Academia e sociedade / Academy and society

Exploring Human-Animal Relationships in Organizational Settings: A New Research Line at the HAS-Hub

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By: Leticia Fantinel and Verónica Policarpo

In February, the first post of a series of three was published, detailing the first steps of the Human-Animal Studies Hub (HAS-Hub). The post presents the first seeds of the Hub and the ingredients that helped it grow and gain some breath. With the mission of establishing and supporting a network of scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and institutions interested in Human-Animal Studies who speak (not only but also) Portuguese, the HAS-Hub has been an important reference for researchers in the field. The Hub has been playing a crucial role in helping us to build a community, fostering collaboration and enabling us to work together to achieve common goals.

The series of posts reveal that the Hub is expanding, with the seeds already planted and the growth environment under close attention. Now, it is time to focus on nurturing the growth process so that the branches can become strong and fruitful. This post is dedicated to one of these branches – the research line “Animals and Organizations”. This is one of the two new research lines stemming from the synergies created in the course of post-doctoral projects developed at the Hub, the other one focusing on “Animals and Education”. Both will add to the already existing research strands that animate the HAS-Hub since 2018 – “Companion Animals” (Animals and Children, Animals and Personal Life), “Animals in Disasters”, and “Animals and Sustainability” (farmed animals, food animals, transition to plant-based diets).

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A CLAN for Human-Animal Studies? Opportunities and challenges of establishing the field – Part 3 

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By: Verónica Policarpo

**A versão portuguesa dos 3 posts pode ser consultada aqui.

This is the last post of a series of three in which I proposed myself to reflect upon the main opportunities and challenges implied in the establishment of the field of Human-Animal Studies (HAS) in Portugal, and the role of the HAS-Hub in that process. In the first part, I recollected the strengths of international networks and funding. In the second part, I dived into the powers of connecting in our own mother tongue. Finally, in this third and last post, I will shortly discuss the major threats that, from my point of view, the HAS-Hub may face in the near future, as well as the emerging opportunities.

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“A Vida por cima d’Água”: antropologia implicada por quem trabalha a pesca em Setúbal 

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Por: Joana Sá Couto e Vanessa Iglésias Amorim

Surgido a partir de uma colaboração entre a Câmara Municipal de Setúbal e a Setúbal Pesca Associação da Pesca Artesanal, e inserido na Semana dos Bivalves, o evento “A Vida Por Cima d’Água: Encontro de Pescadores e Mostra de Artes e Ofícios da Pesca”, que aconteceu na Casa da Baía nos dias 4 e 5 de março, em Setúbal, teve como objetivo a valorização da comunidade piscatória setubalense. Para esta iniciativa foi essencial a articulação entre elementos da Setúbal Pesca e os trabalhadores de diferentes departamentos do Município: do Gabinete de Projetos Enogastronómicos, do Centro de Memórias do Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti (MTMG) e do Departamento de Comunicação. A pedido da Associação Setúbal Pesca, também nós, enquanto antropólogas e pessoas ligadas afetivamente ao terreno de investigação, lançámo-nos ao desafio de apoiar este evento com o intuito de navegar as narrativas da pesca com a sensibilidade de quem a conhece. Este post tem como objetivo refletir sobre esta colaboração a partir da nossa perspectiva, reconhecendo que uma investigação implicada pode contribuir para a valorização dos trabalhadores da pesca e da própria actividade.

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A CLAN for Human-Animal Studies? Opportunities and challenges of establishing the field in Portugal – Part 2

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Por: Verónica Policarpo

**A versão portuguesa dos 3 posts pode ser consultada aqui.

For the last four years, the Human-Animal Studies Hub (hereafter, HAS-Hub) has brought together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and institutions, under a common interest: the critical appraisal of the multiple and systemic ways through which humans have exploited nonhuman animals, and an ethical commitment to contribute to diminish their suffering. In this post, I resume the reflection initiated here about this process. In the first part, I leaned over the rising strengths of international networks and collaborations, as well as the angular role of funding to foster research, training and dissemination. In this second part, I wish to highlight – and honour – the power of connecting and working in our mother tongue. Building a HAS network that speaks, not only but also, in Portuguese is a major mission of the HAS-Hub. I will try to show the role of post-graduate education in this process, in particular the post-graduate course Animais e Sociedade. This reflection will not end today, though. In a future third and last part, I will highlight what are, from my point of view, the major threats that the HAS-Hub faces in the near future, as well as emerging opportunities.

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A CLAN for Human-Animal Studies? Opportunities and challenges of establishing the field in Portugal – Part 1

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By: Verónica Policarpo

**A versão portuguesa dos 3 posts pode ser consultada aqui.

Three sociologists meet at a conference in Athens

In September 2017, the congress of the European Sociological Association was held in legendary Athens. It was a very hot day, and as it happens to me often, my presentation was on the very last day of the conference, on the very last time slot, late in the day. Feeling all the tiredness that comes after a long week of one of these big conferences, I headed to the venue early in the morning, after a sleepless night. I had browsed the conference program several times, looking for presentations that had the word “animal”, or any other related, in the title or abstract. I had found only three. One of them was exactly on the very same panel, and the very same day, in which I was going to present my own work. Moreover, it was about a topic very dear to me: death and mourning for a companion animal.

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O ICS na Noite Europeia dos Investigadores 2022: ‘Desafios da Sustentabilidade – Cidadãos em Transição’

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Por: André Pereira, Joana Sá Couto e Inês Gusman

O Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS-UL) participou, no passado dia 30 de setembro, na Noite Europeia dos Investigadores (NEI). Esta é uma iniciativa dedicada a aproximar a comunidade académica e a sociedade civil, que acontece em simultâneo em diferentes cidades do país. Em Lisboa é promovida pelo Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência e pela Universidade de Lisboa, em colaboração com a Universidade Nova de Lisboa representada pela Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, o ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, a Escola de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril e a Câmara Municipal de Lisboa. Acontece entre as paredes do próprio museu, no Jardim Botânico de Lisboa, no Jardim do Príncipe Real e online. Em 2022, este evento consistiu num programa variado, incluindo visitas orientadas, Cafés de Ciência, espetáculos, para além das diversas atividades promovidas por universidades e centros de investigação. Dado o tema deste ano, “Ciência para todos – sustentabilidade e inclusão”, e à semelhança de edições anteriores, o ICS não poderia mais uma vez deixar de estar presente (Figura 1), especialmente tendo em conta o seu compromisso com as atividades de extensão universitária e de promoção do diálogo ciência-sociedade.

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Sobre a importância de uma adequada regulação no planeamento urbano e no arrendamento

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Por: Sónia Alves e Alda Botelho Azevedo

“Não há nada mais importante para o progresso das nossas economias do que uma boa regulamentação. Por uma boa regulamentação entende-se um tipo de regulação que serve para melhorar o bem-estar da comunidade em geral.” Uma posição defendida pela OCDE, e subscrita por Andreas Hendricks, professor da Universidade de Munique, que, durante o Seminário III do projeto SustainLis, refletiu sobre o conjunto de instrumentos que têm sido usados no campo do planeamento urbano para capturar parte do aumento das mais-valias resultantes da decisão e da ação pública, por exemplo, no licenciamento de operações urbanísticas (por exemplo de construção ou ampliação) de dimensão relevante que devem destinar uma percentagem da sua área para habitação social (mais detalhes aqui).

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Will security concerns drive a faster energy transition in Europe?

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By: Jiesper Pedersen, Carla Gomes and Filipe Duarte Santos

Energy supply has always been a key security concern. Yet, over the last few months, the Russia-Ukraine war has emerged as a possible driver for a faster transition towards a more resilient and clean energy system. The global economic system is strongly reliant on massive energy consumption. Energy consumption is constantly increasing each year and correlates directly with CO2 emissions. The Paris Agreement’s key goal was to keep warming under 1,5º but has not bent the annually increasing emissions curve yet. Will Putin’s invasion make us deliver on its promise faster?

Stopping Russian gas imports altogether, following the invasion of Ukraine in late February, would have been a strong show of support to the Ukrainian people. However, economic assessments, fear of national recessions, and a firm reliance on Russian natural gas for industry and households have prevented a total halt. Thus, the EU continues to finance the Russian war machine, all the while aiding Ukraine with armoury and gaining time to increase supply from alternative sources.

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Participatory Rural Appraisal for the municipality of Odemira – The characterisation of a rural environment

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Por: Kaya Schwemmlein , Lanka Horstink & Miguel Encarnação

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Drawing upon the challenge of creating inclusive, regenerative, and sustainable food systems, it is very important to address not only questions related to sustainable agricultural practices, but also issues regarding power asymmetries that can be found along the supply chain.

The European Union (EU), in its “Farm to Fork Strategy”, maintains that it is vital to “preserve affordability of food while generating fairer economic returns, fostering competitiveness of the EU supply sector and promoting fair trade”. Nonetheless, several studies, journalistic pieces and other EU documents (such as the EU´s Inception Impact Assessment) have already clearly acknowledged the existing challenge of imperfect competition : one that creates disparities in market power across the entire food chain, from production to retail.

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Planeamento Territorial no Quadro de Financiamento PT2020 – algumas reflexões

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Por: André Pereira

O projeto SOFTPLAN tem como objectivo analisar a evolução de práticas de soft planning (paralelas e complementares ao sistema de gestão territorial português),  particularmente a partir da forma como a União Europeia, através da Política de Coesão e dos Fundos Estruturais de Investimento, tem vindo a fomentar a implementação destas práticas.

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