Books on the topic 'Model Portera'

This chapter explores how the modernist fiction of Katherine Anne Porter and Ernest Hemingway articulated a link between good writing and expansive personal experience, especially in their works set in Latin America. I begin by reconstructing their development of the literature of experience during the 1920s as an internationalist mode of expanding their knowledge of the world. My second section tracks how, amid the rise of the literary left and Popular Front aesthetics in the 1930s, Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not (1937) and Porter’s “Hacienda” (1937) warned against producing literature derived from ideological positioning as opposed to first-hand eyewitnessing. I close by demonstrating the surprising interest in authorial experience among New Critics such as Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, who “disciplined” the literature of experience by re-envisioning place-based absorption as a matter of formal style, thus setting the tone for debates about authorial experience in the early post-1945 period.

Before Method and Models offers a revisionist account of political economy in the time of Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo, c. 1790–1823. In contrast to simply assuming that ‘classical political economy’ existed and provides the context for making sense of the writings of Malthus and Ricardo, this book recovers the circumstances that shaped their works. This leads the inquiry into the major political controversies of the time—the Bullion Controversy and the Corn Laws debate—and the texts with which Malthus and Ricardo attempted to intervene into these disputes. The results show that political economy was produced using ready-to-hand concepts and instruments, giving its practitioners great intellectual freedom. Yet political economy was also expected to act as a species of counsel to Parliament and resolve policy questions. In this context, the presumption of Malthus and Ricardo to style themselves as ‘theorists’ who possessed special intellectual capacities that set them above merely ‘practical’ writers attracted hostile responses from their contemporaries. The tenuous position of theory in this period was worsened by the intellectual aftermath of the French Revolution, which enabled the enemies of Malthus and Ricardo to portray their work as theoretical enthusiasm—as the product of undisciplined minds that had succumbed to the pleasures of system, utopia, and fanaticism. The attack and defence of political economy in this setting was conducted with the vocabulary of theory and practice, and the period thus stands as a time when reflection on commerce and politics was conducted without method and models.

Chapter 2 considers the connections between musical and visual modes of representing identity through the study of musical portraits of visual artists, with special focus on Morton Feldman’s “de Kooning” and Philip Glass’s “A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close.” Considering these musical portraits in relation to works by the artists they depict reveals how they portray their subjects by organizing musical structures to serve as metaphors of visual strategies of representation, evoking aspects of biography while representing painterly techniques in patterns of sound. These portraits do not only portray the artists named in their titles: they also highlight the very methods by which music operates for these twentieth- and twenty-first-century composers as a medium of representation.

This chapter draws together theoretical and methodological threads from the rest of the book while proposing a broader analytical model, in which various tonal styles—not only pantriadicism—interact. This model is based on a conception of triadic tonality space in which three paradigmatic axes (diatonicity, centricity, and functionality) create numerous distinct and modifiable tonal styles. These distinct styles are shown to harbor persistent associations in mainstream film music. It is argued that wondrous harmony often involves motion through triadic tonality space. A cinematically well-established example of this is the chromatically modulating cadence (CMC); the role of cadences in general for organizing film time is emphasized. The dialectic between tonal idioms has been mined for its connotative power by composers wishing to portray the various wondrous affects, and a variety of examples drawn from films that dramatize the “beatific sublime” are investigated, concluding with Alfred Newman’s The Song of Bernadette.

This chapter describes how synthetic biology and organic electronics can integrate neurobiology and robotics to form a basis for biohybrid robots and synthetic neuroethology. Biomimetic robots capture the performance advantages of animal models by mimicking the behavioral control schemes evolved in nature, based on modularized devices that capture the biomechanics and control principles of the nervous system. However, current robots are blind to chemical senses, difficult to miniaturize, and require chemical batteries. These obstacles can be overcome by integration of living engineered cells. Synthetic biology seeks to build devices and systems from fungible gene parts (gene systems coding different proteins) integrated into a chassis (induced pluripotent eukaryotic cells, yeast, or bacteria) to produce devices with properties not found in nature. Biohybrid robots are examples of such systems (interacting sets of devices). A nascent literature describes genes that can mediate organ levels of organization. Such capabilities, applied to biohybrid systems, portend truly biological robots guided, controlled, and actuated solely by life processes.

Penser les bouleversements climatiques et écologiques en cours nécessite de mobiliser tous les espaces épistémiques et cognitifs qui traversent nos sociétés. Une nouvelle ère climatique, une telle bifurcation de la trajectoire de nos modes d’habitabilité sur Terre, ne peuvent laisser nos contenus, nos cadrages et nos institutions pédagogiques intactes. La facilité ici consisterait à se conforter dans l’idée que nos schémas épistémiques, nos établissements, nos disciplines, seraient naturellement bien armés pour penser et agir à la hauteur de nos situations critiques. Il suffirait alors de faire un aggiornamento de nos réflexes pédagogiques pour « prendre en compte » la nouvelle situation écologique planétaire. Cet ouvrage nous invite à aller au-delà d’une simple actualisation de l’éducation au développement durable. Il rassemble des témoignages qui ont pour commun de penser et proposer des expériences pédagogiques situées, non pas sur l’anthropocène, mais depuis l’anthropocène. Loin de se cantonner à dresser un inventaire critique des options pédagogiques présentes, les contributions rassemblées ici cherchent à bâtir une stratégie pédagogique à la hauteur des enjeux épistémiques que génère l’urgence écologique et climatique. Elles nous invitent donc bien sûr à mettre à l’épreuve nos modèles pédagogiques, disciplinaires et institutionnels, mais aussi à porter une vigilance conceptuelle et méthodologique accrue pour sortir d’une vision téléologique, scientiste et apolitique de l’anthropocène.

Muslim immigration to America has a protracted history dating back to the first coerced West and North Africans brought on ships as part of the slave trade. Yet, the notion of Muslims as a distinguishable or coherent group arose only in the aftermath of 9/11. The Muslims of the post-9/11 era are defined as fairly recent immigrants from Southeast Asia and the Arab world. Scholarship since 9/11 has implicitly accepted this categorization, whether to make the case that Muslims have been racialized or, conversely, to assess the level of terror threat they may pose. The present chapter views this issue through a longer-range lens and a looser definition of Muslim to allow for the inclusion of the earliest migration flows (coerced and voluntary) and those who are often viewed as contested Muslims, such as the Nation of Islam. In total, six migration flows are analyzed according to Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut’s conceptualization of immigrant modes of incorporation: namely governmental reception, public reaction toward newcomers, and the preexisting community. By casting this wider net and moving away from the confines of the post-9/11 backlash, this chapter evaluates the place of Islam in the lives of those who identify or are identified as Muslims. Analyzing six major migration flows that include Muslims, it finds that Islam has been secondary to the politics of populations identified as such, whether international or domestic. The Nation of Islam was treated as suspect more because of its black nationalist undertones than its claims to Islam.Palestinians, regardless of religion, were treated as terrorists because of the Arab-Israeli war, and Southeast Asian were viewed as model minorities until 9/11 despite their strong identification with Islam. In other words, the contextual elements, especially governmental reception, have a greater influence on minorities and immigrants than religion. Currently, this has meant that American Muslims have been asked to prove their allegiance to the United States. On a positive note, there are enough educated and civically engaged American Muslims that they are able to contest the imposition of a coherent Muslim identity as alien and dangerous.

Based on long-term fieldwork in a rural Tibetan region in China’s northwest (2002-13), The Battle for Fortune is an ethnography of state-local relations among Tibetans marginalized underChina’s Great Develop the West campaign and during the 2008 military crackdown on Tibetan unrest. The study brings anthropological approaches to states and development into dialogue with recent interdisciplinary debates about the very nature of human subjectivity and relations with nonhuman others (including deities). The author does this by drawing on a linguistic anthropological approach to contested presence (as an ongoing “battle for fortune”). For most Tibetans, the active presence of deities and other invisible beings has been the ground of power, causation, and fertile or fortunate landscapes. The author thus takes divine beings seriously as interlocutors and parties to exchange in Rebgong, refusing to relegate them to a separate, less consequential, “religious” or “premodern” world. The book thus challenges readers to grasp the unpredictable, even violent, interpersonal dynamics at the heart of development projects in China and elsewhere. And it encourages a more multidimensional and dynamic understanding of state-local relations than mainstream accounts of development and unrest that portray Tibet and China as a kind of yin-and-yang pair for models of statehood and development in a new global order.

The growing field of social economics explores how individual behavior is affected by group-level influences, extending the approach of mainstream economics to include broader social motivations and incentives. This book offers a rich and rigorous selection of current work in the field, focusing on some of the most active research areas. Topics covered include culture, gender, ethics, and philanthropic behavior. Social economics grows out of dissatisfaction with a purely individualistic model of human behavior. This book shows how mainstream economics is expanding its domain beyond market and price mechanisms to recognize a role for cultural and social factors. Some chapters, in the tradition of Gary Becker, attempt to extend the economics paradigm to explain other social phenomena; others, following George Akerlof’s approach, incorporate sociological and psychological assumptions to explain economic behavior. Loosely organized by theme—Social Preferences; Culture, Values, and Norms; and Networks and Social Interactions”—the chapters address a range of subjects, including gender differences in political decisions, “moral repugnance” as a constraint on markets, charitable giving by the super-rich, value diversity within a country, and the influence of children on their parents’ social networks. Contributors Mireia Borrell-Porta, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Joan Costa-Font, Elwyn Davies, Julio Jorge Elias, Marcel Fafchamps, Luigi Guiso, Odelia Heizler, Ayal Kimhi, Mariko J. Klasing, Martin Ljunge, Mario Macis, Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm, Abigail Payne, Kelly Ragan, Jana Sadeh, Azusa Sato, Kimberley Scharf, Sarah Smith, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos, Evguenia Winschel, Philipp Zahn

This collective monograph validates the relevance of the complex concept of “Transformational Revolutions” introduced here for the first time in academic circulation, which essentially expands the perspective of revolutionary origins and outcomes in Central and South-Eastern Europe. The authors analyze the prerequisites, course, and results of transformational revolutions in the countries of the region during the thirty-year period of their modern history. The studies describe the features of post-socialist modernization and the domestic and foreign political crises inherent in each country, the pros and cons of their involvement in the processes of European integration, and the benefits of joining NATO. The previously used term, “Velvet” revolution, does not cover the entire set of fundamental transformations in these countries in domestic and foreign policy. The researchers underline the specifics of a democratic political structure combined with a market economy for the countries in the region, with particular emphasis on ideological and political confrontation between the forces of the left and right in the framework of a multiparty system, and characterize the mechanism of changes in power during elections. They portray the correlation of euro-optimism and euro-scepticism in different countries, and their opposition to the dictates of Brussels. The authors emphasize that not only the Soviet perestroika, but also the various versions of revolution in the countries of the region led to the reformatting of the European and even global civilizational space. They reveal that many events of 30 years ago still determine the course of current events in the countries of the region and these countries may have incomplete transformation processes. The authors for the first time conduct a comparative analysis of the inclusion of the former GDR as part of a single German state in the EU and the divergent processes in the former socialist federations of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. They pay special attention to the relationship between European, regional, and national components in the course of the revolutions and also the resulting conflicts. The authors also examine the specifics of the entry of Central European countries and later the Balkan subregions into NATO and the EU, and the role played by religious-cultural factors in individual countries. This monograph examines the lessons of Greece's recovery from the financial and economic crisis, as well as on Turkey's special Balkan interest in a larger Euro-Asian context. These revolutions are investigated from a comparative historical point of view with the reasons, processes, and results of the deep changes in the countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe during their 30-year modern history analyzed. In addition, their experiences of post-socialist modernization, which includes their search and elaboration of optimal models for interaction among themselves as well as with the countries of the East, particularly Russia, and West, is described, and hindering factors are identified.

A conquista do direito à saúde, legitimada na Constituição Federal de 1988, inaugurou no país uma nova forma de organização da oferta dos serviços de saúde à população. Na perspectiva da saúde como um direito universal, o Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) foi implantado no país, adotando a Atenção Primária à Saúde (APS) como estratégia principal de ampliação do acesso aos serviços ofertados. No entanto, não podemos deixar de reconhecer os diversos desafios que ela sempre enfrentou e vem enfrentando cronicamente, para se consolidar enquanto modelo assistencial que objetiva não só, ampliar o acesso ao sistema de saúde, mas também, tentar reverter o enfoque curativo, individual e hospitalar, tradicionalmente instituído nos sistemas de saúde nacionais, em um modelo preventivo, coletivo, territorializado e democrático1 . Nos últimos anos no Brasil, vivenciamos um cenário acentuado de desmonte da APS e das políticas públicas como um todo, ameaçando diversos direitos sociais legalmente constituídos e dificultando ainda mais, a manutenção de uma APS forte, em uma perspectiva abrangente e integral. Com a pandemia de COVID-19, este cenário só se acentuou, lançando foco aos diversos problemas estruturais que sempre estiveram presentes ao longo desses anos. Diante disso, eu, em parceria com o pesquisador Caio Ramon Queiroz e a pesquisadora Silvana Carloto Andres, aceitamos o desafio de organizar essa obra intitulada “Atenção Primária à Saúde no Brasil: desafios e possibilidades no cenário contemporâneo”, que objetivou englobar estudos que discutissem a temática relacionada aos desafios da APS no cenário atual brasileiro, com foco tanto em estudos teórico-conceituais, quanto em relatos de experiências e pesquisas desenvolvidas nas diversas regiões do país. Sendo assim, esta coletânea é composta por 28 capítulos, que contribuem significativamente para essa reflexão tão importante e necessária no contexto pandêmico atual, tendo em vista que a APS constitui-se enquanto a principal porta de 1 FAUSTO, M. C. R.; MATTA, G.C. Atenção Primária à Saúde: histórico e perspectivas. In: MOROSINI, M. V. G.C. Modelos de atenção e a saúde da família/Organizado por Márcia Valéria G. C. Morosini e Anamaria D’Andrea Corbo. Rio de Janeiro: EPSJV/FIOCRUZ, 2007. entrada do sistema público de saúde brasileiro, com potencial para resolver grande parte das demandas de saúde da população. Dessa forma, os capítulos foram organizados de modo a proporcionar um encadeamento temático das leituras, a fim de despertar o interesse do leitor a aprofundar as reflexões oportunizadas pelos mesmos, iniciando com os capítulos que abordam diretamente a temática relacionada à APS no enfrentamento à pandemia de COVID-19, prosseguindo para os estudos que versam sobre as estratégias de fortalecimento da APS e por fim, para os estudos que abordam os diversos desafios cotidianamente enfrentados pelas equipes inseridas no sistema público de saúde do país. Por fim, deixo meus sinceros agradecimentos a todos (as) que aceitaram fazer parte de mais esse desafio coletivo, desde os (as) pesquisadores (as) autores (as) dos capítulos aqui publicados, até a equipe da Editora Amplla, por ter viabilizado as condições para que essa construção compartilhada de conhecimento se tornasse realidade e estive disponível para consulta de forma ampla a todos e todas. Considerando que este e-book constitui-se enquanto um mecanismo de luta e resistência coletiva em defesa do SUS e da garantia da saúde enquanto direito universal, fica aqui o convite à leitura e às reflexões propostas.