Category: Special Weeks

Dance, performance and gender

Gender is a fundamental category in art research in the contemporary world. In the same way, it is a founding element of decolonial concerns. This research will question the gender category within the performance and its crossings as an element for the deconstruction of a colonial thought. 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 →

Decolonize the curricula in scene arts

The study challenges the dance and performance curriculum in higher education. Is the curriculum a colonizer? What can a decolonial curriculum do? How to deconstruct the curriculum in arts? These are the issues discussed in the study. Read More →

The Decolonial in art research in Brazil

The discussion presented by the Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies (v.8, n.4) represents a considerable advance for the field in Brazil and abroad. The decolonial approach in research is an emerging perspective and the articles presented speak, among other things, about new methodologies, criticisms of colonial obstacles and performance analysis. 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 →

Decoloniality is the topic of the Special Week of the Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies at the SciELO in Perspective Blog | Humanities

From October 22 to 26, 2018, the Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies will participate at the SciELO Blog Special Week. During this period, the reader will be able to better understand the scope of the journal and follow the studies published in number 4, 2018 that addresses the relations between the field of Performance and the Decolonial perspectives in research. Read More →

Currency wars remain beyond the analytical reach of legal scholars in the age of globalization

“Currency wars”, which have dominated the media and the international political debate over the last few years, must be understood from a broad analytical framework, according to a study examining the so-called “war of 2010-2013” and other relevant aspects of the impacts over monetary policy. 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 →