Submitted by Pós graduação Artes Cênicas (ppgac@ufba.br) on 2017-11-20T21:08:01Z No. of bitstreams: 3 TESE Karin FINAL2.pdf: 7431054 bytes, checksum: b1635838cd6ecbc02b3ef33d406a350a (MD5) Experimentos para uma videodança espontânea cap 4.mp4: 410262048 bytes, checksum: bceaad3a4ac04c8b728cd87456745c97 (MD5) Lab. de prática cap 3.mp4: 528995014 bytes, checksum: aea668d2d30819ac188b3948a30e5a33 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ednaide Gondim Magalhães (ednaide@ufba.br) on 2017-11-21T11:06:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 3 TESE Karin FINAL2.pdf: 7431054 bytes, checksum: b1635838cd6ecbc02b3ef33d406a350a (MD5) Experimentos para uma videodança espontânea cap 4.mp4: 410262048 bytes, checksum: bceaad3a4ac04c8b728cd87456745c97 (MD5) Lab. de prática cap 3.mp4: 528995014 bytes, checksum: aea668d2d30819ac188b3948a30e5a33 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-21T11:06:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 TESE Karin FINAL2.pdf: 7431054 bytes, checksum: b1635838cd6ecbc02b3ef33d406a350a (MD5) Experimentos para uma videodança espontânea cap 4.mp4: 410262048 bytes, checksum: bceaad3a4ac04c8b728cd87456745c97 (MD5) Lab. de prática cap 3.mp4: 528995014 bytes, checksum: aea668d2d30819ac188b3948a30e5a33 (MD5) / CNPq / Esta tese tem como foco um estudo sobre a dança espontânea de Rolf Gelewski – dançarino e educador alemão radicado no Brasil entre 1968-1988 – que consolidou e estruturou a Escola de Dança da Universidade Federal da Bahia e fundou o primeiro Grupo de Dança Contemporânea do País. Reconhecendo a importância do legado de Gelewski para as artes cênicas, exploramos sua contribuição como dançarino, professor e filósofo da arte, e sua influência decisiva na configuração das disciplinas do primeiro curso de dança em nível acadêmico do Brasil, com reflexos na criação dos demais. Seguindo a perspectiva de uma pesquisa guiada pela prática, delineamos a trajetória do dançarino a partir do diálogo que estabeleceu, inicialmente, com a dança expressionista alemã e, posteriormente, com o yoga integral de Sri Aurobindo na Índia. Exploramos suas propostas artísticas e pedagógicas através de um laboratório de prática que nos permitiu experienciar alguns de seus métodos para o ensino da dança e indicar suas aplicações para alunos e artistas cênicos. Em seguida realizamos um laboratório de criação que se desdobrou na elaboração dos Experimentos para uma videodança espontânea, fazendo dialogar imagens do nosso processo criativo com imagens do próprio Gelewski. Também elaboramos uma extensa coleta de imagens fotográficas, além das videográficas, de suas cenas de danças em diversos tempos e lugares. Esse acervo de imagens resultou na composição do Ensaio de um corpo poético em três tempos, enfocando fotos do dançarino divididas em três partes: fase Alemanha, fase Escola de Dança e fase Dança Espontânea – editadas junto com depoimentos de pessoas que tiveram contato direto com ele. Os resultados dessa pesquisa evidenciam a atualidade do legado de Rolf Gelewski e indicam sua utilização criativa em processos de formação e criação em artes cênicas, sobretudo na dança, assim como para uma educação integral e um livre desenvolvimento da consciência humana através da Arte.

This thesis is an attempt to reconstruct the state of society in Ceylon depicted by the Saddharma-ratnavaliya and other contemporary Sinhalese literature - that is, the society of roughly the thirteenth century A.D. Though piecemeal studies have been undertaken by different scholars at different times, hardly any attempts have been made to study, as a whole, the life and institutions of Ceylon. Thus our task is all the more difficult. Many points had to be left undecided owing to lack of evidence, and will have to remain so until further light is shed by future research. In making a study of this period one is made aware of the beginnings of the decline of Sinhalese culture. Whatever the field, whether art, architecture, or sculpture, little development can be seen. Perhaps Ceylon never recovered from the destruction and ruin caused by the alien foe during this period. The Saddharma-ratnavaliya, Pujavaliya, Vi?uddhi- marga-sannaya and Kav-silumina are the sources of our study. Other works of the preceding and succeeding periods have also been examined whenever it was necessary to find corroborative evidence. In this respect, the Maha-vamsa, Cula-vamsa, Saddharmalamkaraya and the inscriptions have proved of immense value and have been liberally quoted in support of our views. The material has been dealt with under different heads for convenience of treatment and the whole thesis is divided into three sections - Political, Religious and Social. It is needless to say that, though the material has been thus presented, in real life there was no such hard and fast compartmentalisation. All spheres of activity were vitally connected with each other and were deeply influenced by religious thought. We cannot speak of an ancient Sinhalese culture without realising how vitally Buddhistic it was. It is our hope that this thesis will prove some contribution to the understanding of the life and institutions of our ancient people.

Unethical procedures, social irresponsibility and climate change all contribute to unsustainable development. Changing our behavior to contribute to sustainable development has therefore become increasingly important. This increased awareness of corporate social and environmental impact has meant that sustainable development has become an important issue for both companies and individuals. An important factor in contributing to a sustainable society is to direct capital flows into sustainable investments and the interest in investing sustainable has increased in recent years. Thus, the pressure on companies has increased in terms of working more with sustainability and communicating that work externally by drawing up a sustainability report.An important stakeholder group for companies is institutional investors. Our purpose was to find out how they use companies' sustainability reports to analyze a company's work with sustainability and what they consider about the credibility of sustainability reports. Given the purpose, the study aims at contributing to an increased understanding of sustainability reports and their usefulness for institutional investors. We have also intended to contribute to a greater understanding of what opinions institutional investors have about the credibility of sustainability reports. To achieve the purpose of the study, a qualitative method has been used. Qualitative interviews have been conducted with seven respondents with good knowledge in the areas of sustainable investments and sustainability reports.The result of the study shows that institutional investors believe sustainability reports are useful for analyzing a company's sustainability efforts. Corporate sustainability reports are used by all respondents, but to varying degrees. All respondents consider that other sources are also needed to obtain the information required to get a comprehensive picture of the companies' work with sustainability, so the information in the sustainability report is not sufficient. Respondents also argue that sustainability reports are credible reports, but in the case of external review, the views differ somewhat. The majority believe that it is positive if a sustainability report is externally reviewed, while a few respondents consider that an external review is of no importance.

During November and December 2007 a Minor Field Study was conducted in the southwest of Sri Lanka with the aim of exploring the aspirations and perceptions of freedom and possibilities among a sample of Sri Lankan youth and also how their situation is viewed upon by people in their close surroundings. The aim was also try to discern the main concerns and indicators of unfreedom that in the eye of the informants are viewed as obstacles to development, to personal human development as well as to the development of Sri Lanka as a nation. The theoretical framework that was used as inspirational ground and basis for the formulation of the project, was Amartya Sen’s concept of “development as freedom” and his “capability approach” which focuses on the human potential and what freedom an individual enjoys to convert capabilities into desired functionings or the realization of aspirations. This modern economic theory was tested in this context to find out if it is applicable and relevant in ethnographic development studies. Despite its lack of numerical metrics, the “capability approach” seems very relevant to describe the reality of at least the Lankese youth in this study. As methodology for the qualitative field work, Hadley Cantril’s “aspiration-model” and his “self-anchoring striving scale” was used which provides a simple, easily applicable interview technique for exploring the unique reality of an individual and what it shares or don’t shares with that of others. The results show that there are many strong aspirations among the Sri Lankan youth; aspirations of being a good person that achieve something in life, aspirations of being able to take the best care of the family, to go through a qualitative education and to get a good job with a good salary. Many youth want to go abroad. Of course there are aspirations of peace in the war-torn country. There are concerns and feelings of unfreedom that relate to the unemployment situation, a very difficult economic situation in the country, underdevelopment and inadequate facilities, the ongoing war, and political unfreedom.

The classic theories about naval warfare is something that still influence warfare and naval theories today. In a world that changes so does the warfare, which shows a more asymmetrical character than before. Power asymmetry between actors is something to take into account today, but the history revealse unexpectadly that the weaker actor often stands as the winner. Is the theories of naval warfare that is influenced by a era of decisive battle still valid? Not only has the power asymmetry changed in time but so has the actors, not seldom the weaker actor is of a irregular character in todays naval warfare.The question here is if a theory influenced by theories created for regular conventional forces can explain the war- fare an asymmetric irregular actor carries? The issue this study address is Geoffrey Till ́s theory about Sea Denial and how that can explain the Sea tiger’s warfare against the Sri Lankan navy in the civil war of Sri Lanka. The result of the study shows that Tills theory can explain an irregular asymmetrical con- flict and also confirms that for a weak actor this could be warfare of success.

To add to the tools currently available to combat income inequality in the United States an investment fund type is proposed, justified, described, and created using historical asset returns from 1960 to 2015. By focusing on two socio-economic indicators of poverty, inflation and unemployment rates, this fund, when marketed to investors who live near, at, or below the poverty line, seeks to increase returns during times of increased strain on the economies of the poor. Multiple hurdles are proposed and affirmatively answered to this end and a fund type and corresponding four factor model that realized hypothetical excess returns fitting the requirements of a successful investment strategy was developed and evaluated. With the increasing importance of socially responsible investment practices an investment bank who maintains a fund of this type could potentially see financial and reputational benefits.

The aim of this thesis is to provide an objective view of the investment potential of Sri Lanka, including all the important factors that may affect the investment climate and to assess the current investment policy of Sri Lanka and propose some recommendations for improvement. The theoretical part of the thesis is devoted to the impact of armed conflict on the investment environment, it discusses the institutional framework for investment, the legal framework for investment, and investment incentives provided to investors. It also defines the priority investment areas and the main obstacles for the development of investment in the territory. The practical part of the thesis compares the investment potential of Sri Lanka with three selected Asian countries to determine which areas need an improvement, necessary to increase the country's attractiveness for foreign investment. It also evaluates the investment potential of the country in the form of a SWOT analysis and provides recommendations for improvement.

My research analyses issues in the relationships between the state and the market, including the roles of key institutions and organisations and their interactions in the policy and regulatory governance arenas. The findings, based on documentary analysis, focus group discussions, perceptions analysis and in-depth interviews with representative actors in the public policy system in Sri Lanka, focus specifically on the linkages between the country’s institutional endowments, the reform process and regulatory governance; and the role of mental models, path dependence and ideology – specifically that of the donor and local epistemic community – in influencing economic reforms and regulatory governance. The analysis set forth in this thesis draws on Douglass North’s conceptualisation of New Institutional Economics as well as on the conceptualisation of public policy by seminal scholars in the field such as Harold Lasswell, David Easton, Bill Jenkins, Michael Hill and Wayne Parsons. These theoretical constructs are particularly useful in exploring and obtaining a rich understanding of complex institutional and policy processes and relationships, as well as policy outcomes. Moreover, this framework sits well with the interpretivist research philosophy, inductive approach and qualitative research methods which I use to gather “thick” information on privatisation, competition and regulatory governance in Sri Lanka and in Sri Lanka’s telecommunications sector. An overview of the existing literature on privatisation, competition and regulatory governance in general and in the telecommunications sector in particular, points to a paucity of public policy analyses in developing countries. As such, whilst acknowledging the limitations of single case study research in relation to policy transfer, I posit that my research findings do shed light on a number of critical issues that are relevant to scholars and practitioners interested in understanding the policy process in developing countries. My research findings provide a real world illustration of the futility of dichotomising the state and markets; instead, constructs such as policy and regulatory space are more useful than those such as the regulatory state. Incorporating these constructs of policy and regulatory space also allows for a “thick” understanding of the dynamics between political and socio-economic institutions, organisations and individuals and their impact on policy outputs and outcomes. My findings also provide for a better understanding of regulatory governance in developing countries. Constructs such as responsive regulation, regulatory society and independent regulation that are typically conceived in the literature in a developed country context are critically explored in the Sri Lankan setting. Finally, my research findings extend the literature on privatisation, competition and regulatory governance by illustrating that forces of competition and contestability are more important than ownership change in terms of policy outputs and outcomes, and that – as reflected in the case of Sri Lanka’s telecommunications sector - competition and contestability can in fact transcend forces of weak regulatory governance.

The current study applies a two-state switching regression model to examine the behavior of a hypothetical portfolio of ten socially responsible (SRI) equity mutual funds during the expansion and contraction phases of US business cycles between April 1991 and June 2009, based on the Carhart four-factor model, using monthly data. The model identified a business cycle effect on the performance of SRI equity mutual funds. Fund returns were less volatile during expansion/peaks than during contraction/troughs, as indicated by the standard deviation of returns. During contraction/troughs, fund excess returns were explained by the differential in returns between small and large companies, the difference between the returns on stocks trading at high and low Book-to-Market Value, the market excess return over the risk-free rate, and fund objective. During contraction/troughs, smaller companies offered higher returns than larger companies (ci = 0.26, p = 0.01), undervalued stocks out-performed high growth stocks (hi = 0.39, p i = 0.01, p = 0.02). The hypothetical SRI portfolio was less risky than the market (bi = 0.74, p i = -0.01, p = 0.03). The hypothetical SRI portfolio exhibited similar risk as the market (bi = 0.93, p

Dagens samhälle lägger mer fokus på hållbarhet än tidigare, där institutionella investerare är en central aktör, vilket gör att intresset för hållbara investeringar växer. Institutionella investerare har skiftat fokus mot mer hållbara investeringar på grund av press från deras kunder och företagen har idag ett stort socialt ansvar, grundat på sociala-, bolagsstyrnings- och miljökriterier. Aktörer på finansmarknaden erbjuder idag ett stort antal gröna fonder, där de ställer hållbarhetskrav på bolaget som ingår i fonden. Företagen som ger ut hållbarhetsrapporten har även ett ökat engagemang för att ge ut rapporter av hög kvalité, samtidigt som kraven på rapporterna har ökat. 2014 presenterades ett nytt EU-direktiv som ligger till grund för den svenska lagstiftning som trädde i kraft 2016. Den nya lagen innehåller bestämmelser om att bolag med en viss storlek ska upprätta en hållbarhetsrapport och företagen ska även lämna upplysningar kring sociala förhållanden, miljö, personal, korruption och mänskliga rättigheter. Vilka icke-monetära värde som skapas genom en hållbarhetsrapport har till viss del undersökts, men vilka faktorer som bidrar till detta värde har inte tydligt förklarats. Därav var syftet med studien att genom ett tjänstelogiskt perspektiv förstå vilka värdefaktorer i hållbarhetsrapporteringen som påverkar värdeförslaget baserat på icke-monetära värden till institutionella investerare. Genom förståelse för existerande brister i dagens hållbarhetsrapporter kopplat till lagkrav och extern granskning var syftet att presentera hur ett tydligare värdeförslag kan uppnås i framtiden. I studien tillämpades en kvalitativ ansats där telefonintervjuer genomfördes med 11 respondenter med goda kunskaper inom området. Resultatet visar på att det finns värdefaktorer som skapar ett värdeförslag idag, där de mest centrala faktorerna var information kring risker och möjligheter, samt hur bolagets självkännedom kan gynna både företagets interna verksamhet och externa kommunikation. De främsta bristerna som i hållbarhetsrapporterna var bristen på jämförbarhet och bristen på tydliga, kvantifierbara mål. För att skapa ett tydligare värdeförslag föreslogs fortsatt samarbete mellan aktörerna, en ökad extern granskning, enhetliga ramverk samt ändrat lagstiftning för att driva utvecklingen kring rapporteringen framåt.