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Resilience as protagonism: interpersonal relationships, cultural practices, and personal agency among working adolescents in Brazil
(2013-09-20)
A visual methods study was conducted with 16 at-risk youth living in a mid-sized Brazilian city. In this study, we focus on data obtained from four of those youth who were working adolescents, aged 13-15, and identify ...
Problème de l'agence et la culture corporative stalinienne
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Bogotá, 2004)
Le problème de l'agence est un des obstacles pour l'efficience des organisations. La théorie suggère deux solutions : la propriété privée et la culture corporative. Cependant il est difficile d'isoler l'effet de la culture ...
The Agency of Textile Technology in Some Archaeological Ritual Contexts of Northwest Argentina
(American Research Institute for Policy Development, 2014-12)
I concentrate here on the agency of textiles, through certain technical features, to produce a range of social actions and effects when they intervene in the contexts of specific cultural practices. This “power” (in terms ...
Landscape and Health: Connecting Psychology, Aesthetics, and Philosophy through the Concept of Affordance
(Frontiers Media, 2016)
In this paper we address a frontier topic in the humanities, namely how the cultural and natural construction that we call landscape affects well-being and health. Following an updated review of evidence-based literature ...
Os sentidos da cirurgia estética: utilidade, futilidade, agência e/ou incorporação
(2012)
This article aims to reflect on the growth of the practice of plastic surgery for cosmetic purposes and its relationship with the contemporary consumer culture. In other words, we discuss how this practice expresses the ...
Beyond Numbers THE IMPACT OF GENDER QUOTAS IN LATIN AMERICA
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2008)
This article considers the impact of electoral quotas for women. Most studies have either focused on whether particular policies increase the numbers of women elected or assessed the extent to which a greater number of ...
Tecnologia e subjetivação: a questão da agênciaTechnology and subjectivity: the agency problem
(Associação Brasileira de Psicologia Social, 2005)
As críticas ao sujeito da interioridade e às filosofias da consciência, que reputam a um indivíduo unificado e coerente a fonte de ação, têm atribuído a uma outra grande agência unificada a origem de toda ação. A linguagem, ...
From awareness to cultural agency: efl colombian student teachers’ travelling abroad experiences
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, 2015-01-23)
Colombian English as a foreign language student teachers’ opportunities to grow as educators through international sojourns do not usually subsume the traditional study and residence abroad goal. This was the case for our ...
Prefigurative Brazilian ativismo through the lens of the transformative activist stance: renewing radical political imagination through “collectividual” agency
(2020-01-01)
During three months in 2015, in São Paulo, Brazil, public high school students carried out an unprecedentedly successful protest that forced the state governor to abandon plans to merge schools, which would have resulted ...