The aim of the present work is to understand the transformations in São Paulo State prisons policies in the last three decades, from a case study on the city of Itirapina, located in the central region of the state. There ...

With the release of the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007, the certainty that critical events related to climate change directly and indirectly affect human activities has emerged. The ...

Assuming that every nation is an imagined community concept created by Benedict Anderson in his book Imagined Communities I propose a discussion about the existence of different projects for the construction of a ...

The present work seeks to analyze the relationship between the mediators in the judicial sector Judicial Mediation in the city of São Paulo called Comarca Azul and agents of the world of law: lawyers and judges. Just as ...

This work focuses on the State of Espírito Santo in the 30 and 40 decades in the 20th century and aims to analyze the conflicts that took place in the meeting of two relevant events of this period: the repression to the ...

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the Pentecostal discourse focusing primarily on various levels of discourse production of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) and the International Church of the Grace of ...

This PhD research examines the construction of identity in an annual celebration, a playful event known as Baile do Carmo, carried out by the black population of Araraquara for over 70 years. It is possible by means of a ...

The increase of extreme events related to rains, added to a vulnerable territory insertion of the poorest, generated an increase in the number of homeless across the country. Homeless are those whose home-use buildings ...

A productive dialogue marked the interaction among novelists and scientists adepts from deterministic theories in the late 19th century. We start with the contextualization of this fundamental period to history of sexuality ...