Diplomacia transfronteriza en tiempos de revolución: el Alto Río Negro iberoamericano, 1815-1820 (Estudios)

This article studies the impacts of the independence war in the regional border of the High Negro River, taking as it’s object of analysis the existing multiples connections between the inhabitants of both sides of the imaginary boundary line. From July 1817, the independence war in Venezuela changed the coordinates: the struggles between the republican patriots and those obedient to the King (Realistas), faithful to the restoration of the Spanish monarchy of Fernando VII, managed the great border region, and influenced the political, social and local dynamics, mainly the existing cross-border relations between both, impacted the ordinary life of the local population and affected the diplomacy between the Portuguese and Spanish American authorities, those faithful to the King (Realistas) and patriots.

Canon, cuerpo arte y subjetividad: desafío de la representación corporal y su construcción simbólica entre arte y curación en la propuesta de la artista Lygia Clark

En su aspecto central esta investigación explora como se construyen distintos discursos hegemónicos en la sociedad alrededor del cuerpo e indaga como se lo representa, como se lo observa de forma material o discursiva, a través del análisis procesual de tres obras del último periodo de la artista de Lygia Clark. El propósito fundamental fue comprender como la práctica estética de esta artista irrumpió como una práctica de sentido para descolonizar la noción de cuerpo y de arte construida bajo los parámetros de la razón eurocéntrica con la finalidad de permitir la apertura de otros modos de entender y de hacer arte. Esta tesis se compone de tres partes: el primer capítulo inicia tratando de ubicar y comprender el contexto político, social, cultural y estético de la obra de Lygia Clark, referencia importante para entender su quehacer estético. En esta primera parte se desarrolla un análisis de la propuesta de Lygia a través de un corpus de tres obras, las mismas que cuestionan el régimen estético mediante la investigación de la subjetividad y la corporalidad humana compleja. Este marco de referencias teóricas da paso, en el segundo capítulo que indaga sobre el pensamiento fronterizo como marco de referencia teórico metodológico. Para incursionar en la propuesta de Lygia Clark, es fundamental comprender esta categoría críticamente situada en y desde las epistemologías del sur, como uno de los lugares de enunciación, la cual nos incita a reflexionar, y explorar las fronteras simbólicas como una zona de fusión y de encuentro. En este mismo capítulo se sigue la pista al origen del término estética y de las denominadas “otras” estéticas desde las matrices de poder generadas por la colonización. Y finalmente en el tercer capítulo se indaga, una ruta o cartografía de los elementos que integran su obra, así como las convergencias y divergencias entre los espacios de la creatividad artística y los espacios psicoterapéuticos. Considerando que la experiencia estética no está limitada exclusivamente a artistas y especialistas en arte, o el cuerpo, la percepción y lo sensible, no es asunto sólo de científicos o filósofos, sino que atañe a las formas de vida de todos y cada uno de nosotros, individual y colectivamente.

The Victoria Falls 1900-1940: Landscape, tourism and the geographical imagination

This article is about the politics of landscape ideas, and the relationship between landscape, identity and memory. It explores these themes through the history of the Victoria Falls, and the tourist resort that developed around the waterfall after 1900. Drawing on oral and archival sources, including popular natural history writing and tourist guides, it investigates African and European ideas about the waterfall, and the ways that these interacted and changed in the course of colonial appropriations of the Falls area. The tourist experience of the resort and the landscape ideas promoted through it were linked to Edwardian notions of Britishness and empire, ideas of whiteness and settler identities that transcended new colonial borders, and to the subject identities accommodated or excluded. Cultures of colonial authority did not develop by simply overriding local ideas, they involved fusions, exchanges and selective appropriations of them. The two main African groups I am concerned with here are the Leya, who lived in small groups around the Falls under a number of separate chiefs, and the powerful Lozi rulers, to whom they paid tribute in the nineteenth century. The article highlights colonial authorities' celebration of aspects of the Lozi aristocracy's relationship with the river, and their exclusion of the Leya people who had a longer and closer relationship with the waterfall. It also touches on the politics of recent attempts to reverse this exclusion, and the controversial rewriting of history this has involved.

Argon predissociation spectroscopy of the OH-center dot H2O and Cl-center dot H2O complexes in the 1000-1900 cm(-1) region: Intramolecular bending transitions and the search for the shared-proton fundamental in the hydroxide monohydrate

We present argon predissociation vibrational spectra of the OH-.H2O and Cl-.H2O complexes in the 1000-1900 cm(-1) energy range, far below the OH stretching region reported in previous studies. This extension allows us to explore the fundamental transitions of the intramolecular bending vibrations associated with the water molecule, as well as that of the shared proton inferred from previous assignments of overtones in the higher energy region. Although the water bending fundamental in the Cl-.H2O spectrum is in very good agreement with expectations, the OH-.H2O spectrum is quite different than anticipated, being dominated by a strong feature at 1090 cm(-1). New full-diniensionality calculations of the OH-.H2O vibrational level structure using diffusion Monte Carlo and the VSCF/CI methods indicate this band arises from excitation of the shared proton.

William Clark Russell and Chambers's Journal: elopement and the Victorian nautical novel

This essay examines aspects of the serialisation of the novels of William Clark Russell, the greatest late Victorian nautical novelist. Focusing on the treatment of his work by the Edinburgh firm of Messrs Chambers, the article provides an illuminating perspective on market censorship in this period. Drawing on the archives of Chatto & Windus and the literary agent A.P. Watt, it traces the network of relations between author, agent, magazine editor and book publisher, showing how the various components of the serial market operated in the late 1880s and early 1890s.

Comparison of results from several AOGCMs for global and regional sea-level change 1900-2100

Sea-level rise is an important aspect of climate change because of its impact on society and ecosystems. Here we present an intercomparison of results from ten coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) for sea-level changes simulated for the twentieth century and projected to occur during the twenty first century in experiments following scenario IS92a for greenhouse gases and sulphate aerosols. The model results suggest that the rate of sea-level rise due to thermal expansion of sea water has increased during the twentieth century, but the small set of tide gauges with long records might not be adequate to detect this acceleration. The rate of sea-level rise due to thermal expansion continues to increase throughout the twenty first century, and the projected total is consequently larger than in the twentieth century; for 1990-2090 it amounts to 0.20-0.37 in. This wide range results from systematic uncertainty in modelling of climate change and of heat uptake by the ocean. The AOGCMs agree that sea-level rise is expected to be geographically non-uniform, with some regions experiencing as much as twice the global average, and others practically zero, but they do not agree about the geographical pattern. The lack of agreement indicates that we cannot currently have confidence in projections of local sea- level changes, and reveals a need for detailed analysis and intercomparison in order to understand and reduce the disagreements.