Los relatos de la Noche de los Lápices : Modos de narrar el pasado reciente

En este trabajo de investigación nos propusimos aportar a los estudios de la memoria en la Argentina post dictatorial, analizando uno de los relatos más emblemáticos del terrorismo de Estado: la Noche de los lápices. Este acontecimiento da cuenta de una serie de secuestros de estudiantes secundarios ocurridos el 16 de septiembre de 1976. A través de la investigación pudo reconstruirse la historia del acontecimiento como configuración narrativa, en el marco de la dictadura militar y los primeros años de la democracia, y la emergencia de otros modos de narrarlos a partir de los años 90. La tesis pone especial atención a los procesos selectivos recuerdo-olvido que son constitutivos de las memorias sociales y que se producen en una dinámica de intensa disputa por la configuración de los "pasados significativos" donde participan diversos agentes y emprendedores. La tesis avanza en un espacio poco explorado hasta ahora que remite a identificar y analizar las disputas entre las víctimas por los modos de narrar el pasado, las variaciones y condiciones del testimonio, y en particular, los diversos usos e interpretaciones del silencio

Los relatos de la Noche de los Lápices : Modos de narrar el pasado reciente

En este trabajo de investigación nos propusimos aportar a los estudios de la memoria en la Argentina post dictatorial, analizando uno de los relatos más emblemáticos del terrorismo de Estado: la Noche de los lápices. Este acontecimiento da cuenta de una serie de secuestros de estudiantes secundarios ocurridos el 16 de septiembre de 1976. A través de la investigación pudo reconstruirse la historia del acontecimiento como configuración narrativa, en el marco de la dictadura militar y los primeros años de la democracia, y la emergencia de otros modos de narrarlos a partir de los años 90. La tesis pone especial atención a los procesos selectivos recuerdo-olvido que son constitutivos de las memorias sociales y que se producen en una dinámica de intensa disputa por la configuración de los "pasados significativos" donde participan diversos agentes y emprendedores. La tesis avanza en un espacio poco explorado hasta ahora que remite a identificar y analizar las disputas entre las víctimas por los modos de narrar el pasado, las variaciones y condiciones del testimonio, y en particular, los diversos usos e interpretaciones del silencio

Los relatos de la Noche de los Lápices : Modos de narrar el pasado reciente

En este trabajo de investigación nos propusimos aportar a los estudios de la memoria en la Argentina post dictatorial, analizando uno de los relatos más emblemáticos del terrorismo de Estado: la Noche de los lápices. Este acontecimiento da cuenta de una serie de secuestros de estudiantes secundarios ocurridos el 16 de septiembre de 1976. A través de la investigación pudo reconstruirse la historia del acontecimiento como configuración narrativa, en el marco de la dictadura militar y los primeros años de la democracia, y la emergencia de otros modos de narrarlos a partir de los años 90. La tesis pone especial atención a los procesos selectivos recuerdo-olvido que son constitutivos de las memorias sociales y que se producen en una dinámica de intensa disputa por la configuración de los "pasados significativos" donde participan diversos agentes y emprendedores. La tesis avanza en un espacio poco explorado hasta ahora que remite a identificar y analizar las disputas entre las víctimas por los modos de narrar el pasado, las variaciones y condiciones del testimonio, y en particular, los diversos usos e interpretaciones del silencio

Neither security nor development? Czech and Hungarian identities and interests in the provincial reconstruction teams in Afghanistan

This article builds on the securitisation and post-development literature and it scrutinises the Czech and Hungarian legitimising discourses of the two countries’ respective Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in the Logar and Baghlan provinces of Afghanistan from 2007 to 2013. In spite of the hybrid civil–military character of the PRTs, their security–development nexus was absent and they were respectively securitised and “developmentalised” only indirectly and to a varying extent. The PRTs were mostly justified by the Czech Republic's NATO membership as an identity issue and they were justified as a Hungarian national interest and as both an obligation and an opportunity. Rather than merely importing NATO's arguments as suggested by the previous literature, the depoliticisation and positive connotation of the intervention in Afghanistan was constructed by the domestic NATO-related identities and interests in the Czech Republic and Hungary.

A dinâmica da taxa de câmbio no Brasil face às operações swap (2002-2015)

This dissertation investigates, based on the Post-Keynesian theory and on its concept of monetary economy of production, the exchange rate behavior of the Brazilian Real in the presence of Brazilian Central Bank's interventions by means of the so-called swap transactions over 2002-2015. Initially, the work analyzes the essential properties of an open monetary economy of production and, thereafter, it presents the basic propositions of the Post-Keynesian view on the exchange rate determination, highlighting the properties of foreign exchange markets and the peculiarities of the Brazilian position into the international monetary and financial system. The research, thereby, accounts for the various segments of the Brazilian foreign exchange market. To accomplish its purpose, we first do a literature review of the Post-Keynesian literature about the topic. Then, we undertake empirical exams of the exchange rate determination using two statistical methods. On the one hand, to measure the volatility of exchange rate, we estimate Auto-regressive Conditional Heteroscedastic (ARCH) and Generalized Auto-regressive Conditional Heteroscedastic (GARCH) models. On the other hand, to measure the variance of the exchange rate in relation to real, financial variables, and the swaps, we estimate a Vector Auto-regression (VAR) model. Both experiments are performed for the nominal and real effective exchange rates. The results show that the swaps respond to exchange rate movements, trying to offset its volatility. This reveals that the exchange rate is, at least in a certain magnitude, sensitive to swaps transactions conducted by the Central Bank. In addition, another empirical result is that the real effective exchange rate responds more to the swaps auctions than the nominal rate.

Stories from the Inside:The Prisons Memory Archive

A close textual reading of the online-available recording of ex-prison officer, John Heatherington, who is filmed as he returns to the site of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison, which was the largest prison oeperating during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Using the empty site as stimulant for his memory, John recalls the tension, violence and dark humour of the period, while also showing exceptional empathy for all those, including prisoners, who passed through the prison system.The interview is taken from the Prisons Memory Archive (www.prisonsmemoryarchive.com) and, as director of the PMA, I have a particular insight to the recording process and John's special contribution to it.

Writing disenchantment: British First World War Prose, 1914-30.

This book argues that disenchantment is not only a response to wartime experience, but a condition of modernity with a language that finds extreme expression in First World War literature. The objects of disenchantment are often the very same as the enchantments of scientific progress: bureaucracy, homogenisation and capitalism. Older beliefs such as religion, courage and honour are kept in view, and endure longer than often is realised. Social critics, theorists and commentators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provide a rich and previously unexplored context for wartime and post-war literature. The rise of the disenchanted narrative to its predominance in the War Books Boom of 1928 – 1930 is charted from the turn of the century in texts, archival material, sales and review data. Rarely-studied popular and middlebrow novels are analysed alongside well-known highbrow texts: D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells and Rebecca West rub shoulders with forgotten figures such as Gilbert Frankau and Ernest Raymond. These sometimes jarring juxtapositions show the strained relationship between enchantment and disenchantment in the war and the post-war decade.

Issues concerning the on-going care of patients with comorbidities in acute care and post-discharge in Australia: a literature review

Issues concerning the on-going care of patients with comorbidities in acute care and post-discharge in Australia: a literature review

Background. Advances in medical science and improved lifestyles have reduced mortality rates in Australia and most western countries. This has resulted in an ageing population with a concomitant growth in the number of people who are living with chronic illnesses. Indeed a significant number of younger people experience more than one chronic illness. Large numbers of these may require repeated admissions to hospital for acute or episodic care that is superimposed upon the needs of their chronic conditions.

Aim. To explore the issues that circumscribe the complexities of caring for people with concurrent chronic illnesses, or comorbidities, in the acute care setting and postdischarge.

Methods. A literature review to examine the issues that impact upon the provision of comprehensive care to patients with comorbidities in the acute care setting and postdischarge.

Findings. Few studies have investigated this subject. From an Australian perspective, it is evident that the structure of the current health care environment has made it difficult to meet the needs of patients with comorbidities in the acute care setting and postdischarge. This is of major concern for nurses attempting to provide comprehensive care to an increasingly prevalent group of chronically ill people.

Conclusion. Further research is necessary to explore how episodic care is integrated into the on-going management of patients with comorbidities and how nurse clinicians can better use an episode of acute illness as an opportunity to review their overall management.

A literature review of the application of the geriatric depression scale, depression anxiety stress scales and post-traumatic stress disorder checklist to community nursing cohorts

Aims and objectives. To explore through literature review the appropriateness of three common tools for use by community nurses to screen war veteran and war widow(er) clients for depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Background. War veterans and, to a lesser extent, war widow(er)s, are prone to mental health challenges, especially depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. Community nurses do not accurately identify such people with depression and related disorders although they are well positioned to do so. The use of valid and reliable self-report tools is one method of improving nurses' identification of people with actual or potential mental health difficulties for referral to a general practitioner or mental health practitioner for diagnostic assessment and treatment. The Geriatric Depression Scale, Depression Anxiety Stress Scales and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist are frequently recommended for mental health screening but the appropriateness of using the tools for screening war veteran and war widow(er) community nursing clients who are often aged and have functional impairment, is unknown.

Design. Systematic review.

Conclusions. Current literature informs that the Geriatric Depression Scale accurately predicts a diagnosis of depression in community nursing cohorts. The three Depression Anxiety Stress Scales subscales of depression, anxiety and stress are valid; however, no studies were identified that compared the performance of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales in predicting diagnoses of depression or anxiety. The Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist predicts post-traumatic stress disorder in community cohorts although no studies meeting the selection criteria included male participants.

Relevance to clinical practice. This review provides recommendations for the use of the Geriatric Depression Scale, Depression Anxiety Stress Scales and The Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist based on examination of the published evidence for the application of these screening tools in samples approximated to community nursing cohorts. Findings and recommendations would guide community nurses, managers and health planners in the selection of mental health screening tools to promote holistic community nursing care.

Psychological Reflections on Post - Modernist Gothic Literature

The thesis consists of a creative component, two short stories, 'The Conservatory' and 'Psychosis', and a novella, 'The Lady of Tangiers', in the genre of Gothic fiction, and accompanying theoretical component with a psychological interpretation of literature, including theories of C.G.Jung, identifying psychological elements including symbolism of the unconscious, transformation and individuation in the short stories 'The Conservatory' and 'Psychosis', and an analysis of the novella 'The Lady of Tangiers', discussing the essay 'The Uncanny' by Sigmund Freud. The critical analysis and interpretation of the writing reflects the psychological development of the individual.