{"id":4555,"date":"2020-06-17T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2020-06-17T10:40:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:40:40","slug":"interview-and-tribute-to-charles-pessanha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/2020\/06\/17\/interview-and-tribute-to-charles-pessanha\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview and Tribute to Charles Pessanha [Originally published in DADOS&#8217; blog in January\/2020]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Charles Pessanha is not only a key name in the history of <\/em>DADOS<em>, but also in the Brazilian scientific publishing body as a whole. In 2019, our former Editor-in-Chief and active Editor Emeritus was doubly honored, first with an interview to the organizing team for the celebrations of the 50 years of <\/em>IESP-UERJ<em> (<\/em>Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Pol\u00edticos, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro<em>) graduate studies and, second, with the ANPOCS (<\/em>Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Nacional de P\u00f3s-gradua\u00e7\u0101o em Ci\u00eancias Sociais<em>) Award for Academic Excellence Gildo Mar\u00e7al Brand\u00e3o in Political Science. Up next, there is a video of Charles&#8217; interview and a complete transcript of the speech that Breno Bringel \u2013 current Associate Editor and former Editor-in-Chief of <\/em>DADOS<em> \u2013 delivered at the ceremony held in October 2019 at ANPOCS. We hope that not only Charles&#8217;s role will continue to serve as an example for all of us, but that his work as Editor Emeritus of <\/em>DADOS<em> will endure for many more years to come.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>Luiz\nAugusto Campos (Editor-in-chief)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Caminhos - Ep. 2 - Charles Pessanha\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rw5zjDAm0Tg?start=1628&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:65px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Delivery speech at the \u201cANPOCS Award for Academic Excellence Gildo Mar\u00e7al Brand\u00e3o in Political Science\u201d to Charles Pessanha<\/strong><br><strong>Caxambu (MG), October 21, 2019, Gl\u00f3ria Hotel<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/charles-e1585428803718.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/charles-e1585428803718-300x159.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/charles-e1585428803718-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/charles-e1585428803718-150x80.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/charles-e1585428803718.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Breno Bringel (Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Pol\u00edticos da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good night, everyone! I am very honored to grant our dear Charles Pessanha the ANPOCS (<em>Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Nacional de P\u00f3s-gradua\u00e7\u0101o em Ci\u00eancias Sociais<\/em>) Award for Academic Excellence in Political Science. What can I say about Charles Pessanha that you don&#8217;t already know? Charles is an <em>avis rara<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an\nacademy steeped in egos, power disputes and conflicts, Charles is perhaps one\nof the few consensuses among us. His serenity, transparency and delicate\nassertiveness make him<em> \u201cno pierda la ternura jam\u00e1s\u201d<\/em> (\u201cnever lose his\ntenderness\u201d) even when we are facing the most serious issues and the most\ndelicate moments, as is the case today. In an academia full of harassment,\nfights between groups, humiliation and small (and large) exchanges of favors,\nthe trajectory of Charles Pessanha shows that it is possible to sail against\nthe wind: with affection, humbleness, generosity and solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there\nis another exceptional fact about Charles that you may not know. He is one of\nthe few people I know who continue to root for <em>Am\u00e9rica Futebol Clube<\/em>. <em>Am\u00e9ric<\/em>a\nis a centennial association, founded in 1904. And if I remember correctly, the\nlast important title of this team from Grande Tijuca was in 1962&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is no reason for Charles to stop being at <em>America&#8217;s<\/em> side. To raise its flag and wear its red jersey. Here is another important teaching from Master Pessanha: let us support and defend that and those we believe in, not the victorious or the fad preachers (be they academic, political or in sports).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years\nafter that <em>America Futebol Clube<\/em> title, in 1964, we know well what\nhappened in Brazil. It is important to remember not to repeat it. Since then,\nCharles has never stopped wearing the red jersey. I am not referring, of\ncourse, only to America&#8217;s jersey, but to that of the struggle against\ndictatorship, censorship, repression and all forms of oppression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many of his generation, his academic training was also marked by the political struggles of that time, which prevents us from talking about obvious or linear trajectories. He graduated in Social Sciences at <em>Universidade Federal Fluminense<\/em> (UFF) in 1968, a symbolic year of student and popular uprisings around the world, but also of the regime&#8217;s upsurge in Brazil. Then, in the following decades, he obtained a master&#8217;s degree in Political Science at the former <em>Instituto Universit\u00e1rio de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro<\/em> \u2013 IUPERJ (now <em>Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Pol\u00edticos da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro \u2013 <\/em>IESP-UERJ) and a doctorate, also in Political Science, at <em>Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em> (USP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1974, Charles started working as a professor at <em>Universidade C\u00e2ndido Mendes<\/em> and two years later he took up the position that many of you still associate him with today: Editor of the journal <em>DADOS<\/em>. He remained in this role for almost four decades, until 2012, when I took over as Editor and had the huge pleasure of spending more time with Charles. I never thought about staying forty years in the journal, but we had together six intense (and difficult) years in the editorial management, which is currently very well led by Luiz Augusto Campos, who could well stay at least twenty more years. The longevity and success of <em>DADOS<\/em> was undoubtedly due to the institutional support of IUPERJ and IESP, after that, but above all to the dedicated and serious work of our honoree, a pioneer in the professionalization of journals in our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Charles Pessanha&#8217;s contribution went far beyond <em>DADOS<\/em>, of which he is now Editor Emeritus. Charles was a key player in the creation of the main scientific dissemination institutions in the last decades in Brazil, with emphasis on the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (<em>Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Brasileira de Editores Cient\u00edficos<\/em>, ABEC), founded in 1985, of which he was the first and until now the only president of the Social Sciences area; and the SciELO platform, known to all, of which Charles was one of the founders in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, he was the creator and first editor of <em>Boletim Informativo e Bibliogr\u00e1fico de Ci\u00eancias Sociais<\/em> (BIB), an ANPOCS publication created shortly after the foundation of the association in 1977 in the former IUPERJ, initially as a supplement od <em>DADOS<\/em>. At a time of institutionalization of the Social Sciences, BIB played an important role in stimulating cooperation between graduate programs and, therefore, Charles, with the collaboration of Lucia Lippi and other colleagues involved in this endeavor, contributed in a decisive manner for the development of ANPOCS. Nevertheless, he actively collaborated in the creation and professionalization of some of the main scientific journals in our respective disciplines, although not exclusively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By not seeking to favor a group, a journal or a perspective, Charles has become a protagonist of Social Sciences in Brazil in recent decades. And if, unfortunately, the general rule in Brazil is having researchers who occupy the editor position in a precarious and temporary way, Charles became a professional editor and dean of scientific dissemination in the country, but also a professor dedicated to his students and a researcher with notable studies, mainly on the relationship between the executive and the legislature branches and on the control of the judiciary, many of which are presented in the ANPOCS itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In these times of darkness and dismantling, this award is not only a recognition of a unique trajectory dedicated to Social Sciences and scientific dissemination, but also a call for us to learn from Charles&#8217; contributions: treat our journals in a more impartial and professional way; let\u2019s think broadly and not only from departmental logics; let\u2019s articulate a resistance unity and solidarity; let\u2019s be creative in order to build an intellectual response to today&#8217;s barbarism from the Social Sciences, as Charles recently stated. Congratulations and thank you, Charles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">External links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>DADOS &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/dados\">https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/dados<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DADOS &#8211; Revista de Ci\u00eancias Sociais &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/dados.iesp.uerj.br\/\">http:\/\/dados.iesp.uerj.br\/<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:65px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Original article in Portuguese<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/dados.iesp.uerj.br\/entrevista-com-charles-pessanha\/ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/dados.iesp.uerj.br\/entrevista-com-charles-pessanha\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dados.iesp.uerj.br\/entrevista-com-charles-pessanha\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:65px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Translated from the original in <a href=\"http:\/\/dados.iesp.uerj.br\/entrevista-com-charles-pessanha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Portuguese (opens in a new tab)\">Portuguese<\/a> by Lilian Nassi-Cal\u00f2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Pessanha is not only a key name in the history of <em>DADOS<\/em>, a journal he edited for more than three decades and still helps editing, but also from every one of the Brazilian scientific publishing body. In 2019, our former Editor-in-Chief and active Editor Emeritus was doubly honored, first with the \u201c<em>Pr\u00eamio da ANPOCS de Excel\u00eancia Acad\u00eamica em Ci\u00eancia Pol\u00edtica<\/em>\u201d and, second, with an interview for the organizing team in charge of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the graduate program of IESP-UERJ, where Charles has worked and obtained his master&#8217;s degree. Next, there is a video of the interview in which he talks about his personal history, his life as a journal editor, the inception of SciELO and the current challenges of Brazil\u2019s Social Sciences. <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/2020\/06\/17\/interview-and-tribute-to-charles-pessanha\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[49,54,7,9],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-the-journals","tag-dissemination-of-information","tag-editorial-professionalization","tag-scholarly-communication","tag-scielo-program"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}