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The language that unites us is the one that also separates us
Publication . Iorio, Juliana; Gaspar, Sofia
This paper analyses whether the Portuguese language spoken by young people from the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries in Portugal involves dimensions of social inclusion or exclusion. It employs an interdisciplinary approach (with concepts from sociology and linguistics), and a qualitative methodology in the shape of thirty-three interviews with young people from Brazil and Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa living in the Portuguese municipality of Sintra. While ‘speaking Portuguese’ facilitates the integration of these young people, their inclusion is also hindered by the coexistence of this language with other native languages in the case of Africans, and by the use of standard Brazilian Portuguese in the case of Brazilians.
Revisiting the Weberian conceptual framework and its relevance for analysing ethnic and racial relations in contemporary times
Publication . Mendes, Maria Manuela
Max Weber was a forerunner and one of the most innovative sociologists of his time. Among the many and diverse contributions to his extensive work, this article aims to highlight his importance and pioneering spirit in the analysis of ethnic and racial relations. Based on the fact that Romani people (known as Ciganos in Portugal) comprise the most numerous minority in Europe (10–12 million), we aim to discuss the relevance and limits of certain conceptual tools and forms of (self) categorization of Ciganos/Roma, namely those based on racial and ethnic phenomena, revisiting Max Weber’s writings. Based on a qualitative study carried out on Portuguese Ciganos/Roma, using in-depth interviews of women and men resident in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, we seek to question the pertinence of these forms of categorization when applied in operative and empirical ways to Ciganos/Roma persons in contemporaneity.
The transformative role of Angels’ cultural organisations under austerity
Publication . Rego, Raquel; Borges, Vera
Several non-profit cultural organisations opened up public spaces
during the financial crisis in Lisbon with a particular concentration
in the Anjos neighbourhood. These organisations promote
different activities, ranging from debates, exibitions, traditional
dancing, activist cinema to bars. This article aims to convey the
transformative role they played for individuals, the neighbourhood
and the city. Although facing challenges over organisational
sustainability as they are not publicly funded, these organisations
do seem to have reinvented the mission of the century-old
recreational societies through their convivial and transdisciplinary
activities. Based on documental analysis and interviews with
different actors, we map this vibrant neighbourhood and show
that these hybrid organisations represent what cultural democracy
may today look like, while providing resilient responses to the
contextual challenges.
Gender, intraparty competition, and the substantive focus of parliamentary questions in South Africa
Publication . Espírito-Santo, Ana; Sanches, Edalina; Kartalis, Yani
Extant research suggests that women ask more parliamentary questions (PQs) on soft policy domains while their male peers focus on hard domains, which are arguably more relevant. This study contributes to this body of research by examining how electoral incentives shape intraparty politics, and specifically the substantive focus of PQs. It argues that women’s focus on soft policy domains is not constant, with variations found in situations where intraparty competition is high. Female MPs will have fewer incentives to focus on soft policy domains if they are electorally vulnerable and as elections draw closer. The mechanism is clear: Women face strong bias in parliament, which means they need to work harder to stand on an equal footing with their male counterparts. As a result, rather than shying away from competition, they will try to maximize their career prospects by shifting their attention to (hard) policy domains that are considered more important to both parties and voters. These claims are tested in the case of South Africa, drawing upon a novel dataset of PQs from 2006 to 2023. South Africa is an interesting case study as it is one of the most feminized parliaments in Africa and has strong electoral incentives for intraparty competition. The findings confirm most theoretical expectations and clarify the electoral and gender‐related predispositions that drive the substantive focus of questions.
Regional elections in Portugal: Madeira (2019) and the Azores (2020): the two-way spill over between national and regional politics
Publication . Freire, André; Ruel, Teresa
Major changes took place during the most recent regional elections in Madeira (2019) and the Azores (2020). In Madeira, the PSD took office, but only in a coalition with the CDS-PP. After 43 years of regional elections, a pattern of non-alternation was suddenly changed to one of partial alternation. In the Azores, despite being the largest single party after the election, 24-years of PS rule came to an end with the victory of a broad PSD-led coalition that included CDS-PP and the PPM and which received parliamentary support from IL and Chega. The latter two, together with PAN, were new parties that won votes in the election.
In this report, we discuss two-way spill overs between national and regional politics in both regions: that is, the influence from national to regional politics and vice-versa.
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UIDB/03126/2020