TWO WAYS OF BURNING A COTTON FIELD is an ethnographic memoir concerning the narrator’s experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, South America. The plot is structured around a moral crisis in his rural Paraguayan village. The narrator’s neighbor, a man in his late twenties, threatened to kill his partner and her two children. The Paraguayan police were made aware of the situation but did nothing. Peace Corps management also instructed the narrator to do nothing. In TWO WAYS OF BURNING A COTTON FIELD, this moral crisis is explored within the contexts of post-colonial power structures, including economic and ecologic geographies, intersections of community and government, and the colonial-indigenous language continuum of Paraguay (Spanish-Guaraní). Further, these neighbors’ localized trauma is located within historical, colonial trauma. Of particular concern is the role that languages – English, Spanish, and Guaraní – play in constructing power, worldview, and relationships within the village.

<p>La producción de soja ha crecido significativamente durante un periodo de 6 años en Paraguay llegado a una cosecha record de 6,2 millones de toneladas en 2007. Este aumento se debe a factores globales como la demanda creciente por la soja para la Unión Europea que va destinada a la producción del biocombustible. El objetivo de este estudio ha sido investigar cual fue la causa que conllevo al aumento de la producción de soja en Paraguay. Con la ayuda de principalmente dos publicaciones, Republicas Unidas de la Soja que es una compilación de ensayos sobre las consecuencias sociales, económicas y ecológicas de la expansión de los monocultivos de soja en Latinoamérica y Refugiados del Modelo Agroexportador que es una publicación de los resultados de una investigación en las comunidades sojeras del Paraguay. Llegamos a la conclusión de que si existe una coherencia entre la demanda mundial por el biocombustible y el aumento de producción de soja.</p>

Thesis--Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1917. / Bibliography: p. [388]-398.

Tex., Univ. of Texas, Reports Master of Arts--Austin, 1982. / Die Vorlage enth. insgesamt 2 Werke. Includes bibliographical references. Vita.

This masters thesis analyzes telecommunications policies in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, and relates these to the ongoing economic integration of these countries within MERCOSUR. To this end, a survey of the telecommunications sector in each of the MERCOSUR countries, depicting the main features of their respective regulatory framework, competition policy, and universal service goals is provided in Part II. Part III briefly describes the GATS/BTA framework and comments on MERCOSUR countries' commitments towards market liberalization. In Part IV, MERCOSUR's legal and institutional framework, along with the common initiatives that have been taken with respect to the telecommunications sector, are considered. By way of conclusion, Part V proposes further reflections on theoretical approaches aimed at framing telecommunications normativity in consideration of its dynamic interaction with globalization and integration in the context of MERCOSUR.

Univ., Diss.--Heidelberg, 1998. / Literaturverz. S. 323 - 352.

Thesis--Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1917. / Bibliography: p. [388]-398.

Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs and Civil-Military Relations)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2002. / AD-A411 244. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-93). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2003. / Advisor: Harvey Feit. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 283-319). Also available via World Wide Web.

Submitted by Dayana Aparecida Marques de Oliveira null (d.dayana@hotmail.com) on 2018-01-03T13:46:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 tese-dayana-final.pdf: 5519015 bytes, checksum: 59c026cc8aef22a81e0be8dead1d3092 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Claudia Adriana Spindola null (claudia@fct.unesp.br) on 2018-01-03T16:22:16Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 cruz_damo_dr_prud.pdf: 5519015 bytes, checksum: 59c026cc8aef22a81e0be8dead1d3092 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-03T16:22:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 cruz_damo_dr_prud.pdf: 5519015 bytes, checksum: 59c026cc8aef22a81e0be8dead1d3092 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-04 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / A relação assimétrica e desigual entre Brasil e Paraguai na América do Sul demonstra a complexidade do subsistema regional, que deve ser lida não só a partir do contexto econômico, mas também do contexto (geo) político regional, associado por sua vez ao sistema-mundo. Se por um lado, a ampliação da exportação de commodities e dos acordos de integração regional demandam o planejamento e investimento em projetos de infraestruturas, sobretudo de transportes; por outro lado, a fragilidade institucional e financeira dos acordos regionais contribui para o atraso no cronograma de execução desses projetos. A partir da análise do processo de integração regional sul-americano, considerando o Mercado Comum do Sul (MERCOSUL), o Conselho Sul-americano de Infraestrutura e Planejamento/Iniciativa para a Integração da Infraestrutura Regional Sulamericana (COSIPLAN/IIRSA), e o papel de liderança desempenhado pelo Brasil, afirmamos que existe uma estreita relação entre integração regional e geopolítica, na qual os projetos internacionais de infraestruturas podem ser considerados como pontos de encontro entre ambos. / The asymmetric and unequal relationship between Brazil and Paraguay in South America demonstrates the complexity of the regional subsystem, which must be read not only from the economic context, but also from the regional (geo) political context, associated in turn with the world system. If, on the one hand, the expansion of commodities exports and regional integration agreements demand planning and investment in infrastructure projects, especially transportation; on the other hand, the institutional and financial fragility of the regional agreements contributes to the delay in the execution schedule of these projects. Based on the analysis of the South American regional integration process, considering the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUL), the South American Council on Infrastructure and Planning / Initiative for the Integration of Regional South American Infrastructure (COSIPLAN / IIRSA), and the leading role played by Brazil, we affirm that there is a close relationship between regional and geopolitical integration, in which international infrastructure projects can be considered as meeting points between the two. / FAPESP: 2014/09913-1