http://hdl.handle.net/10174/49 2026-08-22T19:06:11Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42490 Title: A methodological essay in transport studies: applying the PRISMA method. Authors: Lourencetti, Fernanda de Lima; Silva, Keitty de Oliveira Editors: Gorini Santo, Carles; Ortuñez, Pedro Pablo Abstract: This article contributes to methodological reflections on transport research. In addition, it discusses the challenge of studying the development of connections between ports and railways in port cities. Taking three countries of the Atlantic Area as references, Brazil, Portugal, and Spain, we apply a systematic analysis of the literature using the PRISMA method, making use of national databases, national library archives, and an internationally relevant database. By 2024, we had built a database with 36 articles and 20 iconographic materials relevant to the topic, identifying five main motivations for connecting the port and the railway: economic development and logistics; railway integration; improved mobility and connectivity; cost reduction; and geographical route. This essay proposes the use of a methodological tool applied to historical research, arguing that its use may assist in understanding the advancement of mobility studies and the urban transformations associated with railway-port connections. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42401 Title: As desventuras de um preconceito Capítulo 4-1: Nota comparativa sobre a instrumentalização “generosa” do preconceito em Lepe e em Évora, à luz do aparelho das três fontes Authors: Santos, José Rodrigues dos Abstract: Quis a lógica da investigação que encontrássemos na literatura científica sobre “humor étnico” e estigmatização de certas populações (Davies, 1990, 2011), a identificação do paralelismo entre os anedotários depreciativos sobre os Alentejanos e os habitantes da cidade de Lepe (Huelva, Andaluzia). Ao estudar o processo de formação, difusão e decadência do preconceito anti-leperos, confirmou-se a similitude entre os dois casos, desde a fase inicial, à tentativa de instrumentalização e seus resultados no curto prazo. Mas revelou-se também a enorme diferença verificada na evolução a mais longo prazo entre as duas sociedades. A bifurcação intervém com a modernização endógena da sociedade rural de Lepe e da sua região que contrasta singularmente com a do Alentejo, e com ela a divergência (pelo menos cronológica) no estatuto do preconceito. O género, tal como o das anedotas “de alentejanos” já examinado no capítulo 1, opera sistematicamente sobre um único eixo: a incapacidade cognitiva. O que a convergência com o caso alentejano, já examinado no capítulo 1, torna patente não é apenas temática — é sintáctica: o mesmo pequeno número de mecanismos lógicos gera, nas duas línguas, o mesmo efeito. 2026-07-18T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42398 Title: Astrocartography and the cosmological turn in tourism imaginaries Authors: Rodrigues, Áurea Abstract: Contemporary tourism is increasingly conceptualised as a cultural practice through which meanings of place, self, and mobility are produced and negotiated. Lifestyle tourism media play a central role in circulating travel imaginaries that extend beyond destination representation towards affective and symbolic orientations. This study examines astrocartography as a contemporary travel imaginary through which lifestyle tourism media mediate cosmological narratives and frame travel as a practice of self-orientation and personal alignment. Drawing on a qualitative discourse analysis of 10 lifestyle and travel media articles published between 2024 and 2026, including internationally recognised outlets such as National Geographic, the study approaches astrocartography as a dynamic symbolic framework circulating within lifestyle and tourism media. The analysis identifies three interconnected discursive patterns: the framing of the cosmos as a symbolic guide for spatial orientation; the construction of travel as personal alignment and transformation; and the legitimisation of astrocartography through aestheticised cartographies and science-adjacent language. The study contributes to tourism scholarship by demonstrating how cosmological meaning is mediated through contemporary tourism imaginaries and symbolic geographies. 2026-07-23T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42396 Title: UN REFERENTE MULTIDISCIPLINAR: LUIS DE MOLINA Y LA UNIVERSIDAD DE ÉVORA Authors: Martín-Grande, Pablo A.; Lourencetti, Fernanda de Lima Abstract: Este artículo analiza la figura de Luis de Molina, especialmente durante su etapa como profesor en la Universidad del Espíritu Santo de Évora (1568–1583), en el contexto de la escolástica ibérica del siglo XVI. Se estudia su influencia en la consolidación intelectual de la universidad, así como sus principales aportaciones en teología, filosofía, derecho y economía. La investigación adopta una metodología histórico-crítica basada en fuentes primarias y secundarias, y contextualiza la obra de Molina en la red académica transnacional entre Salamanca, Coímbra y Évora. Se concluye que su pensamiento, especialmente en torno a la ciencia media, el derecho natural y la teoría económica, representó una síntesis entre tradición y modernidad que proyectó su legado más allá de su tiempo. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z