As últimas décadas têm testemunhado contínuos debates acerca dos papéis que os santuários desempenhavam para a formação e desenvolvimento das pólis e das comunidades gregas em geral. As políticas de posicionamento dos santuários, questão esta vinculada com as motivações e interesses para uma dada divindade ser cultuada em determinado local, têm sido objetos de várias discussões. Assim, selecionamos um grupo de santuários dedicados a Hera (chamados Heraia/ sing. Heraion), de modo a analisá-los enquanto contextualizados nas respectivas comunidades a que cada um pertencia, dentro de um recorte cronológico que vai do séc. VIII ao séc. V. Os Heraia em questão situam-se em Samos, Corinto (Peracora), Argos, Metaponto, Crotona, Poseidônia e Selinonte. Para a condução da pesquisa, focalizamos as funções dos santuários de Hera e as esferas de atuação da deusa em relação às pólis pertinentes. Igualmente, consideramos os aspectos espaciais dos Heraia e das pólis. Enfim, procedemos à comparação com base em alguns critérios gerais que escolhemos. Valemo-nos de uma ampla variedade de documentação, sobretudo arqueológica, não desconsiderando, entretanto, as contribuições que os textos antigos puderam trazer. O estudo dos Heraia que realizamos permitiu que constatássemos, a partir de casos específicos, a multiplicidade de funções e papéis dos santuários no mundo grego. Enfim, nossa pesquisa contribuiu para entender o culto de uma divindade como fenômeno histórico engastado em práticas sociais. / The past decades have witnessed ongoing debates on the roles Greek sanctuaries exerted on the formation and development of the polis and the Greek communities in general. Sanctuary placement policies- an issue that is also related to the motivations and interests backing the location of the cult to a given deity- are also themes that have drawn the attention of several scholars. Thus we picked a group of sanctuaries dedicated to Hera (called Heraia/ sing. Heraion), so as to analise them as contextualised and embedded in their respective communities to which they belonged, within a period that goes from the VIII century up to the V century. The Heraia in question were located in Samos, Corynth (Perachora), Argos, Metaponto, Croton, Poseidonia and Selinonte. In order to carry out this research, we focused on the functions of Hera´s sanctuaries as well as on the the actuation spheres of this goddess as far as the polis are concerned. Likewise, we payed due regard for the spatial aspects of the Heraia. Finally, we proceeded to a comparison according to some criteria we selected. We made use of a broad range of documentation, especially archaeological sources, also considering the contributions the ancient texts could make. The study of the sanctuaries of Hera we conducted enabled us to notice the multiplicity of functions and roles of sanctuaries across the Greek world. Therefore, our research contributed to the understanding of the cult of a Greek deity as a historical phenomenon embedded in social practices.

The present study examines the function and religious symbolism of water in the Isis sanctuaries in Hellenistic Greece. This is achieved through a survey of all the Isis sanctuaries in Greece dating to the Hellenistic period and the water installations. This study also examined how water was provisioned to the sanctuaries and how Egypt, particularly the Nile was, perceived by the Greeks. In addition, to what degree the cult of Isis was the result of Egyptomania that swept across Greece has been studied. The result shows that water provision through rainwater carried a religious meaning rather than the water installations design or location. This result is based on a Greek awareness of the meaning of the Nile within ancient Egyptian religion. The Greeks adapted their observations on what was Egyptian into their own Isis cult and for this reason the cult was an expression of Egyptomania.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - - Andrews University, Seventh-Day Adventist Theological Seminary, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-591). Also available on the Internet.

In the 1980s, in support of the Sanctuary Movement for Central American refugees, cities across the United States began to withdraw information and resources from the boundary making processes of the federal state. Inspired in part by a 1971 initiative in Berkeley, California to provide sanctuary to soldiers refusing to fight in Vietnam, “Cities of Refuge” issued statements of non-cooperation with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). They passed policies that prevented police and service providers from asking the immigration status of the people they came into contact with in the course of their daily duties, and limited information sharing with the federal authorities. Drawing on archival research and interviews, this dissertation maps the shifting meaning of Sanctuary as a constellation of practices and logics which has troubled the boundaries of national citizenship. Struggles to establish Cities of Refuge reveal the complex interplay between two different political trajectories in the United States: one deeply implicated with the state’s authority over migration controls and what Agamben has understood as the sovereign exception, and the other with city sanctuary, as a form of urban citizenship. The genealogy of city sanctuary reveals the multiple and sometimes contradictory threads or genealogies that have been woven into American citizenship over time, raising questions about the ostensibly hardened relationship between sovereignty, membership, and the nation state. Exploring the interactions between the daily practices of state institutions and Sanctuary reveals the performative aspects of exception: it is produced and maintained only through the constant repetition of discourses and practices that maintain the boundaries of citizenship and reproduce the state’s authority to control the movement of people across its border. Bringing the study of sovereignty into the city, and exploring alternative assertions of sovereignty reveals the exception not as an underlying logic, but a geographically specific, ongoing struggle.

This study provides a biological perspective on the potential of using year-round sanctuaries to protect largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides). Although the Rideau Lakes bass sanctuaries have been present for more than 70 years, a lack of empirical rationale has resulted in a considerable debate regarding their usefulness. Using radio telemetry in Lake Opinicon, Ontario, the current study indicates that largemouth bass behaviour is influenced by the structural complexity of the habitats they occupy. In high-structure habitats, bass tend to have smaller utilization areas, displacement rates and radial displacements relative to those occupying low-structure habitats. All largemouth bass were captured and released (after transmitter implantation) in high-structure areas; however, more than half (12 of 23) of these individuals made spring (closed fishing season) relocations to low-structure areas where most (11 of 12) remained for the duration of the study. Behaviour is important to consider because of the influence it has on the level of sanctuary protection received by a largemouth bass. Twelve individuals began the study in the high-structure habitats of Lake Opinicon’s Murphy Bay fish sanctuary; however, only five remained in high-structure habitats throughout the study to receive full open season protection, two others received partial protection and four largemouth bass received no open season sanctuary protection because they made spring relocations to low-structure areas outside of the sanctuary. The results of this study provide an important biological perspective for the evaluation of year-round bass sanctuaries. Further research is needed to understand the specific causes of observed behaviours and to investigate how open and closed season protection of a year-round sanctuary translates into overall bass fishery benefits. Therefore, we recommend the maintenance of the Rideau Lakes bass sanctuaries as year-round regulations until there is sufficient empirical evidence to support their re-designation or removal. / Thesis (Master, Biology) -- Queen's University, 2010-04-01 01:39:20.969

This thesis critiques the dominant theorization of Canadian sanctuary as expressed by Randy Lippert. Particularly, I contend that Lippert’s Foucaudian analysis offers an impoverished understanding of sanctuary recipients by insisting they are political only insofar as they embrace bare life and become a silent spectacle. To re-conceptualize the political role of recipients, I evoke Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière’s notion that politics is constitutive of an interruption. I suggest that, living in a borderland between citizenship/non-citizenship, sanctuary recipients draw critical attention to their own exclusions and thus enact the political interruption par excellence. However, Arendt and Rancière’s stipulation that this interruption must be visible also limits political efficacy for recipients for it necessitates that they must expose themselves as helpless spectacles. I argue that this uncontested commitment to visibility is also dominantly expressed by theorists, such as Jenny Edkins, who are concerned with agency for other abject subjectivities. Troubling, this dedication to visibility results in the same apolitical formulation of sanctuary recipients that Lippert offers. As an alternative, I conclude that a type of (in)visible interruption offers a more a fruitful way to understand political agency for sanctuary recipients, and indeed for other seemingly abject figures.

In the 1980s, in support of the Sanctuary Movement for Central American refugees, cities across the United States began to withdraw information and resources from the boundary making processes of the federal state. Inspired in part by a 1971 initiative in Berkeley, California to provide sanctuary to soldiers refusing to fight in Vietnam, “Cities of Refuge” issued statements of non-cooperation with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). They passed policies that prevented police and service providers from asking the immigration status of the people they came into contact with in the course of their daily duties, and limited information sharing with the federal authorities. Drawing on archival research and interviews, this dissertation maps the shifting meaning of Sanctuary as a constellation of practices and logics which has troubled the boundaries of national citizenship. Struggles to establish Cities of Refuge reveal the complex interplay between two different political trajectories in the United States: one deeply implicated with the state’s authority over migration controls and what Agamben has understood as the sovereign exception, and the other with city sanctuary, as a form of urban citizenship. The genealogy of city sanctuary reveals the multiple and sometimes contradictory threads or genealogies that have been woven into American citizenship over time, raising questions about the ostensibly hardened relationship between sovereignty, membership, and the nation state. Exploring the interactions between the daily practices of state institutions and Sanctuary reveals the performative aspects of exception: it is produced and maintained only through the constant repetition of discourses and practices that maintain the boundaries of citizenship and reproduce the state’s authority to control the movement of people across its border. Bringing the study of sovereignty into the city, and exploring alternative assertions of sovereignty reveals the exception not as an underlying logic, but a geographically specific, ongoing struggle.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Delaware, 2008. / Principal faculty advisor: George R. Parsons, College of Marine & Earth Studies. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Glasgow, 2008. / Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1997. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 365-389).