Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2008.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Sixteen years after the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland remains a deeply segregated society. One driver of this ongoing separation is the divergent ways in which the Troubles are remembered. Paramilitary groups in particular have been quite successful at inscribing their exclusionary conflict memories into public space. However, this work departs from the larger sub-field by arguing that narratives of violence are spatially and discursively resisted in Northern Ireland. I argue additional claimants have asserted their rights to remember in public space and have challenged the appropriation of their loved ones' bodies. Public space in Northern Ireland increasingly is becoming evocative of multiple pasts; it is splintering and diversifying. I argue that one of the chief drivers of this diversification is the reclamation and reinscription of the bodies of those 3,700 men, women, and children who violently lost their lives during the Troubles. / 10000-01-01

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Orientador: Marcio Antonio Cataia / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T02:18:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gallo_Fabricio_D.pdf: 3321850 bytes, checksum: cacf4aa52c17882d6c3e172fb77ef96f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: A evolução do federalismo brasileiro (fruto da influência e do poder das elites oligárquicas, dos diferentes textos constitucionais elaborados e das políticas de arrecadação de impostos) aponta uma das formas de como o Estado brasileiro usa o território para efetivar o exercício do poder. No país, este uso se realiza por meio da imposição de normas que regulam e geram tensões entre os entes, sendo que os mecanismos de distribuição e de redistribuição de recursos entre os entes federados adquirem grande importância por permitirem uma maior ou menor autonomia na administração pública. Sendo os entes federados portadores de poder legiferante desde a Constituição de 1988, estão sempre em tensão e novos arranjos políticos entre eles sempre ocorre tendo em vista que os orçamentos municipais (principalmente nas pequenas e médias municipalidades) são limitados, tornando-os dependentes das transferências dos estados-membros e, principalmente, da União. A análise das transferências através de Convênios federais aponta que parcelas do território recebem mais recursos do que outras proporcionando, assim, uma difusão seletiva do meio técnico-científico-informacional no território / Abstract: The evolution of Brazilian federalism (result of the influence and power of oligarchic elites, the different constitutional texts made and policies designed to collect taxes) shows one of the forms of how the Brazilian government uses the territory to effect the exercise of power. In the country, this use takes place by the imposition of rules that regulate and create tension among the entities, and mechanisms of distribution and redistribution of resources among federal agencies acquire great importance because they allow a bigger or lesser autonomy in public administration. Being the federal agencies holders of legislating power since the Constitution of 1988, they are always in tension and new political arrangements among them are always given, regarding that municipal budgets (especially in small and medium municipalities) are limited making them dependent on transfers from member states and, particularly, the Union. The analysis of transfers through federal Covenants indicates that portions of land receive more resources than others, therefore providing a selective diffusion of the technicalscientific- informational territory / Doutorado / Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial / Doutor em Geografia

This dissertation explores the challenges posed by the materialities of oceans and other extraterritorial spaces to state capture and capital development. Utilizing theories emerging political geographers surrounding vertical and volume components of territory and theoretical engagements with materiality of non-terrestrial spaces, this research seeks to investigate entanglements of the geopolitical and geophysical in constructing and practicing (re)interpretations of territory and sovereignty, power and space. A focus on New Zealand and the South Pacific serves to unravel these cross scalar, dynamic categories of national territory and sovereignty in relation to the emerging political and social constructions of the deep sea, sea level, and air space, as well as the blurred and shifting boundaries of each. Contextualizing historical and regional contingencies of the spatial organizations of maritime space, this dissertation seeks to open up new ocean imaginaries and ontologies by making explicit the material, technical and political constructions that produce offshore territories.

Orientador: Angelita Matos Souza / Banca: Paulo Roberto T. de Godoy / Banca: Tatiana Berringer / Resumo: Neste estudo, abordamos as relações político-econômicas entre Brasil-Argentina durante as gestões do ex-presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), e a atuação do BNDES como agente da Política Externa Brasileira (PEB). De maneira geral, tratamos do processo de internacionalização produtiva da economia brasileira em direção à América do Sul, via desembolsos do Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES). Para isso, iniciamos a discussão explanando algumas das principais diretrizes da política externa do ex-presidente Lula, expondo interpretações a respeito. Em seguida, enfocamos o protagonismo do BNDES no financiamento da infraestrutura sul-americana e no estímulo a expansão das empresas brasileiras durante os governos do ex-presidente petista. Finalmente, apresentamos os desembolsos do BNDES na Argentina, para novas instalações produtivas e recursos destinados a fusões e aquisições de companhias locais, já que o vizinho foi o país que mais recebeu investimentos durante o período em questão. Ademais, um estudo de caso recebeu atenção especial: o Projeto Rio Colorado suspenso que a Vale S.A. levava a cabo na região de Mendoza, ao que tudo indica produtivo para a cooperação econômica entre Argentina e Brasil. O caso ajuda na elucidação de certo descolamento entre iniciativas e discursos integracionistas e os resultados concretos alcançados, que analisamos à luz das dificuldades impostas pela situação periférica no contexto do novo imperialismo, utilizando ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: In this study, we discuss the political - economic relations between Brazil and Argentina during the administrations of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Si lva (2003 - 2010), and the BNDES role as an agent of the Brazilian Foreign Policy (PEB). In general, we deal with the process of productive internationalization of the Brazilian economy towards South America, through disbursements from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES). To this end, we started the discussion by explaining some of the main guidelines of the foreign policy of former president Lula, exposing interpretations abo ut it. Next, we focused on BNDES role in financing South American infrastructure and in stimulating the expansion of Brazilian companies during the former PT president's governments. Finally, we present BNDES disbursements in Argentina for new production facilities and resources for merge rs and acquisitions of local companies, since the neighbor was the country that received the most investments during the period in question. In addition, a case study received special attention: the Project Rio Colorado suspended that Vale S.A. carried out in the region of Mendoza, apparently productive for economic cooperation between Argentina and Brazil. The case helps to elucidate a certain detachment between initiatives and integrationist discourses and the concrete results achieved, which we analyze i n the light of the difficulties imposed by the peripheral situation in the conte... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Recent years have brought a resurgence of state-led plans to expand access to electricity over African polities. Nonetheless, and in line with deep-seated patterns of infrastructural and general abandonment by the centre, very few of those plans have seriously addressed poor, distant, sparse and scarcely endowed peripheral regions. Those rare instances have received scant attention in the literature, despite their precious value to single out key interactions between national electricity regimes and core-periphery political linkages. Addressing that gap, this thesis pays attention to schemes of peripheral electrification to better understand how African states govern their peripheries. To that end, it scrutinizes two schemes of electrification: northern Ghana from 1989 to 2012, and southeastern Tanzania from 2004 to 2015. The thesis argues that in northern Ghana central rulers embarked upon electrification against the odds of geographical determinism, guided as they were by political motivations, chief amongst them the extraction of narrow electoral rents. By contrast, in southeastern Tanzania central rulers endeavoured to tap into the abundance of gas, governed by a determination to advance business models inscribed in the national electricity regime. Ultimately though, the central rulers in Tanzania were forced to re-politicize electrification to appease the deep local resentment caused by the very extraction of gas flowing toward the capital. Both cases thus illuminate varying trajectories in the interplay between national electricity regimes and core-periphery political linkages, that shaped the territorial strategies of electrification. In addition, this thesis also offers two revelations. One first revelation is that sub-national units exert significant mediations in the linkages between core and periphery, via alterations of distributional settlements. This goes against a stream of literature that pays attention exclusively to vertical strategies engineered from political rulers in the centre. The second revelation is that over the long-term electrification alters the political linkages between core and periphery. This squares well with the predictions of theories about the infrastructural power of the state. All in all, this work affords an embryonic analytical elaboration on the strategies of territoriality in the electrification of regional peripheries in Africa. From a political geography perspective, this helps to illuminate how sub-national electrification can simultaneously redraw and reinforce long-entrenched political linkages between core and periphery.

This dissertation explores the ways that immigration and border enforcement regimes have shifted deportees' relationships to violence in border cities. By taking a feminist geopolitical perspective, I use first hand accounts of deportation to interrogate the complex connections between space and violence. What are U.S. authorities causing along the border through their escalated enforcement practices? How do organized crime, drug trafficking and migration intersect in border spaces? How do people react to being dropped off in unfamiliar and often dangerous border towns? The three articles that comprise this dissertation follow these questions. The first explores the newly anointed consequence delivery system (CDS), an enforcement program designed to deliver ever-increasing punishments to immigration offenders. The second article traces migrants' experiences with drug trafficking while crossing the border, showing how spatial overlap and other enforcement mechanisms have pushed these two activities into largely shared terrain. The third article addresses migrant kidnapping and the different purposes that it serves for transnational criminal organizations. Through ethnographic work, combined with in-depth surveys, this dissertation provides new analysis about the intersections of drug violence and migration along the border. For the conclusion I discuss the need to expand the nascent literature on deportation studies, and focus squarely on the post-deportation impacts–namely, what does deportation cause? How does it harm people and families in the days, weeks, months and years following removal? This is at the core of studies on deportation, since little is really known about what it means to be deported, and what this system of mass removal is doing to hundreds of thousands of individuals each year.

This dissertation examines how states and international organizations respond to complex ecological problems that are mismatched to their management capacity. The study concentrates on effort by scientific advisors, technicians, and bureaucrats to manage the population dynamics of the desert locust, Schistocerca gegaria in Western and Northern Africa. Desert locusts periodically invade crops and pastures, where they cause massive depredations that undermine agricultural productivity and food security, often in extremely impoverished regions. The immensely complex and bio-geographically stochastic breeding and gregarization dynamics of the desert locust put the insect at odds with the conventional spatiality of the state. This make it difficult for managers to precisely predict and effectively control locust outbreaks and invasions. To better understand the factors shaping institutional responses to this insect, I address three interrelated questions primarily informed by political ecology, political geography, and critical development studies: (1) What historical trajectory yielded the contemporary configuration of locust control? (2) Why do some approaches to locust management become selected over others amongst experts and organizations? (3) What is the relationship between the spatial dynamics of locust outbreaks and invasions, on the one hand, and the spatial logic and imperatives of the state? Analysis of interviews, field observations, and archival records indicates that the ability of the desert locust to evade and exceed the conventional spatiality of the state has made this pest problem an appealing field to innovate and enact new regimes of governance that operate transnationally. This has embedded locust control in the historical arc spanning from formal colonialism to the current configuration of independent states supported by international programs of foreign aid and technical assistance. In this context, concerns for the professional viability of locust expertise within state agencies and international organizations favor the selection of strategies that best fit the modalities of access to development aid and resources. This motivates state-mandated locust managers to favor the adoption of locust control strategies that are best aligned with capacity building goals of these programs, and that incorporate locust management in broader interventions of social and environmental improvement.