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Gender differences in board members’ perceptions of governance: A study of four...
Mikkonen, M.; Andrade, L. A. de.; Pekkola, E.; Antonowicz, D.; Carvalho, T.; Geschwind, L.; Jaworska, M.; Keczer, G.; Kováts, G.; Lundborg, S.This study focuses on gender differences in the boards of higher education institutions (HEIs), challenging the notion of inherent differences between men and women in board governance. The article provides a gendered analysis of the perceptions of men and women board members about board governance in Finland, Poland, Portugal and Sweden. Contrary to expectations of diverse perceptions, a survey across these co...
Profile: Extinction rebellion in the Gambia
Gardner, P.; O’Brien, T.; Carvalho, T.; Adekola, O.The emergence of Extinction Rebellion (XR) in 2018 as a global movement led to the establishment of chapters all around the world. Much existing work has focused on cases located in the UK, Western Europe and the Anglosphere. This profile presents a case study of the formation of XR in The Gambia as an example of further diffusion of the movement. We examine how partial democratisation opened up space for conte...
Analysing protest events: A quantitative and systematic approach
Carvalho, T.In this chapter, I introduce newcomers to protest event analysis with the objective of pointing out the main elements of this method, the possibilities it offers and the avenues to follow in empirical research. For that the chapter describes first how I came to use the method, defines PEA and the type of questions it answers to then discuss data collection, coding and analysis. Afterwards, I point out some of t...
Partidos políticos e o ciclo de protesto anti-austeridade em Portugal
Carvalho, T.Os partidos e os movimentos sociais tendem a ser pensados como arenas diferenciadas de ação política. Se à primeira correspondem formas de ação política ligadas a partidos políticos e instituições, à segunda associam-se formas de ação política ligadas à sociedade civil, isto é, aos chamados atores não institucionais. Em específico, no que diz respeito à literatura dos movimentos sociais, tende-se a pensar a lig...
The symbolism of the street in Portuguese contention
Accornero, G.; Carvalho, T.; Pinto, P. R.The street has long been a disputed symbol in Portuguese contentious history. Usually understood as endowing political legitimacy, sometimes as an inherently emancipatory space, and latterly as an unsafe, risky, and unsheltered space, the street has long featured at the center of Portuguese democracy and political discourse.2 But the street is not just a space used or occupied by contentious players, or only a ...
Spreading rebellion?: The rise of extinction rebellion chapters across the world
Gardner, P.; Carvalho, T.; Valenstain, M.This article offers an analysis of social movement transnationalisation, using Extinction Rebellion as its case study. In order to investigate the temporal and geographical dynamics of Extinction Rebellion’s transnational diffusion, and the interaction of these dynamics with protest events, we draw on two primary datasets: one describing where and when all 1265 of the movement’s local groups emerged globally, t...
The Italian radical right: Going mainstream?
Caiani, M.; Carvalho, T.The 2018 general elections in Italy saw the emergence of what has been called the first populist government of Europe (Garzia, 2019). Given the hung parliament after the elections, an alliance between M5S and Lega led to the so-called Government of Change. The new coalition government configuration could be considered part of a broader realignment taking place in the Italian party system post-2008, with the 201...
Remapping the Portuguese social space: Towards a Bourdieusian class scheme
Ramos, V.; Carvalho, T.Class analysis is intimately linked to the very development and consolidation of Portuguese sociology after the Carnation Revolution. Throughout the last decades, different research programmes assessed the nature and extent of class inequalities, drawing on Marxist, Weberian and functionalist paradigms. After a highly productive and intensely debated phase, a syncretic and compact approach prevailed. While this...
Remapping the Portuguese social space: Towards a Bourdieusian class scheme
Ramos, Vasco; Carvalho, T.Class analysis is intimately linked to the very development and consolidation of Portuguese sociology after the Carnation Revolution. Throughout the last decades, different research programmes assessed the nature and extent of class inequalities, drawing on Marxist, Weberian and functionalist paradigms. After a highly productive and intensely debated phase, a syncretic and compact approach prevailed. While this...
The interplay between autophagy and apoptosis mediates toxicity triggered by sy...
Vaz, I.; Carvalho, T.; Valente, M.J.; Castro, A.; Araújo, A.M.; Bastos, M.L.; Carvalho, MárciaSynthetic cathinones abuse remains a serious public health problem. Kidney injury has been reported in intoxications associated with synthetic cathinones, but the molecular mechanisms involved have not been explored yet. In this study, the potential in vitro nephrotoxic effects of four commonly abused cathinone derivatives, namely pentedrone, 3,4-dimethylmethcatinone (3,4-DMMC), methylone and 3,4-methylenedioxy...