Maria Eugenia Celso: entre o impresso feminino, a casa e o espa��o p��blico (1920-1941)

Esta disserta����o se situa no campo de estudos da Hist��ria da Educa����o e privilegia o per��odo compreendido entre 1920 e 1941, com vistas a destacar a dimens��o educativa dos escritos de Maria Eugenia Celso em di��logo com estudos sobre a hist��ria das mulheres no Brasil e no ocidente, com a quest��o de g��nero. Para dar tratamento a esse prop��sito, investe-se nas possibilidades de pesquisa do texto jornal��stico e liter��rio de Maria Eugenia Celso, elencando-se seus escritos na coluna Pagina de Eva do peri��dico Revista da Semana, reportagens em prol da Federa����o Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino publicados pelo Jornal do Brasil e documentos desta entidade, bem como o livro Di��rio de Ana L��cia. A escolha pelos referidos escritos justifica-se pela presen��a de discursos que encaminham para uma educa����o da mulher. Nesta perspectiva, neste texto acad��mico, busca-se lan��ar luz sobre a trajet��ria da escritora, para que suas obras tenham mais visibilidade. Almeja-se, da mesma forma, possibilitar uma leitura mais aprofundada da sociedade �� ��poca tanto quanto da dimens��o educativa do impresso para a hist��ria das mulheres brasileiras. Neste estudo, destaco a mulher presente no espa��o dom��stico e no espa��o p��blico, abordando diferentes representa����es da mulher nas primeiras d��cadas do s��culo XX

O Mercosul social: avan��os e obst��culos para uma nova din��mica de integra����o regional

Este trabalho busca analisar a nova din��mica do processo de integra����o no Mercosul, caracterizada pelo tratamento de temas sociais como direitos humanos, meio ambiente, sa��de e educa����o, indicando o avan��o de uma agenda social de integra����o que rompe com a tradi����o comercialista do bloco. O avan��o de governos progressistas nos pa��ses membros contribuiu para essa nova l��gica integradora, tendo estimulado tamb��m o aumento dos mecanismos de participa����o social, abrindo espa��o para uma maior presen��a de atores sociais nas discuss��es relativas �� integra����o. �� objetivo da pesquisa avaliar qual �� a efetiva influ��ncia desses novos atores no Mercosul, questionando-se a poss��vel exist��ncia de uma esfera p��blica transnacional. Para chegar a uma resposta, o trabalho recorre a vari��veis e conceitos como d��ficit democr��tico, transpar��ncia, representatividade e faz um estudo espec��fico das caracter��sticas e dos meios de articula����o de duas categorias sociais no bloco: as centrais sindicais e os empres��rios.

O transparentno��ci. Sztuka w przestrzeni publicznej postkomunistycznej Europy

Wydzia�� Nauk Spo��ecznych

Proposta metodol��gica para an��lise da qualidade urban��stica de Frentes de ��gua

Disserta����o apresentada �� Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obten����o do grau de Mestre em Arquitetura e Urbanismo

The examination of the traditional femininity and women���s lives in ancient China

This thesis explores the evolution of the concept of traditional Chinese femininity in relation to women���s lives in ancient China (221 BCE ��� A.D.1840). It proposes that the traditional Chinese femininity had been trying to seek a balance between the permanent principles and contingency plans for the stability and development of the society, which caused women���s humiliation and freedom. In reality, politicians and thinkers in ancient China had been transforming the concept of femininity itself to make it more adaptable to the social conditions of that time. This may be discussed in terms of three aspects. Firstly, the traditional concept of Chinese human relationships, including the ethical order, always emphasised the influence of individual behaviour on others and the overall stability and linked development of family, society and nation. Thus, both men and women, must be placed within this interrelated, interacting and cooperating relationship. Secondly, the association of family and country created an overlap of family and public affairs, which, objectively, facilitated the movement of women from the inner to the public arena. Thirdly, the notions of political and ethical morality and of men���s virtues and women���s virtues were integrated because of the union of family and nation. Therefore, typically virtuous women could be a source of encouragement for men and, furthermore, men formulated their virtues in the public space by formulating women���s virtues in the private space. The shaping of the gender image and concept of women in ancient China reflected the country���s changing cultural and gender norms. Chinese femininity and lifestyles, like Chinese history, were a continuous presence in the society but were also constantly changing. Through this study, it could be noted that Chinese women were not hidden and that their subjectivity and the concepts motivating them were not merely devised by a male-dominated society and culture.

Place, teenagers and urban identities: Growing up in the revanchist city

The recreational lives of teenagers in Ireland has been the subject of much debate in recent years. The subject has received much attention from academics, particularly in the UK and the US. In Ireland there is a dearth of research on, and a poor understanding of teenagers recreational lives. Additionally much of the research from the UK and the US to date has been focused on teenagers��� use of the street for recreation, arguing that teenagers are increasingly pushed out of public space. The research frequently emphasises teenagers��� resistance against adult hegemony. This thesis explores the recreational geographies of teenagers living in two socially and economically distinct neighbourhoods in Cork. It seeks to fill in gaps in knowledge of teenagers recreational lives in Ireland and contribute to geographical wisdom on teenagers��� geographies. Using a mixed method approach and a variety of thinking tools this research shows that teenagers living in Cork are growing up in a revanchist society. The thesis demonstrates how teenagers��� recreational practices are currently being configured in Irish society, unfolding strategies of dominance and affection which construct and regulate the recreational lives of teenagers. The effects of revanchism on teenagers��� experiences of outdoor space for recreation are also pursued. Furthermore the socio-spatial contingencies of teenagers��� recreational lives and revanchism are probed throughout the thesis, but in greater depth in the final chapters. The work also addresses an under-researched aspect of young people���s recreational - relationships with pets. Lastly, the subject of teenagers��� right to urban space is critically analysed.

"It is Quietly Chaotic. It Confuses Time"*: Final Report of Excavations at the Bordley-Randall Site in Annapolis, Maryland, 1993-1995 (18AP50)

*This extract is from Gay P. Crowther's description of the Randall Court pathway (Cowther 1985).

Waterfront retrieved. Buenos Aires��� contrasting leisure experience

The southern waterfront of the city of Buenos Aires has been recovered. Now that more than 20 years have passed since the projects began, we are able to get some perspective on these developments and can confront them with the integral history of this area. The areas of Puerto Madero, Costanera Sur, Reserva Ecol��gica and Santa Mar��a del Plata have distinctive characteristics and these are reflected in urban landscape, architecture and especially through the use of these spaces. Real estate developments cohabit with public space, tourism with local leisure facilities, and the most expensive office floors with local choripan1 stands, all of these in a development in which the state, the municipality, international corporations and real estate companies have collaborated and discussed to produce a hybrid new space for the city.

Imported and translated landscapes: Buenos Aires nineteenth-century waterfront parks

The study of urban and landscape history has recently questioned the peripheral condition of certain areas and re-examined them as valuable parts of an international network . In such a framework cities are not only recipients of foreign influences but active agents in their own urban transformations. Meanwhile, the regeneration of urban waterfronts appears increasingly in the spotlight globally , but the re-use of the waterfront as public space began more than a century ago. <br/> <br/>Buenos Aires is an example of a ���peripheral��� city, in which waterfront parks at the end of the nineteenth century were the product of international influences combined with local conditions, needs and expertise. Buenos Aires developed a continuous increase and diversity of leisure waterfront space, making it different from most European or ���central��� cities. This paper will analyse the process of translation of landscape design on Buenos Aires��� waterfront while outlining the significance of waterfront parks to the city and its growing urban population. <br/>

Gendered Spaces and Wounded Bodies: Yamina Benguigui's 'Inch'Allah Dimanche'

Yamina Benguigui is a pioneer in the representation of Maghrebi immigration to France, and has produced a number of works of documentary and fictional film on the subject. This article discusses her fictional film Inch'Allah dimanche (2001). The film portrays the trajectory of a young woman, Zouina, who takes her children and mother-in-law to join her husband in France. The film is unique for its close focus on the space of the home, and the negotiation of gendered spaces within the strict confines set by Zouina's husband. In this article, I consider Zouina's tentative steps towards emancipation from these confines, focusing on preconceived notions of gendered spaces across different cultures. I consider possible interpretations of the final moment of wounding in the film, in which Zouina breaks through a window with her bare hands, destroying the barrier between the interior, private space of the home and the exterior, public space of the street.

Imported landscapes:Buenos Aires nineteenth century waterfront parks

The study of urban and landscape history has recently questioned the peripheral condition of certain areas and re-examined them as valuable parts of an international network . Meanwhile, the regeneration of urban waterfronts appears increasingly in the spotlight globally , while the re-use of the waterfront as public space actually began more than a century ago. <br/>Buenos Aires is an example of a peripheral city, where waterfront parks at the end of the nineteenth century were the product of international influences combined with local conditions, needs and expertise. This paper will analyse the process of translation of landscape design on Buenos Aires��� waterfront while outlining the significance of waterfront parks for civilising the growing urban population.<br/>

Dublin���s ephemeral and imaginary architectures

In 1989, the Irish architectural practice O���Donnell and Tuomey were commissioned to build a temporary pavilion to represent Ireland at the 11 Cities/11 Nations exhibition at Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. Citing Peter Smithson, John Tuomey suggested the pavilion, which drew inspirations from the forms and materials of the modern Irish barn, embodied an intention ���not just to build but to communicate���. Its subsequent reassembly for the inauguration of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in the courtyard of the seventeenth-century Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin in 1991, drew comparisons between the urban sophistication of this colonial building, its svelte new refit, and the rural expression of O���Donnell + Tuomey���s barn. It was, one critic recently noted, as if ���a wedding had been crashed by a country cousin who had forgotten to clean his boots���. <br/>It has been argued that temporary or ephemeral pieces of architecture, unburdened by the traditional constraints of firmitas or utilitas, have the ability to offer a concise distillation of meaning and intention. Approaching the qualities of rhetoric, such architectures share similarities with the monument and yet differ in fundamental ways. Their rapid construction in lightweight materials can allow for an almost instantaneous negotiation of zeitgeist. And, unlike the monument, from the outset the space and form of these installations is designed to disappear. <br/>This paper analyses the ephemeral architectures of Dublin in the modern period contextualising their qualities and intentions as they manifest themselves across colonial, post-colonial and contemporary epochs. It finds origins in the theatrical sets of the late eighteenth century and traces their movements into the semi-public sphere of the pleasure garden and finally into the theatre of the streets. It is here that temporary architecture in the city has been at its most potent, allowing the amplification or subversion of the meanings of much larger spaces. Historically, much of Dublin���s most conspicuous instances of ephemeral architecture have been realised as a means of articulating mass spectacle in political, religious or nationalistic events. And while much of this has sought to confirm dominant ideologies, it has also been possible to discern moments of opposition.<br/>The contemporary period, however, has arguably witnessed a shift in ephemeral architectures from explicitly representing ���positive ideologies��� towards something more oblique or nebulous. This turn towards abstraction in form and space has rendered an especially communicative form of architecture particularly elusive. By examining continuities within the apparent disjuncture between historical and contemporary examples, this paper begins to unpick the language of recent ephemeral architecture in Dublin and situate it within wider global trends where political and economic imperatives are often simultaneously obscured and expressed in public space by a vocabulary of universality. As Jurgen Habermas has suggested, the contemporary value given to the transitory and the ephemeral ���discloses a longing for an undefiled, immaculate and stable present���. <br/>

Revolting Arts or Spatial Democracy: Performances of popular arts during the Egyptian Revolution?

This paper investigates how spatial practices of Public art performance had transformed public space from being a congested traffic hub into an active and animated space for resistance that was equally accessible to different factions, social strata, media outlets and urban society, determined by popular culture and social responsibility. Tahrir Square was reproduced, in a process of ���space adaptation��� using Henri Lefebvre���s term, to accommodate forms of social organization and administration.205 Among the spatial patterns of activities detected and analyzed this paper focus on particular forms of mass practices of art and freedom of expression that succeeded to transform Tahrir square into performative space and commemorate its spatial events. It attempts to interrogate how the power of artistic interventions has recalled socio-cultural memory through spatial forms that have negotiated middle grounds between deeply segregated political and social groups in moments of utopian democracy. Through analytical surveys and decoding of media recordings of the events, direct interviews with involved actors and witnesses, this paper offers insight into the ways protesters lent their artistry capacity to the performance of resistance to become an act of spatial festivity or commemoration of events. The paper presents series of analytical maps tracing how the role of art has shifted significantly from traditional freedom of expression modes as narrative of resistance into more sophisticated spatial performative ones that take on a new spatial vibrancy and purpose.

Contested urbanism: Access and control issues in Tundikhel, Kathmandu

Contested Open Spaces?: Access and control issues in Tundikhel, Kathmandu<br/><br/>Public spaces play a role of political, economic and cultural transformation of cities and the impact of these transformations on the nature of public space.<br/><br/>Urban open space(s) in Kathmandu have been an important part of the city���s urbanism. Historically they have played an important role in the city as spaces for religious, cultural, social and political and military activities during the 300 years of unified monarchy. Throughout the civil war period (Maoist insurgency between 1996 and 2006) they became material locations for political activities, and a site for protests and dharnas. In post-conflict Kathmandu, especially since the abolition of Monarchy in May 28, 2008, these spaces are increasingly seen being claimed by street hawkers, informal sellers and individuals reflecting a new set of users and functions, whereas a significant part of Tundikhel still remains under the military occupation posing important questions around access, identity and control of an important space.<br/><br/><br/>Public spaces are broadly defined as crossroads where different paths and trajectories meet, sometimes overlapping and other times colliding (Madanipour, 2003). Using Tudikhel in Kathmandu, this research examines the increasing collision and contestations witnessed through social, political and neoliberal interactions. It explores how spaces are constantly <br/>contested, negotiated and as a result reshaped through these interactions. It is observed that multiple forces are at play to gain control and access of this important open space, leading to increasing fragmentation of the space, and erosion of its historic significance both as cultural venue and a symbol of democracy in modern Nepal. It is argued that increasing disconnection of Tudikhel from wider urban setting has contributed to exacerbation of these contestations<br/>

European urban spaces in crisis - the mapping of affective pracitices with Living with Difference: introduction

The introduction outlines the notion of urban space and crisis in Europe while taking into account the more recent protests and riots in different cities, in and beyond Europe. It is argued that the phenomen of protest is happening alongside the economic crisis underscoring an alternative political public civic spirit expressing to a certain degree the renaissance and timely making of, what might be called in the digital age, #��uvre. Its forces and emotional properties capture a political realm that unfolds as a globalized urban transnational public space, still progressing. Further, it introduces the collection of papers for the special themed feature. Five papers look at affective practices through a Continental European lens, which places the meaning of race, migration and intersecting identity angles at the centre of debates of individual encounters in public spaces. The final and sixth paper, written by Brenda Yeoh, looks through a Singapore/East Asia lens, and comments on the common European threats as well as on the historical specificity and implications of distinctive geo-political spaces for affective practices.