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Parenting in stepfamilies: revisiting the stepfather’s role

Publication . Atalaia, Susana

Based on a symbolic interactionist approach, which focuses on family roles negotiation, this article aims to identify the different ways of constructing stepfathering in stepfamily households. Drawing on 30 in-depth interviews with co-resident Portuguese stepfathers, a diversity of patterns was clearly identified. Some roles, patterns or relationships are more involved, individualised and negotiated, whereas others are more distant, mediated and statutory. The article concludes that the way in which stepfathers build their role in a stepfamily relies mostly on the space granted by the mother as well as the stepfather’s willingness to engage in stepfamily life, taking on (or not taking on) tasks and parental responsibilities generally assigned to biological parents. In this sense, the stepfather is a secondary everyday-life parent, who is present and contributes, alongside the mother, to the education and training of the stepchild.

2019Journal article

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Foreign Policy Retreat: Domestic and Systemic Causes of Brazil’s International Rollback

Publication . Malamud, Andrés

Brazil’s rise was a globally acclaimed phenomenon that took place under two consecutive administrations: Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) and Lula (2003-2010). Under Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), though, Brazil’s foreign activism declined dramatically and its international visibility lost luster. This was due to a combination of domestic and systemic factors. This paper identifies these factors and gauges their influence in order to answer a main question: is there anyone to blame or was Brazil’s international rollback bound to happen?

2017Journal article

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O impacto da crise nos nascimentos em Portugal: uma perspetiva territorial

Publication . Atalaia, Susana; Cunha, Vanessa

A diminuição de casais com filhos e do número de filhos por casal são tendências que acompanham a queda da natalidade em Portugal. O impacto da recente crise económica veio expor um território contrastante, que opõe os municípios do Norte, Centro e Regiões Autónomas aos da Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, Alentejo e Algarve.

2017Other

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A laboratory for propaganda: Estado Novo political exhibitions (1934-1940)

Publication . Gori, Annarita

2018Book part

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Reducing difference in the Portuguese empire? A case study from early-modern Goa

Publication . Xavier, Ângela Barreto

In 1951, the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre made a short visit to Goa. This was part of a trip during which Freyre travelled through the Portuguese colonies in Africa and Asia to observe the results of the miscegenation process that, in his view, characterised Portuguese colonialism (Castelo 1998; Souza 2008; Bastos 2003; Cardão and Castelo 2015; Bastos 2015). During that visit, Freyre considered that Goan society was one of the best expressions of Lusotropicalism, of that benign Portuguese colonialism that adapted physically and culturally to tropical contexts, creating mixed societies (Freyre 1953). Ironically, five years later, the Portuguese geographer Orlando Ribeiro, who, among other Portuguese intellectuals, espoused Luso-tropicalist theories, had a different impression of the same territories and society, warning Salazar about the near absence of Lusophile feelings, and that the Portuguese presence in Goa was in danger (Ribeiro 1999). How can these different narratives be explained? Was Freyre mistaken? Or was Ribeiro too apocalyptic (which he was not, since in 1961, Goa was annexed by the Indian government)?

2018Book part

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