No / This book explores economic developments across Europe in relation to its apparent segmentation, as disparities widen between core and periphery countries. In contrast to previous literature, the scope of analysis is extended to Europe as a continent rather than confining it solely to the European Union, thereby providing the reader with greater insight into the core/periphery nexus. The authors commence with a critical appraisal of economic thinking in relation to regional trade agreements and monetary integration. In relation to a number of EU economies, the book addresses issues of a liquidity trap, deflation, and twin deficits, together with the interconnection between exchange rates and current account balances. Importantly, they extend the discussion of segmentation through a series of focused case studies on Russia, Brexit and emergence of the mega-regionals.

This comparative study conducted within the framework of world system theory aimed to analyse the international flow of news regarding the 2003 Iraq War in online newspapers representative of centre, semi-peripheral and peripheral countries. Two of the newspapers represent centre nations directly involved in the war. Overall, the findings confirmed that the extensive war coverage of the newspapers can in part be attributed to the status of the USA and the UK as centre nations. The findings furthermore indicate the importance of both event and context-related factors as filters in the selection of items for news coverage of the war. Distinct differences emerged in the coverage of newspapers from the three spheres of the world system. These differences can be ascribed to the attitudes of the newspapers towards the war, the use of sources in the war coverage, the propaganda strategies deployed and the framing of the events / Communication Science / M. A. (Internal Communication)

This comparative study conducted within the framework of world system theory aimed to analyse the international flow of news regarding the 2003 Iraq War in online newspapers representative of centre, semi-peripheral and peripheral countries. Two of the newspapers represent centre nations directly involved in the war. Overall, the findings confirmed that the extensive war coverage of the newspapers can in part be attributed to the status of the USA and the UK as centre nations. The findings furthermore indicate the importance of both event and context-related factors as filters in the selection of items for news coverage of the war. Distinct differences emerged in the coverage of newspapers from the three spheres of the world system. These differences can be ascribed to the attitudes of the newspapers towards the war, the use of sources in the war coverage, the propaganda strategies deployed and the framing of the events / Communication Science / M. A. (Internal Communication)

The thesis "Regional Identity of the Residents and Holiday-makers in the Borderlands; Case Study: Bor in the Tachov Region" aims on the assessment of the regional identity of the residents and holiday-makers in the border area of the Czech Republic- Bor region, and then finding of the awareness of the solidarity of the users of the area in which they are living and which they are using for the purpose of recreation. Beside the assessment of the regional identity in the Bor region the thesis aims on comparison of the research outcomes of the chosen area with the overall outcomes of the grant project number 43/03/1491 and finding specifics through the questionnaire survey and guided dialogues, including tabular and graphical representation of the outcomes. Another aim is the assessment of the regional identity based on the promotional materials. The model area of Bor in the Tachov region is an example of the border periphery of the Czech Republic where the forming of regional identity was deeply affected by the World War II and successive settlement. Keywords Population identity, regional identity, periphery, border, Bor (in the Tachov region)

La politique de pré-adhésion de l’Union européenne enjoint les pays des Balkans occidentaux à coopérer et à se réconcilier avant d’envisager leur entrée dans l’Union. Le volet coopération transfrontalière de l’Instrument d’Aide pour la Pré-adhésion est l’instrument unique au travers duquel l’UE soutient concrètement ces injonctions. De la sorte, elle désigne les espaces frontaliers comme les lieux privilégiés des réconciliations et le projet d’aménagement transfrontalier comme l’instrument pour atteindre cet objectif. Cette thèse vise à interroger ces deux présupposés. A partir d’un travail de terrain mené à la frontière Serbie/Croatie, elle montre que le programme européen de coopération transfrontalière a permis le rapprochement des Ministères concernés et que les projets développés à la frontière ont contribué à une « réconciliation de niche » entre quelques acteurs locaux. Néanmoins, celle-ci ne s’étend pas au-delà de ce noyau de base. Pour dépasser cette limite, il apparaît nécessaire de repenser la politique d’élargissement pour toutes les parties associées à ce processus. Car c’est la question du vivre-ensemble à l’échelle du continent européen qui se pose. / The European Union pre-accession policy urges the Western Balkans countries to cooperate and reconcile before considering joining the European Union. The cross-border co-operation component of the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance is the only tool by which the EU concretely supports these injunctions. In this way, it appoints cross border areas as privileged places of reconciliation and the planning project as the tool to achieve this objective. This thesis aims to examine these two presumptions. Field work conducted at the border between Serbia and Croatia, showed that the European cross border cooperation programme enabled concerned ministries to get closer and that the local projects contributed to a “niche reconciliation” between a few local stakeholders. Nevertheless, it does not extend beyond this basic core. In order to overcome this limit it appears necessary to rethink the enlargement policy for all parties involved in the process. Because therein lies the issue of community harmony in the European continent.

This research is based on analyzing policys of the sparsely populated area (glesbygd) in Sweden formulated during cabinet of Reinfeldt and cabinet of Löfven. The purpose is to contribute knowledge about the sparsely populated areas construction thought the cabinets policys. The investigation has focused on what problems that has been constructed through policys, the causes behind the problems investigating through assumptions and presumptions, keywords and the dichotomy city/ sparsely populated area and the effects produced by the constructed problems. The method that has been used is a critical policy study (WPR) that is a kind of discursive analysis that is based on social constructive theory. The interest is furthermore to compare the two different governemnts to see similarities and differences. The result shows that the sparsely populated area has a negative development, the presumption and assumption is rooted in the sparsely populated area deviate from the city and that both the residents and the government are accountable to the represented problems. The results has been interpreted trough the theory center and periphery relation and urban preference that describe the results by thinking that there is a urban norm that permeate the thinking and agenda setting of the sparsely populated area.

Esta dissertação de mestrado tem como objetivo analisar como o conceito de periferia foi construído socialmente, ao longo da segunda metade do século XX, como um conceito que se pretendeu explicativo dos fenômenos urbanos na metrópole de São Paulo. A idéia da metrópole como uma estrutura urbana configurada por um centro e uma periferia tem sido uma forma geral de descrever e mesmo explicar as dinâmicas de crescimento urbano de São Paulo. Trata-se de um modelo de entendimento resultante de um rico período de debates, pesquisas e processos sociais que levaram à construção da noção de periferia como uma noção explicativa das particularidades do desenvolvimento urbano de uma metrópole em um país industrial subdesenvolvido. A dissertação procura identificar o contexto do debate acadêmico em que periferia passa a ser utilizada com um sentido específico na literatura do campo de pesquisas urbanas da década de 1970, marcadamente do pensamento crítico brasileiro (sobre a formação da sociedade brasileira que visava a formulação de um projeto de desenvolvimento nacional com a superação das desigualdades sociais) e da sociologia urbana francesa. Apresenta pesquisas e ensaios que conceituam periferia e a colocam no centro da questão urbana no Brasil, e que levaram à incorporação da periferia como objeto de estudo e tema central da pesquisa urbana. A noção de periferia é uma construção social relacionada a práticas e discursos de sujeitos sociais e políticos de um contexto histórico específico, de ascensão dos chamados movimentos sociais urbanos, e de intensas mudanças na sociedade brasileira: a transição de um regime político autoritário e centralizador, para uma abertura democrática; e a passagem de um contexto de intenso crescimento econômico de base urbana-industrial para um período de recessão e agravamento dos problemas urbanos e sociais. Ao abordar a noção de periferia, procurando entender em que condições, este conceito adquire uma centralidade na questão urbana brasileira e como este conceito reforça uma chave de leitura das contradições da sociedade brasileira, pretendemos contribuir para a construção de um pensamento urbano que busque constituir questões relacionadas aos reais problemas das cidades brasileiras. Esta é certamente uma tarefa muito mais ampla que o âmbito deste trabalho. Escolhemos explorar este caminho de estudos, entendendo que a noção de periferia, está ainda fortemente presente nas leituras da metrópole de São Paulo, mas esvaziada da carga teórica que a constituiu. Superar esta visão significa voltar a pesquisa urbana para os fatores determinantes no processo de produção do espaço urbano, da segregação sócio-espacial, de deterioração do ambiente urbano e da qualidade de vida na cidade. Por meio da crítica e da identificação das limitações das formas de conhecimento que temos sobre as questões urbanas hoje, podemos construir novas bases para a apreensão das lógicas efetivas que regem a produção da cidade. / This essay intends to analyze how the concept of periphery was socially built, during the second half of the 20th century, as a concept that meant to explain the urban phenomena that took place in São Paulos metropolis. The idea of ametropolis structured by a center and a periphery has been a dominant way to describe and even to explain urban growth in São Paulo. This view of the urban environment based on a certain approach is resultant from a rich period of debates, researches and social processes, in which periphery has been built as a notion related to the particularities of the urban development in a metropolis of an underdeveloped country. The essay identifies the historical moment in which periphery turns out to be employed in a specific sense in the academic literature of the urban research in the 70s. The concept of periphery receives great influence of the Brazilian critical intellectual production, that started to understand the particularities of Brazils social structure in order to propose alternative development paths (aiming at overcoming the social inequalities); and also received the influence from French urban sociology. This work presents researches and essays produced in the field of Brazilian urban research, that focus on the conception of periphery as the central idea to understand the urban question in Brazil. The notion of periphery is a social construction related to social practices and discourses of social and political subjects that took place in a specific historical context, marked by the rise of the so called urban social movements, and by intense political and economic change, such as the transition from an authoritarian and centralized government to a democratic government, and the transition from a period of intense urban and economic growth, to a period of economic depression and growth of urban and social problems. By studying the notion of periphery and trying to understand why, and in which conditions this notion becomes central to urban studies, and how it reinforces a view of the contradictions of Brazilian social structure, we intend to contribute to the construction of a urban approach linked to the real problems of Brazilian cities. This is certainly a larger task than we are capable of undertaking. But we chose to exploit this theme understanding that the notion of periphery is still very present in the view of São Paulo Metropolis urban structure, though its theoretical basis has lost significance. Overcoming this view of the metropolis means to point urban research toward the real determinant factors of the production of urban space, the production of social spatial segregation, of the deterioration of the urban habitat, and life quality in the city. By identifying the limitations of the notion of periphery and the usual ways of explaining urban matters, it is possible to build new bases that will allow to apprehend the effective logics that conduct the production of urban space.

Este trabalho, acerca de como a produção acadêmica problematizou a periferia paulistana, tem por objetivo fazer a revisão crítica das categorias de análise, e os autores inseridos nesse debate, através do questionamento das proposições teóricas e suas conceituações sobre os espaços entendidos enquanto periferias urbanas da metrópole. Ao analisarmos, na formação deste fenômeno, a validade da retomada de ideias segundo as quais a periferia pode ser vista enquanto uma realidade marginal, possível de ser integrada à cidade, esperamos colaborar nos questionamentos sobre o pensamento do urbano em geral e da periferia paulistana em particular. Discutiremos a questão da segregação e da marginalidade urbana, a função exercida pela autoconstrução no processo de acumulação capitalista que se verificou no Brasil, a articulação entre os diversos personagens dos movimentos sociais urbanos e o processo de inclusão das populações e dos espaços entendidos como periferias urbanas. / This research questions the academic studies about the São Paulo\'s periphery. Aims to construct a critical review of the categories of analysis and the authors included on its debate. We question the theoretical propositions and their spaces conceptions of Metropolis. We have analyzed the validity of the resumption of the ideas that consider the periphery as a marginal fact, possible to be integrated into the city. We hope to collaborate on questions about the urban thinking in general and of the periphery of São Paulo in particular. We will discuss the issue of segregation and urban marginality, the function performed by the self-construction in the process of capitalist accumulation that occurred in Brazil, the articulation between the several characters of the urban social movements and the inclusion process of people and spaces understood as urban peripheries.

Esta pesquisa tem o intuito de abordar um movimento literário e cultural que se expressa pela performance de poesias autorais, chamado de batalha de poesia ou slam de poesia com influência no Poetry Slam e Spoken Words, e que recentemente cresce no Brasil, particularmente na cidade de São Paulo. O objetivo desta pesquisa visa apreender como este movimento relativamente novo no Brasil, se insere no conceito de Literatura Marginal e da ideia de Cultura de Periferia, tanto pelas questões internas ao discursos, das poesias faladas e publicadas, como por questões externas ligadas a ações sociais e conjuntas. Foi utilizada a metodologia de etnografia em campo com visitas ao Slam da Guilhermina, ZAP!Slam e Slam das Minas SP; levantamento das publicações de livros lançados nos slams e mapeamento cartográfico a partir dos locais de realização dos mesmos na cidade e região metropolitana de São Paulo. Como resultado de pesquisa foi possível definir os temas mais recorrentes entre os poemas que concorreram às batalhas e o ano e região de maior concentração dos slams em São Paulo. Podemos concluir com esta pesquisa que todos os livros são do gênero de poemas e foram publicados de forma independente ou a partir de editoras que se definem como independentes; que a maioria dos coletivos de slam nasceram entre 2016 e 2017 com maior concentração na Zona Leste de São Paulo / This research aims to address a literary and cultural movement that is expressed by the performance of poetry authored, called the \"battle of poetry\" or poetry slam with influence in Poetry Slam and Spoken Words, and which has recently grown in Brazil, particularly in Brazil. Sao Paulo City. The objective of this research is to understand how this relatively new movement in Brazil is inserted in the concept of Marginal Literature and the idea of Culture of Periphery, as much for the internal questions to the speeches, of the spoken and published poetry, as for external questions related to social actions and joint. The ethnography methodology was used in the field with visits to Guilhermina Slam, ZAP! Slam and Slam from SP mines; survey of the publications of books published in slam\'s and cartographic mapping from the places of accomplishment of the same ones in the city and metropolitan region of São Paulo. As a result of research it was possible to define the most recurrent themes among the poems that competed for the battles and the year and region of greater concentration of slam\'s in São Paulo. We can conclude from this research that all books are of the genre of poems and have been published independently or from publishers who define themselves as independent; that most of the slam collectives were born between 2016 and 2017 with greater concentration in the East Zone of São Paulo

Na cidade de são Paulo tem-se apresentado a intensificação das contradições socioespaciais, principalmente no que diz respeito ao processo de inclusão ao urbano, vivido pelos moradores das periferias da cidade. Muitas vezes a condição de precariedade dessa inclusão é ilusoriamente \"atenuada\" pelo consumo de produtos culturais de caráter espetáculo-midiático. No entanto, estes produtos não dialogam com a realidade vivenciada nas periferias, incutindo principalmente, nos jovens um sentimento de marginalização. Como forma de se contrapor a este processo, estes passam a produzir bens culturais repletos de significação. Essa produção cultural se dá através de coletivos culturais localizados nas periferias, que na maioria das vezes não são vinculados a nenhum agente cultural hegemônico. Dessa forma, estes coletivos se contrapõem e superam as determinações da homogeneização e padronização capitalista dos bens culturais, permitindo uma autoconscientização, bem como, situam e inserem de forma crítica o sujeito na sociedade. Promovem assim, relações sociais emancipatórias, levando os sujeitos envolvidos a atribuírem novos significados e valores aos elementos que constituem sua existência, como o espaço urbano, que passa a ser vivido. Nesse contexto, os coletivos culturais ganham importância. Portanto, a presente pesquisa tem como objetivo o estudo da ressignificação espacial mediada pela produção e circulação de cultura contra-hegemônica nas periferias da cidade de São Paulo. / The city of São Paulo has the intensification of socio-spatial contradictions, especially with regard to the process of including urban, experienced by the residents of the suburbs of the city. Often the precariousness of this inclusion is deceptively \"attenuated\" by the consumption of cultural products show-media character. However, these products do not dialogue with the reality experienced in the peripheries, especially instilling in young people a sense of marginalization. As a way to counteract this process, they start to produce full cultural signification. This cultural production occurs through cultural collective located in the periphery, which in most cases are not linked to any hegemonic cultural agent. Thus, these collective oppose and outweigh the determinations of capitalist homogenization and standardization of cultural property, allowing a self-awareness as well, lie and enter critically in the subject company. Promote so emancipatory social relations, leading those involved to attach new meanings and values to the elements that constitute its existence, how urban space, which happens to be lived. In this context, the cultural collective gain importance. Therefore, this research aims to study the spatial ressignification mediated by the production and circulation of counter-hegemonic culture in the periphery of the city of São Paulo.