Natural Disasters and Comparative State-Formation and Nation-Building: Earthquakes in Argentina and Chile (1822-1939)

Natural disasters in Argentina and Chile played a significant role in the state-formation and nation-building process (1822-1939). This dissertation explores state and society responses to earthquakes by studying public and private relief efforts reconstruction plans, crime and disorder, religious interpretations of catastrophes, national and transnational cultures of disaster, science and technology, and popular politics. Although Argentina and Chile share a political border and geological boundary, the two countries provide contrasting examples of state formation. Most disaster relief and reconstruction efforts emanated from the centralized Chilean state in Santiago. In Argentina, provincial officials made the majority of decisions in a catastrophe’s aftermath. Patriotic citizens raised money and collected clothing for survivors that helped to weave divergent regions together into a nation. The shared experience of earthquakes in all regions of Chile created a national disaster culture. Similarly, common disaster experiences, reciprocal relief efforts, and aid commissions linked Chileans with Western Argentine societies and generated a transnational disaster culture. Political leaders viewed reconstruction as opportunities to implement their visions for the nation on the urban landscape. These rebuilding projects threatened existing social hierarchies and often failed to come to fruition. Rebuilding brought new technologies from Europe to the Southern Cone. New building materials and systems, however, had to be adapted to the South American economic and natural environment. In a catastrophe’s aftermath, newspapers projected images of disorder and the authorities feared lawlessness and social unrest. Judicial and criminal records, however, show that crime often decreased after a disaster. Finally, nineteenth-century earthquakes heightened antagonism and conflict between the Catholic Church and the state. Conservative clergy asserted that disasters were divine punishments for the state’s anti-clerical measures and later railed against scientific explanations of earthquakes.

A kingdom near lost: English military recovery in Ireland, 1600-03

Ireland was rarely a peaceful realm for Elizabeth I, but Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone and his allies brought the edifice of English power in Ireland to the brink of collapse. The war in Ireland at the end of the sixteenth century devoured money, lives and reputations at a prodigious rate. However seven years of Irish success ended when in 1600 the Queen appointed Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy as Lord Deputy. Success replaced failure, but only after the new Lord Deputy transformed English strategy and rebuilt the army into an instrument fit for purpose.

Infancia, exilio y memoria. Tres relatos de una infancia transterrada tras la última dictadura argentina

Este trabajo aborda la cuestión del exilio desde una figura en particular: la infancia. Cientos de miles de niños y adolescentes terminaron por convertirse en desterrados o expatriados, debido a la situación política que atravesaba el país. A través de tres relatos autobiográficos de infancia y adolescencia, exploramos lo que supuso el exilio desde la experiencia de esas edades. Los tres relatos, narrados en primera persona y desde voces femeninas, nos sumergen en tres historias distintas. Sus protagonistas, aunque poseen edades diferentes, aparecen unidas por un único hilo conductor: cierta resignificación del exilio, del regreso y del lenguaje, emerge como condición de posibilidad de supervivencia para estos sujetos transterrados

Relative importance of environment, human activity and spatial situation in determining the distribution of terrestrial mammal diversity in Argentina

We recorded the number of terrestrial mammal species in each Argentinian province, and the number of species belonging to particular groups (Marsupialia, Placentaria, and among the latter, Xenarthra, Carnivora, Ungulates and Rodentia). We performed multiple regressions of each group’s SR on environmental, human and spatial variables, to determine the amounts of variation explained by these factors. We then used a variance partitioning procedure to specify which proportion of the variation in SR is explained by each of the three factors exclusively and which proportions are attributable to interactions between factors.

Arquitetura residencial em João Pessoa-PB a experiência moderna nos anos 1970

In the mid-1980s, the magazine Projeto published the Actual Brazilian Architecture catalogue presenting texts by Hugo Segawa and Ruth Verde Zein with a corpus of works and engaged architects of the 1960s and 1970s. To comprehend the Brazilian architectural production post-1964, in those years of the 1980s, became a significant mission to reactivate the Brazilian architectural debate weakened by the military dictatorship. In his doctoral thesis Spadoni (2003) deals with the different ways which characterizes the Brazilian architectural production of the 1970s. Marked by inventiveness, this production was in tune with the modern thinking and in the transition period between the 1970s and the 1980s it synchronized with the international debate about post-modern architecture. Considering Spadoni s doctoral thesis, this work deals with the modern experience observed in the one-family-houses built in the seventies in João Pessoa. Some modern experiences were not clear outside, to observe it, it was necessary to search for the type of experience into the spatial disposition and of the know-how constructive, because into the appearance some houses not make explicit the use of the modern language. Other observed experiences allude to the repertoire of the Brazilian period in the years 1940s-1960s, to the experience of the modern architecture in São Paulo of the 1960s, to the experiences in which the climate of the Northeastern region strongly influenced the architectural conception. We can also find in a reduced number of houses a particular experience: it refers to experiences that expose the constructive doing, which leave the material apparent and apply to the residential type the experience of the industrial pre-fabricated buildings

Ver, lembrar e narrar: a conformação das memórias sobre a ditadura militar na recepção assistida do audiovisual

Subjective and socially constructed instance, the memory is not a natural phenomenon, but an area of contention between various social organizations for control and legitimation of a past. With the development of writing and the advent of new technical devices, it creates new ways to store and transport information. The memory is no longer restricted to the limits of the here and now of the subject and undergoes transformations. In this scenario, the media start to play an important role in publicizing and construction of embodiments of memory. This study aims to analyze the conformation of the memory of political groups during the process of receiving audiovisual fiction. For this purpose, a corpus of four chapters of the soap opera Love and Revolution was used as a cognitive device for remembering. The television series, broadcast by SBT between April 2011 and January 2012, went back to the beginning and development of the military dictatorship in Brazil, in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Three militants of various affiliations Communists who acted against the regime in Rio Grande do Norte and neighboring states, were participants in this study. Using the method of oral history, the research was divided into two stages: in-depth interviews, which dealt with the history of life of employees with the militancy in the Communist parties and other social movements, and the assistance of a drive dramatic soap opera Love and Revolution. Comparing these two phases of the study, we analyze the flow of mediations that crossed memories of militancy and media framework; shifts the narrative of remembrance during reception, and the opposition between memory and represented the experiences of the receivers

Desafios e limites da prática do sindicalismo rural :um estudo de caso em São Paulo do Potengi/RN

The dissertation analyzes how the syndical practice of the workers rural Brazilians works your aspects of mobilization and claim in front of the execution of attendance services and providences, instituted in the marks of the military dictatorship, in the decade of 1970. We try to apprehend how these services have been interfering in the development of base works. Considering base works, as an enduring political formation of the rural workers, formation of new syndical leaderships and an effect participation of the workers in the political spaces. We trace the path of the rural workers' organization, starting from the previous period to the military stroke of 1964, while protagonists inserted in the national political conjuncture, organizing fight fronts and conquering rights. The research reveals that the rural workers' syndical movement, when it develops the activities coming from Funrural, established in 1971, they confront a dilemma that go through the political nature of your practice, which such activities can reduce the syndical rural workers, to a antity of assistance, and so interfere in the accomplishment of base works with the rural working class. The rural workers' syndical movement, inserted in the several conjunctures, since of your emersion in ante-64, when they have passed by growth and retrocession, they built along this period a structure to the national level, which makes possible the recognition of the rural workers' organization, as a class, and human being politicians of your own structure. It is in this context that the syndical practice is analyzed, emphasizing your limits and your possibilities while policy strenght nationally constituted

O projeto para o pavilhão brasileiro na expo' 92 em sevilha e a chamada arquitetura paulista

This article discusses the controversy surrounding the winning project of the competition organized by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Brazilian pavilion at the Expo'92 in Seville, Spain; the views of architecture critics made at the time of the results, and, their implications for Brazilian architecture. At the beginning of the 90s, this competition was a kind of confrontation of ideas, between the architects who were in favour of a renewal of architecture and those who defended the resumption of national architectural traditions, buildings with large spans, constructed in reinforced concrete. These architects were the heirs of the so called Paulista architecture, which was characterised by the work undertaken from the 60's by important architects such as Vilanova Artigas and Paulo Mendes da Rocha. The modern references adopted by the winning project, from the architects Angelo Bucci, Alvaro Puntoni and José Oswaldo Vilela, sparked controversies because of the difficulty of resuming the teachings of the old modern masters when faced with new times. These controversies were related to the end of the military dictatorship in Brazil and the process of opening markets, and by the relevance of a re-evaluation of the so-called Paulista architecture.

Suicídio revolucionário: a luta armada e a herança da quimérica revolução em etapas

Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais - FFC

Os caminhos, as pessoas, as idéias: a trajetória política de Gildo Macedo Lacerda, sua rede de sociabilidades e sua geração

Pós-graduação em História - FCHS

Os Planos Nacionais de Desenvolvimento e a institucionalização da ciência durante a ditadura militar (1964-1985): a defesa de uma ciência nacional pela comunidade científica brasileira

Pós-graduação em História - FCLAS

O canto do povo de um lugar: uma leitura das canções de João do Vale

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

O Mito da cidade provisória: natureza, migração e conflito social em Tailândia (1977-2000)

Esta dissertação analisa a ideia da provisoriedade associada ao contexto da criação da cidade de Tailândia (nordeste do Pará) entre os anos de 1977 e 2000. O foco central é a construção da imagem desta cidade como um local violento e as contribuições do fluxo migratório para a construção da identidade e memória local. Este estudo analisa a política pública de ocupação deste espaço e as experiências e lutas dos moradores para estabelecer uma nova cidade, dentro de um processo de apagamento das vivências antigas. No contexto da ditadura militar e no universo dos Planos de Desenvolvimento e grandes projetos para a Amazônia, esta dissertação procura revelar outros sujeitos e suas narrativas, dando-lhe uma nova roupagem na medida em que se entrelaçam o rural e o urbano, constantemente alterados pelas relações que se processam nesse contexto, nos possibilitando entendê-lo pelo amplo viés da história social. Este tipo de problema não é puramente da cidade de Tailândia, mas se faz perceber em toda a Amazônia contemporânea e encontra paralelos em outros lugares, com outros sujeitos e outras vivências. No entanto, todo este universo ainda se constitui como uma história marginal, ainda pouco desvendada.

De Awaete a Asurini: histórias do contato (1971-1991)

As histórias do contato entre os povos indígenas e a sociedade nacional revelam as práticas totalitárias em curso desde o século XVI no Brasil. O contato interétnico empreendido pelo Estado brasileiro em direção ao povo Awaete/Asurini do Xingu se deu em um contexto que priorizava a ocupação e a exploração econômica da região do Médio Xingu por meio de grandes projetos, arquitetados durante o período da ditadura militar no país. O contato representava uma forma de controlar os povos indígenas por meio das ações do Estado. As histórias do contato são analisadas a partir do referencial teórico da Antropologia Estrutural e da Análise do Discurso e revela a persistência do colonialismo entre os anos de 1971 e 1991, após o advento da Constituição cidadã de 1988, que formalmente reconhece os direitos e a autonomia dos povos indígenas no Brasil. As práticas de etnocentrismo como negação radical da alteridade permanecem na atualidade, inclusive no interior dos discursos de multiculturalismo.

O golpe de 1964 e a instauração da ditadura civil-militar no Pará: apoios e resistências

Este artigo, inserido nos debates historiográficos sobre a ditadura civil-militar no Brasil (1964-1985), pretende contribuir para o conhecimento da história política do estado do Pará antes, durante e após o golpe de estado de 1964. Examinamos preferencialmente a participação dos militares e o apoio de setores da sociedade civil ao golpe militar, e a repressão que sofreram os estudantes e organizações de esquerda e políticos "populistas". Na perspectiva metodológica dos estudos de história local e regional, as principais fontes utilizadas foram os jornais de Belém, livros de memórias, trabalhos acadêmicos e fontes orais.