Socio-political Meaning Research Articles

Comparative Analysis of Anti-Corruption Policy of Russia and Foreign Countries

The multi-criteria content of corruption makes it necessary to take into account the multitude of factors that influence its formation, and therefore, of course, are necessary for adoption in the development of effective mechanisms to counter this phenomenon. In the Russian Federation, to date, a well-developed legal and regulatory framework for anticorruption activities has been created, there are criminal legal means to combat corruption, however, based on the practice of law enforcement, they all have low efficiency, which makes us turn to the search for anti-corruption tools that are excellent from the normative fixing of the specifics of unlawful behavior and its consequences. The search for effective anti-corruption means is reasonably carried out in the socio-political sphere since it is not possible to solve the social problems of society solely through criminal law and regulatory means. In addition, the lack of proper attention to the socio-political means of combating corruption can, on the contrary, reduce the effectiveness of the preventive effect of prohibitions and lead to an increase in the scope of criminal law regulation, excluding the necessary effectiveness and efficiency of such measures. The norms that are adopted to protect modern society (in the field of economic activity, the criminal law environment, etc.) often do not take into account the possibility of milder and more stable anti-corruption impacts, one of which is the formation of a national system of anti-corruption education and upbringing. It seems that the existing social mentality, which contradicts the existing anti-corruption measures, needs to be introduced in new educational standards, both at the level of general educational organizations and at the level of formation of relevant skills and competencies for certain categories of students in the framework of higher education and additional training programs. The problematic nature of the subjects chosen for the study is concentrated not only on theoretical and methodological aspects, but also on practical ones, which determines the significance and importance of studying these issues in the context of approaches of foreign countries.

Right to dispose of your own life: actualization of social-political context in COVID-19 pandemic conditions

The article examines the content of a person's right to dispose of his life (with emphasis on socio-political meanings) as a component of his right to life, including assumptions, probabilistic or unacceptable, about alternatives to the deployment of individual elements of this possibility (voluntary departure from life, the assumption of euthanasia, as well as options for the embodiment of the idea and the right to risk your life).The last one is analyzed both in a classical way (within the framework of activities objectively related to occupational risks and other activities with similar characteristics), and in an updated context due to the coronavirus pandemic. The author reflects on the socio-political, sociological and other aspects that have manifested or strengthened their presence in doctrine, public practice and public policy in connection with the current emergency situation, illustrates them with specific examples, examines and criticizes individual decisions on this issue, especially in relation to the elderly people, states in this regard the emergence in the Russian socio-political space of a new type of minorities subjected to discrimination. It is also compares the strategy and tactics of decision-making by power structures and major confessions during a pandemic, including for the elderly. Considerations are expressed about the need to take into account the experience of making political decisions in such situations, and to correct them on the base of state, social and individual interests and meanings.

Khamosh Pani: Partition trauma, gender violence, and religious extremism in Pakistan

This paper looks at the question of partition of British India in 1947 and the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan through an analysis of internationally acclaimed and award-winning Pakistani film Khamosh Pani (silent waters). The paper uses Symbolic Interactionism and Feminist Theory with a critical perspective to establish how the present-day religious extremism in Pakistan has its roots in the colonial history of the country. However, it also highlights the diagnostic inability of Symbolic Interactionism as it smacks of the volunteerism and overlooks how statist and organized institutional power infringes upon socio-political meaning making processes. This paper argues that the film connects the communal nature of pre-partition violence to grassroots contemporary religious extremism in Pakistan to show how the rupture of a village life is the continuation of colonial heritage of communal violence. We argue based on the findings of this study that religious extremism that is manifest in today’s Pakistan is not a break from the past; instead, it is rooted in the colonial history connecting the national Pakistani elite with the regional neo-colonial interests.

«Старое бремя» субъективности в критике Л. Фейербаха и младогегельянцев

The article is devoted to the consideration of key aspects of the socio-political meaning and direction of the philosophical and theological doctrine of the Junghegelianer. The nomination of philosophy as the “mother of sciences”, combining the old metaphysics and new dialectic, to the center of the social “agenda” is explained both by internal reasons (split in the Hegel “school”, competition from positivism, renaissance of theological thought), and the impact of external factors. The problem of understanding “subjectivity” in the philosophical critique of the 1840s, which turned out to be a stumbling block for many panellists, is explored; the categorical content of the concept has not been clarified. The task is to identify the basic characteristics of such widely interpreted “subjectivity” and clarify the positions of the parties. Replacing the speculative practices of the “old” Kantian school with intellectual (going from Schelling) “procedures” of philosophizing formed a completely new philosophical paradigm of a different era. The revolution of 1848 updated many philosophical ideas, filling them with social content. The conclusions state the contradiction and a certain eclecticism of the philosophical designs of the Junghegelianer.

Reading the Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Avengers’ Intertextual Aesthetic

This article argues that reading films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) requires attention to their various modes of intertextuality, which are derived from both Hollywood cinema and comic books. I examine the ways in which MCU films adapt narrative and stylistic strategies developed in superhero comic books to manage complex networks of texts. These adaptive practices produce an intertextual aesthetic that harnesses relations with other texts in an effort to make individual films and the wider fictional universe coherent. Close analysis of The Avengers (Joss Whedon, 2012) reveals how MCU films’ intertextual aesthetic shapes their sociopolitical meanings by carrying over and reconfiguring meanings from other texts.

COVID-19 as a Mass Death Event

AbstractAs of the first week of February 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over two million people dead across the globe. This essay argues that in order to fully understand the politics arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to focus on the individual and collective experiences of death, loss, and grief. While the emerging scholarly discourse on the pandemic, particularly in political science and international relations, typically considers death only in terms of its effects on formal state-level politics and as a policy objective for mitigation, we argue that focusing on the particularities of the experience of death resulting from COVID-19 can help us fully understand the ways in which the pandemic is reordering our worlds. Examining the ambiguous sociopolitical meaning of death by COVID-19 can provide broader analytical comparisons with other mass death events. Ultimately, the essay argues that centering the impact of the pandemic on the experience of death and loss directly poses the question of how politics should value human lives in the post-pandemic world, helping us better formulate the normative questions necessary for a more ethical future.

The Multiple Meanings of Jatio Sangsad Bhaban

Jatio Sangsad Bhaban, the National Assembly Building of Bangladesh, is an iconic building and architectural landmark designed by American architect Louis I. Kahn. Jatio Sangsad Bhaban was constructed between 1962 and 1983 and is located in the heart of Dhaka, the nation’s capital. The extant literature on Louis I. Kahn’s work suggests that Jatio Sangsad Bhaban is a significant architectural masterpiece. One of its most notable features is its architectonic quality, providing it with the grandeur of a modern monumental building. In this context, this paper aims to examine the underlying multiple meanings, that is, socio-political, cultural, historic and philosophical meanings of the Jatio Sangsad Bhaban building By constructing and summarising meanings, rather than exploring the physical building itself, this paper supports the notion of multidimensional perspectives of monumental architecture. —The multiple meanings of icoic architecture through the lens of societal issues has been endorsed by many architectural critic. Accordingly, this paper considers the cultural, political, ethical and historical meanings of Jatio Sangsad Bhaban. Revealing and summarising other aspects apart from its architectonic dimensions is a new approach to understanding a widely acclaimed iconic building like Jatio Sangsad Bhaban

컴퓨테이셔널 프로파간다에 대한 탐색적 시론 : 정치적 봇과 그 사회정치적 의미를 중심으로

이 글은 컴퓨테이셔널 프로파간다 현상에 관한 탐색적 시론이다. 그간 국내 언론학에서 이에 관한 이슈는 주로 가짜뉴스 또는 허위조작정보의 맥락 안에서 검토된 반면, 디지털 환경에서의 정치 커뮤니케이션이라는 맥락에서 살펴본 논의는 많지 않다. 연구진은 컴퓨테이셔널 프로파간다의 개념화, 사례들 그리고 규범적 대응 방안에 관한 그간의 논의를 비판적으로 재검토하고 기술과 인간 행위자의 연속체라는 관점에서 이 관행에 대해 소개한다. 앞으로의 정치 커뮤니케이션에서 컴퓨테이셔널한 커뮤니케이션 관행은 더욱 일상화되고 보편화될 것으로 예측되는 상황에서 컴퓨테이셔널 프로파간다와 전통 프로파간다 사이의 연속성과 불연속성에 대한 포괄적 이해가 필요하다. 이 연구를 통해 봇과 같은 비ᐨ인간 요소들과 결합된 새로운 프로파간다 관행과 그 의미에 대한 학계의 관심과 공동체 차원의 논의가 진전되기를 기대한다.

Didactic and artistic representations of prehistoric hominins: Who were we? Who are we now?

The image of the prehistoric hominin is well known: brutish and hairy, the men hunt with impressive weapons, while women tend to children or kneel over a hide. In this article I consider didactic illustrations and re-creations of human relatives in the context of science and art. I argue that these images are laden with symbolic sociopolitical meanings and are heavily biased by not only the newest scientific findings but also ideas about gender roles and civilization/civility in popular culture. Artistic representation in educational materials tends to reflect popular conceptions of ancestral life, more than data-dependent interpretations. For example, there is a bias against artistic depictions of women, children or the elderly and activities typically associated with them. Men and male activities – particularly hunting – are overrepresented. Hairy bodies, stooped posture, acute facial angles, savagery and a lack of material culture function as a symbol of incivility or animality. They are used to code an individual as being sufficiently inhuman to create a comfortable separation between viewer and ‘caveman’, which ultimately reflects our ambiguous relationship to human evolution.

Afrobeat Journeys: Tracing the Musical Archive in Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference

ABSTRACT Sefi Atta has recently claimed that she considers herself an Afrobeat author, because she started writing in 1997, a month before Fela Kuti died and his music became more widely available outside of Nigeria. I contend that in A Bit of Difference (2013) Afrobeat music embodies the cultural signifier of transnational and local influences in contemporary Lagos and other Western urban spaces. The main character of the novel, Deola Bello, was born in Lagos, grew up in London, and occasionally travels to Atlanta on business trips as an auditor for an international charity organization. The protagonist Bello’s travels across countries and cultures establishes an intercultural dialogue based on African and African diasporic music, ranging from juju to naija hip hop. The first part of this essay underscores the cultural influence of Afrobeat on Atta’s writing, and presents an overview of the critical readings of music that highlight socio-political meanings in the Anglophone black Atlantic. The second half maps the historical geography of songs in the novel and their contextual significance, which serve to interpret the afrodiasporic consciousness embedded in the text.

Комическое в удмуртском фольклоре и художественной литературе конца XIX – начала ХХ века

Introduction: the сomic is one of the ways of artistic reflection of reality. It shows the peculiarities of the national worldview at the certain period of history. To generalize the stages of evolution of the comic in literature, to establish causeand- effect relationships of development of genres and forms of the comic, it is necessary to identify its origins. The article development. Objective: to identify the origins and features of formation of comic genres in Udmurt literature in the aspect of continuity of traditions of oral folk art. Research materials: satirical and humorous works of Udmurt folklore and the initial stage of development of national literature. Results and novelty of the research: prerequisites of the comic in Udmurt literature are contained in laughing culture of the people, in rituals and rites that perform a magical function. An important source of the origin of literary comic genres was the genres of oral folk art with a dominant social function. A significant role was also played by the translation and cultural activities of the enlighteners, as well as the influence of older literatures. Based on the genres of oral and poetic creativity (comic, satirical, dance and game songs, fairy tales, fables, madyos, takmak) and taking into account, first of all, the experience of Russian literature, comic works of various genres are created in the Udmurt language. For the first time the article considers poorly studied works of Udmurt comic literature of the late XIX – early XX centuries. These are works of different genres of folklore origins: verses, poems, plays, essays, stories, novellas, feuilletons, parables, fables, madyos, new takmak, pamphlets, «light tales», etc. The educational theme of the first works gradually acquires a social and socio-political meaning complicating the poetics of the comic. Key words: the comic, genre, Udmurt folklore, Udmurt literature, laughter, satire, humor.

Location of Cultural Value: Historicizing <em>Virāgaya</em> as a Novel on Postcolonial Subjectivity

Martin Wickramasinghe’s Virāgaya (1956), a novel considered a modern classic is often understood be a text that exclusively focuses on the inner psyche of the central character. Thus, it was criticized for the lack of socio-political meaning. Amarasekara, a renowned writer and critic, maintained that the novel represents a certain weakening of socio-political dialogue in the country after achieving independence from the British. Compared to Wickramasinghe’s famous trilogy, which is explicitly ‘social’ since it deals with an evolution of a certain capitalist class, Virāgaya is understood to be a work that deals more with the psychological than with the social. This paper argues that when read as a postcolonial novel, contextualizing it in its specific postcolonial condition, Viragya appears to be much more ‘social’ and ‘political’ than any other novel that appears to be so. Aravinda (the literal meaning of the name being ‘the lotus’), the central character of the novel, is a man who embodies detachment, which is an important Buddhist value. His detachment is shown by the way he maintains a certain aloofness vis-a-vis the accepted social norms, which is often interpreted as a legacy of his Buddhist upbringing. This paper argues, in contrast, that it is the colonial/postcolonial condition that allows him to maintain a detached life. For example, the stable income he receives as a clerk in the Ceylon Clerical Service creates the material condition for him to lead his detached life even though the idea of detachment has its origin in Buddhism. Thus, this close reading of the text aims to provide some insights into the way we understand colonial/postcolonial subjectivity.

La Conquista del desierto y los estudios sobre genocidio. Recorridos, preguntas y debates

Genocide Studies have grown notably in the last quarter of a century on an international level. The concept, usually linked to Nazism, has crossed the borders to propose itself over other historical processes allowing to studying their potentials and limits. Moreover, its use at judicial and colloquial levels leads to investigate both, legal and socio-political meanings. In this paper we think about the indigenous genocide and the Conquest of the desert, in particular, focusing on certain questions the studies on genocide have asked. First, we return to the analysis of the Conquest in light of the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and its implications, and second we take into account the social and human sciences conceptualization of genocide. Finally the historical and historiographical debates, provocations and social effects produced by the application of the term genocide to theConquest are considered.

THE RESEARCH OF THE STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC PECULIARITIES OF THE LEXICAL-SEMANTIC FIELD “POLITICAL ACTIVITY” WITHIN SOCIO-POLITICAL LEXIS OF THE UKRAINIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES

The article deals with the semantics of lexical units of unrelated languages. Problems of studying the lexical level of related and unrelated languages are of particular interest, since the specificity of the national language systems is the most clearly reflected in the lexis. The study of common and different structural semantic features makes it possible to disclose the peculiarity of the native language and culture on the background of language contacts. The studied language systems belong to different types, and the comparison of languages of different types without regard to their genetic links is the greatest value for any research, since it contributes significantly to the correct understanding of the significance of the analyzed speech phenomena. The subject of the analysis is lexemes of socio-political meaning in the Ukrainian and English languages. The study of socio-political lexis is of considerable interest to linguistics, because it reflects one of the most important spheres of life of modern society – political. The study of such an active lexical category as socio-political lexis, contributes to the understanding of language phenomena, due to the evolution of the semantics of lexical units. Socio-political lexis is characterized by blurring of its boundaries, semantic dispersion and sphere of usage. In order to systematize the linguistic material, the lexical-semantic field of the studied lexical units was identified – “Political activity”, within which an anаlysis of the dynamic prosesses in the socio-political lexis was carried out in their correlation with the factors of a social nature. The peculiarity of the lexical-semantic field is that it is allocated on the basis of the logical division of the broad concept, but at the same time it is the actual linguistic division of the man’s representations of objective reality. The field approach to the organization of the vocabulary is one of the main principles of systematization of linguistic phenomena, through which the relationship, interdependence and hierarchy of linguistic units are revealed. This makes it possible to study not separate lexemes, but systems of lexical units and the reflection of their semantic links. Lexical-semantic fields are highly organized and intergrated conceptual spheres, elements of which are mutually delimiting one another, and their importance derives from the system as a whole. Each field analyzes the scope of experience, concrete or abstract; divided and classified in a unique way, reflecting a scale of values of society and a special vision of the world. As a result of the study of structural-semantic features of the lexical-semantic field “Political activity”, it became known that in English it is represented by larger number of lexical units. This advantage can be explained by the greater stability of the British political system in comparison with the Ukrainian. The presence in the lexical vocabulary of the English language of a greater number of borrowed lexical units with political meaning can be explained by the fact that Great Britain has more economic and political contacts with other countries of the world than Ukraine.

Monumental Burial Mounds in Kyŏngju: Remarks on their Socio-political Meaning

Monumental Burial Mounds in Kyŏngju: Remarks on their Socio-political Meaning

The Socio-Political Effects on Using Puns in Iraqi Arabic Jokes

Jokes can be effective and can achieve various purposes depending on how they are said or written. It is a fact that jokes refer to statements with humorous effect used as a means of entertainment to make people laugh and feel happy. However, jokes can have other socio-political meanings depending on the expressions found in them. This can be achieved through the employment of expressions denoting pun. Additionally, meanings of pun can be expressed in different ways depending on the socio-cultural characteristics of the community. Therefore, this study aimed at defining the socio-political impact of employing pun expressions in Iraqi jokes based on the socio-cultural specificity of the Iraqi community. To conducted such a study, this required using a qualitative method with a critical analysis. The data of this study were represented by (15) jokes written in Iraqi Arabic dialect (Iraqi colloquial language) and translated into English to be understood by those who do not speak Arabic language. Pun expressions were italicized in both source and target texts to be distinguished from other expressions in the joke. The results of this study revealed the influence of socio-political situations on creating jokes in Iraqi society. Moreover, the most notable type of pun used in Iraqi jokes was homonymous. This is due to that Iraqis intentionally tend to conceal the real intended meaning by using words that have the same spelling and pronunciation but carry different connotations.

The doctrine of reconciliation: Its meaning and implications for social life

Reconciliation as a socio-political concept, has become highly topical in the South African discourse about social transformation over the past two decades in the aftermath of Apartheid. The idea of reconciliation emanates from the Christian tradition and is deeply embedded in Christian theology. For many centuries, the concept was dealt with as a merely theological concept belonging to the field of systematic theology and the pious, mystical and spiritual experience of Christians. Can this idea be transferred to the socio-political realm? The purpose of this article is to venture an answer to this question. The central theoretical argument is that the theology of reconciliation deals intrinsically with new relationships, and that these relationships have a concrete socio-political and ethical meaning. The aim is firstly, to investigate the idea as a theological concept from a classic reformed perspective and to ascertain whether the theological meaning can be transferred to the socio-political context as is done today in secular politics. The article concludes by stating that the doctrine of reconciliation, as seen from a classic reformed perspective, can be applied to all kinds of relations and has a deep bearing on the redressing of broken relationships and social cohesion. Reconciliation also has implications for eco-ethics.

The Long-Distance Prestige Trade Networks and SocioPolitical Implications in Mahan: Focusing on the Carnelian Bead Making Techniques

이 연구는 마한 엘리트들의 위세품인 카넬리안(마노) 구슬의 원거리 교역 네트워크를 추정하고 운영 배경과 사회정치적 의미를 살피는 데 그 목적이 있다. 최근 조사 사례가 급증한 남아시아 및 동남아시아의 석제 구슬 제작 전통을 살펴보고 마한 카넬리안 구슬의 제작 기법과 비교 검토하였다. 마한 카넬리안 구슬의 원산지를 명확히 하기 위해, 천공 크기에 대한 계량 분석과 천공 내부를 본뜬 실리콘 샘플에 대한 주사전자현미경(SEM) 분석을 실시하였다. 분석 결과는 카넬리안 구슬 상당수가 남아시아에서 인도 다이아몬드 천공기술을 사용하여 제작된 후, 마한 사회에 수입되었음을 나타낸다. 잠정적으로, 필자는 중국 남부 합포군의 항구나 도시에서 남아시아의 카넬리안 구슬을 구입하였을 가능성이 크다고 판단한다. 또한, 마한의 교역 집단들이 동남아시아 태국의 카오 샘 케오, 베트남의 옥 에오, 캄보디아의 앙코르 보레이 같은 국제 교역 중심지에서 인도산 카넬리안 구슬을 구매하였을 가능성도 배제할 수 없다. 원거리 해상교역을 통해 수입된, 고가의 사치품이었던 카넬리안 구슬은 위세품으로서 마한의 사회정치적 발전에 중요한 역할을 하였을 것이다. 마한 공동체 사이에서 사회적 신분이나 정체성을 나타내는 상징이었을 뿐만 아니라 엘리트 간 대화 혹은 연대감을 형성하기 위한 수단으로 사용되었을 가능성이 크다. 이와 같은 구슬 교역/교환 네트워크를 토대로, 마한 엘리트들은 협력 관계를 구축할 수 있었을 것이며, 이는 궁극적으로 여러 정치체들 사이에‘마한’이라는 이념적 동질성을 강화시키는 결과를 가져왔을 것이다.The study is aimed at estimating the distant trading networks of the carnelian bead, one of the prestige goods for Mahan elites, and examining its background and socio-political meaning. A recent research on the tradition of stone bead making in South and Southeast Asia was examined and compared with the stone bead making techniques identified in Mahan. To clarify the origin of Mahan carnelian beads, I conducted morphometric analysis of the drilling size and SEM analysis for silicon samples inside the drilling. The result shows that most of the carnelian beads were made using Indian diamond drilling technology, and imported from South Asia. I assume that Mahan people purchased the carnelian beads at the port city of the Hepu Commendary, southern China. Also, it cannot be ruled out the possibility that Mahan’s trade groups purchased Indian carnelian beads at trade centers in Southeast Asia, such as Khao sam Kaeo in Thailand, Oc Eo in Vietnam, and Ankor Borei in Cambodia. Carnelian bead, an expensive luxury item imported through long-distance maritime trade, would have played an important role in socio-political development as a prestige good in Mahan society. It is highly likely that it was not only a symbol of social status or identity among the Mahan communities, but also a means of communication or solidarity among the elites. Given the geographical feature that is divided into the coast vs. inland areas and the eastern vs. western regions, the Mahan polities would have had to have complementary economic exchanges with surrounding groups to resolve resource imbalances. Thus, the Mahan elites would have built a strategic partnership based on the bead trade/exchange networks, which consequentially would have been the basis for the homogeneous ideology of ‘Mahan.’

Negotiation of Social Values in the World Heritage Listing Process: A Case Study on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, China

This paper examines the World Heritage listing process for the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to understand the sociopolitical meanings of heritage in contemporary China. Over the past four decades, the efforts of the Chinese government have been clearly geared towards improving governance over heritage sites by designating them as state properties, which requires the selection and evaluation of cultural heritage sites on the specific political meaning based on historical, aesthetic, or scientific value. In the process of World Heritage listing of Chinese heritage sties, the model of ‘state properties’ had to be compatible with UNESCO’s understanding of ‘heritage’, as well as economic benefits of heritage. Drawing on the data collected from the process of World Heritage listing of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, this paper explores the integration of the social meanings of heritage into the ‘authorized’ values criteria, facilitating multiple uses of ‘heritage’ through collaboration among UNESCO, Chinese heritage officials, and local communities. It argues that practices of heritage that consider social meanings will integrate local communities’ understandings into political meanings of heritage on basis of central government’s interests. This paper shows how the social meanings of heritage create a dialectical relationship to enable a ‘living’ cultural process in the preservation of ‘state properties’. In addition, the social meanings of heritage allow all potential stakeholder groups to negotiate with the heritage bureaucracy, as well as strengthening the role of local interests in heritage policy.

Mosaico Carioca de Áreas Protegidas e a perspectiva de gestão integrada do território no contexto urbano

O Mosaico de Área Protegida (MAP) é uma estratégia que preconiza a gestão integrada e participativa de áreas protegidas, e está previsto na Lei 9.985 de 18 de julho de 2000 – que instituiu o Sistema Nacional de Unidades de Conservação (SNUC). Este artigo apresenta resultados de uma pesquisa cujo objetivo foi analisar e problematizar o funcionamento do MAP a partir da categoria analítica “território”, com base principalmente na sua acepção sociopolítica, utilizando como objeto de estudo o Mosaico Carioca. Esse mosaico possui uma particularidade em relação aos outros mosaicos devido ao fato de estar inserido no contexto urbano, situado no município do Rio de Janeiro – uma cidade que vem sofrendo transformações na sua configuração, geradas a partir de interesses diferenciados que raramente contemplam a conservação da biodiversidade. Por meio de uma abordagem qualitativa, foram aplicados os seguintes métodos de pesquisa: levantamento bibliográfico, análise de dados secundários e realização de entrevistas semi-estruturadas. A partir do conceito de território, da abordagem escalar e de reflexões que permeiam o debate sobre a gestão integrada de áreas protegidas, foram ressaltadas as potencialidades e os desafios em relação aos mosaicos, em especial ao MC. Além disso, o estudo identificou divergências entre a visão da esfera pública e a da sociedade civil no que diz respeito à gestão do território e as expectativas de transformação espacial por parte dos atores com maior poder de influência, no caso do Rio de Janeiro, aliadas à interesses políticos em confluência com o modelo de cidade instituído.