Read the whole thing: Journalism, weblogs and the re-mediation of the war in Iraq

This paper examines a particular form of online activity-weblogging, and how it has allowed for specific new forms of popular political communication in the context of the Second Gulf War. After describing the basics of weblogging, the paper discusses Western media coverage of the war and then shows how 'warbloggers' positioned themselves vis-à-vis media coverage and propaganda, creating commentaries that frequently combined media and political criticism. While bloggers of every political hue offered a range of perspectives and personal styles, some general tendencies are evident in warblogging discourse. The piece ends by questioning the significance of warblogging in terms of its potential contribution to democratic communication.

Lugares e tempos em narrativas de uma educação ambiental pós-colonial no Sítio dos Crioulos - Jerônimo Monteiro - E.S.

Discussão e análise sobre as inúmeras temporalidades e espaços identitários do Sítio dos Crioulos, comunidade quilombola do município de Jerônimo Monteiro, ao sul do Estado do Espírito Santo. O objetivo é compreender as formas de saberes produzidas pela comunidade, assim como suas articulações na relação tempoespaço, no encadeamento do que podemos chamar de uma educação ambiental local, considerando os diferentes modos de vida que ali existem, como também os usos e apropriações da natureza e dos processos identitários. Os usos das narrativas através de entrevistas abertas e a observação-participante compõem a metodologia com as experiências do lugar praticado. Pesquisa que engendra o ambiental em tradução com os saberes-fazeres da comunidade: o lúdico, a roça e o sagrado. São espaços-tempos que possibilitam pensar na radicalização e anunciação das práticas sociais e culturais como sinônimos da realização do ambiental, e como narrativas que denotam estórias que emergem dos silenciamentos da modernidade disciplinante e instrumental, a qual reduziu as comunidades ditas tradicionais à conformação de conhecimentos não-científicos dotados de irracionalidades. Esta pesquisa busca compreender de que forma é possível pensar uma educação ambiental de dentro para fora, onde a relação pesquisador-pesquisado se estabelece como ponto de aproximação e conflito das dinâmicas socioculturais estabelecidas por esse encontro. O que nos aproxima de uma educação ambiental pós-colonial que surge das narrativas e experiências locais na convergência das diferenças e do que se produz e traduz junto a elas. Este trabalho discorre desses processos de aproximação e distanciamento que provocam outras traduções sobre a cultura-natureza de nós mesmos, indivíduos e sociedade.

Researchers' information needs in the bibliographic database : a literature review

This article is published online with Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License.

Terrorism as war by other means: national security and state support for terrorism

The conventional approach in the discipline of International Relations is to treat terrorist organizations as "non-state" actors of international relations. However, this approach is problematic due to the fact that most terrorist organizations are backed or exploited by some states. In this article, I take issue with the non-stateness of terrorist organizations and seek to answer the question of why so many states, at times, support terrorist organizations. I argue that in the face of rising threats to national security in an age of devastating wars, modern nation states tend to provide support to foreign terrorist organizations that work against their present and imminent enemies. I elaborate on my argument studying three cases of state support for terrorism: Iranian support for Hamas, Syrian support for the PKK, and American support for the MEK. The analyses suggest that, for many states, terror is nothing but war by other means.

India, Latin America, and the Caribbean during the Cold War

In this period, the key to the relationship between India and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was based in the political nature of this liaison: it was a "uni-multilateral" relationship, centered in India, where LAC countries operated as a group of autonomous entities (an "island chain" structure), and not as a unit of a supranational character with unified international conduct (an island structure). As we will see, faced with uniform and consistent Indian policies, LAC had national policies which make it impossible to discuss a regional policy towards India. The goal of this work is to form a general characterization of the bilateral policies during the period of the Cold War with the intent of identifying the key explanatory factors of the process. While this may be a limited objective, it addresses the non-existence of an academic debate surrounding the topic. We intend to contribute an analysis which in this phase is primarily descriptive.

Physical consequences of falls in the elderly: a literature review from 1995 to 2010

In the last decade, population ageing has been registered as a global phenomenon. A relation exists between falling and ageing, since falling frequency increases significantly with age. In fact, one in three older adult falls annually. Although ageing is generically associated with decrease and degeneration of psychological and physical functions, it is still not common for the correct identification of risk factors to lead to a clinical prognosis of the elder being in risk of falling. Therefore, the goal of this review article is to identify, categorise and analyse typical ageing and fall factors mentioned in the literature as well as to quantify the number of times they were referenced. The research considered hundreds of publications, but analysis was then restricted to the 87 most pertinent articles written in English and published in journals or scientific magazines between 1995 and 2010. We concluded that falls among older adults can be characterised by the following: anatomic characteristics and physiological consequences of ageing; the pathologies that induce falls, which can be neurological, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and other diseases; causes and risk factors of falls that can be behavioural, biological, environmental or socio-economic; type of physical consequences of falls, including fractures, bruises, injuries or other physical consequences; and strategies to prevent, mitigate or rehabilitate, which can be of a physical, environmental or behavioural nature.