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- Desenvolvimento, Ciência e Sustentabilidade: Discursos de Mudança e Mudanças de DiscursoPublication . Dias, Ricardo Cunha; Seixas, Paulo Castro; Lobner, NadineEste texto analiza la historia del desarrollo desde dos paradigmas: la modernización y la cienciología; y la reflexividad y el ajuste. En relación con el primero, analizaremos cómo la instrumentalización de la razón del siglo XIX pone a la ciencia como agencia discursiva al servicio de la modernización de los estados nacionales y del capitalismo industrial. El paradigma actual se analiza en términos de la instrumentalización del riesgo en un diálogo entre la política y la ciencia, en el que la confrontación con los peligros mundiales requiere la constante redefinición de los discursos sobre el desarrollo. Este paradigma también presenta resonancias y ajustes de los diversos discursos de ruptura que han surgido desde la década de 1960: primero, el ‘discurso de la alerta ecológica y el decrecimiento’; y segundo, el ‘discurso del Condominio Tierra’, ambos evidentes en el actual ‘discurso de la emergencia climática’. Concluimos proponiendo que la existencia de visiones “débiles” y “fuertes” en los ‘discursos sobre sostenibilidad y modernización ecológica’ revelan la necesidad de reconsiderar el sustantivismo y el Antropoceno como una era holográfica en la que la ciencia debería servir de intermediaria en la construcción de modelos de gobernanza adaptativa basados en pruebas.
- Local Perspectives and International Regions in the Making: Timor-Leste as a Case StudyPublication . Lobner, Nadine; Seixas, Paulo CastroThis paper is an exploratory exercise in understanding the construction of international regions using anthropological perspectives, with Timor-Leste as a case study. We propose that 'local beyond-border perspectives' establish a new domain within the world at large as a representation of transnationalism and globalization 'from the bottom-up'. We discuss this using an interdisciplinary approach—anthropology and international relations—to contribute to the study of international regions through a complementary double-ideological system spanning state relations and local perspectives. We argue that the beyond-border perceptions that people from Timor-Leste have of regional organizations are more appropriately understood as projections of their narratives and aspirations. Such situational flexibility, understood as pragmatic transnationalism, builds upon ancient narratives and inside-outside relations.
- State transformations through public, multilevel, and territorial governance in European Union: Towards a metagovernance paradigmPublication . Dias, Ricardo C.; Seixas, Paulo C.; Lobner, NadineThis article discusses “public,” “multi-level,” and “territorial” governance, highlighting the reformulation of the state based on a double dynamic, vertical and horizontal, of displacement of state power in the European Union. We propose that public governance opened up to the ambivalence between “multi-level” and “territorial” governance. This ambivalence is evident in the practical challenges within European governance in the making. According to these challenges, Europeanization raises two priorities: subnational structures that enable the state to get closer to the territory and the people, and beyond borders networks between states, institutions, and people(s). This possibility of effectively involving new actors (at all levels) in the political process of the construction of European regions requires a multi-spatial metagovernance approach.
- Sustainable Development and Ecological Modernization: Boundary Discourses between “Strong” and “Weak” ApproachesPublication . Dias, Ricardo Cunha; Seixas, Paulo Castro; Lobner, NadineThe concepts of “sustainable development” and “ecological modernization” are todays’ main discourses of action on the global environmental crisis. However, the quest of priorities interpretation within concepts is raised: there is a path dependence of the hegemonic worldview of techno-economic progress that was supposed to be overcome. The objective of this text is to analyse how this dependence influenced the evolution of such concepts and their operational proposals. Methodologically, the research is based on a literature review on discourses of these concepts. A typology of “strong” and “weak” discourses highlights the possibilities of “business as usual” in its operational interpretation as well as the ways to overcome it. The results show that the confrontation between them lead to a conceptual evolution of sustainable development and ecological modernization that merges into a common agenda: the governance of ambivalence between economic and social progress and environmental frontiers. The text concludes by proposing the existence of a discursive game between “survival” and “tranquillity”. This highlights an essential tension between environmental mitigation and institutional change that has accompanied the political agenda in the past 50 years. The resulting reflexive governance as a choice implies a broad participation in decision-making processes so that environmental trade-offs are collectively discussed, and responsibilities are shared. Notwithstanding, the article claims that this essential tension further implies questioning if governance may not also be a new discourse of appeasement and political unaccountability.
- Sustainable Development and Ecological Modernization: Boundary Discourses between “Strong” and “Weak” ApproachesPublication . Dias, Ricardo Cunha; Seixas, Paulo Castro; Lobner, NadineThe concepts of “sustainable development” and “ecological modernization” are todays’ main discourses of action on the global environmental crisis. However, the quest of priorities interpretation within concepts is raised: there is a path dependence of the hegemonic worldview of techno-economic progress that was supposed to be overcome. The objective of this text is to analyse how this dependence influenced the evolution of such concepts and their operational proposals. Methodologically, the research is based on a literature review on discourses of these concepts. A typology of “strong” and “weak” discourses highlights the possibilities of “business as usual” in its operational interpretation as well as the ways to overcome it. The results show that the confrontation between them lead to a conceptual evolution of sustainable development and ecological modernization that merges into a common agenda: the governance of ambivalence between economic and social progress and environmental frontiers. The text concludes by proposing the existence of a discursive game between “survival” and “tranquillity”. This highlights an essential tension between environmental mitigation and institutional change that has accompanied the political agenda in the past 50 years. The resulting reflexive governance as a choice implies a broad participation in decision-making processes so that environmental trade-offs are collectively discussed, and responsibilities are shared. Notwithstanding, the article claims that this essential tension further implies questioning if governance may not also be a new discourse of appeasement and political unaccountability.
- The “Readiness” of Timor-Leste: Narratives about the Admission Procedure to ASEANPublication . Seixas, Paulo Castro; Mendes, Nuno Canas; Lobner, NadineThis article is based on an empirical research with an inductive approach about the admission of Timor-Leste (TL) to Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). We examined a corpus of international newspapers (n = 48) which forms a debate over this case on the Internet. The articles are reproduced in English and are currently the most representative form of debating the membership delay which takes place since 2011. Throughout the observation of our gathered data, we discovered one main narrative that is reproduced by several authors: The Readiness of TL to join the Southeast Asian grouping. Hence, built through three rationalities (preparedness, ambivalence, and conflict), the Narrative of Readiness reveals a common sense among the agents. Built on two constructs, scattered agents and International Online Media, we propose an eventual International Imagined Community in the making. This article raises the possibility that TL plays a test role in the identity of ASEAN, even though the delay of the TL admission to ASEAN still raises further questions.
- The relevance of the Ecumene in beyond border narratives: A Timor-Leste case study from the anthropological library and the field 05Publication . Lobner, Nadine; Seixas, Prof. Paulo C.A pesquisa desenvolve uma abordagem bidimensional em relação ao mundo: através do olhar da antropologia e do olhar das relações internacionais. As relações Além-fronteiras, desempenham um papel relevante no nosso quotidiano, num mundo que se desenvolve rapidamente, motivo pelo qual devemos considerar uma complementaridade entre os contextos sociais quer dos estados quer dos povos para a construção de processos de globalização. A proposta desta pesquisa é que isso ocorre por meio de projeções da ecumene para a construção de regionalismos internacionais. Timor-Leste serve como um estudo de caso relevante para explorar essa avenida de pesquisa através do processo dialógico entre o micro e o macro, considerando um processo contínuo de interação entre vários sistemas de significado no quadro da negociação da organização social além-fronteiras
- Towards an Ecumenial or a Catastrophic City? A Design, Ecumene and Humanitarian DiscussionPublication . Castro Seixas, Paulo; Lobner, NadineThis paper is an attempt to explore the interplay of humanity and science to respond to novel globalization processes in the face of the 21st century. The human situation is presented through two schisms: the human-nature and the socio-cultural. Sustainability and ecumene studies are proposed as the new aggregated science fields aiming at solutions for the 21st century. Ecumene studies respond to the need to create a planetary intellectual infrastructure (a planetary brain) that “thinks” in an ecumenial way (beyond border conviviality) for a global transformation and reconciliation of human differences in/for a cosmopolitan perspective. Ecumenic, humanitarian and design movements/studies are considered the main areas of ecumene studies as an inter- and transdisciplinary field, with the city (in all its forms) as its core platform. The city as a human extension and dissipative system reveals a duality since its origin, coming to a peak of conviviality as it will comprise two third of humanity by 2050. This peak will either lead to higher forms of organization (anastrophe), or to collapse (catastrophe). The paper presents the “ecumenial city” or Ecumenopolis (city of Human Rights) as a anastrophic future projection and a call for everyone, emphasizing both a destiny and small actions for activating transformation and reconfiguration in times of approaching the peak.
- Transformational Communities: A Programmatic Ambivalence as a Learning Path for the Cognitive PlanetPublication . Seixas, Paulo Castro; Lobner, NadineThe following article outlines a proposal of a Programmatic Ambivalence as learning path, built from bottom-up and top-down Agendas (Minimalist/Maximalist) of the Sustainable Development Goals. This discussion is placed in the framework of the 2030 Agenda, as well as in the challenge of the Anthropocene. The idea of a Lobby of People is referred for the replication of learning experiences as transformational plans everywhere. To contribute to the importance of a circulation between bottom-up and top-down construction, challenging exploratory models through transformed Communities of Practices are presented.
- Transit Corridor Livability as a means to a City of Proximity. Proof of concept and place-based conditions for a participatory project in CascaisPublication . Seixas, Paulo Castro; Dias, Ricardo Cunha; Baptista, Luís Manuel; Lobner, Nadine