Vol. 8 No. 17 (2021): Second Semester 2021
In 2001, the Universidad de Salamanca created the Centro de Estudios Brasileños, with the aim of promoting academic and exchange relations between the University and Brazilian Higher Education institutions. Since then, the CEB has had the collaboration of the Embassy of Brazil in Madrid, the Junta de Castilla y León and the Fundación Cultural Hispano-Brasileña, among many other national and international academic and cultural institutions.
The Revista de Estudios Brasileños, created in 2014, is one of the initiatives promoted by the CEB, as part of its commitment to academic cooperation and scientific dissemination about Brazil. And for this, the collaboration with the University of São Paulo is decisive, in the sense of strengthening the dialogue for the dissemination of knowledge about Brazil and the internationalization of the University and this Center.
In this sense, the reader of this issue will find, in the "Varia" section, the article entitled "Twenty years later", which tells the history of the institution, illustrated by a set of photographs that collect some important moments of the history of CEB. As in all issues, the REB publishes in the "General Section" articles that address different topics on Brazil, maintaining the plurality of content and analytical approaches. The "Dossier" brings together seven articles that, from different perspectives, address the issue of sustainable development in Brazil. The studies gathered in the section analyze some consequences of the pandemic in Brazil, the possibilities of tourism as a practice for regional development, photovoltaic energy, solid waste treatment, the importance of a sustainable urbanization process and the Brazilian environmental policy in comparative perspective.
This issue also includes an interview conducted by Prof. Ascensión Rivas Hernández to the Brazilian writer, academic and member of our Advisory Council, Ana Maria Machado. The writer was honored at the second edition of the International Congress of Brazilian Literature, which the CEB organizes every two years, in collaboration with the Brazilian Academy of Letters. In the interview, Ana Maria Machado talks about her work as a writer and her doctorate under the supervision of Roland Barthes.
Finally, in this issue, Ignacio Berdugo (co-director of the REB since 2022), signs an article on the challenges of international criminal law in the Brazilian Amazon. We cannot finish this presentation without thanking enormously the contribution of all the authors, collaborators, reviewers and all the professionals who have worked so that this number has finally seen the light.
We wish you all a happy reading.
