Inaugural dissertation--Greifswald. / Lebenslauf. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. [5]-7.

Texte remanié de: Habilitationsschrift--Philosophische Fakultät für Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften--München--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 1991. / Bibliogr. p. 299-315. Index.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Fakultät für Geschichte, Kunst- und Orientwissenschaften--Universität Leipzig, 1999. Titre de soutenance : Die Landesverwaltung, dann Landesregierung Sachsen in der Zeit der Staatlichkeit 1945 bis 1952. Dargestellt am Beispiel ausgewählter Ressorts. / Bibliogr. p. 400-456. Index.

Diss.--Fachbereich Kultur- und Geowissenschaften--Universität Osnabrück. / Bibliogr. p. 256-269. Index.

Dans ce mémoire, nous partons de l'hypothèse que les dynamiques spatiales et les évolutions des usages des objets géographiques peuvent, en partie, être expliquées ou anticipées par leurs historiques de changements de fonctions et de co-localisations. Nous proposons d'exploiter la recherche des motifs fréquents et des règles d'associations pour en extraire des règles régissant ces dynamiques. Ce travail adapte également le processus de fouille de données pour tenir compte de la spécificité des données spatio-temporelles utilisées, en particulier, leur asymétrie.Dans ce contexte, notre proposition traite des questions liées à la modélisation des relations spatio-temporelles incorporées dans le jeu de données, la représentation adéquate des données d'apprentissage, pour ainsi, produire des règles adaptées à notre problème de prédiction. La prise en compte de l'asymétrie des attributs d'apprentissage en termes de fréquence est traitée selon deux approches : une approche utilisant plusieurs seuils de support minimum et une approche traitant disjointement les attributs. Pour la première approche, deux adaptations de l'algorithme MSApriori ont été proposées pour la définition et l'affectation de ces seuils. Pour la seconde, nous proposons l'algorithme BERA pour la génération de règles en allant de la construction de la conclusion vers la construction des prémisses.Afin de vérifier et évaluer nos propositions, nous proposons une étude expérimentale menée sur différents jeux de données issus des données Corine Land Cover dans le cadre d’un dispositif expérimental appelé SAFFIET. / In this dissertation, we start from the hypothesis that spatial dynamics and geographical object usage evolution may partially be explained or predicted by their different previous spatial configuration. Thus, we propose to exploit frequent pattern mining and association rule mining in order to extract rules governing these dynamics. This work tries, as well, to adapt the data mining process to take into account the specificity of the used spatiotemporal data, in particular, their asymmetry. In this context, our proposal deals with questions related to the modeling of the spatiotemporal relations incorporated in the data set, the adequate representation of the learning data in order to produce rules adapted to our prediction problem. Addressing the asymmetric aspect of learning attributes, mainly in terms of their frequencies, is tackled according to two approaches: the first one is based on using multiple minimum supports (minsup) and the second one consists in addressing the attributes in a disjointed manner. The first approach is based on two adaptations of the MSApriori algorithm for the definition and assignment of these thresholds. The second approach exploits the novel BERA algorithm which is based on semantics of the predicates for the generation of rules, going from the construction of the conclusion part to the construction of the premise part. In order to verify and evaluate our proposals, an experimental study is carried out on different datasets from Corine Land Cover in an experimental tool called SAFFIET.

This study examines postwar Japanese photography and the influence of World War Two, the Allied Occupation (1945-1952), and social and economic transformations during the Era of High-Speed Growth (1955-1970) on ways in which photographers approached and depicted reality. In the late 1940s, censorship erased the reality of a devastated society and evidence of the Allied Occupation from photography magazines. Once censorship ended in 1949, photographers reacted to miserable living conditions, as well as the experience of producing wartime propaganda, by confronting reality directly. Finally, photographers responded to social transformations and resulting challenges during the Era of High-Speed Growth by shifting from an objective reporting to a subjective critique of reality. A study of photography from 1945 to 1970 not only demonstrates how socio-historical forces influence photography but also reveals key changes in Japanese society and the urban landscape as Japan transitioned from a defeated, occupied nation to an economic powerhouse.

This research explored older Slovenians’ occupations, including the ways in which the transition into a care home influenced their occupational engagement. The research encompassed three stages. Stage 1 investigated Slovenian older people’s individual experiences of occupational engagement, with a particular emphasis on their personally meaningful occupations. Stage 2 aimed to enhance understanding of the impact of transition into a care home on older Slovenians’ meaningful occupations. Finally, Stage 3 sought to provide an insight into older people’s occupational engagement in one Slovenian care home. The first two stages of this research took a phenomenological approach; focusing on the participants’ individual experiences of occupational engagement; using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to approach and analyse the data. Ten older adults were interviewed in Stage 1 and six older adults were interviewed in Stage 2 at three time points: before the relocation into a care home, one month after and six months after the relocation. The final stage was ethnographic in nature; exploring occupational engagement among Slovenian care home residents as a culture-sharing group; using observations for collecting the data and analysing the resulting field notes using Thematic Analysis. The findings consistently highlighted the significance of occupations and routines in participants’ everyday lives as important parts of their identities. The first two stages highlighted the importance of a continuous experience of meaning in occupation, across participants’ lives and throughout their transition into a care home. Some of these meanings were specific to Slovenian socio-cultural, historic and geographical context. The participants especially valued productive occupations such as gardening, family-related occupations such as looking after and passing knowledge to younger generations and occupations related to particular places, such as spending time at their weekend cottages and home surroundings, walking familiar pathways or hiking Slovenian mountains. These Slovenian older adults purposefully engaged in health-promoting occupations in order to maintain their health, in turn influencing their occupational engagement. Since their everyday routines were related to particular places, Stages 2 and 3 highlighted that some of these occupations were disrupted by their new living environment. The care home residents managed this situation by trying to maintain their engagement in occupations that they perceived personally meaningful and enjoyable. This research is foundational in the Slovenian context, with the findings also being transferrable to individuals and contexts outside Slovenia. From exploring the impact of older people’s living environments on their meaningful occupational engagement, the findings contribute original knowledge to occupational science regarding the link between occupation, place, identity and the transactional perspective of occupation. This indicates the need to develop further therapeutic programmes and services for older people making the transition to care home living.

L’objectif initial de ce travail vise à la compréhension des processus de transformation de l’habitat et du paysage d’un espace donné, en mettant l’accent sur les mutations et les disparitions des phénomènes observés, de manière à restituer la ou les dynamiques du peuplement sur la longue durée, à micro-échelle. L’espace étudié est constitué des communes de Tavant, L’Ile-Bouchard et Crouzilles situées dans la vallée de la Vienne en Indre-et-Loire. Elles couvrent à elles trois, une surface de 2 332 ha qui s’inscrit dans un rectangle d’emprise d’environ 5 500 ha. L’adoption d’une progression par échelles géographiques emboîtées qui caractérise ce travail, a été dictée par les rythmes spatio-temporels propres à chaque source exploitée – les sources textuelles, matérielles, morphologiques et paléoenvironnementales – et les contraintes pratiques qui imposent au chercheur des cadres d’observation géographique et chronologique qu’on suppose être représentatifs de l’ensemble considéré. La démarche globale qui consiste à croiser les sources selon la logique du système territoire s’impose comme un cadre adapté à une étude pluridisciplinaire et diachronique, parce qu’elle permet de respecter et des gérer les rythmes d’espace-temps de chaque source sollicité et parce qu’elle pose les bases d’une modélisation de l’histoire du peuplement de la Protohistoire à nos jours dans la vallée de la Vienne. Toutefois, c’est seulement à l’issue de la critique et de l’exploitation des différents corpus de données que le système territoire commence à prendre forme, à travers la connaissance partielle de l’organisation de l’espace géographique et du jeu des acteurs de l’espace anthropisé, politique et institutionnel. / This study aims at understanding the processes of transformation of the landscape and the settlement for a given territory by highlighting the evolutions of the observed phenomena and their coming to an end, so as to restore the dynamics of settlement on a diachronic scale over a long period of time . The space studied includes the communes of Tavant, l'Ile-Bouchard and Crouzilles situated in the Vienne valley, in the département of Indre et Loire, altogether covering an area of 2332 hectares, inscribed within a rectangle with a surface area of about 5500 hectares. The progression adopted here is based on geographic scales fitting into each other. It was dictated by the spatiotemporal rhythms characteristic of each of the sources exploited – textual, material, morphological and paleoenvironmental sources—and the practical constraints which the researcher has to submit to and which determine the framework of geographical and chronological observation, supposed to be representative of the whole area. The general process consisting in mixing the sources according to the territory system appears to be the suitable framework for a multidisciplinary and diachronic study, since it allows to respect and handle the space-time rhythms of each source, and also because it establishes the basis for a modelling of the history of the settlement in the Vienne valley from protohistory to the present times . However, a critical exploitation of the various sources of information was necessary for the territorial system to take shape through partial knowledge of the organisation of thegeographic space and of the influence of human agents on the political and institutional man-occupied space.

Esta dissertação de mestrado põe em questão o morrer, verbo tão elástico que confunde-se com a própria vida. Partindo do pressuposto que o morrer é um processo que cabe aos vivos e, por isso, é atravessado pelas relações do sujeito com a verdade, o seguinte trabalho pretende analisar, a partir do instante presente, como a sociedade moderna ocidental se organizou para dar conta dos infinitos mistérios que a morte desperta nos indivíduos em paralelo com o projeto de governo do Estado de gestão e controle da população, a partir das práticas biopolíticas e da legitimidade do saber médico que prescreve o que é uma vida, quais são os valores que a determinam e sob que códigos e condutas os seres devem se submeter para serem considerados existentes. Aliado ao filósofo Michel Foucault e Giorgio Agamben, propõe-se um percurso sinuoso da emergência do racismo biológico e do racismo de Estado para refletir sobre os grandes genocídios do século XX, sob a perspectiva de uma Tanatopolítica. Através do recurso do ensaio, este trabalho provocará a pergunta: como escrever sobre algo que não se fala O ensaio, mais do que um método, é um artesania capaz de costurar o tempo e a história em busca do passado de nossas verdades presentes e um convite ao leitor a um livre flanar pelos rastros de um conhecimento subsumido das cátedras acadêmicas, mas que clama por sua palavra e seu sepultamento. Ensaiar é permitir, também, que a ficção, a poesia e a literatura entrem pela porta da frente na obstinação do saber. Se a ciência moderna carece de evidências acerca do morrer e seus processos, o ensaio responde, sem ferir os mistérios do mundo, com mais questões que permitem criar outras realidades, fora das instituídas. Junto com Walter Benjamin, Jorge Larrosa, Peter Pal Pelbart e outros filósofos, a dissertação problematiza a distância entre a pesquisa e a militância, flertando com o saber morrer e apostando no luto enquanto luta, ensaiando outras maneiras de dar sentido a ausência com a inventividade política dos movimentos de ocupação atuais para fazer frente ao projeto biopolítico. / This master's dissertation questions dying: a verb so elastic that it is confused with life itself. Based on the assumption that dying is a process that belongs to the living and is therefore crossed by the subject's relations with the truth, the following work intends to analyze, from the present moment, how modern Western society organized itself to address the infinite mysteries that death awakens in the individuals in parallel with the state governor's project of management and control of the population, from the biopolitical practices and the legitimacy of the medical knowledge that prescribes what a life is, what the values that determine it are and under what codes and behaviors living beings must undergo to be considered existing. Allied with the philosophers Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, it is proposed a sinuous route of the emergence of the biological racism and the racism of State to reflect on the great genocides of century XX, from the perspective of Tanatopolitics. This work will provoke the question in the form of an essay: how do we write about something that is not spoken The essay, more than a method, is a craft capable of sewing time and history in search of the past of our present truths and an invitation to the reader to a free walk through the traces of a subsumed knowledge of academic chairs, but that claims by its word and its burial. Essaying is to allow, also, that fiction, poetry, and literature enter the front door in the obstinacy of knowledge. If modern science lacks evidence about dying and its processes, this essay responds, without hurting the mysteries of the world, with more questions that enable us to create other realities, other than those instituted. Along with Walter Benjamin, Jorge Larrosa, Peter Pal Pelbart, and other philosophers, this dissertation problematizes the distance between research and militancy, flirting with the acceptance of dying, and betting on mourning while fighting, essaying other ways to make sense of absence with the political inventiveness of the current occupation movements facing the biopolitical project.

Master of Arts / Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work / Laszlo Kulcsar / Commercial trucking by its nature is a transient occupation, and those involved with commercial trucking can find themselves on the road and away from their homes for extended periods of time. Given the occupation’s transitory nature, why have some commercial drivers chosen to call rural America home when any place near a highway should suffice? Through the use of semi-structured interviews, this thesis attempts to explore whether rural truck drivers have any historical or geographical ties to the rural areas that they have chosen to live in. Using qualitative interview approach this thesis endeavored to find whether there are connections to the loss of agricultural or rural manufacturing jobs in a rural driver’s community and their decision to enter the occupation of trucking. In this way this thesis has attempted to discern to what extent structural changes in the rural economy over the last 40 years, may have played a role in a person’s decision to enter the occupation of trucking. This thesis has also attempted to elicit a phenomenological understanding of how they rural truck drivers understand themselves in relation to the larger American society through the work they perform.