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Topoi (Rio de Janeiro), Volume: 25, Published: 2024

Latest articles

The Fable about Mao Tsé-Tung and Brazilian’s Historiography

Prisoners, Prisons, and Political Violence: Fundamentals and Strategies for a Historiographic Dialogue

Lusotropicalism in Confrontation with the Afrodiasporic Intellectuality: The Case of Angola

The Illegitimate Shoah Literature: Ka-Tzetnik and the Stalag Fiction

History and Favelas in Rio de Janeiro: A Late Encounter

The immigrants of Martin Eden. Class, Nationality, and Experience in Jack London’s Literature

Soberba and the Portuguese Scholars of the 18th Century

“Mr. Critico” José Veríssimo (1857-1916): Metonymy and Critical Fortune (1916-1974)

Labor Flexibility in Europe. The Construction of the Canon of a Concept

Civil Associativism and the Historical Emergence of Modern Sport: A Dialogue with Stefan Szymanski

The Volkswagen Farm: The Corporate Responsibility of a Project Financed by Public Resources and That Used Slave Labor in the Amazon during the Dictatorship (1973-1986)

“The Path that Followed Civilization through the Centuries”: Friar Camillo de Monserrate and the Teaching of Ancient Geography at Colégio Pedro II (1850-1854)

The Selecta Contest: Music and War in Brazilian Society during the First World War (1915-1919)

The Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute (IHGB) and the First Government of Getúlio Vargas: A Close Relationship

From Rocinha to Working-class Neighborhood: The Process of Occupation and Space Formation in the First Three Decades of the 20th Century

Between “Traditions” and “Modernities”: Carnival Groups in Luanda in the First Half of the 20th Century

The Migration Business: Entrepreneurs, Agents, and Colonization in 19th-Century Brazil

The Chinese in the Carioca Landscape Through the Eyes of Travelers and Chroniclers

Territorialities in (Trans)formation: Villages and Cities in the Early Times of the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais (1835-1843)

The Central Zona da Mata: Rural Production and Trade with Northern Rio de Janeiro in the First Half of the 19th Century

Parliamentary Speeches, Political Economy, and the Corn Laws (1839-1846)

News

New tool to assess equity in scholarly communication models

Editorial policies for inclusion and diversity in the Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença

Art as a Vehicle and Jerzy Grotowski’s Investigations Beyond the 20th Century

Metamorphosis, friction or symbiosis between body and animated forms in the work of Ilka Schönbein

Presence as a field of research in the performing arts

Performing Arts research highlighted on the blog “SciELO in Perspective”

An Analysis of the Epistemological Foundations of Machine Learning

Tracing the origins of ‘publish or perish’ [Originally published in the LSE Impact blog in July/2024]

115 years of Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, reflections on the current model and the future of scientific journals

Trans/Form/Ação officially adopts preprints as a submission method

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