Encouraging the implication of shops in the city by means of retail associationism. The case of Bilbao

[EN] Retail activity in urban areas constitutes a key variable in the health of a city. For that reason, the processes of urban revitalization and retail revitalization run in parallel manner. Integrated management models for urban centres constitute a good framework to harness the competitiveness of the cities and their retail businesses, but they require of all implied participation, by means of a public – private cooperation.

Un caso de marketing turístico: el agroturismo en el País Vasco

[ES] El agroturismo vasco, que data del año 1988, responde a una modalidad de turismo desarrollada en el medio rural, con la peculiaridad de llevarse a cabo en una explotación agraria y ser desempeñada por agricultores que combinan su labor agrícola con la prestación de servicios. La aplicación del marketing en esta forma turística ha sido hasta el momento escasa y se ha canalizado básicamente a través de la Administración Autonómica.

A genealogical map of the concept of habit

The notion of information processing has dominated the study of the mind for over six decades. However, before the advent of cognitivism, one of the most prominent theoretical ideas was that of Habit. This is a concept with a rich and complex history, which is again starting to awaken interest, following recent embodied, enactive critiques of computationalist frameworks. We offer here a very brief history of the concept of habit in the form of a genealogical network-map. This serves to provide an overview of the richness of this notion and as a guide for further re-appraisal. We identify 77 thinkers and their influences, and group them into seven schools of thought. Two major trends can be distinguished. One is the associationist trend, starting with the work of Locke and Hume, developed by Hartley, Bain, and Mill to be later absorbed into behaviorism through pioneering animal psychologists (Morgan and Thorndike). This tradition conceived of habits atomistically and as automatisms (a conception later debunked by cognitivism). Another historical trend we have called organicism inherits the legacy of Aristotle and develops along German idealism, French spiritualism, pragmatism, and phenomenology. It feeds into the work of continental psychologists in the early 20th century, influencing important figures such as Merleau-Ponty, Piaget, and Gibson. But it has not yet been taken up by mainstream cognitive neuroscience and psychology. Habits, in this tradition, are seen as ecological, self-organizing structures that relate to a web of predispositions and plastic dependencies both in the agent and in the environment. In addition, they are not conceptualized in opposition to rational, volitional processes, but as transversing a continuum from reflective to embodied intentionality. These are properties that make habit a particularly attractive idea for embodied, enactive perspectives, which can now re-evaluate it in light of dynamical systems theory and complexity research.

História da psicologia e psicologia histórica: seus critérios e suas diferenças

Este trabalho diferencia a História da Psicologia da Psicologia Histórica, mostrando que a História da Psicologia se ateve ao estudo da evolução de uma ciência e, assim sendo, operou a nível conceitual, tendo considerado importantes para melhor compreensão de seu objeto de estudo - o homem - conceitos referentes à leis fisiológicas e psicológicas. As raízes desses conceitos encontram-se em movimentos relacionados às ciências naturais - conceitos fisiológicos, principalmente sobre os reflexos e a localização cerebral, conceitos biológicos, como os de evolução e adaptação, interesse pela pesquisa, surgimento de laboratórios e uma abordagem do psiquismo - e à filosofia - empirismo crítico, associacionismo e materialismo científico. Fundamentalmente opera com o princípio da permanência, ou seja, com o princípio que sustenta a permanência da natureza humana ao longo da História. Influenciados pelos estudos da sociologia e da antropologia, os psicólogos começaram a rever seus conceitos e, dessa revisão, surgiu, então, uma nova visão do homem; uma compreensão de que ele é um ser cuja realidade é essencialmente histórica e cuja conduta produz e reflete mudanças no ambiente social em que ele vive. Surge, a partir dessa nova visão, a Psicologia Histórica, operando não a nível conceitual, como a História da Psicologia, mas a nivel factual. Trabalha não com uma natureza humana essencialmente estável, mas com um ser humano que se modifica ao longo da História, mostrando características novas e novas espécies de comportamento.

La formación de la Unión de Cañeros Independientes de Tucumán : El nuevo asociacionismo de los cañeros tucumanos en los orígenes del peronismo

El presente trabajo aborda la unificación del gremio cañero tucumano en los orígenes del peronismo. Los cañeros tucumanos cuentan con una larga tradición asociativa que se inicia a finales del siglo XIX con la modernización de la agroindustria azucarera, con la particularidad de la coexistencia de varias asociaciones gremiales surgidas como consecuencia de las recurrentes crisis del sector y de disputas intersectoriales. De esta forma, en este trabajo analizaremos el proceso por el cual el gremio cañero abandonó su tradición asociativa disgregada para dar lugar a la conformación de un gremio unificado, denominado Unión de Cañeros Independientes de Tucumán

La formación de la Unión de Cañeros Independientes de Tucumán : El nuevo asociacionismo de los cañeros tucumanos en los orígenes del peronismo

El presente trabajo aborda la unificación del gremio cañero tucumano en los orígenes del peronismo. Los cañeros tucumanos cuentan con una larga tradición asociativa que se inicia a finales del siglo XIX con la modernización de la agroindustria azucarera, con la particularidad de la coexistencia de varias asociaciones gremiales surgidas como consecuencia de las recurrentes crisis del sector y de disputas intersectoriales. De esta forma, en este trabajo analizaremos el proceso por el cual el gremio cañero abandonó su tradición asociativa disgregada para dar lugar a la conformación de un gremio unificado, denominado Unión de Cañeros Independientes de Tucumán

La formación de la Unión de Cañeros Independientes de Tucumán : El nuevo asociacionismo de los cañeros tucumanos en los orígenes del peronismo

El presente trabajo aborda la unificación del gremio cañero tucumano en los orígenes del peronismo. Los cañeros tucumanos cuentan con una larga tradición asociativa que se inicia a finales del siglo XIX con la modernización de la agroindustria azucarera, con la particularidad de la coexistencia de varias asociaciones gremiales surgidas como consecuencia de las recurrentes crisis del sector y de disputas intersectoriales. De esta forma, en este trabajo analizaremos el proceso por el cual el gremio cañero abandonó su tradición asociativa disgregada para dar lugar a la conformación de un gremio unificado, denominado Unión de Cañeros Independientes de Tucumán

Le prix de l'individualité. Maine de Brian, Samuel Taylor Coleridge et la volonté: Deux postétités distinctes

This thesis is concerned with Maine de Biran’s and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s conceptions of will, and the way in which both thinkers’ posterities have been affected by the central role of these very conceptions in their respective bodies of thought. The research question that animates this work can therefore be divided into two main parts, one of which deals with will, while the other deals with its effects on posterity. In the first pages of the Introduction, I make the case for a comparison between two philosophers, and show how this comparison can bring one closer to truth, understood not in objective, but in subjective terms. I then justify my choice by underlining that, in spite of their many differences, Maine de Biran and Samuel Taylor Coleridge followed comparable paths, intellectually and spiritually, and came to similar conclusions concerning the essential activity of the human mind. Finally, I ask whether it is possible that this very focus on the human will may have contributed to the state of both thinkers’ works and of the reception of those works. This prologue is followed by five parts. In the first part, the similarities and differences between the two thinkers are explored further. In the second part, the connections between philosophy and singularity are examined, in order to show the ambivalence of the will as a foundation for truth. The third part is dedicated to the traditional division between subject and object in psychology, and its relevance in history and in moral philosophy. The fourth part tackles the complexity of the question of influence, with respect to both Maine de Biran’s and Coleridge’s cases, both thinkers being indebted to many philosophers of all times and places, and having to rely heavily on others for the publication, or the interpretation of their own works. The fifth part is concerned with the different aspects of the faculty of will, and primarily its relationship with interiority, as incommensurability, and actual, conditioned existence in a certain historical and spatial context. It ends with a return to the question of will and posterity and an announcement of what will be covered in the main body of the thesis. The main body is divided into three parts:‘L’émancipation’, ‘L’affirmation, and ‘La projection’. The first part is devoted to the way Maine de Biran and Samuel Taylor Coleridge extricated themselves from one epistemological paradigm to contribute to the foundation of another. It is divided in four chapters. The first chapter deals with the aforementioned change of paradigm, as corresponding to the emergence of two separate but associated movements, Romanticism and what the French philosopher refers to as ‘The Age of History’. The second chapter concerns the movement that preceded them, i.e. the Enlightenment, its main features according to both of our thinkers, and the two epistemological models that prevailed under it and influenced them heavily in their early years: Sensationism (Maine de Biran) and Associationism (Coleridge). The third chapter is about the probable influence of Immanuel Kant and his followers on Maine de Biran and Coleridge, and the various facts that allow us to claim originality for both thinkers’ works. In the fourth chapter, I contrast Maine de Biran and Coleridge with other movements and thinkers of their time, showing that, contrary to their respective thoughts, Maine de Biran and Coleridge could not but break free from the then prevailing systematic approach to truth. The second part of the thesis is concerned with the first part of its research question, namely, Maine de Biran’s and Coleridge’s conceptions of the will. It is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is a reflection on the will as a paradox: on the one hand, the will cannot be caused by any other phenomenon, or it is no longer a will; but it cannot be left purely undetermined, as if it is, it is then not different from chance. It thus needs, in order to be, to be contradictorily already moral. The second chapter is a comparison between Maine de Biran’s and Coleridge’s accounts of the origin of the will, where it is found that the French philosopher only observes that he has a will, whereas the English philosopher postulates the existence of this will. The comparison between Maine de Biran’s and Coleridge’s conceptions of the will is pursued in the third chapter, which tackles the question of the coincidence between the will and the self, in both thinkers’ works. It ends with the fourth chapter, which deals with the question of the relationship between the will and what is other to it, i.e. bodily sensations, passions and desires. The third part of the thesis focuses on the second part of its research question, namely the posterity of Maine de Biran’s and Coleridge’s works. It is divided into four chapters. The first chapter constitutes a continuation of the last chapter of the preceding part, in that that it deals with Maine de Biran’s and Coleridge’s relations to the ‘other’, and particularly their potential and actual audience, and with the way these relations may have affected their writing and publishing practices. The second chapter is a survey of both thinkers’ general reception, where it is found that, while Maine de Biran has been claimed by two important movements of thoughts as their initiator, Coleridge has been neglected by the only real movement he could have, or may indeed have pioneered. The third chapter is more directly concerned with the posterities of Maine de Biran’s and Coleridge’s conceptions of will, and attempts to show that the approach to, and the meaning of the will have evolved throughout the nineteenth century, and in the French Spiritualist and the British Idealist movements, from an essentially personal one to a more impersonal one. The fourth chapter is a partial conclusion, whose aim is to give a precise idea of where Maine de Biran and Coleridge stand, in relation to their century and to the philosophical movements and matters we are concerned with. The conclusion is a recapitulation of what has been found, with a particular emphasis on the dialogue initiated between Maine de Biran and Coleridge on the will, and the relation between will and posterity. It suggests that both thinkers have to pay the price of a problematic reception for the individuality that pervades their respective works, and goes further in suggesting that s/he who chooses to found his individuality on the will is bound to feel this incompleteness in his/her own personal life more acutely than s/he who does not. It ends with a reflection on fixedness and movement, as the two antagonistic states that the theoretician of the will paradoxically aspires to.

Gestão e desenvolvimento regional na ride/DF: corsap-DF/GO como modalidade de associativismo territorial

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Geografia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, 2015.