Preservar patrimónios e partilhar memórias em cidades-porto latino-americanas: Um projeto em ação: CoopMar - Cooperação Transoceânica, Políticas Públicas e Comunidade Sociocultural Ibero-Americana

Seaports were, for centuries, the most continuous exchange platform between Europe, Africa and America. Port cities emerge as structures and social constructions with their own characteristics. Taking them as study foci favours the debate of issues related to urban and social complexity, as they usually bring together marks of diversity, both human and cultural, and for this reason they present themselves as privileged places for the development alterity and permeability studies, including cu...

Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years

There are concerns that recent climate change is altering the frequency and magnitude of river floods in an unprecedented way1. Historical studies have identified flood-rich periods in the past half millennium in various regions of Europe2. However, because of the low temporal resolution of existing datasets and the relatively low number of series, it has remained unclear whether Europe is currently in a flood-rich period from a long-term perspective. Here we analyse how recent decades compar...

The spectre of historical crop losses: challenging questions and methodological issues = O espectro da perda de culturas na História: problemas e metodologias

Calamities in agricultural production have emerged as a relevant research topic for global food security in the current context of adaptation to climate change. Historians have been participating in this research by examining crop losses in the past. However, they face challenging questions and methodological issues when evaluating the magnitude, intensity and social relevance of damages caused by adverse climate events and plant pests and diseases. This paper presents a review of some aspec...

(Des)encontros de uma etnografia multissituada em regiões urbanas de marginalidade avançada no Brasil e em Portugal

In this article, we present a multissituated ethnography (Marcus, 1998) that currently defines a large part of ethnographic studies, as few researchers restrict themselves to a site or community in their research. We aim to understand the dynamics of spatial-temporal organization of these populations, regarding the different forms of appropriation and significance of inhabited regions, the Grande Cruzeiro, in the city of Porto Alegre/RS, in Brazil, and the Bairro do Cerco, in the District of ...