Trayectoria poética de Antonio Muñoz Molina

La propuesta de esta tesis es explorar la obra narrativa del escritor español Antonio Muñoz Molina, para analizar y describir su poética en tanto escritor paradigmático de la generación que se forjó luego de la Transición española, y a la luz de las diversas manifestaciones artísticas que acompañaron dicho proceso. Los motivos y temas que persisten a lo largo de su obra serán examinados buscando construir una explicación critica sobre los modos de la escritura del autor, para vincularlos con el lugar que ocupa Muñoz Molina en el campo cultural español en estos mas de veinticinco años de trayectoria. Para ello consideraré cinco momentos como puntas de inflexión en su carrera: 1986, su primera publicación en Seix Barral; 1991, el Premio Planeta por El jinete polaco; 1995, su primera edición por Alfaguara; 2002, la edición "revisada" de El jinete polaco en la Biblioteca Breve de Seix Barral; y 2008, junio, el ingreso a la Wylie Agencv de Nueva York. Según se desprende de esta enumeración, también será objeto de esta tesis los modos en que eI autor se articula con sus editores

"Porque no habrá obra" : El archivo en la escritura de María Moreno

A partir del año 2001 con la publicación de A tontas y a locas la escritora y periodista María Moreno da una inflexión clave a su producción escritural redireccionándola de manera contundente hacia el trabajo con el archivo propio de materiales periodísticos hasta entonces inéditos en libro. El presente artículo explora de qué manera este trabajo con el archivo propio tanto moviliza una reapropiación de la crónica y un "aprovechamiento" del nuevo estatus del que goza el género como así también, alimenta un posicionamiento estético y ético enfrentado al valor de la "obra" literaria. Ambos procesos se encuentran estrechamente vinculados entre sí y a su vez entraman las reflexiones que la cronista produce desde los años '80 en relación a una escritura femenina, la cual, según Moreno, para intervenir efectivamente en el campo cultural debe primero desarmar los cotos expresivos que se le imponen

Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias : Orígenes y desarrollo de una particular conjunción entre marxismo, peronismo y lucha armada [1960-1973]

Desde mediados de la década del cincuenta hasta la última dictadura militar, la Argentina vivió un período de gran conflictividad social y política. Particularmente desde el Cordobazo de 1969, amplios sectores de la clase trabajadora, el campo cultural, la iglesia y el movimiento estudiantil protagonizaron un intenso proceso de politización, dando lugar a un conjunto de movimientos de oposición de diverso orden. Las organizaciones armadas, al desafiar el monopolio estatal de la violencia legítima y establecer diversos lazos con el movimiento de protesta social más amplio, fueron uno de los actores destacados de ese proceso. Entre ellas, las 'Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias' [FAR] condensan varias problemáticas de relevancia en el período: el proceso de identificación con el peronismo de numerosos sectores de izquierda, la reivindicación de la violencia como forma de intervención política y la opción por la lucha armada como modalidad específica de ponerla en práctica. Pese a su importancia, hasta el momento no se había realizado ningún trabajo académico específico sobre esta organización. La presente tesis analiza los orígenes y el desarrollo de las FAR considerando el período que va desde los primeros sesenta, en que comenzaron a perfilarse sus grupos fundadores, hasta las elecciones presidenciales del 11 de marzo de 1973. Desde entonces no sólo cambia notablemente la dinámica política nacional, sino que la realidad de la organización ya está signada por el proceso de fusión con Montoneros, que fue anunciada de modo público en octubre de ese año. El problema de investigación articula dos ejes analíticos. Por un lado, el proceso de identificación de las FAR con el peronismo, cuyos antecedentes se remontan a las sucesivas reinterpretaciones realizadas por sus grupos fundadores sobre el fenómeno. El segundo, con su dinámica de funcionamiento como organización político-militar de actuación nacional y urbana, gestada al calor de los cambios de estrategias que se plantearon aquellos grupos fundadores para lograr el proceso de liberación nacional y social que impulsaban. Ambas líneas de análisis implican, además, adentrarse en los modos en que la organización concibió sus vínculos con sectores más amplios de la sociedad, particularmente con aquellos que buscaba movilizar. Para realizar la tesis se apeló a una estrategia metodológica cualitativa. Se relevaron fuentes escritas [diarios y revistas de alcance nacional, documentos de las FAR y de otras organizaciones con que se vincularon] y se realizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas a ex-miembros de la organización

A TRAJETÓRIA DO SESCTV: desafios na busca por uma nova linguagem televisiva

O SESCTV, canal de televisão administrado pelo Serviço Social do Comércio de São Paulo, caracteriza-se como uma iniciativa peculiar em seu âmbito midiático por diversos fatores. Estes condicionantes, por terem múltiplas origens - da natureza institucional à linguagem criada - desenham uma emissora que desperta inúmeros pontos de debate em torno dela e do meio televisivo. O objeto configura-se como referência também no que diz respeito ao amadurecimento da televisão por assinatura, sobretudo no campo educativo-cultural. Procura-se, aqui, considerar as variantes basilares do canal, que compreendem a construção de linguagem nele processada e o respectivo modo de produzir sentidos, sendo estes dois eixos analisados mediante uma contextualização social, política, econômica e cultural interna e externa ao objeto. Já o percurso metodológico traçado disseca os pontos convergentes e divergentes das relações estabelecidas pelo canal ao longo de sua trajetória. Trata-se de uma reflexão que mensura, a partir dos condicionantes expostos, os potenciais caminhos para que o SESCTV firme-se na história televisiva brasileira como iniciativa de protagonismo e vanguarda. Uma visão crítica que enxerga o atual como ponto de partida e não como fim.(AU)

A TRAJETÓRIA DO SESCTV: desafios na busca por uma nova linguagem televisiva

O SESCTV, canal de televisão administrado pelo Serviço Social do Comércio de São Paulo, caracteriza-se como uma iniciativa peculiar em seu âmbito midiático por diversos fatores. Estes condicionantes, por terem múltiplas origens - da natureza institucional à linguagem criada - desenham uma emissora que desperta inúmeros pontos de debate em torno dela e do meio televisivo. O objeto configura-se como referência também no que diz respeito ao amadurecimento da televisão por assinatura, sobretudo no campo educativo-cultural. Procura-se, aqui, considerar as variantes basilares do canal, que compreendem a construção de linguagem nele processada e o respectivo modo de produzir sentidos, sendo estes dois eixos analisados mediante uma contextualização social, política, econômica e cultural interna e externa ao objeto. Já o percurso metodológico traçado disseca os pontos convergentes e divergentes das relações estabelecidas pelo canal ao longo de sua trajetória. Trata-se de uma reflexão que mensura, a partir dos condicionantes expostos, os potenciais caminhos para que o SESCTV firme-se na história televisiva brasileira como iniciativa de protagonismo e vanguarda. Uma visão crítica que enxerga o atual como ponto de partida e não como fim.(AU)

A TRAJETÓRIA DO SESCTV: desafios na busca por uma nova linguagem televisiva

O SESCTV, canal de televisão administrado pelo Serviço Social do Comércio de São Paulo, caracteriza-se como uma iniciativa peculiar em seu âmbito midiático por diversos fatores. Estes condicionantes, por terem múltiplas origens - da natureza institucional à linguagem criada - desenham uma emissora que desperta inúmeros pontos de debate em torno dela e do meio televisivo. O objeto configura-se como referência também no que diz respeito ao amadurecimento da televisão por assinatura, sobretudo no campo educativo-cultural. Procura-se, aqui, considerar as variantes basilares do canal, que compreendem a construção de linguagem nele processada e o respectivo modo de produzir sentidos, sendo estes dois eixos analisados mediante uma contextualização social, política, econômica e cultural interna e externa ao objeto. Já o percurso metodológico traçado disseca os pontos convergentes e divergentes das relações estabelecidas pelo canal ao longo de sua trajetória. Trata-se de uma reflexão que mensura, a partir dos condicionantes expostos, os potenciais caminhos para que o SESCTV firme-se na história televisiva brasileira como iniciativa de protagonismo e vanguarda. Uma visão crítica que enxerga o atual como ponto de partida e não como fim.(AU)

Ezequiel Martínez Estrada : el profesor al servicio de las ideas

Ezequiel Martínez Estrada fue un ensayista relevante en el campo cultural debido a sus descripciones y análisis de la realidad. Sin embargo, también reflexionó sobre intelectuales argentinos y extranjeros y ejerció la docencia. En este trabajo, nos centramos en la compilación En torno a Kafka y otros ensayos para establecer una conexión entre la concepción de educación y la práctica docente del propio escritor, a partir de sus referentes literarios, Franz Kafka y Pedro Henríquez Ureña.

Ezequiel Martínez Estrada : el profesor al servicio de las ideas

Ezequiel Martínez Estrada fue un ensayista relevante en el campo cultural debido a sus descripciones y análisis de la realidad. Sin embargo, también reflexionó sobre intelectuales argentinos y extranjeros y ejerció la docencia. En este trabajo, nos centramos en la compilación En torno a Kafka y otros ensayos para establecer una conexión entre la concepción de educación y la práctica docente del propio escritor, a partir de sus referentes literarios, Franz Kafka y Pedro Henríquez Ureña.

Wondrous transformations: rereading and rewriting wonder in contemporary anglophone and francophone fairy tales

This thesis compares contemporary anglophone and francophone rewritings of traditional fairy tales for adults. Examining material dating from the 1990s to the present, including novels, novellas, short stories, comics, televisual and filmic adaptations, this thesis argues that while the revisions studied share similar themes and have comparable aims, the methods for inducing wonder (where wonder is defined as the effect produced by the text rather than simply its magical contents) are diametrically opposed, and it is this opposition that characterises the difference between the two types of rewriting. While they all engage with the hybridity of the fairy-tale genre, the anglophone works studied tend to question traditional narratives by keeping the fantasy setting, while francophone works debunk the tales not only in relation to questions of content, but also aesthetics. Through theoretical, historical, and cultural contextualisation, along with close readings of the texts, this thesis aims to demonstrate the existence of this francophone/anglophone divide and to explain how and why the authors in each tradition tend to adopt such different views while rewriting similar material. This division is the guiding thread of the thesis and also functions as a springboard to explore other concepts such as genre hybridity, reader-response, and feminism. The thesis is divided into two parts; the first three chapters work as an in-depth literature review: after examining, in chapters one and two, the historical and contemporary cultural field in which these works were created, chapter three examines theories of fantasy and genre hybridity. The second part of the thesis consists of textual studies and comparisons between francophone and anglophone material and is built on three different approaches. The first (chapter four) looks at selected texts in relation to questions of form, studying the process of world building and world creation enacted when authors combine and rewrite several fairy tales in a single narrative world. The second (chapter five) is a thematic approach which investigates the interactions between femininity, the monstrous, and the wondrous in contemporary tales of animal brides. Finally, chapter six compares rewritings of the tale of ‘Bluebeard’ with a comparison hinged on the representation of the forbidden room and its contents: Bluebeard’s cabinet of wonder is one that he holds sacred, one where he sublimates his wives’ corpses, and it is the catalyst of wonder, terror, and awe. The three contextual chapters and the three text-based studies work towards tracing the tangible existence of the division postulated between francophone and anglophone texts, but also the similarities that exist between the two cultural fields and their roles in the renewal of the fairy-tale genre.

Students' cultural capital : a study of assessment for learning as a field of exchange

This study was conducted within the context of a flexible education institution where conventional educational assessment practices and tests fail to recognise and assess the creativity and cultural capital of a cohort of marginalised young people. A new assessment model which included an electronic-portfolio-social-networking system (EPS) was developed and trialled to identify and exhibit evidence of students' learning. The study aimed to discern unique forms of cultural capital (Bourdieu, 1986) possessed by students who attend the Edmund Rice Education Australia Flexible Learning Centre Network (EREAFLCN). The EPS was trialled at the case study schools in an intervention and developed a space where students could make evident culturally specific forms of capital and funds of knowledge (Gonzalez, Moll, & Amanti, 2005). These resources were evaluated, modified and developed through dialogic processes utilising assessment for learning approaches (Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency, 2009) in online and classroom settings. Students, peers and staff engaged in the recognition, judgement, revision and evaluation of students' cultural capital in a subfield of exchange (Bourdieu, 1990). The study developed the theory of assessment for learning as a field of exchange incorporating an online system as a teaching and assessment model. The term efield has been coined to describe this particular capital exchange model. A quasi-ethnographic approach was used to develop a collective case study (Stake, 1995). This case study involved an in-depth exploration of five students' forms of cultural capital and the ways in which this capital could be assessed and exchanged using the efield model. A comparative analysis of the five cases was conducted to identify the emergent issues of students' recognisable cultural capital resources and the processes of exchange that can be facilitated to acquire legitimate credentials for these students in the Australian field of education. The participants in the study were young people at two EREAFLC schools aged between 12 and 18 years. Data was collected through interviews, observations and examination of documents made available by the EREAFLCN. The data was coded and analysed using a theoretical framework based on Bourdieu's analytical tools and a sociocultural psychology theoretical perspective. Findings suggest that processes based on dialogic relationships can identify and recognise students' forms of cultural capital that are frequently misrecognised in mainstream school environments. The theory of assessment for learning as a field of exchange was developed into praxis and integrated in an intervention. The efield model was found to be an effective sociocultural tool in converting and exchanging students' capital resources for legitimated cultural and symbolic capital in the field of education.

Rural dispositions of floating children within the field of Beijing schools: can disadvantaged rural habitus turn into recognised cultural capital?

The rapid pace of urbanisation in China has seen a massive increase in the movement of the rural population to work and live in urban regions. In this large-scale migration context, the educational, health, and psychological problems of floating children are becoming increasingly visible. Different from extant studies, we focus our investigation on the rural dispositions of floating children through interviews with leaders, teachers, and students in four schools in Beijing. Drawing on Bourdieu’s key notions of habitus, capital, and field, our study indicates that the rural habitus of floating children can differentiate these children from their urban peers. This habitus can be marginalised and stigmatised in certain fields but can be recognised and valued as capital in other fields. Our paper offers some implications for research and practice in relation to the schooling of floating children.

Cultural innovation and transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees:evidence from field experiments

Animal Cognition, V.6, pp. 213-223

Experiences of participants in the field of food insecurity through the lens of Bourdieu's cultural capital : practical and theoretical explorations

Ce mémoire utilise des données qualitatives provenant d’entretiens semi-structurés pour examiner les ressources qu’utilisent les individus qui font face à l’insécurité alimentaire sous l’angle du capital culturel de Pierre Bourdieu. Les participants étaient choisis parmi les usagers des organismes alternatifs qui œuvrent en sécurité alimentaire à Montréal. Tous étaient en situation d’insécurité alimentaire. Des analyses inductives et déductives étaient exécutées. Seize indicateurs de la forme du capital culturel incorporée, et trois indicateurs de chacune des formes institutionnalisées et objectivées ont été trouvés à être reliés aux stratégies qu’utilisaient les répondants pour améliorer leur situation alimentaire. Cette recherche nous indique que le capital culturel individuel joue un rôle dans les stratégies utilisées, incluant la participation dans les organismes communautaires. De plus, un manque de capital approprié peut servir comme barrière à la participation dans certaines stratégies ce qui pourra avancer des réflexions sur la justesse et l’efficacité des stratégies actuelles.

Sweet talking to ethnic customers : a field experiment on the links between entrepreneurial business planning, cultural sensitivity and sales growth

The purpose of this study was to test whether calculated inclusion of cultural sensitivity in a selected entrepreneurial business planning (EBP) process could increase sales growth in a test market and to explore the implications of a positive answer for the theory and practice of entrepreneurial business planning. Execution of a pretest-posttest control group experimental design measured and compared the implemented effectiveness of a planned entrepreneurial initiative based on cultural sensitivity. Though small in scale and limited in focus, the initiative qualified as an example of entrepreneurial business planning (EBP) and could be used to apply, test and extend aspects of the developing theory in this field of entrepreneurship research. Since the initiative was planned to overcome a culturally-defined impediment to business growth, it also offered opportunity to explore the specific importance of cultural variables in the context of EBP.

A planned sales-promotion was offered to a control group (receiving information in English) and a treatment group (who received the information in the language of ethnic origin). The sixty subjects had been chosen at random from a population of route-trade retailers of defined ethnic origins (Greek, Lebanese and Chinese) and randomly assigned to control and treatment groups. Monthly sales averages of the promoted product were measured before and after treatment. A Chi Square test was used to evaluate the relative proportion of the control and treatment groups who accepted the promotional offer. A two sample t-test procedure and complementary non-parametric Mann-Whitney test were performed to compare the mean sales-performance change of the two groups. Analysis showed that there was a significant increase in mean sales when the planned entrepreneurial initiative was communicated in the relevant language of origin.

The experimental results have specific practical relevance to revitalising the deteriorating route-trade segment of the Australian confectionery market through increasing the sales growth of wholesalers who are prepared to act entrepreneurially and include cultural sensitivity as an element in planning and implementation. By introducing cultural sensitivity as a necessary extension of a plan’s communications role, the results also have general theoretical implications for the developing paradigm of entrepreneurial business planning.