http://hdl.handle.net/10071/2095 2026-04-26T03:38:06Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37014 Título próprio: Speculating Kinaxixe Autoria: Pavoni, A. Resumo: Urban spaces are never what they appear to be. Vision is tethered to the present, while cities are replete with spectral presences, like those emanating from the sedimented violence of colonialism or the pristine visions of development utopias. Archival reconstruction and critical deconstruction can retrace or denounce this ghostly matter. Yet they fall short of addressing its expression – the force it harbours, the form it takes, the effects it conjures. When the overlapping temporalities composing a place are arranged in a linear sequence, what is gained in historical clarity is lost in speculative insight. What that means when it comes to write (a) place is the question that kept haunting me as I negotiated, under the scorching sun, the elongated roundabout of Largo do Kinaxixi, looking for a merciful shade and some kind of entry point to access the multiple layers composing this most intricate of Luanda’s sites. Today, the square has a sleek attire. After renewal works, it reopened for the 49th anniversary of Angola’s independence, November 11, 2024. It has new patches of grass, benches, surveillance cameras, streetlights, public restrooms, an amphitheatre and a luminous fountain. All this makes up for the eerie emptiness that had been left by the demolition of a famous market, almost twenty years before. At the centre of the square, a little puddle evokes the original meaning of Kinaxixi [from kina – pit, hole; and xixi – spring water], if we are to follow Luandino Vieira’s etymological proposition. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37013 Título próprio: When terroir lost the plot. On re-grounding wine Autoria: Pavoni, A. Resumo: Terroir lost the plot when its speculative, relational potential has been frozen into a "dispositif" that reduces soil to inert substrate, land to a legally coded space of exception, and place to a socio-cultural fetish tied to identity, hierarchy and nationalist localism. In the context of planetary urban-rural transformations and soil crisis, this paper reframes terroir as an emergent "agencement" of soil, land and place, whose multispecies aliveness exceeds both protectionist appellation regimes and the «democratic», market-led critique that claims to liberate wine from tradition. Focusing on Natural Wine as a heterogeneous but movement-like field, the paper argues that its minimal-intervention ethos articulates an "anarchic critique" of terroir through three operations: reanimating soils, unarchiving land and trans-localising place. Natural Wine protocols, practices and participatory forms of verification thus decouple terroir from static origin, repositioning it as a grounded, more-than-human normativity and a site for alternative political-ecological value. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/36979 Título próprio: Beyond WEIRD societies: Global social identifications across 45 countries and their socio-cultural and economic predictors Autoria: Hamer, K.; Penczek, M.; Marcinkowska, K.; Nowak, B.; Branowska, K.; Sparkman, D.; Loy, L. S.; Baran, M.; Okvitawanli, A.; Gkinopoulos, T.; Hackett, J. D.; Bertin, P.; Carmona, M.; Guerra, R.; Wlodarczyk, A.; Akello, G.; Albarello, F.; Ashraf, M.; Bednarowicz, M.; Beixiang, L.; Benningstad, N.; Bierwiaczonek, K.; Bornman, E.; Bosak, J.; Darkwah, E.; Delouvée, S.; Eder, S. J.; Enea, V.; Espinosa, A.; Etchezahar, E.; Ferris, L. J.; Gudzovskaya, A. A.; Guerch, K.; Hofhuis, J.; Hornsey, M. J.; Igbokwe, D.; Ibarra, M. L.; Kamble, S. V.; Kaniasty, K.; Kengyel, G. J.; Khanipour, H.; Labor, P.; Lima, A. V. V.; Loshenko, O.; Mazurowska, K.; Mintz, K. K.; Monzani, L.; Moriizumi, S.; Moynihan, A. B.; Mubarique, M.; Nagy, R. P.; Nera, K.; Nyúl, B.; Osinde, J.; Özsoy, E.; Palacio, J.; Pešout, O.; Pirttilä‐Backman, A.‐M.; Pong, V.; Rentería, E.; Restrepo, D.; Samekin, A.; Segal‐Klein, H.; Selim, H. A.; Sindic, D.; Spence, A.; Stöckli, S.; Tam, K.‐P.; Ungaretti, J.; Urbańska, B.; Wang, A.; Yahiiaiev, I.; Yemelyanova, Y. Resumo: In an increasingly globalized world challenged by multiple social problems, global social identifications (GSIs, e.g., with all humanity) are concepts of growing interest. Although such identifications can be affected by the cultural contexts in which they are manifested, research on them remains largely confined to Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) societies. Using data collected in 45 countries (N = 9807, preregistered), we compared the strength of three types of GSIs between countries and cultural clusters, and explored the possible role of five cultural dimensions. The results revealed relatively small cross-national differences in GSIs overall, but African and South-East Asian cultural clusters reported significantly stronger identifications than those from other regions, with India, South Africa, and Ghana scoring the highest. Contrary to our hypotheses, GSIs were positively associated with in-group collectivism, survival values, and traditional values, while institutional collectivism was unrelated. As expected, humane orientation was positively related to most GSIs. Additional exploratory analyses showed higher GSIs in countries with a lower quality of life (broadly understood). GSIs were also more pronounced in less globalized, younger societies, with a higher proportion of men, fewer immigrants, and stronger diversity. Our study highlights the need to broaden research on GSIs beyond WEIRD contexts. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/36973 Título próprio: Longitudinal associations between sexual regulatory focus and sexual health and well-being Autoria: Rodrigues, D. L.; de Visser, R. O. Resumo: Sexual health and well-being (SHWB) encompasses physical and emotional aspects beyond disease absence. Research has shown that sexual decisions and behaviors are informed by predominant motives for pleasure or safety, with some individuals prioritizing health protection and risk avoidance (i.e., predominant focus on prevention) and others sexual pleasure and rewards (i.e., predominant focus on promotion) with casual partners. This longitudinal study with individuals in Spain and Portugal explored how sexual regulatory focus was related to sexual responses, behaviors, and experiences with casual partners at baseline (T1, N = 811) and three months later (T2, N = 527). Results of a latent profile analysis revealed three distinct profiles. Participants predominantly focused on prevention reported higher sexual health outcomes at baseline (e.g., more sexual inhibition due to risk awareness; more condom use in different sexual activities) and three months later (e.g., enacted safer sexual activities) to the detriment of their sexual well-being (e.g., less sexual satisfaction). In contrast, participants predominantly focused on promotion reported higher sexual well-being outcomes at baseline (e.g., more sexual excitation; more sexual communal strength) and three months later (e.g., more sexual satisfaction; more autonomous reasons for having sex) potentially to the detriment of their sexual health (e.g., enacted riskier sexual activities; but were also more likely to have been tested for sexually transmitted infections). A third group of participants with a dual focus managed to protect their sexual health (e.g., enacted safer sexual activities later on) without compromising their sexual well-being (e.g., more sexual excitation; more sexual satisfaction later on). These findings show that sexual regulatory focus is a crucial aspect to consider in efforts aimed at fostering SHWB. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z