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Burnett, D. Graham. "Masters of all they surveyed : exploration, geography, and a British El Dorado /." Chicago (Ill.) ; London : The University of Chicago press, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37693801h.
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Clyde, Keane A. "The Guyana-Venezuela territorial controversy : the international approaches of the Government of Guyana, 1966-1992." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2002. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/28590.
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This thesis presents a case study of small state diplomacy. It investigates the international approaches of Guyana from 1966 to 1992, to the territorial controversy with Venezuela. The Anglo-Venezuelan dispute over the boundary with British Guiana was settled by arbitration in 1899, but was reopened in 1962. British Guiana gained its independence in May 1966, after an agreement was signed in Geneva, which designated the once settled dispute a "controversy". The foreign policy strategies deployed by Guyana demonstrate the extent to which a small state can effectively utilize diplomacy. The thesis challenges those interpretations which have viewed Guyana's foreign policy mainly in terms of a mechanism used by the government to secure legitimacy. Such arguments fail to consider the multifaceted characteristic of foreign policy and the threat to Guyana's territorial integrity from the more powerful Venezuela. It is contended that it would be more accurate to state that during periods of tensions with Venezuela, preservation of the Guyanese state was the principal goal of foreign policy. When relations improved, this goal was of continued importance, but other goals became prominent. The thesis analyses Guyanese-Venezuelan relations as Caracas pursued its claim. It evaluates Guyana's international response as its main defence strategy, given that state's military and economic weaknesses vis-a-vis Venezuela. It assesses the effectiveness of Burnham's vitriolic diplomacy 1966-1985 and the more subtle form during the Hoyte administration, 1985-1992. An examination of the foreign ministries' archives in London, Washington, Caracas and Port-of-Spain was conducted to gain insights into the interaction of the of the dispute's re-emergence and cold war concerns over Guyana. The measures taken by the USA, Britain, Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago to ensure that Venezuelan action did not affect Burnham's rule are revealed. Burnham's role in the signing of the 1966 Geneva Agreement is also explored.
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Dookie, Edris Kamal. "Effects of limestone applications and tillage on Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.) growth in acid soils of the intermediate savannahs of Guyana." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=72837.
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Garner, Steve. "Ethnicité, classe sociale et rapports sociaux de sexe en Guyana." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040259.
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Selon notre hypothèse principale, l'identité est plurielle. Ainsi, des études qui ne concerneraient que l'ethnicité ne prendraient pas en compte une réalité sociale complexe, dans laquelle la combinaison de facteurs identitaires sert de base à des actions politiques. La Guyana est un état postcolonial anglophone au sein duquel deux ethnies l'une afro-guyanienne et l'autre indo-guyanienne, se contestent réciproquement le pouvoir depuis la fin des années 50. L'analyse de l'évolution des idéologies qui animent cette société démontre que l'identité ethnique n'est pas la seule source d'inégalité dans les rapports de pouvoir. Classe sociale et genre restent, à cet égard, des facteurs essentiels. Les autres domaines choisis par ce travail de recherche pour analyser les relations intercommunautaires sont l'économie parallèle des années 70 et 80 ; le cricket (le sport national), le mouvement syndical. Leur étude montre que l'appartenance ethnique est présentée dans la plupart des travaux sur la Guyana comme un facteur déterminant. La réalité demeure cependant plus complexe, classe sociale et les rapports sociaux de sexe revêtant à plus d'un titre une importance. Le chapitre de conclusion replacera la Guyana dans un cadre comparatif international en proposant un lien entre, d'une part, les paradigmes dominants des études postcoloniales, et d'autre part, la résolution de certains conflits à l'échelle mondiale.
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Prevedel, Lloyd Massimo. "Longshore current variations, Guyana, South America." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30974.pdf.
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Mohamed, Wazir. "Frustrated peasants, marginalized workers free African villages in Guyana, 1838-1885 /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.
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Mayindza, Mouandza Mariette. "Aménagement des milieux humides de la Guyane française depuis le XVIIIème siècle jusqu'à nos jours : difficultés techniques, jeux d'acteurs et conflits d'usage." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSES019.
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Les premiers essais agricoles dans les terres basses de la Guyane française commencent dès 1763 sur les côtes de Kourou. Ce fut le début d’une entreprise qui, sous la forme de dents de scie, va marquer l’économie de cette colonie française de l’Amérique du sud jusqu’à nos jours. Les terres noyées de la Guyane française, sont toutes localisées sur la bande côtière et correspondent à des zones humides (tourbières, mangroves, marais). Au début de la colonisation, en 1604 précisément, les Français se sont établis sur l’île de Cayenne, et ont occupés les terres hautes, situées plus à l’intérieur du continent. L’agriculture de ces terres a débuté à la même période, selon le modèle d’agriculture sur brûlis développé par les autochtones. Ce modèle traditionnel convenait à la production des denrées alimentaires pour des petits groupes. Néanmoins, au bout d’un siècle, leur rendement ne satisfaisait plus au commerce de la colonie. L’épuisement ou la faible productivité de ces terres hautes à la fin du XVIIIeme siècle, a ainsi occasionné une ruée ver les terres basses. Le développement de ces terres noyées avait déjà été entrepris par les Hollandais (Guyane hollandaise), mais ces zones humides rebutaient encore les Colons-Planteurs en Guyane française. Dès l’arrivée de V. Malouet (nouvel intendant de la colonie) vers 1778, les techniques d’assèchement et de construction de polders se développent en Guyane française sous la direction de l’ingénieur J. S. Guisan. Ce dernier essaya de faire des terres noyées, la réponse aux problèmes agricoles de la Guyane française. Mais, les différents évènements socio-politiques qui touchèrent la France à cette époque (Révolution française, abolition de l’esclavage, activités aurifères), mirent fin dès 1848 à cette entreprise. Certaines contraintes climatiques doivent également être considérées. Un siècle plus tard, vers 1950 avec le lancement du plan vert, les rizières de Mana témoignent encore de l’importance de la culture des terres basses en Guyane française<br>The first agricultural trials in the lowlands of French Guyana started in AD 1763 on Kourou coasts. It was the beginning of an initiative that will mark the economy of this French colony of South America until today. The flooded lands of French Guyana are all located on the coastal strip. This area is composed of wetlands (peatlands, mangrove and swamps). At the beginning of colonisation, in AD 1604 exactly, French people established themselves on the Cayenne Island and on the uplands (mainland). The cultivation of these uplands started at the same time, adopting the slash-and-burn agriculture developed by autochthonous people. More, this agricultural model was butter suited to foodstuffs production for small groups. However, early in the century, their performance no longer satisfied trade of the colony. Depletion or low production of these uplands at the end of the XVIIIth century, caused a rush to the lowlands. The development of these low lands has already been undertaken by the Dutch (Dutch Guyana), but these wetlands were still rejected by the Colon-planters in the French Guyana. As soon as V. Malouet arrived (new intendant of the colony) ca. AD 1778, the techniques of dewatering and polder construction developed in the French Guyana under the supervision of the engineer J. S. Guisan. He tried to manage the flooded lands as an answer to agricultural problems of the French Guyana. But, several socio-political events occurred in France at this period (the French Revolution, the abolition of slavery, the gold-bearing activity) put a stop to this process in AD 1848. Climate control should also be considered. One century later, around AD 1950, Mana rice fields still testify of the importance of cultivation of lowland of French Guyana, in particular thanks to the launch of the green plan.Keys words: French Guyana
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Thompson, Alvin O. "Unprofitable servants : Crown slaves in Berbice, Guyana, 1803-1831 /." Barbados : University of the West Indies Press, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39225091q.
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Chan, Susan Deborah. "Impact evaluation of a milk supplementation programme on weight of children 6-24 months of age in Guyana, South America." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0007/MQ44143.pdf.
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Richardson, Karen S. "Biodiversity priorities and conservation decision-making : the role of spatial scale, irreplaceability and vulnerability in Guyana." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36689.
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The application of systematic conservation decision-making methodologies requires data on the spatial distribution of the elements of biodiversity. When a decision on where to put a protected area to conserve biodiversity must be made at a given time, the decision must be based on the best data available. But, adequate data are often lacking. This thesis examines the use of surrogate measures of biodiversity in conservation decision-making in Guyana, South America. The study looks at different surrogate measures and their influence on the selection of priority biodiversity sites for conservation. Surrogate measures at the ecosystem and species level are examined. The research shows that measures from different hierarchical levels produce different outcomes on the location of sites, however measures at the ecosystem-level appear to capture most of the known species distributions. The thesis examines cross-taxon congruency and shows that the spatial scale of analysis influences patterns of congruency for different taxonomic groups. The influence of spatial scale is also examined for various measures of biodiversity and it is shown that variability of species richness decreases with increased selection unit size. Finally, an index of vulnerability is used to prioritise conservation of sites in Guyana based on urgency, which is defined by two different threats: agriculture and forestry. This thesis adopts a conceptual framework based on data-driven, efficient, flexible and transparent methodologies and uses it to demonstrate how a network of protected areas might be established in Guyana that uses the most comprehensive data available on biodiversity. The thesis concludes by presenting a protocol for conservation decision-making that incorporates some of the theoretical principles identified by this work as important for measuring biodiversity and planning a protected area network.
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Patte, Marie-France. "Structure de l'énoncé en Arawak des Guyanes." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040098.
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L'Arawak est une langue amérindienne parlée dans les trois Guyanes (Guyana, Surinam et Guyana) documentée depuis le XVIème siècle. Les structures actancielles mettent à jour la distinction entre états et procès et permettent de reconnaître l'Arawak comme une langue active ou "duale". En dehors de la sphère actancielle, participants et circonstants sont introduits par des relateurs (chapitre I). Le chapitre II "diathèse" reprend les types de schémas actanciels, puis présente les variations de diathèse, la voix moyenne et le factitif. Au chapitre III la "détermination" est étudiée en termes d'incidence et de relation au niveau du syntagme et de la phrase. Le chapitre IV traite du système aspecto-temporel, le chapitre V, des modalités. Ensuite sont présentés les procédés syntaxiques qu'offre la langue pour organiser l'énoncé. Les divers mécanismes de hiérarchisation des constituants sont étudiés dans ce cadre. Enfin, l'analyse d'un texte complète la description<br>Arawak is an Amerindian language known since the XVIth century, still spoken in the three Guianas (Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana). Two basic predicative schemes correspond to the semantic distinction between process and state. This allows to define the Arawak language as "active" or "dual". The other participants as well as the circumstantial complements, are introduced in the sentence by means of a postposed relational element, or relator (chapter I). In chapter II, basic predicative patterns, as well as valency changing are discussed, namely the middle voice and the factitive. Chapter III studies in terms of hierarchy, the determination in the noun phrase and in the sentence. Tense and aspect (chapter IV) and modalities (chapter V) are treated. Predicative strategies which organize the information in discourse are then analized. A fragment of a narrative is analized in order to supplement the description
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Farage, Nádia. "As muralhas dos sertões : os povos indígenas no rio Branco e a colonização /." Rio de Janeiro : Paz e Terra, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35709455t.
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Permual, Dindyal. "Investigations of stored rice pest problems in Guyana." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308943.
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Cook, Anne Patricia. "Social policy and the colonial economy in Guyana." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1985. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2080/.
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Westling, Jonas. "Klimatrapportering i guyansk dagspress : En intervjustudie och innehållsanalys rörande guyanska dagstidningars rapportering om klimatförändringar." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26159.
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Denna uppsats undersöker hur fyra dagstidningar i Guyana rapporterar om klimatförändringar och vilka förutsättningar som finns för att göra det. Guyana är ett fattigt och inför klimatförändringar särskilt sårbart land, särskilt när det kommer till stigande havsnivåer och intensifierade stormar. Landets kust är till stor del belägen under havsnivån, vid vilken 90 procent av landets befolkning bor. Studien består av intervjuer med sju tidningsjournalister och fyra nyhetschefer på de fyra största dagstidningarna i Guyana. Studien innehåller även en kvantitativ innehållsanalys av tidningarnas artiklar relaterade till klimatförändringar under tio månader 2014. Resultaten visar att klimatrapporteringens fokus ligger på politiska frågor och politiker, som anses vara den primära informationskällan i frågan. Nyheterna är ofta drivna av specifika händelser, och kontinuerlig och fördjupad rapportering av ämnet anses vara ovanlig. Det tycks vara den allmänna uppfattningen bland intervjupersonerna att rapporteringen om klimatfrågan i de guyanska tidningarna generellt är väldigt sparsam. Majoriteten av intervjupersonerna upplever att tillgången till lokalt förankrade experter eller forskning eller självständiga organisationer som arbetar med frågan är bristfällig. Flera journalister anser att man saknar tillräcklig kunskap för att kunna rapportera om klimatförändringar på ett önskvärt sätt, och att möjligheterna och incitamenten från ledningen att specialisera sig inom ämnet är få. De flesta av intervjupersonerna uppfattar klimatförändringar som ett lågt prioriterat ämne av både tidningarna och läsarna.
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Dröge, Annika B. "Informelle Institutionen in ökonomischen Entwicklungsprozessen der Zuckersektor in Guyana." Baden-Baden Nomos, 2007. http://d-nb.info/989385434/04.
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Tindall, Dylan. "A geometry of the imagination : Wilson Harris's Guyana quartet." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6946.
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The purpose of this work is to convey an interpretation of Wilson Harris's first four novels as a complete text motivated and unified by self-inquest. This interpretation contains two major assertions:
1. a process of self-analysis underlies Harris's representation of the collective unconscious in Palace of the Peacock (1960), The Far Journey of Oudin (1961), The Whole Armour (1962), and The Secret Ladder (1963), collectively republished in 1985 as The Guyana Quartet.
2. Palace of the Peacock, as a single structure, and aspects of The Guyana Quartet as a unified text, exhibit similarities with specific Buddhist concepts. Analogy with a Buddhist text, the Gandavyuha, is useful for understanding the representation of the collective unconscious as a moral and metaphysical structure.
The introduction includes an explanation of the novels as the author's personal allegory. This is foregrounded by an outline of Harris's personal experiences in the Guyanese jungle.
In Chapter One, a reading of Palace of the Peacock is preceded by a comparison with Buddhist concepts used in this discussion. Chapters Two and Three focus on Harris's use of characters as masks to explore his actions within the fictional circumstances in The Far Journey of Oudin and The Whole Armour.
In Chapter Four, the protagonist of The Secret Ladder, Fenwick, is interpreted as the culmination of self-representation in the preceding novels. He is a symbolic representation of the author discovering himself as an individual whose perceptions of political impasse in post-colonial culture unravel when he discovers the collective unconscious as the context of his psyche.
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Elliott, Roy Graham. "The geology and geochemistry of the Omai goldfield, Guyana." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332554.
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The Omai goldfield consists of mesothermallode gold mineralisation and associated saprolitealluvial placer deposits, hosted within Palaeoproterozoic granite-greenstone terrain of the Guiana Shield. Total mining reserves are estimated at 44.8 million tonnes, grading at 1.43 glt Au. The goldfield lies along an ESE-trending, regional-scale structure referred to as the Issano-Appaparu shear zone. At Omai, the gold deposits are located in two discrete ore zones - the Omai Stock Zone and the Wenot Lake Zone. The bulk of primary mineralisation is centred on a high-AI, quartz diorite-tonalite boss (the Omai Stock), where wall-rock alteration is dominated by a hydrothermal sericite-carbonate assemblage. The primary ore package of Au-W-Te-S mineralisation is contained in a series of narrow (1-5cm), quartzcarbonate (ankerite) veins. Visible gold is commonly associated with galena and microscopic tellurides. Provisional fluid inclusion studies have indicated that the parent hydrothermal fluid was H20-C02 -bearing (- 5.0 mol% CO2), of low salinity (0-1.8 wt. % NaCI equiv.) and moderate density (0.96 g/cm3). The depositional temperature of the fluid was probably in the region of 200-400oC. Preliminary 6'80 values are consistent with a magmatic andlor metamorphic source. The Majuba Suite greenstones adjacent to the Omai Stock are also partially mineralised. These rocks are dominated by primitive, low-K, high-Fe tholeiitic (HFT) basalts and minor basic intrusives which are characterised by flattish REE patterns of around 10 times chondrite. A subordinate, calc-alkaline series (CAS), of mostly andesitic composition, is intercalated within the volcanic pile. In terms of trace element geochemistry, the Majuba Suite is chemically comparable to volcanic rocks from modern island arc settings. The REE geochemistry, which proved to be extremely diagnostic throughout, indicates that the Omai Stock is genetically related to the regional Tigri pluton. This and other TransAmazonian soda granitoid plutons in the area have chemical affinities akin to calc-alkaline volcanic arc granitoids of Phanerozoic orogenic belts. Several lamprophyric (appinite) pipes are spatially and temporally associated with the Omai Stock. Although the appinites are only weakly mineralised, they may have a genetic significance regarding the source of the gold. Both the Omai Stock and Majuba Suite are cut by a series of partially mineralised, ultrabasic to intermediate dykes (the Gilt Creek Suite) which intruded along shallow-dipping fracture zones. These rocks are typically Mg-rich, LREE enriched (LanlYbn = 7.84-32.6) and appear to be the product of alkaline arc magmatism. A few post-orogenic mafic dykes (POMDs), of probable Mesozoic age, are also identified in the area. These rocks are strictly nonmineralised and are chemically correlatable with tholeiitic basalts from continental rift-related settings. In the Wenot Lake Zone, lode mineralisation is hosted within thin bands of high-silica rhyolites (HSRs), also of the Majuba Suite, close to a sheared contact with phyllitic tuffs. The HSRs have a distinct chemistry characterised by elevated Si02 (> 75.0%), Na, Nb, Zr and REE contents with anomalously low concentrations of Mg, Ti, Ca, K, Rb and Sr. These rocks are further characterised by wing-shaped REE patterns containing deep negative Eu anomalies.
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Silva, Mariana Lima da. "Estudo comparado das políticas indigenistas na fronteira Brasil Guyana." Universidade Federal de Roraima, 2016. http://www.bdtd.ufrr.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=383.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>Esta dissertação tem como finalidade comparar as políticas indigenistas brasileiras e guyanenses voltadas à demarcação de terras, ao autossustento, à educação e à seguridade social. Tem o intuito de perceber a relação entre nacionalidade e acesso a essas políticas por indígenas tranfronteiriços, cujos territórios étnicos foram sobrepostos por uma fronteira nacional. Para tanto, procurou-se compreender as relações dos povos indígenas no contexto histórico de formação dos Estados nacionais brasileiro e guyanense e a delimitação da fronteira entre estes. Compreender, também, o contexto socioeconômico contemporâneo desses países no qual se ambientam as políticas indigenistas e as implicações de nacionalidade para acesso às políticas nacionais por indígenas transfronteiriços.<br>This dissertation aims to compare the Brazilian and Guyanese indigenous policies focused on land demarcation, self-sustain, education and social security. It has the intention of perceiving the relation between nationality and the access to these policies by transboundary indians, which ethnic territories has been overlapped by a national border. To do so, it was sought to comprehend the relations among the indigenous peoples in the historical context of Brazilian and Guyanese national State formation and the contemporary socioeconomic context of these countries in which take place the indigenous policies and the implications of nationality to access the national policies by transboundary indians.
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Grund, Lisa Katharina. "Aasenîkon! : Makushi travelogues from the borderlands of Southern Guyana." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12167.
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This ethnographic account focuses on the conceptions and practices of movement, as narrated by the Makushi people who live along the triple frontier of southern Guyana. The journeys - individual experiences, in particular of women – depict visits to other Makushi communities, to their neighbours and cities in Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela. The travelogues disclose Makushi premises on knowledge and its acquisition: gender, age, temporality and alterity. Exploring these concepts in practice, the ethnography points out the value the Makushi attribute to their encounters with others, situations in which risk and unpredictability are creatively incorporated as part of their sociality.
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Darroch, Fiona Jane. "Memory and myth : postcolonial religion in contemporary Guyanese fiction and poetry." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2618.
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In this thesis I investigate and problematize the historical location of the term 'religion' and examine how this location has affected the analytical reading of postcolonial fiction and poetry. The term 'religion' has been developed in response to a Western Enlightenment and Christian history and its adoption outside of this context should therefore be treated with caution. Within postcolonial literary criticism, there has been either a silencing of the category as a result of this caution or an uncritical and essentialising adoption of the term 'religion'. I argue that a vital aspect of how writers articulate their histories of colonial contact, migration, slavery and the re-forging of identities in the wake of these histories is illuminated by the classificatory term 'religion'. I demonstrate this through the close reading of Guyanese fiction and poetry, as critical themes are seen and discussed that would be otherwise ignored. Aspects of postcolonial theory and Religious Studies theory are combined to provide a new insight into the literature and therefore expand the field of postcolonial literary criticism. The way in which writers 'remember' history through writing is central to the way in which I theorize and articulate 'religion' throughout the thesis; the act of remembrance is persuasively interpreted in terms of 'religion'. The title 'Memory and Myth' therefore refers to both the syncretic mythology of Guyana, and the key themes in a new critical understanding of 'religion'. Chapter One establishes the theoretical framework to be adopted throughout the thesis by engaging with key developments made in the past decade by Religious Studies theorists. Through this dialogue, I establish a working definition of the category religion whilst being aware of its limitations, particularly within a discussion of postcolonial literature. I challenge the reluctance often shown by postcolonial theorists in their adoption of the term 'religion' and offer an explanation for this reluctance. Chapter Two attends to the problems involved in carrying out interdisciplinary research, whilst demonstrating the necessity for such an enquiry. Chapters Three, Four and Five focus on selected Guyanese writers and poets and demonstrate the illuminating effect of a critical reading of the term 'religion' for the analysis of postcolonial fiction and poetry. Chapter Three provides a close reading of Wilson Harris's novel Jonestown alongside theoretical and historical material on the actual Jonestown tragedy. Chapter Four examines the mesmerising effect of the Anancy tales on contemporary writers, particularly poet John Agard. And Chapter Five engages with the work of Indo-Guyanese writer, David Dabydeen and his elusive character Manu.
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Ishmael, Wazir Ahmad. "Urbanization in a Peripheral Capitalist State: A Guyana Case Study." PDXScholar, 1993. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1385.
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This research proposes to examine the process of urbanization in Guyana, South America. In particular, the objectives of this research are threefold. The first is to identify, describe, and evaluate some of the historic and current causes of urban growth and urbanization which have taken place in a peripheral capitalist state that was under the plantation mode and that illustrates a legacy of "uneven development." The second objective is to attempt to assess planning responses, through attempts by the state to formulate policies to deal more effectively with urbanization. And the third objective is to contribute to a dialogue between planning practitioners and dependency/world-system theorists. Although any urbanization process has a variety of endogenous and exogenous variables, the major premise of this study is that the world system affects the political economy of the state and hence its pattern of urban development. That is, urbanization in Guyana can be largely attributed to its colonial legacy after a prolonged period of Dutch, French, and British tutelage, and to the general influence of metropolitan economic dictates. In surveying the components shaping urbanization, the study discerns outcomes which essentially confirm the expectations of dependency/world-system theory. Following its incorporation into the modern world system, Guyana has reproduced many of the patterns of development that are expected of a dependent peripheral economy. Core power hegemony led to the stimulation and growth of the port town of Georgetown and the secondary port of New Amsterdam. Georgetown, the capital, in particular was used not only to evacuate economic surplus, but also to provide a market for core-manufactured goods. Whilst dependency/world-system theory allows one to demonstrate how surplus value was extracted from Guyana via the circulation of primary commodities, it failed to adequately address the manner in which labor was utilized and reproduced. Urbanization in Guyana is contingent not only upon the class struggle, but also ethnic/racial conflict. Throughout the study, the historical evidence has supported the notion that race has been a dominant factor in the internal political economy. Racial considerations have been most important in determining legislation, the allocation of economic surplus, planning, and development policies which have impacted urbanization. Guyana today appears to conform to the postulates of dependent urbanization. Among the observed characteristics of the urban structure are urban primacy, unemployment and underemployment, a burgeoning informal sector, intra-urban inequality, shanty towns and squatter settlements, and retardation in rural areas. These dependent urbanization features have also been accompanied by a number of conditions that appear to be common to all countries which have experienced dependent development. Within the economic structure, there is an overwhelming primary export orientation with product elaboration in the core, low rates of GNP and per capita incomes, a stunted manufacturing sector, a lack of diversification, low-productivity and low-wage labor, excessive dependence, a deepening divergence between what is consumed and what is produced, and the absence of an internal dynamic and coherence within the political and social structure, the study has noted perceived racial and ethnic divisions, a high degree of social segmentation, residential separation along racial lines, profound inequalities, instability, bureaucratism, and authoritarian tendencies. Finally, this study of the Guyana experience demonstrates that dependency/world-system theory can be a powerful heuristic tool in organizing, understanding, and explaining the nature of the urbanization process in a peripheral capitalist state. The research further suggests that when the theory is supplemented with a realist perspective that places a premium on internal dynamics, the dialectical relationship between external and internal forces will ensure a more complete analysis of urbanization in peripheral social formations.
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Curkovic, Josip. "Ripple morphology in a sand/mud environment, Guyana, South America." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ30897.pdf.
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Thomas, Raquel Simone. "Productivity and resource availability in lowland tropical rainforest in Guyana." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404769.
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Chesney, Wanda Elizabeth. "Detranslation : a postcolonial discourse of education policy making in Guyana." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.548463.
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Ifill, Mellissa Abigail. "Democratising developing societies and confronting competing ethnicities : the Guyana experience." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436247.
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Bynoe, Paulette Euranie. "Ecotourism, institutions and livelihoods : a study of North Rupununi, Guyana." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413330.
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Allan, C. L. "Amerindian ethnoecology, resource use and forest management in southwest Guyana." Thesis, Roehampton University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440761.
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Dangour, Alan David. "Growth of body proportion in two Amerindian tribes in Guyana." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288025.
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Khargi, Shiromanie Sharla. "Caregiver Support and Advocacy for Children with Disabilities in Guyana." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5887.
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In Guyana, a developing country in South America, many parental caregivers of disabled people struggle to understand their children's disability as well as provide, and advocate for, educational resources and medical and psychological care for their children. The researchers have found that the needs of this population have been minimized placing disabled people at risk for neglect, abuse, and death. In 2006, the Convention on the Rights for People with Disabilities created a plan to help developing countries improve the care and advocacy for people with disabilities. The purpose of this evaluative study, which was guided by general systems theory, was to examine and assess whether the Community Based Rehabilitation Program serves caregivers of the disabled population in Guyana effectively, identify the positive and negative aspects of the program, and recommend improvements to the program. Qualitative research methods were used. Surveys and interviews were administered to 73 caregivers of disabled people. Data were analyzed using triangulation strategies for data verification to identify specific themes. The findings of this study indicated that caregivers of people with disabilities are in dire need of educational resources, support groups, and training. They also suggested that when provided relevant information, caregivers tend to feel more empowered to serve as agents of care for their disabled children. Results from the study may spur policy makers to implement relevant training for Guyanese caregivers and provide them with necessary resources, which may lead to improvements in the lives of disabled people in Guyana and the possibility for social justice.
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Araujo, Osvaldina dos Santos. "Frontières en mouvement et échanges économico-sexuels : dynamiques migratoires des Brésiliennes au Suriname, en passant par le Guyana et la Guyane française." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-28082018-102726/.
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Dans ce travail, nous aborderons la manière dont les diverses logiques et stratégies dentrée, de circulation et de flux frontaliers dans la région des Guyanes sont structurées. Lobjectif est donc de comprendre la dynamique de circulation migratoire des Brésilien-ne-s au Suriname, mais aussi la place du Guyana et de la Guyane Française dans cette mobilité. Il sagit alors danalyser les logiques, les trajectoires et les dynamiques de mobilité des Brésiliennes travaillant dans la prostitution. La dynamique de mobilité liée à la prostitution est ici analysée à partir de lexpérience des personnes circulant dans lunivers du marché du sexe. Cette recherche est avant tout qualitative en ce quelle repose sur des entretiens semi-directifs réalisés avec 74 personnes (44 femmes, 27 hommes et 3 travestis/transsexuels) et sappuie sur une approche ethnographique multi-située dans différents moments et lieux du Guyana, du Suriname, de la Guyane Française et de Hollande. Plus précisément, cette étude montre que les femmes passent par de multiples modalités déchange : sexuels, affectifs, matériels, économiques et symboliques. Pour les Brésiliennes qui migrent au Guyana ou au Suriname pour travailler dans les clubs de prostitution, leur sortie de ces derniers constitue soit une transition entre la menina de club et la ploc, soit une relation avec un fixe ou un mari ce sont là des catégories de référence pour comprendre le marché du sexe au Suriname et la dynamique migratoire de ces femmes dans la région des Guyanes. Or, chacune de ces catégories gravite autour du fait dêtre femme et étrangère, dêtre prostituée ou de passer par la prostitution, ou encore doccuper dautres rôles pour tenter de se détacher des étiquettes et des stigmates.<br>Este trabalho aborda a forma como são estruturadas as diversas lógicas e estratégias de entrada, de circulação e de fluxo fronteiriço na região das Guianas, e tem como objetivo compreender a dinâmica da circulação migratória de brasileiras/os no Suriname e a relação dessa mobilidade com a Guiana e a Guiana Francesa, analisar as lógicas, os circuitos e as dinâmicas de mobilidade de brasileiras na prostituição. A dinâmica de mobilidade ligada à prostituição foi analisada a partir da experiência das pessoas que vivenciaram o universo do mercado do sexo ou que estiveram inseridas no circuito desse espaço circulatório. O estudo é, sobretudo, qualitativo, realizado a partir de entrevistas semiestruturadas com 74 pessoas (44 mulheres, 27 homens e três travestis/transexuais), em uma abordagem etnográfica multissituada em diferentes momentos e lugares na Guiana, no Suriname, na Guiana Francesa e na Holanda. O estudo demonstra que as mulheres transitam entre várias modalidades de intercâmbio: sexuais, afetivos, materiais, econômicos e simbólicos; e que sua mobilidade é frequente tanto no que se refere à circulação espacial como à laboral. Para as brasileiras que migram para Guiana e o Suriname para atuar em clube de prostituição, a saída deste significa a transição entre menina de club e ploc, ou ter um fixo ou marido, categorias referenciais para compreender o mercado do sexo no Suriname e a dinâmica migratória delas na região das Guianas, uma vez que tais categorias giram em torno de ser mulher e estrangeira, de estar ou ser prostituta, de assumir outros papéis para tentar se distanciar de rótulos e estigmas.
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Roopnaraine, Terence Robin Rupert. "Freighted fortunes : gold and diamond mining in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251603.
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Gajadar, B. "Economic adjustment programmes and the export sector of Guyana 1962-83." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233750.
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Efforts to diversify the colonial economy in Guyana after 1966 were unsuccessful. With the oil shock of 1973, and falling commodity prices after 1975, the economy became unstable. This instability is expressed in large balance of payments deficits, deficit financing, lower export levels and a rise in inflation. Policies to restore economic stability involved the implementation of stabilisation and structural adjustment programmes between 1977-84, with the participation of the IMF and World Bank. The objective is to investigate factors affecting economic stabilisation of both domestic prices and the balance of payments Emphasis is placed on the study of aggregate supply, which examines . the behaviour of exports and inflation. These two factors are linked to the balance of payments. The assumption is made that exports are influenced by supply variables, such as domestic output, international prices, labour costs and movements in the exchange rate. The analysis of exports reveals that their response is delayed and inelastic to changes in price and other factors. This is consistent with estimates for primary commodity exports from small low income countries. The partial adjustment/adaptive expectations model provides satisfactory evidence for the behaviour of commodity exports, except in the case of sugar. For sugar an export supply function is estimated. The analysis of inflation reveals that external influences are more dominant than domestic factors in the inflationary process. The results suggest that the supply response for all commodities is slow in the short run, but may be faster in the long run. This implies that the implementation of appropriate stabilisation policies may be able to improve the deficit in the balance of payments, but that lags may exist in the adjustment process. The constraining factors would be increased labour costs in the export sector and higher import prices for industrial inputs.
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Howard, Joniqua A'ja. "Mercury in the Environment: Field Studies from Tampa, Bolivia, And Guyana." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3465.
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Tampa (US), Guyana (SA), and Bolivia (SA), are geographically, socially, economically, and politically unique which make them ideal sites to study issues of mercury and sustainability. Mercury’s innate ability to bioaccumulate and biomagnify in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems poses a severe threat to both human and environmental health. The most vulnerable populations affected by mercury consumption include coastal communities, children, women of child-bearing age, the indigenous poor and persons with high environmental/occupational exposure factors. Communities in the regions of Florida, Bolivia, and Guyana whose diets are high in fish and are environmentally/occupationally exposed to mercury may be at a higher risk of mercury intoxication, especially in the absence of education on the topic. Mercury loadings in rivers, streams, and mine tailing waters and sediments ranged from 0.9-114 ng/L and 29- 2891 ng/g, respectively; whilst fish mercury loadings were 0.02-1.034 mg/kg wet wt. Although mining sites had the highest mercury sediment and water loadings there were no significant differences when compared to pristine sites in Guyana. Fish loadings above recommended EPA/WHO regulatory limits were observed at all sites and none had signage, informational warnings or educational material available. A pilot study that included four elementary schools in Tampa showed that Water Awareness Research Education (WARE), a community based participatory environmental educational program, is a sustainable solution to addressing issues of mercury exposure.
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Menner, Nikolai [Verfasser]. "Hohe Prävalenzrate multiresistenter Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Isolate in Georgetown, Guyana / Nikolai Menner." Berlin : Medizinische Fakultät Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1028494378/34.
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Thomas, Raquel Simone. "Forest productivity and resource availability in lowland tropical forests in Guyana." Thesis, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325358.
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CORBIN, Hisakhana Pahoona. "Brazilian migration to Guyana as livelihood strategy: a case study approach." Universidade Federal do Pará, 2007. http://www.repositorio.ufpa.br:8080/jspui/handle/2011/1966.
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Made available in DSpace on 2011-03-23T21:19:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0<br>Item created via OAI harvest from source: http://www.bdtd.ufpa.br/tde_oai/oai2.php on 2011-03-23T21:19:47Z (GMT). Item's OAI Record identifier: oai:bdtd.ufpa.br:378<br>This mixed method case study was conducted with focus on Brazilian migration to Guyana as a livelihood strategy. The study examined, described and analyzed the migration and
adaptation process, and the socioeconomic and physical environmental impacts and concerns of the livelihood activities adopted by these migrants in Guyana. Questionnaires, interviews, documentaries, archival records, and observations (direct and participant) were utilized to
gain an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon under study. The study confirms that throught a strong networking system, Brazilians from lower socioeconomic and cultural
classes are able to adopt migration as a livelihood strategy, as they migrate in a step-wise manner along a well-defined route to Guyana. Maintaining this networking system, migrants
have been able to respond swiftly to new livelihood activities both internally and internationally. In Guyana, mining and prostitution are the major livelihood activities that
have given rise to both positive and negative socioeconomic consequences and concerns and, negative environmental impacts.<br>Este estudo de caso de metodologia mista foi conduzido com foco na migração brasileira para a Guiana como uma estratégia de sobrevivência. O estudo examinou, descreveu e
analisou o processo da migração e da adaptação, e os impactos socioeconômicos e ambientais físicos e as preocupações associadas com as atividades de sobrevivência destes migrantes na Guiana. Foram utilizados questionários, entrevistas, documentários, arquivos e observações
(direta e participante) com o objetivo de obter um entendimento profundo do fenômeno em questão. O estudo confirma que através de um forte sistema de rede, os brasileiros de classes socioeconômicas e culturais mais baixas são capazes de adotar a migração como estratégia de
sobrevivência, à medida que eles migram através de uma rota por passos (step-wise) prédefinida para a Guiana. Este sistema de rede permite aos migrantes responderem prontamente às novas atividades de sobrevivência tanto interna como internacionalmente. Na Guiana, a
mineração e a prostituição são identificadas como as principais atividades de sobrevivência que tem gerado conseqüências socioeconômicas tanto positivas quanto negativas e impactos ambientais negativos.
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Moonilall, Nall Inshan. "Impact of Amendments on Soil Properties and Agronomic Productivity in Guyana." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1430925071.
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Semple-McBean, M. A. "Caregiver-child interactions : effects of professional development on practice in Guyana." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1517840/.
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In 2010, the first Early Childhood Professional Development (ECPD) programme was introduced by the University of Guyana (UG). This two-year programme was designed for caregivers working with children in the birth to four-year-old age group. Statistical analysis of this programme suggests it is not having the desired effect in promoting caregiver-child interaction (CCI), when assessed against structural performance indicators (UG-UNICEF, 2012). Given that CCI has been cited in the last decade as one of the most critical determinants for optimising learning during early years (Siraj-Blatchford et al., 2003; Sabol et al., 2013; Siraj and Asani, 2015), discussions were held with tutors, in an attempt to address this perceived deficiency. These discussions revealed that caregivers had made significant gains despite receiving relatively low scores on assessment scales. Consequently, this study attempts to explore these small, yet potentially significant changes. The main research question considered here is: ‘How has the ECPD programme contributed to the quality of caregivers’ professional interaction practices?’ A qualitative case study, supported by ethnographic techniques, constitutes the theoretical framework to investigate this question. To explore everyday CCI practice, eight cases were selected for observation, video-review, guided-recall and semi-structured interviews. Professionals who witnessed or supported these caregivers’ practice were also interviewed, and an examination of programme materials and delivery was conducted. Results were interpreted using a thematic analysis. The major findings are: (i) caregivers engage in challenging-type interactions; but, the intensity depends on whether interactions are aimed at ‘gaffing’ [spontaneous conversation] or ‘lesson-time’, or conducted with whole-groups or on a one-on-one basis; (ii) notable differences in CCI are accounted for by caregivers’ degree of readiness to change, and prioritisation of pedagogical thinking about practice. It can be concluded that CCI experiences are too complex and transactional to be captured by UG’s current assessment tools. Recommendations are offered to allow UG to make decisions about training strategies which are most useful, might be missing, or that could be discontinued or modified.
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John, Valescia Xenobia. "Factors Affecting Inadequate Growth During Early Childhood in Guyana, South America." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4456.
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Children under 5 years of age in Guyana are at an increased risk for inadequate growth. According to the United Nations Development Programme, 1 out of 3 children of preschool age are undernourished globally. This is a major public health concern as undernourishment in children under 5 years can lead to lifelong health complications. The study assessed the relationship between inadequate growth and urban classification in children under 5 years in Guyana, South America, after controlling for the following variables: mother's level of education, mother's age at birth of the child, household size, wealth, and marital status. The study framework combined the social ecological theory/model with concepts of malnutrition. The study used data from the 2009 Guyana Demographic and Health Survey, a quantitative, cross-sectional study. Logistic regression was used to test for a statistically significant association between inadequate growth and urban classification. There was a statistically significant bivariate relationship between inadequate growth and urban classification, which was no longer significant after controlling for sociodemographic covariates. Age, OR = 0.98; 95% CI = 0.96, 1.00; p =.033 was marginally significant and wealth, OR = 0.54; 95% CI = 0.37, 0.80; p = .005 were statistically significant, after controlling for sociodemographic covariates. There was a significant relationship between urban classification and mother's age at birth of child, mother's level of education, wealth quintile, and marital status. This study, which identified the need for targeted interventions, such as education, job placement, adequate housing, and appropriate nutrition, based on mother's age and wealth, will lead to positive social change in Guyana.
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Conan, Claude. "Les populations aux frontières de la Guyane : caractéristiques singulières et fécondités contrastées : une recherche menée dans les communes guyanaises de Maripasoula, Grand-Santi, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Mana et Saint-Georges de l'Oyapock, ainsi que dans le municipio d'Oiapoque (Brésil)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01H008/document.
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La Guyane présente la fécondité la plus élevée de l’ensemble des régions françaises et également des autres territoires d’Amérique du Sud et de la Caraïbe : 3,3 enfants par femme estimés en 2018.Cette thèse propose une analyse des principaux déterminants de la fécondité en Guyane, notamment aux zones frontalières, les plus natalistes. Ce travail s’appuie sur les résultats d’une enquête par questionnaire menée auprès de femmes et d’hommes résidant dans quatre communes frontalières avec le Suriname, à l’ouest, et une commune frontalière avec le Brésil, à l’est. Un complément a été réalisé dans le municipio d’Oiapoque, au Brésil, à la frontière guyanaise.Cette thèse présente tout d’abord le contexte historique et ethnologique qui préside à la composition actuelle de la population de Guyane. Puis elle examine les caractéristiques sociologiques de la société guyanaise d’aujourd’hui, et notamment des communes frontalières, où les populations sont économiquement et socialement précaires, peu instruites et fréquemment migrantes.Explorant comment interagissent les déterminants socioéconomiques, le niveau d’utilisation de la contraception, l’âge à la première maternité, le nombre actuel d’enfants et les normes de fécondité, les résultats de la recherche montrent qu’il y a deux situations bien distinctes : à l’est, pour les femmes d’origine brésilienne, la transition démographique est pratiquement terminée ; à l’ouest, pour les femmes bushinenge, elle ne fait que commencer.Cette recherche repose sur l’hypothèse que le moment présent se situe, pour les femmes bushinenge, à la charnière entre fécondité non régulée et fécondité régulée<br>French Guiana has the highest fertility level of all French regions and of other countries in South America and the Caribbean: on average, 3.3 children per woman estimated in 2018.This thesis aims to analyze the main determinants of fertility in French Guiana, particularly in border areas which present high birth rates. It draws on the results of a survey of women and men by questionnaire residing in four municipalities bordering Suriname in the West, and a border town with Brazil in the East. An additional survey was conducted in the municipality of Oiapoque in Brazil at the Guyanese border.Firstly, this thesis presents a historical and ethnological background that determine the current composition of the population of Guyana. Secondly, it examines the sociological characteristics of today’s Guyanese society, notably border municipalities where populations are economically and socially precarious, poorly educated and frequently migrating.Exploring the interaction between socioeconomic determinants, the level of contraceptive use, age at first birth, current number of children and fertility standards, our research findings show two different situations: demographic transition is almost complete in the East for women of Brazilian origin while in the West, for bushinenge women, demographic transition is just beginning.This research is based on the assumption that currently, fertility of bushinenge women is at a transition period between unregulated and regulated fertility
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Kirchner, Christopher L. "Use of remotely sensed radar data to assess tropical deforestation in Guyana." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ30913.pdf.
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Pelling, Mark. "A political ecology of urban flood hazard and social vulnerability in Guyana." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263908.
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During the 1990s vulnerability analysis has brought political ecology into the study of hazards, and in so doing allowed the study of risk in society/environment relations to engage more directly with broader issues of social science interest. This approach acknowledges that hazards are the product of risk and vulnerability but focuses primarily on the ways in which social organisation influences the distribution of hazard impacts; when and where risk becomes hazard, who is affected. if and how people respond and the extent to which hazard events may provide opportunities for, as well as constraints on, society. The vulnerabilities approach rests upon two key conceptual tools, the Pressure and Release Model and the Access Model, which were designed for use in exploring a wide variety of stressful events. Their utility in an urban flood hazard context is, however, limited because of a lack of meso-level conceptual tools and models. This weakness was overcome by bringing in a range of tools from the urban management literature which can also be combined within a political ecology frame. For the 90% of the Guyanese population, resident on the Atlantic coastal plain. flood hazard as a consequence of episodic and everyday events is an ongoing problem manifesting in collective and individual vulnerabilities, and a problem which is likely to become more acute as a consequence of global climate change. This project sought both to identify superficial experiences of hazard and vulnerability, and the deeper human and physical processes producing risk and vulnerability. National level experience and vulnerability indicators were gathered from a review of secondary data from the press, consultants' reports and government and academic publications. Following this, the first stage of primary field research identified the extent to which vulnerability indicators were associated with observed vulnerability and flood impact in both urban and peri-urban case studies. The second stage of field research examined local social/political-economic relations and their role in directing the flow of resources for environmental management and, consequently, in shaping distributions of vulnerability within the case study areas. For households in peri-urban and urban neighbourhoods economic and social assets are shown to be equally important for shaping the distribution of vulnerabilities; however, for low-income groups, and for squatter communities in particular, social assets are often the key to mitigating vulnerability. The importance of social assets at the household level contrasts with the weakened condition of social capital locally, and within Guyana as a whole. Locally, the low level of social capital was seen in a withdrawal of households from communal activity and a preference for investing in flood adaptation mechanisms within the household or extended family, and by topdown constructions of community and unrepresentative and unresponsive leadership serving to deepen dependency and alienation from the decision-making process. At a national level, government and public institutions are weak and ineffective, the private sector and civil society are undeveloped with few inter-sectoral linkages being maintained. Failures in social development and the low level of social capital are identified as key determinants in the production of vulnerability despite democratisation and structural adjustment which has promoted both privatisation and the funding of community sponsored development.
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Bristol, Marlon Anthony. "Exploring the potential development consequences and impact of return migration to Guyana." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/78467/.
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This thesis investigates the potential for return migrants to have an impact on development in the small-state case of Guyana, relative to the non-migrant population. To do this in a fairly comprehensive manner, three specific questions are posed. Firstly, what are the differences among return migrants, non-returning migrants, and non-migrants? Secondly, what are the determinants of return migration to Guyana? And thirdly, what are the potential consequences of return migration to Guyana? The first question allows for an understanding of critical differences among return migrants, non-returning migrants, and non-migrants. This provides information on where, potentially, return migrants show important differences relative to the other groups, and if those differences observed would be useful for development in Guyana. Further, I explore the sustainability of return migration through the concept of mixed embeddedness, looking into the influences of return migrants' desire for re-emigration. Hence, answering the first question is an early signal of where, potentially, return migrants demonstrate attributes that arguably are useful for development in the origin country. In answering the second question, an insight is provided into what determines return. In particular, determinants of return take on a more real-world context, factoring a key eligibility of policy – that of duration of time spent abroad. Lastly, given the multidimensional link between migration and development, the final question tries to understand what the actual nexus between return migration and development is for the case of Guyana. Especially, I explore the direct and indirect impact of return migration, whether return migrants are likely to be of more use in development over non-migrants, and the measurable indicators of this nexus for Guyana. To facilitate the analysis, the thesis first justifies why it is useful to revisit return migration as a potentially useful impetus for development. Here is where the small state case is presented as still valid. It then delves into the relevance of return migration and development linkages for the particular case of Guyana. In the process, it reveals why Guyana is an interesting case, contextualizing the theoretical perspectives that help to rationalize the general arguments, for and against, why individuals leave and some return. The account then notes, where data are available, existing policy practices in some small states as they relate to how governments demonstrate an interest in return migration as useful for origin-state development. The above summarizes the content of chapters 1 and 2. Chapter 3 explains in detail the mixed-method approach used to collect the qualitative and quantitative data required to develop the critical arguments and research results presented in chapters 4, 5, and 6. A two-stage stratified sampling approach with disproportionate fractions was used to collect data on 451 return migrants and 528 non-migrants. This data was pooled with 210 non-returning migrants captured in an online survey using an ethno-survey framework. Additionally, qualitative interviews with representatives of several local institutions with responsibility for return migration policy, data, and concessions delivery were conducted to support the quantitative framework. Notwithstanding the fairly large sample size, the return migration and development story told in this thesis not only dwells on averages, but also on individual reflections of return contained in the data. For the analysis, a mix of standard and novel approaches is utilized. The transnationalism approach, which recognizes the current characterization of the fluidity of migration, combined with the capabilities approach to migration and development, enables a general view on how the nexus is manifested in development outcomes at the individual level. These are the main reference points adapted to guide the conversation on determinants and consequences respectively. Techniques employed for the analysis of determinants and consequences are survival analysis and exploratory factor analysis, including the OLS and Ordered Probit models. The sample demonstrated that return migrants were different on personal and socioeconomic attributes. Migrants returned mainly from countries within the CARICOM region rather than from those further away such as the North America and Other International areas. Return migrants have a tendency to remit prior to returning, even acquiring personal assets before, which can be linked to their duration spent abroad and their host location. On returning, returnees in the sample differed from non-migrants, especially in the areas of educational attainment and current earnings in terms of monthly household income. International migration in terms of the level of development at the host location is an imperative. Return migrants' exposure and enhanced capacity are potentially useful for development. But, the jury is still out on whether this is harnessed to fill development gaps in the origin country Guyana. Nevertheless, returnees can be viewed as ‘elites' which puts this group among those most equipped to (re)-emigrate. Hence, desires for re-emigration are vested not only in the institutional and structural stressors, but also reflect individual attributes of return migrants. Return migration thus does not necessarily complete the migration cycle. Return, demonstrated in the sample mostly by those in the CARICOM region, has been subjected to a number of personal characteristics – migration status among other reasons. Structural factors have not been captured well to reflect the differences in the host countries to that of origin, but something is definitely happening at host locations that engenders the agency of returnees. Capabilities and achievements of migrants returning are indicative of systems and structures at the host locations. Even in the presence of heterogeneity among returnees, return migrants seem to have a positive impact on development in Guyana relative to non-migrants. Returning was also importantly a function the migrant's position/membership in the household at origin, as social attachments inclined them to return. But their contribution on return correlates with the duration spent abroad; the longer time giving migrants better opportunities to prepare, remit, and acquire local assets in some cases. The signal given, therefore, is that, while returnees seem positively related to local development through their human capital, there is no guarantee that they will be contributing to local development if the policy is not designed to extract necessary obligations. While return might be interpreted as success in some cases, migrants juxtapose economic and noneconomic factors in navigating return and re-emigration. As it already obtains, if migrants do not return some still remit which can also contribute to the development of Guyana. This happens if diaspora policy and thoughts of returning are engendered by the non-returning migrant. Transnational ties help to reinforce such thoughts. Notwithstanding, the transnational approach alone cannot explain the many contexts of migration and return. Such would require multiple contextual approaches. The relationships of the consequences of return migration for development in Guyana has been reflected in the extraction of 13 observable indicators. The variables give ideas into the relationship of return and development, that is to say the capabilities and achievements of returnees as compared to non-migrants. But return migrants' achievements, even when this is above that of non-migrants, does not guarantee inputs to wider local development in the presence of structural rigidities. In fact, during the period of exchange rate and foreign exchange restrictions, non-returning migrants could not remit formally, intending migrants could not get access to passports at will, inter alia. The result was a massive underground economy as a coping strategy under import substitution development. Notwithstanding, in the presence of liberal policies and transnationalism, at minimum, migration does do something positive for the migrants and/or the households from which they originate, even if the models used in this thesis exaggerate these outcomes.
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Martinez, Lauren. "Essai d'interprétation du secteur informel urbain au Venezuela, étude de cas : les micro-entreprises de production de Ciudad Guyana." Paris 3, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA030032.
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Parmi les problemes d'emploi que rencontre l'economie venezuelienne le developpement des "activites informelle" est la forme de sousutilisation de la main d7oeuvre la plus significative (pres de la moitie de l'emploi urbain du pays). Secteur residuel, marginal? armee de reserve industrielle? refuge des chomeurs? ces hypotheses sont insuffisantes pour expliquer la nature, le role et le fonctionnement du secteur informel urbain. Il existe un rapport entre le developpement capitaliste qui caracterise cette economie et l'expansion des ces activites (determination structurelle conjoncturelle). Elles constituent des vrais strategies de suris, des solutions actives d'emploi et des revenus, voire des nouvelles formes de reproduction sociale. L'etude presente aussi les resultats d'une enquete menee a ciudad guayana sur les micro-entreprises de production. Elle conclue avec quelques recommandations politiques favorables au secteur informel urbain<br>One of many employment problems in the venezuelan economy is the development of "informal activities" which are the more revealing ways of manpower underemployment (almost half the urban employment). Is it a residual or a marginal manpower? does it represent reserves for formal sector? these hypothesis are insufficient to explain the nature, the part and the fonctioning of the urban informal sector. Thers is a link between the capitalist growth which caracterizes this economy and the expansion of these activities (which are determinated by structural factors or by factors depending on the variation of economic conditions). These activities constitute a real survival strategy, active solutions for employment and incomes, inded even new ways of social reproduction. Moreover, this study presents the results of a research concerning informal microfiems in ciudad guayana. The conclusion pinpoints some political recommendations for urban informal sector
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Williams, P. E. "Central government capital expenditure and regional growth : The impact of project expenditure on two regions of Guyana." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379131.
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Ronald, Kimberley Lee. "Evaluating rural-urban difference in environmental concern in Guyana using log-linear analysis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30986.pdf.
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Mentore, Laura Haley. "Trust and alterity : Amerindian analyses of social and environmental relations in southern Guyana." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608674.
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Chávez, Plasencia Rony Alex. "Modelo de gestión administrativa en el Proyecto Aurora Gold Mine – Cuyuni Mazaruni Guyana." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/13951.
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Estudia el modelo de gestión administrativa desarrollado en el Proyecto Aurora Gold Mine ubicado en Cuyuni - Mazaruni, Guyana inglesa por la empresa GyM Operaciones Internacionales SAC. con el objetivo de identificar las buenas prácticas en el desarrollo de proyectos de construcción internacionales. Cuantifica los procedimientos internos de administración utilizados por la oficina principal de GyM S.A. en el Proyecto Internacional Aurora Gold Mine. Identifica el indicador clave para el monitoreo y seguimiento a la gestión humana del personal en proyectos de construcción internacionales.<br>Trabajo de suficiencia profesional
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Garnett, Juneann. "Bridging the Gap between Agricultural Innovations and Implementation: The way Forward for Guyana." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1429807458.
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