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The study used quantitative content analysis to compare the international news content about Africa and the rest of the world in selected daily and weekly newspapers in Malawi and explored the extent to which economic factors, as represented by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), influence news flows about Africa into Malawi. The results showed dominance of the categories of war/international conflict and politics. International news agencies were the principal sources of news items for all the four papers. Though there were differences among the newspapers in the amount of space allocated to various categories such differences were minor. The study established that GDP is not a determinant of the amount of coverage a country receives. / Communication Science / M.A. (International Communication)

This research explores the availability and potential educational uses of different forms of poetry that can be read using a postcolonial approach. The focus is on contemporary France and Spain, two contexts where people with different cultural heritages coexist and need to negotiate cultural imbalances inherited from colonial and neo-colonial domination. This research highlights poetry’s overlooked suitability to engage young people in the expression of cultural difference in a progressively globalized world where cultivating cross-cultural understanding and tolerance needs to be at the top of our agendas. For this reason, the dissertation includes an analysis of poems (currently available for young people) aiming to foreground the possibilities of a postcolonial reading. I also studied similarities and divergences between the French and Spanish scenarios based on evidence gathered during a survey of the Spanish and French fields of poetry for young people and from interviews with informed agents. The survey of the field consists of the exploration of textbooks and anthologies but also the examination of poetry circulating through on-line channels. The interviews were undertaken with selected French and Spanish representatives of people currently involved in the production and dissemination of poetry for young people. I observed that the number of poems showing connections to a postcolonial legacy was scant in the French school material and even more in the Spanish books that I examined. I also confirmed that little attention was given to oral ways to deliver poetry especially showing little regard for the oral literary practices and traditions of non-European French and Spanish speaking communities. The Spanish lack of attention to these traditions is more salient. This contrasts with observations about non-school contexts. Spanish and French young people can nowadays easily engage with varied cultural traditions in poetry which circulate in poetry events and social media. Interviewees confirmed these observations but also raised issues about Spanish and French poetry education that need to be dealt with so as to improve school attention to mixed cultural heritages in poetry. The main contribution to knowledge of this thesis consists in identifying the underused and unexplored educational potential of French and Spanish poetry currently available for young people that can be fruitfully approached using postcolonial lenses. The evaluation of the information gathered in this research reveals that dominant French and Spanish approaches to poetry and limited poetry repertoires hinder the visibility of some contemporary forms of poetry and restrain the effectiveness of some poetry already present in mainstream poetry corpora. However, the comparison of scenarios shows that France offers more accessible and relevant ‘places of enunciation ’ than Spain does for poets to address young people. For instance, comparing contexts, French young people have easier access and more support than Spanish youth to engage with poets’ expressions of being culturally displaced.

International Aid or Official Development Assistance (ODA), especially its implementation and effectiveness, has long been and continues to be a vigorously contested matter amongst the stakeholders in the development arena. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of ODA in two municipalities in the Eastern Cape – Buffalo City and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipalities – during the period 2005–2010. This period coincided with the introduction of the Paris Declaration (PD), an intervention intended to improve the ODA or Aid landscape globally. This was also the period during which the so-called service delivery protests in almost all municipalities in South Africa escalated. A diversified methodology including both quantitative and qualitative approaches was used in this study while adhering to the evaluation framework of the Paris Declaration as recommended by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This framework put special focus on the five principles of ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results and mutual accountability. Of particular significance in this study is the special attention paid to the actual beneficiaries on the ground, namely the communities, which is contrary to most existing Paris Declaration evaluations. The research findings suggested that there had been no conscious efforts to implement the Paris Declaration in the two municipalities that were investigated. Furthermore, the prevailing weaknesses in governance, coupled with both administrative and operational paralysis in these two institutions, provided for less than fertile ground for this intervention to thrive.The findings also highlighted that ODA programmes were very poorly known by most stakeholders, especially the communities who were supposed to benefit directly from this assistance. These results also underscored the partisan nature of ODA and how it influenced the perceptions of the various key players. The success and future of ODA programmes in South Africa, particularly in municipalities, will largely rely on “Active Citizenry”. Although ODA’s contribution to South Africa seems negligible in monetary terms, its significance lies among others in the innovations, piloting, risk mitigation, catalytic initiatives and capacity development it introduces or generates and which need to be correctly exploited, implemented and maximised. ODA in South Africa should therefore focus at the local level, the municipalities, which represent the interface between the citizens and the state. To ensure that the ensuing innovations are optimally cascaded down in an organised and effective manner to where they are mostly needed, ODA should preferably operate at the strategic level in municipalities. This would in turn assist in counteracting the current high levels of poverty and inequality in the country. Study findings further suggest that South Africa should cease its current ambivalence regarding ODA and refrain from the so-called “Triangular” ODA in support of the rest of Africa. The demands in it’s own back yard are steadily mounting. This is clearly reflected by the continuous service delivery protests and instability in several municipalities in South Africa.

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:49:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 72050100759.pdf.jpg: 14401 bytes, checksum: b93b1c1ddc29d5499d10a99de7656f56 (MD5) 72050100759.pdf: 2665227 bytes, checksum: dd19763b1a5c449e7cb313d34045609b (MD5) 72050100759.pdf.txt: 487826 bytes, checksum: 1112205b9bc7c65013b87ceec51e7b57 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-18T00:00:00Z / This study aims at verifying the existence of the professional field of rural development in the Sisal Region, in Bahia’s semi-arid region, analyzing the forms through which this process might have contributed to the institutionalization of ideas on what rural development entails and how it might have opened space for the creation of new local logics. As to methodological approaches, micro and macro social analyses were integrated, having the concept of social field as analytical level so as to deal with middle range theories in order to explain social phenomena, particularly neo-institutional and social movement theories. Empirical survey was based on primary data collected in different periods from interviews and observations, to which were added a considerable amount of secondary data gathered from reports, newsletters, videos, newspapers and other academic works. In order to historically recover the field of rural development, from the 70’s to the present days, discourse analysis technique was employed, so as to characterize actors, their main logics of action, particularly those related to professionalization. The attempt at conceptualizing professionalization and clarifying what is being considered as the field or rural development were an important task of the work. Four main contrasting forces in the field, influencing its professionalization were identified: Insurgent Solidarity; insurgent solidarity and economic insertion conflicts; particular forms of relation between State and society; and the insertion of themes and practices absorbed during actors/fields mimetic, regulative and normative mechanisms at micro and macro levels. From the identification and analysis of forces involved in professionalization in the field, suggestions are put forward as to the enlargement of the understanding on professionalization and institutional entrepreneurship, which might be relevant to future studies aiming at integrating agency-structure analyses and individual and collective action dimensions. / Este estudo teve como objetivo verificar a existência de campo profissional do desenvolvimento rural na Região do Sisal, no semi-árido baiano, analisando de que forma este processo contribuiu para a institucionalização de idéias sobre o que vem a ser desenvolvimento rural, e como ele, também, abriu espaços para a criação de novas lógicas locais. Como estratégia metodológica buscou-se integrar análises macro e micro sociais, utilizando-se noção de campos sociais como nível de análise, com o objetivo de trabalhar com teorias de médio alcance para explicação de fenômenos sociais, em especial as teorias neo-institucionais e as teorias de movimentos sociais. O levantamento empírico fundamentou-se em dados primários, recolhidos em diferentes momentos a partir de entrevistas e observações, aliado a uma ampla gama de dados secundários, recolhidos a partir de relatórios, boletins, newsletters, vídeos, jornais, e outros trabalhos acadêmicos. Foi utilizada a técnica da análise de discurso para trabalhar com os dados fazendo uma reconstituição histórica do campo do desenvolvimento rural entre a década de 70 e os dias atuais, buscando caracterizar os atores participantes, suas principais lógicas de ação, em especial aquelas relacionadas à profissionalização. Esclarecer o que se entende por profissionalização e o que foi considerado como campo do desenvolvimento rural fizeram parte de um esforço de conceituação do trabalho. Foram identificadas quatro principais forças que se contrastavam no campo e que influenciaram na sua profissionalização: a Solidariedade Insurgente; os conflitos entre inserção econômica e a solidariedade insurgente; formas particulares de relacionamento entre sociedade e Estado; e a inserção de temáticas e práticas absorvidas através de mecanismos miméticos, regulativos e normativos de atores/campos localizados em níveis meso e macro. A partir da identificação e análise das forças envolvidas na profissionalização do campo, são propostas sugestões para a ampliação do entendimento sobre profissionalização e empreendedorismo institucional, que poderão ser pertinentes para futuros estudos que busquem integrar as análises sobre agência-estrutura e as dimensões individual e coletiva da ação.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 65080100017.pdf: 1653646 bytes, checksum: 591a900108a719efc6f0b4e7f276e49d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-09 / Após a entrada em vigor do Protocolo de Kyoto em 2005 e a divulgação dos relatórios do IPCC sobre as mudanças climáticas, em 2007, muitos países passaram a buscar formas de produzir fontes alternativas de energia na tentativa de diminuir suas emissões de gases de efeito estufa. Por outro lado, a tentativa de alguns países de serem menos dependentes do petróleo e consolidarem políticas de segurança energética foi também um fator que contribuiu significativamente para a produção e consumo de fontes renováveis. Assim, a produção e a demanda de biocombustíveis apresentam-se como alternativa para o cumprimento de ambos os objetivos: redução de emissões e segurança energética. Quando analisamos custo de produção, produção por hectare, balanço energético e redução na emissão de gases de efeito estufa, a cana-de-açúcar apresenta-se como a matéria-prima mais competitiva para a produção de etanol. Entretanto, nem todos os países possuem tecnologia, condições agroclimáticas, estabilidade política para a produção dessa cultura. Este trabalho tem o objetivo de identificar as condições climáticas, socioeconômicas e políticas de países e sub-regiões localizados na zona intertropical, de modo a facilitar a disseminação da produção de etanol por meio da cooperação internacional. No entanto, havendo condições agroclimáticas em um país, isso seria suficiente para implementar sistemas de produção de cana-de-açúcar? Conforme veremos na hipótese apresentada, uma análise política e socioeconômica é necessária a fim de avaliar a situação do Estado de Direito dos Estados pretendentes à produção de cana. Para aqueles países em condições do seu cultivo, a pesquisa demonstra cooperação internacional como um dos meios para adquirir assistência técnica, transferência de tecnologia e disseminar os benefícios socioeconômicos e ambientais do etanol em outros países. Tornar o etanol uma commodity também é uma das maneiras de difundir o mercado do produto no mundo. Entretanto, como veremos, a commoditização do etanol está, adicionalmente, sujeita a fatores técnicos, políticos e econômicos. Por fim, pretende-se demonstrar que a disseminação global do etanol não depende apenas da produção em diversos países e da commoditização do produto, mas também da eliminação de barreiras tarifárias e não tarifárias impostas no comércio internacional. / After the Kyoto Protocol entered into force in 2005 and, in 2007, the disclosure of the IPCC’s reports on climate change, many countries started to seek ways to produce energy from alternative sources, trying to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Another factor that contributes significantly to the production and consumption of renewable resources is the try, of some countries, to be less dependent on oil and strengthen energy security policies. The production and demand for biofuels is a contribution to the achievement of both objectives: mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and strengthening energy security. When analyzed the cost of production, yield per hectare, energy balance and reduction of greenhouse gases emissions, the sugarcane is the most competitive feedstock for ethanol production. However, not all countries have technology, climate conditions and political stability for the production of this crop. The objective of this work is to identify the climatic, socioeconomics and political conditions of the countries and sub-regions located in the intertropical zone, in order to facilitate the spread of ethanol production through international cooperation. Meanwhile, considering a country with good climate conditions for sugarcane, it would be enough to implement production systems of this crop? The presented hypothesis demonstrates the policy analysis is needed to evaluate the State of Right of those countries which are applicants to the sugarcane production. For those countries able to produce sugarcane, this research demonstrates international cooperation as a mean to acquire technical assistance, technology transfer and the dissemination of the socio-economic and environmental benefits of ethanol in other countries. Another way of diffusion of ethanol in the world market is to transform it into a commodity. However, as this paper demonstrates, the commoditization of ethanol is, additionally, subject to technical, political and economic factors. Finally, this study intends to present that the global dissemination of ethanol depends not only on production in many countries and the commoditization of the product, but also of the elimination of the tariff and non-tariff barriers imposed on the international trade.

This topic, "Some Mission Societies Since Lausanne 1974" is an examination of the impact of Lausanne 1974 on the Global Church through ParaChurch organizations. There is a Focus on DAWN as a Movement. The topic was chosen due to the fact that mission organization scholars from agencies such as the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Dawn Ministries, YWAM, and A.D. 2000 consider Lausanne 1974 to be a watershed event in evangelical missions. Lausanne 1974 renewed evangelical vision of missions and gave new direction to mission organizations. This dissertation explores those claims. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th (Missiology) Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology

This dissertation examines the flow of economic news in Africa, in order to investigate the potential existence of regional hierarchies in international news flow. The research was based on a framework of theories on international news flow. A quantitative and qualitative content analysis of a sample of news articles published in Africa Investor, African Business and Business in Africa during 2007 and 2008 was analysed. The quantitative results showed that South Africa received the highest level of coverage and was covered to a greater extent than any other African country. The qualitative results indicated that there was clear evidence of regional hierarchy in the coverage of African countries: South Africa received extensive coverage probably due to the fact that it is the largest, most advanced and influential economy in the continent. The study showed that inequality in news coverage is not only a global issue, but also a regional one. / Communication Science / M.A. (International Communication)

South African law treats planning and the environment separately, causing considerable problems when developing land. Concerns in this regard are worldwide and various approaches have been adopted to solve them. This research seeks to explore what legal solutions can be provided using some international examples, fitting them within the unique governance, historical and legal context of South Africa. / Jurisprudence / LLM