Equivalencias fitoclimáticas entre la vegetación deTurquía y de España

Se establecen las equivalencias fitoclimáticas laxas y estrictas entre España y Turquía siguiendo el modelo numérico-taxonómico de Allúe-Andrade, así como las correspondencias turcas con las series de vegetación españolas. Las equivalencias con los subtipos filoclimáticos turcos termo y eumediterráneos se producen en la clase Quercetea ilicis, mientras que las que se producen con los subtipos nemorales y nemorolauroides lo hacen en la clase Querco-Fagetea. En una posición intermedia se sitúan los subtipos nemoromediterráneos, con equivalencias en ambas clases. Las alianzas correspondientes al subtipo termomediterráneo turco IV2 son Querco rotundifol¡ae-Oleion sylvestris y de la alianza Oleo-Ceratonion siliqueae, las correspondientes al subtipo eumediterráneo IV4 son Quercion ilicis y Quercion broteroi y las correspondientes a los subtipos nemorales y nemorolauroides VI y VI(V) son las alianzas Quercion robori-pyrenaicae, Carpinion y Quercion pubescenti-sessiliflorae. En cada caso se detallan las sedes de vegetación equivalentes.

Museums as a factor for the social integration of art in the community. The experience of cultural volunteering by members of the senior community

After considering museums as cultural institutions responsible for preserving cultural memory and its evolution over time, this article describes the cultural practices within our society that are aimed at disseminating art and at reproducing and transmitting culture, history and identity. Further, it considers the key role that older people are steadily assuming in Spain’s ageing society. New social-empowerment activities based on volunteering by the elderly are linked to generativity because the individual and social groups acquire new skills through those activities, thereby strengthening a society for all ages. Never in the history of social work have so many older people been prepared to participate actively at the community level, and never has a social movement with these features gone so unnoticed by so many social agents.

Death Aesthetization in Contemporary Artistic Practices

Starting from the famous and enigmatic quotation of the Aristotle’s Poetics, who argues that the human has a natural desire and pleasure to see corpses if mediated by art, is intended to show the relationship between the attraction for the horror and some contemporary art practices surrounding the depiction of death, particularly with regard to the ultimate use of the human corpse as an artistic resource. Avoiding any kind of ethical approach or questioning of the limits of the artistic production, is meant to highlight the phenomenon through the examples brought out by the work of some contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Eric Fischl, Damien Hirst, Von Hagens, Andres Serrano, Joel-Peter Witkin and Teresa Margolles: From those who use the corpse in and turn it in something aesthetically pleasant, to others who turn human corpses in sculptures of scientific value, and further other kind of artists who assume the morbid and dramatic life of the corpse in their art production as something structural.