This essay seeks to reflect on the initial phase of the band Fantasmão, and on the discursive innovations produced within the genre known as pagode baiano. Dislocating the negro body as an erotic object through its performance ...

Based on experiences and specific observations I analyze in this essay several possibilities of triggering the binary purity/impurity in discourse and prevention practices to HIV. I believe that, while this is fundamental ...

The article contrasts the Movement of Marginal Literature in São Paulo with past cultural experiences, especially the modernism. At first, I return to the foremost demands of the modernist avant-garde expressed during the ...

From a cultural and historical review, the aim of this essay is to propose a feasible sociogenesis of the term and practice of the saraus (“open mic literary events”), which operate today as important spaces for literary ...

The aim of this article is to analyze the methodological and epistemological aspects of a research on literary production in the peripheries of São Paulo. By presenting episodes of my fieldwork in “open ...

This essay opens the dossier "Practices and Processes of Urban Space Production: Decentring Perspectives" and takes this tension as a premise. The classical perspective that apprehended and analyzed the city as a terrain ...

The article discusses to what extent sociological theories produced in the Brazilian academic field dialogue with a global intellectual movement criticizing coloniality and the Eurocentric foundations of the social sciences. ...

O que acontece quando uma métrica é contratada para abreviar o processo de avaliação da produção científica? O presente artigo problematiza alguns pressupostos e explora possíveis desdobramentos subjacentes à promoção do ...

Este artigo é fruto do esforço de apresentar uma crítica sistemática à Lei Anti-baixaria, aprovada pela Assembleia Legislativa do Estado da Bahia em 2012. Para isso, primeiramente contextualizo o cenário, enredado pelo ...

A partir do relato de uma situação extrema – de violência e ameaça direta à vida – experimentada no curso de uma etnografia, pretendo neste texto abordar questões metodológicas e éticas mais amplas inerentes à dinâmica do ...