Aus der Einführung: "Glaubt man euphorisch gestimmten Zeitgenossen der 1950er Jahre, verhieß das »Atomzeitalter« vor allem Gutes: »Die Welt von morgen erwartet uns! Schon stehen wir an der Schwelle, um durch die weit geöffnete Tür in ein neues Zeitalter hinein zu schreiten. Es wird beherrscht von der Atomtechnik und von der Eroberung des Weltalls über uns. Vieles in unserem Leben wird sich dann wandeln. «1 So lautet ein Text im Sammelbildalbum der Firma Birkel, das seit den frühen 1950er Jahren in der Bundesrepublik erschien. Die Atomtechnik wird hier ganz positiv an den Beginn eines neuen, besseren Zeitalters gesetzt, welches den Menschen seiner Erd-Bindung entheben und alte Menschheitsträume realisieren werde: die Eroberung des Weltalls und der Meere, die Überwindung von Zeitund Raumgrenzen sowie Wohlstand und Fortschritt. Mehrere Sammelbilder zeigen schließlich mögliche Einsatzgebiete der Atomtechnik: als Energielieferant, als Antriebstechnik und zur Ertragssteigerung in der Landwirtschaft."

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The countries of the Nile Basin are on a collision course that could result in disastrous military action to determine control of the region’s main water source. In the wake of the Arab Spring, the Egyptian government has lost much of the regional clout that allowed it to maintain it’s ‘lion’s share’ of the Nile as outlined by the 1959 agreement. Population and economic growth in upstream countries, specifically Ethiopia, have resulted in intensified calls for a more equitable water-sharing agreement. Just weeks after Mubarak stepped down, Ethiopia unveiled plans to build the Grand Renaissance Dam. The GRD will significantly reduce the water that reaches Egypt’s borders but will significantly increase Ethiopia’s hydroelectric power and irrigation potential. Egypt’s population and agriculture sector rely heavily on the maintenance of this status quo; the country also faces the mounting effects of climate change, rising food prices and immense population growth. In order to avoid a severe water crisis, Egypt must be proactive and look to improve efficiency within its own borders. This paper will examine the inadequacies of Egypt’s agricultural and irrigation sectors. It will then use examples from Mexico’s successful irrigation reform and advocate a shift of control to local Water User Associations. Other domestic and basin-wide efforts to increase water-use efficiency will also be examined.

A Research Report to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Arts (Fine Art), 2016 / The core of the study for this MA examines expressions and understandings of human dignity/seriti, in the work of Gerard Sekoto (1913-1993), Nhlanhla Xaba (1960-2003), Zwelethu Mthethwa (b.1960) and in my own paintings. As such, the study probes, analyses and questions the intentions, writings on and readings of these artists’ work, as well as appropriate and build on their visual and representational languages. Underlying the research is the idea of black consciousness, and quest for an ideology of a more human and equal South Africa. The subject of my paintings evolves around seriti in Sofaya, an informal settlement in the northeast of Johannesburg, which is not located on official maps of the city. I set out this study with the argument, that all human beings retain seriti as a quality that bestows respectability and equality to them. The practical component is comprised of paintings in oil. The work tries to capture a personal and spiritual quality that I call seriti through explorations of colour, paint mark, and texture. I am curious about the concept of seriti as seen through everyday experiences. I am moved by the imaginative ability of both Sekoto and Xaba’s images that weave communal and socio-political narratives to portray, positively, people’s capacity to outlive harsh and conflicting living conditions. As a result of these influences, I employ dynamic brushwork, poetic colours, and expressive forms in an attempt to portray the realities, agency, and the place of Sofaya. / MT2017

Traditional fairy tales represent some of the oldest and most archetypal forms of literature. However, as humanity rapidly evolves, the genre and content of traditional fairy tales still operates as a prevalent socializing agent that fails to promote pluralism. Instead, traditional fairy tales illustrate and uphold limited gender roles and expectations. This paper examines Hermann Hesse's role as a pioneer in a now burgeoning movement of fairy tale revisions that blur boundaries between fantasy and reality by introducing specific, everyday locations, countries, and individuals coupled with a copious use of the double. This formula draws the reader into the tale via the uncanny and prompts a reevaluation of especially violent historical moments and issues that affect all within a society. Hesse's work within this new tradition of revisions of beloved fairy tales, as well as his creation of literary fairy tales, has significantly influenced the work of key postmodern feminist fairy tale revisionists like Jeanette Winterson. / by Brittany K. Rigdon. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

A presente pesquisa, de natureza teórico-filosófica, argumenta descritivamente a teoria estética do filósofo americano John Dewey, em função do seu chamado \"princípio de continuidade\", próprio do sistema filosófico deweyano como um todo. Nessa empreitada, privilegiou-se o recorte da continuidade entre o estético e o científico, ou entre valor e investigação enquanto característica essencial de tal teoria estética. Na observação dos pressupostos filosóficos gerais do filósofo, verificou-se que sua estética se estabelece, necessariamente, em continuidade ao método experimental das ciências naturais, consolidando proposições características essenciais de sua teoria da arte: Dewey crê na supremacia da contingência do processo que é a própria natureza, contínua, cumulativa, em sentido amplo, o que justifica que o ideal deva deixar de ser contemplativo para se converter num instrumental operativo, ou seja, um método experimental em virtude do meio; assim sendo, a estética deweyana deve ser compreendida, principalmente, em seu caráter investigativo, ou seja, em continuidade à ciência; Dewey rejeita os dualismos filosóficos, a metafísica e a epistemologia tradicionais; logo, sua estética desconsidera igualmente qualquer \"transcendental\" ou \"transcendente\" em termos clássicos; portanto, a arte ou estética, seja ela ato expressivo ou cultura, se daria entre diversos ritmos contínuos, nunca dualistas ou hierárquicos, no sentido da busca de um ideal Absoluto. Segundo a estética de Dewey, o valor reside precisamente no ritmo próprio do processo por exemplo: entre tensão e harmonia, comum e extraordinário, real e ideal etc. Dessa articulação ativa entre os vários aspectos em continuidade é que surgiria o ato expressivo, pela experiência singular imaginativa, e a cultura como um todo, mediante a comunicação. / The present theoretical-philosophical research argues descriptively about the aesthetic theory of the american philosopher John Dewey, in regards to the principle of continuity\" within Dewey\'s philosophical system as a whole. Bearing that in mind, the continuity of the aesthetic and the scientific were focused, as well as value broadly conceived and knowledge viewed as a scientific approach, and as the essential feature of Dewey\'s aesthetic theory. Thus, through the observation of the philosophers general assumptions, it has been verified that his aesthetics is necessarily established in continuity with experimental methods of natural sciences, which consolidates a few of the essential features propositions of his art theory: Dewey\'s supreme belief in the contingent of the process, which is continuous, cumulative, and broadly conceived as nature itself, implies that the ideal must cease to be contemplative and thus become instrumental and operative, which means it should become an experimental method in virtue of the environment. Therefore: Dewey\'s aesthetics must be primarily understood within its investigative character, that is, in its continuity to science; Deweys rejection of traditional metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical dualisms prevents any classical interpretation of \"transcendental\" or \"transcendent\". Therefore art or aesthetics, as acts of expression or culture, should be continuous to a diversity of rhythms, but never dualistic or hierarchical in the sense of any ideal in pursuit of the Absolute. According to Dewey\'s aesthetics, value resides precisely in the pace of the process itself, such as between tension and harmony, ordinary and extraordinary, real and ideal and so on. From this active articulation between all the aspects of continuity an expressive act would emerge, as the realm of a singular imaginative experience, and of culture as a whole, through communication.

Diplomová práce “Hrdinové nové Rusi: Analýza archetypů postav v díle Alexeje Balabanova“ představuje život a dílo jednoho z nejpozoruhodnějších režisérů nové ruské kinematografie Alexeje Balabanova. Užitím kvalitativní obsahové analýzy pojednává o všech jeho celovečerních filmech, jak těch dokončených, tak i těch nedokončených, a soustředí se na archetypy hrdinů, které režisér/scenárista Balabanov ve svých dílech soustavně využívá. Kromě toho práce rovněž popisuje, jak se tyto archetypy v průběhu času měnily, stejně tak jako se Ruská federace měnila po pádu Sovětského svazu a jak Balabanov sám tyto změny vnímal, ať už ve svém životě či ve svém díle. Zjištěné poznatky práce dále zasazuje do širšího kontextu postaveného na národních, historických a kulturních aspektech tak, aby poskytla pro čistě subjektivní přístup slavného režiséra také ryze objektivní rámec.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-03-28T10:25:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Vitor da Matta Vivolo.pdf: 20931566 bytes, checksum: ed0cc27b6bd567e94009c3f1926509b6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-28T10:25:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vitor da Matta Vivolo.pdf: 20931566 bytes, checksum: ed0cc27b6bd567e94009c3f1926509b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The present work aims to investigate Gastão Cruls (1888-1959), an author of medical short stories and novels in the first half of the 20th century. Through a study of his biography, gathered from documents of his family’s personal collection and his works – specially Coivara (1920), A Amazonia Mysteriosa (1925), Elsa e Helena (1927), Vertigem (1934) e De Pai a Filho (1954) – we aim to reveal polyphonic dimensions of discourse between his historical subject, his fictional work and his own historical period. Our approach is essentially Bakhtinian which allows Gastão Cruls to be a great historiographic object of study considering that he composes a historical personality as the member of an extensive spectrum of social relationships and practices. Metaphorically, we could draw a comparison between him and an intersection point: intertwined with a remarkable visibility in Brazilian intellectual elite, also intersected by plethora of multiple interests and interdisciplinary actor in publishing segments. We observed that the overlapping of his personal, historical and fictitious spheres revealed historical features of the medical training during Rio de Janeiro’s Belle Époque: doctors and patient’s daily routines, human suffering in clinical conditions according to Medicine of his time, the national discussions concerning the future of Brazil and even the inception of psychoanalysis into Brazilian Medicine. Those are the kind of historical issues discussed in his fictitious works / A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar Gastão Cruls (1888-1959), autor de contos e romances de teor médico na primeira metade do século XX. Através de sua vida, por nós rastreada por documentos de seu acervo familiar pessoal, e suas obras - especialmente Coivara (1920), A Amazonia Mysteriosa (1925), Elsa e Helena (1927), Vertigem (1934) e De Pai a Filho (1954) - procurarmos revelar dimensões discursivas polifônicas entre sujeito histórico, sua obra fictícia e seu próprio tempo. Nossa abordagem é essencialmente bakhtiniana, tornando Gastão Cruls uma ótima possibilidade de objeto historiográfico, pois compõe uma personalidade histórica que era membro de um largo espectro de convívio e de atuação. Metaforicamente, podemos adotar sua comparação a um ponto de intersecção: perpassado por correntes de destaque notável na elite intelectual brasileira, também cruzado por uma gama de interesses múltiplos e atuante interdisciplinar em segmentos de publicação. Pudemos observar que a sobreposição de tais âmbitos pessoais, históricos e fictícios, nos relevaram questões históricas referentes à formação médica na Belle Époque carioca, o quotidiano de doutores e pacientes, o sofrimento humano nas condições clínicas segundo a medicina da época, as discussões nacionais concernentes ao futuro do país e a até mesmo a entrada da psicanálise na medicina brasileira. São tais as questões históricas discutidas em suas obras fictícias

A presente pesquisa trata da atualização de impulsos utópicos através da trajetória poética do artista belga-mexicano Francis Alÿs e de seu entrelaçamento com a noção de direito à cidade desenvolvida por Henri Lefebvre. Mais especificamente, questiona o potencial de reflexão e de transformação que essa produção artística apresenta em relação à nossa forma de pensar e de ocupar o espaço público, tanto de um ponto de vista temporal quanto espacial. O estudo tem como objeto empírico ações poéticas de Alÿs realizadas em grandes cidades ocidentais, majoritariamente latino-americanas, entre o final do século XX e início do XXI. Tais ações são aqui debatidas frente à produção teórica de autores cujas publicações datam desse mesmo período: Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Michel de Certeau e Néstor García Canclini. Os conceitos que fundamentam toda a pesquisa, no entanto, tais como espaço público, direito à cidade e impulso utópico, remontam a dois pensadores do início do século XX: Henri Lefebvre e Ernst Bloch. O diálogo entre teoria e prática configura a espinha dorsal desta dissertação, que busca em obras artísticas a atualização dos conceitos trazidos pelos autores citados e a reverberação dessas práticas na teoria. / This research approaches the updating of utopian impulses through the poetic trajectory of the Belgian-Mexican artist Francis Alÿs and his intertwining with the notion of the right to the city developed by Henri Lefebvre. More specifically, it questions the potential for reflection and transformation that this artistic production presents in relation to our way of thinking and occupying public spaces, both from a time and spatial point of view. The empirical object is Francis Alÿs oeuvre carried out in large western cities, mostly Latin American, between the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. These actions are discussed facing the theoretical contributions from authors who are contemporary to Francis Alÿs: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Michel de Certeau and Néstor García Canclini. The concepts that underlie all the research, however, such as public space, right to the city and utopian impulse, go back to two thinkers from the early twentieth century: Henri Lefebvre and Ernst Bloch. The dialogue between theory and practice, seeking in artistic works the updating of the concepts brought by the cited authors and aiming to identify the reverberation of these practices in theory, forms the backbone of this master’s dissertation.

Orientador: Arilda Inês Miranda Ribeiro / Banca: Alfredo Peixoto Martins / Banca: José Maria de Paiva / Banca: Anna Maria Martinez Corrêa / Banca: Paschoal Quaglio / Resumo: A escolha do tema do presente trabalho, com o objetivo de contribuir com a história do ensino superior no Brasil, surgiu da necessidade de compreender as políticas de acesso ao ensino superior no Brasil e mais especificamente, no interior paulista, por isso a escolha do Instituto Isolado de Ensino Superior (IIES) - FFCL de Presidente Prudente-1959-1975, primeira instituição de ensino superior da região e uma das células da UNESP, cuja gênese é pouco conhecida. Por meio de depoimentos orais, consulta a documentos oficiais, da imprensa, e bibliográfica, construí o que pude resgatar da história da instituição. O IIES-FFCL/PP era pleiteado, na década de 1950, atendendo ao interesse da classe média local, para ilustração dos seus filhos e também interesses eleitoreiros locais e centrais. Foi conquistada num momento em que o país vivia a política desenvolvimentista, para o que uma faculdade era importante ícone. Formou professores para o ensino secundário, para o ensino superior público e, principalmente, para o ensino superior privado que começou a se expandir, a partir de meados da década de 1960. Centro de pesquisas, notadamente a pesquisa regional, seus resultados levaram à análise e interferência no espaço regional, por meio da extensão, e são, essas produções, importantes fontes de referência. Sofreu dificuldades com a repressão do regime militar implantado em 1964, formou cidadãos críticos e militantes, muitos dos quais seriam professores na própria instituição e ainda hoje, trabalham na UNESP. Ao ser agrupado a outros IIES para criação UNESP, em 1976, sofreria a perda de 200 das vagas públicas que oferecia anualmente, para formação de professores, justamente num momento histórico de expansão do segundo grau, com a escola pública carente de professores habilitados... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo). / Abstract: The choice of the theme of the present work, with the objective to contribute with the history of the university in Brazil appeared of the need of understanding the politics of access to the university education in Brazil and more specifically, in the interior of São Paulo, because of this the choice of the Intituto Isolado de Ensino Superior- Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Presidente Prudente (IIES-FFCL/PP)-1959-1975, the first superior education institute of the region and one of the cells of UNESP, whose genesis is not very well-known. Through oral statements, consultation to official documents, the press, and bibliography, I built what I could rescue of the history of the institution. The IIES-FFCL/PP was required, in the decade of 1950, assisting the interest of the middle class for its children's illustration and also local and central electoral interests. It was conquered in a moment in that the country lived the developmental politic, for which the university was an important icon. It formed teachers for the secondary teaching, the public university and, mainly, for the private university that began expanding, starting from middles of the decade of 1960. Center of researches, principally the regional research, the productions were took in analyze and interference in the regional space, through extension, and are important reference sources. It suffered difficulties with the repression of the military regime, implanted in 1964. It formed critical and militant citizens, many of these were teachers in the own institution, and they still work nowadays in UNESP. When it was grouped to the others IIES, for creation of UNESP, in 1976, it suffered with the extinction of 200 of the public vacancies that were offered annually, for teachers' formation, exactly in a historical moment of expansion of the Segundo Grau, when the public school was lacking qualified... (Complete abstract, click electronic address below). / Doutor