Research activities

INTERNATIONAL MEETING ONLINE OF THE PROJECT ATHENA

The Project "ATHENA BEGIN - European cooperation against domestic violence towards people with intelectual disabilities" addresses the vulnerability of people with disabilities to become victims of abuse. In particular, domestic violence and gender-based violence (DV/G-BV). 

The aims are: Development of training materials to improve the competences of professionals for the protection and support of women with intellectual disabilities; Capacity building for professionals;Handbook, on preventing and building awareness of VD/G-B V, for professionals who work with people with ID; Organization of prevention workshops for people with ID; Development of a Guideline with recommendations in attention to women with disabilities, victims of DV/G-BV, to include within the action protocols already established by the pertinent authorities in the area of DV/G-BV.

Because of the pandemic, we have meeting online will all the partners - ATADES (ES-Zaragoza), FPCEUP (PT), UMAR (PT), ALAPAR (ES-Madrid) and EDRA (GR). 

BYSTANDERS: DEVOLOPING BYSTANDERS' RESPONSES TO SEXUAL HARASSMENT AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE

Project involving four countries: Portugal, UK, Malta and Slovenia

Supported by Rights, Equality and Citizenship (ERC) Programme of the European Union

Photo: 1st International Meeting, Porto, December, 8-9, 2016

Following Spivak

I don't know how many times I turned to Spivak's 1988 seminal text "Can the Subaltern Speak?"

Now, I'm reading Spivak (2006) to enter more deeply in her though. 

Gayatri speaks about a distinction between a proxy and a portrait and brings up the german words Vertretung and  Darstellung

I found a similar use of this comparison about Inqui and "art vandals": "Many of the art vandals that Inqui invokes strike out at canonical representations because they feel that those representations (in the sense of Darstellung) are unfairly serving or standing for restricted and privileged constituencies (in the sense of Vertretung)." 

The mathaphorics of the portrait and the proxy...

MacCabe (2006), in the Foreword, writes that "illumination is a necessarily transitory and conjunctural moment".  

"untitled" (2000-2005). Copyright Etel Adnan

I found a very useful examination of the Spivak's essay: "On Spivak's essay 'Can the Subaltern Speak?'" by Dr. Mrinalini Sebastian - 1" - https://youtu.be/OpYzO6VnLfw
And Spivak by herself, in BBRG PRESENTS: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on Situating Feminism:
https://youtu.be/garPdV7U3fQ

References:

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (1988) “Can the subaltern speak?”, in Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (1988) Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, pp 271-313.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty ([1998]2006) In Other Worlds. Essays in cultural Politics, London: Routledge.

Meeting of Projects' Committee - UMAR, August 7, 2015

The new calls for Daphne applicants was the trigger of the meeting of the Projects' Committee of UMAR. 

From Figueira-da-Foz, Coimbra, Porto, Póvoa do Varzim, Fragas-Aveloso Braga e Lisboa, the members of the Projects' Committee of UMAR met by skype to plan the tasks to accomplish the applications in the next future. This is the print screen of the skype meeting. A wonderful team. 

The priorities of this call are sexual harassment and sexual violence. 

Research on paid domestic labour: comparison between Brasilia, Paris, Lisbon and Otawa

Researchers: 

Neuza Farias de Araújo, UNB, Brasília, Brasil;

Study object: "The meaning of the work in the perspectives of paid domestic workers, in Brasilia, Paris, Lisbon and Otawa."

Comparative Cultural Studies

Comparative studies based on qualitative research can be seen as to be haunted by the gaze that has not been returned.

     Foto: Carolina Magalhães Dias, 2012