This is a micro-history that explores everyday life on a small scale by tracing the common, if elusive lives of Thomas Dula, Ann Melton, and Laura Foster, and the communities they lived in, to explore the culture in which they lived—and died. Reactions to the murder unleashed an outpouring of discourse embedded in broader, national debates concerning gender roles. The dominant cultural theme that emerged from the murder trials as reflected in middle-class newspapers maintained that true women did not kill and real men acted as gentlemen and defenders of women’s honor. The project mines a wealth of primary source material: court documents, population censuses, and newspapers. By examining the discourse surrounding Tom Dula’s execution and Ann Melton’s acquittal for the murder of Laura Foster it illuminates the murder narrative as a public forum for discussing gender roles and power in 1860s America.

During the debate over the ratification of the United States-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the Bush Administration argued that implementation of a free trade agreement would help strengthen the nascent democracies in Central America. As a bilateral agreement, CAFTA would not only foment greater trade liberalization by expanding market access and eliminating trade barriers, but also help transform the entire commercial frameworks in Central America and promote economic development. These implications are not just economic – in particular, its provisions on intellectual property and investment rights, government procurement and labor standards affect the political institutions underpinning democracy and rule of law. This thesis assesses the role in which CAFTA has affected democratic institutions in Central America. It employs a methodology known as the Democratic Audit to evaluate consequences to four dimensions of democracy - the electoral processes, open and accountable institutions, civil and political liberties, and civil society. It demonstrates the value of using the Democratic Audit to assess a trade agreement’s political effects with an application to Mexico after NAFTA. Then this work considers the case studies of El Salvador and Costa Rica, the most salient examples of democratic institutional change after CAFTA, by drawing on original research especially into the electoral politics and civil society development in these countries. Ultimately, the thesis argues that the most significant institutional effects of CAFTA have been its role as a political issue, rather than its content, in galvanizing popular opinion and reinvigorating electoral politics and civil society - ironically, not the consequences that the Administration originally had in mind. The research demonstrates that, even if some conclusions cannot be drawn due to the recency of CAFTA, the framework it has employed will be an invaluable tool for assessing future trade agreements.

VIEIRA, Jofre Teófilo. Uma trágedia em três partes: o motim dos pretos da Laura em 1839. 2010. 302 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em História) - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de História, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Social, Fortaleza-CE, 2010. / Submitted by Raul Oliveira (raulcmo@hotmail.com) on 2012-06-27T12:22:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Dis_JTVieira.pdf: 3322223 bytes, checksum: fedd93248e1c6fb3a252ff48e2f9bf56 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-06-27T13:09:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Dis_JTVieira.pdf: 3322223 bytes, checksum: fedd93248e1c6fb3a252ff48e2f9bf56 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-06-27T13:09:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Dis_JTVieira.pdf: 3322223 bytes, checksum: fedd93248e1c6fb3a252ff48e2f9bf56 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / On the 12th of June, 1839, a number of slaves on board the brig-schooner Laura Segunda, which had earlier left Pernambuco en-route to Maranhão, mutinied off the coast of Ceará, killing six people: the captain; the boatswain; the pilot; two of the sailors and a passenger. After landing on the beach at Iguape, the slaves were captured and nine of them charged and taken to be prosecuted in Fortaleza, where six were sentenced to death, one to life imprisonment with forced-labour, yet another to being whipped and forced to go around in irons, and the last acquitted. The trials were summary in nature, demonstrating the need for a prompt and exemplary punishment of those responsible for the "horrendous attack". The present research aims to examine the mutiny and the various events which surrounded the negro slaves on board the Laura. To this end we propose examining the system of cabotage shipping carried out between the North and Northeast of Brazil, in particular that from Pará to Pernambuco, in an attempt to understand the work environment of the slave-sailors on the Laura Segunda. In addition, we wish to investigate and detail the various movements which occurred during the 1830s and which fostered a climate of political and social instability in Brazil, paving the way for various acts of rebellion by the slaves, of which the mutiny on the Laura Segunda was one. The memory of the mutiny and the events surrounding the negros on board the Laura remained alive in Fortaleza for some considerable time. We plan to arrive at an appreciation of the meaning of these events and how they were appropriated by Ceará society, and in particular by the slaves. / Em 12 de junho de 1839, alguns dos cativos a bordo do brigue-escuna Laura Segunda, que partiu do Maranhão para Pernambuco, realizaram um motim nas costas do litoral do Ceará e assassinaram seis pessoas, o capitão, o contramestre, o prático, dois marujos e um passageiro. Depois de desembarcar na praia do Iguape, os escravos foram presos e, dentre eles, nove foram acusados e levados a julgamento em Fortaleza, onde seis foram condenados à pena de morte, um a galés perpétuas, outro a açoites e andar com ferros, e o último absolvido. O julgamento ocorreu de forma sumária, indicando a necessidade de se punirem rápida e exemplarmente os responsáveis por aquele “horroroso atentado”. A pesquisa pretende analisar o motim e os eventos que envolveram os pretos da Laura. Para isso, se propõe a examinar a navegação de cabotagem realizada entre o Norte e o Nordeste do Brasil, em especial do Pará a Pernambuco, para se entender o mundo do trabalho em que estavam inseridos os marinheiros cativos do Laura Segunda. Além disso, busca-se compreender e relacionar os diversos movimentos realizados durante a década de 1830, que fomentaram um clima de grande instabilidade política e social no Brasil e permitiram o aparecimento de alguns atos de rebeldia produzidos pela escravaria. O motim no Laura Segunda foi um deles. As memórias do motim e dos eventos que envolveram os pretos da Laura ficaram vivas na capital cearense durante bastante tempo. Desta forma, procura-se compreender quais os seus significados e apropriações pela sociedade cearense, em especial o grupo dos cativos.

La tesis es un análisis comparativo entre dos novelas de formación andinas: Los ríos profundos (1958) de José María Arguedas y Ximena de dos caminos (1994) de Laura Riesco. Se plantea que la heterogeneidad sociocultural de los Andes tiene un peso decisivo en los procesos formativos representados en estas novelas. Los protagonistas viven una experiencia distinta de la heterogeneidad sociocultural dadas las diferencias entre sus contextos históricos, sociales y culturales. La cultura y la clase social de los protagonistas definen mandatos sociales de género patriarcales y opresivos que son puestos en cuestión en la formación de la subjetividad de los personajes. La heterogeneidad sociocultural tiene un rol fundamental en la formación de los protagonistas como escritores, pues son sujetos bilingües que se educan entre la oralidad quechua y la cultura letrada occidental, dos sistemas lingüísticos enfrentados en una situación de diglosia. La resolución del proceso formativo consiste en que los protagonistas tomen una posición con respecto a los conflictos socioculturales que experimentan a lo largo de su desarrollo, con lo que se ratifica la naturaleza ambigua y fragmentada de sus identidades. / Tesis

En prenant appui sur quatre années d'expérimentations artistiques et théâtrales (2014-2018) dans la ville de Nice et le département des Alpes-Maritimes, cette thèse tente de rendre compte de la démarche intellectuelle et des processus mis en œuvre dans une création post-contemporaine. Elle donne à voir la particularité des expériences de l’artiste Laura Hurt qui est à la fois auteur, metteur en scène et chercheur-praticien-reflexif dans le cadre de cette thèse de création. Dans un va-et-vient de la théorie à la pratique et inversement, nous avons essayé de mettre en avant comment un parcours personnel chaotique et une solide formation artistique amènent à de nouvelles pistes de travail, en mettant notamment le public au cœur de toutes démarches artistiques, la question de la centralité du public dans une œuvre théâtrale constituant une donnée principale, capitale même, dans l'élaboration d'un spectacle afin d’aller dans la continuité du « théâtre pour tous », du « théâtre pauvre » ou encore du « théâtre élitaire pour tous » afin de découvrir comment aujourd’hui, l'acte de création peut mettre en avant des notions comme la fraternité et la concorde universelle par une attention particulière vis-à-vis du public et notamment celui qui a peu accès à l'art, le public dit « empêché ». Cette thèse analyse par une méthode heuristique l'en-dedans et l'en-dehors de la représentation scénique, et montre que l’interdisciplinaire, le performatif et l'acte poétique permettent une nouvelle liberté pour se rapprocher du public et effacent tout ce qui nous sépare, pour mieux retrouver ce qui nous rassemble. Cette thèse découle d'une volonté de théoriser, d'analyser, de décrypter, d'expliquer, de découvrir a posteriori les actes engagés dans une démarche artistique et de faire émerger le savoir muet, discret, intime, de la genèse épistémologique de l'artiste dans son acte créateur. / Drawing upon four years of artistic and theatrical experimentation (2014-2018) in the city of Nice and the department of Alpes-Maritimes, this thesis attempts to take account of the intellectual approach and processes involved in a post-contemporary creation. It reveals the particular nature of the experience of the artist Laura Hurt, who is both producer and researcher-practitioner-thinker in the framework of this thesis on creativity. Moving freely between theory and practice, we have tried to put forward how a chaotic personal journey and a solid artistic training lead to new ways of working, notably placing the public at the heart of all artistic approaches and whenever the question of the public’s central role in theatre might be of primary, even essential pertinence in the putting on of a spectacle aiming to continue the art of ‘theatre for all’, ‘poor or minimal theatre’ or even ‘elite theatre for everyone’, thereby discovering how, today, the creative act may promote notions such as fraternity and universal concord by paying special attention to the public and particularly that public having little access to art, the so-called handicapped public. This thesis analyses via its heuristic model the inner world and outer world of stage performance, and reveals how the interdisciplinary, the performative and the poetic act allow for a new freedom to draw closer to the public, erasing all that separates, so as to better reclaim what we share. The thesis derives from a desire to theorise, analyse, decode, explain and discover a posteriori those acts involved in an artistic approach, and to bring to light the intimate, discreet, unsaid knowledge of the artist’s epistemological genesis in her creative gesture.

Do Afghan women need saving? This study focuses on the discourse of the USA’s First Lady Mrs. Laura Bush in the years (2001-2009) and how she represents the women in Afghanistan in the context of the USA-led intervention in Afghanistan. My aim is to understand how the USA intervention can be legitimized through Mrs. Bush’s argumentation of bringing human rights to Afghan women. In the analysis in this thesis, Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis is used in combination with feminist and postcolonial theory to understand her discourse about the women in Afghanistan and how her resulting discourse functions in connection with the USA-led intervention in Afghanistan. The study concludes that Mrs. Bush constructs the Afghan women as in need of help and in connection the USA as the helping hand who have an obligation to save the women in Afghanistan. In combination with strategic use of ‘embedded feminism’ and an oriental discourse Mrs. Bush’s discourse functions to make the USA-led intervention in Afghanistan seem legitimate.

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The thesis addresses analysis of stories and narrative in relation to the subject of gender. This analysis primarily deals with fairy tale The Beauty and the Beast by Disney. The first part is about general theoretical basis for my thesis and about the most important authors in this field. Archetypes and logocentrism topics are dealt with partially as well. The foundations of the first part are however literary and motion-picture feministic theories, also the concept of the myth of beauty. In the practical part sequences of the The Beast and the Beauty are studied. Findings described in theoretical part is utilized here and the marked and subtle influence of androcentric culture on style and content of the story is shown.

In den Anfängen der Cultural Studies in der Birmingham School spielte Geschlecht eine eher untergeordnete Rolle. Bald wurden jedoch auch feministische Positionen herangezogen, um Ungleichheiten der Alltagspraxis zu erklären, die nicht klassentheoretisch zu fassen waren. In den Arbeiten von Rubin und Mulvey beispielsweise werden Geschlecht bzw. Geschlechtsunterscheidungen und -ungleichheiten durch makrosoziale Wissensstrukturen und kollektive Praktiken reproduziert.

Orcid del autor: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4133-3912 / Esta tesis se ha servido de diferentes estudios y ensayos, en inglés, alemán e italiano, además del español, dado que la mayoría de textos enumerados en la bibliografía en relación al Bildungsroman, la novela de aprendizaje y aquellos referidos a la novela en cuanto tal, no se encontraban traducidos. Además, gracias a contactos foráneos interesados en la redacción de esta tesis, pudimos recopilar textos claves en la elaboración de la misma. Un caso especial es el acceso a la versión original en italiano de Il romanzo di formazione de Franco Moretti, libro que el propio autor nos enviara desde la Universidad de Stanford en San Francisco. O los artículos en revistas norteamericanas (Third woman, Michigan Germanic Studies) o enviadas desde universidades norteamericanas (Boston University, Dartmouth College, University of New York, Rutgers University) en las que se seguía muy de cerca el debate acerca de la problemática del Bildungsroman o de la novela de Laura Riesco. Estos nos dieron una visión panorámica y diacrónica de lo que hasta la fecha se dice y se discute acerca de estas novelas. En el caso de Ximena de dos caminos, recopilamos algunas entrevistas y declaraciones de la autora acerca de su condición escindida, ya no sólo como escritora y mujer, sino como escritora y mujer en un país extranjero expresándose en una lengua materna que debe redescubrir todos los días. Precisamente estas investigaciones acerca de Ximena de dos caminos y las declaraciones y entrevistas de la autora, no nos dejan olvidar que el debate sobre la novela peruana permanece casi sin estudios sólidos en nuestro país. Mucho menos si pensamos en la pasada década, aunque algunos esbozos se han intentado trazar, sea en artículos de revistas como de periódicos. De ahí la importancia del análisis de una novela de la década pasada que muestra diferentes aristas de contacto con otras novelas contemporáneas y que es una base para una investigación profunda acerca del corpus de novelas de los noventas y una posible vía de estudio. Muchos investigadores se han referido al ambiente de los noventas como enriquecedor para un escritor y sus ficciones, pero también empobrecedor y estéril para el desarrollo y difusión de esas mismas ficciones gracias a la indiferencia y la falta de aliento de su sociedad. En consecuencia, este trabajo buscará ser sintético pero profundo en la búsqueda de respuestas a las interrogantes que se plantean acerca de la relación exacta entre la novela de Riesco y el Bildungsroman y de qué modo se inserta dentro de la novelística peruana.