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Returning culture to peacebuilding : contesting the liberal peace in Sierra Leone
No full textThis thesis investigates the advantages and limitations of applying culture to the analysis of violent conflict and peacebuilding, with a particular focus on liberal peacebuilding in Sierra Leone. While fully aware of the critique of the concept of culture in terms of its uses for the production of difference and ‘otherness,’ it also seeks to respond to the critique of liberal peacebuilding on the account of its low sensitivity towards local culture, which allegedly undermines the peace effort. After a careful examination of the terms of discussion about culture enabled by theoretical approaches to conflict in Chapter 2, the thesis presents a theoretical framework for the analysis of cultural aspects of conflict and peace based on the processes and effects of meaning-generation (Chapter 3), developing the conceptual apparatus and vocabulary for the subsequent empirical study. Instead of bracketing out the recursive nature of cultural theorising, the developed approach embraces the recursive dynamics which arise as a result of cultural ‘embeddedness’ of the analyst and the processes which s/he seeks to elucidate, mirroring similar dynamics in the cultural production of meaning and knowledge. The framework of ‘embedded cultural enquiry’ is then used to analyse the practices of liberal peacebuilding as a particular culture, which shapes the interaction of the liberal peace with its ‘subjects’ and critics as well as framing its reception of the cultural problematic generally (Chapter 4). The application of the analytical framework to the case study investigates the interaction between the liberal peace and ‘local culture,’ offering an alternative reading of the conflict and peace process in Sierra Leone (Chapter 5). The study concludes that a greater attention to cultural meaning-making offers a largely untapped potential for peacebuilding, although any decisions with regard to its deployment will inevitably be made from within an inherently biased cultural perspective
INTER-FIRMS NETWORK FORMATION AND EVOLUTION IN HIGH QUALITY CUISINE: THE CASE OF THE FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA: VIA DEI SAPORI CONSORTIUM
No full textThe case describes the experience of 'Friuli Venezia Giulia - Via dei Sapori' (Friuli Venezia Giulia – the Route of Tastes) a consortium of restaurateurs coming from the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, who started to collaborate with the common aim of enhancing the food culture of their region and increasing the value of local food productions through high quality cuisine. The consortium counts 21 members and over forty producers and winemakers affiliated. The core of the consortium activities are the culinary events where the offer is based on the interaction of the members of the consortium with the producers and wine makers. The case narrates an experience of spontaneous and horizontal aggregation between businesses of different kinds and natures, illustrating, through the voices of the business associates and the partners of the consortium, the benefits of being part of a local network and the main problems, with the objective of stimulating classroom discussion concerning the evolution of social networks, the organizational tools and social mechanisms that allow the network to operate and those that inhibit it, the strengths of the network and its weaknesses, the possible evolutions and the new strategies to undertake in the near future
Considerazioni conclusive
No full textElementi conclusivi e riflessioni sulla condizione giovanile nelle aree interne considerando obiettivi e traiettorie di vita che perdono qualsiasi tratto di certezza – più che mai considerando la condizione pandemica in atto al momento della rilevazione – e la diffusione dell’intenzione volontaria di restanza che raggiunge la metà del campione delle aree interne
«Argomenti per le voci straniere, antiche e nuove» nel Ritratto del sonetto di Federigo Meninni
No full textIl saggio prende in esame quanto dichiarato dal medico gravinese Federigo Meninni nel suo manuale di poesia, intitolato "Ritratto del sonetto, e della canzone" (1678), in merito alla «locuzione, e come debba esser nel sonetto», se cioè debba accogliere «voci straniere, antiche e nuove»; le argomentazioni del Meninni vengono ricondotte al vivace clima delle discussioni letterarie svoltesi intorno alle modalità del "poetare moderno"
Author Visit inside Leone Cole Auditorium 1
No full textAn unidentified author was a special guest at Jacksonville State University in Spring 1968. Shown she stands on stage in Leone Cole Auditorium with unidentified students signing a book.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/20307/thumbnail.jp
Leone Allemandes Corpus
No full textThe corpus we present is comprised of twenty-four allemandes (dance music originating from Germany, usually possessing even meter), written in 1768 by Gabriele Leone (sometimes referred to as Pietro Leone), a mandolin virtuoso from Naples. These pieces were originally included in a method for teaching mandolin to violin players (in particular, the method was dedicated to Louis Philippe II, later known as Philippe Égalité, at the time when he was Duke of Chartres). As such, despite the great technical ability of the author, the pieces are extremely simple and can be played by a novice. All of the allemandes are written for a mandolin duo, ideally having the first part played by the student and the second by the teacher, so all these pieces are polyphonic. In addition, a single instrument often plays chords, so either part may polyphonic on its own. Since the Neapolitan mandolin has only four strings, neither part ever has more than four simultaneous notes.
These pieces are released here in MusicXML format, with added chord annotations. We propose this corpus as a tool for the study of musical structure, as these simple pieces have strong formal regularities. More information can be found on the paper below.
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If you use this corpus for an academic publication, please cite the following paper:
Filippo Carnovalini, Antonio Rodà, Nicholas Harley, Steven T. Homer, and Geraint A. Wiggins. 2021. A New Corpus for Computational Music Research and A Novel Method for Musical Structure Analysis. In Audio Mostly 2021 (AM ’21), September 1–3, 2021, virtual/Trento, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478384.3478402The original method is in the public domain and can be found at https://imslp.org/wiki/Méthode_raisonnée_pour_passer_du_Violon_à_la_Mandoline_(Leone%2C_Gabriele)
The additional work done to that corpus to release it in MusicXML format with chord annotations is released here under Creative Commons license
Barocco meridiano. Studi per Gino Rizzo
No full textIl volume è stato concepito e realizzato in forma di omaggio alla figura di Gino Rizzo, studioso e docente dell'Università del Salento scomparso nel 2005, cui si deve una serie di ricerche imprescindibili sulla letteratura barocca d’area meridionale. Nel libro si trattano autori e temi cari a Rizzo, con attenzione al sistema delle forme letterarie e agli spazi culturali, in particolare alle accademie, per un quadro articolato e vario del barocco regnicolo, tra modernità e tradizione
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