8 research outputs found
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth
No full textAbstract This paper addresses a puzzle in China's investment pattern: despite high aggregate investment and remarkable economic growth, negative investment is commonly found at the microeconomic level. Using a large firm-level dataset, we show that private firms divest in order to raise capital. We also find that, owing to over-investment and mis-investment in the past, state-owned firms have had to restructure by getting rid of obsolete capital in the face of increasing competition and hardening budget constraints. Finally, rapid economic growth counterweighs both effects for all types of firms, with a larger impact in the private and foreign sectors. JEL classification: G3; O16; O53 Keywords: Negative investment; Financial constraints; Industrial restructuring; Economic transition; China + Corresponding author: Alessandra Guariglia, Durham Business School, Durham University, Mill Hill Lane, Durham DH1 3LB. . *The authors thank the ESRC for providing financial support for this research (RES-000-22-3140). We are grateful to the participants to the ISIR session at th
Wig Wag: The Flags of Fashion
No full textWig Wag examines the allusions fashion designers make to sports and ethnic identity-which also appeals to sheer nostalgia-by using flags in the context of contemporary clothing. The book sifts through this explosion of insignia to show how the creative processes of fashion are closely linked with that of cinema, art, design, and music. Author Alessandra Vaccari detaches flags from their primary association with the idea of nationalism, and follows their metamorphoses in the hands of designers like Schiaparelli, Dior, and Pucci; and stylists like Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Vivienne Westwood, Franco Moschino, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Antonio Marras, Alexander McQueen, and Viktor & Rolf. Even today's streetstyle brands-like Mambo, Vans, Eastpak, Gsus, Nigro, Stussy, and Ipath. Vaccari finds room for the Brazilian, Jamaican, and Japanese colors, as well as red flags, rainbow flags, and the flags of those who have no country
Recherches médiévales sur la nature humaine. Essais sur la réflexion médicale (XIIe–XVe s.)
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Modos e práticas do Jongo da comunidade do Tamandaré em Guaratinguetá : festejos, espetáculos e resistência
No full textEsta dissertação é fruto da inserção e do convívio entre a autora, Alessandra Souza, e a comunidade jongueira do Tamandaré, em Guaratinguetá/SP. Este texto apresenta as estratégias e práticas de continuidade e resistência propostos e explicitados pela própria comunidade. Para tanto, tomou-se como referência e materialidade as participações da pesquisadora nos festejos realizados pela comunidade do Tamandaré, nos festejos do Jongo da Independência e nas apresentações realizadas pelo grupo Jongo do Tamandaré. As análises e discussões têm também como dado empírico as memórias compartilhadas por mestres e mestras jongueiros em entrevistas, bem como as observações da própria pesquisadora na convivência com a comunidade nos últimos cinco anos. Os referenciais teóricos que trazem noções como ancestralidade, encruzilhada, danças populares, a partir do pensamento e análise de autoras e autores majoritariamente negros e negras, possibilitaram pensar as dinâmicas das performances e da ancestralidade afro-brasileiras na sua relação com os modos de resistência do Jongo do Tamandaré.This dissertation is the result of the insertion and conviviality between the author, Alessandra Souza, and the jongo player community of Tamandaré in Guaratinguetá/SP, Brazil. This text presents the strategies and practices of continuity and resistance proposed and made explicit by the community itself. For this purpose, the researcher’s participation in the festivities held by the Tamandaré community, in the festivities of Jongo da Independência, and in the presentations performed by the Jongo do Tamandaré group was used as reference and materiality. The analyses and discussions also have as empirical data the memories shared by male and female Jongo player masters in interviews, as well as the observations of the researcher herself in living together with the community over the last five years. Theoretical references that bring forward notions such as ancestry, crossroads, popular dances, from the thought and analysis of mostly black male and female authors, made it possible to think about the dynamics of Afro-Brazilian performances and ancestry in their relationship with the ways of resistance of the Jongo do Tamandaré
