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Representação do corpo na Pré-história Recente: revisitando uma figurinha de Porto Torrão (Ferreira do Alentejo)
Get PDFRhizomatic Law and China’s Experience: Between Past and Future
Get PDFThe People’s Republic of China was founded on 1 October 1949. After the Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiaoping decided to launch a new series of reforms, widely known as the China’s “opening up” policy (gaige kaifang改革开放). With this new idea, China had to develop the entire legal system from scratch. All the changes were introduced for the sake of building a market economy and boosting the country’s economic growth. It is worth noting that the legal system of this country is highly influenced by philosophy, social context and political views. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explain the past experience in building China’s legal system and its future changes based on the concept of “rhizome”. Therefore, this study pays attention to some philosophical and social issues, including Confucian philosophy, which still play a crucial role in shaping Chinese reality and law. This analysis leads to the conclusion that the Chinese legal system is a good example of “rhizomatic law”. In the case of the PRC, this idea should be perceived through the lens of the complexity and dynamism of the legal framework. The Chinese legal landscape is built on the interplay between formal laws, informal norms and cultural traditions
El ensayo de penetración dinámica de energía variable para estimar la calidad de la banqueta de balasto
No full textEste artículo estudia el ensayo de penetración dinámica de energía variable tipo Panda, para determinar el estado de compacidad de la banqueta de balasto en vías ferroviarias. Una baja compactación de la banqueta de balasto puede derivar en movimientos excesivos en elementos como la traviesa y los carriles. Se realizaron en laboratorio quince ensayos Panda en balasto limpio con el objetivo de calibrar los valores de resistencia del ensayo a distintos pesos específicos conocidos. Posteriormente, se recopilaron ensayos Panda realizados en el Cajón Ferroviario del CEDEX y en vías ferroviarias reales españolas que permitieron comprobar la utilidad de dicha calibración. Merced a estos resultados propios y a las relaciones peso específico-resistencia de diferentes autores, se establece una propuesta de valores admisibles de la resistencia medida con el ensayo Panda para varios estados de compacidad de la banqueta de balasto.Este artículo estudia el ensayo de penetración dinámica de energía variable tipo Panda, para determinar el estado de compacidad de la banqueta de balasto en vías ferroviarias. Una baja compactación de la banqueta de balasto puede derivar en movimientos excesivos en elementos como la traviesa y los carriles. Se realizaron en laboratorio quince ensayos Panda en balasto limpio con el objetivo de calibrar los valores de resistencia del ensayo a distintos pesos específicos conocidos. Posteriormente, se recopilaron ensayos Panda realizados en el Cajón Ferroviario del CEDEX y en vías ferroviarias reales españolas que permitieron comprobar la utilidad de dicha calibración. Merced a estos resultados propios y a las relaciones peso específico-resistencia de diferentes autores, se establece una propuesta de valores admisibles de la resistencia medida con el ensayo Panda para varios estados de compacidad de la banqueta de balasto.Este artículo estudia el ensayo de penetración dinámica de energía variable tipo Panda, para determinar el estado de compacidad de la banqueta de balasto en vías ferroviarias. Una baja compactación de la banqueta de balasto puede derivar en movimientos excesivos en elementos como la traviesa y los carriles. Se realizaron en laboratorio quince ensayos Panda en balasto limpio con el objetivo de calibrar los valores de resistencia del ensayo a distintos pesos específicos conocidos. Posteriormente, se recopilaron ensayos Panda realizados en el Cajón Ferroviario del CEDEX y en vías ferroviarias reales españolas que permitieron comprobar la utilidad de dicha calibración. Merced a estos resultados propios y a las relaciones peso específico-resistencia de diferentes autores, se establece una propuesta de valores admisibles de la resistencia medida con el ensayo Panda para varios estados de compacidad de la banqueta de balasto
Para uma epistemologia das fontes: Quem fala através delas?
Get PDFUsually, historians in France recognize that their task is to “make the sources speak”. What might appear to be a simple question of a technical nature (making known what is contained in the sources), however, conceals a balance of power that is certainly inherent to the historical academic field. Indeed, “making the sources speak” poses a problem in terms of both the concept of “sources” and the verb “to speak”. Initially, the crucial issue for a discipline that sees itself as a mode of indirect knowledge was to make the medium transparent, as if we could hear the witnesses directly in order to arrive at the truth of things. Hence the designation of historical material with a set of naturalizing metaphors that have had the crucial consequence of eliminating from historical reflection the meaning effects linked to the conditions of transmission and, in particular, archiving (selection, classification, inventory), which have only appeared on the historians’ horizon since the beginning of the 21st century as part of the “documentary turn”. This has not, however, done away with the question of the voices to be heard in the sources, which has been taken over by ethical concerns, giving to the “archival turn” a distinctly different tone from the “documentary turn”. This raises the question of the extent to which this question of the voices to be recovered not only reintroduces the dream of unmediated access to the past, but also overvalues the individual at the expense of society, as part of a regression in collective rationality.Habitualmente, os historiadores em França reconhecem que a sua tarefa é “fazer falar as fontes”. O que poderia parecer uma mera questão de natureza técnica (dar a conhecer aquilo que as fontes contêm) esconde, no entanto, um equilíbrio de poder que é certamente intrínseco ao campo académico da História. De facto, “fazer falar as fontes” coloca um problema tanto no conceito de “fontes” como no verbo “falar”. Inicialmente, a questão central para uma disciplina que se assume como um modo de conhecimento indireto era tornar o meio transparente, como se pudéssemos ouvir diretamente os testemunhos e, assim, chegar à verdade das coisas. Daí a utilização de um conjunto de metáforas naturalizantes para designar o material histórico, que excluiu da reflexão histórica a consideração dos efeitos ligados às condições de transmissão e, em particular, do arquivamento (seleção, classificação, inventário), elementos que só começaram a surgir no horizonte dos historiadores a partir do início do século XXI, no contexto da “viragem documental”. Contudo, a questão das vozes presentes nas fontes permaneceu, passando a ser abordada a partir de preocupações éticas, que conferem à “viragem arquivística” um tom claramente distinto do da “viragem documental”. Coloca-se assim a questão de saber até que ponto esta busca pelas vozes a serem recuperadas não só reintroduz o sonho do acesso não mediado ao passado, mas também sobrevaloriza o indivíduo em detrimento da sociedade, fazendo parte de uma regressão na racionalidade coletiva
Arquivos, documentos e informação: termos, conceitos e relações entre culturas linguísticas
Get PDFThis paper is a lightly revised version of a talk that I gave as part of the seminar cycle Rethinking the Archive(s) / Repensar o(s) Arquivo(s) in Lisbon in March 2024. The organisers of the seminar asked me to speak about three terms that are central to our professional discourse: archives, records, and information. These terms give rise to a number of questions that I sought to address. What are the concepts that underlie them? How might they be related? How are the terms used in different languages and how are they understood in different linguistic cultures? Is there still a place for distinct understandings of archives and records in a world increasingly dominated by ideas about information? In attempting to answer these questions, it seems best to begin by considering the terms themselves. Each of them has a diverse range of meanings, and this paper aims to examine how the three words have been used in the past as well as how they are understood today. It begins by discussing historical and current understandings of archives. It examines the origins of the word records, its transformation from a purely Anglophone to a largely global term, and the challenges that arise in translating records from English into other languages. It then considers how ideas about information intersect with our comprehension of records and archives, and offers some concluding thoughts on the importance of records and record-keeping in the digital era of the twenty-first century.O presente texto é uma versão ligeiramente revista da conferência que proferi no ciclo de seminários Rethinking the Archive(s) / Repensar o(s) Arquivo(s), realizada em Lisboa, em março de 2024. Os organizadores do seminário pediram-me que abordasse três termos que são centrais no nosso discurso profissional: arquivos, documentos e informação. Estes termos suscitam um conjunto de questões que explorarei no texto: Quais são os conceitos subjacentes a cada um deles? Como podem estar relacionados? De que forma são utilizados em diferentes línguas e como são compreendidos em diferentes culturas linguísticas? Haverá ainda espaço para diferentes entendimentos sobre o significado de arquivos e de documentos num mundo cada vez mais dominado por ideias sobre informação? Ao tentar responder a estas questões, parece-me mais adequado começar por equacionar os próprios termos. Cada um deles tem uma gama diversificada de significados, e este texto tem como objetivo examinar como as três palavras foram usadas no passado e como são entendidas atualmente. O texto começa por discutir os conceitos históricos e atuais de arquivos. Examina as origens da palavra records/documentos, e a sua transformação enquanto termo puramente anglófono para um termo amplamente global, e os desafios que surgem na tradução de records do inglês para outras línguas. Em seguida, analisa a forma como as ideias sobre informação se cruzam com a nossa compreensão dos documentos e dos arquivos, e termina com algumas considerações sobre a importância dos documentos e do seu arquivamento na era digital do século XXI
[Recensão a] André Laks, Plato’s Second Republic. An Essay on the Laws, Princeton University Press, New Jersey/Oxford, 2022
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The House of Branciforte and the Culture of dwelling of the Sicilian Nobility in the Modern Age.
Get PDFThe essay focuses on the modern-age residences of the House of Branciforte, one of the most influential of the feudal aristocracy of Sicily, with the aim of highlighting the transformations in the living culture of the Sicilian nobility between the 16th and 18th centuries. The analysis focuses on three historical phases:
1.The gradual transition of the landed nobility's residential interests from the feud to the capital of the Kingdom, which took place during the 17th century;
2.The great building season of the 18th century, within which the city's main noble residences were built, under the banner of sumptuousness and amplitude of the representative spaces;
3-The advent, between the last decades of the 18th century and the early 19th century, of new housing criteria aimed at greater functionality and comfort of dwellings.
The research makes use of new studies, currently in progress, on the Branciforte di Butera palace, the residence of the main branch of the family, to be considered the largest noble residence built in Palermo, capital of the Kingdom of Sicily.The essay focuses on the modern-age residences of the House of Branciforte, one of the most influential of the feudal aristocracy of Sicily, with the aim of highlighting the transformations in the living culture of the Sicilian nobility between the 16th and 18th centuries. The analysis focuses on three historical phases:
1.The gradual transition of the landed nobility's residential interests from the feud to the capital of the Kingdom, which took place during the 17th century;
2.The great building season of the 18th century, within which the city's main noble residences were built, under the banner of sumptuousness and amplitude of the representative spaces;
3-The advent, between the last decades of the 18th century and the early 19th century, of new housing criteria aimed at greater functionality and comfort of dwellings.
The research makes use of new studies, currently in progress, on the Branciforte di Butera palace, the residence of the main branch of the family, to be considered the largest noble residence built in Palermo, capital of the Kingdom of Sicily
