Selections from the Calcutta Gazettes of the years 1874 'to 1932, inclusive' showing the political and social condition of the English in India eighty years ago.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal

By the end of the fifteenth century most European countries had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies. As this book demonstrates, Portugal was among them and actively participated in such reforms. Providing the first English language monograph on this topic, Laurinda Abreu examines the Portuguese experience and places it within the broader European context. She shows that, in line with much that was happening throughout the rest of Europe, Portugal had not only set up a systematic reform of the hospitals but had also developed new formal arrangements for charitable and welfare provision that responded to the changing socioeconomic framework, the nature of poverty and the concerns of political powers. The defining element of the Portuguese experience was the dominant role played by a new lay confraternity, the confraternity of the Misericórdia, created under the auspices of King D. Manuel I in 1498. By the time of the king's death in 1521 there were more than 70 Misericórdias in Portugal and its empire, and by 1640, more than 300. All of them were run according to a unified set of rules and principles with identical social objectives. Based upon a wealth of primary source documentation, this book reveals how the sixteenth-century Portuguese crown succeeded in implementing a national poor relief and health care structure, with the support of the Papacy and local elites, and funded principally through pious donations. This process strengthened the authority of the royal government at a time which coincided with the emergence of the early modern state. In so doing, the book establishes poor relief and public health alongside military, diplomatic and administrative authorities, as the pillars of centralisation of royal power.

Natural fibers based composites - Technical and social issues

Brazil is the only country in South America to have an automotive supplier sector based on natural fibers. New opportunities are arising due to an increase demand by the car makers in applying natural fibers in their parts. Several crop fibers have been developed in Brazil. Among them can be listed caroa, piacava, pupunha, mutum and others of regional application. For the automotive industry, which requires large quantities with uniform quality, the alternatives are sisal (170,000 ton/yr), curaua (150 ton/yr in 2003), malva, 200 ton/yr; Brazil is the single largest producer country of sisal, and commercially, the only one in curaua. For South America, the alternatives are fique in Colombia, abaca in equator, flax in Argentina and curaua in Venezuela. It must be understood by the target countries of drugs, is that crop fiber can be an economic alternative to coca in the Andes region, therefore an instrument of land reform and drug reduction plantations. Several companies have a strong program of apply natural fibers based components in their products: Volkswagen do Brazil, DaimlerChrysler, General Motors do Brazil. Among their suppliers can be listed companies such Pematec (curaua), Toro (sisal, coir and jute), Incomer (sisal and jute), Ober (jute, curaua), Indaru (jute and sisal), Antolin (imported kenaf,) Tapetes Sao Carlos (sisal), Poematec (coir) and Art-Gore, with Woodstock'' wood and natural fibers). Figures about production and demand are discussed in the paper.

Reigniting the fire : a contemporary research agenda for social, political and nonprofit marketing

The paper reports on the core challenges faced by the nonprofit, political and social marketing disciplinary areas and suggests a series of research agendas to develop theory and practice to meet these challenges.

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Social marketing's research agenda involves the continued adaptation of the new developments in commercial marketing, whilst building a base of social marketing theory and best practice benchmarks that can be used to identify, clarify and classify the boundaries of social marketing against social change techniques.
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Nonprofit marketing is pursuing the dual research agenda of developing the theory and practice of social entrepreneurship whilst seeking deeper consumer-based research to understand motivations for charitable behaviour and gift giving.
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Political Marketing's research agenda looks for an increase in the level of background research, core data and market research to use as a basis for developing more advanced theoretical and practical models. In addition, as political marketing is being transferred internationally between a range of political and electoral systems, there is a need for comparative research into both the relevance and effectiveness of these techniques to isolate nation independent and nation dependent political marketing strategies and campaigns.

Catalyst: Architecture for Change and Social Justice

In major cities today, there are neighborhoods that have been continually underserved and as a result are in decay. Private investors and developers turn to these particular neighborhoods, propose large developments that gentrify these areas, displacing communities and with them their social, political, and economic issues. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze South West, Baltimore, a community composed of 8 neighborhoods on the verge of being gentrified, by incoming development. Through investigating the key issues present in this community for many years, this thesis will attempt to develop a catalytic environment, which will facilitate change within the community by providing a place for its members to help tackle these issues, improving their circumstances, and the circumstances of the neighborhoods they form part of.

Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing: Review of Ethical, Legal and Social Implications

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Health systems and social transition in Asia

 This study examines the intersection of political and health policy history in selected countries of the Asian region including Cambodia, Myanmar and North Korea. The main finding is that political and social history sets the parameters for health policy making. The thesis then considers the implications this main finding has for the approach to health policy making in the region.

Australian Social Attributes: The First Report

A fascinating insight into what Australians think about contemporary political and social issues using data collected from the inaugural Australian Survey of Social Attitudes on the expressed opinions of some 4300 Australian adults. An excellent resource for students, teachers, researchers and policy makers, and for anyone interested in understanding the social dynamics of contemporary Australia.

A Neglected Aspect of Business: Human and Social Capital in the Sri Lankan Tea Plantations

This paper examines idiosyncrasies of tea plantation culture and politics in relation to Sri Lankan national and popular cultural typologies, with special reference to female tea plantation workers. Tea production in Sri Lanka is heavily based on manual labour, and it is the largest industry that provides accommodation for employees and their families. In this paper, it is argued that politico-cultural production relations have dominated labour productivity in tea plantations. Ways in which female workers have been marginalized, through patriarchal politics, ethnicity, religion, education, elitism, and employment are explained. This culture of the plantation community operates negatively with respect to the management agenda. It is also argued that social capital development in tea plantations is important not only for productivity improvement, but also for reasons of political and social obligation for the nation, because migrant plantation workers have been working and living in plantations over 150 years.

Friedensbilderbücher - Die österreichische Kinder- und Jugendbuchautorin Mira Lobe als Friedenserzieherin

Ce mémoire cherche à créer un dialogue entre les domaines de recherche du livre d’images et celui de recherches sur la paix afin d’exposer les différentes formes et fonctions des livres d’images pour la paix. Questionnant le pourquoi et le comment de ces œuvres, ce travail expose la façon et la manière avec lesquelles ces dernières contribuent à « l’alphabétisation de la paix » auprès des enfants et comment elles les motivent à agir en fonction de la paix. Les livres d’images constituent un média idéal pour éduquer les enfants à la paix. Très tôt dans le processus de socialisation, ces livres sauront transmettre et inculquer des concepts et aptitudes clefs et éventuellement ancrer dans l’esprit de l’enfant les valeurs d’une culture de la paix. Au centre de cette recherche est exposé le thème de la paix tel que traité à travers les œuvres de l’écrivaine autrichienne Mira Lobe (1913–1995). Par l’analyse de sept livres d’images pour la paix, ce travail explique quelles stratégies et méthodes littéraires, pédagogiques, sémiotiques, narratives et esthétiques sont employées par l’auteure pour réussir à bien présenter et à traiter de sujets politiques complexes et d’enjeux sociaux et humains parfois délicats et tabous à un jeune auditoire. Il montre également par quels moyens ces œuvres font naître l’empathie, une aversion pour la violence et comment elles pourront finalement amener les enfants à opter pour l’acte de la paix. En joignant et en mettant en relation les résultats et conclusions des deux champs de recherche observés dans ce travail, soit l’éducation à la paix et la recherche sur des livres d’images, il devient possible de démontrer comment Mira Lobe apporte, avec ses livres d’images pour la paix, une contribution universelle et intemporelle à l’éducation à la paix.

A tale of two events? Media analysis of the Melbourne 2008 Homeless World Cup

In 2008, Melbourne became the first Australian city to host the Homeless World Cup (HWC), an annual international sporting event that aims to raise the profile of homelessness and social marginalisation. This article first examines relevant print media articles relating to the HWC by identifying key themes through thematic and content analysis. It then examines the polarised reporting of the HWC by two print media outlets, The Age and the Herald Sun, and argues that each outlet's coverage served to reinforce its own established position on the key political and social issues, in this instance homelessness, asylum seeking and immigration. The divergence in the discourses constructed in each paper provides a demonstrative example of the capacity of the media to use events of all sorts to consolidate their political and commercial positions.

O trabalho e a gestão do cuidado em saúde: a construção de uma política nacional em saúde do trabalhador no Brasil: uma análise documental

O desenvolvimento dos modelos de produção acarretou diversas transformações na concepção da relação homem/trabalho. Com isso, o trabalho tornou-se um dos aspectos centrais na vida do homem moderno. Na relação com o trabalho, emergem diversos processos de subjetivação baseados nas práticas presentes nos contextos em que ele se realiza, bem como nos processos de saúde e doença. No Brasil, esse processo vem sendo delineado por questões políticas e sociais que levaram à emergência da chamada Política Nacional de Segurança e Saúde do Trabalhador, em 2004. Entretanto, esse tema e seus desdobramentos ainda são fortemente debatidos, uma vez que tal política não se encontra em intenso vigor, demonstrando um percurso em constante construção e ainda permeável à diferentes influências. Este trabalho busca problematizar as práticas que produzem processos de subjetivação do “sujeitotrabalhador” pautados em dispositivos biopolíticos, a partir da análise da gestão do cuidado em saúde do trabalhador no Brasil. Partindo dessa perspectiva, buscou-se analisar a construção das Políticas de Saúde do Trabalhador no país, focando a formulação da PNSST e sua perspectiva atual. Para isso, foram analisadas as estratégias de cuidado presentes nesta Política, bem como a forma como essas estratégias estão articuladas com a perspectiva da integralidade, uma vez que a integralidade é um novo olhar sobre a gestão do cuidado em saúde, criando novas possibilidades de um trabalho em saúde. Centra-se no fluxo do usuário, com mudanças na produção do cuidado em todos os níveis da rede pública de saúde. Primeiro, foram abordados os processos de construção e desenvolvimento da chamada “Saúde do Trabalhador” e, posteriormente, foi analisada a Política Nacional de Segurança e Saúde do Trabalhador – PNSST (2004) enquanto dispositivo de regulação das práticas de saúde, a partir do método genealógico de Michel Foucault, com foco na análise documental. O processo de construção da PNSST iniciou a partir da 1ª Conferência Nacional em Saúde do Trabalhador, o qual se delineou nas demais conferências realizadas de 2001 e 2005. Neste processo, podemos observar o conflito entre o trabalho como risco (trabalho-risco) e o trabalho como produção de subjetividade (trabalho-subjetividade), que levam a construção das noções entre saúdecontrole versus saúde-integralidade. A análise documental da PNSST de 2004 denota que ainda há uma prevalência do olhar da Saúde Ocupacional, pelo viés do trabalho-risco/saúdecontrole, uma vez que as estratégias de cuidado apresentam discursos de risco/agravo no trabalho, na patologização do sujeito e na monetarização da saúde. Além disso, de 2005 até meados de 2011, não houve a concretização e implantação da Política, sendo criados diferentes sentidos e, inclusive, convergindo as ações de Saúde do Trabalhador para o campo da Vigilância em Saúde, onde se encontra tal área no Ministério da Saúde hoje. Com isso, observamos que ao pensarmos na proposta de articular o campo da integralidade com a Saúde do Trabalhador, encontramos, na verdade, a construção de discursos pautados em estratégias biopolíticas de transformar a atividade laboral em risco que deve ser vigiado e medicalizado. Além disso, não há interface para absorção das demandas referentes à saúde do trabalhador no SUS. A criação de linhas de cuidado em Saúde do Trabalhador em Unidades Básicas de Saúde ou mesmo a criação de Unidade de Referência Especializada em Saúde do Trabalhador nos permite inserir este tema cada vez mais no campo da saúde pública no Brasil e diminuir a dispersão dos casos de sofrimento dos trabalhadores que ficam no nível do não dito.

O projeto de modernidade nas crônicas da seção De Palanque de Artur Azevedo

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Os jogos frutais e o poema: natureza viva; natureza-morta

The (usually rotten) fruit theme or motif is recurring in Ferreira Gullar‟s poetic work (from A luta corporal, 1954, to Em alguma parte alguma, 2010). It can be said that the semantic-metaphoric field comprises metapoetic to political and social issues –expressive aspects in the author‟s trajectory. Thus, starting from the fruit topic which is characteristic of the bucolic-pastoral poetic tradition and tracing its presence in Brazil, this paper aims, by analysing some of Gullar‟s poems, to reflect on the peculiar way the problem is subverted in his lyric.