Editorial

Abstract

This issue of the INTERthesis, which, for technical reasons, is being released in the month of May of 2008, corresponds to the second semester of 2007. In the search of bigger efficiency in the management of articles received, and the prompt reply to the authors, we are implanting an electronic management system, task which, at a first moment, demands time and hard work; the effort, however, will certainly make things faster in a near future. As well as the other editions of the Journal, the articles assembled here evidence the multiplicity of speeches and areas of knowledge, characteristics of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Human Sciences (DICH) of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). The diversity of proposed approaches in these texts allows closeness among several areas of knowledge and speeches characterized by a critical way of looking at our present and our history. The Journal opens with an article by Luis David Castiel, recognized researcher of the National School of Public Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (ENSP/Fiocruz), associate publisher of the prestigious ` Notebooks of Public Health Journal' and author of several books and writings dedicated to explore the interfaces between the health sciences and the human sciences . In the article that we publish here, Castiel discusses, one more time, in a discerning and critical way, the problematic of the risk which was also his approach in other studies. However, this time, the author carries through an inciting sociological analysis concerning the issue of the Brazilian youth identity in relation to the risks in the contemporary culture. The text proposes to discuss the construction of fluid identities in a society marked by the precariousness and the excesses of several kinds, and the consequent attitudes of exposition (adventure) and avoidance (prevention) taken over by the youth. The second article also refers to the youth, and it is dedicated to an evaluation of the university experiences. The author, Muhammad Imran Yousuf, of the Rawalpindi University of Pakistan Department of Education, presents an empirical study performed among a thousand students of twenty universities, reaching unexpected conclusions on the importance of the parents’ role over the professors’ role in the conquest and consolidation of their university performance and their formation abilities as future professionals. Continuing with the thematic of education, Roberto Carlos Simões Galvão, Master in Fundaments of Education from the State University of Maringá (UEM), presents an analysis of Francis Bacon’s thought (1561-1626) and its contributions to Education. The author analyzes specifically Bacon’s desire to promote a reorganization of the mastery of the human knowledge, and the impact that this reorganization of knowledge can have over the mastery of Education. Next, Clarissa Franzoi Dri, PhD student at the Institute of Political Studies of the Montesquieu University - Bordeaux IV, questions the perspectives of the Constitutive Protocol of the Mercosur Parliament, signed in 2005, evaluating the difficulties and the perspectives of this fact according to the existing political patterns in South America. The fifth article, by Antonio Manoel Elíbio Júnior, PhD in Social History from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), with the suggestive, intriguing name of: “Without some sort of reaction, won’t we be doomed?”, approaches the political rows of the constitutionalist revolution that in 1932, starting in São Paulo, reached Rio Grande do Sul. The article analyzes the arguments of the Constituent National Assembly in Rio Grande Do Sul, and the resetting of the political forces between the years of 1932 and 1934. The next article by Izabel Cristina of Santos Teixeira, Professor of Literature and Portuguese Language at the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), analyzes the concepts on “high” and “low” literature from the points of view pointed by Leyla Perrone-Moisés in her essay “High literatures”, in 1988. Finally, we present an article by the authors Barbara Marins Pettres, Master in Agro ecosystems from the UFSC, Luiz Carlos Pine Axe, PhD in Agronomy and retired University Professor of the Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul (UFRGS), Maria José Hötzel, PhD in Animal Science from The University of Western Austrália, Tania Maria de Paula Lyra, PhD in Animal Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and Presidency Assessor of the Development Coordination of Higher Education Personnel - CAPES. In their article, they approach the issue of the foot and mouth disease social impacts, and mention that Santa Catarina is the only Brazilian State that does not immunize the bovine herd against this illness. The authors argue the policies that state adopts concerning this illness, especially the non-vaccination, and relate this fact with ethical questions of human and animal welfare. The study concludes that the real experience of an outbreak results in dramatic, social consequences for the affected families, showing a long-term rupture in these families’ rural lifestyles. Last, but not least, this issue also brings the book review of ‘the Ritual Use of the Plants of Power’ by Labate and Goulart, Editora Mercado das Letras, São Paulo, 2005. 518p. Jose Eliezer Mikosz, PhD student at the Post graduation Program in Human Sciences (PPGICH/UFSC) and Master in Technological Innovations from the UTFPR - Curitiba PR, introduces us to this book. I hope you all enjoy your reading! Editorial Sandra Caponi