Sources of Brazil's Counter-Hegemony

Oliveira, Marcos Aurélio Guedes de

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“…In comparison to a temporal trend included as a covariate, which indicates the change of magnitude of the risk over time [ 7 , 14 ], spatio-temporal models, as developed in this analysis, highlight the changes in the geographical patterns of risk over time. Hence, our analysis highlights the importance of considering the temporal aspect of infection risk, especially in a country like Brazil, where socioeconomic conditions have considerably improved and infectious diseases risk has declined over time [ 7 , 30 ]. In comparison to Scholte et al .…”

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Spatio-temporal distribution of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Brazil

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BackgroundIn Brazil, preventive chemotherapy targeting soil-transmitted helminthiasis is being scaled-up. Hence, spatially explicit estimates of infection risks providing information about the current situation are needed to guide interventions. Available high-resolution national model-based estimates either rely on analyses of data restricted to a given period of time, or on historical data collected over a longer period. While efforts have been made to take into account the spatial structure of the data in the modelling approach, little emphasis has been placed on the temporal dimension.MethodsWe extracted georeferenced survey data on the prevalence of infection with soil-transmitted helminths (i.e. Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm and Trichuris trichiura) in Brazil from the Global Neglected Tropical Diseases (GNTD) database. Selection of the most important predictors of infection risk was carried out using a Bayesian geostatistical approach and temporal models that address non-linearity and correlation of the explanatory variables. The spatial process was estimated through a predictive process approximation. Spatio-temporal models were built on the selected predictors with integrated nested Laplace approximation using stochastic partial differential equations.ResultsOur models revealed that, over the past 20 years, the risk of soil-transmitted helminth infection has decreased in Brazil, mainly because of the reduction of A. lumbricoides and hookworm infections. From 2010 onwards, we estimate that the infection prevalences with A. lumbricoides, hookworm and T. trichiura are 3.6%, 1.7% and 1.4%, respectively. We also provide a map highlighting municipalities in need of preventive chemotherapy, based on a predicted soil-transmitted helminth infection risk in excess of 20%. The need for treatments in the school-aged population at the municipality level was estimated at 1.8 million doses of anthelminthic tablets per year.ConclusionsThe analysis of the spatio-temporal aspect of the risk of infection with soil-transmitted helminths contributes to a better understanding of the evolution of risk over time. Risk estimates provide the soil-transmitted helminthiasis control programme in Brazil with useful benchmark information for prioritising and improving spatial and temporal targeting of interventions.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1756-3305-7-440) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Spatio-temporal distribution of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Brazil

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“…Our research location was the city of Porto Alegre, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the south of Brazil, where CM events began at the end of 2009. Porto Alegre is known as a city where different, and often opposing, concepts of globalization are contemplated (Gandin 2011; Oliveira 2010; Teivanen 2002). The city was the base for the first and second World Bicycle Forum, held in 2012 and 2013.…”

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“One Less Car”

Dalpian

Silveira

Rossi

2014

Journal of Macromarketing

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This article examines a counter-hegemonic movement in a developing economy and its participants’ meanings, beliefs, and practices related to consumer resistance and sustainable consumption. The authors first discuss how participants share meanings connected to urban mobility, the intrinsic connection of objects such as bicycles to their identities, and the symbolic nature of these objects. The authors then discuss the participants’ beliefs regarding ideologies of consumption and consumerism as well as their political and social demands and criticism. Finally, their consumption habits are examined and explained at the individual and collective levels. Sustainability is the main influence on their cycling activities and is symbolized in the bicycle as an object. The hedonic side of sustainable consumption is expressed in their shared practices, and their actions are already affecting the city’s policy-making and sustainability initiatives.

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‘The Best-Laid Schemes o’ Mice an’ Men’: Transformative Agency Towards Ecosocialism

Cremona

Ioris

2021

Environment and Development

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Within ecosocialist literature, there exists a significant lacuna on the subject of transformative agency, exactly those actors with the capacity and power to realise the ecosocialist vision. Our research explores this topic through (1) an analysis of three documents (the Belém Declaration; the Réseau Ecosocialist Manifesto; and Ecuador’s National Development Plan), which mirror ecosocialist goals and are actively followed by a group of people, and (2) a stakeholder power analysis of the actors involved in the controversial Belo Monte Dam project in Brazil. Five agents feature prominently in the discussion, two of which contrast with traditional red-green thought: social movements, indigenous groups, the affluent capitalist class, left-wing political parties and the state. Their specific capabilities and power resources determine the different roles they could assume in a transition from a capitalist to an ecosocialist situation. We also argue that the particular opportunity context within which their activities are taking place constitutes a key consideration in transformative agency.

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Sources of Brazil's Counter-Hegemony

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Spatio-temporal distribution of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Brazil

Spatio-temporal distribution of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Brazil

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‘The Best-Laid Schemes o’ Mice an’ Men’: Transformative Agency Towards Ecosocialism

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