Agricultura urbana, condición para el desarrollo sostenible y la mejora del paisaje

Este artículo resulta de investigaciones en torno al “enverdecimiento” de las ciudades y las oportunidades de la agricultura urbana para la alimentación de una población en constante aumento que no trabaja la tierra. También es fruto de actividades de mejora de ambientes urbanos realizadas con la Escuela de Ingenieros Agrónomos de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. A través de casos de agricultura urbana, entendiendo por ella el conjunto de prácticas para la producción de alimentos y plantas ornamentales dentro de las ciudades y en sus entornos, se analizan alternativas para la recuperación de espacios construidos e incremento de la calidad de vida de la población. Todo ello se traduce, además, en creación de riqueza y mejora del paisaje urbano, siempre desde criterios de sostenibilidad que favorecen el desarrollo local desde la Cumbre de la Tierra de Río de 1992 y la Conferencia sobre Desarrollo Sostenible Río+20 de 2013.

Kawamoto’s "Dojoji Temple": Puppetry, Gesture and Myth

Dojoji Temple ( Dōjōji, 1976) is a short puppet animation directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. Influenced by Bunraku (Japanese puppet plays), emaki (painted scroll), Noh theatre and Japanese myth, Dojoji Temple tells of a woman’s unrequited love for a young priest. Heartbroken, she then transforms into a sea serpent and goes after the priest for revenge. While Kawamoto’s animation is rich with Japanese aesthetics and tragedy, his animation is peopled by puppets who do not speak. Limited and restrained though the puppets may be, their animated gestures speak volumes of powerful emotions. For our article, we will select several scenes from the animation, and interpret their actions so that we can further understand the mythical world of Dojoji Temple and the essential being of puppetry. Our gesture analysis will take into account cinematographic compositions, sound and bodily attires, among other elements.

Tails of animal attraction: Incorporating the feline into the family

Increased urbanization and female employment have led to the cat overtaking the dog as the companion animal of preference. However, thisarticle looks beyond lifestyle changes as reasons for the popularity of the cat. The article explores the emotional consumer-socialization processinvolving the incorporation of the cat into the family. Subjective personal introspection (SPI) and supporting vignettes of female humans in theirfamilies (all of which were high-involvement owners) explore the hows and whys of feline incorporation. The study identifies several categories ofincorporation. The findings suggest that this complex process involves many factors — namely, consumer socialization, intergenerationalinfluence, brand loyalty, commitment, near-instant loyalty, immediacy, distress, anthropomorphism, and nostalgia. These factors underpin theintimacy and care the human–feline relationship expresses. The ability for humans and cats to bond in a way that fosters emotional intimacy canbe considered one of the purest forms of relationships.© 2007 Published by Elsevier Inc.

Social Dance for Successful Aging:The Practice of Health, Happiness, and Social Inclusion Amongst Senior Citizens

This article presents findings from a qualitative study of social
dancing for successful aging amongst senior citizens in three locales:
in Blackpool (GB), around Belfast (NI), and in Sacramento (US). Social
dancers are found to navigate an intense space in society, one of
wellbeing accompanied by a beneficial sense of youthfulness. Besides
such renewal and self-actualisation, findings also attest to the perceived
social, psychological and health benefits of social dancing amongst senior
citizens. They also articulate three different social dancing practices:
social dance as tea dance (Sacramento), social dance as practice dance
(Blackpool), social dance as motility (Belfast and environs).

Retro, faux-vintage, and anachronism: When cinema looks back at Its Analogue Past

This article explores the definition of ‘vintage cinema’ and specifically re-evaluates the fetishism for the past and its regurgitation in the present by providing a taxonomy of the phenomenon in recent film production. Our contribution identifies three aesthetic categories: the faux-vintage, the retro and the anachronistic and by illustrating their overlapping and discrepancies, it argues that the past remains a powerful negotiator of meaning for the present and the future. Drawing on studies of memory and digital nostalgia, this article focuses on the latter category: anachronism and unravel the persistence of and the filmic fascination for obsolete analogue objects through an analysis of Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013).

Curso: Memorias del psicoanálisis.Construcción y desconstrucción narrativa del sujeto

A partir del miércoles 20 de agosto de 2008 desarrollaremos nuestro octavo seminario consecutivo, dedicado, como los anteriores, al tema de la memoria en una perspectiva que aspira a integrar los desarrollos clásicos y contemporáneos en el psicoanálisis, las neurociencias, la filosofía, la historia y la teoría y práctica de la literatura. El seminario 2006-2 (¡Haz memoria!) trabajó en torno a los recuerdos de infancia, el seminario 2007-1 (Ficciones de la memoria) tuvo como tema el encriptamiento de la memoria y ciertas novelas supuestamente fundadas en el recuerdo, el seminario 2007-2 giró alrededor de la oposición entre Memoria del uno y memoria del otro. El seminario 2008-1 estuvo centrado en una de las Modalidades de la memoria: la nostalgia. El Seminario 2008-2 trató de la segunda modalidad: El traumatismo. Como suele suceder, no alcanzamos a desarrollar todo cuanto nos propusimos y aspectos importantes quedaron para el semestre siguiente. En esa medida, el Seminario 2009-1 tratará de tocar los temas inacabados y continuar hacia nuevos aspectos de nuestra problemática.

Curso: Memorias de la muerte

A partir del miércoles 11 de febrero de 2009 desarrollaremos el noveno seminario consecutivo, dedicado, como los anteriores, al tema de la memoria en una perspectiva que aspira a integrar los desarrollos clásicos y contemporáneos en el psicoanálisis, las neurociencias, la filosofía, la historia y la teoría y práctica de la literatura. El seminario 2006-2 (¡HAZ MEMORIA!) trabajó en torno a los recuerdos de infancia, el seminario 2007-1 (FICCIONES DE LA MEMORIA) tuvo como tema el encriptamiento de la memoria y ciertas novelas supuestamente fundadas en el recuerdo, el seminario 2007-2 giró alrededor de la oposición entre MEMORIA DEL UNO Y MEMORIA DEL OTRO. El seminario 2008-1 estuvo centrado en una de las modalidades de la memoria: LA NOSTALGIA. El seminario 2008-2 trató de la segunda modalidad: El traumatismo. El seminario 2009-1 tuvo un tema radicalmente diferente: Las memorias del psicoanálisis. Construcción y desconstrucción narrativas del sujeto del inconsciente. Para el seminario 2009-2 tenemos un título extraño, paradójico: Memorias de la muerte.

Development and Progress as Historical Phenomena in Tanzania: “Maendeleo? We Had That in the Past”

Academic discussions of development continue to grow, yet critical engagements with communities affected by development interventions remain limited. Drawing from life history interviews conducted in southern Tanzania, this article details the varied experiences of development interventions among older people and how these affect broader understandings of progress. Many juxtapose their negative views of ujamaa villagization with more positive recollections of previous interventions (especially the Groundnut Scheme), which are infused with what is described here as “development nostalgia.” Perceptions of the past clearly inform the social, political, and economic aspirations forwarded today, with the richness of the constructed narratives adding further nuance to existing depictions of Tanzanian historiography.

De que forma o uso de packaging revivalista contribui para aumentar a percepção da qualidade e genuinidade das marcas e dos seus produtos

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Publicidade e Marketing.

Professores em fim de carreira: desenvolvimento profissional e sentimentos atuais

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de mestre em Ciências da Educação - Especialidade Supervisão em Educação

Entre "o céu e a areia": turismo, viagens e expedições. Mapeando discursos e práticas sobre a Mauritânia

A situação periférica da Mauritânia na cartografia dos interesses imperiais, mas também na cartografia dos circuitos e interesses do turismo contemporâneo, foi o mote para esta dissertação. Nela se procura estruturar uma genealogia das construções discursivas sobre o país, produzidas pelo ocidente, com especial incidência para a forma como o território foi promovido turisticamente. Através de uma aproximação fundamentalmente cronológica, esta genealogia é construída num primeiro momento a partir da análise de narrativas de diversos tipos (mapeamento, conquista, viagens, etc.) que se produziram sobre a Mauritânia desde o século XV até ao século XX. O segundo momento de construção desta genealogia incide sobre a forma como a Mauritânia foi promovida turisticamente no quadro das colónias da África Ocidental Francesa. Aí se explora o seu “estatuto periférico” através da análise de guias e brochuras turísticas, mas também através da forma como o território foi exibido nas exposições coloniais realizadas na metrópole. Num terceiro momento, a ênfase é posta na forma como foi organizado o sector do turismo na Mauritânia pós-colonial, e procura-se aferir da operacionalidade da “nostalgia colonial” associada ao deserto enquanto principal atractivo turístico do país. Finalmente, e a partir de dados etnográficos e da realização de entrevistas recolhidas em Nouakchott, pretende-se reflectir sobre a actual crise no sector turístico mauritano, bem como sobre as reconfigurações sociais concomitantemente operadas por esta crise.

Representations of swinging London in 1960s British cinema : Blowup (1966), Smashing Time (1967), and Performance (1970)

This thesis explores the representation of Swinging London in three examples of 1960s British cinema: Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966), Smashing Time (Desmond Davis, 1967) and Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, 1970). It suggests that the films chronologically signify the evolution, commodification and dissolution of the Swinging London era. The thesis explores how the concept of Swinging London is both critiqued and perpetuated in each film through the use of visual tropes: the reconstruction of London as a cinematic space; the Pop photographer; the dolly; representations of music performance and fashion; the appropriation of signs and symbols associated with the visual culture of Swinging London. Using fashion, music performance, consumerism and cultural symbolism as visual narratives, each film also explores the construction of youth identity through the representation of manufactured and mediated images. Ultimately, these films reinforce Swinging London as a visual economy that circulates media images as commodities within a system of exchange. With this in view, the signs and symbols that comprise the visual culture of Swinging London are as central and significant to the cultural era as their material reality. While they attempt to destabilize prevailing representations of the era through the reproduction and exchange of such symbols, Blowup, Smashing Time, and Performance nevertheless contribute to the nostalgia for Swinging London in larger cultural memory.

Ambivalent longings: Heim and its prefix : anxiety and the discourse of home

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Ethics, tourists and the environmental practices of the North American cruise ship industry: a comparison study of the ethical standards of Alaskan and Caribbean cruise ship tourists

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Making Queer Anti-capitalist Resistance Intelligible: Reading Queer Childhood in the Ruins of Neoliberalism

In challenging normative social relations, queer cultural studies has shied away from deploying historical materialist theoretical tools. My research addresses this gap by drawing these two literatures into conversation. I do so by investigating how global economic relations provide an allegorical and material context for the regulation, representation and re-imagining of working-class queer childhood through anti- capitalist queer readings of three films: Kes, Billy Elliot, and Boys Village. I deploy this reading practice to investigate how these films represent heteronormative capitalism’s systematic extermination of the life possibilities of working class children, how children resist forces of normalisation by creating queer times and spaces, and how nostalgia engenders a spatio-temporal understanding of queerness through a radical utopianism. My analysis foregrounds visual cultural productions as sites for understanding how contemporary social worlds exclude queer working class children, who struggle to insert themselves into and thereby shift the grounds of normative social relations.