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- “Pela Graça de Deus Rainha de Portugal” : funções e práticas da reginalidade no Portugal medievalPublication . Olaia, Inês Sofia Lourenço; Rodrigues, Ana Maria Seabra de AlmeidaO lugar de rainha consorte corresponde ao topo da hierarquia social medieval no feminino. Assim, a primeira mulher do reino é, pela sua própria natureza, a esposa do rei. Partindo das abordagens conceptuais mais recentes, reconstitui-se o modelo de atuação da rainha consorte no Portugal medieval, complementando a visão teórica e a construção de modelos de exemplaridade, com a análise da prática efetiva da reginalidade. A mãe do herdeiro, cuidadora e piedosa dos modelos teóricos articula-se assim com a “parceira do rei” que participa ativamente na esfera política. O lugar cimeiro na escala social implica a representação dessa mesma posição frente ao outro, expressa em lugares e objetos. Inerente a essa posição, a casa da rainha faz visível e distribui a identidade da consorte régia. Exploram-se, através desta e de outros mecanismos – como o do mecenato artístico e religioso – as avenidas pelas quais a identidade da consorte régia é definida e depois expressa, em articulação ou confronto com as ações do monarca seu esposo. Assim, integrada nas estruturas da monarquia e na sua representação, a rainha é uma parte importante da respetiva engrenagem, tendo um conjunto de atribuições inerentes à sua posição, que lhe permitem participar ativamente na política do reino e na sociedade. Na sua falta, o vazio implica o preenchimento desse lugar por outra mulher próxima do soberano, de preferência uma filha.
- Eco-Empathy, or towards a co-creative sympoietic embodied relation with more-than-human environmentsPublication . CORRÊA, Graça P.When we talk about empathy, we usually refer to a “transposing” emotional process towards other human beings (often less fortunate, more fragile or co-dependent beings), sometimes towards animals (mostly mammals), occasionally towards works of art (where the concept originated), but very seldom towards soil, rocks, seas, clouds, mineral, vegetal and nonvisible features of our environed Earth. My proposed reflection on eco-empathy focuses on our co-creative sympoietic embodied relation with more-than-human environments, or what we commonly term natural landscapes. Philosopher Bruno Latour recently observed how “economy, the science of managing limited resources, has become an argument for forgetting all limits” (2020), decrying how in the name of globalization we have finally succeeded in universalizing the same economizing and calculating humanoid over the whole surface of the Earth. In effect, so-called globalization has accelerated a process of territorial imperialism whereby wildlife sanctuaries, vast expanses of forests, agricultural lands, and even urban parks are being destroyed, to the point of extinguishing many animal and plant species, causing environmental degradation, and turning humans into “development refugees”. However, geopower refers not only to the ways that power is exerted over and through the Earth (as drawn from Michel Foucault’s notion of biopower), but also to the more-than-human forces of the Earth that so often disrupt humanly regulated environments, and whose material manifestations are both aesthetic by themselves and also reimagined in artistic form (Val Plumwood; Elizabeth Grosz). Drawing on questions pertaining to the aesthetics of the Earth’s geopower, this communication explores the aesthetic embodied experience of more-than-human natural scapes and spaces, ranging from the intimate playful observation of the poetics of seeds (Gaston Bachelard), to the sublime and terrifying beholding of the vastest unattainable mountains (Caspar David Friedrich, Sebastião Salgado, Godfrey Reggio). By dialogically connecting our affective intensities with these scapes and spaces – as in the Home-Tree action research project – we may learn to experience our belonging to the world, and be able to “detach the figure of the Earth from that of the Globe”, i.e., from an image that “gave shape to the imperial idea of a universal power grab” and control (Latour).