Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:29:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LInguas Cruzadas, Historias que se Mesclam.pdf: 4189875 bytes, checksum: 309264f7e5378b166b514f640aa9a215 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-18 / The Chiquitano, poorly known in Brazil, are part of the contemporary Indian groups, segregated and silenced by the different contexts of population density of the geopolitical frontiers. Living currently in the frontier between Brazil and Bolivia, the Chiquitano of the Brazilian communities live in a process of ethnogenesis, searching for favorable ways to ressignification of the ethnic collectivity and to the citizenship of law through the identity recognition and the demarcation of their lands. And in this way, attempting to contribute for the strengthening and the revitalization of the Chiquitano language is that this work is contextualized. Based on several theoretical and methodological premises, this Thesis addresses historical, sociolinguistic, phonetic and phonological aspects of the Chiquitano language in the Brazilian communities of Vila Nova Barbecho, Acorizal, Central and Fazendinha, in the municipality of Porto Esperidião, in the State of Mato Grosso. Reflections about the situation of endangered language experienced in these communities and the Indigenous people´s involvement in the actions for the strengthening of the identity and in the initiatives for the revitalization of their ancestral mother tongue are also presented in this thesis. It is also shown how the dialogic contact among the research for Doctorate, the socialization of the linguistic data and the Chiquitano community´s motivation served as a basis for actions and pedagogical proposals, which subsidized the definition of an experimental orthography and encouraged didactic activities, seeking motivation of the learners for the appropriation of the Chiquitano language and culture. / Os Chiquitano, pouco conhecidos no Brasil, fazem parte dos grupos indígenas contemporâneos, segregados e silenciados pelos diversos contextos de povoamento das fronteiras geopolíticas. Habitando a região fronteiriça entre o Brasil e a Bolívia, atualmente, os Chiquitano brasileiros vivem um processo de etnogênese, buscando caminhos favoráveis à ressignificação da coletividade étnica e à cidadania de direito através do reconhecimento identitário e da demarcação de suas terras. E nesta trilha, buscando contribuir para o fortalecimento e a revitalização da Língua Chiquitano é que este trabalho se contextualiza. Fundamentada em diversas premissas teóricas e metodológicas, esta Tese aborda aspectos históricos, sociolinguísticos, fonéticos e fonológicos da língua Chiquitano nas comunidades brasileiras de Vila Nova Barbecho, Acorizal, Central e Fazendinha, no município de Porto Esperidião, no Estado de Mato Grosso. Também são apresentadas, nesta Tese, reflexões sobre a condição de língua ameaçada, vivenciada nestas comunidades, e sobre o envolvimento dos indígenas nas ações para o fortalecimento da identidade e nas iniciativas para a revitalização da sua língua materna ancestral. São apresentados, ainda, descrições de como os estudos realizados sobre a língua Chiquitano, bem como as discussões e encontros mantidos com os professores durante a pesquisa para o Doutorado, subsidiaram a definição de uma ortografia experimental e fomentaram atividades pedagógicas de uso da língua nas comunidades Chiquitano brasileiras.

Esta dissertação aborda o processo de revitalização do Centro de Santos em curso desde fins da década de 1980 até o presente. Ela está dividida em cinco capítulos. O primeiro busca enfocar aspectos relevantes do referencial teórico sobre intervenções do Poder Público em áreas centrais nos períodos Moderno e Contemporâneo e as aproximações possíveis com o Centro de Santos. No capítulo seguinte pretende-se investigar o crescimento e o apogeu dessa área, com a expansão do porto e as riquezas advindas com o comércio do café. O terceiro capítulo trata da decadência do Centro com a evasão das camadas de alta renda e a precariedade habitacional. O quarto capítulo analisa o processo de revitalização, considerando a questão da legislação, das intervenções e dos projetos para a área, sobretudo no período compreendido pelas duas administrações do PT (1989-1992; 1993-1996). O quinto capítulo continua essa analise para as administrações seguintes, de orientação política antagônica, do antigo PPB (1997-2000; 2001-2004). Por fim, a conclusão avalia o processo de ascensão e declínio do Centro de Santos e as mudanças havidas em relação à política de planejamento urbano para essa área no contexto contemporâneo. / This dissertation evaluates the process of urban revitalization of Santos City Center in course since the late 1980s. It is divided in five chapters. The first analyses the changes in the theory of central area public intervention from Modern to Contemporary periods and defines Santos Historical Center as the case study. The following chapter investigates the growth and the apogee of this area with the port expansion and the resulting wealth with coffee commerce. The third chapter deals with the City Center decay with the evasion of high-income strata and the resulting housing precariousness. The fourth chapter analyzes the law, the interventions and the projects referring to the area, over the period of two PT offices (1989-1992; 1993-1996). The fifth chapter continues these analyses during the old PPB offices (1997-2000; 2001-2004) with an opposite political view. Finally, the conclusion evaluates the process of growth and decline of Santos City Center and the changes in relation to urban planning policies for this area in the present context.

Na América Latina, as grandes cidades vêm apresentando alterações na sua estrutura econômica e espacial, em processos de transformações desde os últimos quarenta anos. Resultados dessas transformações são observados nas áreas centrais dessas cidades - na sua deterioração física, no abandono por parte da população residente, na saída das suas atividades tradicionais de centros principais. São áreas que foram ao longo do tempo sendo popularizadas e que, apesar de ainda bastante vivas, apresentam diferentes graus de deterioração. Por outro lado, algumas destas áreas vêm sendo objetos de intervenções por parte do poder público local que busca a sua recuperação. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é investigar como as áreas centrais de algumas cidades latino-americanas vêm sendo tratadas por seus governos e quais são as políticas praticadas pelos mesmos diante das presentes transformações e processos urbanos. Desta forma, a intenção é a de contribuir para a construção de um quadro que discuta no cenário latino-americano políticas para a recuperação de áreas centrais. Para tal, serão estudadas as políticas e estratégias de intervenção para a requalificação dos centros de São Paulo, Santiago do Chile e Buenos Aires. Neste trabalho serão apresentados e analisados de forma comparativa planos e programas para a área central dessas cidades realizados nas últimas duas décadas. Este trabalho se propõe a responder algumas questões como: existem semelhanças entre os processos e fenômenos metropolitanos apresentados por estas cidades, e como essas se refletem em cada área central? De que forma cada governo local vem respondendo as suas diferentes demandas, visando a recuperação da área central? Quais os principais traços da sua atuação? Quais instrumentos e estratégias são utilizados em determinados setores? Estariam estas políticas seguindo novos direcionamentos na gestão urbana? / In Latin America, big cities have started to change their economical and spacial structure for the last forty years. Consequences of those modifications are observed in the central areas of these cities its physical degradation, its inhabitants renouncement, its traditional activities transference to new locations. Those areas have been popularized and, even though still plenty alive, have presenting different degradation degrees. Otherwise some of these areas have been object of local public power intervention regarding its revitalization. The main goal of this research is to investigate how central areas of some Latin-American cities have been treated by its local government and which are their politics facing the recent urban process. Therefore, our intention is to contribute building a panel that analyzes central areas revitalization politics in a Latin-American scene. For that matter, weve studied the central areas revitalization politics and strategies applied in São Paulo, Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires. In that way, plans and programs developed for the central areas of these cities for the last two decades will be presented and analyzed in a comparative manner by this study. This research proposes itself to answer some questions: are there similarity between the metropolitans process presented by these cities, and how these reflect in each central area? How each local government is responding their different demands regarding the revitalization of its central areas? What are the main lines of their actions? What instruments and strategies have been used in different sectors? Would this politics be following a new leading in urban management?

O trabalho procura identificar transformações ocorridas no Centro de São Paulo a partir do início dos anos 90 até a atualidade. O território do Centro chega à década de 90 carregado de complexidades sociais, divulgadas, ideologicamente, como degradação. Ao mesmo tempo em que se situa entre os principais polos de empregos do Município, concentra um grande número de imóveis vazios e espaços públicos em mal estado de conservação. Neste contexto, foi criado o discurso de revitalização da região, que passou a permear a esfera pública e fundamentar uma série de ações pulverizadas do poder público. Visto sob o ângulo dos pressupostos deste discurso, poucas mudanças ocorreram nos últimos vinte anos. Visto por outro ângulo, entretanto, muito mudou e vem mudando. Para identificar o que está acontecendo no Centro de São Paulo entre os anos 1990 e 2000, a pesquisa investigou o perfil da população atualmente residente e dos usos do solo; os postos de empregos concentrados na Região Central; as principais políticas públicas implantadas a partir da década de 90 e as principais mudanças ocorridas no ambiente construído durante o período estudado. Como caminhos para investigação de tais mudanças, a pesquisa adotou duas frentes: a análise da dinâmica de ocupação dos edifícios de escritórios, tendo em vista tratar-se da tipologia com maiores percentagens de vacância; e a análise de empreendimentos privados de reforma de edifícios verticais residenciais. / This work seeks to identify transformations occurred in São Paulo city center from the early 90s until today. In the 90s, the city center territory is fraught with social complexities, ideologically publicized as degradation. While on the one hand it is located between São Paulos main employment hubs, it concentrates a large number of vacant properties and public spaces in poor maintenance conditions. In this context, the speech on revitalization of the area was created, began to permeate the public sphere and support a series of random actions by the government. From the perspective of the assumptions of this speech, few changes occurred in the last twenty years. However, seen from another angle, much has changed and has been changing. In order to identify what happened in São Paulo city center between 1990 and 2000, this research investigated the profile of the current resident population and land use; employment positions concentrated in the central area; main public policies implemented from the 90s and major changes that occurred in the built environment during the period studied. As avenues for investigation of such changes, the research adopted two fronts: the analysis of office buildings occupation dynamics, considering that this is the typology with the highest vacancy rates; and the analysis of private development projects of renovation of vertical residential buildings.

Historic preservation has been a successful economic development tool that has led to heritage tourism in some Tennessee towns but not in others. The problem studied was to determine if there was a set of tangible attributes a town must possess to be successful in using historic preservation as an economic development tool. Through an extensive literature review, 59 predictor variables were identified and arranged into 6 research questions looking at the tangible attributes related to town demographics, geography, organizational structure, historic preservation organizations, heritage tourism organizations, and town financial structure. Data were collected from a mailed survey of 32 town managers. The response rate was 68.8% (N = 22). Secondary sources, such as U.S. Census data, were used to collect data when those sources appeared consistent and mandatory. The study used logistic regression analysis to compare successful towns, defined as those towns in the upper third of study towns for tourism expenditures per capita, with less than successful towns. The 32 study towns met the criteria of having a 2003 population of fewer than 10,000 and a nationally-recognized historic district that coincided with the towns' central business districts. The results of the logistic regression analysis on the individual predictor variables indicated that 5 were statistically significant--median age, distance to a major city, restaurant beer sales, Grand Division, and merchants' association. Constraining the final predictive model (Garson, 2006) to no more than 1 variable per 10 cases 3 led to the inclusion of median age and merchants' association as the 2 predictor variables that provided the highest predictive value of correctly classified towns (95.8%). In summary, this study is inconclusive in determining whether historic preservation leads to heritage tourism and can be used as an economic development tool by small Tennessee towns. However, it has been established that 5 attributes or characteristics of small towns does contribute to the probability of success and that median age and the existence of a merchants' association proved to be the best predictive model.

This exploratory multiple embedded case study investigates perspectives on education reform under conditions of minority language endangerment in Sunan Yughur Autonomous County, a minority-district in northwest China. The study included three school sites: a Yughur minority urban school; a Yughur minority rural district school, and a Yughur majority rural district school and four embedded cases: school administrators, teachers, parents and students, of Yughur, other minority, or Han nationality. Adult stakeholders were interviewed on what is important to learn in “education for quality”, and what aspects of Yughur knowledge, culture and language should be included in school curriculum as part of education for quality, while students were asked what they enjoyed studying and whether they would enjoy learning stories, poems and songs in Yughur in school. Findings include strong support among parents and students regardless of ethnicity or school site for Yughur language and culture as “essential qualities” to foster in Sunan County school curriculum, with moderate to weak support among educators ranges with some variation among sites. Three parallel visions emerge from the study of what it means today for Chinese minority student to be an educated person in contemporary China: (a) regular Chinese-medium education; (b) multicultural Chinese-medium education; and (c) maintenance bilingual education in Yughur and Chinese. The third vision envisions developing additive bilinguals who know the heritage of their minority as well as the national curriculum in Mandarin. A vision of balanced bilingualism and multiculturalism that sees heritage languages and Mandarin as “resources” is shared by the large majority of parents and students, most teachers and some administrators. Holders of other visions for local minority education largely share a “Language as Problem” orientation towards minority languages. One aim of devolution of school-based curriculum authority is to develop schools’ individuality. This study reveals three divergent models of local schooling that have developed in one minority school district: one that centres on a monolingual model of national culture, one monolingual, multicultural model, and one bilingual, multicultural model, with the latter model corresponding more closely to minority stakeholder perspectives that schools should play a stronger role in the maintenance and revitalization of their cultural and linguistic heritage.

In Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language), Kipimoojikewin refers to our inheritance, or the things we carry with us. While Anishinaabemowin, Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) pedagogy and research practices are all part of our inheritance, so too is a legacy of colonial violence and historic trauma. This paper details one journey towards the language; the struggle through a colonial terrain rife with institutional and cognitive barriers, the journey to return to Anishinaabe ways of knowing, to articulating Anishinaabe pedagogy in a contemporary urban context and the work done to fulfill the vision of the Elders. There are no “best practices” only stories that exemplify an Anishinaabe axiological framework so that the causes and effects can be better understood, taken up and improved upon. Aapajitoon kema wanitoon.

In Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language), Kipimoojikewin refers to our inheritance, or the things we carry with us. While Anishinaabemowin, Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) pedagogy and research practices are all part of our inheritance, so too is a legacy of colonial violence and historic trauma. This paper details one journey towards the language; the struggle through a colonial terrain rife with institutional and cognitive barriers, the journey to return to Anishinaabe ways of knowing, to articulating Anishinaabe pedagogy in a contemporary urban context and the work done to fulfill the vision of the Elders. There are no “best practices” only stories that exemplify an Anishinaabe axiological framework so that the causes and effects can be better understood, taken up and improved upon. Aapajitoon kema wanitoon.

This exploratory multiple embedded case study investigates perspectives on education reform under conditions of minority language endangerment in Sunan Yughur Autonomous County, a minority-district in northwest China. The study included three school sites: a Yughur minority urban school; a Yughur minority rural district school, and a Yughur majority rural district school and four embedded cases: school administrators, teachers, parents and students, of Yughur, other minority, or Han nationality. Adult stakeholders were interviewed on what is important to learn in “education for quality”, and what aspects of Yughur knowledge, culture and language should be included in school curriculum as part of education for quality, while students were asked what they enjoyed studying and whether they would enjoy learning stories, poems and songs in Yughur in school. Findings include strong support among parents and students regardless of ethnicity or school site for Yughur language and culture as “essential qualities” to foster in Sunan County school curriculum, with moderate to weak support among educators ranges with some variation among sites. Three parallel visions emerge from the study of what it means today for Chinese minority student to be an educated person in contemporary China: (a) regular Chinese-medium education; (b) multicultural Chinese-medium education; and (c) maintenance bilingual education in Yughur and Chinese. The third vision envisions developing additive bilinguals who know the heritage of their minority as well as the national curriculum in Mandarin. A vision of balanced bilingualism and multiculturalism that sees heritage languages and Mandarin as “resources” is shared by the large majority of parents and students, most teachers and some administrators. Holders of other visions for local minority education largely share a “Language as Problem” orientation towards minority languages. One aim of devolution of school-based curriculum authority is to develop schools’ individuality. This study reveals three divergent models of local schooling that have developed in one minority school district: one that centres on a monolingual model of national culture, one monolingual, multicultural model, and one bilingual, multicultural model, with the latter model corresponding more closely to minority stakeholder perspectives that schools should play a stronger role in the maintenance and revitalization of their cultural and linguistic heritage.

This thesis is set in St. Catharines Ontario, a mid-sized city of 132,000 people, situated in the heart of the Niagara Region. Once a thriving manufacturing centre, St. Catharines has experienced two decades of traumatic economic contraction due to the collapse of the local automotive industry. Like other cities that have experienced the loss of their predominant industry, St. Catharines is struggling not only with unemployment, economic uncertainty and environmental degradation, but also with issues concerning the city’s very identity. As industrial activity played a critical role in shaping the form and character of the city, its steady disappearance has left both a functional and symbolic void in the community. The challenges associated with deindustrialization and decentralized urbanization have had a devastating impact on St. Catharines. The city’s historic core has not only lost its role as the symbolic centre of the community, unrelenting suburban expansion has also led to the destruction of some of Canada’s most productive agricultural terrain in the surrounding vicinity. This thesis argues that the current economic crisis offers a unique opportunity to radically reconsider St. Catharines’ urban environment. The thesis looks to the earth – the terroir – as the basis for the development of a robust vision to transform the city’s underappreciated historic core into a hub for the Niagara Region’s expanding wine industry. Essential to this vision is the extensive cultivation of urban vineyards and the planning of key pieces of urban armature around which future development will occur. The design aims to improve the overall quality-of-life offered in St. Catharines, and build a broader sense of community by enhancing the unique experience of the place and engaging citizens in the local wine enterprise.