The St. Elias Orogen is the result of oblique collision and flat-slab subduction in the Gulf of Alaska between North America (NA) and the Yakutat microplate (YAK). Extensive glaciation and a complex tectonic environment make this region a unique case study in which to examine the details of terrane accretion and the possible coupled influence of climate and tectonic drivers on the structural and topographic evolution of an orogenic wedge. The dataset for this project includes: 3 multi-channel seismic reflection surveys (~4000 km total seismic reflection data) and a ~450 km-long wide-angle seismic refraction profile. Reflection seismic profiles across the offshore YAK-NA deformation front, provide constraints for quantifying Pleistocene deformation recorded in the glaciomarine Yakataga formation. Growth strata and kinematic fold analysis allow comparison of relative timing of fault activity, which reveals temporal and spatial shifting of deformation within the margin towards the onshore eastern corner of the orogen. This information is important not only for the development of regional tectonic models, but also for understanding how climatic shifts may have affected the evolution of margin architecture during Pleistocene glacial-interglacial periods. Joint tomographic inversion of coincident reflection and refraction profiles constrains YAK crustal velocity and thickness. The offshore YAK crust ranges in thickness from 15 to 35 km, considerably thicker than normal oceanic crust. The crustal thickness and velocity structure support an oceanic plateau origin for the YAK microplate. Crustal velocity and structure are continuous across the YAK shelf except for a regional dip of the top of YAK crust of ~3° to the west. Moho arrivals across the profile do not mimic the dipping trajectory of the basement, indicating that the offshore YAK crust is doorstop-shaped, thinning in the convergence direction. This geometry leads to the following implications for the YAK-NA collision: first, uplift and deformation have intensified through time as successively thicker, more buoyant YAK crust attempts to subduct; second, current topography, exhumation and deformation patterns are partially controlled by underlying crustal geometry of converging YAK crust. / text

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, 1973.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Technische Universität Berlin, 1981. / Bibliogr. p. 212-219.

Published also as Inaug.-Diss.--Erlangen.

Nesta tese, traço as principais transformações ocorridas na percepção e sensibilidade sociais a respeito da violência sexual contra crianças e adolescentes ao longo do século XX no Brasil. Em primeiro lugar, apresento a legislação nacional e os principais acordos internacionais (Convenções). Em seguida, discuto o contexto intelectual que reflete a sensibilidade dos diferentes períodos e que, de algum modo, acabou por influenciar as definições legais. Para tanto, analisarei algumas decorrências do positivismo na área médica e jurídica, as discussões em torno da prostituição e da polícia de costumes, sua atuação em conjunto com assistentes sociais e, por fim, a visão das organizações não governamentais e dos psicólogos. No capítulo seguinte, analiso alguns movimentos sociais internacionais – ou ofensivas civilizatórias –, cujo objetivo era combater a violência sexual, e seus desdobramentos no país. Por fim, resgato o que foi publicado em um jornal de grande circulação, O Estado de S. Paulo, a fim de identificar mudanças nas informações transmitidas ao público leigo (leitores), nos tipos de crimes sexuais noticiados e na abordagem ao tema. O argumento defendido é que a violência sexual contra crianças e adolescentes não era um problema desconhecido do público leigo, tampouco de especialistas como médicos, juristas, policiais e assistentes sociais. Era, entretanto, entendido como um problema esporádico e relacionado a questões morais. Aproximando-se o final do século, nas mãos das organizações não governamentais nacionais e internacionais, a violência sexual passou a ser entendida como um “fenômeno”, algo recorrente e que deveria ser estudado, quantificado e analisado cientificamente. O que era noticiado casualmente passou a sê-lo recorrentemente, chegando às manchetes dos jornais. A dinâmica que engendrou essas mudanças é encontrada na diminuição da desigualdade na balança de poder entre os sexos e em um aumento na distância social entre adultos e crianças – cada vez mais entendidas como pessoas com necessidades específicas e que devem ser protegidas e cuidadas. A abordagem teórica é a sociologia processual de Norbert Elias. A tese contém ainda um excurso referente às transformações no tocante à violência sexual na Irlanda. As diferenças e semelhanças entre as transformações ocorridas na Irlanda e no Brasil são utilizadas para elucidar os processos sociais que levaram o tema da violência sexual ao centro das atenções no último quartel do século XX. / In this thesis, I describe the main changes in social sensibility towards child sexual violence in 20th century Brazil. First of all, I present the national law and the main international agreements in regard to sexual violence. Following, I will show some expert discourses that reflect different sensibilities over this topic and that, in some way, influenced legal definitions. In order to make this discussion, the following will be analysed: some influences of positivism in the medical and legal areas; some queries and opinions on prostitution and “manners police”; its work along with social workers; and, at last, the understandings of NGOs and psychologists. In the next chapter, I analyse some international social movements – also called civilising offensives – that intended to combat sexual violence, and its consequences in Brazil. Last, it will be shown what one of the most important daily newspapers in the country has published in this connection. Daily news will be used to discuss changes in the information published, in the kind of sexual crime depicted and how it is discussed. The main argument of this work is that child sexual violence was not an invisible problem to lay people nor to experts as physicians, people working in the legal system, police and social workers. Nevertheless, it was seen as an occasional problem related to morality. Towards the end of the 20th century, especially because of national and international NGOs, sexual violence came to be seen as a very recurrent problem and a topic that should be studied, quantified and scientifically analysed. What was occasionally portrayed in the media became a very common issue, reaching the head-lines. These changes can be explained by the shift in the balance of power between the sexes in favour of women and an increase in the social distance between adults and children, now understood as people with special need that should be protected and cared for. The theoretical approach is Norbert Elias’s process sociology. The thesis contains also an excursus, discussing changes in child sexual violence in 20th century Ireland. Differences and similarities between what happened in Ireland and in Brazil will be used to discuss social processes that lead sexual violence to be a topic of great concern in the last quarter of the century.

Nesta tese, traço as principais transformações ocorridas na percepção e sensibilidade sociais a respeito da violência sexual contra crianças e adolescentes ao longo do século XX no Brasil. Em primeiro lugar, apresento a legislação nacional e os principais acordos internacionais (Convenções). Em seguida, discuto o contexto intelectual que reflete a sensibilidade dos diferentes períodos e que, de algum modo, acabou por influenciar as definições legais. Para tanto, analisarei algumas decorrências do positivismo na área médica e jurídica, as discussões em torno da prostituição e da polícia de costumes, sua atuação em conjunto com assistentes sociais e, por fim, a visão das organizações não governamentais e dos psicólogos. No capítulo seguinte, analiso alguns movimentos sociais internacionais – ou ofensivas civilizatórias –, cujo objetivo era combater a violência sexual, e seus desdobramentos no país. Por fim, resgato o que foi publicado em um jornal de grande circulação, O Estado de S. Paulo, a fim de identificar mudanças nas informações transmitidas ao público leigo (leitores), nos tipos de crimes sexuais noticiados e na abordagem ao tema. O argumento defendido é que a violência sexual contra crianças e adolescentes não era um problema desconhecido do público leigo, tampouco de especialistas como médicos, juristas, policiais e assistentes sociais. Era, entretanto, entendido como um problema esporádico e relacionado a questões morais. Aproximando-se o final do século, nas mãos das organizações não governamentais nacionais e internacionais, a violência sexual passou a ser entendida como um “fenômeno", algo recorrente e que deveria ser estudado, quantificado e analisado cientificamente. O que era noticiado casualmente passou a sê-lo recorrentemente, chegando às manchetes dos jornais. A dinâmica que engendrou essas mudanças é encontrada na diminuição da desigualdade na balança de poder entre os sexos e em um aumento na distância social entre adultos e crianças – cada vez mais entendidas como pessoas com necessidades específicas e que devem ser protegidas e cuidadas. A abordagem teórica é a sociologia processual de Norbert Elias. A tese contém ainda um excurso referente às transformações no tocante à violência sexual na Irlanda. As diferenças e semelhanças entre as transformações ocorridas na Irlanda e no Brasil são utilizadas para elucidar os processos sociais que levaram o tema da violência sexual ao centro das atenções no último quartel do século XX. / In this thesis, I describe the main changes in social sensibility towards child sexual violence in 20th century Brazil. First of all, I present the national law and the main international agreements in regard to sexual violence. Following, I will show some expert discourses that reflect different sensibilities over this topic and that, in some way, influenced legal definitions. In order to make this discussion, the following will be analysed: some influences of positivism in the medical and legal areas; some queries and opinions on prostitution and “manners police"; its work along with social workers; and, at last, the understandings of NGOs and psychologists. In the next chapter, I analyse some international social movements – also called civilising offensives – that intended to combat sexual violence, and its consequences in Brazil. Last, it will be shown what one of the most important daily newspapers in the country has published in this connection. Daily news will be used to discuss changes in the information published, in the kind of sexual crime depicted and how it is discussed. The main argument of this work is that child sexual violence was not an invisible problem to lay people nor to experts as physicians, people working in the legal system, police and social workers. Nevertheless, it was seen as an occasional problem related to morality. Towards the end of the 20th century, especially because of national and international NGOs, sexual violence came to be seen as a very recurrent problem and a topic that should be studied, quantified and scientifically analysed. What was occasionally portrayed in the media became a very common issue, reaching the head-lines. These changes can be explained by the shift in the balance of power between the sexes in favour of women and an increase in the social distance between adults and children, now understood as people with special need that should be protected and cared for. The theoretical approach is Norbert Elias’s process sociology. The thesis contains also an excursus, discussing changes in child sexual violence in 20th century Ireland. Differences and similarities between what happened in Ireland and in Brazil will be used to discuss social processes that lead sexual violence to be a topic of great concern in the last quarter of the century.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Comparative Literature, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Zugl.: Paderborn, Universiẗat, Diss., 2004.

This thesis is a sociogenetic investigation of terrorism that has been directed against Britain since the late eighteenth century. One of its most fundamental aims is to help lay the foundations of a figurational approach to the study of terrorism. Accordingly, I seek to answer two core and interrelated questions and apply the findings to develop an understanding of the processes and relationships that have contributed to the emergence of home-grown ‘jihadist terrorism’ in Britain. Those questions are: i) Under what figurational conditions have the concepts of terrorism and terrorist developed, in sociogenetic terms, since they were first coined during the first French Revolution in the late eighteenth century? ii) Under what figurational conditions do people act according to various designations of terrorism? In order to develop answers to these questions several kinds of terrorism figurations related to Britain are examined. The first three chapters are dedicated to exploring the research on terrorism that has grown in recent decades. Much of it fails to develop an understanding of terrorism that has sufficient detachment, and consequently can help, in some cases, to perpetuate terrorism figurations. Subsequent chapters move away from these mainstream approaches and show how terrorism figurations have developed in Britain from the time the concept ‘terrorism’ was first coined during the French Revolution. The core findings relate to how terrorism developed in antithesis to the concept of civilisation, and emerged as part of complex inter- and intra-state relationships and established-outsider figurations. As part of these processes, functional democratisation played a key role both in Britain and in Britain’s relations to other countries. Finally, I show that these processes have been central to the development of the habituses and identities of the July 7 2005 London bombers.

This study focuses on the issue of social exclusion in British tennis. It commences with a critique of current LTA policy, presenting exclusion as static, ahistorical and underpinned by false dichotomies of age and social class. Aspects of Norbert Elias’s theoretical approach are employed throughout as an analytical framework. Initially, the roots of exclusion in British tennis are sought through historical analysis. Aspects of the Civilising Process help direct attention towards wider social processes to explain the prevalence of exclusion, particularly in tennis clubs. Cost was a crucial factor in determining early access, but as tennis became more accessible to lower classes, codes of behavioural etiquette helped demarcate members along status lines. Into the mid-20th century, the globalisation, professionalisation and commercialisation of tennis pushed the LTA to adopt a more performance-oriented outlook, but this has come to oppose the more relaxed culture of tennis clubs. Thus, a power struggle emerged between these two institutions, and, underpinned by thirty interviews with leading figures in British tennis as well as extensive documentary analysis, the third section documents these developments from the 1980s. Crucially, tennis clubs remain largely amateur and voluntary-run organisations, yet are important locations for the implementation of the LTA’s demanding talent development objectives. These recent developments are understood with the help of Elias’s Game Models theory. The fourth section presents findings from a ten-month ethnographic study of social exclusion in a tennis club; a micro-analysis of club member relations underpinned by Elias’s Established-Outsider Relations theory. Overall findings suggest that social exclusion in British tennis is far more complex, multi-faceted and historically-rooted than what current LTA discourse presents. Differences in age and class are less central, and instead preconceived notions of social status based on longevity of membership, adherence to behavioural norms and playing standard are powerful determinants of inclusion.