Academic literature on the topic 'Identité collective – Venezuela'

Salamanders found at different localities nearby Mérida city, Venezuela, are thus far reported as Bolitoglossa orestes or B.spongai. However, morphological ambiguities among individuals from several populations of both putative species, besidestheir reported disparate geographical distributions, prompted us to clarify the specific identity of these bolitoglossines throughthe sequence analysis of their corresponding 16S rRNA genes. Seventeen specimens belonging to the vertebrates collection ofUniversidad de Los Andes (CVULA), collected at separated cloud forests in Sierra La Culata (San Eusebio, Macho Capaz andSan Javier del Valle) and Sierra Nevada de Mérida (La Mucuy), were used to extract DNA upon tissue digestion. Sequenceanalysis of the 16S rRNA gene supports a biogeographical scenario where, so far, there is only one salamander species for eachsierra: B. orestes, which is widely distributed in Sierra La Culata, and a so far undescribed species of a Venezuelan bolitogloss-ine apparently restricted to Sierra Nevada de Mérida. Based on our molecular results and an examination of morphological evidence, B. spongai should be considered a synonym of B. orestes.

Purpose. Today, new media play a crucial role in legitimating political relations. Theoretical background of the current research draws on the social cognitive approach to discourse studies. From this perspective, legitimization is understood as one of the major ways of establishing social dominance in the process of meaning negotiation. As the meanings in discourse can vary, discourse actors have tools to attribute components of meaning to specific affairs, for instance, political and social. An analysis of the news discourse aims to identify major mechanisms of establishing legitimacy of political decisions conducted by political institutions. The authors describe discursive features of constructing political decisions by applying the method of discourse analysis to the news on Venezuelan crisis, which took place in the winter 2018–2019. Results. As the study of the empirical data demonstrates, the British mass media tend to construct discursive representation of Latin America’s events by introducing of several groups of actors in the news on the Venezuelan crisis. Generally, these groups relate to socio-political hierarchy. They include individual, collective, institutional and international actors. By tracing the elements of their agency in Venezuelan crisis 2019 news, authors assume that their functions in news construction are directly connected to the mechanism of objectivation. Recognizing the informative function of media as one of the major, authors argue that this mechanism also relates to establishing legitimacy in discursive practices. The ways by which the actors of the events in the discourse on Venezuela have been embedded in the articles show the creation of increasingly formed belief in legitimate actions of the new opposition leader. Conclusion. The study contributes to the methods of discourse analysis as well as to the search for legitimization strategies applied by the media. The implications of the study include the comparative analysis of British and Russian new media discourse.

Social network sites, such as Facebook, allow access to a series of resources or discursive forms that constitute a multimodal and dialogical system that transcends barriers of time and space, favouring transnational communication, something particularly important to migrants. In addition, the comments and dialogues that take place in such socialisation spaces allow us to develop a greater knowledge of the identity and positioning of the user with respect to others. With this work we analyse, from a qualitative point of view, 150 posts each containing at least five comments, published between 2017 and 2019, in each of five Facebook groups of Latin American migrants living in Italy: Uruguayans, Argentinians, Colombians, Peruvians and Venezuelans. We determine their role in the migratory process and how the digital environment affects the relationships between migrants. In addition, we investigate how the identities of migrants are negotiated and (re)defined in discursive practice. Results shows that social network sites are “transnational social spaces”, in which a community is based on bonds of solidarity that derive from a shared conception of collective identity, and they forge deterritorialised “community of feeling”.

Enderleina Jewett, 1960 is a small genus of Perlidae with seven species occurring in Venezuela and northern Brazil. Specimens deposited in the Invertebrate Collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil, identified formerly as E. flinti Stark, 1989 (n = 3) and E. yano Stark, 1989 (n = 6), were determined to represent three taxa, two of which are new species. Both new species were collected in Amazonas State, Brazil and are distinctive within the genus due to their unique adult color patterns. The third taxon is represented by a female similar to E. khazeni Derka & Tierno Figueroa, 2013, the male of which was described from the nearby Gran Sabana, Venezuela. However, since the female of this species is not known, the specific identity of this female cannot be assigned specifically with confidence. In this paper, we describe two new species of Enderleina from Brazil, clarifying the specific status of the Enderleina specimens in the collection of INPA, and correcting the geographical distributions of E. flinti and E. yano. There are no valid records of these two species for Brazil. Currently, four species of the genus are known from Brazil.

This qualitative case study seeks to understand and describe, in depth, the different learning processes in which a nine-year old, Venezuelan girl (Victoria) engaged to reaffirm her identity as a language learner and become a legitimate member of a community of practice during the first six months in an Iowa City Elementary School. Data collection included observations in class and at home, field notes, interviews, oral and written artifacts and e-mails. Analysis was made through a constant comparison of the data to reflect on the potential categorizations of the artifacts considering mainly two theoretical constructs: “legitimate peripheral participation” (Lave & Wenger, 1991) and “collaborative relations of power” (Cummins, 1996). Results suggest that students engage more actively in activities, which are designed to construct meaning through social participation. Legitimate participation in school activities helped Victoria improve her English language ability and reaffirm her identity. The speed with which she learned English at school is mainly due to the solid community of practice she had the fortune to participate in and Mrs. Brown’s mediation. The more she interacted, the better she performed; and the better she performed, the more she interacted. This research offers alternative ways to understand Victoria’s experience as a language learner, the complexity of a second language learning process, and the fundamental role teachers need to perform to mediate in the students’ learning to reaffirm their identities. This study represents an exemplary reflection of what we, as classroom teachers, SL/foreign language teachers, should do in our classrooms if we really want to offer students real opportunities to learn the language and help them reaffirm their identity as language learners.

In this article, we present part of the results from a wide-ranging research study addressing Orquestra Geração (OG), a Sistema-like project set up in Portugal in 2007. Orquestra Geração strives to bring about, through collective musical practices, the social inclusion and social mobility of children and teenagers experiencing educational and social vulnerability. The data collected include semi-structured interviews with three OG mentors, one of whom currently serves as the OG director, the OG sub-director, former national coordinators, the current national coordinator, and school coordinators, as well as observations of music classes, orchestra rehearsals and intensive summer internships. We briefly describe the project before detailing the organization’s identity and the profile of its music teachers in a narrative highlighted by the actors’ own words. Finally, we analyse the OG through the lenses of two different and yet complementary conceptual frameworks: Mintzberg’s organizational typology, and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, as expanded and applied by Engeström. Findings suggest an underlying tension between adopting El Sistema’s methodology, as implemented in Venezuela, and adapting this to the Portuguese context. Moreover, a concentration of power in a few key figures may possibly prevent Orquestra Geração from prospering within a framework where its identity stands out as an autonomous project from El Sistema.

Las lesiones de cérvix se han asociado a infección por Virus Papiloma Humano (VPH). 300 mujeres mayores de quince años que acudieron al Hospital Universitario de Los Andes (HULA), fueron estudiadas para identificar lesiones, detectar y tipificar VPH, y determinar factores asociados. Se realizó citología, colposcopia, cepillados cervicales utilizando (DNA collection device Digene®) y biopsias en los casos pertinentes. Se aisló el ADN mediante (QIAamp DNA Mini Kit QIAGEN®), siendo cuantificado y almacenado a -20 ºC. Se detectó VPH por Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa (PCR) de regiones L1 y E6/E7. La genotipificación por PCR anidada múltiple E6/E7, C. trachomatis se detectó por PCR. El VPH se detectó en 35 % (105) muestras, 88,46 % (92/105) fueron positivas para al menos uno de los genotipos evaluados. VPHAR se encontraron en 97,82 %, (90/92), VPH18 en 82 % (74/90), VPH16 en 44 % (40/90). 56,52 % (52/92) correspondieron a infecciones múltiples, VPH18/16 (20/52) fue la más frecuente. C. trachomatis se detectó en 9 % (27/300) pacientes. La citología mostró cambios sugestivos de infección en solo 16,35 % de las pacientes VPH positivas. 17/18 biopsias sugirieron infección viral y fueron positivas para VPH AR por biología molecular (94,44 %). La colposcopia sugirió infección viral en 46,15 %. El 66,34 % de pacientes fueron menores de 35 años. Se encontró relación estadísticamente no significativa entre infección por VPH, número de parejas sexuales, coinfección con C. trachomatis y hábito tabáquico. Estos resultados muestran elevada frecuencia de infección por VPH AR, asociada a factores epidemiológicos, cuyo diagnóstico certero y tratamiento oportuno son claves en la prevención de su transmisión y del desarrollo de lesiones en cérvix. Palabras clave: Cáncer cervical, virus papiloma humano, reacción en cadena de la polimerasa. Abstract Cervical lesions have been associated with infection by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Three hundred women older than 15 years old who attended at the Hospital Universidad de Los Andes (HULA), were studied to identify lesions, detect and typify HPV, and determine associated factors. Cytology, colposcopy, cervical brushing using (DNA collection device Digene®) and biopsies were performed in the pertinent cases. DNA was isolated by (QIAamp DNA Mini Kit QIAGEN®), being quantified and stored at -20 ° C. HPV was detected by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) of regions L1 and E6 / E7. The genotyping by multiple nested PCR E6 / E7, C. trachomatis was detected by PCR. HPV was detected in 35% (105) samples, 88.46% (92/105) were positive for at least one of the genotypes evaluated. VPHAR were found in 97.82% (90/92), HPV18 in 82% (74/90), HPV16 in 44% (40/90). 56.52% (52/92) corresponded to multiple infections, HPV18 / 16 (20/52) was the most frequent. C. trachomatis was detected in 9% (27/300) patients. The cytology showed changes suggestive of infection in only 16.35% of the HPV positive patients. 17/18 biopsies suggested viral infection and were positive for ARV HPV by molecular biology (94.44%). Colposcopy suggested viral infection in 46.15%. 66.34% of patients were under 35 years old. A statistically non-significant relationship was found between HPV infection, number of sexual partners, coinfection with C. trachomatis and smoking habit. These results show high frequency of infection by HPV AR, associated with epidemiological factors, whose accurate diagnosis and timely treatment are key in the prevention of its transmission and the development of lesions in the cervix. Keywords: Cervical cancer, human papilloma virus, polymerase chain reaction.

Tillandsia tenuifolia L. is an air plant that is native to Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela. It was introduced to China in 2006. In September 2008, a leaf blight of T. tenuifolia ‘Bronze Tip’ was observed in a greenhouse in Jurong, Jiangsu. Severe infection led to death of foliage, shoot rot, and eventual mortality of whole plants. The pathogen was isolated from the diseased leaves on potato dextrose agar and subsequently further cultured on a slide culture for 7 days. Anamorphic structures were examined under a compound microscope. Diseased plant parts were covered with abundant conidia, phialides, conidiophores, and mycelia of the pathogen. Conidiophores were simple or branched, zero to two septate, hyaline, smooth at base, brown, smooth to rough at upper portion, and 47.9 ± 7.6 × 4 ± 0.4 μm (n = 30). Phialides were one-celled, obovate, hyaline to pale brown, 8.8 ± 0.9 × 5.3 ± 0.3 μm (n = 20), and in whorls. Conidia were one-celled, ellipsoid to subglobose, dark brown to black, rough to ridged, 10.4 ± 1.4 × 6.2 ± 0.9 μm (n = 30), and in slimy masses. Using morphological characters, the pathogen was identified as Stachybotrys chartarum (Ehrenb.) S. Hughes (1). The living culture was deposited in the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC 3.13634). S. chartarum, a saprophyte with a worldwide distribution, grows on various substrates such as soil, paper, dry walls, and wood. (2). It was also isolated from moldy sorghum seed and soybean root lesions (3,4). Pathogenicity on T. tenuifolia was confirmed by Koch's postulates in the laboratory. Ninety-six leaves on four plants were pricked with a sterilized needle and inoculated with a suspension of 6.35 × 106 conidia ml–1. Forty-seven leaves on two plants were pricked and sprayed with sterile water as controls. All the plants were kept in a growth chamber with a 12-h photoperiod, 28 ± 1°C, and relative humidity of 70 ± 3%. Initial lesions, which were water soaked, slightly sunken, and pinhead size, appeared on the inoculated plants in 7 days and expanded to 1.5 to 2.0 mm in 21 days. Necrotic spots subsequently coalesced and caused the death of the leaves. Infected shoots were rotten and shed leaves from the basal area. The plants died within 45 days. Symptoms were similar to those observed in the greenhouse. S. chartarum was reisolated from infected leaves. Control plants remained healthy. To confirm the identity of our isolate, DNA sequence was obtained from the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and deposited in GenBank (GU945205). The ITS sequence was 100% identical to S. chartarum strains whose DNA sequences were deposited in GenBank. To our knowledge, this is the first report of S. chartarum causing leaf blight on T. tenuifolia. The popularity of T. tenuifolia continues to grow in China. The disease should be monitored to determine its risk and economic significance in China and other regions. References: (1) S. C. Jong and E. E. Davis. Mycotaxon 3:409, 1976. (2) P. M. Kirk. Mycopathologia 115:149, 1991. (3) S. Li et al. Mycopathologia 154:41, 2002. (4) J. Y. Liang and J. K. Bai. J. Shenyang Agric. Univ. 19:27, 1988.

ISCPES stands for International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sports and it is going to celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2018. Since the beginning (Israel 1978) the main goals of the Society were established under a worldwide mind set considering five continents and no discrimination of any kind. The founders wanted to compare Physical Education and Sports across the world, searching for the best practices deserving consideration and applied on the purpose of improving citizen quality of life. The mission still stands for “Compare to learn and improve”.As all the organizations lasting for 39 years, ISCPES experienced several vicissitudes, usually correlated with world economic cycles, social and sports changes, which are in ISS journal articles - International Sport Studies.ISS journal is Scopus indexed, aiming to improve its quality (under evaluation) to reach more qualified students, experts, professionals and researchers; doing so it will raise its indexation, which we know it is nowadays a more difficult task. First, because there are more journals trying to compete on this academic fierce competitive market; secondly, because the basic requirements are getting more and more hard to gather in the publishing environment around Physical Education and Sports issues. However, we can promise this will be one of our main strategic goals.Another goal I would like to address on this Editorial is the language issue. We have this second strategic goal, which is to reach most of languages spoken in different continents; besides the English language, we will reach Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. For that reason, we already defined that all the abstracts in English will be translated into Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese words so people can find them on any search browser. That will expand the demand for our journal and articles, increasing the number of potential readers. Of course this opportunity, given by Motricidade, can be considered as a good example to multiply our scope.In June 2017 we organized a joint Conference in Borovets, Bulgaria, with our colleagues from the BCES – Bulgarian Society for Comparative Educational Studies. During those days, there was an election to appoint a new (Portuguese) president. This constitutes an important step for the Portuguese speaker countries, which, for a 4th year term, will have the opportunity to expand the influence of ISCPES Society diffusing the research results we have been achieving into a vast extended new public and inviting new research experts to innovative debates. This new president will be working with a wide geographical diverse team: the Vice President coming from a South American country (Venezuela), and the other several Executive Board members are coming from Brazil, China, Africa and North America. This constitutes a very favorable situation once, adding to this, we kept the previous editorial team from Australia and Europe. We are definitely committed to improve our influence through new incentives to organize several regional (continental) workshops, seminars and Conferences in the next future.The international research is crossing troubled times with exponential number of new indexed journals trying to get new influence and visibility. In order to do that, readers face new challenges because several studies present contradictory conclusions and outcome comparisons still lacking robust methodologies. Uncovering these issues is the focus of our Society.In the past, ISCPES started its activity collecting answers to the same questions asked to several experts in different countries and continents across the world. The starting studies developed some important insights on several issues concerning the way Physical Education professionals approached their challenges. In the very starting documents ISCPES activity focused in identifying certain games and indigenous activities that were not understood by people in other parts of the world, improving this international understanding and communication. This first attempt considered six groups of countries roughly comprehending 26 countries from all the continents.ISCPES has on its archives several seminal works, PhD proposals and program proposals, which constitutes the main theoretical framework considered in some textbooks printed at the end of the sixties in the XXth century.The methods used mostly sources’ country comparisons, historic development of comparative education systems, list of factors affecting those systems and a systematic analysis of case studies; additionally, international organizations for sports and physical education were also required to identify basic problems and unique features considered for the implementation of each own system. At the time, Lynn C. Vendien & John E. Nixon book “The World Today in Health, Physical Education and Recreation”, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1968, together with two monographies from William Johnson “Physical Education around the World”, 1966, 1968, Indianapolis, Phi Epsilon Kappa editions, were the main textbook references.The main landscapes of interest were to study sports compared or the sport role in Nationalisms, Political subsidization, Religion, Race and volunteering versus professionalism. The goal was to state the true place of sports in societies.In March 1970, Ben W. Miller from the University of California compiled an interesting Exhibit n.1 about the main conclusions of a breakfast meeting occurred during the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation. There, they identified thirty-one individuals, which had separate courses in “Comparative and/or International Physical Education, Recreation and Sports”; one month later, they collected eighteen responses with the bibliographic references they used. On this same Exhibit n.1 there is detailed information on the title, catalogue description, date of initial course (1948, the first), credit units, eligibility, number of year offer, type of graduation (from major to doctorate and professional). Concluding, the end of the sixties can be the mark of a well-established body of literature in comparative education and sports studies published in several scientific journals.What about the XXIst century? Is it still important to compare sports and education throughout the world? Only with qualitative methods? Mixed methods?We think so. That is why, after a certain decline and fuzzy goal definition in research motivations within ISCPES we decided to innovate and reorganize people from physical education and sports around this important theme of comparative studies. Important because we observe an increasing concern on the contradictions across different results in publications under the same subject. How can we infer? What about good research questions which get no statistically significant results? New times are coming, and we want to be on that frontline of this move as said by Elsevier “With RMR (results masked review) articles, you don’t need to worry about what editors or reviewers might think about your results. As long as you have asked an important question and performed a rigorous study, your paper will be treated the same as any other. You do not need to have null results to submit an RMR article; there are many reasons why it can be helpful to have the results blinded at initial review”.https://www.elsevier.com/connect/reviewers-update/results-masked-review-peer-review-without-publication-bias.This is a very different and challenging time. Our future strategy will comprehend more cooperation between researchers, institutions and scientific societies as an instrument to leverage our understanding of physical activity and sports through different continents and countries and be useful for policy designs.Next 2018, on the occasion of the UE initiative Sofia – European Capital of Sport 2018 we - Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES) & the International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport (ISCPES) - will jointly organize an International Conference on Sport Governance around the World.Sports and Physical Education are facing complex problems worldwide, which need to be solved. For health reasons, a vast number of organizations are popularizing the belief that physical education and sports are ‘a must’ in order to promote human activity and movement. However, several studies show that modern lifestyles are the main cause for people's inactivity and sedentary lifestyles.Extensive funded programs used to promote healthy lifestyles; sports media advertising several athletes, turning them into global heroes, influencers in a new emerging industry around sports organizations. Therefore, there is a rise in the number of unethical cases and corruption that influence the image of physical education and sports roles.We, the people emotional and physically involved with sports and physical activity must be aware of this, studying, discussing and comparing global facts and events around the world.This Conference aims to offer an incentive to colleagues from all continents to participate and present their latest results on four specific topics: 1. Sport Governance Systems; 2. Ethics and Corruption in Physical Education and Sports Policies; 3. Physical Education and Sport Development; 4. Training Physical Educators and Coaches. Please consider your selves invited to attend. Details in http://bcesconvention.com/

«Diet can alter the gut microbiota and shift its production of metabolites, which affect systemic immune function. In Nature Immunology, Marino et al. (2017) demonstrate protection from Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) in non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice by feeding diets that promote gut microbiota-dependent generation of the [short-chain fatty acids] SCFA acetate and butyrate. They identify mechanisms by which acetate leads to decreased infiltration of self-antigen- specific cytotoxic T cells and butyrate improves regulatory T cell number and function, collectively contributing to reduced destruction of insulin-producing b-cells in the pancreas.« This quote is how Sydney Lavoie and Wendy S. Garrett, from The Chan School of Public Health at Harvard, and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, summarized in Cell Metabolism, the work lead by Venezuelan scientist, Eliana Mariño and colleagues, at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. We at CientMed, the electronic journal of the National Academy of Medicine of Venezuela, celebrate the work of this young investigator, that describes herself, as “…passionate about science and for helping others, with a career path toward the work on microbiome and diet in diabetes.”

Le Venezuela est un pays d'une grande diversité culturelle. La population a des origines indigènes, africaines et européennes. Cette diversité a longtemps été ignorée. Depuis le début des années 2000, et dans le contexte du processus politique de la Révolution Bolivarienne d'Hugo Chávez, la diversité culturelle du peuple vénézuélien est mise en valeur. En effet, l'objectif est de définir et consolider l'identité nationale à partir de cette diversité.Les Afro-vénézuéliens ont longtemps souffert d'une certaine discrimination. Au début du XXe siècle, de nombreux descendants d'esclaves africains, originaires des campagnes migrent vers Caracas. La majorité s'installe dans les quartiers populaires (barrios) et se retrouve dans une situation d'exclusion et de marginalisation. A cela il faut ajouter une certaine perte des repères. Au début des années 80, la culture populaire et les traditions afro-vénézuéliennes apparaissent comme une manière de construire une nouvelle identité. Des groupes culturels afro-vénézuéliens décident de réinterpréter une fête populaire traditionnelle dans ces barrios, la fête de la Saint Jean. A partir de l'étude de cette fête de 2006 à 2012, nous avons essayé de déterminer dans quelles mesures les actions de ces groupes culturels afro-vénézuéliens peuvent contribuer à l'affirmation et la reconnaissance de l'identité afro-vénézuélienne et permettre une meilleure cohésion sociale et intégration de la population de ces quartiers
Venezuela is a country with an important cultural diversity. The population has Indigenous, African and European origins, though this diversity has long been ignored. Since the beginning of the 2000's, within the political process of the Bolivarian Revolution led by President Hugo Chavez, the cultural diversity of Venezuelans has begun to be recognized. The objective has been to define and reinforce national identity based on cultural diversity. Afro-Venezuelans have been victims of discrimination. At the beginning of the twentieth century, many descendants of African slaves migrated from the countryside to urban Caracas. The great majority settled in barrios and lived in a situation of exclusion and marginalization and, in addition, lost a great deal of their references. At the beginning of the eighties, popular culture and Afro-Venezuelan traditions appeared as a way to construct a new identity. Afro-Venezuelan cultural groups decided to reinterpret a traditional popular festival in these barrios, the Festival of San Juan. By the study of this festival, from 2006 to 2012, we studied how the actions of Afro-Venezuelan cultural groups can contribute to affirm and recognize Afro-Venezuelan identity and lead to an increase in social cohesion and integration of the population in these barrios

Cette thèse a pour objet d'étudier l'émergence et la tentative de formation de la nation vénézuelienne entre 1810 et 1830, au travers du discours des élites et de sa traduction en termes constitutionnels. Pour cette raison, elle comporte quatre parties articulées autour des quatre constitutions rédigées durant cette période (1810, 1819, 1821, 1830). Ceci en raison de leur impact sur le discours de légitimation politique des acteurs, ce qui est inhérent à leur fonction première, et plus encore parce qu elles ont valeur de garde-fou pour introduction théorique du peuple sur la scène politique. Chaque partie correspond donc à un moment-clé, à une période signifiante, marquée, en outre, par une appréhension singulière de la nation. La modification de ses frontières et du mode d'intégration des individus dans le corps politique révèlent les relations particulières que les élites dirigeantes entretiennent avec le peuple réel. De plus, ces élites ont un rapport ambivalent au passé (et partant à l'identité), que met en évidence le rôle conféré à l'élément armé dans l'élaboration de l'identité nationale. Cette approche aide à la compréhension et à l'analyse du discours des différents acteurs sur la nation durant ces 20 années
This thesis studies the emergence and the tentative to form a Venezuelan nation between 1810 and 1830, through the elite discourse and its traduction in constitutional terms. For this reason, this thesis includes four parts articulate around four constitutions written during this period (1810,1819,1821,1830). All this on account of the impact of the political legitimation discourse of the actors. But above all, this four constitutions forme a railins for the theorical introduction of the people in the political scene. Every part corresponds to four significatives periods marled furthermore by a singular apprehension of the nation. The modification of the frontiers and the way of integration of the individuals in the body politic reveals the peculiar relation between the elite ruling and the real people. Moreover the elite ruling had an ambivalent link with her past and for consequence, her identity, which bring to the fore the role of the manat-arms in the elaboration of the national identity. At the same time, this approach contribute at the comprehension and at the analysis of the actors discourse about the nation during this 20 years

Cette thèse a pour objet les corrélations existant entre le leadership charismatique populiste et la politique extérieure vénézuélienne alors que, traditionnellement, ces deux objets sont considérés indépendamment l’un de l’autre. L’étude géo-historique de la construction de l’État-Nation vénézuélien aux XIXe et début du XXe siècles explique celle d’une « identité de corps ». L’État précède la Nation qui se construit par le conflit externe et la reconnaissance mutuelle, à la faveur de leaderships politiques dominants (personnalistes et/ou autoritaires) et, pour surmonter le traumatisme suscité par ces conflits et l’échec du projet supranational réunificateur (Grande Colombie), de représentations politiques mythifiantes du peuple et du pouvoir. Ce processus présage le façonnage d’une matrice populiste du politique ayant vocation à compléter cette identité en prolongeant l’interpellation du peuple, tant à l’intérieur qu’à l’extérieur. Ce travail se focalise alors sur les mécanismes de construction et de routinisation du leadership charismatique populiste d’Hugo Chávez Frías et étudie les canaux de diffusion et de globalisation de ce type de leadership qui sont aussi ceux de la diplomatie multiple « bolivarienne ». Ainsi, le peuple n’est plus seulement un groupement de nationaux vénézuéliens mais une communauté « bolivarienne » plus élargie. Le populisme n’est plus envisagé comme un moment ni comme s’exprimant exclusivement sur le territoire national, mais comme un système global qui alimente autant qu’il se nourrit de l’autre et de l’extérieur. La politique extérieure peut alors être analysée sous l’angle d’une politique transnationalisée
This thesis aims to show evidence for existing correlations between populist charismatic leadership and the Venezuelan foreign policy, whilst these two topics are traditionally considered independently from each other. The geo-historical study of the construction of the Venezuelan nation state in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries explains its « corporate identity ». The state precedes the nation that builds up from external conflict and mutual recognition, for dominant political leadership reasons (personalistic and / or authoritarian), and to overcome the trauma caused by the conflict and the failure of the unifying supranational project (Gran Colombia) by mythifying political representations of the people and power. This process suggests the shaping of a populist political matrix aiming to complete this identity by prolonging the appeal to the people, both inside and outside the country. The work then focuses on mechanisms aiming at building and routinizing Hugo Chávez Frías’s charismatic and populist leadership. It also studies the broadcasting channels and the globalization of this type of leadership which are similar to the « Bolivarian » multiple diplomacy. Thus, the people are no longer just a group of Venezuelan nationals but a much wider « Bolivarian » community. Populism is no longer conceived as a moment nor considered as expressing itself exclusively within the country, but as a global system that feeds as much as it is fed from others and from the outside. Foreign policy can thus be analyzed in terms of a transnationalized policy

Curieusement, la géographie des cimetières a fait l’objet de peu de travaux de recherche. Les thèses, articles et ouvrages sur ce sujet sont très rares en France comme à l’étranger. Or, ces espaces, riches de marquages sociaux et culturels, représentent des empreintes matérielles de la mémoire individuelle et collective qui existent dans tous les pays. En Amérique latine, l’étude des cimetières reflète en grande partie le monde des vivants : les rapports à la mort et au temps, les inégalités sociales très importantes, la grande diversité des rites et des croyances religieuses. Loin de se limiter à l’appréhension des cimetières comme miroir des sociétés, cette thèse vise plus précisément à mettre en lumière des mécanismes et processus inhérents aux sociétés étudiées : jeux de pouvoir, logiques de domination, ségrégation, exclusion, etc. Pour cela, l’accent est mis sur les groupes indigènes qui restent aujourd’hui largement marginalisés et exclus. Par le biais des mobilités, on étudie les changements entre les rapports à la mort dans des espaces ruraux et dans les villes. En effet, en plus des identités culturelles, les modes d’appropriation de l’espace du cimetière varient en fonction des espaces géographiques dans lesquels les individus et les groupes sociaux s’inscrivent. La méthode comparative retenue pour les trois espaces-laboratoires cherche à saisir les différences et ressemblances, en ce qui concerne la place occupée par les groupes indigènes, au sein de la société, entre un pays dit socialiste (le Venezuela), un pays dit libéral (le Chili) et un pays où le rapport à la mort est spécifique (le Mexique). La perspective de géographie sociale et culturelle consiste à montrer comment les inégalités sociales se produisent et se reproduisent à travers et au-delà de la mort : la mise en évidence de ce que l’on pourrait appeler des inégalités sociales marquées dans l’espace pour l’éternité
Strangely enough, the geography of cemeteries has not been the focus of many studies. PhDs, articles and books related to this topic are scarce, whether in France or abroad. These spaces, however, are packed with social and cultural remnants which embody material prints of collective and personal memory; they are to be found in each and every country. In Latin America, the study of cemeteries is primarily a reflection of the world of the living : perception of death and time, striking social inequalities, and the wide range of rites and religious beliefs. Far from limiting itself to the use of cemeteries as mirrors of societies, this dissertation aims at shedding light on process and mechanisms inherent to the societies under scrutiny: games of power, logic of domination, segregation, exclusion, etc. To do so, the focus was put on groups of natives which still remain widely excluded and marginalized to this day. Through mobility, we study the changes in the relation to death in rural and urban spaces. Indeed, beyond cultural identities, the ways in which cemeteries are being appropriated vary depending on the geographical spaces where individuals and social groups identify with. The comparative method that was selected for these three test spaces aims at perceiving differences and similarities, as far as the situations of the native groups within society are concerned, between a so-called socialist country (Venezuela), a so-called liberal country (Chili) and a country which has a specific approach to death (Mexico). The perspectives offered by cultural and social geography aims at showing how social inequalities occur and are repeated through and beyond death itself: it underlines what we could describe as social inequalities embedded in space for all eternity

Contrary to the assumptions of realist theory, this thesis suggests that reality is subjected to social constructions. The national discourse of one country constitutes the context from which societies will generate perceptions and ideas about another society. It is from these socially constructed ideas that states' interests are formed. States interests are what constitute the foreign policy of a country. Given that the United States is the world's hegemon, understanding the process by which countries' interests take shape and evolve will give the United States social awareness and strategic advantage to lead the world's current speedy integration with less volatile rivalries. In order to grasp the factors contributing to the relationship between specific states, some context is needed beforehand. By tracing and comparing historical events in the relations between the United States, Venezuela, and Iran, this thesis examines the constructivist claim that states behavior towards another is directly affected by the social interpretation of their interactions. It is social constructions, not power, what determines if states will view each other as "enemy" or "ally". National identity and worldview ultimately drive state behavior and how countries choose to utilize their capabilities.
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In this chapter, the authors attempt to demonstrate that respect for cultural identity of all human groups should be seen as a fundamental right. Ignoring Collective rights of indigenous peoples, those related to their cultural traditions, generally causes the lack of respect. Thus, knowledge of the cultural manifestations and their origin and meaning (as part of the history of the territories they inhabit) can conquer this respect on a par with its defense. This obviously with comprehensive training aimed to sensitize the general population in the positive assessment it deserves it different. The actions of nation-states governments with strong indigenous population has been characterized, until recently, by a remarkable disregard for indigenous cultures, having as a result the result of which such attitude, today from the non - indigenous perspective indigenous cultural manifestations are reduced to colorful folklore shows, when not seen as backward and primitive traditions. This chapter delves deeply into the legal framework for the protection of collective and cultural rights of indigenous peoples. The authors also attempt to show the weaknesses of the law and how states should act to strengthen them. Proposed article does emphasis on indigenous traditional knowledge and not in a wider debate on the topic of knowledge in general.

This chapter explores how the United States’ growing power and expansionist foreign policy came to be viewed as legitimate, thereby constructing its peaceful rise to world power status. It argues that the acts of recognition that emerged during the Venezuelan Crisis expressed a normative acceptance of American power and were routinized so as to structure Anglo-American relations at the turn of the twentieth century. Specifically, during the Spanish–American War British leaders—drawing from the recognitive speech acts that defined the Anglo-Saxon collective identity—restrained the European great powers from becoming involved in the war, enabling the United States to establish a sphere of influence in the Caribbean and an imperial presence in the Pacific. Likewise, the negotiations between Britain and the United States over the Isthmian Canal highlight the importance of mutual recognition in sustaining a peaceful power transition. The chapter shows how acts of recognition contributed to the social construction of the United States as a legitimate power, despite its aggressive and expansionist foreign policy.