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- Porque odiamos? A exclusĆ£o do Ā«OutroĀ» em tempos de crisePublication . Medeiros, Pilar DamiĆ£oNeste artigo, intitulado Porque odiamos? A exclusĆ£o do āOutroā em tempos de crise, pretendemos analisar atĆ© que ponto as intensas hostilidades e aversƵes tendem a acentuar numa sociedade agora global, nĆ£o obstante profundamente marcada por uma variedade de tensƵes Ć©tnicas, culturais e religiosas. O ressurgiĀ¬mento da retĆ³rica de direita e dos nacionalismos desencadeados por uma cultura do medo, a crescente xenofobia instigada pelo Ć³dio ao āOutroā e a quase ininterrupta presenƧa do terrorismo nĆ£o sĆ³ violam os mais bĆ”sicos Direitos Humanos, como nos fazem recordar o indizĆvel horror, crueldade e barbĆ”rie humana praticada ao longo do sĆ©culo XX, que ainda permeia a nossa memĆ³ria coletiva ā as duas Grandes Guerras, o Holocausto, o massacre dos ArmĆ©nios pelos Turcos, os Gulags, o massacre de Nanking, o conflito no Vietnam, o genocĆdio de Ruanda, a Guerra nos BalcĆ£s, entre outros. [ā¦].
- Medo : o novo mal-estar da humanidadePublication . Medeiros, Pilar DamiĆ£o; Fontes, Paulo VitorinoIncerteza, inseguranƧa e vulnerabilidade tornaram-se lugares comuns nas sociedades contemporĆ¢neas. Este artigo pretende uma reflexĆ£o interdisciplinar sobre a construĆ§Ć£o social e polĆtica do medo na modernidade lĆquida. Zygmunt Bauman, Leonidas Donskis, Martha Nussbaum, Hannah Arendt, Ulrich Beck, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Bernard Henry-Levy e Umberto Eco sĆ£o alguns dos autores que iremos colocar em diĆ”logo para melhor compreender as mĆŗltiplas narrativas do medo numa era profundamente marcada pela destruiĆ§Ć£o das certezas sociais, pelo agravamento das desigualdades sociais, pelas lĆ³gicas de um capitalismo predador, pelo ressurgimento de nacionalismos de exclusĆ£o, bem como de particularismos Ć©tnico-culturais, que se movem a partir de discursos xenĆ³fobos e racistas e, por fim, pelos novos riscos, como a degradaĆ§Ć£o ecolĆ³gica e como a pandemia COVID19, que atualmente assola as sociedades contemporĆ¢neas e domestica os comportamentos sociais.
- Os Anos Trump : o Mundo em Transe, de Eduardo P. FerreiraPublication . Medeiros, Pilar DamiĆ£oEm Os Anos Trump: O Mundo em Transe, Eduardo Paz Ferreira convida-nos a refletir criticamente sobre a desumanidade dissolvente e a estranheza do nosso modus vivendi, agora temperado pela aĆ§Ć£o de um protagonista que mais parece ter saĆdo de uma peƧa do teatro do absurdo: Donald Trump. Pese embora ter a realidade norte-americana como principal objeto de anĆ”lise, o autor destaca, por um lado, os efeitos nefastos do impulso impessoal do neoliberalismo encabeƧado pelo āHomem de Davosā, e, por outro, condena o regresso aos populismos Ć©tnico-culturais tribalistas, aos autoritarismos, aos Ć³dios nacionalistas e racistas, que ressoam aos velhos tambores das reivindicaƧƵes territoriais. Eduardo Paz Ferreira denuncia a crescente indiferenƧa moral das consciĆŖncias entorpecidas que se alimentam abundantemente de um ethos infantil da cultura fun, e desconstrĆ³i quadros de narrativa suportados pela atual hipersimplificaĆ§Ć£o polĆtica e mediĆ”tica. AtravĆ©s do seu saber enciclopĆ©dico, da sua eloquĆŖncia crĆtica e do seu agudo sentido analĆtico, Paz Ferreira alerta-nos para os perigos de uma caixa de Pandora que se abriu e ameaƧa a sobrevivĆŖncia da humanidade. Bem sabe que o status quo nĆ£o Ć© uma soluĆ§Ć£o viĆ”vel. Ou o alteramos e melhoramos ou destruĆmo-lo. [ā¦].
- Creative tourism on islands : a review of the literaturePublication . Baixinho, Alexandra; Santos, Carlos; Couto, Gualter; Albergaria, Isabel Soares de; Silva, Leonor Sampaio da; Medeiros, Pilar DamiĆ£o; Simas, Rosa NevesIn the last two decades, creative tourism has evolved as a burgeoning field, encompassing a wide range of concepts and practices, in di_erent places around the world. From the very beginning, however, creative tourism has aimed to contribute to sustainable development and increased community wellbeing, as an alternative to mass cultural tourism. With this review article, our main objective is to identify and analyze a body of literature that specifically addresses creative tourism in islands, contributing to fill a gap in the knowledge since no reviews with this focus have yet been undertaken. Our aim is to provide a critical overview of creative tourism experiences at island destinations worldwide, addressing the plurality of empirical contexts and methodological approaches found in academic research. This review highlights the key trends in creative tourism, pointing out two distinct approaches: creative tourism in urban contexts, based on creative events, ācultural clustersā or Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs), versus community-focused small-scale tourism experiences in rural contexts. This paper also provides an opportunity to assess the evolution of sustainable creative tourism approaches in islands.
- Analyzing Pilot Projects of Creative Tourism in an Ultra-Peripheral Region : Which guidelines can be extracted for sustainable regional development?Publication . Santos, Carlos; Couto, Gualter; Albergaria, Isabel Soares de; Silva, Leonor Sampaio da; Medeiros, Pilar DamiĆ£o; Simas, Rosa Neves; Castanho, Rui AlexandreSeveral authors have shown that some tourism typologies - i.e., rural tourism, nature-based tourism, or creative tourism - have a more predominant role in attaining regional sustainability. In this regard, this paper explores the impacts of five pilot projects of creative tourism on the sustainable development of the insular Autonomous Region of the Azores. Through direct exploratory tools, such as interviews and site analyses, the present study enabled us to provide greater insight into creative tourism projects and their relevance to the development of an ultra-peripheral island region. As part of the CREATOUR AZORES Project, this study is based on five creative tourism pilot projects operating in the Azores, Portugal. As such, it is recommended that the regional government, local authorities, and other relevant actors and players in this region actively support and create strategies to strengthen these projects (and similar initiatives) once they not only contribute to regional development and destination promotion but also promote much-desired sustainable development - once these kinds of tourism, in theory, and practice, counteract the dire effects of mass tourism.
- Clara Ferreira Alves : O jornalismo engagĆ© na era lĆquidaPublication . Medeiros, Pilar DamiĆ£oEste ensaio pretende uma anĆ”lise sociolĆ³gica sobre o compromisso pĆŗblico da intelectual Portuguesa Clara Ferreira Alves [CFA]. ApĆ³s uma breve resenha em torno da vasta bibliografia que se debruƧa sobre a relevĆ¢ncia do papel, bem como as mĆŗltiplas representaƧƵes dos intelectuais desde finais do sĆ©culo XIX, iremos abordar de que forma a criatividade literĆ”ria, o jornalismo crĆtico e a persuasĆ£o retĆ³rica de CFA, ancoradas por um sĆ³lido capital cultural, despertam uma profunda reflexĆ£o sobre a complexidade social da nossa modernidade lĆquida.
- Como Salvar um Mundo Doente, de Eduardo Paz FerreiraPublication . Medeiros, Pilar DamiĆ£o[ā¦]. Como Salvar um Mundo Doente retrata um mundo que, mesmo antes da chegada do vĆrus, jĆ” apresentava sintomas de profunda debilidade moral manifestada na inanidade, no carĆ”ter obsceno do desprendimento, do enfraquecimento das responsabilidades e na frivolidade perante as narrativas de sofrimento dos āoutrosā. Enquanto enuncia as consequĆŖncias danosas que jĆ” se vinham alastrando nos diversos domĆnios da sociedade, nomeadamente nos campos econĆ³mico, social e polĆtico, fruto de uma āglobalizaĆ§Ć£o negativaā (Z. Bauman), Eduardo Paz Ferreira apresenta tambĆ©m propostas concretas para uma sociedade mais justa, solidĆ”ria, sustentĆ”vel e democrĆ”tica. [ā¦].
- Erik Erikson on Negative Identity & Pseudospeciation : Extended and Particularized by Ta-Nehisi CoatesPublication . Friedman, Lawrence J.; Medeiros, Pilar DamiĆ£oOne can feel challenged in this chilling time when sundry variations of ultra-nationalism have become quite discernable in the USA, Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Africa. They have often taken the form of a rhetoric of fear and hatred toward āundesirables.ā In this time of trouble in an increasingly nuclearized world, it is well to turn to Erik Erikson. His related concepts of ānegative identityā and āpseudospeciationā need to be addressed more fully than they have in recent decades. Much is to be gained by both academic discussion and public debate over these two Erikson concepts. They signal elements in his āWay of Looking at Things.ā More immediately, they help us address the crude and dangerous ultra-nationalisms of our time. Sensitive to the intimate relationship between the inner self and the outer social circumstances, Erikson, began in the mid and late 1940s to shape his most central concept - identity formation. It is well to refresh ourselves on the qualities he assigned to identity, for without that recall, one can hardly come to grips with his concepts of āuniversal Specieshoodā and āpseudospeciationā, both of which emerged from it. In Childhood and Society [1], perhaps his most innovative book, Erikson displayed a marked cross-cultural perspective, comparing psychological development in several countries and cultures. While āofficiallyā pledging fealty to Freudian psychoanalysis, Erikson was more attentive than Freud had been to ways the social circumstances of a society impacted the inner psyches of its members. Most importantly, Childhood and Society introduced the concept of an eight-stage human life cycle that was anchored in a struggle to garner and sustain personal identity. There is profit in recognizing here that Eriksonās concept of identity was initially formulated more than three decades before in his still unpublished āManuscript von Erik.ā It is the story of his Wanderschaft amidst a troubled adolescence. Identity was characterized in this narrative as a personal sense of sameness and historical continuity through which life seemed to cohere1. The āManuscriptā captured young Erikās thoughts and tensions at the time. Identity was cast within what later came to be called the stages of the human life cycle. Indeed, it became central to these stages. The life cycle involved a person moving toward and sustaining a viable sense of identity. Long before he had even heard of Freud, the āManuscript von Erikā essentially represented the beginning of an intellectual process that left us with Childhood and Society. The initial āManuscriptā centered on a tension between oneās inner subconscious drives and the needs of society, and this became the essence of his premier book. It is no service to scholarship that āManuscript von Erikā has never been published and made readily available to scholars. Each of the eight stages in Eriksonās delineation of the human life cycle is to be construed as a polarity-a positive and hopeful disposition counterpointed by a pole that reduced the vibrancy of everyday existence. The first stage underscored the pole of trust that (hopefully) overshadowed the opposite pole mistrust [2]. The next stage, infancy, featured the polarity of autonomy on the one hand and shame on the other. There followed āinitiativeā vs. āguiltā, āindustry over a sense of inferiority, the all-important quality of āidentityā over ārole diffusionā during adolescence, āintimacyā rather than āisolationā in young adulthood, āgenerativityā over āself-absorptionā during midlife, and finally a sense of āintegrityā over ādespairā in old age. [Introduction]
- Sustainable creative tourism on islands and the pandemic: The Creatour Azores projectPublication . Baixinho, Alexandra; Santos, Carlos; Couto, Gualter; Albergaria, Isabel Soares de; Silva, Leonor Sampaio da; Medeiros, Pilar DamiĆ£o; Simas, Rosa NevesAs the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt worldwide, the tourism sector was forced to seek ways of reinventing itself. Two decades prior to this crisis, in varied rural areas and island contexts, small-scale, community-based creative tourism had appeared as a sustainable place-making solution to foster place vitality, competitive distinctiveness, regenerative development and destination resilience. From an island perspective, this article presents the theoretical framework, methodological approaches, and empirical practices of the Creatour Azores project, which was carried out in the North Atlantic archipelago of the Azores from 2019-2022. Given this timeframe, the investigators and pilot projects that implemented this research-practice project were confronted with the COVID-19 pandemic, which accentuated the isolation and remoteness that tend to characterize islandscapes, especially peripheral islands such as the Azores. At the same time, however, this devastating global pandemic, which impacted the tourism sector especially, ended up offering unexpected opportunities along with special challenges, seeming to underscore the relevance of studies focused on the isolation and remoteness that characterize islandscapes. After describing the project methodologies and practices, as well as the adjustments adopted due to the pandemic, this article considers future possibilities for creative tourism on islands, in general, and in the Azores.
- O ideal de autenticidade no pensamento de Charles TaylorPublication . Fontes, Paulo Vitorino; Medeiros, Pilar DamiĆ£oA nossa pesquisa considera a Ćtica da Autenticidade uma obra sĆntese da teoria polĆtica de Charles Taylor, a partir da qual realiza uma avaliaĆ§Ć£o crĆtica da cultura moderna ocidental e analisa as suas principais maleitas para seguidamente destacar o seu princĆpio de vitalidade: a autenticidade. A autenticidade foi, ao longo da histĆ³ria ocidental, considerada como sendo uma busca individual do eu, baseada numa racionalidade desvinculada, que nĆ£o considerava os horizontes de sentido ou as relaƧƵes com os outros significantes. AtravĆ©s da teoria de Taylor, essa perspetiva mudou: a autenticidade agora Ć© descrita como um ideal moral dialĆ³gico, fundamentada no reconhecimento. A contĆnua construĆ§Ć£o da nossa identidade depende das relaƧƵes de reconhecimento, como modo prĆ³prio de salvaguardar a existĆŖncia eticamente autĆŖntica.