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Countries around the world refer to twenty-first century education as essential to maintaining personal and national economic advantage and draw on this discourse to advocate for and embark on educational reform. This paper examines issues around education reform, particularly in British Columbia. It argues that reformers should give careful consideration to the latest research on successful reform drivers as articulated by Michael Fullan, examples of best practices as illustrated by the province of Ontario, and heed the U.S. attempt at reform as a cautionary tale. All these factors are crucial to implementing education reform in B.C., especially in the current challenging and contentious political climate.

Acknowledgements: Citizenship, Care and Choice: LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe – an Introduction: Ana Cristina Santos -- SECTION I – CITIZENSHIP MATTERS: Chapter 1. Uprisings: A Meditation on Feminist Strategies for Enacting the Common: João Manuel de Oliveira -- Chapter 2. Bisexual Citizenship in Portugal: Mafalda Esteves Chapter 3. Biocriminals, Racism, and the Law: Friendship as Public Disorder: Pablo Pérez Navarro -- Chapter 4. Embodied Queer Epistemologies – a New Approach to (a Monstrous) Citizenship: Ana Cristina Santos -- SECTION II – CARE MATTERS: Chapter 5. Building Safer Spaces. Daily Strategies and Networks of Care in Cisheteronormative Italy: Tatiana Motterle -- Chapter 6. Insurgent Parenting: Political Implications of Child-Rearing and Caring Practices in Spain: Luciana Moreira -- Chapter 7. The Sexual Politics of Healthy Families and the Making of Class Relations: Chiara Bertone -- Chapter 8. Blurring the Boundaries of Intimate Relationships: Friendship and Networks of Care in Times of Precarity: Beatrice Gusmano -- SECTION III – CHOICE MATTERS: Chapter 9. Sharing is Caring – Living with Friends and Heterotopic Citizenship: Ana Lúcia Santos -- Chapter 10. Affective Trans Relationships: Towards a Deleuzian Approach to Friendship Theory: Zowie Davy -- Chapter 11. Italian Queer Transfeminism Towards a Gender Strike: Elia A.G. Arfini.

This Open Access book argues that Southern European countries offer valuable, though historically overlooked, knowledge regarding intimate citizenship. Guided by the fundamental sociological question of how change takes place and, concomitantly, how law and social policy adjust to and/or shape the practices and expectations of individuals in the sphere of intimacy, this edited volume explores partnering, parenting and friendship issues from the perspective of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people in Italy, Portugal and Spain. Chapters offer a cross-national understanding of the relationship between everyday practices of intimacy amongst LGBTQ people and national legal, political and policy contexts in terms of the recognition of otherwise 'intimate strangers'. The book contributes to further theoretical and policy debates about citizenship, care and choice, as well as, more broadly, sexuality, welfare, health and justice. This book will be of interest to scholars across Gender and Feminist Studies as well as Citizenship Studies, Law, Policy, and Politics.

Social Movements, Queer and Citizenship: Exploring Theoretical Intersections Political, Legal and Cultural Change in Southern Europe LGBT Activism, Politicians and Political Change Legal Change and the Juridification of LGBT Activism News is Power: Activism, the Media and Cultural Change Overcoming the Dichotomy: The Syncretic Activist Approach Conclusion: what Difference Do Social Movements Make? References Appendix: The Portuguese Case Study

This book explores the relationship between social movements, sexual citizenship and change in the context of Southern Europe. Providing a comparative analysis about LGBT issues in Italy, Spain and Portugal, it discusses how activism can generate political, legal and cultural change in post-dictatorial, Catholic and EU-focused countries. The significance of Portugal regarding sexual citizenship stems from the impressive pace at which LGBT rights were granted after the emergence of a LGBT movement. In some respects, Portugal led the way for LGBT rights in Europe. Offering a close engagement with sociological analysis of Spanish and Italian contemporary LGBT politics, this case study provides an opportunity to rethink collective action and sexual citizenship, contributing to timely theoretical and political debates. Based on extensive fieldwork and original qualitative analysis, the book suggests the notion of 'syncretic activism' as a third way of approaching the debate between assimilationism and radicalism. The notion of syncretic activism offers a synthesis of transformative, transgressive and deconstructionist approaches to identity within diversity politics. These findings have direct implications in the understanding and political potential of collective action, highlighting the complex interplay between aims, strategies and outcomes of LGBT activism in Southern Europe.

Em 2003, o Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI) emitiu regras de elegibilidade para pessoas trans e, desde então, vários órgãos desportivos têm vindo a elaborar as suas próprias normas. Algumas federações aplicam regras baseadas na auto-definição de sexo, enquanto outras aplicam regras baseadas no sexo atribuído à nascença ou no momento em que a afirmação de sexo foi legalmente realizada. Este artigo aprofunda o debate sobre a inclusão de pessoas trans no desporto através da apresentação do estudo de caso do rugby, cuja federação internacional estabeleceu, em 2020, regras trans-exclusivas sob o argumento de competição justa e proteção da integridade física de mulheres cisgénero. É apresenta uma análise crítica aos fundamentos destas políticas e discutidas as consequências de abordagens similares na carreira desportiva de pessoas trans. Como metodologia, foi realizada uma análise crítica documental às normas da World Rugby e foram realizadas entrevistas a pessoas relacionadas com o universo desportivo em Portugal. Observou-se que as regras elaboradas criam uma hierarquia entre os sexos binários e entre as próprias identidades trans, focam em medidas de comparação insuficientes como, a força de repetição única, e descartam fatores como aumento de massa gorda após reposição hormonal. Na ausência da possibilidade de prosseguir uma carreira desportiva, verificou-se uma capacidade de agência e de encaixe noutros âmbitos que, não sendo a prática desportiva competitiva enquanto atletas, permite às pessoas trans chegar a outras funções de relevo dentro do universo desportivo.

Ageing is increasingly at the centre of both local and international politics and policies. However, the attention on the intersection of ageing and sexual diversity has remained largely absent from research agendas in the Portuguese context. This article addresses issues of care and intimacy experienced by self-identified lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people over the age of 60 both before and during the COVID-19 outbreak in Portugal. The article is divided into four sections. In the introduction, the main issue addressed will be an explanation that draws on a theoretical framework informed by both LGBTQI+ and ageing and life course studies. The second section gives a necessarily brief overview of the socio-legal context of LGBTQI+ issues in Portugal and provides information regarding methodological aspects of the research. The third section explores experiences, prior and during the pandemic, of older adults who self-identify as LGB in the Portuguese context. Accompanied by excerpts from interviews originally carried out in 2019 and 2020, this section is structured around three topics: pandemic 2.0.; isolation and relational loneliness and health and care networks. The last section discusses the current impact of ageing and of ageism on older LGB adults, while also offering recommendations for future policy and scholarly work.

This article focuses on biographical narratives of trans men and non-binary people about care practices in the spheres of friendship and family. Recognising forms of resistance to adversity through informal networks of support, in this article, care provided by trans and non-binary people to (often) cisgender recipients is conceptualised as a heroic act. It is suggested that trans male and non-binary embodied experiences of care constitute a fundamental political platform to rethink sociologically concepts of care, masculinity and corporal dissidence within the framework of intimate citizenship in and beyond Southern Europe.

This article aims to reflect and analyze concepts and mechanisms that allow the organization of human thought through language and express internal movements, in order to establish dialogues between literary art - which advocates several fictional manifestations, without losing the essence of realism- and the letter as a link between the interlocutors, the gesture and the value of writing. For the theoretical basis, the main contributions are from Bakhtin (1997), Cosson (2006) and Foucault (1992). From the bibliographic review, it is possible to notice that the texts that go beyond the meaning of the words configure strategies for dialogue that bring the sender and the receiver closer together, enhancing the idea that writing brings social, cultural, political, economic, and cognitive consequences. Letters, when used for teaching purposes, produce different knowledge and feelings. ; El presente artículo tiene como objetivo reflexionar y analizar los conceptos y los mecanismos que permiten organizar el pensamiento humano a través del lenguaje, expresando sus movimientos internos, para establecer dialogismos entre el arte literario, que aboga por varias manifestaciones ficticias sin perder la esencia de la verosimilitud, y la carta como un enlace entre los interlocutores, el gesto y el valor de la escritura. Para la fundamentación teórica las principales contribuciones son tomadas de Bakhtin (1997), Cosson (2006) y Foucault (1992). A través de la revisión bibliográfica, es posible percibir que los textos que sobrepasan el sentido de las palabras configuran estrategias dialógicas que acercan al emisor y al receptor, potenciando la idea de que la escritura conlleva a consecuencias sociales, culturales, políticas, económicas y cognitivas. Las cartas cuando se usan con fines didácticos, materializan diferentes saberes y sensaciones.

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo reflexionar y analizar los conceptos y los mecanismos que permiten organizar el pensamiento humano a través del lenguaje, expresando sus movimientos internos, para establecer dialogismos entre el arte literario, que aboga por varias manifestaciones ficticias sin perder la esencia de la verosimilitud, y la carta como un enlace entre los interlocutores, el gesto y el valor de la escritura. Para la fundamentación teórica las principales contribuciones son tomadas de Bakhtin (1997), Cosson (2006) y Foucault (1992). A través de la revisión bibliográfica, es posible percibir que los textos que sobrepasan el sentido de las palabras configuran estrategias dialógicas que acercan al emisor y al receptor, potenciando la idea de que la escritura conlleva a consecuencias sociales, culturales, políticas, económicas y cognitivas. Las cartas cuando se usan con fines didácticos, materializan diferentes saberes y sensaciones. ; This article aims to reflect and analyze concepts and mechanisms that allow the organization of human thought through language and express internal movements, in order to establish dialogues between literary art - which advocates several fictional manifestations, without losing the essence of realism- and the letter as a link between the interlocutors, the gesture and the value of writing. For the theoretical basis, the main contributions are from Bakhtin (1997), Cosson (2006) and Foucault (1992). From the bibliographic review, it is possible to notice that the texts that go beyond the meaning of the words configure strategies for dialogue that bring the sender and the receiver closer together, enhancing the idea that writing brings social, cultural, political, economic, and cognitive consequences. Letters, when used for teaching purposes, produce different knowledge and feelings.

Drawing on biographic narrative interviews with self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or queer polyamorous people in Portugal, this article explores the contradictions and opportunities involved in living as a relationally diverse LGBTQ intimate citizen in Southern Europe. The article starts by unpacking citizenship in relation to dominant sociolegal expectations around monogamy. In this section, it is suggested that the mononormative underpinnings of law and social policy restrain intimate citizenship. The second part of the article explores the legal and cultural meanings attached to coupledom, suggesting the notion of relational performativity as an analytical tool for interpreting cultural norms and expectations around partnering. The last section discusses citizenship and coupledom in light of the biographic narratives produced by LGBTQ polyamorous participants in the INTIMATE study in Portugal. Based on thematic analysis of these narratives, it is argued that the framework of intimate citizenship is not fixed, and the notion of relational citizenship is offered. Arguably, relational citizenship enables a gradual detachment from the strictly monogamous underpinnings of citizenship studies, hence offering an opportunity for further intellectual engagement with intimacy and diversity in the 21st century.

Les mutations politiques du début du siècle romantique sont, au Portugal, synonyme de l'avènement d'une nouvelle sensibilité dramatique. Les modèles français empruntés par les nombreuses troupes théâtrales étrangères et les exilés politiques, assurent une effervescence toute nouvelle au sein des Lettres portugaises. De fait, le contact établi avec la culture littéraire et culturelle française par les estrangeirados et les artistes portugais, et la représentation de modèles français présentés dans les spectacles donnés sur le territoire national, ouvriront inexorablement un nouveau chapitre des relations franco-péninsulaires. Jusqu'à la fin du siècle, au théâtre, on parlera et on pensera en français, insensibles aux nouvelles tendances européennes sur le plan dramaturgique. ; The political upheavals at the beginning of the century of Romanticism are, in Portugal, synonymous with the emergence of a new dramatic sensibility. French theatre, imported by numerous foreign theatre troupes and political exiles, introduced a new vitality to Portuguese literature. The literary and cultural contacts initiated by the estrangeirados and Portuguese artists and the dissemination of French models on Portuguese soil open a new chapter in the Franco-Peninsular relations. Until the end of the century in fact, theatre is thought and expressed as French, to the point of ignoring other European developments in dramatic literature. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion