the Research Group on Gender, Health and Nursing. This is a historical research of qualitative approach, which evaluated the production of the Research Group, through content analysis. The results show gender as a central category in determining violence and health practices. This aspect determines limitations on professional practices of coping, such as the invisibility of the problem. The female autonomy, the use of alcohol and drugs and social vulnerability play an important relation with the phenomenon and the bond is revealed as potentiality of health practices to address the problem. Conclusion: The gender perspective in nursing research is an innovative field and counter-hegemonic, a possibility to assume a meaning of praxis by transforming potential of understanding and modes of intervention in the phenomenon of gender violence.

Modelo profesional de referencia en la formación inicial de profesores

Esta investigación se planteó como objetivo central desentrañar el/los modelo(s) de ciencia(s) y los modelos de praxis que subyacen en los procesos de formación de los profesionales de pedagogía de un centro de estudios de nivel superior a fin de dar cuenta de los modelos profesionales vigentes y establecer eventuales relaciones entre estos modelos teóricos y los modelos prácticos, mediante una metodología de carácter cualitativo-interpretativa. Los resultados evidenciaron una relativa convivencia entre los modelos profesionales de referencia cognitivo y constructivista, avalada en un cambio paradigmático que se desplaza desde el positivismo al interpretativo.

Inteligência competitiva e suas conexões epistemológicas com gestão da informação e do conhecimento

O artigo apresenta uma revisão de literatura mostrando o estado-da-arte conceitual na disciplina corporativa denominada inteligência competitiva (IC), sob um ponto de vista da ciência da informação (CI), explorando desenvolvimentos e experiências recentes. Embora já presente nas sociedades da Antiguidade, objeto de estudo de soberanos, pensadores e guerreiros, a inteligência competitiva (IC), inspirada nas atividades de inteligência militar, constitui tema bastante atual no mundo corporativo contemporâneo de competição global, com renovado interesse no mercado e na academia. Como o tema apresenta evidentes conexões epistemológicas com gestão da informação (GI) e gestão do conhecimento (GC), o texto busca mostrar como isso ocorre e as relações de causa e efeito entre as várias camadas de atividades vinculadas ao desenvolvimento de inteligência para tomada de decisão nas organizações inspirado no framework de Liebowitz (2006) baseado numa estrutura de cebola. Conceitos correlatos são também explorados, como o próprio conceito de GC, numa praxis composta de disciplinas corporativas conhecidas como aprendizado organizacional, gestão do capital intelectual ou capital humano e inteligência organizacional. Conceitos novos correlatos à inteligência competitiva são acrescentados ao conjunto intelligentsia galore de Liebowitz (2006), como capital estrutural, capital de clientela, capital competitivo e inteligência estratégica (IE).