Being the mother of a pregnant adolescent: experiences and expectations

OBJECTIVE: To understand the typical actions of the mother during the pregnancy of her teenage daughter. METHODS: Qualitative study, based on the theoretical-methodological framework of social phenomenology of Alfred Schütz. The data were collected in 2009, and the subjects were nine mothers of adolescent primigravidae. RESULTS: The mother of the pregnant adolescent is typified as one that reacts with surprise and disappointment to being notified of the pregnancy and who, subsequently, conforms to the new reality. In reflecting on her own experience of an adolescent mother, she has expectations to support her daughter during the pregnancy and to offer support, so that the course of her life is not impaired as a result of pregnancy. CONCLUSION: Considering the experience and expectations of the mother of the pregnant adolescent, this study could give subsidies to the planning and execution of the care for this binomial, decreasing the distance between the demands made by it and the practice of health professionals.

Il linguaggio degli ambienti virtuali culturali: comunicare la storia di Bologna attraverso il progetto Nu.M.E.

The contemporary media landscape is characterized by the emergence of hybrid forms of digital communication that contribute to the ongoing redefinition of our societies cultural context. An incontrovertible consequence of this phenomenon is the new public dimension that characterizes the transmission of historical knowledge in the twenty-first century. Awareness of this new epistemic scenario has led us to reflect on the following methodological questions: what strategies should be created to establish a communication system, based on new technology, that is scientifically rigorous, but at the same time engaging for the visitors of museums and Internet users? How does a comparative analysis of ancient documentary sources form a solid base of information for the virtual reconstruction of thirteenth century Bologna in the Metaverse? What benefits can the phenomenon of cross-mediality give to the virtual heritage? The implementation of a new version of the Nu.M.E. project allowed for answering many of these instances. The investigation carried out between 2008 and 2010 has shown that, indeed, real-time 3D graphics and collaborative virtual environments can be feasible tools for representing philologically the urban medieval landscape and for communicating properly validated historical data to the general public. This research is focused on the study and implementation of a pipeline that permits mass communication of historical information about an area of vital importance in late medieval Bologna: Piazza di Porta Ravegnana. The originality of the developed project is not limited solely to the methodological dimension of historical research. Adopted technological perspective is an excellent example of innovation that digital technologies can bring to the cultural heritage. The main result of this research is the creation of Nu.ME 2010, a cross-media system of 3D real-time visualization based on some of the most advanced free software and open source technologies available today free of charge.

I progetti di Oswald Mathias Ungers per la città di Treviri. Questioni di composizione architettonica

Abstract This PhD thesis focuses on two projects carried out by Oswald Mathias Ungers in the city of Trier. More specifi cally, this study focuses on the relationship between composition principles, architectural forms, historical context and the nature of the city where these buildings have been built. The works carried out by Ungers in Trier are unique experiences - if taken in this master’s works context - and each one of them refl ects - in its specifi c project and architectural composition theme - the results - in terms of design - of a complex research on the fundamentals of architecture carried out by Ungers in more than fi ve decades of his activity. The theoretical and compositional experiment aspect is one of the main subjects to defi ne these buildings in terms of architecture. This aspect is so crucial that it is possible to consider them as an example of radical and specifi c experiences, referred to a specifi c place and based on a specifi c theoretical corpus. More specifi cally, this study focuses on the design activity carried out by Ungers in this city, mainly between the 80s and 90s and in the fi rst decade of the 21st century. It puts forward an interpretation that does not only defi ne the essential features, elements and questions lying behind these two architectures, but fi rst and foremost analyzes the theoretical, methodological and compositional relationship between Ungers and Trier, his adopted city. An increasingly closer relationship between the architect and his city highlights the wider relationship network established between the place and the projects carried out by Ungers in this city and makes it possible to understand the importance of Trier in the work of this architect, in his education and in his way to see, think and make architecture. The projects analyzed - the Thermen am Forum Museum (1988-1996) and the Kaiserthermen entrance hall (2003-2007) - were analyzed in terms of their architectural composition in an attempt to highlight the poetry of these architectures and to fi nd out their progressive, rational - and therefore transmissible - character. This study is an attempt to assess and unveil the compositional themes characterizing these projects while detecting the compositional principles lying behind the works and verifying the design process through which such principles were translated into architecture. Looking at these works as architectural composition examples makes it possible to clarify Ungers’ hermeneutic relationship established with the city’s history and structure. More specifi cally, the main subject of this thesis is the relationship between the architect, his city and history in the architectural solutions offered by two exemplary case studies, which were both built and placed in the historical city center of Trier and both connected with the ancient core of the city. The Thermen am Forum Museum and the Kaiserthermen entrance hall projects are - though being developed at different times of Ungers’ architectural life and though being extremely different in terms of approach to their context, due to their architectural image - two works that can be compared with the historical heritage of the city and this makes them ideal examples of the relationship between architectural forms, history and environment.

«Präzise doch ungenau». Tradurre il saggio. Un approccio olistico al saggio poetico di Durs Grünbein

Il saggio, genere di confine (Grenzgänger-Textsorte) per eccellenza, la cui indefinibilità è topos, si profila tuttora come terra incognita nell’àmbito delle scienze della traduzione. La presente ricerca mira a enucleare un modello traduttologico olistico per la traduzione del saggio. In feconda alternativa alla dicotomia approccio ermeneutico-letterario vs. approccio linguistico, la prospettiva teorico-metodologica del lavoro integra linee di ricerca filologico-letterarie e linguistico-testuali. Tale sguardo multiprospettico, l’unico in grado di dar conto della complessità del genere, permette di collocare operativamente il saggio e le sue varianti testuali principali (Textsortenvarianten), dal saggio specialistico (fachlicher Essay) al saggio poetico (poetischer Essay) sul continuum delle forme testuali comprese entro le dimensioni (scientifica, pragmatica, estetica) del Denkhandeln. Dalla produttiva intersezione tra la riflessione dell’Essayforschung classica e contemporanea e le più recenti indagini linguistico-testuali sulle forme del saggismo scientifico, si perviene alla formulazione di una definitio per proprietates del saggio. Segue lo sviluppo di un modello traduttologico olistico, che tesaurizza il proprio paradigma antropologico, la riflessione filosofico-ermeneutica e le acquisizioni della linguistica testuale, articolandosi attraverso le fasi ricorsive e interagenti di ricezione olistica, analisi poetico-ermeneutica e retorico-stilistica, progettazione linguistico-cognitiva, formulazione e revisione. L’approccio olistico così delinatosi viene quindi vagliato nella sua proficuità in sede applicativa. Funge da banco di prova un vero e proprio “caso limite” per complessità e qualità letteraria, ovvero il «poetischer Essay» del poeta, saggista e traduttore Durs Grünbein, una delle voci più acclamate nel panorama contemporaneo. La sezione pratica presenta infine l’inedita traduzione italiana dei saggi grünbeiniani Den Körper zerbrechen e Die Bars von Atlantis.

Opportunities for Local Development in Jiului Valley"

This was an exploratory study that aimed to gain a rough understanding of the possible ways of implementing community development. The study was carried out between October 1998 and August 1999 in Lupeni, in the Jiu Valley, which is a mining area facing major decline following the government's decision to restructure the mining industry. Against a background of the history of sociology and its insights into the development of the community concept and its theoretical, methodological and practical significance, an analysis was carried out on four levels relevant to the community development approach: social participation, citizens' level of dependency on the state, and membership and the sense of belonging to the local and national community. A needs analysis approach using questionnaires, in-depth interviews and the Delphi approach took into consideration all those actors who could play important roles in local development: local authorities, representatives of local organisations (schools, trade unions, local associations, churches), and local residents.

La persistente pertinencia del enfoque de género en la investigación socio-histórica

El siguiente artículo se inscribe en el debate de los estudios feministas que se proponen hacer una historia inclusiva en donde las mujeres, por su condición y posición, no queden relegadas al margen de los hechos sociales que tienen lugar en el tiempo y el espacio; que la mirada androcéntrica no gane la batalla y que esos hechos, algo invisibles a simple vista, puedan ser observados, analizados y revelados. En fin, que la genealogía de los procesos históricos, tal cual lo señala Foucault, nos permita ir más allá para descubrir lo que la historia oficial no ha descubierto, o bien, ha velado y omitido por su poca o mucha trascendencia. Deseamos plasmar aquí una entrada que retoma varios aspectos teórico- metodológicos que, en sí mismos, no son novedosos, de modo que el aporte consiste en cómo se relacionan estos constructos, cómo se articulan entre sí para avanzar y contribuir con el desarrollo de las reflexiones, en particular, la participación de las mujeres en hechos socio-históricos.

El impacto de la Ley de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual en los diarios mendocinos Los Andes y Uno : un análisis desde la intencionalidad editorial

En base al modelo teórico metodológico de la intencionalidad editorial, que sostiene que el periodismo es objetivo (en tanto remite a fuentes), y parcial (toma de posición), analizamos la cobertura realizada por los diarios Los Andes y UNO sobre la Ley de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual. La hipótesis fue que los diarios locales construyeron, a través de piezas periodísticas, un sentido común que respondió a sus intereses corporativos en detrimento del derecho humano a la comunicación. El análisis consistió en un observatorio de medios que combinó metodología cuantitativa y cualitativa, desde el 27 de agosto al 11 de octubre de 2009.

Las políticas en derechos humanos según los medios hegemónicos argentinos

Este artículo aborda la cobertura realizada por los diarios Clarín y La Nación y el canal Todo Noticias respecto de las políticas en Derechos Humanos aplicados por el Gobierno nacional a partir de 2003, en el marco de la conmemoración del 24 de marzo último. Sobre la base del modelo teórico-metodológico de la intencionalidad editorial -cuyo análisis combina métodos de análisis cuantitativos y cualitativos- se observó el periodo 21/28 de marzo de 2010. Se concluyó que los medios analizados actuaron como sujetos activos en la oposición y deslegitimación de dichas políticas, respondiendo a sus intereses hegemónicos.

El análisis del paisaje como herramienta y puente teórico-metodológico para la gestión socio-ambiental del territorio

El presente artículo busca comprender cómo el concepto de paisaje se transforma desde su producción y discusión académica hasta su adaptación por parte del Estado; y seguidamente, cómo este concepto termina siendo aplicado en el territorio, a través de la práctica de diversos profesionales interesados en el mismo. Para ello, se parte de algunas definiciones desarrolladas por diversas disciplinas: geografía, antropología, arqueología, ecología, agronomía y arquitectura, especificando sus puntos de interés; y se hace una comparación entre sus propuestas y la forma en la que estos conceptos son adoptados por el Estado, específicamente por medio de los denominados "términos de referencia". Posteriormente, se analiza cómo estos conceptos y metodologías son llevados a la práctica por profesionales que se desempeñan en diferentes empresas de consultoría, muchas veces sin considerar la forma en la que los habitantes locales entienden y viven el paisaje desde sus territorios. Concluyo que existe una evidente necesidad de construir puentes entre la academia, el Estado, la población y la empresa, a través de la práctica profesional y sobre la necesidad de reconocer la forma como los habitantes locales viven el concepto desde sus territorios. Solo así se logrará generar verdaderos impactos que se reflejen en una mejor calidad de vida de los habitantes

La orientación en América Latina : Consideraciones generales acerca de los criterios de coherencia, cooperación y calidad

La Orientación en América Latina, como campo de formación profesional y en comparación con Europa y Estados Unidos, es una actividad de reciente aceptación en los medios académicos. La misma se ha caracterizado por una constante evolución en su afán de adaptarse a los nuevos cambios y transformaciones sociales, políticas y económicas que se suceden en el continente latinoamericano. En esta ponencia se presenta un panorama general acerca de la Orientación en América Latina. Las principales consideraciones formuladas se relacionan con cuatro dimensiones: a) la dimensión política pública, donde se presentan la situación actual y las propuestas al respecto; b) la dimensión contextual que hace referencia a la formación del orientador y los diferentes escenarios de acción; c) la dimensión organizacional que se relaciona con la provisión de este servicio, y d) la dimensión metodológica donde se desarrollan los principales aspectos relacionados con la práctica de la Orientación.