Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Rearticulation'

Using a critical rearticulation of Michel Foucault's broad output, this thesis analyses juridical fingerprinting in England to illuminate panoptic systems as inevitably failing projects. Explicitly, it presents original scholarship in delineating twenty criteria that summarise Foucault's contribution to surveillance studies literature and which comprise the theoretical framework for this thesis. In narrating the story of the incremental panoptification of fingerprinting, it elucidates his interpretation of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon design and how fingerprinting fails to meet this specific description of panopticism. This thesis also assesses a supplementary argument that whilst Foucault's work has influenced discourse of almost every genre, the inaccurate rendering of his texts has been frequent. The criticism of 'traditional' readings of Foucault centres on the ahistorical spatiality which eclipses discourse on moments of rupture and change that were so crucial to his genealogy. The thesis asserts that closer evaluation of Foucault's panopticon is required for application to contemporary surveillance assemblages, carefully rejecting the inappropriate extensions offered by petit Foucauldians who have limitedly engaged with his work. Utilising Pyrrhonian scepticism in line with Foucault's own, this thesis exposes accepted understandings of surveillance, especially fingerprinting, as flawed. By describing fingerprint technology as existed historically and as exists now, whilst predicting a future of intensified (but still failing) panoptification, this thesis explores the fundamental fragility of the mechanism. Furthermore, such corporal surveillance is therefore ineffective as a regime of governmental population control.

This thesis proposes a socio-cultural analysis of the articulation of socialist subjectivities in Romanian fiction during the communist period. The question underpinning my research, therefore, concerns the way in which the literary articulation of subjectivity changed across two historical divides: from the inter-war period to Socialist Realism and from Socialist Realism to the literature of the troubling decade. This thesis will be argued over four chapters, two of which will examine the works of Mihail Sadoveanu while a further two will dissect the works of Augustin Buzura. Through the close reading of the works of Sadoveanu and Buzura, whose careers span the two aforementioned historical divides, this thesis will trace the complex rearticulating of class and gender subjectivities as they evolved throughout the communist period, as well as the importance of the communist regime's social legacies as regards the understanding of post 1989 social developments in Romania. Central to the communist regime's project of social transformation was the creation of an egalitarian society by default of the abolition of capitalist classes and gender inequalities. While the regime claimed that the material basis of these inequalities had been eliminated and social emancipation was well advanced, critics considered that the official egalitarian discourse had erased social and individual differences and engendered the so-called "faceless masses". In contrast to these views, this thesis will argue that the communist regime did indeed transform social relationships in many ways, generating new class and gender inequalities, rather than eliminating them. Thus, far from being uniform, socialist societies were heterogeneous, fragmented and were straddled by social antagonisms. This thesis will thus argue that the changes that took place in the literary articulation of class and gender during communism are of significance to both the understanding of the communist regimes as well as their lasting legacies.

Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores an analysis of autobiographical illustration, as it relates directly to autobiographical devices employed in Bitterkomix and my own visual journals. The result is a practitioner-specific approach that frames my own work within a discourse of comics and consequently within the larger discourse of visual narrative. These devices are analysed in the works of artists in Bitterkomix who employ autobiography, not only as a means of effecting more intimate interactions between the reader and the narrative, but also as a form of legitimising narrative. A principal deduction that I have made is that autobiographical writing operates through the filter of memory and language translation. A divergence occurs within Bitterkomix, as well as within my own work, between the artist as himself and the artist as his autobiographical self - the two are never identical. I choose to define autobiographical illustration as an interpretative and experimental visual writing process used to affirm and negate perceived concepts of self through the filters of memory, language translation and imagination. Imagination acts as an extension of current memory from which perceived past, present and future identity constructs emanate and extend. These constructs are by no means indicative of historical fact but often appear to be so given autobiography's association as a referential text. The visual journal as an autobiographical object, like Bitterkomix, seeks to legitimise itself in 'naturalising narrative' by feigning to make it the outcome of a documentative process. It is exactly the tension between autobiography's perceived characteristic as a genre that involves 'real' experiences and its actual function as a narrative construction of identity that merits its use as a strategic device. I argue how my visual journals constitute autobiographical narrative objects and archives of autobiographical illustrative form and content. This tension is amplified in my visual journals in their association as deeply personal objects and as a result of what is perceived to be the artist's natural process. Most importantly, these narrative objects are placed within the public's gaze and are made to be read as autobiographical texts, ultimately as documents of this process.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek outobiografiese illustrasie wat direk verband hou met outobiografiese praktyke wat in Bitterkomix en in my eie visuele joernale gebruik word. Die resultaat is 'n praktisyn-spesifieke aanslag wat my eie werk binne die diskoers van stripkuns plaas, en sodoende binne die groter diskoers van visuele narratief. Hierdie praktyke word geanaliseer in die werk van Bitterkomix-kunstenaars wat outobiografie gebruik, nie net as 'n manier om meer intieme interaksies tussen die leser en die narratief te bewerkstellig nie, maar ook om die narratief legitiem te maak. Ek maak die afleiding dat outobiografiese skryfwerk deur die filters van geheue en taal werksaam is. In beide Bitterkomix en my eie werk is 'n skeiding tussen die kunstenaar self en die kunstenaar se outobiografiese self sigbaar – die twee is nooit identies nie. Ek verkies om outobiografiese illustrasie te definieer as 'n interpretatiewe en eksperimentele visuele skryfproses wat gebruik word om waargenome begrippe van die self deur die filters van geheue, vertaling en verbeelding te bevestig en te negeer. Die verbeelding dien as 'n voortsetting van huidige geheue waaruit waargenome identiteitskonstrukte van die verlede, hede en toekoms voortvloei. Hierdie konstrukte is geensins aanduidend van historiese feite nie, maar kom dikwels so voor gegewe outobiografie se assosiasie as verwysende teks. My argument is dat my visuele joernale beide outobiografiese narratiewe objekte én argiewe van outobiografiese illustratiewe vorm en inhoud is. Visuele joernale as outobiografiese objekte, soos in die geval van Bitterkomix, probeer sigself legitiem maak deur middel van 'naturaliserende narratief', deur voor te gee dat dit die resultaat van 'n dokumenterende proses is. Dit is juis die spanning tussen outobiografie se aard as 'n genre wat gegrond is op 'ware' ervaringe, en outobiografie se funksie as 'n narratiewe konstruksie, wat die gebruik daarvan as 'n strategiese middel die moeite werd maak. Hierdie spanning word in my visuele joernale verhoog deur hulle diep persoonlike aard, en as gevolg van wat gesien word as die kunstenaar se natuurlike proses. Belangriker nog is dat hierdie narratiewe objekte binne die publiek se sigveld geplaas word om as outobiografiese tekste gelees te word, en ook uiteindelik as dokumente van die proses.

Thesis advisor: Deborah Levenson
A historical analysis of the political strategies employed by indigenous activsts throughout Ecuador's contemporary indigenous movement. Particular attention is paid to evolving notions of citizenhsip at the national level, land reform, institutional mobilization and identity politics
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
Discipline: College Honors Program

In December 2012, the brutal gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh in New Delhi, India sparked international outrage leading to numerous protests. Singh’s story raised many questions regarding sexual violence and rape culture in India. We Are Angry is a digital narrative that responds to sexual assault and misogyny in India through the story of a victim whose tragedy mirrors that of Singh and many others. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the rhetorical potential of digital narratives through the analysis of We Are Angry. Specifically, I used Fisher’s Narrative Paradigm as a lens to determine how the use of hypertext impacts the narrative’s inherent rationality, fidelity, and coherence. This thesis illustrates that digital narratives’ use of hypertext allows the creator to develop a narrative in a way that can expand the reader’s knowledge on prominent international social justice issues. Hypertext further enhances the level of fidelity and coherence for a reader who may not be familiar with the Indian setting.
Master of Arts

The thesis examines the concept of community in international relations theory. It is my contention that articulating the concept of community as the sovereign state in international relations ultimately places limits on political space, hampering the extent to which the discipline is able to understand and explain the varieties of global politics and political actors that increasingly affect international relations. The thesis argues that in order to redefine political space, it is necessary rearticulate the meaning of community in international theory. To examine the feasibility of rearticulation, the thesis focuses on international theory. The first chapter sets out the problem of political space in international relations, arguing that it tends to be rather narrowly and problematically demarcated by the sovereign state. With the meaning of community in international relations therefore in need of rearticulation, the second chapter turns to social theory for a concept of community that is not framed by the sovereign state, and argues that the concept of community may be understood by way of three components: territoriality, identity and the political. The subsequent three chapters examine exemplars from international theory for each of these three components. These three chapters consider the extent to which it is viable to seek rearticulation, what this might involve and the extent to which it is already underway in international relations. The thesis determines that rearticulation is possible, given that the existing work on territoriality, identity and the political suggests that the necessary conceptual tools are already employed in the discipline and are applicable for rearticulating the meaning of community. Moreover, with the addition of work from social theory, the thesis concludes that rearticulation is not only feasible but also essential. The conclusion sets out what is required to continue the process of rearticulating the meaning of community in international theory.

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O presente trabalho procura compreender as transformações que ocorrem na base do poder político da autocracia burguesa brasileira em 1930. Nomeadamente a crise que leva a recomposição das suas frações no bloco do poder com a ascensão da Aliança Liberal ao Governo Provisório. Para tanto estudamos a formação e consolidação da fração agrárioexportadora e portadora do grande capital cafeeiro, já que esta vai ser a matriz do intenso desenvolvimento que a nossa formação social vai conhecer com base no ciclo do café. É através de sua gênese e desenvolvimento que observamos que, no bojo de seu avanço social, inclusive na composição de sua hegemonia que ocorre durante a Primeira República, contradições como a formação de uma industrialização com capitais oriundos da acumulação cafeeira vão transformando a estrutura produtiva de sua dominação. Por outro lado, seu domínio absoluto começa a ser contestado em 1922, ferindo mortalmente sua capacidade hegemônica. A Aliança Liberal, herdeira de toda essa crise política, ao agregar em si inúmeros grupos, camadas e frações sociais que já não se veem mais representadas pela política monocultora e agroexportadora do café, com grande ênfase ao apoio armado tenentista, se insurrece e desloca do centro do poder a fração paulista. Como grupo dirigente, ela então reorienta o centro dinâmico da economia brasileira, respondendo ao caráter de suas próprias contradições, e com medidas políticas como o corporativismo trava contato íntimo com a burguesia industrial. Novamente se apropriando do Estado para recompor a relação de suas frações burguesas, e outra vez alijando a classe trabalhadora do poder através de sua organização em moldes corporativistas, mesmo que isso as leve para dentro do próprio Estado, e ainda reprimindo com violência os grupos sociais que não lograram obedecer a esse ditame, como a reorganização do DEOPS bem expressa, características todas de uma legítima autocracia burguesa, agora reposta em novos patamares, o grupo dirigente encabeçado por Getúlio Vargas procede a uma genuína modernização conservadora desta forma de domínio brasileira.
The present work tries to understand the transformations that occur in the base of the political power of the Brazilian bourgeois autocracy in 1930. In particular, the crisis that leads to the recomposition of its fractions in the power bloc with the rise of the Liberal Alliance to the Provisional Government. In order to do so, we study the formation and consolidation of the agrarian-exporting fraction and the great capital of coffee, since this will be the matrix of the intense development that our social formation will know based on the coffee cycle. It is through its genesis and development that we observe that, in the midst of its social advance, including in the composition of its hegemony that occurs during the Old Republic, contradictions such as the formation of an industrialization with capital from the coffee accumulation transform the productive structure of Their domination. On the other hand, its absolute domination begins to be contested in 1922, mortally wounding its hegemonic capacity. The Liberal Alliance, inheriting all this political crisis, by aggregating in itself numerous groups, strata and social fractions that are no longer represented by the monoculture and agro-exporting policy of coffee, with great emphasis on the tenentista armed support, insurrection and dislocation of the Center of power the São Paulo fraction. As a leading group, it then reorients the dynamic center of the Brazilian economy, responding to the character of its own contradictions, and with political measures such as corporatism, it has intimate contact with the industrial bourgeoisie. Once again appropriating the state to recompose the relation of its bourgeois fractions, and again throwing away the working class of power through its organization in a corporatist way, even if it takes them into the state itself, and still repressing social groups with violence which have not been able to obey this dictum, such as the reorganization of the DEOPS expressed, all characteristics of a legitimate bourgeois autocracy, now restored to new heights, the leading group headed by Getúlio Vargas proceeds to a genuine conservative modernization of this form of Brazilian domination.
El presente trabajo busca comprender las transformaciones que ocurren en la base del poder político de la autocracia burguesa brasileña en 1930. En particular la crisis que lleva a la recomposición de sus fracciones en el bloque del poder con el ascenso de la Alianza Liberal al Gobierno Provisional. Para ello estudiamos la formación y consolidación de la fracción agrario-exportadora y portadora del gran capital cafetero, ya que ésta va a ser la matriz del intenso desarrollo que nuestra formación social va a conocer con base en el ciclo del café. Es a través de su génesis y desarrollo que observamos que, en el seno de su avance social, incluso en la composición de su hegemonía que ocurre durante la Primera República, contradicciones como la formación de una industrialización con capitales oriundos de la acumulación cafetera van transformando la estructura productiva de su dominación. Por otro lado, su dominio absoluto comienza a ser discutido en 1922, hiriendo mortalmente su capacidad hegemónica. La Alianza Liberal, heredera de toda esta crisis política, al agregar en sí innumerables grupos, capas y fracciones sociales que ya no se ven más representadas por la política monocultiva y agroexportadora del café, con gran énfasis al apoyo armado tenentista, se insurrece y se desplaza el centro del poder la fracción paulista. Como grupo dirigente, entonces reorienta el centro dinámico de la economía brasileña, respondiendo al carácter de sus propias contradicciones, y con medidas políticas como el corporativismo traba contacto íntimo con la burguesía industrial. Nuevamente apropiarse del Estado para recomponer la relación de sus fracciones burguesas, y otra vez alijando a la clase obrera del poder a través de su organización en moldes corporativistas, aunque eso las lleve hacia dentro del propio Estado, y aún reprimiendo con violencia a los grupos sociales que no lograron obedecer a ese dictamen, como la reorganización del DEOPS bien expresada, características todas de una legítima autocracia burguesa, ahora restablecida en nuevos niveles, el grupo dirigente encabezado por Getúlio Vargas procede a una genuina modernización conservadora de esta forma de dominio brasileña.

Writing center directors (WCDs) often situate their programs in physical and virtual spaces without fully studying the pedagogical and political implications of their decisions. Without intense study, writing centers risk building programs within spaces that undermine their missions and philosophies. In The Production of Space, Henri Lefebvre argues that "From the analytic standpoint, the spatial practice of a society is revealed through the deciphering of its space" (38). The study of space also reveals important political and financial priorities within the institution. Furthermore, the positioning of buildings and the spatial layout of a campus display the institution's priorities and attitudes toward writing center work. Theorizing the Online Writing Lab (OWL) through the lens of cultural and political geographies, it becomes apparent that the physical spaces of many writing centers are not as sustainable as WCDs might like, and in many ways, they are marginalized within the larger institution. This dissertation prompts a rearticulation of place and space in the writing center. In this dissertation, I argue that in an attempt to rethink current practices, the virtual space of the writing center should perpetuate, extend, and improve the social practices employed in our physical spaces. I draw from mapping exercises to inform my critique in an attempt to advance our understanding of writing center physical and virtual spaces. The changing geographical and cultural landscape of the institution demands that writing centers pay close attention to spatial implications as they employ technology to create dynamic virtual resources and more sustainable spaces. I rearticulate writing center spaces through cognitive and digital mapping, urban planning, and architectural theories. I make several contributions through this work: theoretical, to rearticulate the physical and virtual space of writing center work; political, to understand the constructions of the writing center's pedagogical spaces; and pedagogical, to understand best practices for creating virtual spaces that enhance learning, unlike those we have seen before or have had available in the writing center.
Ph.D.
Department of English
Arts and Humanities
Texts and Technology PhD

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
Esta dissertação trata da rearticulação da autoridade do patrimônio cultural no Brasil via ações de cooperação internacional a partir de 2008. Mais especificamente, elabora uma compreensão acerca do engajamento do Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN), instância compreendida como a autoridade que define quem diz o que é patrimônio cultural da nação e o que deve ser preservado, em iniciativas internacionais no âmbito da cooperação Sul-Sul. Inicialmente, o trabalho explora a construção dessa autoridade a partir de narrativas que legitimam as práticas de preservação e sua desestabilização no início dos anos 1980, com os processos de democratização que eclodiram no Brasil. No final do século XX, esses processos abriram espaço para contestações quanto a representação do patrimônio cultural consagrado, conformando a necessidade de reelaboracão da identidade nacional forjada pelas políticas de patrimônio cultural. Em seguida, apresenta a evolução do tema do patrimônio imaterial nos debates internacionais no âmbito da UNESCO e a incorporação desse conceito como condição para a rearticulação da autoridade patrimonial. Por fim, aponta como a ampliação do conceito de patrimônio cultural e o reconhecimento de novas identidades culturais impõem questões acerca da correspondência entre identidade nacional e território, problematizando a autoridade do IPHAN. O trabalho conclui que as iniciativas internacionais em gestão de patrimônio cultural do IPHAN contribuem para a rearticulação de sua autoridade patrimonial, pois permitem, através da releitura do território do Estado brasileiro, a reelaboração da identidade nacional, agora reconhecida na sua heterogeneidade e por sua espacialidade transnacional.
This Master thesis addresses the rearticulation of authority in cultural heritage within Brazil through international cooperation initiatives since 2008. More specifically, it elaborates an understanding on the engagement of the Institute of Historical and Artistic National Heritage (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, IPHAN, in Portuguese), the entity seen as responsible to define who determines the content of cultural national heritage and what should be preserved, within South-South cooperation initiatives. Initially, the following thesis explores the construction of this authority from the narratives that legitimize preservation practices and the destabilization of those at the beginning of the 1980s drawing from the democratization processes in Brazil. In the end of 20th century these processes open space for contestations towards the representation of the sacred cultural heritage, shaping the need to redesign the national identity, which has been forged by the cultural heritage policies. Next, the international debates within the UNESCO and the evolution of the topic of intangible heritage will be assessed as a strategy or necessary condition to rearticulate the Institute s heritage authority. Finally, the extension of the cultural heritage concept and the recognition of new cultural identities raise questions in terms of the correspondence between national identity and territory, problematizing IPHAN s authority. The thesis concludes that the international initiatives in cultural heritage management promoted by IPHAN contribute to the rearticulation of its heritage authority, because they allow through a new reading of the Brazilian s state territory, the reelaboration of the national identity, now recognized as heterogeneous and by its transnational spatiality.

This thesis explores how current ways of imagining possibilities for intersexed and trans embodied lives within medical contexts might be informed by and reimagined through the historical lived experiences of intersexed and trans individuals as they have been articulated in autobiographical accounts. Postmodern, queer, intersex, and trans researchers and activists have criticised existing standards of intersex and trans healthcare for limiting the possibilities for diverse embodied lives by articulating certain forms of embodiment and selfhood as more likely to enable a liveable life than others. This has often been done in a medico-legal context by referring to experiences in the past of the unliveability of corporealities and gendersexed situations that differ from privileged positions. With a point of departure in these critiques, this thesis reopens questions about how intersexed and trans people may be embodied and have relations with others by reflecting upon the period of the first three-quarters of the 20th century, when the present standards of care and diagnostic categories were emerging, but had not yet become established. Drawing upon a unique set of historical source material from the archives of the Danish Ministry of Justice and the Medico-Legal Council, intersexed and trans persons’ life stories are rearticulated from their own and medico-legal experts’ accounts written in relation to applications for change of legal gendersex status and medical transition. In this way, the process is traced through which these life stories have been repeatedly rearticulated in order to become a usable basis for diagnosis and decision-making. At the same time, the stories are unfolded once more in a rearticulation focusing on their complexity and diversity.
Denna avhandling undersöker hur nuvarande sätt att föreställa sig möjligheter för intersexuella och transpersoners liv inom medicinska sammanhang kan informeras av och omföreställas genom historiska livserfarenheter hos intersexuella och transindivider, som de har artikulerats i självbiografiska berättelser. Postmoderna, queer, intersex- och transforskare och aktivister har kritiserat existerande normer för intersex- och transhälsovård för att begränsa möjligheterna för olika förkroppsligande liv genom att artikulera vissa former av förkroppsligande och subjektivitet som mer sannolikt att möjliggöra ett levbart liv än andra. Detta har ofta gjorts i ett medicinskt-juridiskt sammanhang genom att hänvisa till förflutna erfarenheter av levbarhet kring förkroppsligande och genusifierande situationer som skiljer sig från privilegierade positioner. Med utgångspunkt i denna kritik, återupptar denna avhandling frågor om hur intersexuella och transpersoner kan bli förkroppsligade och ha relationer till andra, genom att reflektera kring de första tre fjärdedelarna av nittonhundratalet när de nuvarande normerna för vård och diagnostiska kategorier uppstod, men ännu inte blivit etablerade. Med utgångspunkt i en unik uppsättning av historiskt källmaterial från Danska  Justitiedepartementet och Medicinsk-Etiska Rådets arkiv, återges intersexuella och transpersoners livshistorier från egna och medicinsk-etiska experters berättelser skrivna i relation till ansökningar av förändring av juridiskt kön och medicinsk transition. Genom denna process har livshistorier upprepande gånger blivit omartikulerade för att bli en användbar grund för diagnos och beslutsfattande. Samtidigt är dessa livshistorier uppöppnade än en gång i en omartikulation med fokus på deras komplexitet och mångfald.

Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Sines é uma pequena cidade situada na costa alentejana a cerca de 100 quilómetros a sul de Lisboa, implantada num planalto junto ao mar, que é marcado pela presença de uma baía abrigada a norte pela arriba que serve de embasamento à cidade. Esta baía, ao representar uma articulação privilegiada do lugar com o mar, constitui uma peça fundamental na identificação de vocações pelos diversos povos que daquele território se apropriaram. Ao longo da história, as vocações foram dando origem à criação de diversos eixos de articulação do lugar com o território, estruturando-o e ordenando o crescimento da malha urbana. No entanto, em meados dos anos 70 do século 20 a localização privilegiada deste lugar na costa atlântica da Península Ibérica, associada ao potencial para transporte marítimo das águas profundas, possibilitaram o planeamento de um porto intercontinental. Ao ser consumada a ordem de construção, surgem estruturas portuárias e industriais em torno da cidade que limitam e condicionam o seu crescimento, representando um conjunto de barreiras urbanas. Estas barreiras, para além de gerarem alterações profundas na morfologia do terreno e criarem uma nova escala no território, (alterando irreversivelmente o carácter natural da envolvente), representam um corte na continuidade dos eixos transversais às vocações sobretudo à vocação de veraneio de Sines e da sua costa a Sul. No presente trabalho é apresentado um projeto de rearticulação territorial partindo da reinterpretação dos eixos antigos, tem como objetivo atenuar o impacto que o complexo portuário e industrial teve, tem e previsivelmente terá no território, considerando os atuais planos de expansão da área portuária dando resposta as problemáticas que surgiram na cidade resultantes da sua construção.
Sines is a small city located on the Alentejo coast around one hundred kilometres from Lisbon. It is set on a plateau by the sea. The distinguishing feature is a northwards sheltered bay which serves as a base of the city. This bay, a privileged link to the sea, has always played a fundamental role in the choosing of professions by the people living in the area. Throughout history, these professions gave rise to the creation of numerous transit routes, leading to the layout and growth of the urban area. Throughout the seventies Sines was earmarked to be a major port and industrial complex. Port and industrial complexes proliferated around the city, modifying and limiting the city’s growth, acting as urban barriers. These barriers, apart from causing profound changes in the terrain’s structure and altering the scale of the region (irreversibly changing its natural character), represent a cutting off of the transverse axes of importance to previous occupations. In the current dissertation it's presented an articulation project set on the reinterpretation of previously settled routes with the objective of lessening the impacts that the industrial activity had, and possibly, will have on the area, keeping in mind the ongoing harbour expansion plans we identify the negative outcome it had on the city structure. .

Built in 1819 by the U.S. government, Fort Snelling sits at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. This place is called a “bdote” by the Dakota people. Oral traditions describe bdote as the site of Dakota creation. Treaties in the nineteenth century allowed the U.S. government to dispossess the Dakota of this land. Fort Snelling is connected to many important points in U.S. history. It operated as a military post until the mid-twentieth century, and was a training or processing site for U.S. servicepersons who fought in the Civil War, U.S. Indian removal campaigns, and World War Two, among others. Dred Scott lived as a slave at Fort Snelling. Following the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, about 1,600 Dakota people were forcibly concentrated below Fort Snelling, where nearly 300 died. Shortly after, the U.S. government banished the Dakota from Minnesota. Today, Fort Snelling exists as “Historic Fort Snelling.” Run by the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS), the site offers a living history program which interprets Fort Snelling “as it was” in the 1820s—before much of these events of import occurred. This portrayal is geared toward schoolchildren and white Minnesotans, and focuses on the premise of peaceful U.S. settlement in the American West. This study describes Fort Snelling’s history, and address peoples’—both Dakota and other Minnesotans’—objections to the circumscribed interpretation of history at Historic Fort Snelling. By better revealing the memory alive at this site, most specifically the popularly ignored Dakota memories of Fort Snelling and bdote, this study hopes to convey what scholar Avery F. Gordon would term the “hauntings” present but unacknowledged at Historic Fort Snelling. This study concludes that in order to express the density of memory at Fort Snelling, MHS and Historic Fort Snelling must acknowledge that the Dakota people and their stories are crucial to its history. Further, these institutions must recognize that oppressive structures like U.S. colonialism allowed for Fort Snelling’s creation and operation. These structures and the hauntings they produce are still alive on this land, and onsite historical interpretation at Historic Fort Snelling must transform to reflect these living memories.
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This dissertation analyses identity formation through music among contemporary Colombian musicians. The work focuses on the emergence of musical fusions in Bogotá, which participant musicians and Colombian media have called "nueva música Colombiana" (new Colombian music). The term describes the work of bands that assimilate and transform North-American music genres such as jazz, rock, and hip-hop, and blend them with music historically associated with Afro-Colombian communities such as cumbia and currulao, to produce several popular and experimental musical styles. In the last decade, these new fusions have begun circulating outside Bogotá, becoming the distinctive sound of young Colombia domestically and internationally. The dissertation focuses on questions of musical circulation, affect, and taste as a means for articulating difference, working on the self, and generating attachments others and therefore social bonds and communities. This dissertation considers musical fusion from an ontological perspective influenced by actor-network, non-representational, and assemblage theory. Such theories consider a fluid social world, which emerges from the web of associations between heterogeneous human and material entities. The dissertation traces the actions, interactions, and mediations between places, people, institutions, and recordings that enable the emergence of new Colombian music. In considering those associations, it places close attention to the affective relationships between people and music. In that sense, instead of thinking on relatively fixed and consistent relationships between music, place, and identity, built upon discursive or imagined ties, the work considers each of these concepts as a network of relations enmeshed with each other and in consistent re-articulation.

This thesis applies mixed ethnographic methods at field sites in British Columbia and the United Nations to explore the spread and uptake of the "ecosystem services" idea in different institutions of environmental governance. I explore intensifying efforts by ecosystem services proponents to rearticualte living nature in various ways and with various objectives around the concept. As the idea manifests in a wide array of different policies and practices, I attempt to characterize a process of 'discursive refraction,' and argue ecosystem services represents a kind of chimera, appearing differently to the disparate practitioners interpreting, responding to, and beginning to use it. Consequently, the idea takes on diverse forms and functions in those institutional settings where it appears. I conclude that the discourse of ecosystem services remains a locus of ongoing contestation, which significantly complicates the relationship between what its proponents intend for it, and its ideological, institutional, and ecological consequences.

博士
國立中山大學
企業管理學系研究所
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Researchers have suggested that historical brands can employ “brand revitalization” or “retro branding” strategies for brand transformation. The former focus on how historical brands can add more innovative and creative elements in their brand, leading historical brands to be more modern. The latter suggests that the historical brands have to focus on their classic elements via enhancing the linkage between current images and the past ones. However, no known studies have systematically examined the relative effects, mediating mechanisms, and moderators of these two strategies. 　　The present study designed five studies with various participants and different research designs to test the effects, mechanisms, and boundary conditions of brand revitalization and retro branding strategies: (1) Study 1 found that brand revitalization or retro branding strategies can increase consumer brand attitudes and purchase intentions (comparing with control groups) via perceived brand value and brand identity, respectively; (2) Study 2 found that brand personality and consumer materialism moderate the indirect effects of brand revitalization or retro branding on consumer outcomes; (3) Study 3 further indicated that the indirect effects of brand revitalization or retro branding on consumer outcomes also depend on consumer self-construal and product involvement; (4) Study 4 used Mturk to collect responses from U.S. consumers to test our proposed model again; (5) Study 5 used the field experiment to chose two real historical shops that employed brand revitalization or retro branding strategies, and found that most hypotheses were again supported. Theoretical and methodological contributions, as well as managerial implications, are further discussed.