Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-210). Also available online.

This thesis analyses the modes of narration in the 1978 novel Casa de campo by Chilean writer José Donoso (1924-96), an overlooked aspect of its neobaroque aesthetic. It surveys some of the most important conceptualizations of the baroque as well as of the neobaroque, utilizing Severo Sarduy‟s theory of the neobaroque in order to examine the text‟s plurality of points of view and narrative modes. Not only does Donoso employ first- and third-person narrations in Casa de campo, the narrative voice seems, simultaneously, omniscient and limited, intrusive and objective, often unreliable, and frequently self-conscious. A wide range of narrative techniques appear in the novel, including free indirect discourse, stream of consciousness, interior monologue, and passages reminiscent of the so-called testimonio. This plurality of points of view and narrative modes constitute Donoso‟s revolt against contemporary literary conventions, and exemplify the diversity of the neobaroque. / Graduate

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-96). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%5Fver=Z39.88-2004&res%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss &rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR11783

This research aims to understand environmental conflicts generated by large investment projects. Theoretically, this research locates itself within the historical political ecology perspective. It seeks to understand environmental conflicts as a clash of historical representations over the environment that can be traced from the process of dispossession by colonialism and the consolidation of the national state. It is argued that certain places have been constructed as specific socio-natural entities for the reproduction of power relations over nature and people through environmental transformations by discourses and frameworks about environment and society, the establishment of material practices, and the collapsing of biophysical features within political-economy. The case under analysis is the construction of dams in Chilean Patagonia through the HidroAysén project. This project belongs to the transnational company ENDESA and the Chilean private company Colbún. HidroAysén aims to build five dams across two rivers located in the Aysén region in Western Patagonia, a region that has been a scene for the territorialisation of the colonial and postcolonial state over the last four hundred years. The research questions to understand this environmental conflict are: How has Chilean Patagonia been socially constructed in the past? What political economic conditions and discourses enable dams to be built in Chilean Patagonia? Which discourses are in conflict regarding the HidroAysén Project? This research follows a qualitative approach focused on Foucauldian genealogy to understand discourses and representations about the environment. Data have been collected through secondary sources about the history of Patagonia, including accounts from explorations, government reports, scholarly articles, information from the HidroAysén company, and information from the anti-dam campaign Patagonia without Dams. I have also used fifty interviews conducted in Patagonia with people who live in the places that could be affected by the construction of dams. Data have been analysed through the constructionist approach of grounded theory and critical discourse analysis. The main findings are that environmental conflicts have historical and cultural content. Patagonia is a cultural landscape created through the territorialisation of the colonial and postcolonial state, and at the same time, through a process of counter-territorialisation spontaneously performed by settlers. Elites have used Patagonia to increase their power in a material and symbolic way through the mobilization of pre-existing discourses. Therefore, Patagonia does not pre-exist its construction: there is nothing natural about Patagonia but a revisited history of otherness and dispossession. Consequently, environmental conflict over HidroAysén is not only about the hydroelectricity project, but about how territories are constructed and socially and environmentally transformed through the mobilization of representations. The conclusion is that the environmental transformations are one of the most severe forms of inequality.

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This study is concerned with describing and analyzing the factors that led to the election and subsequent defeat of Salvador Allende. The research information was selected from leading books, periodicals, government documents, archives, and newspapers. The thesis presents the political history of Allende's rise to power, the social structure that made his victory possible, the development of major programs that facilitated his ascension and that made his decision inevitable, and, finally, an analysis of his administration with observations as to why he failed. The importance of the lower class, the middle class, the military, and the United States are presented as factors contributing to Allende's victory and later accelerating Allende's fall from power.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-08-23T15:45:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcus Vinícius Barbosa_.pdf: 1271530 bytes, checksum: b7a4670bae2abb67f66b5e64c2998a13 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-23T15:45:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcus Vinícius Barbosa_.pdf: 1271530 bytes, checksum: b7a4670bae2abb67f66b5e64c2998a13 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-21 / CNPQ – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / A presente dissertação analisa a construção do projeto político do regime militar chileno, durante o período de 1974 a 1990, através do discurso da oficialidade do exército contido nas páginas do órgão oficial da instituição, a revista Memorial del Ejército de Chile. Busca-se compreender em que medida esse discurso pode ser vinculado a uma determinada cultura política presente no cenário público chileno antes mesmo do golpe de Estado de 11 de setembro de 1973. Pretende-se, ainda, dimensionar a atividade docente da oficialidade, tratando de apresentar, ainda que de maneira parcial, a formação dos autores em institutos militares, procurando relacionar as atividades no exterior com o contexto encontrado no interior do país andino. Objetiva-se a apresentação do projeto refundacional, baseado em uma determinada visão sobre o marxismo e a política, uma leitura sobre a identidade nacional e a tentativa de construção de uma nova institucionalidade, embasada em uma “herança portaliana” do século XIX, na contrapartida da democracia liberal adotada em 1932. De uma maneira geral, busca-se compreender em que medida o discurso da oficialidade, contido em o Memorial del Ejército de Chile, configurou-se como retórica auxiliar da narrativa construída desde a alta cúpula da Junta de Gobierno. / This thesis analyzes the construction of the Chilean military regime's political project during the period of 1974-1990. This analysis is centered in army officers' discourse as published in the journal Memorial del Ejército de Chile, official organ of that institution. The goal was to ascertain whether this discourse could be linked to a political culture that was present in the Chilean public sphere even before the coup d'état of September 11, 1973. A secondary goal was to study officers' teaching activities by, although in partial way, addressing authors' training in military institutes, and by examining the connections between activities that took place during this period both outside and inside the Andean nation. The aim was to describe a re-foundational project that was based on a specific understanding of Marxism and politics. A project that derived from a distinct reading of national identity, and from an attempt to construct new institutions which were to be based on a nineteenth-century 'portaliana' heritage, in opposition to liberal democracy, which was adopted in 1932. In general terms, the goal of this research is to understand to which extent military officers' discourse, as published in Memorial del Ejército de Chile, became an auxiliary rhetoric to the foundational narrative that was constructed by the high summit of the Junta de Gobierno.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of English, General Literature and Rhetoric, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

On September 29th, 2014, an extensive tax reform was enacted in Chile. The main changes will be applied gradually from October 1, 2014. One of the main changes is the creation of two alternatives income tax regimes that will replace the current integrated regime from year 2017 onwards: (i) the attributed income regime and (ii) the partially integrated regime. The first one will collect the taxes at the foreign-shareholders level on the year the companies generate profits, regardless if they are distributed or not. The second one will raise the overall tax burden for the foreign-shareholders from 35% to 44.45%, unless they are resident of countries that have treaties to avoid the double taxation with Chile. / El 29 de septiembre de 2014 fue promulgada una significativa reforma tributaria en Chile cuyas normas irán gradualmente entrando en vigencia desde el día 1 de octubre de 2014. Entre las modificaciones más importantes, está la creación de dos regímenes alternativos de tributación que remplazarán al actual régimen de tributación integrado a partir del año 2017: (i) el régimen de renta atribuida y (ii) el régimen parcialmente integrado. El primero de ellos hará tributar a los dueños de las empresas en el mismo ejercicio que las utilidades se generen (sean éstas distribuidas o no). El segundo, aumentará la carga impositiva total respecto a los inversionistas extranjeros residentes en países con los que Chile no ha suscrito convenios para evitar la doble tributación de un 35% a un 44,45%.