Urbanism and dictatorship: perspectives of the field of urban studies

In 1933 public letter to Wilhelm Furtwängler, Joseph Goebbels synthesized the official understanding of the link between politics, art and society in the early steps of the Third Reich. By assuming the ethos of art, politics acquired a plastic agency to mold its objects —population and the state— as a unified entity in the form of a ‘national-popular community’ (Volksgemeinschaft); in turn, by infusing art with a political valence, it became part of a wider governmental apparatus that reshaped aesthetic discourses and practices. Similar remarks could be made about the ordering of cities and territories in this period. Dictatorial imaginations mobilized urbanism —including urban theory, urban design and planning— as a fundamental tool for social organization. Under their aegis the production of space became a moment in a wider production of society. Many authors suggest that this political-spatial nexus is intrinsic to modernity itself, beyond dictatorial regimes. In this light, I propose to use dictatorial urbanisms as an analytical opportunity to delve into some concealed features of modern urban design and planning. This chapter explores some of these aspects from a theoretical standpoint, focusing on the development of dictatorial planning mentalities and spatial rationalities and drawing links to other historical episodes in order to inscribe the former in a broader genealogy of urbanism. Needless to say, I don’t suggest that we use dictatorships as mere templates to understand modern productions of space. Instead, these cases provide a crude version of some fundamental drives in the operationalization of urbanism as an instrument of social regulation, showing how far the modern imagination of sociospatial orderings can go. Dictatorial urbanisms constituted a set of experiences where many dreams and aspirations of modern planning went to die. But not, as the conventional account would have it, because the former were the antithesis of the latter, but rather because they worked as the excess of a particular orientation of modern spatial governmentalities — namely, their focus on calculation, social engineering and disciplinary spatialities, and their attempt to subsume a wide range of everyday practices under institutional structuration by means of spatial mediations. In my opinion the interest of dictatorial urbanisms lies in their role as key regulatory episodes in a longer history of our urban present. They stand as a threshold between the advent of planning in the late 19th and early 20th century, and its final consolidation as a crucial state instrument after World War II. We need, therefore, to pay attention to these experiences vis-à-vis the alleged ‘normal’ development of the field in contemporary democratic countries in order to develop a full comprehension thereof.

Comparative analysis for the assessment of restoration treatments on stone material from the roman theater of Merida (Spain)

The overall goal of the project is the study of effects of conservation treatments applied on stone material from archaeological sites, i n terms of superficial changes, effectiveness and durability. In this sense, one of the first premises is characterize the surface of the treated and untreated material in order to determine changes in physical and chemical properties.

La filla del rey d'Ongria [Texto impreso] : romanç estret de dues versions catalanes del catorzèn segle

Encuadernado en : Literatura de cordel

Nova, y gustosa relaciò, jocos, y divertit romanç, en que es veu lo corro de toros de la plaza de Sent Domingo de...Valencia en...1741 [Texto impreso] : segon paper

Contiene : Preguntes de un Corbellot y respostes del autor

Romanç nou, gracios y entretengut, en ques declara la rinya, junta y delliberaciò quels toros acordaren, imediatos à la torada, ans de partir pera Valencia pera la corregùda...deste mes de Octubre...de 1738... [Texto impreso]

Hay un ejemplar encuadernado con: Poesías colocadas en el pórtico del Convento de San Francisco de Valencia (NP849.91/3086).

Romanç nou : [Texto impreso] curios y entretengut, hon es referixen els jochs, entreteniments e invencions que els gichs de Valencia eixerciten en lo transcrus del any, per els carrers y places de la ciutat, generals, sens guardar orde, jà de nit, jà de dia, y mes en la nit quant fà lunèta ; primera [-segona] part

Hay un ejemplar encuadernado con: Poesías colocadas en el pórtico del Convento de San Francisco de Valencia (NP849.91/3086)

Romanç nou molt gracios, y entretengut, hon se referixen, al peu de la lletra, totes les cosètesq deuen previndre les senyorètes pera parir ... en aquest any 1736 [Texto impreso]

Hay un ejemplar encuadernado con: Poesías colocadas en el pórtico del Convento de San Francisco de Valencia(NP849.91/3086).

Romanç nou hon se reciten los treballs de la gent pobra, per lo càres que shan possàt en València totes les coses y en especial lo menjatìu de modo que hui costa el viure mes afanys [Texto impreso] : escrit en aquest any 1763

Hay un ejemplar encuadernado con: Poesías colocadas en el pórtico del Convento de San Francisco de Valencia (NP849.91/3086).

O CARISMATISMO NAS CEBS E O DECLÍNIO DE SUAS UTOPIAS POLÍTICAS. UM ESTUDO DA IGREJA CATÓLICA EM DIADEMA E SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO (1980-2007)

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo principal estudar o declínio das utopias políticas das Comunidades Eclesiais de Base da Igreja Católica Romana nas cidades de Diadema e São Bernardo do Campo, em São Paulo, no Brasil, no período 1980-2007. Isto será feito a partir da análise da Igreja Católica na Região do ABC Paulista no período da Ditadura Militar, a mudança do campo político religioso no final da década de 70 do século passado, e a constituição do sindicalismo no Grande ABC, com os mesmos ideais utópicos da Teologia da Libertação que fundamentavam os discursos e práticas das comunidades eclesiais. Observamos a partir da Década de 80 um processo que denominamos carismatização das comunidades, caracterizando um novo perfil na militância, ou ainda um período de mudanças nas utopias iniciais do movimento, que passam a ter práticas mais individualistas.(AU)

O CARISMATISMO NAS CEBS E O DECLÍNIO DE SUAS UTOPIAS POLÍTICAS. UM ESTUDO DA IGREJA CATÓLICA EM DIADEMA E SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO (1980-2007)

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo principal estudar o declínio das utopias políticas das Comunidades Eclesiais de Base da Igreja Católica Romana nas cidades de Diadema e São Bernardo do Campo, em São Paulo, no Brasil, no período 1980-2007. Isto será feito a partir da análise da Igreja Católica na Região do ABC Paulista no período da Ditadura Militar, a mudança do campo político religioso no final da década de 70 do século passado, e a constituição do sindicalismo no Grande ABC, com os mesmos ideais utópicos da Teologia da Libertação que fundamentavam os discursos e práticas das comunidades eclesiais. Observamos a partir da Década de 80 um processo que denominamos carismatização das comunidades, caracterizando um novo perfil na militância, ou ainda um período de mudanças nas utopias iniciais do movimento, que passam a ter práticas mais individualistas.(AU)

“An Italian of the Vatican type” : The Roman formation of Cardinal Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin

Peer reviewed

Il Roman des sept sages. Edizione critica del gruppo β/a della redazione A

Edizione critica di una famiglia della redazione A del Roman des sept sages, con introduzione letteraria, classificazione di tutti manoscritti della redazione, apparato critico, scelta di varianti da tutti i testimoni

The Politics of Re-(en)visioning: Contemporary British Rewritings of Greek and Roman Tragedies

This thesis examines three different kinds of socio-political rewritings of Greek and Roman tragedies – Sarah Kane’s “Phaedra’s Love”, Tony Harrison’s “Prometheus”, and Martin Crimp’s “Cruel and Tender” – written, staged or screened in Britain (and, more precisely, England) between 1996 and 2004. Offering close readings of these re-visionary appropriations, this dissertation analyses some of the innumerable and unexpected forms that ancient tragedy can assume today. In particular, it explores how three talented British authors have subverted the conventions of the noblest literary and dramatic genre in order to (re)write contemporaneity in ways that oscillate between the personal and the public, the local and the global, the national and the transnational.

Influence of Religious Institutions in the Creation and Implementation of Public Policy: The Case of Roman Catholic Argentina and Secular Uruguay

The strong presence of religious institutions in Latin America, especially the Roman Catholic Church, and their participation in the creation and implementation of public policy within a sovereign state can be counter-productive for the social development and progress of that specific country. Argentina and Uruguay and the social controversy of social issues of abortion and same-sex marriage are used as examples to establish the accuracy of the above statement. Historical, statistical, and legislative information about both topics in both countries show that the political power that the Roman Catholic Church has in the region is more an outdated influence than a reality, and the principle of secularization appears to be the most stabilizing philosophy for modern nations.