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Black Costa Rica: Pluricentrical Belonging in Afra-Costa Rican Poetry engages the lyric of Eulalia Bernard (Limón, Costa Rica *1935), Shirley Campbell (San José, Costa Rica *1965), and Dlia McDonald (Colón, Panamá *1965) by a historically backwards-looking perspective that explores a pluricentrical sense of belonging. This concept refers mainly to plural centers of cultural and historical identifications along a glocal sociohistorical continuum stretched across the multifold aspects of the nation~diaspora dynamic/s. The literary analysis traces the coming of age of the Afro-Costa Rican community in these women’s poetry as a local manifestation of global phenomena concerning diaspora/s, the dialectics of race and nation, and processes of assimilation and of marginalization. The dissertation asks, fundamentally, how does their poetry reveal a historical imagination referring both to a national specificity while simultaneously expressing identification with socio-historical processes in the circum-Caribbean region? What are the poetic themes and which the lyrical forms that constitute a myriad of local and global aspects regarding the coming of age of the Afro-Costa Rican community? Departing from these premises, the dissertation tells a story of the past by addressing the ways in which the glocal is deployed through specific figures of speech. Based on the study of what I have termed a modernized-nature oxymoron in McDonald, a skin-history metonymy in Campbell, and code-switching in Bernard, spatial and racial configurations as well as linguistic identity are here addressed as features of a trifold historical imagination yielding pluricentrical belonging. The oxymoron tells of an outernational past (diasporic) while the metonymy declaims a supranational one (global); multilingualism instead points to an infranational historical imagination (‘non’-Costa Rican). By way of a close reading, the dissertation tells the recent story of the country’s past in the form of a three layered stor(y)ing of spatially–, meta-historically–, and multilingually-defined imaginings of Black Costa Rica. / Die Dissertation betrachtet Lyrik von Eulalia Bernard (Limón, Costa Rica *1935), Shirley Campbell (San José, Costa Rica *1965) und Dlia McDonald (Colón, Panamá *1965) aus einer historisch rückblickenden Perspektive, die den plurizentrischen Aspekt von Zugehörigkeit ins Zentrum rückt. Dieser Terminus beschreibt metaphorisch die Pluralität diverser Zentren kultureller und historischer Identifikationsmöglichkeiten und ist als (g)lokales soziohistorisches Kontinuum zu verstehen, welches sich über die mannigfaltigen Aspekte der Nation/Diaspora-Dynamiken ausbreitet. Die folgende literaturwissenschaftliche Analyse hat es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Spuren der Coming-of-Age-Entwicklung der afro-costa-ricanischen Gemeinde in der Poesie jener Autorinnen ausfindig zu machen. Hierbei wird die Poesie als Spiegelung globaler Dimensionen im Hinblick auf die Diaspora/Nation-Dynamik, die Dialektik ethnischer Gruppen und Nationen, sowie Prozesse der Assimilation und der Marginalisierung ethnischer Minoritäten betrachtet. Im Fokus dieser Dissertation steht die grundlegende Frage nach den poetischen Themen und der jeweiligen Formen die eine Unmenge lokaler und globaler Fülle konstituieren. Gefragt wird also, Wie legen die Texte eine glokale historische Imagination offen, die auf eine nationale Einzigartigkeit verweist und gleichzeitig eine Identifizierung mit dem übergeordneten karibischen Raum ausdrückt? Die Dissertation zielt darauf ab, eine Geschichte des Vergangenen zu erzählen. Hierzu wird angestrebt, die Aspekte jenes plurizentrischen Zugehörigkeitssinnes, der durch bestimmte rhetorische Stilmittel zum Ausdruck gebracht wird, nachzuempfinden. Im Fokus stehen das, wie ich es benannt habe, Oxymoron der modernized-nature bei McDonald, der skin-history Metonymie bei Campbell und das Code-Switching-Phänomen im Falle von Bernard. Dabei werden sowohl räumliche und ethnische Variationen als auch sprachliche Identität als Elemente einer dreidimensionalen historischen Vorstellung betrachtet. Das Oxymoron beschreibt eine außernationale (diasporische) Vergangenheit, während die Metonymie im selben Moment eine supranationale (globale) proklamiert. Multilingualismus wiederum verweist auf eine infranationale historische Vorstellung (als ‚nicht-costa-ricanisch‘ bezeichnet). Diese Dissertation manifestiert letztlich – auf einer philologischen Analyse basierend – die Geschichte der Vergangenheit Costa Ricas in der Form einer dreidimensionalen Erzählung räumlich, metahistorisch und multilingual definierter Vorstellungen eines schwarzen Costa Ricas. / The book you hold in your hands is an interdisciplinary study on diaspora literacy in Afro-Central America. An exploration through various imaginings of times past, this study is concerned with how oxymoron, metonymy, and multilingualism deploy pluricentrical belonging. By exploring the interlocking of multiple roots that have developed on account of routes, rhizomatic historical imaginations are unearthed here so as to imagine an other Costa Rica. A Black Costa Rica.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential for protecting critical resplendent quetzal habitat on private lands bordering the south-western edge of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica. First, a habitat analysis was made of 12 forest patches using a 10% strip method to obtain an importance value for the Lauraceae fed on by the resplendent quetzal. Second, a landowner survey was conducted using a structured interview questionnaire to determine landowner attitudes, and the possible factors influencing these attitudes, towards forested land, wildlife, the resplendent quetzal and potential habitat protection incentives. Significant differences were found between forest patch importance values for the Lauraceae suggesting that for conservation purposes careful forest patch selection is important. Most landowners were found to value their forested land more than their land under other uses and to favor technical forest management assistance over leasing. If funding can be made available there is a good chance that resplendent quetzal habitat can be adequately protected and managed through providing assistance to those landowners with the most critical forest patches. / Department of Natural Resources

Family and Community Medicine was introduced to Costa Rica through the McGill-CENDEISSS Project of 1989-1994. The development of this new speciality is interpreted as a "professionalization" drive, which, while appropriating the discourse of the international primary health care movement, in fact places more importance, as a social movement, on negotiating for and expanding its own jurisdictional space. Two bodies of literature are called upon to provide theoretical guidance, namely, writing on "professionalization" and ethnographic interpretations of "development" in the so-called Third World. The phenomenon of Family and Community Medicine in Costa Rica is described as an international, national, and local movement. The town of Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui is the focus of an ethnographic description of the speciality's local-level implementation.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Oregon, 2008. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-139). Also available online.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, Florianópolis, 2014. / Made available in DSpace on 2015-02-05T21:14:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 329723.pdf: 12507422 bytes, checksum: 7618f8269a3644499eeb380872f17bb0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo geral analisar as principais dinâmicas e processos que, tendo como foco a progressão de eventos históricos desde o período pré-colonial, orientaram a expansão urbana no Valle Central da Costa Rica desde a formação da metrópole à verticalização. Analisou-se como desde a transição para o capitalismo, a partir da introdução da produção cafeeira na região, se reorientou o desenvolvimento do território e da formação social costarriquenha. Foram contextualizados como os processos de urbanização reagiram em resposta ao avanço econômico e aumento demográfico no Valle Central. Propôs-se uma definição do processo de verticalização em San José e se discutiram as últimas tendências de urbanização horizontal e condomínios fechados na Gran Área Metropolitana. No último capítulo foi realizada uma reflexão sobre os novos agentes do espaço urbano, a valorização do solo urbano e analisaram-se as últimas tendências do setor imobiliário colocando como exemplo os projetos próximos ao Parque Metropolitano La Sabana.<br> / Abstract : This work aims to analyze the main dynamics and processes that, by focusing on the evolution of historical events from the pre-colonial period, oriented urban sprawl in the Valle Central of Costa Rica from the formation of the metropolis to the process of verticalization. It was analized how the transition to capitalism, since the introduction of coffee production in the region, shifted the development of the territory and the social formation of Costa Rica. It was exposed how the urbanization processes reacted in response to the economic progress and population growth in the Valle Central. It was also proposed a definition of the process of verticalization at San Jose and the latest trends of urbanization and horizontal condominiums in the Gran Area Metropolitana were discussed. In the last chapter it was analyzed the new agents producers of urban space, the value of urban land and the latest trends in real estate industry, giving as an example, the residential projects surrounding the Parque Metropolitano La Sabana.

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Theoretical and methodological issues of disposal behavior are examined at the village site of Murcielago. Ethnoarchaeological, archaeological, and modern material culture studies of discard practices are discussed. The generalizations and conclusions contained therein are incorporated into a synthesis of the emerging body of disposal theory. The method used for the analysis of Murcielago, which is drawn from traditional geographic models of land use, is described. The model allows description of the conventions governing the regulation of space and the delineation of disposal patterns. Analysis of artifact distributions illuminated the organization of household activities and the definition of activity differences.

Many national parks in lesser developed countries are threatened by adjacent human land uses. To meet both social and environmental needs, effective programs must be implemented to manage lands adjacent to national parks for conservation and development. This requires careful analysis of the socio-economic aspects of existing land use patterns and their implications for biological conservation. Research was undertaken adjacent to Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica. The biological integrity of the park depends on maintenance of natural habitats on lands adjacent to the lowland sector of the park. Existing lowland forest habitat adjacent to the park is rapidly being converted to pasture. Protecting the park's lowland biological resources depends on both stopping the influx of colonists into the area and encouraging land uses with biological conservation value outside the park. Both these issues are explored in detail. The rationale behind existing land uses in the region is discussed in relation to socio-economic variables identified from the literature on land use choice in Latin America. Large landholders generally engage in beef cattle ranching, frequently in association which land speculation. Small landholders prefer dairy cattle for cheese production is due to its low risk, stable markets, and the possibility of gradual and reversible entry. Smaller cattle operations use land more intensively, but by investing more labor appear to achieve sustainability. More intensive cash cropping is often combined with cattle to increase overall income. Timber production shows potential to partially replace cattle as an extensive, low risk land use. The impact of different adjacent land uses on park biological resources was assessed through a survey of biologists familiar with the region. The two land uses of greatest benefit to park resources were completely protected forest and natural forest management for timber production. The two land uses causing greatest harm to park resources were annual crops and pasture. Two management options for conservation and development adjacent to the park are proposed: (1) a forest buffer, and (2) a mosaic of different land uses, including pasture, perennial crops, and forest.