Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Geography / Kevin Blake / Mexican artist and global phenomenon Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) fascinates and inspires people from all walks of life. Rather than simply approaching the life and work of Kahlo from a traditional art historical perspective, this dissertation draws from the interdisciplinary nature of critical human geography to investigate Kahlo. Specifically, this work is informed by two sub-fields of critical human geography—feminist geography and cultural geography. Kahlo’s iconic status as a feminist symbol makes feminist geography an obvious choice while cultural geography provides the dominant methodology of textual analysis. Both sub-fields are drawn together by the use of a poststructuralist theoretical foundation that views no one meaning or interpretation as fixed, but rather posits that meanings and interpretations are fluid and open to a variety of conclusions. The primary research question in this dissertation is, “How are the critical geographies of hybridity, embodiment, and glocalization developed and explored in Frida Kahlo’s art and life?” The question is answered through the geographical exploration of Kahlo’s work, life, and iconic status as a major public figure. I delve into each of the three components of the question (hybridity, embodiment, and glocalization) by connecting geographical concepts and understandings to Kahlo and her work. I extend this exploration by arguing that Kahlo demonstrates how the self both mirrors and constructs critical geographies. This research seeks to expand and deepen the understanding of Kahlo as a significant geographical figure—an artist who was intensely aware of people and place. Additionally, this research draws together diverse threads of geographic inquiry by highlighting the interdisciplinary and humanistic qualities of the discipline. Perhaps most importantly, this dissertation positions Kahlo as a critical geographer—defying the sometimes arbitrary and limited notions imposed on the discipline and its practitioners. I assert that Kahlo’s work and life are inherently a lived expression of geographical ideas that manifest themselves in a physical, mental, and emotional sense. Ultimately, Kahlo constructs an embodied geographic text—creating knowledge and helping people understand identity and place in a different way.

The town of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and its rich geographic history, can offer insight into the early history of the State of Louisiana and the establishment of the United States as a country, as well as the study of the formation of barrier islands and methods of land use with such areas. The following thesis presents a geographic, as well as a historical, analysis of Grand Isle’s history. It attempts to answer the following questions: What is the shape, form, and origin of the physical landscape of Grand Isle? How have humans interacted with the land and surrounding areas of Grand Isle? And what impacts, if any, have these interactions had on the island and its landscape? These questions include research into both the built environment and the natural environment.

Esta dissertação apresenta uma reflexão focada na análise geográfico-cultural da paisagem favela na cidade do Rio de Janeiro e em sua representação no cinema, pelo discurso fílmico presente nas obras Orfeu negro (1959), de Marcel Camus e Orfeu (1999) de Carlos Diegues. Tal discurso emerge como instrumento de compreensão do processo evolutivo que gerou uma espécie de linhagem da favela na cidade. Os quarenta anos passados entre os dois Orfeus e as paisagens reais e ficcionais, da favela neles presentes espelham um rico contínuo espaço-tempo. Quarenta anos de mudanças na história do mundo, da cultura, da cidade, da favela e das técnicas do cinema possibilitaram a gestação de duas obras fílmicas diferentes, inclusive em função dos olhares estrangeiro e de pertencimento que balizam a visão de seus respectivos diretores. A nova geografia cultural, com sua feição interdisciplinar, fornece instrumental apropriado para estudar, analisar e entender a complexa teia de relações políticas, econômicas, sociais e culturais presentes na paisagem favela, hoje um dos signos mais conhecidos da cidade do Rio de Janeiro polo da dualidade entre a inclusão e a exclusão social. / This dissertation shows a reflection focused in the analysis cultural geography of the slumscape in the city of the Rio of Janeiro and in its representation in the cinema, for the movie speech presently in the works Black Orfeu (1959), direct by of Marcel Camus and Orfeu (1999), directed by Carlos Diegues. Both of them were inspired on Vinicíus de Moraess play theater, Orfeu da Conceição, scened in 1956. Such speech surfaces like instrument of understanding of the evolution process that created a kind of lineage of the slum in the city. Forty years spent between the first film Black Orfeu (1959) and the last film Orfeu (1999), the real landscape and fiction landscape of the slum changed a lot in short time. Forty years of changes in the history of the world, of the culture, of the Rio de Janeiro city, of the slum and of the film making techniques made possible the birth of two different works, in function of foreign look and of belonging look or look from the native that indicate the vision of filmmakers vision. The new cultural geography and the interdisciplinary form supply instrumental appropriated for the study, for the analyze complex relations among politic, economic and culture and the landscape. The slum is one of the most known signs of the Rio of Janeiro city pole of the dualism between the inclusion and the social exclusion.

Este estudo trata da construção e modernização da Basílica Nacional de N. Senhora de Aparecida, localizada no santuário católico do mesmo nome, em Aparecida no estado de São Paulo (a 160 km da capital do estado). O autor faz uma investigação a respeito dos aspectos míticos que envolvem as transformações espaciais e urbanísticas dessa construção. Sua metodologia de análise fundamenta-se na fenomenologia da imaginação proposta por Gaston Bachelard como um caminho para os desafios da ciência na pós-modernidade. O trabalho não se limita a relacionar a implementação da obra arquitetônica (o templo) com o desenvolvimento metropolitano da cidade de São Paulo (a cidade-mãe). Seu objetivo central está em demonstrar, ao menos teoricamente, que os mitos e suas atualizações constantes (mitogênese, mística e criações artísticas) permitem à ciência geográfica compreender a organização de um espaço religioso e sugerir instrumentos (no turismo e na educação) para seu aperfeiçoamento social. / The present study examines the construction and modernization of the National Basilica of Our Lady Aparecida, located in the Roman Catholic Sanctuary of Aparecida, 100 miles from the São Paulo state capital. The author has surveyed the mythical aspects involving the spatial and urbanistic transformations of the building. His methodology of analysis is grounded on the phenomenology of the imagination proposed by Gaston Bachelard as a way of dealing with the challenges of science in the post-modern age. The paper is not limited to relating the implementation of an architectural work (the temple) to the metropolitan development of the city of São Paulo (the mother-city). Its main goal is to demonstrate, at least theoretically, that the myths and their constant renewal (mythogenesis, mysticism, and artistic creations) help Geographic Science to better understand the organization of religious spaces and to propose instruments (in tourism and education) for their social enhancement.

Sports fandoms can form a key site of identity formation, particularly as they gather and merge numerous threads of identity, including gender, socio-economic status, and civic affiliation. The connections formed between members of the fandom, the fandom and the team, and the fandom and the place in which it is grounded can be a strong force for social cohesion. This cohesion becomes particularly relevant during times of crisis, when some turn to sports as a unifier. However, these relationships can also be fraught with tensions, within the group and without. Forces such as nostalgia and the ‘othering’ of those outside the group become import methods in creating and sustaining these Andersonian “imaginary communities” of fans, mitigating difference. In examining this process of identity creation, two cities were chosen for their intense team attachments: Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Qualitative analysis of discourses surrounding the teams in these cities reveals the complex ways in which nostalgic fantasies about the team and its relationship to the city are created and maintained, hierarchies of space and time are formed, and the identity of the community is shaped by its relationship to team and city. Analysis of the sporting landscape, created through a complex network of material culture, media, and the repetition of certain fantasy themes, reveals how geography is complexly implicated in the production of sporting fandom. / text

Orientador: Fadel David Antônio Filho / Banca: Solange Terezinha de Lima Guimarães / Banca: Andrea Coelho Lastória / Resumo: Este trabalho aborda dentro da Geografia Cultural a importância da cultura na produção do espaço, tendo em vista o processo de industrialização da capital paulista, acentuando a cidade de São Paulo como um pólo de atração de movimentos migratórios. A introdução dessa nova massa populacional faz com que a cidade de São Paulo sofra mudanças estruturais, sendo que a mão de obra imigrante e a sua cultura regional tornam-se um dos fatores para essas mudanças. O trabalho faz um levantamento sobre o conceito de cultura abordado pela Geografia, dando destaque as escolas geográficas da França e da Alemanha, abordando o conceito de gênero de vida trazido para a Geografia por Vidal de La Blache / Abstract: This work deals with the importance of the culture in the production of space, taking in mind the process of industrialization of the capital of São Paulo, once it is an icon of the migrating movements. The establishment of this new population mass forces the city of São Paulo to pass through structural changes, basically by the manual work of the immigrants as well as his regional culture becomes one of the main factors of these changes. This work makes a research about the concept of the culture dealt by Geography, pointing the geographical schools of France and Germany, dealing with the concept of genre of life brought to the Geography by Vidal de La Blache / Mestre

Trata-se de um estudo sobre a interpretação das formas simbólicas espaciais e das práticas culturais presentes em uma praça tradicional localizada no centro da metrópole carioca Largo da Carioca. Procura-se decodificar, na abordagem da Geografia Cultural, Antropologia Cultural e História, uma visão particular deste cenário carioca, através das camadas de densidade simbólica constituídas em temporalidades distintas e dos diversos mapas de significados existentes nas narrativas daqueles que experienciam cotidianamente esta praça. Uma parte da polivocalidade presente no local é revelada. O Largo, que já foi de Santo Antônio e hoje é denominado Largo da Carioca, configura-se, assim, como palco das inter-relações entre as formas materializadas na paisagem e as práticas sócio-culturais. Portanto, este estudo pretende contribuir, a partir da combinação de teorias e métodos, para um outro caminho de pesquisas em Geografia Cultural no cenário urbano. / This is a research about the interpretation of space symbolic forms and also cultural practices verified in a traditional square (or open area) placed in Downtown Rio de Janeiro known as Largo da Carioca. It is needed to decode a particular point of view of this carioca scenery, based on Cultural Geography, Cultural Anthropology and History, through layers of symbolic density formed in different historical moments, besides diverse maps of meanings present at narratives from those ones who experience day-by-day this square. Then, part of the polyvocality current in this location is revealed. Thus, the square, which was called Largo de Santo Antônio and nowadays is Largo da Carioca, is represented as a place of inter-relationships between materialized forms in the landscape and socio-cultural practices. Therefore, this study intends to contribute, through combining theory and methods, to another way to research in Cultural Geography in urban scenery.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:33:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005-11-11Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:24:43Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 risso_lc_dr_rcla.pdf: 1725571 bytes, checksum: 9b9874f2b4e2ca8a502d6ec1497f1b07 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Cada povo, cada cultura tem um modo diferenciado de se apropriar do espaço geográfico, construindo nele suas representações sociais e identidades territoriais/paisagísticas, formando a paisagem cultural. Na Amazônia brasileira, a paisagem é fruto da relação entre sociedade e Natureza. Ali, vivem comunidades indígenas e comunidades tradicionais, como ribeirinhos e seringueiros, cuja sobrevivência está relacionada diretamente aos recursos naturais que a floresta amazônica oferece. No entanto, as formas de ocupação amazônica, no decorrer dos anos, vêm afetando diretamente, e de modo negativo, os povos da floresta. A comunidade indígena, objeto deste estudo, da etnia Apurinã, vive na região do médio rio Purus, afluente da margem direita do Rio Amazonas, desde o século XIX. Eles possuem uma relação direta com a Natureza e não estão isolados deste processo histórico. Nossa abordagem analisa a paisagem amazônica, através do estudo de caso realizado com a comunidade indígena Apurinã do Igarapé Mucuim (AM), com a finalidade de investigar por que pode ser identificada como comunidade conservacionista, e quais fatores determinam a sustentabilidade, ao mesmo tempo em que aponta as principais ameaças para a conservação ambiental e preservação cultural diante das influências capitalistas prevalentes na região amazônica. / Each people, each culture has a way differentiated of to appropriate of the geographic space, constructing in it social representations and territories/landscape identities, forming the cultural landscape. In the Brazilian Amazônia, the landscape is fruit of the relation between society and Nature. There, aboriginal communities and traditional communities, as ribeirinhos and seringueiros live, whose survival is related directly to the natural resources that the Amazonian forest offers. However, the forms of Amazonian occupation, in time, come directly affecting, and in negative way, the peoples of the forest. The aboriginal community, object of this study, the etnia Apurinã, lives in the region of the region river Purus, tributary of the right edge of the River Amazon, since century XIX. They possess a direct relation with the Nature and they are not isolated of this historical process. Our boarding analyzes the Amazonian landscape, through the study of case realized with the aboriginal community Apurinã of Igarapé Mucuim (AM), with the purpose to investigate why it can be identified as sustainable community, and which factors determine the sustainable, at the same time that points the main threats to the environmental conservation and cultural preservation in front of the capitalist influences in the Amazon region.

Orientador: Bernadete Aparecida Caprioglio de Castro Oliveira / Banca: Paulo Roberto Teixeira de Godoy / Banca: Zeny Rosendahl / Resumo: Bandeiras e estandartes, escudos e brasões, hinos e canções não são simples composições artísticas e musicais idealizadas ao sabor dos caprichos e fantasias de poderosos reis, mandatários, governantes, países e regiões ao longo dos tempos. Ao contrário, esses símbolos refletem uma realidade histórica e, ao mesmo tempo, portam-se como uma crônica viva de um povo e de uma nação, sendo que nela também está embutido o espaço geográfico, suas influências e suas relações. Foi somente com a Constituição Republicana de 1891, que as províncias foram transformadas em Estados Federados e poderiam adotar de forma oficial, hinos, bandeiras e brasões, desde que não omitissem nesta hierarquia os símbolos nacionais; entretanto, o uso destes símbolos no Brasil já se fazia presente desde os primeiros séculos de colonização portuguesa. Ao se analisarem os símbolos estaduais brasileiros, encontram-se em suas estruturas semânticas e sintáticas fortes relações que envolvem representação da natureza, paisagem, lugar, economia, território e região. As conclusões deste trabalho apontam para o fato de que os hinos, as bandeiras e os brasões dos Estados brasileiros demonstram amplas possibilidades de pesquisa dentro da ciência geográfica, pois estes documentos simbólicos portam-se como "testemunhos" no espaçotempo, cujo caráter gráfico e narrativo revelou em suas múltiplas conexões com o geográfico uma nova perspectiva e possibilidade no que se refere à análise e desvendamento das formas culturais de representação espacial. / Abstract: Flags and banners, shields and coats of arms, anthems and songs are not simply artistic and musical compositions which were created due to the vanity or fantasies of powerful kings, dukes, rulers, governors, countries and regions throughout time. Instead, those symbols reflect a historical reality and not only they stand as an alive chronicle of a people and a nation, but also they represent the geographical space, its influences and its relationships. It was only after the Republican Constitution of 1891 that the provinces were transformed into Federated States and they could officially adopt anthems, flags and coats of arms, as long as they didn't omit, in this hierarchy, the national symbols. However, these symbols had been already used in Brazil since the first centuries of Portuguese colonization. This analysis of the Brazilian States symbols, as well as their semantic and syntactic structures, aimed to demonstrate the strong connections involving the representation of the nature, landscape, places, economy, territory and regions. The conclusion of this dissertation shows that anthems, flags and the coats of arms of Brazilian States demonstrate wide research possibilities in the geographical science because these symbolic documents stand as "testimonies" in space and time, whose graphic and narrative character has revealed in its multiple connections with the geographical; a new perspective and possibility regarding the analysis and unveiling of the cultural forms of spatial representation. / Mestre