This seminar series aims to draw on the contribution of cultural studies of law to the problematisation of the legal representation of sex. The title echoes a classic sociological tension – between law in books and law in action – but addresses a different concern: to reflect on different ways of observing in books manifestations [...]

Neste contexto, serão realizadas duas sessões de "Conversas sobre Colonialismo", a 26 de fevereiro e a 25 de março. O primeiro encontro terá lugar no dia 26 de fevereiro de 2026, quinta-feira, às 14h30, no Auditório de Engenharia II UMinho (Gualtar) (Edifício 16), sob o tema Conversas sobre colonialismo: instituições culturais e de memória, com [...]

Abstract: Meritocratic beliefs are widely invoked to legitimate inequality, yet evidence remains mixed on how redistributive preferences respond to different types of inequality and their attribution to individual effort and structural constraints. I test these mechanisms using a large-scale digital lab-in-the-field experiment in an online labour platform. Participants engaged in a one-shot give-or-take redistribution game [...]