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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Richard Miskolci Full Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the President of the Working Group Digital Sociology of the International Sociological Association (ISA). He also serves as Associate Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Public Health at UNIFESP. Between 2014 and 2018, he was Associate Coordinator for Sociology at Brazils federal research agency, CAPES. Miskolci earned his PhD in Sociology from the University of São Paulo (USP) and has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Chicago, Michigan, California, and the Complutense University of Madrid. He is a member of both the International Sociological Association and the Brazilian Sociological Society. His research explores the social and political impacts of digital technologies, particularly regarding public health, gender, and human rights. He founded the Digital Sociology Research Committee within the Brazilian Sociological Society and has published extensively on the topic. His current research focuses on health disinformation and digital inequalities in Latin America. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project aims to identify and analyze health professionals's perceptions in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, about sexual and reproductive rights. It will create a qualitative mapping of the six regional health coordenations of the city by applying 48 questionaires to professionals that work in 18 health basic units as well semi-strutured interviews with regional coordinators, managers,…
Desiring Nation analyzes the origin of a new national imaginary at the end of XIX Century in Brazil. This imaginary was connected to an increased intest on the role of sexuality and desire in the emerging political and cultural brazilian republican society. Based on a repertory of Feminist, Queer, and Post-Colonial sources, the book explores the relations between a new morality, sex, and …
Discourses out of Order resulted from the debates during the International Conference Sexualities, Knowledges, and Rights in Bento Prado Jr. Auditorium at UFSCar, August 17th and 18th, 2010. Sponsored by FAPESP and CAPES, the conference was created to develop a dialogue between feminisms, contemporary sexuality studies and post-colonial studies. (AU)
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From the late 1960s, research in gerontology began to deal with topics related to male homosexuality. In different areas of knowledge, from biomedicine to social psychology, "positive" markers of old age appeared, whose meanings were based on binary discourses about life, social relations and self, constituting heteronormative representations dealing with the idea of futurity, mainly by t…
This scientific initiation will study the construction of masculinities in an online community that I call the brotherhood of seduction. An ethnography of an online forum used by heterosexual men to exchange tips, tactics and techniques to "seduce women" will be held. Through previous field research, I could identify a phallocentric policy characterized by the simultaneous presence of the…
This project aims to analyze the criteria that are used in the search for love and/or sex partners among men in two different periods: (a) before the appearance of HIV-AIDS epidemic and the advent of the internet by "Lampião da Esquina" newspaper and (b) after the epidemic and expansion of commercial internet through the Hornet® application. The research will be established in two stages:…
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Since the late 1980s, the gerontology studies on homosexuality reproduced and crystalized (bio)markers from biomedicine and biosciences field related to epidemiology. These (bio)markers - synthesised as "risk", "MSM", "sex", "men", "HIV/AIDS" and "anal" descriptors (as identified by the current doctoral project FAPESP/1723665-9) - have created intelligibilities and repathologised represe…
This research intends to comprehend how the use of digital media articulates male homoerotic desires, market and the development of technologies. Targeting this objective, it will articulate the contact with feminist/queer media researchers at the University of California, a mapping of technology/media developers in the area and an ethnographic incursion in San Franciscos metropolitan gay…
At the end of 19th Century, scientific and literary discourses had as axis the concept of nation and the fear it could be at degenerative risk (Borges, 2005). This project proposes to analyse this diagnostic and the way it connected science and literature in a historical moment in which sexuality became important because of the articulation between the new bourgeois family model and the …
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