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2024-03-28T23:42:45ZDa reflexão na ação ao conhecimento ilusório nas Unidades de Polícia Técnica Forense em Portugal
https://hdl.handle.net/10316/114181
Title: Da reflexão na ação ao conhecimento ilusório nas Unidades de Polícia Técnica Forense em Portugal
Authors: Costa, Susana
Abstract: As últimas décadas têm testemunhado o desenvolvimento e a expansão dos usos da ciência e da tecnologia em muitas áreas da vida social. Para a justiça criminal essa expansão pode constituir uma oportunidade para incorporar e testar o poder das novas ferramentas forenses. Contudo, tratando-se de instituições tradicionais, as forças policiais e o sistema de justiça em geral podem necessitar de períodos de adaptação para que as novas tecnologias sejam incorporadas nas maneiras de pensar e de fazer. Com base em grupos focais realizados em Unidades de Polícia Técnica Forense (UPT) em Portugal e adotando metodologias qualitativas e interpretativas, este artigo procura perceber como é que as tecnologias de ADN são incorporadas no trabalho de investigação policial. Ao fazê-lo explora a “reflexão na ação” feita pelas UPT e o “conhecimento problemático” associado ao seu trabalho: conhecimento tácito, inerte, ritual, alien e ainda um novo tipo de conhecimento a que aqui chamamos de ilusório.; Recent decades have witnessed the development and expansion of the uses of science and technology in many areas of social life. For criminal justice, this expansion can constitute an opportunity to incorporate and test the power of the new forensic tools. However, being traditional institutions, police forces, and the justice system in general, can go through adaptation periods where novel tools are incorporated into existing ways of thinking and doing. Through focus groups carried out in Forensic Technical Police Units (UPT) in Portugal and adopting qualitative and interpretative methodologies, this paper seeks to understand how DNA technology is incorporated into investigative police work. In doing so it explores the “reflection in action” done by the UPTs and the “troublesome knowledge” associated with their work: tacit, inert, ritual, alien and also a new type of knowledge that we call here illusory knowledge.2024-01-01T00:00:00ZComics in Science and Health Communication: Insights From Mutual Collaboration and Framing a Research Practice
https://hdl.handle.net/10316/114171
Title: Comics in Science and Health Communication: Insights From Mutual Collaboration and Framing a Research Practice
Authors: Tavares, Rui; Alemany-Pagès, Mireia; Araújo, Sara; Cohn, Neil; Santos, João Ramalho; Azul, Anabela Marisa
Abstract: Comics have been used as a tool for learning, teaching, understanding, raising awareness and changing behaviours. Researchers
are taking more advantage of this medium as comics in research has become a growing field. Notwithstanding, comics as
research practice/method has received less attention, particularly the research framework involved in making comics. Here, we
detail the research process through the drawing to create a comic about non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. We argue that
deciding on visual choices intersecting the perspectives of both artist and researchers whilst promoting reflexivity can be best
understood through mutual collaboration. We depict examples of how the active inter/trans/disciplinary research environment,
incorporating perceptions, experiences, tensions, from the artist and researchers, and respective disciplines, also informed by
patient testimonies, resulted in (new) meanings and ways of thinking in terms of visual content and structure. Particularly when
creating the characters and when using multimodality and resources afforded by comics –visual metaphor, anthropomorphism,
and scientific sketchnote–, to portray the human body and bring familiarity and simplicity to complex cellular and metabolic
events. We end with a comic strip framing comics as research practice, outlining the active engagement during the drawing
processes and the research framework that combined a mixed method research approach for creating a tool useful towards
understanding science and health promotion.2023-01-01T00:00:00ZEU Representations in Portuguese Media and Populism: Embodying Political Antipodes?
https://hdl.handle.net/10316/114148
Title: EU Representations in Portuguese Media and Populism: Embodying Political Antipodes?
Authors: Freire, Maria Raquel; Santos, Sofia José; Crivelente, Moara Assis; Bezerra, Luiza Almeida
Abstract: Mass media mediate different publics, thus being crucial in constructing political reality. By selecting which topics are covered
(agenda), which voices are heard, or how social and political issues/actors/dynamics are represented (priming and
framing), mass media impacts how political conversations and processes unfold. Acknowledging the increasing mediatisation
of politics, this article zooms into media texts of the Portuguese media during a complex political period that included
national elections to explore how populism as a term, label, or topic was used and/or co‐opted to create and negotiate
political EU representations. Building on a historical perspective and using critical thematic analysis, this article argues
that populism was used in the media and by the media as a discursive mechanism of political positionality and/or delegitimisation
or criticism of political actors, agendas, or moves, thus making populism and the EU co‐constitutively used as
embodying political antipodes and making the EU work as a discursive buffer concerning populism in the country.2023-01-01T00:00:00ZCivil economy as a path towards sustainability: An empirical investigation
https://hdl.handle.net/10316/114095
Title: Civil economy as a path towards sustainability: An empirical investigation
Authors: Nogueira, Carla; Marques, João Filipe; Pinto, Hugo
Abstract: Contemporary societies face a myriad of challenges that require the modification of patterns, ways of living,
being and producing. Although climate change is one of the most glaring problems, it cannot be understood
merely by environmental aspects. Many of these challenges are interrelated and have their roots in a set of
crystallized structures that are obsolete, namely the economic ones. Contemporary capitalism has been proving
its limitations and contribution to less fair, harmonious and sustainable societies. Evidence of this is the policy
efforts that many organizations, such as the European Commission, are making to promote environmental
transitions, the circular economy, and green innovations. This article argues that the concept of civil economy
may be complementary to this green policy agenda for reflecting on current social challenges and emphasize the
importance of cultural, environmental, spiritual and economic resources operating together. It pays attention to
gift-giving as a form of civil economy, defining a framework inspired by positive sociology. The article uses the
case study of “Los Portales”, an intentional sustainable community located in Spain, with around 40 inhabitants
and more than 40 years of existence. The study is of ethnographic character and based on in-depth interviews
with experts on the economic governance of this community. The results show that the principles of the gift
economy were crucial to the success and longevity of the community. They also suggest an agency-centred
approach in which individuals should engage activities that promote personal happiness, collective happiness
and prosperity.2023-01-01T00:00:00Z