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The climate battles of ideas: Minority discourses in readers’ comments to clima...
Ramos, N. M.; Castro, P.Today, the dominant climate change discourses affirm its anthropogenic nature and the urgency for policies. However, minority discourses remain active in the worldwide debate, refining arguments beyond simple denial—as shown regarding formal/official discourses of the United States and European far-right parties. This makes it necessary to examine the public understanding of climate change in everyday, informal...
Making sense of absent-yet-present others: Representing the liminal vegetative ...
Zulato, E.; Castro, P.; Quagliarella, C. S.; Montali, L.Clinically alive yet enduringly unaware, individuals in a vegetative state are caught in their transition between life and death. In turn, their carers struggle to signify the ontological and interactional dilemmas emerging from their liminal relations with an absent-yet-present other and their suspension in time. Drawing on social representations and liminality theories, this study investigates how relatives a...
The silent extinction of freshwater mussels in Portugal
Lopes-Lima, M.; Reis, J.; Alvarez, Maria G.; Anastácio, P. M.; Banha, F.; Beja, P.; Castro, P.; Gama, Mafalda; Gil, M. G.; Gomes-dos-Santos, A.Freshwater mussels are one of the most threatened animal groups in the world. In the European Union, threatened and protected mussel species are not adequately monitored, while species considered to be common and widespread receive even less attention. This is particularly worrying in the Mediterranean region, where species endemism is high and freshwater habitats are severely affected by water scarcity. In the...
Rhizobacterial isolates from the metal hyperaccumulator noccaea caerulescens gr...
Prieto-Fernández, Á.; Moreira, H.; Pereira, S.; Castro, P.; Kidd, P. S.; Rodríguez-Garrido, B.Introduction: Ultramafic (serpentine) outcrops occupy about 1% of the planet and are constituted by igneous or metamorphic rocks with low content in silicon (< 45 % SiO2) more than 70 % of ferromagnesium minerals and usually with high contents of several toxic trace elements (TEs) (Brooks, 1987). The soils developed over these rocks are characterized by deficiency in organic matter and essential nutrients, unfa...
Shaping citizenship: Dynamic relations between the reified and the consensual u...
Santos, T. R.; Castro, P.A social and political psychology of citizenship can be furthered by the analysis of the values and representations through which citizenship is constructed in the text of laws and reconstructed during implementation and how these (re)constructions best serve some groups. This article views laws as facts from the reified/institutional universe whose texts operate a simplification process by prioritizing certain...
Regulating liminality: Making sense of the vegetative state and defining the li...
Zulato, E.; Montali, L.; Castro, P.Persistently alive but unaware, vegetative state patients are stuck in the transition between life and death – that is, in a liminal hotspot. This condition raises complex ethical and legal dilemmas concerning end-of-life action. Drawing on social representations (SRs) and the liminality framework, our research investigated how the vegetative state was constructed within the Italian parliamentary debates discus...
Lisbon's unsustainable tourism intensification: contributions from social repre...
Boager, E.; Castro, P.Resistance to tourism intensification and its unsustainability has grown. However, decision-makers in many cities continue to present tourism and the political and legislative options supporting it as an inevitable and consensual path for economic growth, concealing competing choices, voices, and values. The media can follow, presenting the issue in a depoliticised way: i.e., by foregrounding undiscussed domina...
Proposed Experiments to Clarify the Real Nature of the Quantum Waves
Croca, J. R.; Castro, P.; Gatta, M.; Moreira, R. N.The nature of quantum waves, whether they are real physical waves or, on the contrary, mere probability waves, has been a very controversial theme since the beginning of quantum theory. Here we present some possible experiments that may clarify the problem.
How impactful are public policies on environmental sustainability? Debating the...
Medeiros, E.; Valente, B.; Gonçalves, V.; Castro, P.Sustainable development is a key feature of national, European Union and global development strategies. The main research goal is to provide evidence on how impactful public policies on environmental sustainability in Portugal are at the regional level, in various policy areas. In this context, this paper analyses the main impacts of the Portuguese Operational Programme for Sustainability and Efficient Use of R...
(De)humanizing metaphors of people in pain and their association with the perce...
Diniz, E.; Castro, P.; Bernardes, S. F.Metaphors are central in communication and sense-making processes in health-related contexts. Yet how the metaphors used by health-care-professionals to make sense of their patients and their relations to them are associated to the perceived valence of their clinical encounters is underexplored. Drawing-upon the ABC Model of Dehumanization, this study investigated how the humanizing or dehumanizing metaphors nu...