Livro Vermelho da Fauna já está disponível para download

Já está disponível para download os arquivos do Livro Vermelho da Fauna Brasileira Ameaçada de Extinção. A publicação é resultado do maior esforço sobre a temática já realizada no mundo. Ao todo, 1270 cientistas se reuniram sob a coordenação do ICMBio para avaliação de 12.254 espécies, incluindo peixes e invertebrados aquáticos. Na versão anterior, em 2003, 816 espécies foram avaliadas. O material, dividido, em sete arquivos, pode ser acessado aqui.

O livro aponta um incremento em relação a quantidade de espécies ameaçadas: 1.173. Elas estão distribuídas em três categorias: Criticamente em perigo (CR), Em Perigo (EN) e Vulnerável (VU), um incremento de 716 espécies. Entretanto, mesmo com o aumento do escopo de espécies ameaçadas e consequentemente melhor avaliação da conservação, 170 espécies deixaram de constar na lista de espécies ameaçadas.
(Fonte: Jornal da SBPC)

Call for Papers RGS-IBG August 2019

CFP: Royal Geographical Society Conference (with IBG), Imperial College London, 27-30 August 2019

Session title: Rural to where? Rural young people’s geographies in mobility, learning, trajectories and hopefulness

Session organisers:     Assoc. Prof. Tracey Skelton [geost@nus.edu.sg]

Jessica Clendenning [Jessica.clendenning@u.nus.edu]       

Geography, National University of Singapore

Co-sponsoring groups:  1) Geographies of Children, Youth & Families Research Group (CYFRG); 2) Developing Areas Research Group (DARG)

Globally, rural young people, compared to their urban counterparts, are relatively understudied and/or misunderstood in academic discourse and policy debates (Panelli et al. 2007; Jeffrey 2008; Punch 2015). These trends, however, may be shifting as some major development organisations focus on ‘youth’, and examine rural development and gender dynamics more closely (e.g., CTA and IFAD 2014; UNESCO 2016; UN Women 2017; FAO 2018).  This session builds upon both ‘troubled’ and ‘hopeful’ foci in policy and academic studies on rural youth transitions and mobility (e.g., Chant and Jones 2005; Crivello 2010; Punch and Sugden 2013; Cuervo and Wynn 2014; Farrugia 2016; Woronov 2016; Chea and Huijsmans 2018) to understand rural young people’s educational pathways for navigating opportunities, challenges and precarity. The session examines details about how these pathways affect localised and informal learning (e.g., Katz 2004), and the choices and alternatives young people have in education, training, and making a living.

This session explores how rural youth (including those in small towns) use and access various forms of mobility, education or training (e.g. vocational, technical, formal) to improve their skills for work, self-employment, further migration, etc., and the outcomes or consequences of such investments. Questions for analysis may include:

• What are rural young people’s pathways for education and training, and where do they lead? 
• What are the formal or informal skills rural young people acquire from these pathways; how are they used in their everyday lives to find work?
• What are the effects of these investments in mobility, education and training on their families, natal villages, land uses and forests?
• What are the negative and positive effects of rural youthful mobilities? For example, problems of debt or acquisition of cultural capital. What might be the short-term or long-term impacts?
• How does ‘home place’, along with other social factors such as gender, ethnicity and age, affect their in/ability to become mobile, access education or employment resources?
• What are the spatialities of where schools/training centres are based, subject areas, and types of student populations (e.g., vocational or tertiary; rural or urban)? What is learned, gained and un/successful?
• How do differing types of migration (distance, time, type of work) affect connections to families, villages, labour and knowledge in natal land?
• Why do young people return to rural areas?
• What implications does this have for rural areas, rural development and rural young people’s futures?

The aim of this session is to address topics relating to young people’s current trajectories in rural areas.  We anticipate diverse research and discussions that centre on rural youth’s hopes and troubles, obstacles and opportunities, that they must navigate in a wide variety of contexts and countries.  We look forward to discussing new methodologies and perspectives, and invite scholars from all academic (and non-academic) fields, including (but not limited to) human geography, political ecology, environmental sociology, anthropology, gender and women’s studies, youth studies, etc.

Interested participants should email: their names, affiliations, email addresses, paper titles and abstracts (250 words) to both Tracey Skelton (geost@nus.edu.sg) and Jessica Clendenning (Jessica.clendenning@u.nus.edu) by Tuesday, February 12^th.  We have space for 8 presenters. We look forward to hearing from and meeting you in London!

IAG Conference 2019 Place-based Climate Change Education

CFP: IAG Conference 2019, 9-13 July, Hobart, Tasmania www.iagc2019.com

Session Title: Place-based Climate Change Education

Sponsored by the Nature, Risk and Resilience Study Group

Convenor: Roger C. Baars (Kyoto University)

Increasing global environmental, social and economic risks due to climate change have resulted in climate change education (CCE) to be integrated into most geography syllabi today. Research on place-based education claims people who feel connected to their local environment show higher intentions to engage in pro-environmental actions and are more willing to change their behaviours. Therefore, this session aims to explore how to teach climate change in a way that translates the abstract and distant problem into everyday local experiences. Purpose of the session is to share current CCE practices and to explore their impact on students’ attitudes, perceptions and behaviours.

Please submit your abstracts (150 words maximum) via the official IAG conference website https://cdesign.eventsair.com/2019-iag/abstracts and also email the session convenor Roger Baars (baars.rogercloud.6a@kyoto-u.ac.jp). The deadline for submission of abstracts is 28 February 2019.

CFP RGS-IBG 2019 The geographies of loneliness and solitude

Call for Papers: The geographies of loneliness and solitude

Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, London, Wednesday 28 to Friday 30 August 2019.

Session convenors: Eleanor Wilkinson (University of Southampton), Sarah Marie Hall (University of Manchester) and Alison Stenning (Newcastle University)

Session sponsorship: Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group & Social and Cultural Geography Research Group

This session seeks to provide a critical, geographical reflection into the so-called ‘epidemic’ of loneliness. Loneliness has been positioned as a pressing health concern, depicted as a risk to both physical and mental wellbeing, but also as a socio-economic issue of inequality. The rise in solo living, geographically distant kinship networks, and declining community bonds are all seen as potential factors that have resulted in this rise in loneliness. People are seen to be living increasingly isolated and detached lives, and this is something which people may increasingly be reflecting on and working to mitigate in their everyday lives. In this context, in 2018 the UK government published the first ‘strategy for tackling loneliness’, which set out ‘to build personal and community resilience’. Yet missing from this strategy is the role that austerity measures may have had in intensifying loneliness. Austerity has resulted in the closures of social infrastructures that offered the potential for connection, such as libraries and children centres, and has also led to housing and welfare reforms that have displaced people from the communities in which they once lived.

The session will also seek to move beyond framing loneliness as a ‘problem’, to examine what Denise Riley has termed ‘the right to be lonely’. Central here is the idea that to be alone is not the same as to be abandoned. What might it mean to desire solitude, and what if our problem might not be disconnection, but too much closeness? In the context of the remaking of domestic and local spaces in austerity, for example, some are being expected to share everyday space in ways that are experienced as uncomfortable or undesirable. This session will reflect upon how solitude may be an integral part of people’s mental wellbeing and ask how this broader discussion of the geographies of solitude might speak back to dominant policy concerns around loneliness.

In these ways, this session seeks to think about geographies of loneliness and solitude both as spaces of trouble and as spaces of hope. We welcome submissions that explore geographies of loneliness and solitude, connection and disconnection, at a variety of scales and in a range of geographical contexts.

Please send 250-word abstracts to all three convenors (E.K.Wilkinson@soton.ac.uk; sarah.m.hall@manchester.ac.uk; alison.stenning@ncl.ac.uk) by Monday 4^th February.

Leitura: Teoria & Prática publica nova edição

A revista Leitura: Teoria & Prática acaba de publicar seu último número,
disponível em https://ltp.emnuvens.com.br/ltp. Convidamos a navegar no
sumário da revista para acessar os artigos e outros itens de seu interesse.

Agradecemos seu interesse e apoio contínuo em nosso trabalho,
Anderson Ricardo Trevisan
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
ltp@alb.com.br

Geografias das Infâncias: fronteiras e conexões

Caros colegas e amigos, 

Temos o prazer de anunciar a publicação do nosso último dossiê, GEOGRAFIAS DAS INFÂNCIAS: FRONTEIRAS E CONEXÕES, ne revista da FACED/PPGE, Educação em Foco.

O número está acessível no endereço:

https://educacaoemfoco.ufjf.emnuvens.com.br/edufoco/issue/view/18

Mando a seguir o sumário.

Desejamos a todos um excelente fim de ano e um ano de 2019 repleto de coragem, esperança e resistência!!!

Atenciosamente, 

Comissão editorial da revista Educação em Foco

Renewed questions of ethics in research with and for children and young people

Renewed questions of ethics in research with and for children and young people

Session convenors: Sophie Hadfield-Hill (University of Birmingham) and Matt Finn (University of Exeter)

Responding to Elsbeth Robson’s (2018) call for continued reflection on ethical research with and for children and young people, and a decade after a significant special issue on the topic in Children’s Geographies (Hopkins and Bell, 2008), it seems apposite to revisit and extend reflection on questions of ethics.  There are three points of departure for a renewed focus on ethics.  First, in relation to the diverse range of methodologies which Children’s Geographers are now employing in their research with children and young people, from mobile apps and technologies (Hadfield-Hill and Zara, 2018) to multisensory and multispecies methods (Taylor and Pacini-Ketchabaw, 2015).  With methodological innovation comes new ethical questions.  

Second, as Children’s Geographers we are faced with new ethical issues in relation to researching phenomena that extend beyond unaided human perception and lifespans -  plastic childhoods, climate change, nuclear fuel dependencies, waste and the Anthropocene (after Kraftl). Ongoing challenges around economic change (Pimlott-Wilson and Hall, 2017), racism, xenophobia (Horton and Kraftl, 2017) and the rise of the far-right highlight challenges about the ethics and politics of speaking for and with children, young people and families especially when what is vocalised by children and young people may reinforce oppressive conditions.

Third, the shifting research landscape should also prompt ethical questions. Changes in the academy have seen children’s and young people’s geographies become more established, and in some cases more mainstream in research and teaching (Philo, 2016; Mulvenna and Searcey, 2018). Funding for such research remains fraught in the context of the politicisation and re-colonisation of knowledge production (Noxolo, 2017) [cf GCRF where a number of the focus areas imply an attention to children’s lives and livelihoods].  With new funding opportunities come new ethical challenges.  Then, at an institutional level there remain divergent practices in what kind of research is approved by ethics committees – particularly at the undergraduate level – raising questions about institutional processes, training and the experience of the children and young people who do take part in research. Indeed, what do we know about the long term benefits or harms on those who have taken part in research – where in many cases the children are now of adult age?

This session invites 10 minute papers that consider questions of ethics in relation to research with, for and by children, young people and families. We hope that it may result in a special issue in a journal.

If you are interested, please send a title, 250-word abstract and author details to:

Matt Finn at m.d.finn@exeter.ac.uk and Sophie Hadfield-Hill at S.A.Hadfield-Hill@bham.ac.uk

The final deadline for submission is Friday 8th February 2018.

Dr Matt Finn

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography

Education Incubator Fellow 2017-2018@mattmattfinn | +44 (0) 1392 725917

Staff Page including office hours | Course-related tweets @MFGeog

The geographies of loneliness and solitude

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Call for Papers: The geographies of loneliness and solitude

Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, London, Wednesday 28 to Friday 30 August 2019.

Session convenors: Eleanor Wilkinson (University of Southampton), Sarah Marie Hall (University of Manchester) and Alison Stenning (Newcastle University)

Session sponsorship: Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group & Social and Cultural Geography Research Group

This session seeks to provide a critical, geographical reflection into the so-called ‘epidemic’ of loneliness. Loneliness has been positioned as a pressing health concern, depicted as a risk to both physical and mental wellbeing, but also as a socio-economic issue of inequality. The rise in solo living, geographically distant kinship networks, and declining community bonds are all seen as potential factors that have resulted in this rise in loneliness. People are seen to be living increasingly isolated and detached lives, and this is something which people may increasingly be reflecting on and working to mitigate in their everyday lives. In this context, in 2018 the UK government published the first ‘strategy for tackling loneliness’, which set out ‘to build personal and community resilience’. Yet missing from this strategy is the role that austerity measures may have had in intensifying loneliness. Austerity has resulted in the closures of social infrastructures that offered the potential for connection, such as libraries and children centres, and has also led to housing and welfare reforms that have displaced people from the communities in which they once lived.

The session will also seek to move beyond framing loneliness as a ‘problem’, to examine what Denise Riley has termed ‘the right to be lonely’. Central here is the idea that to be alone is not the same as to be abandoned. What might it mean to desire solitude, and what if our problem might not be disconnection, but too much closeness? In the context of the remaking of domestic and local spaces in austerity, for example, some are being expected to share everyday space in ways that are experienced as uncomfortable or undesirable. This session will reflect upon how solitude may be an integral part of people’s mental wellbeing and ask how this broader discussion of the geographies of solitude might speak back to dominant policy concerns around loneliness.

In these ways, this session seeks to think about geographies of loneliness and solitude both as spaces of trouble and as spaces of hope. We welcome submissions that explore geographies of loneliness and solitude, connection and disconnection, at a variety of scales and in a range of geographical contexts.

Please send 250-word abstracts to all three convenors (E.K.Wilkinson@soton.ac.uk; sarah.m.hall@manchester.ac.uk; alison.stenning@ncl.ac.uk) by Monday 4^th February.

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Professor Alison Stenning
Chair in Social and Economic Geography
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU

Publicação - Em Aberto

Caros/as colegas, com satisfação comunico a publicação do número 103 da Revista Em Aberto. Este número dedica-se à temática "Imagem e ensino: possíveis diálogos" e foi organizado por  Josie Agatha Parrilha da Silva e Marcos Cesar Danhoni Neves. 

Endereço para acesso: http://emaberto.inep.gov.br/index.php/emaberto

Atenciosamente,

Bianca Salazar Guizzo

Coordenadora do Comitê Editorial da Em Aberto (INEP/MEC)

A Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação acaba de publicar seu último número especial de 2018.

Caros colegas coordenadores de PG e editores de periódicos da Área de Educação,

A Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação acaba de publicar seu último número especial de 2018. A edição foi organizada pelas professoras, Mirlene Ferreira Macedo Damázio e Mônica Pereira dos Santos e tem como título "Retratos da Educação Superior: Inclusão, Interculturalidade e Inovação Pedagógica". Está disponível em:

<https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/iberoamericana/issue/view/686>.

Nosso convite para que naveguem no sumário da revista, acessem os artigos e divulguem nas redes das quais façam parte.

Agradecemos o interesse e o apoio ao nosso trabalho!

josé luís bizelli

Editor

Explorer la ville: enfances - adolescences - espaces publics

Re-bonjour à toutes et à tous,

J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution du dossier que j’ai coordonné avec mon collègue Mouloud Boukala pour la revue canadienne en ligne Enfances, Familles et Générations sur le rapport aux espaces publics des enfants et des adolescents.

http://www.efg.inrs.ca/numero/explorer-la-ville-le-rapport-aux-espaces-publics-des-enfants-et-des-adolescents/?lg=fr

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Nadja Monnet

Anthropologue

Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie

RGS-IBG 2019: 'Intergenerational and Family Perspectives on Mobility, Migration and Care'

Apologies for cross-posting... 

Intergenerational and family perspectives on mobility, migration and care

Convenors:Matej Blazek, Newcastle University, matej.blazek@ncl.ac.uk
Ruth Cheung Judge, UCL, r.judge@ucl.ac.uk
James Esson, Loughborough University, J.Esson@lboro.ac.uk

Intergenerational care is a central aspect in numerous forms of mobility. For instance, the care needs of ageing populations drive worker movement (Anderson and Shutes 2014; Connell and Walton-Roberts 2016). Negotiations over the appropriate allocation and distribution of care for children and the elderly underpin family migration and transnational family arrangements (Baldassar 2016) and reflect the way mobility is deeply implicated in the constant renegotiation of kinship norms. Notions of care and family are central to transnational policies in areas such as child protection (Hoang et al. 2015). Thus, the politics of inequality, interdependency, exploitation or progressive change often coalesce around how intergenerational care and mobility are experienced, governed, altered and negotiated (Maksim and Bergman 2009).

This session invites further examination of connections between care, transnational mobility, and intergenerational and family relations. It asks how material and intersubjective power relations – and social and physical spaces – are maintained, produced and transformed at the intersections between these forces. The session will speak to and draw connections between these issues in both global North and South. We invite papers analysing how intergenerational and family care – understood as culturally produced rather than universal notions – shape mobility within and across national borders; and how methodological and theoretical insights on the experiences of mobility can generate fresh perspectives on the politics of family relations and care. In doing so, the session hopes to bring scholarship on care, mobility and migration, and the family into closer conversation for fresh perspectives on troubled and hopeful politics.

Specific themes to address include, but are not limited to:

• In-family and intergenerational care commitments as drivers of insecure migration
• How immigration politics challenge or are challenged by the politics of care
• Racialised, gendered and aged experiences of mobility and immobility driven by family care
• Family ideals, life-course aspirations, and intergenerational contracts as central to theorising mobility and migration
• Multi-scalar links between the intimacy of intergenerational caring relationships and global mobilities and migrations
• Political economies of family care mobilities
• How spaces and places are materially and socially (re)made through care mobilities

Please submit a 250-word outline of your contribution to the session, including a preliminary title, to Matej Blazek (matej.blazek@ncl.ac.uk), Ruth Judge (r.judge@ucl.ac.uk) and James Esson (j.esson@lboro.ac.uk) by Friday 8 February 2019.

               
Ruth Cheung Judge

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow

UCL and Rutgers Camden 

New - MA Childhood, Youth and Social Policy, Loughborough University, UK

New - MA Childhood, Youth and Social Policy



School of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK



We’re excited to announce this new interdisciplinary MA programme at Loughborough University, which may be of interest to colleagues on the listserv. We would be most grateful if you could circulate to any prospective students in your respective institutions or relevant networks.



The taught Masters programme is available full-time (one year) or part-time (typically two years) for October 2019 entry. More details on entry requirements, modules and assessment can be found here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/masters-degrees/a-z/childhood-youth-social-policy/



Overall, the MA explores children and young people’s lives in diverse contexts and related social policy debates. It critically examines current advanced research on children, young people and families with reference to relevant theories and concepts in human geography and the wider social sciences. This programme will also help develop skills in a range of research methods, especially those relevant to the study of childhood and youth and attentive to young people’s ‘voice’. The MA Childhood, Youth and Social Policy demonstrates the role of social policy research in shaping wider policy processes and professional practice.



For informal enquiries, or further details, please contact Dr Sarah Mills – S.Mills@lboro.ac.uk