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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2021Disciplined agency
Neoliberal precarity, generational dispossession and call centre labour in Portugal
by Patrícia Alves de Matos
Since the mid-2000s, the harsh reality of call centre employment for a generation of young workers in Portugal has been impossible to ignore. With its endless rows of small cubicles, where human agents endure repetitive telephone conversations with abusive clients under invasive modes of technological surveillance, discipline and control, call centre work remains a striking symbol of labour precarity, a condition particularly associated with the neoliberal generational disenchantment that 'each generation does better than its predecessor'. This book describes the emergence of a regime of disciplined agency in the Portuguese call centre sector. Examining the ascendancy of call centres as icons of precarity in contemporary Portugal, this book argues that call centre labour constitutes a new form of commodification of the labouring subject. De Matos argues that call centres represent an advanced system of non-manual labour power exploitation, due to the underestimation of human creativity that lies at the centre of the regimented structures of call centre labour. Call centres can only guarantee profit maintenance, de Matos argues, through the commodification of the human agency arising from the operators' moral, relational and social embedded agentive linguistic interventions of creative improvisation, decision-making, problem-solving and ethical evaluation.
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October 1977Die Krise der Diktaturen Portugal, Griechenland, Spanien
Aus dem Französischen übersetzt von Bernd Schwibs
by Nicos Poulantzas, Bernd Schwibs
Was bedeutet der Niedergang der diktatorischen Regime in Südeuropa? Welche Tendenzen, Entwicklungen haben zu ihrer Krise oder ihrem Zusammenbruch beigetragen? Welche politischen und sozialen Kräfte werden im Innern dieser Staaten und von außen den Umbruch und seinen Verlauf auf lange Sicht bestimmen? Fest steht, daß die Wirtschaften sowohl Portugals als auch Griechenlands und Spaniens partiell abhängige Wirtschaften sind. Fest steht auch, daß über diese Abhängigkeit die innenpolitische Entwicklung dort gesteuert, notfalls »korrigiert« werden kann. Steht eine neue Strategie politischer Einflußnahme auf der Tagesordnung? Die Untersuchung des französischen Politikwissenschaftlers Poulantzas prüft die Chancen der Befreiung dieser Gesellschaften aus den Fesseln der Diktatur im Rahmen ihrer Abhängigkeit von den »Metropolen« und ihrer relativen »Unterentwicklung» innerhalb des europäischen Staatensystems. – Ganz ohne Zweifel sind die Entwicklungen bis zum Sommer 1976, die Poulantzas darstellt, von hoher politischer Bedeutung nicht nur für die unmittelbar betroffenen Länder, sondern auch für die Zukunft der westlichen Gesellschaften, für ihre Wirtschaftsstrategie, ihre Bündnisse und ihre Parteienkonstellationen. Veränderungen wie diejenigen in Portugal, Griechenland und Spanien beeinflussen zwangsläufig die politische Geographie Europas – vielleicht nicht nur Europas.
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April 2003Vetter Basilio
Roman
by José Maria Eça de Queiroz, Rudolf Krügel
Vetter Basilio ist einer der großen Liebesromane des 19. Jahrhunderts; er erschien 1878 und steht gleichrangig neben Flauberts Madame Bovary und Fontanes Effi Briest.José Maria Eça de Queiroz (1845–1900) erlangte mit diesem Roman Weltruhm.Erzählt wird die Geschichte der jungen Luiza, die mit einem Ingenieur in glücklicher Ehe lebt, durch den Gespielen ihrer Kinderjahre aber, den aus Südamerika zurückkehrenden reichen Vetter Basilio, in ein Liebesabenteuer gezogen wird. Im Rausche ihrer großen Leidenschaft, in dem sie alle Beglückungen erlebt und schließlich sogar die freiwillige Erniedrigung des Stelldicheins in einem billigen Absteigequartier auf sich nimmt, vergißt Luiza jede Vorsicht und liefert sich so dem Haß ihres Stubenmädchens Juliana aus, die sie zu erpressen beginnt. Die vom Dichter besonders eindrucksvoll geschilderte Passion der Gegenspielerin führt zwar nicht zum Ziel, aber Luizas Abenteuer bekommt durch sie eine tragische Wendung.Mit einer Meisterschaft der realistischen Darstellung, in der man die menschliche Anteilnahme des Autors spürt und die vollkommene Beherrschung aller Kunstmittel bewundert, ist dieses Frauenschicksal gestaltet.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2011A short history of colonialism
by Wolfgang Reinhard
This well-written and comprehensive book by an outstanding expert provides students of history and the general reader with reliable up-to-date information on an essential part of the history of mankind: the global impact of European colonial expansion from the late Middle Ages to the present. It deals with the discoveries, with Portuguese, Dutch and English trade systems in Asia, with the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French and British Colonies in America, the American plantation economy and the trade in African slaves, with settler colonies in the southern hemisphere, with US-, Russian and Chinese continental imperialism, with western colonial rule in Asia and Africa and the several waves of decolonisation between 1775 and 1989. Twenty-four maps illustrate the narrative. A useful teaching text, it combines traditional and more recent perspectives to produce a final balance sheet of Western colonialism and its global heritage. A carefully selected bibliography encourages further reading. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2012Saramago's labyrinths
A journey through form and content in Blindness and All the Names
by Rhian Atkin, Mike Thompson
Saramago's labyrinths is the first book-length study to focus on the relationship between form and the content in Saramago's writing, paying particular attention to Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness) and Todos os Nomes (All the Names). Atkin provides a close textual analysis of Blindness and All the Names, and suggests that the labyrinth pervades Saramago's work, both in the form of the text, and as a literary and philosophical trope. She makes clear connections between these novels and Saramago's other literary works, and identifies ways in which Saramago causes the reader to return to and consider the philosophical, epistemological and ethical concerns and dilemmas that are recurrent in his literary output. Atkin's jargon-free approach to Saramago's complex ideas, and her thorough understanding of Portuguese history, culture and society, make this an accessible yet challenging guide to Saramago's fiction, for undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars with or without prior knowledge of the Portuguese context. ;
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Film, TV & radioMay 2012Screening songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema
by Edited by Lisa Shaw and Robert Stone
In this volume, eighteen experts from a variety of academic backgrounds explore the use of songs in films from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. This volume illustrates how - rather than simply helping to tell the story of - songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema commonly upset the hierarchy of the visual over the aural, thereby rendering their hearing a complex and rich subject for analysis. Screening songs... constitutes a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary collection. Of particular interest to scholars and academics in the areas of Film Studies, Hispanic Studies, Lusophone Studies and Musicology, this volume opens up the study of Hispanic and Lusophone cinema to vital, new, critical approaches. The soundtracks of films as varied as City of God, All About My Mother, Bad Education and Buena Vista Social Club are analysed alongside those of lesser-known works that range from the melodramas of Mexican cinema's golden age to Brazilian and Portuguese musical comedies from the 1940s and 1950s. Fiction films are studied alongside documentaries, the work of established directors like Pedro Almodóvar, Carlos Saura and Nelson Pereira dos Santos alongside that of emerging filmmakers, and performances by iconic stars like Caetano Veloso and Chavela Vargas alongside the songs of Spanish Gypsy groups, Mexican folk songs and contemporary Brazilian rap.
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July 2014Ambush
by Fang Fang
This collection of works by writer Fang Fang includes novelettes such as Ambush, My Beginning Is Also My End, Floating Clouds and Flowing Water, Performance Art, and Scenery that have already been translated into English, French, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Thai and Portuguese, and published abroad. Among these, Scenery won the National Outstanding Novelette Prize and caused a national sensation. It also established her as one of the representatives of China’s “new realists”. Her other works have also won her many national important prizes such as Fiction Monthly Hundred Flowers Awards.
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Children's & YAJune 2021Batalha das Velas
A Rota dos Espiões
by Manu & Deepak
This book is the first volume in a series of comic books about the spice trade and the spirit of navigation with all its vivid humor. The dominance of the Arabs in the spice trade and the envy of the Portuguese and Spaniards define the script and plot of the story, covering the maritime trade from 1440 to 1500. The story is inspired by the adventures and navigation techniques of Ahmed bin Majid, the great Arab navigator. Medieval history, mythology and archetypes are adapted to the modern world to facilitate the narration of the story and generate interest. He uses anachronisms and discourses of contemporary media to create comedy. In this volume, Prince Henry hires Chung Chung, the Chinese traveler to steal Majid's map, but Majid's cunning prevails. Majid also gives a lesson to the 41 pirates and their captain, Black Fin.
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September 1997Feuerzeichen
Roman
by Jorge Sena, Frank Heibert
Jorge de Sena, 1919 in Lissabon geboren, war Lyriker, Romancier, Essayist und Übersetzer. Sein erstes Gedicht wurde 1938 veröffentlicht. Ausgebildet als Ingenieur an der Universität Porto und lange im Straßenbauwesen tätig, emigrierte er 1959 aus Salazars Portugal nach Brasilien, wo er als Literaturwissenschaftler promovierte. Nach dem Militärputsch in Brasilien übersiedelte er 1965 in die USA und unterrichtete an den Universitäten von Wisconsin und Kalifornien portugiesische und spanische Literatur. Er starb 1978 in Santa Barbara. Feuerzeichen, sein einziger Roman, zwischen 1964 und 1970 geschrieben, konnte erst nach seinem Tod in Portugal erscheinen. Frank Heibert, geboren 1960 in Essen, lebt in Berlin. Er übersetzt aus dem Englischen, Französischen, Italienischen und Portugiesischen. Zu den von ihm übersetzten Autoren gehören Amos Oz, Don DeLillo, Richard Ford und Yasmina Reza.
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Business, Economics & LawDecember 2016Tourism Theory
Concepts, Models and Systems
by Guilherme Lohmann, Alexandre Panosso Netto
Theories within tourism can be difficult, even confusing areas to understand. Developed from the successful Portuguese textbook Teoria do Turismo, Tourism Theory provides clear and thorough coverage of all aspects of tourism theory for students and researchers of tourism. Consisting of five sections and over fifty entries, this book covers nine of the most important models in tourism study. The first three sections examine general concepts in tourism; disciplines and topics; and the tourist, which includes areas such as demand, gaze, psychology and typologies. A fourth section covers intermediation, distribution and travel, reviewing aspects such as travel agencies, tourist flows and multi-destination travel patterns. The final section encapsulates the tourism destination itself, covering organizations, the destination image, supply, seasonality and more. Encyclopedic cross-referencing between entries makes navigation easy, while in-depth analysis, exercises and further reading suggestions for each of the selected areas provide the context and detail needed for understanding. Entries can be used individually as a reference, or as part of the whole for a complete introduction to tourism theory. ; Developed from the successful Portuguese textbook Teoria do Turismo, Tourism Theory provides clear and thorough coverage of all aspects of tourism theory for students and researchers of tourism. It examines general concepts in tourism; disciplines and topics; the tourist; intermediation, distribution and travel; and the tourism destination. ; -: IntroductionSection 1: Concepts1.1: General systems theory and tourism1.2: Hospitality1.3: Leisure1.4: Entertainment1.5: Recreation1.6: Tourism and travel1.7: Food and beverage1.8: Events1.9: Landscape1.10: Authenticity in tourismSection 2: Disciplines and Topics of Study2.1: Jafari’s interdisciplinary model2.2: Ethics in tourism2.3: The anthropology of tourism2.4: Culture and tourism2.5: Postmodernity and tourism2.6: Psychology and tourism2.7: The sociology of tourism2.8: Boullón’s theory of touristic space2.9: Nodal functions2.10: Tourism public policy2.11: Tourism planning2.12: Tourism balance of payments2.13: Tourism satellite account2.14: The tourism multiplier effect2.15: Tourism administration2.16: Tourism clusters2.17: Tourism marketing2.18: The economics of tourism companies2.19: Sustainability in tourismSection 3: The Tourist3.1: Tourism demand3.2: Tourist experience3.3: Determinant and motivational factors3.4: Crompton’s destination-choice model3.5: Schmöll’s tourism consumer choice model3.6: Urry’s theory of the ‘tourist gaze’3.7: Plog’s psychographic model3.8: Traveller typologies3.9: Klenosky and Gitelson’s conceptual model on travel agent recommendation processSection 4: Intermediation, Distribution and Travel4.1: Tourism distribution channels4.2: Travel agencies4.3: Computer reservation system4.4: Mariot’s model of tourist flows4.5: Campbell’s model of recreational and vacational travel4.6: Multi-destination travel pattern models4.7: Defert’s tourist function index4.8: Pearce and Elliott’s trip index4.9: Transport and tourism mobilitySection 5: The Tourism Destination5.1: Tourism destinations5.2: Tourism organizations5.3: Tourism destination image5.4: Resorts5.5: Butler’s model (tourism destination life cycle)5.6: Prideaux’s resort-development spectrum5.7: Tourism supply5.8: Tourism services and facilities5.9: Tourism infrastructure5.10: Tourist attraction5.11: Lodging establishments5.12: Seasonality
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Politics & governmentFebruary 2017The European Union's policy towards Mercosur
Responsive not strategic
by Series edited by Dimitris Papadimitriou, Simon Bulmer, Andrew Geddes, Peter Humphreys, Arantza Gomez Arana
This book examines the motivations for the European Union's (EU) policy towards the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), the EU's most important relationship with another regional economic integration organisation. It argues that the dominant explanations in the literature - balancing the US, global aspirations, being an external federator, long-standing economic and cultural ties, economic interdependence, and the Europeanization of Spanish and Portuguese national foreign policies - fail to adequately explain the EU's policy. In particular, these accounts tend to infer the EU's motives from its activity. Drawing extensive primary documents, this book argues that the major developments in the relationship - the 1992 Inter-institutional Agreement and the 1995 Europe Mercosur Inter-regional Framework Cooperation Agreement - were initiated by Mercosur and supported mainly by Spain. This means that rather than pursuing a strategy, as implied by most of the existing literature, the EU was largely responsive.
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October 1991Sonette aus dem Portugiesischen
by Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Elizabeth Barrett wurde am 6. März 1806 in Durham / England geboren. Sie genoß eine privilegierte Kindheit und war äußerst belesen, v.a. in antiker Literatur. Im Alter von zwölf Jahren verfaßte sie ihr erstes episches Gedicht. 1826 wurde ihr erstes Werk – anonym – veröffentlicht, An Essay on Mind and Other Poems. 1844 lernte sie den um sechs Jahre jüngeren Dichter Robert Browning kennen, den sie gegen den Willen ihres Vaters heiratete. 1846 floh das Paar nach Italien und lebte von da an in Florenz. 1850 wurde Sonnets from the Portuguese veröffentlicht, eine der bekanntesten Sammlungen von Liebesgedichten in englischer Sprache. In ihren späteren Werken verarbeitete sie auch politische und soziale Themen, wie beispielsweise die männliche Dominanz über Frauen in ihrem Versepos Aurora Leigh (1857). Elizabeth Barrett Browning starb am 29. Juni 1861 in Florenz.
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Rebel territories
by Raúl Zibechi
Raúl Zibechi is one of the most important researchers of social struggles in Latin America, and his work expresses a fundamental tradition of radical thought in the region, which is closely connected to territories and collective movements. Despite his immense relevance, only a very small part of his work has been published in Portuguese. This collection aims to help remedy this publishing gap in Brazil, but also to reverberate a type of intervention that takes up the autonomist hypothesis of struggles, in order to continue thinking and walking with those who resist on a continent conflagrated by the permanent war against peoples. It is not as an intellectual or illustrious avant-garde theoretician that this Uruguayan writer, activist and journalist appears to those who come across his texts and interventions. Zibechi appears to us, first and foremost, through the movements he accompanies, through his complicity with those who fight and think with their feet on the ground. This attitude is reflected in the form of his texts, which are marked by direct and open language, without academicism and committed to the circulation of issues as they are formulated in the contexts in which they arise.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025
Transnational solidarity
Anticolonialism in the global sixties
by Zeina Maasri, Cathy Bergin, Francesca Burke
Transnational solidarity excavates the forgotten histories of solidarity that were vital to radical political imaginaries during the 'long' 1960s. It decentres the conventional Western focus of this critical historical moment by foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-imperialist liberation struggles. The book traces the ways in which solidarity was conceived, imagined and enacted in the border crossings - of nation, race and class - made by grassroots activists. This diverse collection draws links between exiled revolutionaries in Uruguay, post-colonial immigrants in Britain, and Greek communist refugees in East Germany who campaigned for their respective causes from afar while identifying and linking up with wider liberation struggles. Meanwhile, Arab immigrants in France, Pakistani volunteers and Iraqi artists found myriad ways to express solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Neglected archives also reveal Tricontinental Cuban-based genealogies of artistic militancy, as well as transnational activist networks against Portuguese colonial rule in Africa. Bringing together original research with contributions from veteran activists and artists, this interdisciplinary volume explores how transnational solidarity was expressed in and carried through the itineraries of migrants and revolutionaries, film and print cultures, art and sport, political campaigns and armed struggle. It presents a novel perspective on radical politics of the global sixties which remains crucial to understanding anti-racist solidarity today. With a foreword by Vijay Prashad.
