"Do alto da colina" - a província do Rio Grande do Norte, o comércio, os rios Potengi e Jundiaí e o complexo comercial do Guarapes 1850 - 1900

The commercial complex Guarapes was during the second half of the nineteenth century most commercial street of Rio Grande do Norte province. In that time frame, you can see its flourishing as one of the central places of trade in the province in 1850, and its subsequent abandonment in 1900. This thesis aims to investigate, in its first part, the paths that help to understand, as the context of the expansion of global markets in the second half of the nineteenth century enabled the conditions for the emergence of the commercial complex. However, trade relations established in this province through the commercial complex, even participating in this global environment, reserved particular characteristics in their social and trade relations, as if dealing with a peripheral province, we look at the uniqueness of the relationship occurred in this space. In the second part, we seek to understand the importance that the rivers Potengi and Jundiaí had to install the commercial complex Guarapes in the second half of the nineteenth century. As the geographical position in relation to rivers, enabled this space became flow zone and confluence of goods distributed to the various parts of the interior of the province. We also monitor the process that made these rivers leave the role of mobility and transport relations in this space, giving way the railways and roads shooting. In the third part, we seek to understand the commercial complex Guarapes in focus. Analyzing their spatial distribution on the landscape, and how the spatial organization held at the same time traces of the Brazilian patriarchy exposed by Gilberto Freyre, but also "modern" features, due to the increase of a new culture inserted material in the province. We also seek to understand elements of material culture that was the environment of the complex, and how these materials are important sources for understanding this society under study. We treat from the biggest to the smallest fragments without hierarchize them. Understanding that, the study associated the written sources and materials provide a gain in understanding of everyday these people who lived in that area of the complex in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Movimento de educação e cultura popular no Brasil dos anos 1960: resistência desfeita

In this work we defend the thesis that the movements of culture and popular education in the 1960s in Brazil, manifested itself into resistance to hegemonic thought, coming from the North, which reduced the popular individuals and their knowledge to the ignorant condition. The focus of our study lies on the resistance produced by these movements in the history of the Country. We used as theoretical reflective foundation the thinking of Boaventura de Sousa Santos and his thesis about the construction of rationalities focused in the fight against indolent reason and the deconstruction of the inferiority in the colonized plan. But the analysis also favors approaches of other authors in the proportion that deals with the action of social actors of culture and popular education movements that have marked their presence in the public space, whose views and interests were invented and reinvented constantly in the relacional game. From the point of empirical view, the research makes use of bibliographies and written documentary sources such as newspaper articles, speeches, statements, manifests and documents like these. The research intends to seek in the past the understanding of those Movements in an effort to enable the viewing of certain remnants of the past that have relevance as social and academic wealth of experience. From the popular and the local, movements of culture and popular education in the 1960s, they overcame the barriers of invisibility and raised Itself to the plan of the global history, when they began to become protagonists of their own history, until their dreams were buried by the 1964 tragedy.

Movimento de educação e cultura popular no Brasil dos anos 1960: resistência desfeita

In this work we defend the thesis that the movements of culture and popular education in the 1960s in Brazil, manifested itself into resistance to hegemonic thought, coming from the North, which reduced the popular individuals and their knowledge to the ignorant condition. The focus of our study lies on the resistance produced by these movements in the history of the Country. We used as theoretical reflective foundation the thinking of Boaventura de Sousa Santos and his thesis about the construction of rationalities focused in the fight against indolent reason and the deconstruction of the inferiority in the colonized plan. But the analysis also favors approaches of other authors in the proportion that deals with the action of social actors of culture and popular education movements that have marked their presence in the public space, whose views and interests were invented and reinvented constantly in the relacional game. From the point of empirical view, the research makes use of bibliographies and written documentary sources such as newspaper articles, speeches, statements, manifests and documents like these. The research intends to seek in the past the understanding of those Movements in an effort to enable the viewing of certain remnants of the past that have relevance as social and academic wealth of experience. From the popular and the local, movements of culture and popular education in the 1960s, they overcame the barriers of invisibility and raised Itself to the plan of the global history, when they began to become protagonists of their own history, until their dreams were buried by the 1964 tragedy.

A escola do urbano no campo do município de Catalão/GO : ensino de geografia nas especificidades do lugar

This study makes an approach to the Morro Agudo Community (Cisterna) located in Catalão city(GO) rural area where stands the Maria Bárbara Sucena Municipal School. This school center is a result of getting together several small and isolated schools, which worked, scattered in many rural communities in the region. After this centralization in a single school, many students had to move along inconvenient distance to get their classes. Morro Agudo Community (Cisterna) was outstanding at garlic cultivation throughout the 1990`s when eventually this activity came to a decline. The region is constituted by properties of small tract of land. The landowners come from a Portuguese background and there are, in addit ion, migrant workers from the northeast region of Brazil. These northeasterners work for these local landowners, and that brings an additional meaning to the social relations in the region and to the rural schooling. The social and cultural diversity of the region has a feedback at the school arising tensions in many ways. In the teaching and learning process the school deals with this diversity, combined with rules and goals that, in the end, delivers a geography teaching not able to value the local knowledge accumulated in the region by its own inhabitants. New methodological approaches to rural school communities emerged out of the analysis of these unmet expectations. Furthermore, this study takes into consideration some “residues”, that means not all events are fit into programs; there are unintended consequences in an open process. All these are object of deep review in this doctoral dissertation. In this community, an analysis of the public policies implemented by Federal and municipal governments to rural schools communities in Brazil was conducted. The way in which public policies toward rural communities are implemented at the schools was reviewed; the goals they pursue and the role played by textbooks are also object of analysis. This study questions the relevance of this tools, mainly if they meet the real needs of the local people. The social representations of teachers and students are considered carefully based on their everyday lives and experiences.

La imagen de la cultura española en Brasil

El presente documento analiza la percepción actual de la cultura española en Brasil, para lo que se han utilizado los datos obtenidos de una encuesta realizada al ciudadano medio; en total, 504 personas respondieron a las preguntas propuestas, de las que se puede extraer, sin duda y de una forma generalizada, que la cultura española es el punto fuerte de su imagen exterior. Aun así, los datos disponibles sobre la imagen cultural de España en el mundo son muy reducidos. Se ha elegido Brasil, debido a la doble unión de interés que cuenta con España: las históricas relaciones, que han pasado el testigo a los acuerdos económicos, que principalmente afloran en Brasil. Con el fin de ofrecer un mapa completo de la imagen cultural española en este país, en primer lugar se enumeran los variados actores encargados de representar y diseminar las áreas culturales por el territorio brasileño. Ya sean administraciones públicas, ámbito privado o ciudadanía, de una forma individualizada o agrupados en redes, se esfuerzan para que las percepciones y opiniones sean lo más elevadas posibles.

Imagen y cultura de la enfermedad en la Europa de la Baja Edad Media

Mi investigación analiza la imagen de la enfermedad en la Europa de la Baja Edad Media a partir del conocimiento de los factores que determinaron y condicionaron su expresión visual en los contextos sociales y culturales en los que se desarrolló. He destacado aquellos discursos que incidieron de forma directa sobre la enfermedad como manifestación real y sobre todo visible, desde un punto de vista biológico, médico, religioso y social. A todo ello he incorporado la repercusión del discurso que la propia imagen estableció con el resto de los contextos culturales de la Europa medieval. Para el desarrollo de esta investigación he utilizado una serie de criterios metodológicos que incluyen enfoques de índole sociológica, como la historia de las mentalidades, la religión y la medicina, no solo como disciplinas de estudio histórico, sino también como expresión de la cultura visual. Todo ello ha enriquecido notablemente la narración, ya que me ha permitido por un lado analizar la imagen como proceso de pensamiento de la sociedad en la que se creó, y por otro considerar la enfermedad dentro de la medicina como ciencia, y el uso que esta hizo de la iconografía patológica. El aparato iconográfico para el análisis de la imagen procede esencialmente de la pintura medieval en cualquier soporte, aunque no he desestimado obras escultóricas, tanto en piedra como en madera, por las características iconográficas relevantes que aportan. Los ámbitos representativos de dichas pinturas están vinculados a los contextos científicos -sobre todo de filosofía natural y medicina-, religiosos y profanos, logrando por lo tanto una visión global y holística de la expresión visual de la enfermedad...

O papel dos Museus nos constructos da experiência global do destino. O caso do Museu da Cerâmica de Caldas da Rainha.

Enquanto actores, desejavelmente interventivos nos Sistemas Turísticos, os Museus, enfrentam desafios de integração dos seus visitantes no Destino em que se inserem. No âmbito desta complexidade e outros contextos aqui não referidos, estes processos de integração do visitante poderão também oscilar entre a integração na temática específica que sustentam, a integração na cultura mais alargada que personificam ou num âmbito ainda mais vasto, poderão contribuir para a integração numa Experiência Global desse mesmo destino. O Museu da Cerâmica investigado, sustenta e incrementa um Imaginário Colectivo assente numa nostalgia cultural que reafirma a cerâmica local como principal veículo da promoção cultural e patrimonial do destino Caldas da Rainha. O presente trabalho perspectiva a possibilidade do Imaginário, em determinados contextos, poder ser equacionado como uma espécie de preconceito cultural que inibe, ou, no mínimo, não contribui para promover experiências culturais mais vastas. No sentido inverso, ganham importância acrescida estratégias a seguir pelos Museus para que as suas funções pedagógicas e emancipadoras sejam mais amplas e interventivas em função de interesses existentes e previamente assumidos pelo Destino.

The transition movement and food sovereignty: from local resilience to global engagement in food system transformation

The emergence of grassroots social movements variously preoccupied with a range of external threats, such as diminishing supplies of fossil energy or climate change, has led to increased interest in the production of local food. Drawing upon the notion of cognitive praxis, this article utilises transition as a trajectory guided by an overarching cosmology that brings together a broad social movement seeking a more resilient future. This ‘grand narrative’ is reinforced by ‘transition movement intellectuals’ who serve to shape an agenda of local preparedness in the face of uncertainty, rather than structural analysis of the global system. In this context, growing and producing food offers important multi-functional synergies by reconnecting people to place and its ecological endowments and serves to provide a vital element in civic mobilisation. Yet, local food could also become a means to build international solidarity in defence of food sovereignty and establish a global coalition opposed to the corporate agri-food agenda of biotechnologies, land grabbing and nutritional impoverishment.

Ireland and the global economic crisis: one island, two different experiences

In this chapter, Ó hAdhmaill argues that responses to the global economic crisis which emerged in 2008 reflected a dominant ideological discourse, with ‘austerity’ being a tool in a wider agenda to reassert neoliberalist thinking in the global economy and welfare provision in the richer countries. In Ireland, North and South, however, the experience of, and responses to, the crisis and ‘austerity’ were different, reflecting different social, economic, and political contexts and influences, as well as different levels of democratic control. Ó hAdhmaill outlines some of these differences and argues that, while democratic control in smaller jurisdictions may be limited by the ‘real rulers’ of the world, global capital, people still have ‘agency’ and do not have to be mere passive observers of unfolding events.

Aportes para la conformación de la cultura de la investigación : Interacción informal entre la Biblioteca y la Comunidad Académica de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación

Entre las tradiciones de las Bibliotecas Departamentales de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la UNLP existía una interacción informal y fluida con los alumnos y docentes de cada carrera que en algunos casos incluyó la formación de grupos de trabajo para la solución de situaciones específicas: mudanzas y traslados de material, procesos de reorganización temática, indización de revistas, entre otras tantas. Estas situaciones se vivían como una parte importante de la formación académica que favorecía la adquisición de técnicas y hábitos de investigación, generando una actitud crítica y permitiendo el conocimiento del material disponible. A partir del proceso de integración de las bibliotecas departamentales, esta tradición perdió continuidad y generó un alejamiento de la comunidad académica que las frecuentaba. Sin embargo, una parte de la misma, durante este proceso, comenzó a utilizar algunos de los nuevos servicios, especialmente el acceso a la estantería abierta, el préstamo interbibliotecario y los recursos electrónicos, construyendo una relación distinta con la Biblioteca. Actualmente existen grupos de alumnos de distintas carreras para quienes la Biblioteca dejó de ser únicamente un lugar donde ir a buscar la bibliografía, para transformarse nuevamente en un espacio de estudio compartido y de generación de nuevos saberes. En esta ponencia se reseñan distintas experiencias realizadas en conjunto con algunos de estos grupos y se trazan las líneas generales de una serie de propuestas que promuevan y fomenten esta interacción

Aportes para la conformación de la cultura de la investigación : Interacción informal entre la Biblioteca y la Comunidad Académica de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación

Entre las tradiciones de las Bibliotecas Departamentales de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la UNLP existía una interacción informal y fluida con los alumnos y docentes de cada carrera que en algunos casos incluyó la formación de grupos de trabajo para la solución de situaciones específicas: mudanzas y traslados de material, procesos de reorganización temática, indización de revistas, entre otras tantas. Estas situaciones se vivían como una parte importante de la formación académica que favorecía la adquisición de técnicas y hábitos de investigación, generando una actitud crítica y permitiendo el conocimiento del material disponible. A partir del proceso de integración de las bibliotecas departamentales, esta tradición perdió continuidad y generó un alejamiento de la comunidad académica que las frecuentaba. Sin embargo, una parte de la misma, durante este proceso, comenzó a utilizar algunos de los nuevos servicios, especialmente el acceso a la estantería abierta, el préstamo interbibliotecario y los recursos electrónicos, construyendo una relación distinta con la Biblioteca. Actualmente existen grupos de alumnos de distintas carreras para quienes la Biblioteca dejó de ser únicamente un lugar donde ir a buscar la bibliografía, para transformarse nuevamente en un espacio de estudio compartido y de generación de nuevos saberes. En esta ponencia se reseñan distintas experiencias realizadas en conjunto con algunos de estos grupos y se trazan las líneas generales de una serie de propuestas que promuevan y fomenten esta interacción

Aportes para la conformación de la cultura de la investigación : Interacción informal entre la Biblioteca y la Comunidad Académica de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación

Entre las tradiciones de las Bibliotecas Departamentales de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la UNLP existía una interacción informal y fluida con los alumnos y docentes de cada carrera que en algunos casos incluyó la formación de grupos de trabajo para la solución de situaciones específicas: mudanzas y traslados de material, procesos de reorganización temática, indización de revistas, entre otras tantas. Estas situaciones se vivían como una parte importante de la formación académica que favorecía la adquisición de técnicas y hábitos de investigación, generando una actitud crítica y permitiendo el conocimiento del material disponible. A partir del proceso de integración de las bibliotecas departamentales, esta tradición perdió continuidad y generó un alejamiento de la comunidad académica que las frecuentaba. Sin embargo, una parte de la misma, durante este proceso, comenzó a utilizar algunos de los nuevos servicios, especialmente el acceso a la estantería abierta, el préstamo interbibliotecario y los recursos electrónicos, construyendo una relación distinta con la Biblioteca. Actualmente existen grupos de alumnos de distintas carreras para quienes la Biblioteca dejó de ser únicamente un lugar donde ir a buscar la bibliografía, para transformarse nuevamente en un espacio de estudio compartido y de generación de nuevos saberes. En esta ponencia se reseñan distintas experiencias realizadas en conjunto con algunos de estos grupos y se trazan las líneas generales de una serie de propuestas que promuevan y fomenten esta interacción

Colonialism, political unconscious and cognitive mapping in the space of the film "Captain Phillips"

The purpose of this article has been made through a Marxist analysis of the US film "Captain Phillips" (PaulGreengrass, 2013), based on a true story. I have found how the evolution of capitalism in the West continuesto consolidate the belief reified in a historical and geographical superiority of the political and socioeconomicwestern models regarding Africa and Asia lowers models. At the same time, through categories like dialecticalmaterialism, criticism of diffusionist theory and application of cognitive mapping to large geopoliticalspaces located in most poor areas of the world, I have realized a remark about currently being articulatingthe political unconscious of working class in rich countries and the poor in poor countries, establishing arelationship between the ideological representation that takes an individual from his historical reality (ona scale that moves from local to global), and how he has developed a mental ability to escape of the responsibilityto make a critical review of what's happening around him in all areas. Finally, through physicalspace captured in the film, I have realized a materialist critique of globalized business process that takesplace through the carriage of goods, outlining spatial and cognitively limits of the mentality of our time, bothamong "winners"as among the "losers", based on the spatial movement of capital.

How to map the diversity of the audiovisual industry in the digital era. A Methodological Proposition

This article presents a methodological proposition to map the diversity of the audiovisual industry in the digital scenario by portraying the most important interactions between those who create, produce, distribute and disseminate audiovisual productions on line, paying special attention to powerful intermediaries and to small and medium independent agents. Taking as a point of departure a flexible understanding of social network analysis, the aim is to understand the structure of the audiovisual industry on the internet so that, taking into consideration a given sector, agents, their relations and the networks they give place to – as well as the structural conditions under which they operate – are studied. The aim is to answer questions such as: what is mapping, what is of interesting to map, how can it be done and what advantages and disadvantages the results will present.

Organizaciones regionales y diversidad cultural: la diplomacia de la Unión Europea con el Mercosur entre la sombra de Hollywood y la acción intergubernamental

El objetivo de este artículo es doble: por un lado explorar la habilidad de la Unión Europea para llevar a cabo una política audiovisual dirigida al Mercosur y promover las normas de la Convención sobre la diversidad de las expresiones culturales; por otro, analizar el impacto del modelo de política audiovisual de la UE en el desarrollo de la cooperación audiovisual con el Mercosur y centrarse en los principales vectores que configuran el paisaje audiovisual del Mercosur. El texto pretende destacar cómo y por qué la UE persigue una política audiovisual con esa región, cuáles son los propósitos y los límites de actuación. En este sentido, se preocupa por entender cómo la diplomacia audiovisual de la UE interactúa con otros actores, como las acciones gubernamentales llevadas a cabo desde la propia UE y el Mercosur, así como las prácticas del sector privado (Hollywwod y los grandes conglomerados de medios).