A-ninhos : a tessitura de um espaço topológico

Esta pesquisa envolve a análise de um processo construtivo que resulta em dez objetos-ninho que compõem a série denominada “Aninhos”. O texto, integrado à tessitura do trabalho, investiga vestígios, motivações e influências na feitura do mesmo, o que o torna repleto de referências pessoais, culturais e históricas. E isto através do “olhar transpositivo” um olhar especial, reflexivo, distanciado, que resgata a trajetória dessa poiética, onde são alinhavados temas tais como o desenvolvimento do processo simbólico (Cassirer), visto pela teoria da constituição de linguagem, tratada por Lacan; as conecções com o espaço social, através das teorias de Leroi-Gourhan e de Arnau Puig; as conecções com o espaço perceptivo, através da leitura de Merlot-Ponty, Arnhein e Pareyson; as vertentes históricas tratadas por Argan e Calabrese; e um código imagético, recuperado por vertentes simbólicas (mitológicas e literárias). Associados ao processo construtivo dos objetos-ninho, todos esses assuntos revelam-se em um espaço de características neobarrocas, que nomeio espaço topológico, baseada em uma definição de Arnau Puig. Um espaço que é o objetivo deste processo e pertence tanto ao plano físico como ao imaginário; que se instaura a partir do processo de comunicação e que, contentor da dinâmica que movimenta a obra, possibilita intersecções, através de gestos e reflexões, entre obra-artista-contexto-espectador.

Mapinduzi Daima – Revolution Forever : Using the 1964 Revolution in Nationalistic Political Discourses in Zanzibar

This Master's thesis examines two opposite nationalistic discourses on the revolution of Zanzibar. Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM), the party in power since the 1964 revolution defends its revolutionary and "African" heritage in the current multi-party system. New nationalists, including among others the main opposition party Civic United Front (CUF), question both the 1964 revolution and the post-revolution period and blame CCM for empty promises, corruption and ethnic discrimination. This study analyzes the role of a significant historical event in the creation of nationalistic ideology and national identity. The 1964 revolution forms the nucleus of various debates related to the history of Zanzibar: slavery, colonialism, racial discrimination and political violence. Representations of these Social constructivist principles form the basis of this study, and central concepts in the theoretical framework are nationalism, national identity, ethnicity and race. I use critical discourse analysis as my research method, lean on the work by Teun A. van Dijk and Norman Fairclough as the most significant researchers in this field. I examine particularly the ways in which linguistic methods, such as stereotypes and metaphors are used to form in- and out-groups ("us" vs. "others"). My material, both in Swahili and English, was collected mainly in Tanzania in the fall of 2007 and from online sources in the spring of 2009. It includes publications by the Zanzibari government between the years of 1964-2000 (12), official speeches for the Revolution Day or the Union Day (12), articles from Tanzanian newspapers from the 1990s until the year of 2009 (15), memoirs and political pamphlets (10), blog posts and opinion pieces from four different websites (8), and interviews or personal communication in Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam and Uppsala (8). Nationalistic rhetoric often creates enemy images by using binary good-bad oppositions. Both discourses in this study build identities on the basis of "otherness" and exclusion, with the intent of emphasizing the particularity of the own group and excluding "evilness" outside the own reference group. These opposite views on the 1964 revolution as the main axis of the history of Zanzibar build different portraits of the nation and Zanzibari-ness (Uzanzibari). CCM still relies on the pre-revolutionary enemy images of Arabs as selfish rulers and cruel slave traders. For CCM, Zanzibar is primarily an "African" nation and a part of Tanzania which is threatened by "Arabs", the outsiders. In contrast, the new nationalists stress the long history of Zanzibar as multi-racial, cosmopolitan and formerly independent country which has its own, separate culture and identity from mainland Tanzanians. Heshima, honour/respect, one of the basic values of Swahili culture, occupies a central role in both discourses: the main party emphasizes that the revolution returned "heshima" to the Zanzibari Africans after centuries of humiliation, whereas the new nationalists claim that ever since the revolution all "non-Africans" have been humiliated and lost their "heshima". According to the new nationalists, true Zanzibari values which include tolerance and harmony between different "races" were lost when the "foreign" revolutionaries arrived from the mainland. Consequently, they see the 1964 revolution as Tanganyikan colonialism which began with the help of Western countries, and maintain that this "colonialism" still continues in the violent multi-party elections.

North American Jewish Students Appeal records, undated, 1962, 1964-1996 (bulk 1971-1995)

The records of the North American Jewish Students Appeal (NAJSA or APPEAL) contains documents on two levels of concern: those documents dealing with the NAJSA as a student-run organization promoting Jewish identity among college-aged youth; and those documents dealing with the APPEAL as a fundraising organization for several well-known student constituent organizations. The Constituents were: the Jewish Student Press Service, Lights in Action, the North American Jewish Students Network, the Progressive Zionist Caucus, Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Yavneh Religious Students Organization, and Yugntruf Youth for Yiddish. Documents include correspondence, financial records, minutes, press releases, information on grants awarded to student organizations for programming and publishing, student journals, and newspapers, photographs, and ephemera.

Herz Anschel Collection 1964

"Genealogy of a Jewish Family: The descendants of Herz Anschel" by W. Rosenstock [or Siegfried Auerbach] and clipping with review

Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, MA) Records, undated, 1923, 1930-1964, 1988, 1991-1992

In 1916, the Jewish community of Boston established Beth Israel Hospital on Townsend Street in Roxbury to provide health care to immigrants in the area. Although accessible to everyone, the hospital provided Yiddish-speaking services for Eastern European Jewish immigrants and served kosher food, as well as conducted Jewish religious services. In 1928 the hospital entered into a teaching agreement with Harvard Medical School, Tufts University, and Simmons College. Shortly thereafter, the hospital moved to its current location in the Longwood area of Boston and expanded to a 220-bed operation. During 1935-1936, at the height of the Depression, Beth Israel spent 1.5 million dollars in free patient care and was only one of two local hospitals to offer health care to people on welfare. In 1996, Beth Israel Hospital merged with Deaconess Medical Center and became Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. This collection contains reports, pamphlets and hospital publications.

Bridging East and West : The Establishment of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in the United States Foreign Policy of Bridge Building, 1964-1972.

The dissertation examines the foreign policies of the United States through the prism of science and technology. In the focal point of scrutiny is the policy establishing the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the development of the multilateral part of bridge building in American foreign policy during the 1960s and early 1970s. After a long and arduous negotiation process, the institute was finally established by twelve national member organizations from the following countries: Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), France, German Democratic Republic (GDR), Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Poland, Soviet Union and United States; a few years later Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands also joined. It is said that the goal of the institute was to bring together researchers from East and West to solve pertinent problems caused by the modernization process experienced in industrialized world. It originates from President Lyndon B. Johnson s bridge building policies that were launched in 1964, and was set in a well-contested and crowded domain of other international organizations of environmental and social planning. Since the distinct need for yet another organization was not evident, the process of negotiations in this multinational environment enlightens the foreign policy ambitions of the United States on the road to the Cold War détente. The study places this project within its political era, and juxtaposes it with other international organizations, especially that of the OECD, ECE and NATO. Conventionally, Lyndon Johnson s bridge building policies have been seen as a means to normalize its international relations bilaterally with different East European countries, and the multilateral dimension of the policy has been ignored. This is why IIASA s establishment process in this multilateral environment brings forth new information on US foreign policy goals, the means to achieve these goals, as well as its relations to other advanced industrialized societies before the time of détente, during the 1960s and early 1970s. Furthermore, the substance of the institute applied systems analysis illuminates the differences between European and American methodological thinking in social planning. Systems analysis is closely associated with (American) science and technology policies of the 1960s, especially in its military administrative applications, thus analysis within the foreign policy environment of the United States proved particularly fruitful. In the 1960s the institutional structures of European continent with faltering, and the growing tendencies of integration were in flux. One example of this was the long, drawn-out process of British membership in the EEC, another is de Gaulle s withdrawal from NATO s military-political cooperation. On the other hand, however, economic cooperation in Europe between East and West, and especially with the Soviet Union was expanding rapidly. This American initiative to form a new institutional actor has to be seen in that structural context, showing that bridge building was needed not only to the East, but also to the West. The narrative amounts to an analysis of how the United States managed both cooperation and conflict in its hegemonic aspirations in the emerging modern world, and how it used its special relationship with the United Kingdom to achieve its goals. The research is based on the archives of the United States, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, and IIASA. The primary sources have been complemented with both contemporary and present day research literature, periodicals, and interviews.

Sapientia, 1964, Vol. XIX, nº 73 (número completo)

Contenido: Ser y entender / Octavio N. Derisi – Filosofía del indeterminismo cuántico / J. E. Bolzán – Arte y metafísica / José M. de Estrada – Notas y comentarios – Bibliografía

Sapientia, 1964, Vol. XIX, nº 71 (número completo)

Contenido: Concepto y ser / Octavio N. Derisi – La memoria metafísica según el libro X de las “Confesiones” / Mariano N. Castex – Las cosas bellas / Omar Argerami – El fundamento divino de la esencia y existencia del hombre / Octavio N. Derisi – Notas y comentarios -- Bibliografía

História constitucional brasileira : mudança constitucional, autoritarismo e democracia no Brasil pós-1964

Apresenta, com detalhes, aspectos históricos do constitucionalismo contemporâneo brasileiro. Partindo do período pós-1964, quando diversos processos de reforma ou ruptura alteraram as regras relativas a mudanças constitucionais, é apresentado um desenho dos principais instrumentos jurídicos utilizados pelo regime militar a fim de garantir a sua hegemonia política e jurídica. A análise passa pelo processo constituinte de 1987-1988, para verificar em que medida se rompeu com o paradigma instaurado pela ditadura, e investiga as principais tentativas de, sob a vigência da nova Carta Magna, alterar o processo de reforma constitucional.

Parlamento mutilado : deputados federais cassados pela ditadura de 1964

Relaciona os parlamentares cujos mandatos foram cassados e as circunstâncias em que a representação política na Câmara dos Deputados foi atingida por medidas de exceção.

Consideração sobre a base legal para criação do Comitê de Política Monetária (COPOM) e a Lei 4.595, de 31 de dezembro de 1964, que rege o Sistema Financeiro Nacional

Consultoria Legislativa - Área VII - Sistema Financeiro, Direito Comercial, Econômico, Defesa do Consumidor.

[Discurso do Deputado Daso Coimbra : Sessão da Câmara dos Deputados de 01 de julho de 1964]

Discussão do Projeto de Lei nº 1.042/63 (dispõe sobre a elaboração de um Plano Diretor Regional, ao qual ficará subordinada a utilização das áreas que constituem o Distrito Federal). Afirmação das condições de Habitalidade de Brasília. Defesa da sua consolidação absoluta como Capital do País.

[Discurso do Deputado Valério Magalhães : Sessão da Câmara dos Deputados de 14 de agosto de 1964]

Referência à palestra do economista Hélio Beltrão, cujo objetivo foi de despertar os setores responsáveis pela consolidação de Brasília. Condenação ao retorno de diversos órgãos federais para o Rio de Janeiro. Cita o artigo "Política de contenção" publicado no jornal Correio Braziliense sobre normas do Ministro da Fazenda que implicam na redução das verbas consignadas ao Distrito Federal.

[Discurso do Deputado Manoel de Almeida : Sessão da Câmara dos Deputados de 18 de março de 1964]

Condena os que se declaram favoráveis ao retorno da capital do país para o Rio de Janeiro.

[Discurso do Deputado Áureo Melo : Sessão da Câmara dos Deputados de 30 de outubro de 1964]

Alerta para o não cumprimento do decreto do Presidente Castello Branco que regulou o horário único para os servidores da NOVACAP. Comenta o projeto apresentado pelo Deputado Eurico de Oliveira dispondo sobre o retorno da capital da República para o Rio de Janeiro.