Patrícia Vieira
Biographic Data
| ID | 259213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrícia Vieira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrícia |
| FAMILY NAME | Vieira |
| SIGNATURE | VIEIRA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Coimbra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8262-3740 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction—Plant Poiesis: Aesthetics, Philosophy and Indigenous Thought
In a recent stay in Senegal, I had a chance to contemplate a baobab tree (Adansonia digitata)1 located in the Bandia Reserve, whose hollow interior had been used as a burial site [...]
Phytometamorphosis: An Ontology of Becoming in Amazonian Women’s Poetry About Plants
Metamorphosis is central to Indigenous Amazonian cosmologies, which often posit a period in the past when transformations from one being into another proliferated. This time gave way to the relative stability of the present that always runs the risk of going back to an ongoing process of transmutation. In this article, I highlight the significance of plants in Amerindian ontologies of becoming as catalysts of metamorphic movements through their e…
From Hylaea to Kawsak Sacha: Introduction to the Vegetal Humanities in the Amazon
Introduction
Phytopoesis: Plants in Contemporary Amazonian Women’s Poetry
The ontological turn within anthropology postulates that there is a multiplicity of worlds and that taking Indigenous worlds, realities and thought seriously enriches Western philosophy and culture. Taking a cue from the ontological turn, I argue in this article that Amazonian Indigenous and non-Indigenous literature offers readers an entry-point into worlds where more than human beings take center-stage. I analyze the phtytopoesis, or the poetry…
Análise Da Efetividade Do Treinamento Resistido Para Membros Superiores Em Mulheres Do Curso De Formação De Praças Da Policia Militar Do Paraná – PMPR
O presente estudo, trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva, na forma de relato de experiência, do Curso de Formação de Praças – CFP do ano de 2022/23 da 2o Escola de Formação Aperfeiçoamento e Especialização de Praças – 2o EsFAEP, da Policia Militar do Paraná - PMPR. O trabalho relata a metodologia das instruções de Educação Física – EF, segundo o Plano de Disciplina – Pladis 2022/23, bem como avalia a efetividade do treinamento resistido para membro…
Nas margens do 25 de Abril: Os futuros do passado. Uma introdução
O processo revolucionário encetado pelo 25 de Abril de 1974 surgiu no contexto de uma sociedade esgotada por 48 anos de ditadura e por 13 anos de guerras coloniais. Com a Revolução, esse cansaço foi suplantado por uma explosão social, que se notou no imediato com o aplauso aos militares vitoriosos e, mais tarde, com a grande festa de unificação popular do 1.o de Maio. Emergiram no espaço público não só os chamados “velhos” movimentos sociais, ass…
Introduction. The Amazon River Basin: Extractivism, Indigenous Perspectives, and a Political Aesthetics of Resistance
This is the submitted version of the article: Vieira, P. (2023). Introduction. The Amazon River Basin: Extractivism, Indigenous Perspectives, and a Political Aesthetics of Resistance. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 32(2), 177–183. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2023.2228720
An Anarchist Rainforest: Cooperation in Ferreira de Castro's A selva
In this essay, I read Portuguese writer Ferreira de Castro's Amazonian "novel of the jungle" A Selva (1930) through the lens of the author's lifelong commitment to anarchist ideals and, in particular, to the thinking of Pëtr Kropotkin. I argue that Kropotkin's reflections on collaboration in more-than-human forms of existence and on the role mutual aid will play in an anarchist world to come are key to understanding the political evolution of the…
Utopia
Animist Phytofilm: Plants in Amazonian Indigenous Filmmaking
Early films about plants offer a glimpse into the behavior of vegetal life, which had hitherto remained hidden from humans. Critics have praised this animistic capacity of cinema, allowing audiences to see the movement of beings that appeared to be inert and lifeless. With these reflections as a starting point, this article examines the notion of animist cinema. I argue that early movies still remained beholden to the goal of showing the multiple…
Fitografia: Literatura jako pisanie roślin
Phytographia: Literature as Plant Writing This article develops the notion of plant writing or phytographia, the roots of which go back to the early modern concept of signatura rerum, as well as, more recently, to Walter Benjamin’s idea of a “language of things”and to Jacques Derrida’s arche-writing. Phytographia designates the encounter between the plants’inscription in the world and the traces of that imprint left in literary works, mediated by…
Ética alimentar na obra de Astrid Cabral
Neste artigo examino a forma como a poeta Astrid Cabral dá voz às plantas e animais da sua região natal, a bacia amazónica, nas suas obras literárias. Começo por analisar a relação próxima que Cabral estabelece nos seus textos, com o mundo natural e os seres não-humanos, e concentro-me em seguida em questões de ética alimentar, que perpassam todas as suas obras. Mostro como Cabral questiona os pressupostos de uma dieta de estilo ocidental, basead…
Covid-19: Novas sociabilidades, configurações sociopolíticas, dilemas e respostas. Uma introdução
A pandemia da COVID-19 constituiu um momento de rutura nas sociedades contemporneas, gerando um "novo normal" em que, como nos lembra Srgio Godinho, "Ningum sabe se sabe / Nem que acaso ou que destino nos cabe". 1 A rpida propagao de um novo vrus respiratrio tornou-se o foco de ateno de governos e da comunicao social a nvel global. No incio de 2020, a cidade chinesa de Wuhan assumiu contornos distpicos, com mais de 11 milhes de habitantes confron…
Plant Art from the Amazon: Tree Performance in the Work of Frans Krajcberg
This article examines plant performance in the work of naturalized Brazilian artist Frans Krajcberg (1921-2017). Krajcberg saw his art as a way to give voice to forest plants that are being systematically destroyed through fires and logging, to give way to agribusiness ventures. He used burnt trunks of Amazonian trees he collected after forest fires to create a series of sculptures that denounced the environmental crimes taking place in the regio…
Utopia and dystopia in the age of the Anthropocene
A product of Modernity, utopian and dystopian thought has always hinged upon an assessment as to whether humanity would be able to fulfil the promise of socio-economic, political and techno-scientific progress. In this paper, I argue that the predominantly dystopian outlook of the past century or so marked a move away from former views on human progress. Rather than commenting on humanity’s inability to build a better society, current dystopianis…
Utopia, dystopia and the future of Homo sapiens in the wake of Covid-19
Research for this reply was funded by a Grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Project IF/00606/2015
Paratextos de traduções literárias e de traduções especializadas: Estudo comparativo de prefácios e introduções
Na área acadêmica dos Estudos de Tradução, cada vez mais pesquisadores têm recorrido à análise de material paratextual como parte integrante de suas metodologias de pesquisa, o que tem levado a uma reflexão teórica sobre a função desse tipo de texto em traduções publicadas. Todavia, a maior parte dessas pesquisas assenta em traduções de textos literários e, por isso, pouco se sabe sobre as funções e características dos paratextos nas traduções de…
Rainforest Sublime in Cinema: A Post-Anthropocentric Amazonian Aesthetics
In this article, I use aerial footage of the Amazon as a guiding thread to argue that the sublime is the most fitting concept to describe our aesthetic response to the representation of Amazonian nature in cinema. In my discussion of rainforest aesthetics, I focus on two Brazilian films, made ten years apart: Glauber Rocha's short Amazonas, Amazonas (); and Iracema, uma transa amazônica ( Iracema: An Amazonian Love Affair , 1975), by Jorge Bodanz…
The Posthuman Poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
The essay analyzes the poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen from the perspective of recent theories on posthumanism. I argue that Andresen's body of work could be read as an example of posthuman literature, in that the author gives center-stage to animals, plants and things, who become active participants in her poetry. The article focuses specifically on the issue of language and contends that Andresen tacitly adopts a materialistic standp…
Utopian amazons
This article discusses the portrayal of the mythical Amazons. In the past, the legend of a fearsome all-women tribe went hand in hand with a dystopian vision of the territory as a "green hell." I contend that, with the development of the Amazon region in the wake of the rubber boom and, especially, with the rise of environmental concerns, the Amazons become part of an idealized image of the rainforest. I analyze two modes of utopian representatio…
Trading Our Way out of War: Perpetual Peace without Politics
Proponents of perpetual peace have often identified politics as a problem standing in the way of peaceful relations between humans. They believed that, while politics exacerbates the differences separating nations, commerce brings human beings together. In this article, I trace the development of arguments against politics and for commerce from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. I argue that thinkers espoused an idealized view of…
Seeing Politics Otherwise: Vision in Latin American and Iberian Fiction
Specters of Colonial Violence: "The Archive in António Lobo Antunes's "South of Nowhere
António Lobo Antunes's novel South of Nowhere is plagued by ghosts, which function as an archive of the violence perpetrated during the Portuguese colonial war. These specters can be read in light of the notion of "archive fever" propounded by Jacques Derrida, in that they concurrently keep memory alive and lead to the annihilation of archival normativity. It is from the double bind between conservation and destruction of the archive that the pos…
Is Overpopulation a Growth? The Pathology of Permanent Expansion
Both economic and population growth are commonly understood as an indefinite, quantitative increase that is both necessary and desirable for human well-being. In contrast, proponents of a steady state economy and of the de-growth movement have advocated for an end to the dominant ideology of growth as a way to tackle environmental problems, but have eschewed a deeper questioning of the meaning of growing. In the final section of the article, I pu…
Imperial remains: Post-colonialism in Portuguese literature and cinema
Post-1974 literature and cinema have contributed to a reflection about the Colonial War and, more broadly, about Portuguese colonialism. Novels like António Lobo Antunes’s South of Nowhere, Lídia Jorge’s The Murmuring Coast, Isabela Figueiredo’s Notebook of Colonial Memories, and Dulce Maria Cardoso’s The Return, as well as films such as João Botelho’s A Portuguese Goodbye, Teresa Villaverde’s Coming of Age, António Pedro Vasconcelos’s The Imorta…
Obesidade: Atualização sobre sua etiologia, morbidade e tratamento
As tendências de transição nutricional ocorridas neste século direcionam para uma dieta mais ocidentalizada, a qual, aliada à diminuição progressiva da atividade física, converge para o aumento no número de casos de obesidade em todo o mundo. Isso representa aumento na morbidade e na mortalidade associadas à obesidade, já que esta é fator de risco para várias doenças como diabetes tipo II, hipertensão, doenças cardiovasculares e cálculo na vesícu…
Utopia and dystopia in the age of the Anthropocene
A product of Modernity, utopian and dystopian thought has always hinged upon an assessment as to whether humanity would be able to fulfil the promise of socio-economic, political and techno-scientific progress. In this paper, I argue that the predominantly dystopian outlook of the past century or so marked a move away from former views on human progress. Rather than commenting on humanity’s inability to build a better society, current dystopianis…
Covid-19: Novas sociabilidades, configurações sociopolíticas, dilemas e respostas. Uma introdução
A pandemia da COVID-19 constituiu um momento de rutura nas sociedades contemporneas, gerando um "novo normal" em que, como nos lembra Srgio Godinho, "Ningum sabe se sabe / Nem que acaso ou que destino nos cabe". 1 A rpida propagao de um novo vrus respiratrio tornou-se o foco de ateno de governos e da comunicao social a nvel global. No incio de 2020, a cidade chinesa de Wuhan assumiu contornos distpicos, com mais de 11 milhes de habitantes confron…
Is Overpopulation a Growth? The Pathology of Permanent Expansion
Both economic and population growth are commonly understood as an indefinite, quantitative increase that is both necessary and desirable for human well-being. In contrast, proponents of a steady state economy and of the de-growth movement have advocated for an end to the dominant ideology of growth as a way to tackle environmental problems, but have eschewed a deeper questioning of the meaning of growing. In the final section of the article, I pu…
Obesidade: Atualização sobre sua etiologia, morbidade e tratamento
As tendências de transição nutricional ocorridas neste século direcionam para uma dieta mais ocidentalizada, a qual, aliada à diminuição progressiva da atividade física, converge para o aumento no número de casos de obesidade em todo o mundo. Isso representa aumento na morbidade e na mortalidade associadas à obesidade, já que esta é fator de risco para várias doenças como diabetes tipo II, hipertensão, doenças cardiovasculares e cálculo na vesícu…
Feminismus, eine Elitebewegung: Zur Geschichte des Feminismus in Portugal
The Reason of Vision: Variations on Subjectivity in Jose Saramago's Ensaio sobre a Cegueira
Este artigo explora a intersecção dos conceitos de racionalidade, subjectividade e comunidade no romance Ensaio sobre a Cegueira de José Saramago. Num primeiro momento, o ensaio analisa a forma como a narrativa questiona a noção de racionalidade herdada pela Modernidade do Iluminismo, que desemboca frequentemente em abusos da razão, exemplificados no texto pelas medidas de control da epidemia de cegueira adoptadas pelo estado. A esta instrumental…
Imperial remains: Post-colonialism in Portuguese literature and cinema
Post-1974 literature and cinema have contributed to a reflection about the Colonial War and, more broadly, about Portuguese colonialism. Novels like António Lobo Antunes’s South of Nowhere, Lídia Jorge’s The Murmuring Coast, Isabela Figueiredo’s Notebook of Colonial Memories, and Dulce Maria Cardoso’s The Return, as well as films such as João Botelho’s A Portuguese Goodbye, Teresa Villaverde’s Coming of Age, António Pedro Vasconcelos’s The Imorta…
Is Overpopulation a Growth? The Pathology of Permanent Expansion
Both economic and population growth are commonly understood as an indefinite, quantitative increase that is both necessary and desirable for human well-being. In contrast, proponents of a steady state economy and of the de-growth movement have advocated for an end to the dominant ideology of growth as a way to tackle environmental problems, but have eschewed a deeper questioning of the meaning of growing. In the final section of the article, I pu…
Seeing Politics Otherwise: Vision in Latin American and Iberian Fiction
Specters of Colonial Violence: "The Archive in António Lobo Antunes's "South of Nowhere
António Lobo Antunes's novel South of Nowhere is plagued by ghosts, which function as an archive of the violence perpetrated during the Portuguese colonial war. These specters can be read in light of the notion of "archive fever" propounded by Jacques Derrida, in that they concurrently keep memory alive and lead to the annihilation of archival normativity. It is from the double bind between conservation and destruction of the archive that the pos…
Utopian amazons
This article discusses the portrayal of the mythical Amazons. In the past, the legend of a fearsome all-women tribe went hand in hand with a dystopian vision of the territory as a "green hell." I contend that, with the development of the Amazon region in the wake of the rubber boom and, especially, with the rise of environmental concerns, the Amazons become part of an idealized image of the rainforest. I analyze two modes of utopian representatio…
Trading Our Way out of War: Perpetual Peace without Politics
Proponents of perpetual peace have often identified politics as a problem standing in the way of peaceful relations between humans. They believed that, while politics exacerbates the differences separating nations, commerce brings human beings together. In this article, I trace the development of arguments against politics and for commerce from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. I argue that thinkers espoused an idealized view of…
The Posthuman Poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
The essay analyzes the poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen from the perspective of recent theories on posthumanism. I argue that Andresen's body of work could be read as an example of posthuman literature, in that the author gives center-stage to animals, plants and things, who become active participants in her poetry. The article focuses specifically on the issue of language and contends that Andresen tacitly adopts a materialistic standp…
Paratextos de traduções literárias e de traduções especializadas: Estudo comparativo de prefácios e introduções
Na área acadêmica dos Estudos de Tradução, cada vez mais pesquisadores têm recorrido à análise de material paratextual como parte integrante de suas metodologias de pesquisa, o que tem levado a uma reflexão teórica sobre a função desse tipo de texto em traduções publicadas. Todavia, a maior parte dessas pesquisas assenta em traduções de textos literários e, por isso, pouco se sabe sobre as funções e características dos paratextos nas traduções de…
Rainforest Sublime in Cinema: A Post-Anthropocentric Amazonian Aesthetics
In this article, I use aerial footage of the Amazon as a guiding thread to argue that the sublime is the most fitting concept to describe our aesthetic response to the representation of Amazonian nature in cinema. In my discussion of rainforest aesthetics, I focus on two Brazilian films, made ten years apart: Glauber Rocha's short Amazonas, Amazonas (); and Iracema, uma transa amazônica ( Iracema: An Amazonian Love Affair , 1975), by Jorge Bodanz…
Plant Art from the Amazon: Tree Performance in the Work of Frans Krajcberg
This article examines plant performance in the work of naturalized Brazilian artist Frans Krajcberg (1921-2017). Krajcberg saw his art as a way to give voice to forest plants that are being systematically destroyed through fires and logging, to give way to agribusiness ventures. He used burnt trunks of Amazonian trees he collected after forest fires to create a series of sculptures that denounced the environmental crimes taking place in the regio…
Utopia and dystopia in the age of the Anthropocene
A product of Modernity, utopian and dystopian thought has always hinged upon an assessment as to whether humanity would be able to fulfil the promise of socio-economic, political and techno-scientific progress. In this paper, I argue that the predominantly dystopian outlook of the past century or so marked a move away from former views on human progress. Rather than commenting on humanity’s inability to build a better society, current dystopianis…
Utopia, dystopia and the future of Homo sapiens in the wake of Covid-19
Research for this reply was funded by a Grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Project IF/00606/2015
Utopia
Animist Phytofilm: Plants in Amazonian Indigenous Filmmaking
Early films about plants offer a glimpse into the behavior of vegetal life, which had hitherto remained hidden from humans. Critics have praised this animistic capacity of cinema, allowing audiences to see the movement of beings that appeared to be inert and lifeless. With these reflections as a starting point, this article examines the notion of animist cinema. I argue that early movies still remained beholden to the goal of showing the multiple…
Fitografia: Literatura jako pisanie roślin
Phytographia: Literature as Plant Writing This article develops the notion of plant writing or phytographia, the roots of which go back to the early modern concept of signatura rerum, as well as, more recently, to Walter Benjamin’s idea of a “language of things”and to Jacques Derrida’s arche-writing. Phytographia designates the encounter between the plants’inscription in the world and the traces of that imprint left in literary works, mediated by…
Ética alimentar na obra de Astrid Cabral
Neste artigo examino a forma como a poeta Astrid Cabral dá voz às plantas e animais da sua região natal, a bacia amazónica, nas suas obras literárias. Começo por analisar a relação próxima que Cabral estabelece nos seus textos, com o mundo natural e os seres não-humanos, e concentro-me em seguida em questões de ética alimentar, que perpassam todas as suas obras. Mostro como Cabral questiona os pressupostos de uma dieta de estilo ocidental, basead…
Covid-19: Novas sociabilidades, configurações sociopolíticas, dilemas e respostas. Uma introdução
A pandemia da COVID-19 constituiu um momento de rutura nas sociedades contemporneas, gerando um "novo normal" em que, como nos lembra Srgio Godinho, "Ningum sabe se sabe / Nem que acaso ou que destino nos cabe". 1 A rpida propagao de um novo vrus respiratrio tornou-se o foco de ateno de governos e da comunicao social a nvel global. No incio de 2020, a cidade chinesa de Wuhan assumiu contornos distpicos, com mais de 11 milhes de habitantes confron…
Introduction. The Amazon River Basin: Extractivism, Indigenous Perspectives, and a Political Aesthetics of Resistance
This is the submitted version of the article: Vieira, P. (2023). Introduction. The Amazon River Basin: Extractivism, Indigenous Perspectives, and a Political Aesthetics of Resistance. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 32(2), 177–183. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2023.2228720
An Anarchist Rainforest: Cooperation in Ferreira de Castro's A selva
In this essay, I read Portuguese writer Ferreira de Castro's Amazonian "novel of the jungle" A Selva (1930) through the lens of the author's lifelong commitment to anarchist ideals and, in particular, to the thinking of Pëtr Kropotkin. I argue that Kropotkin's reflections on collaboration in more-than-human forms of existence and on the role mutual aid will play in an anarchist world to come are key to understanding the political evolution of the…
Análise Da Efetividade Do Treinamento Resistido Para Membros Superiores Em Mulheres Do Curso De Formação De Praças Da Policia Militar Do Paraná – PMPR
O presente estudo, trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva, na forma de relato de experiência, do Curso de Formação de Praças – CFP do ano de 2022/23 da 2o Escola de Formação Aperfeiçoamento e Especialização de Praças – 2o EsFAEP, da Policia Militar do Paraná - PMPR. O trabalho relata a metodologia das instruções de Educação Física – EF, segundo o Plano de Disciplina – Pladis 2022/23, bem como avalia a efetividade do treinamento resistido para membro…
Nas margens do 25 de Abril: Os futuros do passado. Uma introdução
O processo revolucionário encetado pelo 25 de Abril de 1974 surgiu no contexto de uma sociedade esgotada por 48 anos de ditadura e por 13 anos de guerras coloniais. Com a Revolução, esse cansaço foi suplantado por uma explosão social, que se notou no imediato com o aplauso aos militares vitoriosos e, mais tarde, com a grande festa de unificação popular do 1.o de Maio. Emergiram no espaço público não só os chamados “velhos” movimentos sociais, ass…
Introduction—Plant Poiesis: Aesthetics, Philosophy and Indigenous Thought
In a recent stay in Senegal, I had a chance to contemplate a baobab tree (Adansonia digitata)1 located in the Bandia Reserve, whose hollow interior had been used as a burial site [...]
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