Villages occur in many Czech and central European large protected areas (LPA). Some inhabitants and local politicians occasionally publish, that occurrence of the LPA can inhibit regional development and cause negative demographic and socioeconomic changes in the region. This diploma thesis tests this assumption and studies the effect of existence and establishment of the LPA on socioeconomic parameters of villages and their inhabitants. The case study was conducted in the south-west border region of the Czech Republic, the area of high o ser atio alue. The Šu a a Natio al Park i side of alread e isti g Šu a a Protected La ds ape Area, PLA a d Český les PLA ere esta lished 99 a d 5, respectively. Also Novohradské hory PLA was proposed several times but have not been proofed till now. Statistical analysis (ANCOVA) for selected socioeconomic and demographic parameters of 39 villages and their cadasters were used to study development of the region between years 1991 - 2011. The results found the village size (number of permanent residents living in the village) to be more significant predictor for most of studied parameters than occurrence of the village in/out of the LPA. The results are discussed with results of similar studies conducted in other protected areas. Peripheral character of the border...

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Gustavo_Matiuzzi_Souza_Tes.pdf: 3120395 bytes, checksum: b80be0be8d42548e4414a1989eea8a10 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-27 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / A presente tese identifica as percep??es dos atores locais sobre a operacionaliza??o da Nova Agenda para Coopera??o e Desenvolvimento Fronteiri?o (Nova Agenda) na regi?o transfronteiri?a brasileira-uruguaia (Rtbu), enfatizando a rela??o entre atores e processos formais (estatais) e informais (n?o-estatais). Ap?s quinze anos, o envolvimento dos atores locais nos projetos da Nova Agenda e o cumprimento de seus acordos e frameworks foram extremamente baixos. Se a Nova Agenda deve ser considerada uma resposta ?s demandas locais, por que houve baixos envolvimento e conformidade dos atores locais com seus projetos e acordos? Para responder a essa pergunta, esta tese extrai das teorias das Rela??es Internacionais uma abordagem plural, reflexiva e construtivista que permite o emprego de ?percep??o? como vari?vel anal?tica relevante. O uso de entrevistas e a aplica??o de pesquisa eletr?nica s?o as principais fontes prim?rias. Pesquisas bibliogr?ficas e estat?sticas oficiais s?o aplicadas na elabora??o de dados contextuais. A an?lise hist?rica ? empregada para compreender a rela??o entre atores estatais e n?o estatais na constru??o social da Rtbu. Esta tese conclui que os problemas de cumprimento e engajamento t?m pouco a ver com uma cultura fronteiri?a de informalidade e ilegalidade. Est?o mais relacionados com a defici?ncia da Nova Agenda e a perpetua??o da ignor?ncia em rela??o ? realidade social da Rtbu e ?s demandas dos atores locais. As quest?es de engajamento e conformidade dos atores locais com a Nova Agenda est?o intimamente ligadas ? insatisfat?ria oferta estatal de institucionalidade capaz de transformar a Rtbu em um espa?o legal e normativo em que a regi?o pudesse implementar, de forma aut?noma, estrat?gias de desenvolvimento local para as suas popula??es transfronteiri?as. Essa institucionalidade poderia mudar a maneira como os atores formais e informais se relacionam. Al?m disso, o modus agendi trans-local, profundamente enraizado na regi?o, ? suscept?vel tanto de ser causa para a resist?ncia a qualquer projeto que tente controla-lo ou alter?-lo, quanto de servir como base para novos regimes de coopera??o. / This thesis identifies local actors? perceptions on the operationalization of the New Agenda for Cooperation and Border Development (New Agenda) in the Brazilian- Uruguayan cross-border region (Bucbr), emphasizing the relationship between formal (state) and informal (non-state) actors and processes. After fifteen years, local actors? engagement in New Agenda?s projects, and compliance with its agreements and frameworks were extremely low. If the New Agenda should be considered a response to local demands, why was/is there such low engagement and compliance of local actors with its projects and agreements? To answer this question, this thesis draws from International Relations theories a plural, reflectivist and constructivist approach that enables the employment of ?perception? as a relevant analytical variable. The use of interviews and the application of an electronic survey are the main primary sources. Bibliographical research and official statistics are applied for contextual data. Historical analysis is employed for comprehending the relationship between state and non-state actors in the social construction of the Bucbr. This thesis finds that compliance and engagement have little to do with a border culture of informality and illegality. They are related more to a New Agenda?s deficient institutionality and the perpetuation of ignorance toward the social reality of the Bucbr and the demands of local actors. The issues of engagement and compliance of local actors with the New Agenda is intimately linked with the unsatisfactory state offer of institutionality capable to turn the Bucbr into a legal and normative space in which the region could implement, autonomously, local development strategies for its cross-border populations. Such an institutionality would potentially change the way formal and informal actors relate. Moreover, the deeply rooted trans-local modus agendi of the region is likely to be either cause for resistance of any project that attempts to control or change it or the basis of novel cooperative regimes. / Cette th?se identifie les perceptions des acteurs locaux sur la mise en ?uvre du Nouveau programme de coop?ration et de d?veloppement frontalier (NPCDF) dans la r?gion frontali?re du Br?sil-Uruguay (Rfbu), soulignant la relation entre les acteurs et les processus formels (?tat) et informel (non ?tatique). Apr?s quinze ans, l?engagement des acteurs locaux envers des projets du NPCDF et la conformit? aux accords et cadres ont ?t? extr?mement faibles. Si le NPCDF doit ?tre consid?r? comme une r?ponse aux demandes locales, pourquoi y a-t-il eu peu de participation et de conformit? des acteurs locaux ? ses projets et accords ? Pour r?pondre ? cette question, cette th?se extrait dans les th?ories des relations internationales une approche pluriel, r?flexive et constructiviste qui permet l'utilisation de la ? perception ? comme une variable d'analyse pertinente. L'utilisation d'interviews et l'application d'un questionnaire ?lectronique sont les principales sources primaires. La recherche bibliographique et les statistiques officielles sont appliqu?es ? la pr?paration des donn?es contextuelles. L'analyse historique est utilis?e pour comprendre la relation entre les acteurs ?tatiques et non ?tatiques dans la construction sociale de la Rfbu. Cette th?se conclut que les probl?mes de conformit? et d'engagement ont peu ? voir avec une culture frontali?re d'informalit? et d'ill?galit?. Ils sont davantage li?s ? la d?ficience du NPCDF et ? la perp?tuation de l'ignorance par rapport ? la r?alit? sociale de la Rfbu et aux exigences des acteurs locaux. L'engagement et la conformit? des acteurs locaux au NPCDF sont ?troitement li?s ? l?insatisfaisante fourniture des institutions capables de transformer la Rfbu dans un espace juridique et normatif dans lequel la r?gion pourrait mettre en ?uvre, de mani?re autonome, les strat?gies de d?veloppement local pour leurs populations transfrontali?res. Cette institutionnalit? pourrait changer la fa?on dont les acteurs formels et informels interagissent. En outre, le modus agendi trans-local, qui est profond?ment enracin? dans la r?gion, est susceptible d'?tre une cause de r?sistance ? tout projet qui tente de le contr?ler ou de le modifier, ou de servir de base ? de nouveaux programmes de coop?ration.

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This thesis seeks to understand and explain gendered everyday life in the village of HatNyao in Northwestern Laos, specifically in relation to rubber cultivation, by using an ethnographic approach and methods. The ‘rubber boom’ is changing the landscape of Northern Laos, and in the process is reshaping gendered everyday life. Gender relations in the village of HatNyao are undergoing various transformations whereby previous gender structures start to erode. Additional changes will probably continue to occur, largely due to increasing labour shortages. Gendered everyday life in HatNyao is therefore ‘bending’ with the changes associated with rubber cultivation, as well as in relation to different spaces of the everyday and household diversity. The concept of ‘paradoxical gendered spaces’ is invoked to capture the ways in which the dimensions and activities of the everyday vary with, in particular, ethnicity and age. Most households in HatNyao have improved their living conditions due to rubber cultivation. Nevertheless, inequalities are increasing within the village: better-off households have improved their situation, while for others it has been more difficult to adapt to the new conditions of everyday life and rubber cultivation. As the number of villages introducing rubber in Laos is increasing, alongside the number reaching the crucial tapping stage, it is essential to understand how rubber cultivation in smallholder communities interacts with gender relations and the division of labour. There are thus both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ outcomes from introducing rubber in Laos, since it depends on the context, as well as on the diverse spaces of the everyday.

Gegenstand der Arbeit stellten die deutsch-polnischen und deutsch-tschechischen Euroregionen dar. Sie wurden als ein offenes System betrachtet, das sich aus den in Wechselwirkung stehenden Elementen zusammensetzt: Raum, Grenze, Netzwerk und Umfeld. Diese ganzheitliche, intertemporale Betrachtung der Euroregionen ermöglichte es, dieses komplexe Phänomen besser zur verstehen, Erkenntnisse zur Bedeutung, zum Typus und zu Perspektiven der deutsch-polnischen und deutsch-tschechischen Euroregionen zu gewinnen sowie die gestellten Hypothesen zu überprüfen und zu verifizieren. Die Untersuchungen zur Rolle der deutsch-polnischen und deutsch-tschechischen Euroregionen bezogen sich insbesondere auf die Ermittlung der Bedeutung euroregionaler Netzwerke für die Grenzräume, bei gleichzeitiger Berücksichtigung der Wechselwirkungen mit anderen Elementen des euroregionalen Systems. Hierzu wurde eine Bilanzierung und Evaluierung der bisherigen Arbeit euroregionaler Netzwerke durchgeführt und die Wechselwirkungen analysiert. Im Rahmen der typologischen Untersuchungen wurde nachgewiesen, dass die deutsch-polnischen und deutsch-tschechischen Euroregionen, trotz bestimmter Abweichungen, einen einheitlichen Typus verkörpern. Des Weiteren hat sich herausgestellt, dass die deutsch-polnischen und deutsch-tschechischen Euroregionen sich hinsichtlich der institutionellen, netzwerkrelevanten Aspekte in einer der Entwicklungsphasen westeuropäischer Euregios befinden. Nicht zutreffend ist jedoch diese Aussage in Bezug auf die räumlichen Aspekte. In Anlehnung an die Untersuchungsergebnisse zum evolutionären Charakter der euroregionalen Netzwerke und die bevorstehenden Veränderungen wurden auch die Perspektiven der deutsch-polnischen und deutsch-tschechischen Euroregionen aufgezeigt und anschließend Vorschläge zur Weiterentwicklung und Effizienzsteigerung der euroregionalen Netzwerke erarbeitet. / Theme of the work represented the German-Polish and German-Czech euroregions. They were regarded as an open system, that consists of the in an interaction standing elements: space, border, network and surroudings. All these elements are interdependent. This holistic and inter temporal consideration of the euroregion allowed a better understanding of this complex phenomenon. Besides this, knoweledge concerning importance, type and perspectives of the German-Polish and German-Czech euroregions was acquired and the thesis could be checked and verified. The research of the role of the German-Polish and German-Czech euroregions refered to the verification of importance of the euroregional networks for borderline. The interaction was regarded at the same time with other elements of euroregional system. There was conducted balancing and evaluation of actual euroregional network’s work and analysed the interaction. Following the results of basic analyses was done a typological consideration of those euroregions. It was showed due to exsiting differences and the specific charasteristics the German-Polisch and German-Czech euroregions are of a seperate type.The hypothesis claiming that the German-Polish and German-Czech euroregions represent a development’s phase of the Western European Euregios is only acceptable in the view of the institutional aspects. In the scope of this analysis it was shown that German-Polish and German-Czech. The research’s results of evolutional character of the euroregional networks and forthcoming changes were unlocked the perspectives of the German-Polish and German-Czech euroregions. The proposals for further progress and effective elevation of euroregional network were processed.

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This ethnography of spirituality explores the production of cultural practices and beliefs among a group of Texas Mexican women (Tejanas) of the post-World War II generation. These women have been involved with various social justice initiatives since the 1960s and 1970s in Texas, such as the Chicana feminist and Chicano civil rights movements. This study explains how race, ethnicity, and gender intersect and interact in these women’s geographic and spiritual borderlands to produce a pattern of change in the ways they choose to engage with religion, particularly Catholicism. While the Tejana spiritual productions examined here are in many ways distinct from the religious practices of these women’s Catholic upbringings, they also recall religious rituals and traditions from their imagined, constructed, and engaged pasts. Some women have left Catholicism for other forms of spiritual fulfillment, including earth-based, indigenous, and/or Eastern religious practices, while others have remained Catholic-identified, yet altered how they practice Catholicism. A common theme in the narratives is that of spiritual agency – the conscious decision women make to reconfigure their spiritual practices and beliefs. I explore the meaning of such acts and what they indicate about the construction of spiritual and religious identities in the borderlands. I argue that because gender structures Tejana religious experiences to such a wide extent, a critical gender analysis of religious and spiritual practices will provide deeper insight into the making of Texas Mexican culture and social relations. I examine the women’s life experiences through a methodological framework I call mujerista ethnography, which draws on oral history and research methods employed by feminist, indigenous, and Chicana/o Studies scholars. In order to further illustrate how the women’s material and spiritual needs have changed so as to require new forms of spiritual engagement, I engage in a critical self-reflection of my own spiritual journey as a Tejana raised in the Catholic faith through the use of autoethnographic research methods and testimonio. I argue that these Tejanas have extended the political, feminist, and historical consciousnesses that they cultivated in Mexican American social causes into the religious and spiritual realms. For instance, these women transferred their critique of gender politics and hierarchies of power into the social setting of organized Catholicism with new spiritual practices and understandings, effectively remaking religion and subsequently engaging in processes of self-making by changing the ways they interact with Catholicism and are affected by it. Religion, as a site of social struggle for women, is political, that is, these Tejanas transformed the spiritual into a site of resistance, resolution, and reconciliation where they disrupt and challenge hierarchies of power and create strategies for healing themselves, their communities, and the earth. / text

Young women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico are coming of age in an era of feminicides, drug wars, impunity, and fear. This ethnographic study examines the ways in which Preparatoria Altavista, a public high school, in one of the most marginalized areas of Juárez, attempts to empower subaltern young women through its critical and social justice philosophy of education. The study draws from critical pedagogy, socio-cultural theory, and feminist scholarship to offer a unique analysis of how hegemonic ideas are resisted and/or inscribed pedagogically, politically, and institutionally at Altavista. Secondly, the study examines how the school’s constructions of democratic and social justice education interact with the current dystopic context of Juárez and discourses about Juárez women to provide a framework with which a group of young women author their identities and practice forms of resistance. The ethnographic fieldwork took place in the 2009-2010 academic year. The methods included unstructured ethnographic interviews with teachers, administrators, and numerous students, as well as semi-structured interviews and an auto-photography technique with nine girls. The study identifies three interrelated aspects that characterize the transformative pedagogy of Preparatoria Altavista: freedom and autonomy, authentic caring relationships, and the cultivation of critical discourse and activism. Together, these core values promote the school’s ultimate goal for its students – autogestión, or the ability to self-author empowered identities; read their world; and initiate and develop socially transformative projects. Considering the school’s context, as well as the many challenges inherent in the dystopic Juárez of today, the study also identifies a typology of four different paths to the girls’ identity and agency development: the Redirectors, the Reinventors, the Redefiners, and the Refugees. This typology is based on various ways and degrees to which the young women in this study authored the self as they negotiated the messages from the multiple figured worlds that they inhabit. The study seeks to counter sensationalist, criminalizing, and dooming narratives about Juárez youth, as well as stereotypical and objectifying depictions of Juárez women by offering a nuanced analysis of their experiences, perspectives, identities, and forms of agency. The study also seeks to offer a language of possibility and hope for urban schools and contexts of civil unrest through critical pedagogy. / text

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, 2007. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-04, page: 1936. Adviser: Corinne C. Aragaki. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, 2008. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 46-05, page: 2669. Adviser: R. Sue Day. Includes bibliographical references.