866 resultados para Hebrew fiction--History and criticism
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High-ranking Chinese military officials are often quoted in international media as stating that China cannot afford to lose even an inch of Chinese territory, as this territory has been passed down from Chinese ancestors. Such statements are not new in Chinese politics, but recently this narrative has made an important transition. While previously limited to disputes over land borders, such rhetoric is now routinely applied to disputes involving islands and maritime borders. China is increasingly oriented toward its maritime borders and seems unwilling to compromise on delimitation disputes, a transition mirrored by many states across the globe. In a similar vein, scholarship has found that territorial disputes are particularly intractable and volatile when compared with other types of disputes, and a large body of research has grappled with producing systematic knowledge of territorial conflict. Yet in this wide body of literature, an important question has remained largely unanswered - how do states determine which geographical areas will be included in their territorial and maritime claims? In other words, if nations are willing to fight and die for an inch of national territory, how do governments draw the boundaries of the nation? This dissertation uses in-depth case studies of some of the most prominent territorial and maritime disputes in East Asia to argue that domestic political processes play a dominant and previously under-explored role in both shaping claims and determining the nature of territorial and maritime disputes. China and Taiwan are particularly well suited for this type of investigation, as they are separate claimants in multiple disputes, yet they both draw upon the same historical record when establishing and justifying their claims. Leveraging fieldwork in Taiwan, China, and the US, this dissertation includes in-depth case studies of Chinas and Taiwans respective claims in both the South China Sea and East China Sea disputes. Evidence from this dissertation indicates that officials in both China and Taiwan have struggled with how to reconcile history and international law when establishing their claims, and that this struggle has introduced ambiguity into China's and Taiwan's claims. Amid this process, domestic political dynamics have played a dominant role in shaping the options available and the potential for claims to change in the future. In Taiwans democratic system, where national identity is highly contested through party politics, opinions vary along a broad spectrum as to the proper borders of the nation, and there is considerable evidence that Taiwans claims may change in the near future. In contrast, within Chinas single-party authoritarian political system, where nationalism is source of regime legitimacy, views on the proper interpretation of Chinas boundaries do vary, but along a much more narrow range. In the dissertations final chapter, additional cases, such as South Koreas position on Dokdo and Indonesias approach to the defense of Natuna are used as points of comparison to further clarify theoretical findings.
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Geographic Information System (GIS) is a technology that deals with location to support better representations and decision making. It has a long tradition in several planning areas, such as urbanism, environment, riskiness, transportation, archeology or tourism. In academics context higher education has followed that evolution. Despite of their potentialities in education, GIS technologies at the elementary and secondary have been underused. Empowering graduates to learn with GIS and to manipulate spatial data can effectively facilitate the teaching of critical thinking. Likewise it has been recognized that GIS tools can be incorporated as an interdisciplinary pedagogical tool. Nevertheless more practical examples on how GIS tools can enhance teaching and learning process, namely to promote interdisciplinary approaches. The proposed paper presents some results obtained from the project Each thing in its place: the science in time and space. This project results from the effort of three professors of Geography, History and Natural Sciences in the context of Didactics of World Knowledge curricular unit to enhance interdisciplinarity through Geographic Information Technologies (GIT). Implemented during the last three years this action-research project developed the research practice using GIS to create an interdisciplinary attitude in the future primary education teachers. More than teaching GIS the authors were focused on teaching with GIS to create an integrated vision where spatial data representation linked the space, the time and natural sciences. Accumulated experience reveals that those technologies can motivate students to learn and facilitating teachers interdisciplinary work.
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Catalog of an exhibition held at the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom.
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This article reviews recent attempts at mapping research paradigms in Management and Organizational History and argues that the old distinctions between supplementarist, integrationist, and reorientationist approaches have been superseded by attempts at integrating historical research in organization studies. A typology of these integrationist approaches differentiates between pluralist and unitary integration, as well as between models based on either historical theory or organization theory. Each has distinct weaknesses and strengths, but essentially all limit their integration of historical research paradigms to only a few. As a result, there is a danger that history might become reduced to a methodology, an empirical endeavor, narrative representations, or indeed be considered the subject of research rather than a research approach in its own right. I argue that all of these present an impoverished picture of the rich research traditions available in the discipline of history, which has unique insights and approaches to offer to the study of organizations.
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In 2012, Uganda celebrated 50 years of independence. The postcolonial era in the country has been marked by political turmoil and civil wars. Uganda, like many other postcolonial states in Africa, cannot be described as an ethnically or culturally homogenous state. However, history education has globally been seen as a platform for constructing national identities in contemporary societies. At the same time, it is assumed that specific historical experiences of countries influence historical understanding. This study takes its starting point in the theories of historical consciousness and narrativity. A narrative could be viewed as a site where mobilization of ideas of the past to envisage the present and possible futures is made and hence the narrative expresses historical orientation. Through the concept of historical orientation historical consciousness can be explored, i.e. what history is viewed as significant and meaningful. The aim in the study is to explore in what ways students connect to their historical pasts. The study explores 219 narratives of 73 Ugandan upper secondary students. Narratives elicited through written responses to three assignments. Designed to capture different approaches to history: either to start from the beginning and narrate history prospectively or to depart from the present narrating retrospectively. The colonial experience of Uganda affected the sampling in the way that students were chosen from two different regions, Central and Northern Uganda. The comparison was a way to handle the concept of nation as a presupposed category. Narrative analysis has been used as a method to explore what the students regarded as historically significant and what patterns among the narratives that point towards particular historical orientations. The empirical results show how different approaches to history, a prospective or a retrospective approach, influence the student narratives. For instance, valued judgments on past developments were more common with the retrospective approach. The results also show differences in evaluating past developments according to regional origin. Students from northern Uganda were generally more inclined to tell a story of decline. Also, it is argued that the student narratives were informed by a meta-narrative of Africa. It was as common to identify oneself as African as it was to identify as Ugandan.
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La novela "La cancin de la pena eterna" (1995), de la escritora Wang Anyi, es considerada actualmente un clsico moderno de las letras chinas. El objetivo de este trabajo se articula sobre la base de dos orientaciones. Por un lado, se realiza un extenso recorrido interpretativo por la novela, atendiendo a distintos criterios para extraer conclusiones sobre la motivacin e intencionalidad de la escritora. Por otro lado, a partir de esas conclusiones, se sita la novela en el canon literario chino, en virtud de su propia caracterizacin, las influencias recibidas y su posible contribucin.
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La bomba atmica "representa la perfeccin del hombre por su parte 'malvada'. Ya no podemos ser ms malvados, inteligentes y defensivos" (Sloterdijk, P.; 2003. p. 218 ). Aquesta s la reflexi de Peter Sloterdijk sobre la humanitat que ha provocat aquesta barbrie, sent conscient que aquesta no pot ser ms maligna ni provocar ms dolor, desprs de destruir conscientment una ciutat sencera junt amb els seus habitants innocents. Per com es van sentir els hibakusha, supervivents de l'atac nuclear, i a qu van quedar reduts els ciutadans d'Hiroshima i de Nagasaki, havent patit aquesta maldat en la prpia pell? Desprs d'aquesta tragdia, molts d'aquells que van sobreviure van decidir explicar la seva experincia, donant lloc al conegut com genbaku bungaku o literatura de les bombes atmiques. En aquest estudi hem escollit dues de les obres ms importants del gnere per tal d'analitzar com aquesta vivncia va afectar a les seves vctimes. En primer lloc, hem analitzat Flors d'Estiu, de Tamiki Hara, primer relat en ser publicat que, en poc ms de vint pgines, descriu l'infern viscut pel propi autor i com aquesta visi de l'apocalipsi i el sofriment absolut el va marca per sempre ms. En segon lloc, hem analitzat Pluja Negra, escrita per Mabusi Ibuse, autor que, tot i no haver sigut testimoni directe de la tragdia, va aconseguir copsar el sentiment dels hibakusha, escribint una de les millors novelles del gnere. Per tal d'estudiar les obres hem seguit un cam del general al particular. Analitzant el context histric, ens hem pogut fer una idea de qu va significar la postguerra, des de la poltica sota la guia nord-americana a la reconstrucci econmica i tamb una societat que, perdent-ho gaireb tot, va haver de tornar a comenar. Desprs, hem volgut endinsar-nos en la literatura del perode, analitzant, junt amb el propi genbaku bungaku, dos dels gneres ms importants, el burai ha o escola decadent, i el nikutai bunaku o literatura de la carn. Finalment, hem analitzat les prpies obres, veient com els textos es veuen impregnats de tristesa i confusi. Desprs de veure com tota la seva vida s'esmicolava en qesti de segons, els protagonistes d'aquests dos textos queden totalment desolats, veient com ho han perdut tot, des de la seva identitat fins la seva esperana en la prpia humanitat.
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Inventari que recull les notcies que lautor ha pogut aplegar sobre plecs solts potics en llengua catalana de temtica relacionada amb el bandolerisme (des de larribada de la impremta a Catalunya fins al final del segle XVII). Tamb ofereix ledici del text de tres daquests plecs solts, impresos a la segona meitat del segle XVI, indits modernament i poc coneguts. Es tracta duna srie sobre dos germans bandolers, caps de colla: Janot i Montserrat Poc
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Article sobre les allusions i ancdotes tradicionals que fa servir Lpe de Vega a les seves obres. Concretament es tracta un episodi del llibre El mejor alcalde, el rey
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El treball d'investigaci t per objecte oferir un inventari raonat de novelles i contes curts dautors sicilians dentre 1860 i 1898, de Giovanni Verga a la Simonetta Agnello Hornby, diferents en edat, cultura i condici social. Vol fer evident la persistncia de la reflexi sobre el Risorgimento "trat", i ajudar a comprendre com hi havia un marc dunitat poltica i institucional en el qu no es donava cabuda a les diferncies entre el Nord i el Sud dItlia
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Es presenten notcies sobre lactivitat dels els inicis de la histria literria catalana, la multiplicitat dels vehicles on apareix, les formes que adopta i levoluci que experimenta
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Si hi ha un perode postmedieval similar al nostre davui en la histria literria catalana en el qual els nostres escriptors -trencant radicalment amb una tradici ja obsoleta (com era la del cinc-cents en la seva major part)- es posen a lalada dels corrents literaris europeus, aquest s el perode barroc (cf. Rossich 1984 ). El text que em proposo analitzar i comparar illustra perfectament aquesta circumstncia
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Kirjoitus perustuu esitelmn Tieteen pivill 8.-12.1.2003.
