As a touristic space, Cascais is an important site to pinpoint the development of tourism in Portugal-particularly, seaside tourism. In turn, this social phenomenon has deeply shaped the imaginary of this town and its physical and human landscapes. And so, situated touristic performances were analysed considering how tourists are using and consuming sphotography as part of their embodied experiences in Cascais,...
This article discusses public policies for the inclusion of young people in areas marked by urban segregation and social marginalisation, based on an analysis of Escolhas, the main public programme in Portugal in this field. The article begins with a review of the international literature, which systematises policy trends in this field and explores their social effects. After a methodological note, the evolutio...
Purpose - This article approaches the possibilities of photo elicitation as a technique for social research in the landscape of technology-mediated instantaneous interpersonal communication. Design/methodology/approach - This case study, which involved persons with prison experience in the process of returning to the community, demonstrates how participant-generated photographs made with mobile handheld electro...
The repercussions of Portugal's colonialism are not widely discussed. The marks of colonialism in the public space are still present in the urban landscape of Portuguese cities. Despite the growing activity of the Black movement's in the country, they are still not being systematically considered in the design of public policies. Moreover, the Portuguese census does not include any data collection on ethnic bel...
his paper discusses several processes of the "Society of Culture", with a specific focus on recent urban development, and including dynamics of gentrification, touristification, segregation and their implications for the preservation of urban heritage. While cultural values exist on multiple levels - intrinsically artistic, social, and economic - it is the economic ones that have become dominant and predatory i...
Este artigo centra-se nos principais contributos do projeto europeu Uncharted sobre os valores emergentes na administração cultural europeia, apoiando-se numa vasta análise documental, em grupos focais e entrevistas a uma plêiade de atores. Analisando quatro estudos de caso ibéricos, procura-se identificar a diversidade de valores que moldam as decisões e práticas de política cultural, com foco nas tensões e co...