This thesis considers the relationship between practices, communities and continuity in intermittent organisational arrangements. Cultural festivals are argued to offer one such particularly rich and nuanced research context; within this study their potential to transcend intermittent enactment emerged as a significant avenue of enquiry. The engagement of organisation studies with theories of practice has produced a rich practice-based corpus, diverse in both theoretical concerns and empirical approaches to the study of practice. Nevertheless, continuity presents an, as yet, under-theorised aspect of this field. Thus, the central questions of this thesis concern: the practices that underpin the enactment of festivals; the themes emerging from these practices for further consideration; and relationships between festivals and the wider context within which they are enacted. These issues were explored empirically through a qualitative study of the enactment of a community-centred film festival. Following from the adoption of a ‘practice-lens approach', this study yielded forty-eight practices, through which to explore five themes emerging from analysis: Safeguarding, Legitimising, Gatekeeping, Connecting and Negotiating Boundaries. This study revealed an aspect of the wider field of practice that has not yet been fully examined by practice-based studies: the cementing or anchoring mechanisms that contribute to temporal continuity in intermittent, temporary or project-based organisations. The findings of this thesis suggest a processual model, which collectively reinforces an organisational memory that survives periods of latency and facilitates the re-emergence of practice, thus potentially enabling organisations to endure across intermittent enactment and, ultimately, transcend temporality and ephemerality. The themes examined and insights offered in this thesis seek to contribute to: practice-based studies and film-festival studies; forging a new path linking these two disciplines; and generating both theoretical and practical insights of interest to festival organisers and stakeholders of project-based, temporary or intermittent organisational arrangements.

SANTOS, Marlene Pereira dos. Incursões na história e memória da comunidade de quilombo de Alto-Alegre - município de Horizonte – CE. 2012. 153f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2012. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-02-25T14:08:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012-DIS-MPSANTOS.pdf: 7720145 bytes, checksum: 33572fd28544756b5a8ee6d686ac3cb5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-02-25T14:41:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012-DIS-MPSANTOS.pdf: 7720145 bytes, checksum: 33572fd28544756b5a8ee6d686ac3cb5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-02-25T14:41:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012-DIS-MPSANTOS.pdf: 7720145 bytes, checksum: 33572fd28544756b5a8ee6d686ac3cb5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / The subject of this dissertation is part of a more general theme concerning whit the black population history in the state of Ceará - Brazil. This is an issue with many aspects and many polemics, such as the existence of black people in the state, but is part of a social attitude which has been the subject of historical research and education in the last 10 years in our graduate program. Alto Alegre is the name of a district of Novo Horizonte city. This city is at the periphery of the large metropolitan region of Fortaleza. The community of maroon Alto Alegre is a black rural community with more than a century of existence, yet the literature contains few references to this existence. The research work with the concepts of afro - dependency and black population based on the historical aspects and not biological. Uses the concept of black rural district and outlines the set of knowledge based on oral history, focusing on the black memory, organized as a collective memory with a focus on culture and cultural heritage of the black population. The research was shaft the economic facts and the social relations established by the community of Alto Alegre in a territory where social groups include blacks, indians and white settlers regarded as represented by the landowners. The study showed a trend of community marked by changes in the forms of work and life prospects, but with the presence of strong cultural identity, interspersed with significant changes in customs and religion. The city of Horizonte is within a region of strong industrialization and geographical constant intervention by the state through the construction of large works such as the BR-116, and channels of integration and the worker. / O tema desta dissertação cabe dentro de um tema mais geral que é o da história das populações negras no Ceará. Trata-se de um tema com diversos aspectos e muitas polemicas, tais como a existência de negros no estado, mas faz parte de uma postura social que tem sido alvo da pesquisa historiográfica e da educação nos últimos 10 anos no estado do Ceará. Alto Alegre é um distrito do município de Horizonte, parte periférica da grande região metropolitana de Fortaleza. A comunidade de quilombo de Alto Alegre é uma comunidade rural negra com mais de um século de existência, no entanto a literatura apresenta poucas referências a esta existência. A pesquisa realizada trabalha com os conceitos de afrodescendência e população negra baseada nos aspectos históricos e não biológicos. Utiliza o conceito de bairro rural negro e traça o conjunto do conhecimento com base na historia oral, tendo como foco a memória negra, como memória coletiva organizada com foco na cultura e no patrimônio cultural da população negra. A pesquisa teve como eixo os fatos econômicos e as relações sociais estabelecidas pela comunidade de Alto Alegre dentro de um território onde figuram os grupos sociais negros, índios e brancos, esses últimos representados pelos posseiros considerados como donos da terra. O estudo mostrou uma trajetória de comunidade marcada pelas mudanças nas formas de trabalho e nas perspectivas de vida, mas com a presença de forte identidade cultural, entremeada de mudanças significativas de costumes e de religião. O município de Horizonte está dentro de uma região de forte industrialização e de constante intervenção geográfica pelo estado através de construção de grandes obras como a rodovia BR-116, e os canais de integração e do trabalhador.

L'étude examine comment la narration historique colombienne du XIXe siècle s'insère dans les différents débats qui ont eu lieu dans le processus complexe de construction du pays en tant qu'État moderne. Elle part de l'idée que la production d'identités nationales comporte des éléments sociaux, politiques et culturels, raison pour laquelle il est fondamental de considérer la place de cette production dans les débats concernant : 1) les rapports entre l’Église catholique, l’État et la tradition chrétienne; 2) la place de l’héritage hispanique dans la culture nationale et du sujet autochtone dans la société; et 3) l’histoire récente de la République émergente. Nous partons de l’idée que divers projets de nation ont été proposés par les intellectuels en fonction de leurs intérêts idéologiques pluriels, voire même de leurs préoccupations existentielles. La rencontre entre les différentes perspectives sur la construction d’une nation moderne a créé des conflits politiques, sociaux et culturels qui se sont soldés par des confrontations fratricides. Or, le caractère conflictuel du contexte de construction de la nation a été reproduit par les intellectuels dans les récits historiques. Dans ce travail, nous adoptons une perspective sociocritique et explorons la façon dont les contradictions historiques d’un processus colonial ont produit des sujets problématiques; sujets qui ont essayé de résoudre, dans la production discursive historique, ces mêmes contradictions dont ils étaient issus. L’exploration de ces hypothèses est faite en quatre temps. D’abord, nous partons des rapports entre les discours historique et littéraire de l’époque pour comprendre la nature hybride de la production étudiée. Cette réflexion nous permet d’observer les fonctions didactique, identitaire et critique que les intellectuels ont attribué au récit historique. En somme, nous analysons en premier lieu comment la littérature de type historique répond à des dynamiques et normes esthétiques produites par le croisement des sphères littéraire et sociopolitique. Les trois dernières parties de cette thèse consistent en une revue des débats de société susmentionnés depuis la production de récits historiques. La deuxième partie examine comment la narration historique est insérée dans les débats sur la religion catholique dans le pays. À travers la narration historique et en affirmant le christianisme comme symbole de civilisation, les intellectuels ont débattu de la place de l'Église catholique dans la structure sociale. Le troisième chapitre analyse les positions sur le passé hispanique et le passé indigène. Malgré la découverte de positions marquées en faveur et contre la tradition hispanique, les oeuvres reproduisent les contradictions historiques dans les deux. Tandis que les premiers devaient considérer le bain de sang et le pillage de la Conquête, les seconds devaient affronter le poids de la tradition hispanique dans le processus de civilisation. En ce qui concerne le passé indigène, l'instrumentalisation discursive du passé pour favoriser les intérêts présents de chaque groupe est considérée. Le quatrième chapitre se concentre sur les oeuvres qui analysent le présent républicain, y compris la transition connue sous le nom d'Indépendance. Bien que cela soit reconnu comme un geste héroïque, l'accent est mis sur le chaos du présent du pays. Les intellectuels avaient tendance à se positionner de manière critique face à un présent instable, soulignant l'impossibilité de développer une véritable république, selon les idéaux du mouvement d'indépendance. Il faut préciser toutefois que notre intention n’est pas de reconstituer les débats à travers les ouvrages, mais bien de comprendre les enjeux soulevés par les intellectuels à partir du discours historique et esthétique. Les oeuvres étudiées expriment autant les contradictions historiques elles-mêmes que la position des intellectuels par rapport à celles-ci. Nous proposons un axe de recherche centré sur l’analyse des récits historiques. En effet, ces derniers demeurent en grande partie inconnus, ce qui pose un frein à la compréhension complète des processus sociaux, historiques et littéraires de la Colombie. / The study investigates how 19th-century Colombian historical narrative is embedded in the various debates that took place in the complex process of constructing the country as a modern state. It starts from the idea that the production of national identities involves social, political, and cultural elements, which is why it is essential to consider the place of this production in debates concerning: 1) the relationship between the Catholic Church, the State, and Christian tradition; 2) the Hispanic legacy’s place in national culture and the Indigenous subject’s position in society; and 3) the recent history of the emerging Republic. This thesis starts with the idea that there were different nation-building projects proposed by intellectuals based on their various ideological interests or even existential concerns. The convergence of these different perspectives on the construction of a modern nation led to political, social, and cultural conflicts that resulted in fratricidal confrontations. The polemical nature of the historical context was reproduced by intellectuals in historical narrative. From a sociocritical perspective, this study examines how the historical contradictions of the colonial process produced problematic subjects who tried to resolve these contradictions within historical discursive production. The exploration of these hypotheses is conducted in four parts. We first analyze the relationship between the historical and literary discourses of the time to understand the hybrid nature of the examined works. This reflection allows us to observe the didactic, identity-building, and critical functions that intellectuals attributed to historical narrative. In summary, we investigate how historical narrative responds to dynamics and aesthetic norms that arise from the intersection of the literary and sociopolitical spheres. The last three parts of this thesis review the aforementioned debates based on the production of historical narrative. The second part reviews the way historical narrative is inserted into debates about the Catholic religion in the country. Through historical narrative and affirming Christianity as a symbol of civilization, intellectuals debated the place of the Catholic Church in the social structure. The third chapter analyzes the positions on the Hispanic past and the indigenous past. Despite finding marked positions in favor and against the Hispanic tradition, the works reproduce historical contradictions in both. While the former had to consider the bloodshed and looting of the Conquest, the latter had to face the weight of the Hispanic tradition in the civilizing process. Regarding the indigenous past, the discursive instrumentalization of the past to favor the interests in the present of each group is considered. The fourth chapter focuses on works that analyze the republican present, including the transition known as Independence. Although this is recognized as a heroic act, emphasis is placed on the chaos of the country's present. Intellectuals tended to position themselves critically in front of an unstable present, pointing out the impossibility of developing a true republic, according to the ideals of the independence movement. Our intention is not to reconstruct the discussion based on the works, but rather to understand the issues put forward by intellectuals through historical and aesthetic discourse. The studied works express both historical contradictions themselves, and the intellectuals' stance in relation to them. We propose a line of study focused on the analysis of historical narrative, as most of it remains unknown, which hinders a comprehensive understanding of Colombian social, historical, and literary processes. / El estudio indaga en cómo la narrativa histórica colombiana del siglo XIX se inserta en los diferentes debates que tuvieron lugar en el complejo proceso de construcción del país como un estado moderno. Se parte de la idea de que la producción de identidades nacionales comporta elementos sociales, políticos y culturales, por lo cual es fundamental considerar el lugar de esta producción en los debates tocantes a 1) la relación entre la Iglesia Católica, el Estado y la tradición cristiana, 2) el lugar del legado hispánico en la cultura nacional y el del sujeto indígena en la sociedad, 3) la historia reciente de la emergente República. Se parte de la idea de que existían distintos proyectos de nación; estos habían sido propuestos por los intelectuales en función de sus diversos intereses ideológicos o incluso de sus preocupaciones existenciales. El encuentro de estas diferentes perspectivas sobre la construcción de una nación moderna creó conflictos políticos, sociales y culturales que resultaron en confrontaciones fratricidas. El carácter conflictivo del contexto histórico fue reproducido por los intelectuales en la narrativa histórica. Desde una perspectiva sociocrítica, se estudia cómo las contradicciones históricas del proceso colonial produjeron sujetos problemáticos que intentaron resolver estas contradicciones en la producción discursiva histórica. La exploración de estas hipótesis se realiza en cuatro capítulos. En el primero, se parte de las relaciones entre el discurso histórico y el literario de la época para comprender la naturaleza híbrida de esta producción. Esta reflexión permite observar las funciones sobre la búsqueda de los orígenes, las didácticas y las críticas que los intelectuales atribuyeron a la narrativa histórica. En síntesis, se analiza cómo la serie literaria de corte histórico responde a dinámicas y normas estéticas que surgen del cruce de la esfera literaria con la esfera sociopolítica. La segunda parte revisa la inserción de la narrativa histórica en los debates sobre la religión católica en el país. Por medio de la narrativa histórica y afirmando el cristianismo como símbolo de civilización, los intelectuales debatieron sobre el lugar de la Iglesia Católica en la estructura social. El tercer capítulo analiza las posturas sobre el pasado hispánico y el pasado indígena. A pesar de encontrar posiciones a favor y en contra de la tradición hispánica, las obras reproducen las contradicciones históricas de ambas tendencia y mientras la primera debe evaluarel derramamiento de sangre y el saqueo de la Conquista, la segunda no puede obviar el peso de la tradición hispánica en el proceso civilizatorio. En cuanto al pasado indígena, se considera la instrumentalización discursiva del pasado para favorecer los intereses en el presente de cada grupo. El cuarto capítulo se concentra en las obras que analizan el presente republicano, incluyendo la transición conocida como la Independencia. Aunque se reconoce esta como una gesta heroica, se hace hincapié en el caos del presente del país. Los intelectuales tendieron a posicionarse críticamente frente a un presente inestable, señalando la imposibilidad del desarrollo de una verdadera república, según los ideales independentistas. Las preguntas que han guiado el análisis no han considerado la reconstrucción de la discusión a partir de las obras, sino la comprensión de los problemas propuestos por los intelectuales a partir de los discursos histórico y literario. Las obras históricas expresan tanto las contradicciones históricas como la situación de los intelectuales frente a estas. El trabajo propone una línea de estudio que se concentre en el análisis de la narrativa histórica, puesto que la mayor parte de ella permanece desconocida, lo cual obstaculiza la cabal comprensión de los procesos sociales, históricos y literarios colombianos.

This diploma thesis reveals the processes of shaping the image of Emil František Burian, the theater director, composer, journalist and playwright in three key headings. The first heading explains the principles of self-presentation and choice of characteristic means to build its external image in the changing personal attitudes and social development in the 30th - 50 years of 20th century. The second heading shows the coordinates of cultural policy communist regime and monitors the construction of public image representative of official socialist culture. Both headings are mainly based on a detailed analysis of Burian's theater activity, broadcasting activities and articles in professional and social printing. The third heading of qualification work pays attention to creating individual memory of a systematic effort to build a "cult of personality" of E. F. Burian. Interpretation biography and memories of actors, directors, journalists and politicians attempts to profile the professional and private life of this artist.

It is now broadly accepted that Vaughan Williams's music betrays a more complex relation to national influences than has traditionally been assumed. It is argued in this thesis that despite the trends towards revisionism that have characterized recent work, Vaughan Williams's interest in and engagement with English folk materials and cultures remains only partially understood. Offering contextual interpretation of materials newly available in the field, my work takes as its point of departure the critical neglect surrounding Vaughan Williams's contradictory compositional debut, in which he denounced the value of folk song in English art music in an article published alongside his song 'Linden Lea', subtitled 'A Dorset Folk Song'. Reconstructing the under-documented years of the composer's early career, it is demonstrated that Vaughan Williams's subsequent 'conversion' and lifelong attachment to folk song emerged as part of a broader concern with the intelligible and participatory quality of song and its performance by the human voice. As such, it is argued that the ways in which this composer theorized an idea of 'song' illuminate a powerful perspective from which to re-consider the propositions of his project for a national music. Locating Vaughan Williams's writings within contemporaneous cultural ideas and practices surrounding 'song', 'voice', and 'Englishness', this work brings such contexts into dialogue with readings of various of the composer's works, composed both before and after the First World War. It is demonstrated in this way that the rehabilitation of Vaughan Williams's music and reputation profitably proceeds by reconstructing a complex dialogue between his writings; between various cultural ideas and practices of English music; between the reception of his works by contemporaneous critics; and crucially, by considering the propositions of his music as explored through analysis. Ultimately, this thesis contends that Vaughan Williams's music often betrays a complex and self-conscious performance of cultural ideas of national identity, negotiating an optimistic or otherwise ambivalent relationship to an English musical tradition that is constructed and referenced through a particular idea of song.

This work aims, in a rather contemplative manner phased into three related parts, to discuss two concepts indispensable for Hegel's entire philosophy of life and history: language and memory. In Part I, I examine the triple relation between language and thinking, thinking and reality, and reality and language. I argue that language shares a logical structure with thinking and reality, and is itself the performative principle (or acteur) of creating reality, being itself the externalizing tool of the movement of thinking without which any development of the Spirit would not be possible. Part II targets the concept of memory and its function within thinking and action of self-consciousness. It is argued that Hegel's language functions as the modern concept of discourse in terms of its agency in reality. Memory is understood as fundamentally entangled with matter, or the material objectivity that calls in memory to be named, i.e. posited in language. Memory is an interiorizing principle, language is the exteriorizing principle, both deeply rooted in the so-called night of the self of each spirit. I also discuss the subject-objective relation against the background of memory, before moving onto Part III which generally tackles the process of the self-expression of the Spirit in history, the distinction...

This work aims, in a rather contemplative manner phased into three related parts, to discuss two concepts indispensable for Hegel's entire philosophy of life and history: language and memory. In Part I, I examine the triple relation between language and thinking, thinking and reality, and reality and language. I argue that language shares a logical structure with thinking and reality, and is itself the performative principle (or acteur) of creating reality, being itself the externalizing tool of the movement of thinking without which any development of the Spirit would not be possible. Part II targets the concept of memory and its function within thinking and action of self-consciousness. It is argued that Hegel's language functions as the modern concept of discourse in terms of its agency in reality. Memory is understood as fundamentally entangled with matter, or the material objectivity that calls in memory to be named, i.e. posited in language. Memory is an interiorizing principle, language is the exteriorizing principle, both deeply rooted in the so-called night of the self of each spirit. I also discuss the subject-objective relation against the background of memory, before moving onto Part III which generally tackles the process of the self-expression of the Spirit in history, the distinction...

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Following the end of the American Civil War in 1865, thousands of Union veterans joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), the largest Union veterans' fraternal organization in the United States. Upwards of 25,000 Hoosier veterans were members in the Department of Indiana by 1890, including President Benjamin Harrison and General Lew Wallace. This thesis argues that Indiana GAR members met in fraternity to share and construct memories of the Civil War that helped make sense of the past and the present. Indiana GAR members took it upon themselves after the war to act as gatekeepers of Civil War memory in the Hoosier state, publicly arguing that important values they acquired through armed conflict—obedience to authority, duty, selflessness, honor, and love of country—were losing relevance in an increasingly industrialized society that seemingly valued selfishness, materialism, and political radicalism. This thesis explores the creation of Civil War memories and GAR identity, the historical origins of Memorial Day in Indiana, and the Indiana GAR's struggle to incorporate ideals of "patriotic instruction" in public school history classrooms throughout the state.