Category: Interviews

Mozambican women in science – a challenge and a story to be told

A network of knowledge circulation and exchange of experiences has been consolidated over the last few years between Brazilian and Mozambican academic feminists. We highlight a topic still little known in Brazil – women in science in Mozambique – interviewing three researchers who tell a little about this story. Read More →

The Chinese Revolution and Latin American Chinese communities – an interview with Albert Manke

Since the Cold War was a determinant period in the making of present-day international politics, Albert Manke dedicates part of his research to studying how China’s relations evolved throughout that period, and how these changes impacted the Chinese community overseas – which is the subject of this interview. Read More →

Brazil and the transnational New Right – An interview with Benjamin Cowan

Benjamin Cowan’s research demonstrates how the New Right developed transnationally, with participation of elite reactionaries in Brazil, promoting the rise of a conservative Christianity wave, of which Brazil’s 2018 elections are the last example. Cowan’s research is the subject of this interview. Read More →

Challenges in peer review of scientific articles on Administration in Brazil

Sharing their experiences as authors, reviewers and editors of scientific journals, Sandro Cabral and Marcelo de Souza Bispo reflect on the challenges of the article evaluation process, criticize the current system that favors productivism, overloading the reviewers, and draws attention on the need to train good reviewers in PhD courses in Brazil. Read More →

The future of RBEP and the field of Arts in Brazil

What is the role of the Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies as a vehicle to divulge arts research in Brazil? What to expect for the future? What are the plans? And, at last, how the Arts area sees the journal in its mission to disseminate knowledge production? Read More →

How to disseminate scientific research in Performing Arts?

The history of art journals in Brazil is recent. This indicates the size of the challenges for quality publishing. How to publish without perishing? What does the publication of scientific output in performing arts mean? How can challenges and difficulties be faced as solutions? These are recurrent issues for journals in search of excellence. Read More →

The challenges of an arts journal in the Anglophone world

What are the challenges for a Latin American arts journal in the English-speaking world? How to compete with large publishing corporations? How to keep publishing in open access? How to ensure the quality on disseminating foreign and Brazilian research? Read More →

What can an art journal in terms of internationalization?

How can a journal serve as an element of exchange between foreign researchers? How does the Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies echoes in the world? How to imagine the journal’s future in the area from a Latin American and plural look? Read More →

The Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies and the repercussion on the Francophone world

This post presents a survey of the impact of the Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies in the Francophone world. The important French researcher, Josette Féral, talks about the journal and the research in Scene Arts in the macro-dimension of the French-speaking world. Read More →

International leadership as a process: the case of China in Southeast Asia

The global rise of China and Chinese main goals in Asia are examined in article that focus on the country´s capacity of building international leadership. In spite of the fact there are many advantages, the mechanism of transforming power resources into regional leadership is still questionable. Read More →