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Using Supporting Material in Doctoral Dissertations: Strategic Decisions for a Coherent and Original , 0

The paper addresses some of the central questions related to doctoral dissertation writing. The p... more The paper addresses some of the central questions related to doctoral dissertation writing. The paper argues that the décision of when, what and how to quote, summarise and paraphrase is pivotal in determining the ultimate quality of the resseaech work to submit.

ASJP, Jan 12, 2021

João Alberto Silveira Freitas, 40, being punched and kicked by two men wearing black clothes. Bes... more João Alberto Silveira Freitas, 40, being punched and kicked by two men wearing black clothes. Beside them, a woman filming the beating. Then, with blood already running across the floor, other people appear around the man, while the two attackers try to immobilize him. A team from the Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) tried to revive the man after he was beaten, but he died on the spot (CARTA CAPITAL, 2020). These short editorial lines opening this issue of Revista Katályses, entitled: Violence, Health, and Social Classes, recap the murder of João Alberto, a 40-year-old black man, who "was beaten and killed by two security guards at a unit of the Carrefour supermarket chain, in Porto Alegre" (CARTA CAPITAL, 2020). The homicide was carried out by two suspects, one of whom was a military policeman and the other a security guard at the store. Such savagery occurred on the eve of the Brazilian Black Awareness Day, November 20, and it was not veiled violence. The unfortunate event was filmed by onlookers and shared on social media, later going viral. Is this event an isolated fact in Brazilian society? Violence, driven by social, gender, ethnic-racial, and regional inequality, includes crimes, especially against women, LGTQI + population, black, and indigenous populations, with a strong connection between capitalism and racism. João Aberto's murder is not an isolated event. It is also not coincidental that he was a black man. Callinicos (1993) evidenced that although Brazilian society is constituted mostly by the black and pardo populations, the positions of prestige, command, and power in society tend to be occupied by white people. Black and pardo people are subjected to social and economic insertions with lower social and salary status, are also the preferred victims of police violence and death squads, which can be evidenced in the incarceration and homicide data, as the articles in this issue will discuss. Substantially, the world's violence and, especially in Brazil, has ethnic-racial, sexual, and regional peculiarities. Although its manifestation generally occurs in immediate and particular relationships and contexts, violence reaches a complex and distinctive form of capitalism; racial slavery itself is at the origin of capitalism. Therefore, more than a behavioral and moral manifestation, violence results from a particular mode of production and the respective relationships. Callinicos (1993) shows that racism, from compulsory labor in the Americas, becomes part of the economic and world capitalist system. Therefore, even after abolishing slavery, the wage process maintained the division and fragmentation of the working class, including the division based on racial prejudice. In addition to low wages, this situation promotes the distancing of the class issue when facing social ills and exploitation of work imposed by capital, because "[…] color prejudice in Brazil is the ideology through which racism manifests itself in its various degrees and creates the image of the bad black citizen" (MOURA, 1977, p. 47, our translation). Clóvis Moura explains that the created image of a bad citizen is a negative rationalization, which repeatedly aims to prevent their success. It This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.

This article traces the history of translation and the role played by French orientalists and tra... more This article traces the history of translation and the role played by French orientalists and translators as well as "indigenous" translators and interpreters in Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt (1798-1801) and, then the attack of Algiers Regency by General de Bourmont in July 1830. This research shows that the role of translation was crucial in both cases and  ‫المرسل‬ ‫المؤلف‬

This article traces the history of translation and the role played by French orientalists and tra... more This article traces the history of translation and the role played by French orientalists and translators as well as "indigenous" translators and interpreters in Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt (1798-1801) and, then the attack of Algiers Regency by General de Bourmont in July 1830. This research shows that the role of translation was crucial in both cases and  ‫المرسل‬ ‫المؤلف‬

This article investigates the manipulation of the pronouns "we" and "they" by President Bush in h... more This article investigates the manipulation of the pronouns "we" and "they" by President Bush in his West Point speech of June 1, 2002. The US president mobilized these pronominal choices to buttress US claims about Iraqi threat and to legitimize US preventive war against Saddam Hussein's regime whose repercussions culminated in the relinquishment of just war rules. The article focuses on disclosing the ideological implications of these choices through the lens of Norman Fairclough's three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis. It more specifically elucidates how President Bush harnessed these personal pronouns to rearticulate and co-construct the US identity as being the incarnation of absolute good in contradistinction with the identity of the other (Iraqi regime in this context) which was depicted as being synonymous of absolute evil.

Using Supporting Material in Doctoral Dissertations: Strategic Decisions for a Coherent and Original , 0

The paper addresses some of the central questions related to doctoral dissertation writing. The p... more The paper addresses some of the central questions related to doctoral dissertation writing. The paper argues that the décision of when, what and how to quote, summarise and paraphrase is pivotal in determining the ultimate quality of the resseaech work to submit.

ASJP, Jan 12, 2021

João Alberto Silveira Freitas, 40, being punched and kicked by two men wearing black clothes. Bes... more João Alberto Silveira Freitas, 40, being punched and kicked by two men wearing black clothes. Beside them, a woman filming the beating. Then, with blood already running across the floor, other people appear around the man, while the two attackers try to immobilize him. A team from the Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) tried to revive the man after he was beaten, but he died on the spot (CARTA CAPITAL, 2020). These short editorial lines opening this issue of Revista Katályses, entitled: Violence, Health, and Social Classes, recap the murder of João Alberto, a 40-year-old black man, who "was beaten and killed by two security guards at a unit of the Carrefour supermarket chain, in Porto Alegre" (CARTA CAPITAL, 2020). The homicide was carried out by two suspects, one of whom was a military policeman and the other a security guard at the store. Such savagery occurred on the eve of the Brazilian Black Awareness Day, November 20, and it was not veiled violence. The unfortunate event was filmed by onlookers and shared on social media, later going viral. Is this event an isolated fact in Brazilian society? Violence, driven by social, gender, ethnic-racial, and regional inequality, includes crimes, especially against women, LGTQI + population, black, and indigenous populations, with a strong connection between capitalism and racism. João Aberto's murder is not an isolated event. It is also not coincidental that he was a black man. Callinicos (1993) evidenced that although Brazilian society is constituted mostly by the black and pardo populations, the positions of prestige, command, and power in society tend to be occupied by white people. Black and pardo people are subjected to social and economic insertions with lower social and salary status, are also the preferred victims of police violence and death squads, which can be evidenced in the incarceration and homicide data, as the articles in this issue will discuss. Substantially, the world's violence and, especially in Brazil, has ethnic-racial, sexual, and regional peculiarities. Although its manifestation generally occurs in immediate and particular relationships and contexts, violence reaches a complex and distinctive form of capitalism; racial slavery itself is at the origin of capitalism. Therefore, more than a behavioral and moral manifestation, violence results from a particular mode of production and the respective relationships. Callinicos (1993) shows that racism, from compulsory labor in the Americas, becomes part of the economic and world capitalist system. Therefore, even after abolishing slavery, the wage process maintained the division and fragmentation of the working class, including the division based on racial prejudice. In addition to low wages, this situation promotes the distancing of the class issue when facing social ills and exploitation of work imposed by capital, because "[…] color prejudice in Brazil is the ideology through which racism manifests itself in its various degrees and creates the image of the bad black citizen" (MOURA, 1977, p. 47, our translation). Clóvis Moura explains that the created image of a bad citizen is a negative rationalization, which repeatedly aims to prevent their success. It This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.

This article traces the history of translation and the role played by French orientalists and tra... more This article traces the history of translation and the role played by French orientalists and translators as well as "indigenous" translators and interpreters in Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt (1798-1801) and, then the attack of Algiers Regency by General de Bourmont in July 1830. This research shows that the role of translation was crucial in both cases and  ‫المرسل‬ ‫المؤلف‬

This article traces the history of translation and the role played by French orientalists and tra... more This article traces the history of translation and the role played by French orientalists and translators as well as "indigenous" translators and interpreters in Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt (1798-1801) and, then the attack of Algiers Regency by General de Bourmont in July 1830. This research shows that the role of translation was crucial in both cases and  ‫المرسل‬ ‫المؤلف‬

This article investigates the manipulation of the pronouns "we" and "they" by President Bush in h... more This article investigates the manipulation of the pronouns "we" and "they" by President Bush in his West Point speech of June 1, 2002. The US president mobilized these pronominal choices to buttress US claims about Iraqi threat and to legitimize US preventive war against Saddam Hussein's regime whose repercussions culminated in the relinquishment of just war rules. The article focuses on disclosing the ideological implications of these choices through the lens of Norman Fairclough's three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis. It more specifically elucidates how President Bush harnessed these personal pronouns to rearticulate and co-construct the US identity as being the incarnation of absolute good in contradistinction with the identity of the other (Iraqi regime in this context) which was depicted as being synonymous of absolute evil.