This thesis examines the role of British localities in the production of military force during the 1920s and 1930s. I argue that, during an era so disenfranchising for the armed forces in national politics and culture, the 'Local' provided a haven for servicemen and military units. Rather than theorising mobilisation as a set of state centred economic or technocratic proscriptions, this research takes the social and cultural renewal of military units as a starting point. Drawing on a range of historical and anthropological methodologies, I have set out to uncover what were - to borrow Foucault's phrase - 'regimes of truth': multiple ideological currents and social contexts that legitimised service identities during this period. Local spaces are not only useful arenas for dissecting these operations; local people and identities were crucial formative elements in these processes. Two case studies have provided the ground for this investigation: Newcastle and Glasgow. The thesis dissects the body of the British military machine at these entry points, viewing the configuration of military and naval power at ground level and the emergence of manpower from the collision between state directives and local society. It also examines the communities (soldiers, veterans) that arose through this. Focus moves from military to urban spaces, revealing the characters (pressmen, politicians) and practices (sociability, ritual, performance) that legitimised these communities. Much of this cultural work evoked the memory of the Great War and here the thesis intervenes in academic debates surrounding Commemoration after 1918. The final chapter unites these perspectives in a chronological elaboration of the period 1935-1939, detailing the ground level effort for national and civil defence. As well as enlivening our understanding of 20th century mobilisation, this research explores the depths of British local and national identities and the intricate ways in which the armed forces were framed within both.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:25:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GABRIEL ANAYA _2011_ MAUS ARES E MALARIA 18.pdf: 5313669 bytes, checksum: 5fc1843255ee310f60cc11e6be2ddbfc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-07-27 / The development of epidemiological practices in the last years of the nineteenth and early twentieth century was characterized by both an influence of medical geography and the emergence of microbes and vectors of diseases. Both theories were used to explain outbreaks in Rio Grande do Norte specially in Natal. In this process were organized new institutions linked to public health, unhealthy spaces and prescribed hygiene measures. The redefinitions of the spaces were linked to updated elements of Hippocratic medicine such as aerism and emphasis on medical topography. How the physicians of the town were organized in the face of new meanings and fields of expertise in the demarcation of diseases and regulation of their own practices against the illegal medical practitioners? Likewise, the very occurrence of epidemics mobilized people, urban institutions and apparatuses. But how the Hippocratic legacy that leads to the idea of bad air originated by swamps from the eighteenth and nineteenth century has been linked to new microbial assumptions and disease vectors in the early twentieth century? How an invader from Africa, (the mosquito A. gambiae) mobilized transnational efforts to combat malaria and redefined the epidemiological practices? The aim of this work is to understand how epidemiological practices redefine the way we define spaces, practices and disease from both an approach influenced by a relational history of spaces and a theoretical synergy which includes topics in Science Studies, Post Structuralist Geography and some elements of Feminist Studies. Documentary research were surveyed in the reports of the provincial presidents, government posts to the Provincial Assembly, specialized medical articles and theses, and documents from the Rockefeller Foundation and national and international journals. In this regard shall be given to both material and discursive aspects of space-related practical epidemiological that Natal as much (in general) Rio Grande do Norte between bad air and malaria. / O desenvolvimento de pr?ticas epidemiol?gicas nos ?ltimos anos do s?culo XIX e in?cio do s?culo XX foi caracterizado tanto pela influ?ncia da geografia m?dica quanto pela emerg?ncia dos micr?bios e vetores de doen?as como modelos explicativos. Esses elementos come?aram a se destacar nas quest?es relacionadas ?s epidemias no Rio Grande do Norte com uma maior visibilidade em Natal. Nesse processo foram organizadas novas institui??es ligadas ? sa?de p?blica, houve a demarca??o de espa?os insalubres e foram prescritas medidas de higiene e profilaxia a partir da Inspetoria de Hygiene. A redefini??o dos espa?os devido ? circula??o e prolifera??o de novos pressupostos tamb?m foi articulada a elementos da medicina hipocr?tica atualizados, com ?nfase no aerismo e na topografia m?dica. De que maneira o pr?prio corpo m?dico da cidade se organizou frente aos novos sentidos e especializa??es nas demarca??es das doen?as e na pr?pria regulamenta??o de suas pr?ticas frente aos charlat?es e praticantes de medicina ilegal? Da mesma maneira, a pr?pria ocorr?ncia de epidemias mobilizou pessoas, inaugura??o de institui??es e de aparatos urbanos. Mas de que maneira o legado hipocr?tico que remete ? id?ia de maus ares pantanosos que resultavam das inquieta??es sanitaristas do s?culo XVIII e XIX se articulou aos novos pressupostos microbianos e relativos aos vetores no in?cio do s?culo XX? Como um mosquito invasor , o A. gambiae, vindo da ?frica para Natal, mobilizou esfor?os transnacionais no combate ? mal?ria e com isso ajudou a redefinir as pr?ticas epidemiol?gicas? Pretende-se compreender como as pr?ticas epidemiol?gicas redefinem a maneira de se delimitar espa?os, pr?ticas e doen?as a partir de uma abordagem tanto influenciada por uma perspectiva relacional do espa?o na hist?ria quanto a partir de uma sinergia te?rica que inclui os Estudos da Ci?ncia, Geografia P?s-estruturalista e elementos dos Estudos Feministas. Na pesquisa documental foram pesquisados os Relat?rios dos presidentes de prov?ncia, Mensagens de Governo ? Assembl?ia Provincial, artigos e teses m?dicas especializadas, al?m de documentos da Funda??o Rockefeller e peri?dicos nacionais e internacionais. Nesse sentido ser? privilegiado o aspecto tanto material quanto discursivo dos espa?os ligados ?s pr?ticas epidemiol?gicas que atravessam tanto Natal quanto (de maneira geral) o Rio Grande do Norte entre os maus ares e a mal?ria no per?odo proposto.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:25:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DiegoS_DISSERT.pdf: 2501564 bytes, checksum: 1ce0c357f86295afda264e5d574a9147 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-05 / Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte / This work, from a perspective that thinks the space as a historical category, and especially as a relationship which stresses the role of objects, proposes an analysis of the construction of a Republican memory in the city of Natal in the early twentieth century. This research will focus mainly on two objects: the obelisk opened in 1917, and the Andre de Albuquerque Square on the occasion of the celebration of Frei Miguelinho?s death centenary and the paint Julgamento de Frei Miguelinho ordered by the State Government to the painter Antonio Parreiras, picture that was in the Sal?o Nobre do Pal?cio do Poder Executivo of that time. In a geral way this work intend to analyse the construction of this memory as well as the role of these objects in this process. To achieve that, we propose to trace ways and networks to follow the possible associations(between people, events, images, discourses, objects, institutios etc.) in the constitution of mutual belongings. Thus, our procedure was to follow these objects through the pathways in which they became possible, so that in the end we could defend the idea that they are active participants of the process that establish them. / O presente trabalho, partindo de uma perspectiva que pensa o espa?o como categoria hist?rica e, sobretudo, como rela??o na qual se destaca o papel dos objetos, visa propor uma an?lise do processo de constru??o de uma mem?ria republicana na cidade do Natal, no come?o do s?culo XX, a partir de dois objetos: o obelisco inaugurado em 1917, na Pra?a Andr? de Albuquerque, na ocasi?o das comemora??es do 1? centen?rio da morte de Frei Miguelinho; e o quadro intitulado Julgamento de Frei Miguelinho , encomendado pelo Governo do Estado ao pintor fluminense Ant?nio Parreiras, para figurar no Sal?o Nobre do Pal?cio do Poder Executivo de ent?o. A proposta mais geral ? a de analisar a constru??o dessa mem?ria a partir desses objetos ao mesmo tempo em que se tenta pensar o papel destes objetos na constru??o dessa mem?ria. Para tanto, nos propomos a tra?ar percursos nos quais fosse poss?vel estabelecer rela??es associativas (entre pessoas, eventos, imagens, discursos, objetos, institui??es etc.) que concorrem nesse processo, nesse caminho constitutivo de pertencimentos. Assim, o nosso procedimento foi o que acompanhar esses objetos atrav?s dos percursos dentro dos quais eles se tornaram poss?veis, para que ao fim pud?ssemos defender a ideia de que de que eles s?o participantes ativos dos processos que os instituem.