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Newsletter CEM Nº10, May/2013 |
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The Centre for Metropolitan Studies enters new phase integrating RIDC (Research, Innovation, and Dissemination Centers) projects with funding from FAPESP. Remains also as INCT with CNPq and Ministry of Science Technology funding. It continues to develop advanced studies on themes concerning social, economic and political transformations in contemporary metropolises. This research proposal aims at studying contemporary Brazil to better understand the complex role of public policies and institutions on economic growth, poverty alleviation, and inequality reduction. CEM complete 11 years of research. The research objective of this proposal comprises four broad dimensions: To measure current and past social inequalities regarding race, migration, labor market, income, urban conditions, education, gender, and political behavior, through the project: How has Brazil changed in the last 50 years?, to understand the independent effect of State policies on social conditions and inequality reduction, to understand and to the role of political institutions on the decision-making of redistributive policies, particularly voting behavior and law-making processmap alternative forms of governance in urban areas and their connections to the State in order to understand «who governs what?
CENTRE FOR METROPOLITAN STUDIES PRESENTS NEW WEBSITE The new structure of the site includes the contents related to Research lines of the Centre, and on the Home links to the pages of the research coordinators, as well as the highlighted menus and submenus of large content areas of the site. The vistor continues to have free access to Databases, to Studies in partnership with public sector institutions (municipal, from state and federal) and most of the production of researchers from institution, all of that now available in the Publications area. All contents previously available can still be accessed freely: the Database, the Map Collection, Publications (on line library), the Research Lines, the archives of the news broadcasted, articles and stories on the media and diffusion projects, the research Seminars and the CEM Working Papers. New content will be incorporated soon, both from research results as audiovisual production, among others. The new website aims as to enable the visitor to easily find what is searching and the pages are more easily accessed (for faster browsing). As a complement is offered the site map. |
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NEW DATA BASE ON CENSUS – FROM 1960 CENSUS TO 2010 Census Project – 50 years of Data. Available now in the Database area a vast set of database of all Demographic Censuses conducted by IBGE for over half a century and also the National Household Sample Survey (PNADs, in Portuguese) containing 35 years of information. The material is part of an already substantial online database on CEM’s website and it serves as a fundamental source of information for one of the newest projects of CMS/CEPID: Census Project: What changes has Brazil experienced over the last fifty years? INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION
The condition of being unemployed is marked by the obligation to seek job, but this definition hides heterogeneous international realities. The aim of this book is to explore the diversity of meanings of unemployment: how the unemployed live and interpret their situation in Paris, São Paulo and Tokyo? Unemployment has the same meaning everywhere? The book traces the paths in which unemployment is experienced by men and women of different ages and social media in these three cities. This comparative approach identifies multiple scales of variation: International, with a universe of meanings common to the unemployed in the three countries; national, with the affirmation of reference models specific to each territory; and transnational, with overlap experiences with gender, age and social class, regardless of the country. Outcome of investigations by in depth biographical interviews and a new method of internationimprensa@esmp.sp.gov.bral comparison, this book renews the knowledge on unemployment in a way as unique as exciting.
NEW BOOK ON LABOUR AND SERCHING FOR EMPLOYMENT
CHAPTER OF CEM’s RESEARCHER IS PART OF A WORK ON CITIES AND POLICY UFSCar professor Gabriel Feltran, and also CEM’s researcher, participates of the book Ilegalisms, City and Politics(Ilegalismos, Cidade e Pólítica in Portuguese), by Vera da Silva Telles, Christian Azais and Gabriel Kessler (ed.) / Fino Traço Publisher. Feltran is the author of the chapter «Maintaining order in the outskirts of São Paulo: the coexistence of normative devices in the ‘PCC era'». The book puts in the agenda relevant issues to recent developments of cities and metropolises in Latin America. The work is the result of the meeting of two surveys conducted by international teams. |
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TERRA VIEW COURSE – SOCIAL POLICY – CLASSES FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2013 The Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) offers a training course on the GIS software TerraView – Social Policy. It is targeted to non-specialists interested in deepening their knowledge about the software, especially professionals working with social policies. In the training, participants will have an overview of the system, learning how to use basic tools, explore databases and to generate maps and graphs. Around a thousand students have already completed the training, among technical staff at the municipal administrations and undergraduate and postgraduate students of several courses. The total amount of training hours is 20. The next courses will take place in May (22, 23 and 24) and June (26,27 and 28). |
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