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O artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre identidade social e subjetividade, a partir de pesquisa desenvolvida com pescadores artesanais da Colônia Z - 7, em Itaipu, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, levando-se em consideração o número significativo de pessoas residentes nesta comunidade, diagnosticadas pelo serviço de saúde pública como portadores de depressão, síndrome do pânico e outros sofrimentos psíquicos. Os estados depressivos, sofrimentos e demais transtornos psíquicos estarão sendo considerados neste artigo enquanto expressões da subjetividade e denominados como dores da alma. Reconhecem-se as diferentes abordagens desses temas na literatura médica, e se fará menção a esse aspecto no decorrer do mesmo, no entanto, o objetivo central é entender as dores da alma como uma categoria importante que pode auxiliar na compreensão da realidade e complexidade da vida contemporânea e suas transformações sócio-ambientais.

South-South transnational advocacy networks (SSTANs) targeting emerging states, Southern companies, and their supporting institutions warrant nuanced distinctions from traditional transnational advocacy networks that are heavily reliant on Northern actors and targets, particularly in terms of the strategies and arguments they employ. This article analyzes the dynamics of SSTANs through the case of an environmental campaign against Brazilian hydropower projects proposed in the Peruvian Amazon. It demonstrates how Southern actors are mobilizing against new and emerging patterns of South-South cooperation, which, despite occurring on unfamiliar institutional terrain, reproduces familiar asymmetrical power relations and socioenvironmental burdens.

This article reviews literature on the science and politics of deforestation in the Amazon from 1970 until today, focusing on their shifting meanings and the increasing relevance of climate change knowledge to their understanding and management. Since large‐scale colonization of the region began in the 1970s, the debate on deforestation has been crucial in disputes involving science, development, and the environment. In the last decade, the issue of climate change has become more present in the science, politics, and policies related to deforestation in the Amazon. This debate has helped shift discussions on both the environmental and the development agenda for the region. Although there is a broad agreement that the Amazon is being increasingly integrated into global fluxes of knowledge, goods, and people, not all view this process under the same light. The review concludes that scientific views help condition the development of changing policy arrangements aimed at curbing deforestation, and the incorporation of climate change knowledge is an important aspect of the dynamics of environmental policies in the region. WIREs Clim Change 2014, 5:689–701. doi: 10.1002/wcc.298 This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Knowledge and Practice

This article aspires to open a new line of conceptual analysis in the tourism development literature by exploring the relationships between resort development, violent crime and the drug economy. At the centre of our critical realist analysis is the relationship between tourism and transgression, a relationship that we argue deserves a more central place in researching tourism development. A case study of the north coast of Sao Paulo state is reported. Primary data from field observations and interviews are combined with the analysis of published data on crime and violence in the city and media reports of violence. We synthesise a range of academic literatures, published in both English and Portuguese, in the fields of criminology, real estate management, demography, health and tourism studies in order to make our arguments. Utilising retroduction, the mechanism "immunisation" is proposed as having explanatory power in understanding the relationship between tourism resort development, violent crime and the drug economy.

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In a period of unstable experimentation with challenges of globalisation of associated risks, and disenchantment with 'enduring injustice', we bring forward a consideration of subjectivity to the study of environmental change and mental health. We begin by identifying how mainstream climate change and mental health studies are unable to explain the emergent and co-evolutionary pathways of agency. As a means of freeing these studies of their objective dimensions of linear-causation, we argue in favour of a repositioning of subjectivity within an appreciation of recognition conflicts and beyond the over-deterministic interpretations of power centres-state, market or religion-. We draw on one example of scientific research that was conducted in a region undergoing strong environmental, social and cultural changes, in the state of São Paulo / Brazil, with the aim to open mental health research to new dialogues, to which we contribute with the notion of the 'pluriversal subject'.

As mudanças ambientais globais envolvem alterações no clima e nos sistemas ecológicos, incidem nos ciclos naturais, determinando prejuízos à infraestrutura, às atividades econômicas, sociais e à saúde humana, afetando, principalmente, as populações mais vulneráveis. Hoje, estima-se que as zonas costeiras são as regiões que mais sofrerão esses impactos, com efeitos diretos na economia e no cotidiano de suas comunidades. Fenômenos como o aumento de temperatura, do nível dos oceanos e da salinidade, eventos extremos, perdas das áreas de várzea e manguezais costeiros, aliados à ocupação desordenada do solo, pela construção de grandes empreendimentos tecnológicos e por turismo de massa, poderão afetar diretamente essas regiões. Estudar o Litoral Norte Paulista se justifica porque este tem sofrido impactos decorrentes das mudanças ambientais globais e porque suas comunidades expressam forte vulnerabilidade socioambiental. O objetivo deste artigo é verificar a percepção dos pescadores artesanais da praia da Cocanha/Caraguatatuba, Litoral norte paulista, Brasil, por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas e da observação direta de seu cotidiano, para averiguar, através dessa metodologia, sua percepção sobre a variação da temperatura do mar, sobre o volume de chuvas e sobre a imprevisibilidade das condições climáticas em geral. A análise dos dados, provenientes das entrevistas com os pescadores artesanais, sobre sua percepção sobre os impactos dessas mudanças, contribuirá para o melhor entendimento da vulnerabilidade e dos riscos aos quais estão submetidos, e a sua relação intrínseca com as mudanças ambientais globais sofridas.