Urban conservation and development practices are often in conflict. This thesis examines this general claim in the context of rapid urban development in East Asia through an analysis of the postcolonial historic city of Tainan, in Southern Taiwan. Following a particular line of urban conservation scholarship (Ashworth, Larkham, Conzen) this thesis argues that urban conservation is best conceived as the management of urban change, and that change should be considered as part of urban conservation policy. The aim of such urban conservation practice would be not only to maintain the historic traditions of a place, but also to promote the development of new possibilities of place. In this sense, the treatment of historical urban fabric should aim to preserve memory and tradition as much as serving as an ‘incubator’ for new senses of place. To this end, the thesis seeks to combine morphological and everyday life approaches to urban scholarship. A sense of place is not only derived from the emotional feelings, orientation or identity attached to an existing environment, but also relies on the practices of everyday life. These practices are significant aspects of urban places, but they are often difficult to map, measure and analyse. Thus, the thesis argues, mapping the morphological changes of a city is not enough for a rounded study of the everyday life dimensions of urban space. As a result, this thesis proposes that empirical approaches to everyday life are as important as morphological studies when exploring issues of urban change. The thesis builds on a number of existing approaches to this wider issue of the interrelationship between urban morphology and everyday life. In particular, it examines the Versailles School’s approach to typomorphological study. This approach to urban analysis emphasizes morphological change and its grounding in existing typological rules of everyday space, so as to continue the everyday life culture that it supports. This thesis develops methodologies based on these principles. In addition, it draws on the concepts of time-geography and heterotopic spaces as a means of specifying the representational approaches to everyday life narratives and an understanding of postcolonial complex urbanism, respectively. Following this approach, this thesis presents a series of case studies on the historic city centre of Tainan, the ancient capital of Taiwan. As a result of its colonial past, the urban blocks in that city can be understood as heterotopias in the contemporary city. Drawing on the case studies, this thesis argues that the everyday life-style in Tainan city centre is inseparable from the existing block typology and the functional conditions that reside in the coexistence of the historical and the modern urban structures. Thus, when considering urban conservation policies, the relationship between this social spatial condition and the everyday life that it supports must be carefully considered.

This body of work, representing the past two years, is focused on the idea of the composite landscape. This reconfiguring of the elements from the external world combined with invented places is a way for me to articulate the subtle transactions between the interior psyche and the external world. The way this new conglomerate space is represented is a result of my inquiry into the relationship between nature, culture, and the sublime. The place where the private acts of the studio meet the shared exterior world is where I find my intellect, fantasy, and sense of reality collaborating in chorus.

The Arbëresh of Italy founded their communities in the 1400s when they were forced to flee their homeland, Albania, as the country was conquered and ruled by the Ottoman Empire. For centuries, they kept a close community in the Italian villages preserving their language, culture, rituals and traditions. These elements have defined them as “others” in the Italian community over the centuries, but today, they are better described as Italians who also embrace the Arbëresh culture. This dissertation explores the narratives of Arbëresh authors such as Carmine Abate, Anna Stratigò, and Pino Cacozza, who have preserved glimpses of their culture in their writings, thus creating an oasis that I call “the Arbëresh Utopia.” I situate them in the larger context of Arbëresh history, and in the environment where their stories are located. A recent research conducted through interviews in the Arbëresh towns of Calabria, will add an important “lived” tassel of information, by exploring the Arbëresh culture today in a state of what Michel Foucault calls heterotopia. After many years of living in a closed community, the Arbëresh have learned to live by addition. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T18:25:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Em 2003, é criado, na internet, o GP Guia - Fórum de Acompanhantes (www.gpguia.net), alvo deste estudo. O GP Guia é um fórum de discussão de homens que trocam relatos de experiências vividas com a figura feminina, nominada por eles como “GP”, sigla de garota de programa, além de informações sobre preços e locais de prostituição em diversas cidades brasileiras e do exterior. A partir do GP Guia identificamos como um complexo dispositivo fez existir um espaço chamado fórum, de que técnicas precisou se apropriar e como essas técnicas criaram sociabilidades por meio da discussão e da interação entre os foristas. Nesta fase do estudo, a observação se dá no nível das estruturas do fórum, considerando a fase anterior à existência do GP Guia, ou seja, os primeiros fóruns que foram criados para falar de sexo, no início dos anos 2000. Essa comparação oferece referências sobre como o fórum se apresenta e quais são os mecanismos acionados para garantir a comunicação, a interação ou a mediação das opiniões e relatos. O

This thesis examines the processes of production, consumption and representation of the old city of Hebron, West Bank, Palestine as an ‘other space’ or heterotopia, that is, as a space that deviates from normality and is tainted by contradictions, shifting meanings and notions of “otherness”. I argue that there are several representations of space present in these processes as different actors and agents relate to, make use of and accumulate different kinds of capital from the old city. Previous studies on Palestine often focus on occupation and resistance but fail to problematize the ways in which these concepts are classed, gendered, localized, globalized and involved in several interrelating systems of meaning. Having done fieldwork with Palestinian and international NGOs, volunteers, activists, tourists guides and tourists I now aim to relate their representations of the old city to that of old city residents and discuss how space and power might be understood in a process of capitalizing from an occupied zone and the emplacement of a ‘deviant’ population within it. I suggest that to better understand the everyday life of occupation we have to deconstruct romanticized notions of Palestinian and Hebronite resistance and occupation and trace the ways these concepts are socially and spatially (re)created.

Submitted by Roberth Novaes (roberth.novaes@live.com) on 2018-07-13T21:00:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese - Antonio.pdf: 18434054 bytes, checksum: 3ad0b4271d02cdcd13e618a1d3dbe501 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Setor de Periódicos (per_macedocosta@ufba.br) on 2018-07-16T19:52:08Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese - Antonio.pdf: 18434054 bytes, checksum: 3ad0b4271d02cdcd13e618a1d3dbe501 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-16T19:52:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese - Antonio.pdf: 18434054 bytes, checksum: 3ad0b4271d02cdcd13e618a1d3dbe501 (MD5) / Esta tese se configura como um estudo do universo ficcional de Jorge Amado, principalmente a partir de Gabriela, cravo e canela, de 1958. Constitui-se como um exercício de interpretação das formas com que o tema da liberdade se afigura encarnado em representações individuais e/ou coletivas impressas pelo autor. Assume-se que a literatura amadiana não busca apenas a denúncia de sistemas de opressão, mas também almeja encontrar alternativas que apontem para condições de vida não tocadas por uma lógica da submissão ou por uma dinâmica existencial repressiva. Nesta direção, procura-se mapear os sentidos concretos com que a ideia de liberdade se apresenta tangível na ficção de Amado. Ou seja, formas específicas de ser, estar e se relacionar com o mundo que, em função da série de posicionamentos de cada narrativa, são veiculadas como dotadas da capacidade de reverter quadros de subjugação em experiências possíveis de liberdade. A cartografia destas formas, que vem a ser um primeiro e necessário passo para a posterior observação dos conteúdos dissonantes que elas encenam, está amparada em um procedimento de leitura que funciona por contraste. Sua ênfase está radicada na percepção da diferença instaurada por modos de vida não hegemônicos, situados desde a margem, quando comparados ao conjunto de relações constitutivo da ordem (econômica, social, cultural, axiológica e epistêmica) dominante nas sociedades ocidentais – de resto, identificada como responsável pela subjugação de corpos e de espíritos, de indivíduos e de grupalidades. O mapeamento destas experiências outras segue não apenas pelas narrativas efetivamente publicadas por Jorge Amado. Busca-se igualmente observar projetos que se apresentavam como importantes para o autor, mas que não foram totalmente desenvolvidos. São os casos de A guerra dos santos, cujo plano de romance foi abandonado, e Boris, o Vermelho, que Jorge Amado não conseguiu finalizar. O estudo destas tramas é possível pelo cruzamento de cenas publicadas em revistas (A guerra dos santos) ou dos datiloscritos digitalizados (Boris) com informações coletadas em entrevistas concedidas pelo romancista ao longo da segunda metade do século XX. Com o intuito de elaborar leituras das modalizações diferenciais de vida contidas na ficção de Amado, optou-se pela noção de heterotopia, tal como desenvolvida por Michel Foucault (2001), como operador teórico. Isto porque a formulação foucaultiana, preocupada em focalizar a coexistência nada harmônica de espaços heterogêneos contíguos, permite discutir o modo como espacialidades não hegemônicas, as heterotopias, são e produzem forças de contestação às relações imperantes – “espaço” sendo aqui entendido não como um território delimitado por coordenadas geográficas, mas por redes de posicionamentos. A partir das análises das narrativas de Jorge Amado, é possível afirmar que as figurações de liberdade decorrem de um real heterotópico, não delineado pelo modelo capitalista-burguês judaico-cristão. Trata-se de um espaço não hierarquizado de convivência comunitária, no qual as relações humanas não se estabelecem pelo valor monetário nem operam pela exclusão das alteridades, e organizado por uma dinâmica existencial marcada pelo sentido de alegria-alacridade, que vem a ser um princípio estruturante das formas de ser, estar e de se relacionar oriundas do Candomblé. / This thesis is a study of the fictional universe of Jorge Amado, mainly from 1958 Gabriela, clove and cinnamon. It is an exercise of interpretation of the ways in which the theme of freedom is embodied in individual and/or collective representations printed by the author. It is assumed that Amadian literature makes not only the denunciation of systems of oppression, but also seeks to find alternatives that point to conditions of life untouched by a logic of submission or by a repressive existential dynamics. In this direction, this thesis seeks to map the concrete senses with the idea of freedom is presented tangible in Amado’s fiction. In other words, specific forms of being and relating to the world that, according to the number of positions of each narrative, are transmitted as endowed with the capacity to revert contexts of subjugation into possible experiences of freedom. The cartography of these forms, which is a first and necessary step towards the subsequent observation of the dissonant contents that they enact, is supported by a reading procedure that works by contrast. Its emphasis is based on the perception of the difference established by non-hegemonic ways of life, situated from the edge, when compared to the set of constitutive relations of order (economic, social, cultural, axiological and epistemic) dominant in Western societies – it is indeed responsible for the subjugation of bodies and spirits as well of individuals and groups. The mapping of these other experiences follows not only by effectively narratives published by Jorge Amado. Search also observe projects that were as important to the author, but that have not been fully developed. They are A guerra dos santos, whose novel plan was discontinued, and Boris, o Vermelho (Boris, the Red), that Jorge Amado was unable to finish. The study of these plots is possible by crossing scenes published in magazines (A guerra dos santos) or digitalized typewritings (Boris) with information collected in interviews given by the novelist during the second half of the twentieth century. In order to elaborate readings of different forms of life contained in Amado's fiction, it was chosen the concept of heterotopia, developed by Michel Foucault (2001), as a theoretical operator. This is because the Foucaultian formulation, concerned about focusing on the non-harmonic coexistence of contiguous heterogeneous spaces, allows us to discuss how non-hegemonic spatialities, the heterotopias, are and produce forces of contestation to the prevailing relations – "pace" being understood here not as a territory delimited by geographical coordinates, but by positioning networks. From the analysis of Amado’s narratives, it is possible to affirm that the figurations of freedom arise from a heterotopic reality, not delineated by the Jewish-Christian capitalist-bourgeois model. It is a non-hierarchical space of community coexistence, in which human relations are not established through a monetary value or operated by the exclusion of otherness, and organized by an existential dynamic marked by the sense of joy-alacrity, which comes to be a structuring principle of the ways of being and interacting from Candomblé.

Submitted by Gilmar Barros (gilmargomesdebarros@gmail.com) on 2015-05-12T20:06:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Versão Final.pdf: 1411843 bytes, checksum: e9be5001cab7d60425f826e27947e29a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T20:06:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Versão Final.pdf: 1411843 bytes, checksum: e9be5001cab7d60425f826e27947e29a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Esta tese dedica-se à construção de memórias acerca dos infames no bairro-balneário Cassino em meados do séc. XX, utilizando as práticas de divertimento como recorte analítico. Para tanto, foram mobilizados referenciais teórico-metodológicos advindos da história oral em que a produção das fontes constituiu-se de entrevistas com sete depoentes – dois famosos e cinco infames. Localizado na cidade do Rio Grande-RS, o Cassino foi inventado como um balneário planificado à moda europeia, sob a argumentação de ser um empreendimento destinado à sociabilidade balnear de famílias ricas e tradicionais da cidade e região. A proposição que conduz a escrita desta tese é a de desnaturalizar uma possível consolidação desse entendimento histórico pela suspeita da presença e circulação de uma gente não famosa que igualmente ocupou o local estabelecendo com ele vínculos de pertencimento. A tese está organizada em cinco capítulos. O conjunto dos dois primeiros é responsável tanto por localizar o solo conceitual em torno das noções de história, memória e tempo, quanto das questões metodológicas encaminhando a apresentação e discussão da história oral como a arte do encontro. Iniciando os capítulos das operações, em “Rostos de uma infâmia inventada” os infames aparecem na pesquisa através da oralidade de dois entrevistados “de sobrenome”, para que, assim, fosse possível falar dela. Na sequência, o capítulo “’A turma que ficava aqui é que sofria’: os infames e as histórias da rua de trás”, parte do rosto da infâmia desenhado na operação anterior para encontrar os cinco infames entrevistados – todos moradores do Cassino – e, com eles, produzir o registro de sua presença e circulação no bairro-balenário com um olhar especial às práticas de divertimento. O último capítulo, “Heterotopias de um bairro-balneário: o Cassino como um outro espaço”, sintetiza como as duas operações anteriores pensadas a partir da correlação entre memória e a noção de espaço no sentido foucaultiano levou a nomear o Cassino como um outro espaço de nosso tempo. Finalmente, produzir registros históricos sobre o Cassino num olhar a partir dos infames não está na ordem de trazer, enfim, a “essência exata da coisa” ou uma “identidade recolhida em sua origem”. Alcançar as grandes linhas da história e fixá-las com um sentido supra-histórico é, portanto, um trabalho inviável e sem propósito. Nem aquela história já contada sobre o Cassino tem a prerrogativa de deter esse selo, nem essa que estamos por contar o exige. O interesse é multiplicar os fios que atravessam a história do bairro-balneário tramando-os na produção de uma narrativa sustentada pela especificidade dos infames. / This thesis is dedicated to the construction of memory in the neighborhood-bathing season Cassino in mid-century XX, using the practices of fun as analytical approach. Having this, were mobilized referential theoretical and methodological arising from the oral history in which production of the sources consisted of interviews with seven deponents - two famous e five infamous. Located in Rio Grande-RS, Cassino was invented as a bathing season planned for European fashion, under the argument to be a venture for the beach sociability of rich and traditional families in the city and region. The proposition that leads the writing of this thesis is to denaturalize a possible consolidation of historical understanding by the suspicion of the presence and circulation of a non-famous people who also occupied the place establishing ties with him of belonging. The thesis is organized into five chapters. The joint of the first two is responsible both for locating the conceptual soil around the notions of history, memory and time, as the methodological issues forwarding the presentation and discussion of oral history as the art of meeting. Starting chapters of operations in "Faces of an invented infamy" appear in the infamous search through orality two interviewees with "surnamed", so therefore it was possible to speak it. In sequency, the chapter "'The class that was here is who suffered': the infamous and the backstreet histories ", part of the face of infamy drawn in the previous operation to find the five interviewees infamous - all residents of Cassino - and, with them, produce the record of his presence and movement in the neighborhood-bathing season with a special look to the practices of fun. The last chapter, "Heterotopias of a neighborhood-bathing season: the Cassino as another space", summarizes how the two previous operations designed from the correlation between memory and the notion of space in the Foucaultian sense led to naming the Cassino as another space of our time. Finally, produce historical records about the Cassino in a look from the infamous is not in order to bring, in the end, the "very essence of the thing" or an "identity collected in origin". Achieve the bigger story lines and affix them with a supra-historical sense is, therefore, an unworkable and pointless work. Even that story ever told about the Cassino has the prerogative to stop this seal, or that we are to tell requires this. The interest is to multiply the wires that run through the history of the neighborhood-bathing season interconnecting them in producing a sustained narrative by the specificity of the infamous.

Les hétérotopies nodulaires périventriculaires (HNP) sont des malformations du cortex cérébral caractérisées par la formation d’amas de neurones dans des parties inappropriées du cerveau. Elles peuvent être responsables d’une multitude de troubles tels qu’une hypotonie, un déficit intellectuel ou des épilepsies. Notre équipe a montré que le gène NEDD4L codant pour une E3 ubiquitine ligase était responsable d’HNP associées à des syndactilies. Des études cellulaires et une approche in utero nous ont permis de montrer une instabilité de la protéine mutante et des problèmes lors de la neurogénèse, le positionnement neuronal et la translocation terminale. Des études plus approfondies mettent en lumière le rôle critique de NEDD4L dans différentes voies de signalisation. En effet, alors que l’excès de protéine NEDD4L WT conduit à une dérégulation de DAB1 et de la voie mTORC1, l’instabilité des protéines mutantes conduit à une dérégulation des voies mTOC1 et AKT. L’ensemble de ces données permet de mieux comprendre le rôle critique de NEDD4L dans la régulation des voies mTOR et sa contribution dans le développement cortical. / Neurodevelopmental disorders with periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH) are etiologically heterogeneous, and their genetic causes remain in many cases unknown. Here we show that missense mutations in the HECT domain of the E3 ubiquitin ligase NEDD4L lead to PNH associated with toes syndactyly, cleft palate and neurodevelopmental delay. Cellular and expression data showed a sensitivity of PNH-associated mutants to proteasome degradation. Moreover, in utero electroporation approach showed that PNH-related mutants and excess of wild type (WT) NEDD4L affect neurogenesis, neuronal positioning and terminal translocation. Further investigations, including rapamycin based experiments, revealed differential deregulation of pathways involved. Excess of WT NEDD4L leads to a disruption of Dab1 and mTORC1 pathways, while PNH-related mutations are associated with a deregulation of mTORC1 and AKT activities. Altogether, these data provide insights to better understand the critical role of NEDD4L in the regulation of mTOR pathways and their contributions in cortical development.

Ectopic adrenal cortical tissue is not an infrequent incidental finding during abdominal and inguinal operations in infants; however, it is a rare finding in adults with only a few case reports described in the literature. We report a case of adrenal heterotopia as an incidental finding in a hernia sac from a 56 year-old man. We review the literature and discuss the importance of recognizing this rare finding.

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