Mudando de eixo e invertendo o mapa: para uma antropologia da religião plural

A proposta deste artigo é colocar em perspectiva crítica a última recessão realizada sobre a antropologia da religião brasileira publicada na coletânea Horizontes das Ciências Sociais no Brasil (Martins e Duarte 2010). Um dos pontos principais que abrimos para o debate neste artigo é o efeito uniformizador do campo de pesquisa que a recessão em tela promove, tornando invisível a produção norte-nordestina e por consequência, e mais fundamentalmente, a própria área de pesquisa. Nesta oportunidade, mudamos o eixo da análise e invertermos o mapa, olhando para o nosso campo de atuação acadêmico a partir da região Norte e Nordeste, identificamos algumas "agendas locais" que na realidade dialogam intensamente e compõem contemporaneamente as agendas nacional e internacional.

Biografema de Mário de Andrade: do plural

Este texto é a primeira parte do terceiro capítulo de minha tese de doutoramento - MÁRIO DE ANDRADE, PLURAL (Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas - Universidade de São Paulo). Aí, tenta-se a produção de um biografema à maneira de Roland Barthes, de quem é a epígrafe do capítulo. O biografema é uma livre-produção textual na medida em que não deriva de significado (como a biografia), mas, enfatizando imagens, cenas, gestos, fragmentos textuais, pulsões, opera significancias. O biografema não dispensa a biografia - usa-a, desmembra-a, desgasta-a. Disseminação, o biografema não hesita em lançar mão de todos os operadores de linguagem à disposição. Se a biografia opera com dados, instituindo a verossimilhança no biografado, o biografema retém o arbitrário na produção do ser-de-tinta que imprime no papel.

The problem of national integration in plural societies : a case study of Pakistan, 1947-71 /|nMuhammed A. Quddus. -- 260 St. Catharines [Ont. : s. n.],

Pakistan had a plural society per excellence. Its people were divided geographically between two separate regions, spoke different languages, had different cultures and economic structures. Like other plural societies elsewhere, Pakistan also faced the problem of national integration. Cleavages along the lines of traditional attachments are fundamental to any plural society, as they were in Pakistan. But their political manifestation could have been kept within managable limits if the Central Government, overwhelmingly composed of the West Pakistanis, was seriously committed to the task. All that Pakistan needed to maintain her integrated existence was deliberate, calculated and conscious efforts on the part of the Central Government to give the Bengalis, the majority linguistic and geographic group in the country, a partnership in the state of Pakistan, an effective power in the decision-making process of the country, a reasonable share from the economic resources of the country, and to show respect to their hopes and aspirations. In addition, Pakistan needed a national platform to bring her divergent linguistic and geographic groups toge~her for some common, national purpos~s. Political parties were the only institutions which could have served this purpose. Pakistan miserably failed to sustain national political parties and failed to satisfy Bengalis' demands. This failure eventually resulted in the falling apart of the political system of Pakistan in 1971.

Polygamy And Plural Marriage

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Political Education in Plural Societies: Using the Anti-Bias Approach to Challenge Oppression in Bombay and Berlin

This study addresses the effectivity of the Anti-Bias approach and training methodology as a pedagogical political strategy to challenge oppression among student groups in the cities of Bombay and Berlin. The Anti-Bias trainings conducted within the framework of this study also become the medium through which the perpetuation of oppressive structures by students within and outside the school is investigated. Empirical data from predominantly qualitative investigations in four secondary schools, two each in Bombay and Berlin, is studied and analysed on the basis of theoretical understandings of prejudice, discrimination and identity. This study builds on insights offered by previous research on prejudices and evaluations of anti-bias and diversity interventions, where the lack of sufficient research and thorough evaluations testing impact has been identified (Levy Paluck, 2006). The theoretical framework suggests that prejudices and discriminatory practices are learnt and performed by individuals over the years by way of pre-existing discourses, and that behaviour and practices can be unlearnt through a multi-step process. It proposes that the discursive practices of students contribute to the constitution of their viable selves and in the constitution of ‘others’. Drawing on this framework, the study demonstrates how student-subjects in Bombay and Berlin perpetuate oppressive discourses by performing their identities and performing identities onto ‘others’. Such performative constitution opens up the agency of the individual, disclosing the shifting and dynamic nature of identities. The Anti-Bias approach is posited as an alternative to oppressive discourses and a vehicle that encourages and assists the agency of individuals. The theoretical framework, which brings together a psychological approach to prejudice, a structural approach to discrimination and a poststructural approach to identity, facilitates the analysis of the perpetuation of dominant discourses by the students, as well as how they negotiate their way through familiar norms and discourses. Group discussions and interviews a year after the respective trainings serve to evaluate the agency of the students and the extent to which the training impacted on their perceptions, attitudes and behavioural practices. The study reveals the recurrence of the themes race, religion, gender and sexuality in the representational practices of the students groups in Berlin and Bombay. It demonstrates how students in this study not only perform, but also negotiate and resist oppressive structures. Of particular importance is the role of the school: When schools offer no spaces for discussion, debate and action on contemporary social issues, learning can neither be put into practice nor take on a positive, transformative form. In such cases, agency and resistance is limited and interventionist actions yield little. This study reports the potential of the Anti-Bias approach and training as a tool of political education and action in education. It demonstrates that a single training can initiate change but sustaining change requires long-term strategies and on-going actions. Taking a poststructural perspective, it makes concrete suggestions to adapt and alter the Anti-Bias approach and the implementation of Anti-Bias trainings.

La tecnología emergente como herramienta de acceso, manejo de información y cultura en un entorno educativo plural.

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Educar en una societat plural

Crònica amb valoració personal d'un fet que va generar un fort dèbat social entorn al cas de tres nenes magrebines que varen deixar d'anar a escola

Mujeres y sociedad : nosotras, femenino plural.

La reproducción y distribución de este vídeo en Canarias ha sido llevada a cabo por el Programa de Medios Audiovisuales de la Dirección General de Promoción Educativa del Gobierno de Canarias. La duración de la cinta de vídeo es de treinta minutos

Projecte integrat de llengües, aprendre en un món plural i divers. 'Proyecto integrado de lenguas, aprender en un mundo plural y diverso'.

Resumen tomado de la publicación en catalán. Este artículo forma parte del monográfico 'Aprendre llengua en una societat multilingüe'

La família multicultural : un espai educatiu per a la convivència plural : el cas de les famílies adoptives i les famílies acollidores. 'La familia multicultural : un espacio educativo para la convivencia plural : el caso de las familias adoptivas y las familias acogedoras'.

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La formació del professorat en la societat plural. 'La formación del profesorado en la sociedad plural'.

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Una taxonomía de la primera persona del plural

En este artículo se busca elaborar filosóficamente el concepto nosotros. Metodológicamente, se utiliza al constructivismo filosófico de Deleuze y Guattari. Se parte de una taxonomía comprensiva de la pragmática del pronombre de primera persona plural ‘nosotros’, y luego señalando juegos de oposiciones que brindan consistencia interna y externa al concepto. Se muestra que el pronombre implica múltiples usos que permiten tratarlo como una herramienta discursiva que afecta el campo de lo social.

Discursos sobre la pau en una societat plural : gestió de conflictes i el seu tractament pedagògic. 'Discursos sobre la paz en una sociedad plural : gestión de conflictos y su tratamiento pedagógico'.

Trabajar los fundamentos donde se puede apoyar la regulación de conflictos para que esta sea sólida y realista. Buscar unos principios susceptibles de ser arraigados a cada contexto y proceder a su sistematización dotando las bases teóricas donde fundamentar los recursos, técnicas y procedimientos mínimos que a posteriori se quieran crear para desarrollar los valores y las actitudes propios en el marco de la gestión de conflictos y la mediación. La gestión de conflictos. La primera parte centra su fundamentación teórica en la descripción del estado de la cuestión en la actualidad a través de la recogida y estudio de fuentes. Seguidamente analiza el estado de la cuestión en el campo de la mediación y resolución de conflictos. Posteriormente, elabora una reflexión filosófico-pedagógica determinando valores y actitudes desde las diferentes corrientes pedagógicas. La investigación concluye en el diseño de una serie de estrategias, el aprendizaje de las cuales contribuye a la formación del educador como gestor de conflictos. El tratamiento de conflictos desde su gestión comporta una convicción: la persona humana es limitada y no puede resolverlo todo. Por eso, la tesis defiende la gestión de conflictos por encima de la resolución; el proceso gestor permite que se desarrolle un crecimiento positivo de los diferentes agentes implicados. El mismo proceso incluye la función preventiva: se trata de posibilitar espacios y tiempos para el encuentro y dar a conocer lo que los diferentes tienen de igual, es decir, todo aquello que es común, y, no obstante, ignorado. Equipara la gestión de conflictos a una acción preventiva que no ataca los síntomas sino las causas, en tanto que no aporta soluciones directas, sino que su finalidad es crear las condiciones para que las partes se impliquen en la gestión del conflicto y avancen en el convencimiento de llegar a un posible acuerdo.

Un món plural i divers. 'Un mundo plural y diverso'.

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