O texto consiste em uma resenha da obra Retrotopia, de Zygmunt Bauman, publicada pela Editora Zahar 2017. A percorre os labirintos história utopia e chega a retrotopia, cujo surgimento se dá devido ao divórcio, cada vez mais acentuado, entre poder política, o desencanto com ideias, ideais promessas futuro.
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Background: Urbanisation and rural migration in some areas of Spain Portugal have given rise to contexts largely defined by ageing depopulation. Rural populations suffered from increasing social isolation, with older people living alone villages very few inhabitants limited access services. The aim this study is analyse the extent which technology serve as a strategy improve relations how influ...

A proposta deste artigo é proceder à análise de três obras utópicas escritas por mulheres, considerando os seus programas políticos em oposição às utopias masculinas canônicas, interpretando-as como feministas projetos abertura cidadania feminina. Ao contar com a imaginação política elemento imprescindível escrita da utopia e ao opor-se normatização vida, Pizan, Cavendish Gilman quebram o ciclo...

This commentary addresses the marginal presense of authors, subjects, and issues focused on former socialist countries in Eastern Central Europe, Balkans Soviet Union "socialist studies" produced Western English-language based academic journals, as well so-called "global political Left" these publications support. The suggests that gap is epistemological, emotional, serving to protect conversat...

The central concern of this paper is how to respond to health and safety harms caused by corporations. I confine my considerations to health and safety harms, and focus on corporations, not individuals. Once one begins to try to identify ways of effectively ‘punishing’ the corporation, one is led to think about undermining the very basis of the corporation – that is, one is forced into envision...

The development of new drugs with potential therapeutic applications is one of the most complex and difficult process in the pharmaceutical industry. Millions of dollars and man-hours are devoted to the discovery of new therapeutical agents. As, the activity of a drug is the result of a multitude of factors such as bioavailability, toxicity and metabolism, rational drug design has been utopias ...

This study examines the social construction of collective memory regarding American cities. Inspired by postmodern theory, both critical and urban, it argues that, in its efforts to expand its political power, the Conservative Elite has successfully waged a thirty year “mnemonic war” over the public memory of America’s central cities. It describes how in their attack, the Conservatives strategi...