O regresso a um terreno, a comparação entre duas etnografias realizadas em décadas distintas numa instituição prisional e os respetivos resultados, discrepantes mas consistentes entre si, são uma ocasião para pensar a possibilidade de uma descrição sistemática das mudanças no tempo à luz do caráter situado e da tripla historicidade da investigação etnográfica: (i) historicidade relativa ao terreno etnografado, ...
Como se reflecte a ???diferen??a??? no crime e na justi??a penal em Portugal? As respostas a esta quest??o depender??o das no????es utilizadas para delimitar essa diferen??a: ???ra??a???, ???etnicidade???, ???estrangeiros???, ???imigrantes???, ???minorias???. Tal depende tamb??m, por sua vez, se focarmos estat??sticas, ??ndices, ou, de um outro ??ngulo, experi??ncias do crime e do sistema de justi??a. Os dados...
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in different periods in Portuguese carceral settings, we focus on variable aspects of motherhood and forms of relatedness as they emerge in different imprisonment situations. Aspects approached include: the relationship of incarcerated mothers with their offspring behind and beyond bars (children and/or adults, since imprisonment situations may comprehend three generations of co-c...
A emergência de algumas práticas culturais conotadas com comunidades imigrantes e suscetíveis de serem perseguidas como crime parece colocar novos desafios aos aparelhos legislativos e judiciários. Porém, ainda que nalgumas delas seja iniludível a tensão entre cultura e universalismo liberal, a resposta a tais desafios é especialmente vulnerável às armadilhas a que induz um debate público organizado em polarida...
(pre-print version) ; Portugal has been depicted as a “Welfare Society” where the shortcomings of the support provided by an incipient Welfare State are absorbed by informal social networks that provide care on a personal basis. The strength of these ties is also what has led to consider the “poverty” observed in Southern European contexts as specific and different from the “exclusion” emerging in late capital...
Attitudes vis-à-vis vaccines take on today a variety of forms in Euro-American societies. Drawing on an ethnographic research in several French and Portuguese settings, we examine the meaning and the experiential basis of some contemporary forms of vaccine acceptability as they emerge in routine vaccination. Against the backdrop of forms circumscribed to particular cultural scenes or bounded systems of ideas, w...
DNA profiling is frequently described as the gold standard for individual identification and thus an important tool for crime prevention, detection and deterrence. While the scholarly discourses tend to privilege a focus on the oppressive elements of DNA profiling and surveillance, the political and public discourses usually highlight the benefits of forensic DNA technologies to fight and prevent crime. Most ar...
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