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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of History, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-57).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:23:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-03-09Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:50:37Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 reis_jc_me_mar.pdf: 1895388 bytes, checksum: feb475620749839cbbf5d4bc753a3371 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O município de Bragança Paulista/SP encontra-se em um contexto regional marcado por significativas transformações socioambientais decorrentes de períodos econômicos caracterizados por momentos sucessivos de crescimento e estagnação, destacando-se: a frustrada expectativa de riqueza através do ouro, o efêmero dinamismo do café, a tardia e atual industrialização que se contrapõe ao perfil ambiental regional, os impactos provocados pelas Rodovias Fernão Dias e Dom Pedro I, a problemática ambiental causada pela construção do Sistema Cantareira, a criação e a não regulamentação de suas unidades de conservação e o turismo desordenado. Tais transformações interferem diretamente na vida cotidiana da população, especialmente dos moradores das áreas rurais, configurando novas dinâmicas culturais. Neste sentido, o presente estudo busca investigar, por meio da história oral e da imagem, como as memórias e territorialidades dos moradores do bairro rural Boa Vista são reconstruídas mediante esse contexto de mudanças / The municipality of Bragança Paulista/SP is located in a regional context marked by significant social and environmental changes that result from economic periods characterized by successive stages of growth and stagnation, including: the frustrated expectations of wealth through gold, the ephemeral dynamics of coffee , the late and current industrialization that is opposed to the regional environmental profile, the impacts caused by the Highways Fernão Dias and Dom Pedro I, the environmental problems caused by the construction of the Cantareira Reservoir Water System , the creation, and still unregulated protected areas and unplanned tourism. These changes directly affect the daily life of the population, especially the residents of rural areas, setting up new cultural dynamics. In this sense, this study investigates, through oral history and image methodologies, how the memories and territoriality from the residents of the Boa Vista Rural District are reconstructed inside this change context

Notre travail propose une approche sociologique du processus de recomposition identitaire au Brésil à l'époque Lula. Nous considérons que cette période entraine une dynamique reconstructive du passé esclavagiste déterminée par de nouvelles conditions d'émergence des souvenirs. Cela conduit à la construction d'un nouveau « cadre » mémoriel, d'une substitution de l'idée d'un Brésil métissé à la brésilienne, dont l'assimilation culturelle des afro-descendants est le pilier, par l'idée d'un Brésil fait d‘une diversité ethnique. La question centrale à laquelle nous tenterons d'apporter quelques éléments de réponse à travers cette étude est la suivante : quels sont les impacts de la politique d'Actions Affirmatives sur les transformations mémorielles et identitaires produites au Brésil pendant cette époque Lula ? Afin de mieux saisir notre objet d'étude et tester nos hypothèses, nous avons choisi d'étudier quatre champs d'analyse : l'analyse de l'historiographie brésilienne de l'esclavage ; l'analyse de la production de nouveaux discours sur le passé visible, pendant les années Lula, dans deux journaux brésiliens ; les entretiens avec des acteurs sociaux, considérés ici comme « architectes » des Actions Affirmatives brésiliennes ; et pour finir, des questionnaires adressés aux étudiants cotistas de l'enseignement supérieur.En conformité avec la problématique posée dans notre recherche, nous considérons que trois thèses peuvent être soutenus. D'abord, des éléments d'une dynamique interne, représentée par la lutte des Mouvements Noirs du pays, et externe, fortement poussée par les demandes de la globalisation, ont contribué à ce que le passé esclavagiste devienne l'objet de l'action publique. Puis, la mémoire du passé esclavagiste brésilien fait l'objet d'une importante évolution depuis l'adoption des politiques d'Actions Affirmatives dans le pays. Ces politiques promeuvent un nouvel encadrement social des processus mémoriels à partir de l'émergence d'une nouvelle signification du passé. Et enfin, les transformations mémorielles opérées à l'époque Lula, influencent, de façon significative, l'identité brésilienne et déterminent la reconnaissance de la diversité ethnique du pays. Au-delà de ce processus, l'appropriation par les Afro-brésiliens d'une identité nationale, nous semble être un catalyseur important de ce processus évolutif. / Our work proposes a sociological approach of the process of identity reorganization in Brazil during Lula's period. We consider that this era leads a reconstructive dynamics of slave past determined by new conditions of emergence of the memories. This, drives to the construction of a new memory “ frame “, of a substitution of the idea of Brazil crossed in an interbreeding according to the Brazilians, the cultural assimilation of the afro-descendants of which is the very pillar, through the idea of a Brazil made by an ethnic diversity.The main question to which we shall try to bring some elements of answer through this study is the following ones: what are the impacts of the Affermative Actions policy on the memory and identical transformations made up in Brazil during this Lula's time ? In order to seize more easily our object of study and test our hypothesis, we chose to study four fields of analysis : the analysis of the Brazilian historiography of the slavery; the analysis of the production of new perspectives on the visible past, during the years Lula, through two brazilian news-papers; the discussions with social players, considered here as “ architectes actors”, considerated as the Brasilian Affirmative Actions; and to finish, questionnaires sent to cotistas students of the higher Education. Conforming to the problem set down in our research, we consider that three theses can be followed. At first, elements of an internal dynamics represented by the fight of the Black Movements inside the country, and external, strongly pushed by the requests of the globalization, contributed to the fact that the slave past becomes the objet of the public action. Then, the memory of brazilian slave past is the object of an important evolution since the adoption of the policy of Affermative Actions in the country. Those policies promote a new social frame of the memory processes from the emergence of a new signification of the past. And finally, the memory transformations made during Lula's time, influence, in a significant way, the Brazilian identity and determine the recognition of the ethnic diversity of the country. Beyond this process, the appropriation by the Afro-Brazilians of a national identity, seems to us to be an important catalyst of this process.

Skopje 2014: Governmental Role in the Spatial Politics of Collective Memory In my research the key interest is to understand how the government uses public spaces in order to supply the continuity of the narratives and how it maintains collective memories. In the matter of the public interpretations of the past, I am especially interested in the effects it has upon the collective memories of the citizens, notably to the generations, who have experienced the city. Above all, I examine the work of artists and architects who are using styles and symbols that affect the memories by ambivalent imitations and interpretations. Such content is seen within the framework of a multi- ethnical state presented by polarized public with polarized relations between the two major ethnicities of Macedonians and Albanians. I will try to examine the level of manipulation while demonstrating history in public space, creating false correlations of the past. Such phenomenon has been perceived as a one of having negative influence at present. It is taken as a possible change within the process of identification of future generations. I organized the research in two parts. In the first one I give a synchronic presentation of delivered criticism and comments on the project"Skopje 2014". In the second part, having a...

Current Cultural Situation of Transylvanian Saxons in Romania PhDr. Tomáš Drs Abstract The thesis deals with the current situation of the Transylvanian Saxons in Romania. Based on multiple field visits, it describes and analyzes the problems related to reconstructing the ethnic identity of the community, noting the minority's transnational situation and exploring the generational relations, the minority's position in the ethnically different environment or its political and revitalization activities. The thesis also attemps to reconstruct the actual historical development, looks into how memory is socially conditioned memory and lays out biographies of individual characters. Methodologically, the thesis draws upon the tradition of ethnographic research, working with theoretical concepts of ethnicity (Eriksen, Anderson), transnationalism (Werbner, Szaló) or memory studies (Halbwachs, Assmann, Nora). The aim of the thesis is to introduce the Transylvanian Saxons and other groups commonly referred to as Romanian Germans in the Czech environment. It lays out the history of Transylvanian Saxons, describes their negotiations with the state and the framing of their minority identity. Also, it seeks to answer whether the end of the numerically smaller ethnic minority of Transylvanian Saxons is inevitable and how...

In my diploma work "Read the text as a myth (contribution to hermeneutics and the interpretation of the myth)" I pay attention to the issues of perceiving a text in communion. I worked on the assumption based on theories of deconstruction, poststructuralism, and collective memory. I take into consideration theories of media that are connected with M. McLuhan or W. J. Ong. I deal with the theory of the new orality and methods of the myth perception. The way of writing, I use, is based on the concentration of touches on different approaches of thinkers that I paid attention to. I aim to show, how we read the text, how we orient in narratives, what is the function of myths and how the issues are connected with the communion. Without communion, it is almost impossible to imagine, how these processes take place. I put emphasis on the dynamicity of the shifts of the discoursive perception of the text.

The Spanish artist Josep Renau (1907-1982) published the propaganda periodical Nueva cultura from 1935 to 1937. Although richly illustrated with cuttingedge graphic design and photomontage, it made use of popular culture with more frequency than might be expected in a left-wing, vanguard publication. This is seen most notably in the March 1937 special edition, published to coincide with a local, popular festival. In the special edition, Renau primarily utilized popular forms of illustration in the layout. Further, by publishing it in the regional language rather than Castilian Spanish, he attested to the importance of addressing people in their own language, both linguistically and formally. This thesis examines the periodical in relation to philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin’s writings on folk culture and James V. Wertsch’s research on collective remembering.