7 research outputs found
El pueblo zoque en movimiento : Subalternidad, antagonismo y autonomía en la defensa del territorio en Chiapas
No full textEste trabajo de investigación explica el proceso de politización de los militantes indígenas del Movimiento Indígena del Pueblo Creyente Zoque en Defensa de la Vida y la Tierra (ZODEVITE) en el marco de la lucha contra la ronda petrolera en el norte de Chiapas, donde el gobierno mexicano pretendía extraer 239 millones de barriles de aceite ligero de yacimientos convencionales sobre 84,500 hectáreas de tierras de 10 municipios, habitados por zoques y tsotsiles. Para dar cuenta del surgimiento del ZODEVITE en la arena de las luchas socio-ambientales en México se analizan las transformaciones históricas, materiales y simbólicas del territorio para explicar los correlatos entre subalternidad, antagonismo y emancipación, es decir, las relaciones de dominación, conflicto y autonomía que afloran en momentos particulares de la historia indígena. El estudio comprende de 2016 a 2021, tiempo en que el pueblo zoque mostró su mayor potencia de movilización en actos y discursos públicos en Chiapas. Esta lucha es singular porque pone de relieve al avance de los proyectos del capitalismo extractivo sobre los territorios indígenas con marcos institucionalizados como el derecho a la consulta previa, libre e informada y narrativas de persuasión de progreso y desarrollo que son aplicadas y replicadas sobre la población local como dispositivos de la gobernanza del despojo sobre los territorios. El ZODEVITE como movimiento indígena propició que el derecho a la consulta sobre los pueblos indígenas en el marco del convenio 169 de la OIT, ratificado por el gobierno mexicano en 1992, tropezara en el plan de la Reforma Energética. La lucha es también singular por la formación de un sujeto político subalterno y antagónico que usa la encíclica del Laudato Si como el nuevo ethos ambiental de la iglesia católica como marco de acción, a la vez que moviliza narrativas de seres sobrenaturales indígenas que actúan para impedir la llegada de los proyectos extractivos como la minería y la instalación de pozos petroleros en el norte de Chiapa
¿Es posible la gobernanza ambiental? Los residuos de poder en la sintonía de la acción pública en La Suiza, Chiapas, México
No full textEn este aporte, mostramos cómo los imaginarios y prácticas en torno a la autoridad local (sintonía) se construyen históricamente y continúan hasta el presente en los 'residuos del poder', un capital simbólico que refuerza la subordinación. Esto contrasta fuertemente con el discurso horizontal característico de la gobernanza ambiental (GE). Aplicando la metodología de la teoría fundamentada, identificamos que, a pesar de que ha habido un cambio social en la región, la percepción de autoridad está moldeada por prácticas de identidad histórica que se recrean como parte de un sistema de control en espacios participativos actuales, como el Grupo Intercomunitario de Acción Territorial (GIAT). En el contexto de esta intervención de GE, sugerimos tomar en cuenta las características del espacio político regional y reconocer las inercias presentes en la participación, ambos como factores limitantes en los modelos de GE que se implementan sobre una diversidad de culturas políticas regionales.En este artículo se muestra cómo el imaginario y las prácticas en torno a la autoridad local (sintonía) se construyen históricamente y continúan hasta el presente en los «residuos de poder», un capital simbólico que refuerza la subordinación y contrasta con el discurso normativo de horizontalidad de la gobernanza ambiental (GA). Con la metodología de la teoría fundamentada, identificamos que, si bien hay cambio social en la región, la percepción de la autoridad está conformada por prácticas identitarias históricas que se recrean como parte de un sistema de control en los espacios actuales de participación, como el Grupo Intercomunitario de Acción Territorial (GIAT) de La Suiza, Chiapas, México. Ante la idea de intervención de la GA, sugerimos tomar en cuenta las características del espacio político regional y reconocer las inercias presentes en la participación, ambos factores limitantes en los modelos de GA que se implementan sobre diversas culturas políticas regionales
The lord of the entire world : Lord Jesus, a challenge to Lord Caesar?
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to determine whether in some of Paul's uses of the title K-6ptoq for Jesus, there exists a polemic against the living Roman emperor. After preliminary matters concerning methodology, history of research, and limitations are addressed (chapter 1), the sources for the study are described (chapter 2). Issues surrounding Paul's letters are considered. Then the various literary and non-literary sources which are used to better understand Paul's letters are discussed. The thesis proceeds inductively. Chapter 3 describes aspects of the first century context in which the original readers lived. This is intended to provide a grid to understand Paul's proclamation ofJesus as Lord as close to the first century context as possible. First, forms of emperor worship (imperial cults) are described within the context of Roman religious experience. However, this alone does not provide sufficient context to determine whether a polemic exists. Thus, the role of the emperor in the larger context is also considered. Chapter 4 focuses on the title K-6ptoq and the nature of lordship. First, the meaning, usage, and possible referents are described. The relational nature of the term is emphasised. The wide range of potential referents make it difficult to determine whether a polemic exists. The result is the postulation and defence of a superlative concept of supreme lord which has a restricted referent in a given culture. In chapter 5, the usages of the title for the Julio-Claudian and Flavian emperors are catalogued and it is determined that the living Caesar fills the role of the concept supreme lord in the context of Paul's original readers. Using communication principles from relevance theory, it is demonstrated that an author may include certain contextual clues that would suggest a challenge to the default referent by another. Certain modifiers and structures in the Pauline text lead to the conclusion that in some cases Paul intended a polemic against the living emperor. Specifically, this is suggested for Rom 10: 9; 1 Cor 8: 5-6; 12: 3; Eph 4: 5; Phil 2: 11
Resiting genre : a study of contemporary Italian travel writing in English translation
No full textThis thesis aims to highlight the presence of a large and varied production of contemporary
Italian travel writing and to analyse the reasons for its 'invisibility' in the Italian literary
system and critical tradition. Through the use of a comparative approach to genre and of
current theories developed in the area of Translation Studies, the thesis will outline the
different status attributed to travel writing in the Anglo-American and the Italian literary
systems. Such a comparative approach allows the study to escape the narrow confines of a
perspective based on the idea of national literature and to adopt a wider view, which, in
turn, highlights the presence of phenomena otherwise easily overlooked or discarded as
insignificant.
The peculiar characteristics of travel writing, a genre mostly based on the
representation of the Other for a home audience, are also analysed in order to point out their
affinity with translation practices and, ultimately, to underline the 'double translation'
implied by translated travel writing.
The case studies which make up the remaining part of the thesis are intended to
illustrate different aspects of the genre of travel writing; to provide scope for an analysis of
its boundaries and connections with other genres (ranging from ethnography to
autobiography, from journalism to fiction, from the essay to the novel); and to illustrate the
way in which generic expectations influence both the selection of texts for translation and
the strategies adopted when translating and marketing them for a new audience.
The writings of twentieth-century Italian explorers to Tibet, and their translations
into English, constitute a significant case of adaptation of foreign texts to the needs and
expectations of a British audience (and to the British interests in the geographical area
concerned).
The works of Oriana Fallaci and their different reception in Italy with respect to the
UK and the USA illustrate the way in which personal biography and generic choices can
intersect, determining both the popular image and the critical success of an author and of
her work.
Calvino's choice to sublimate the genre of travel writing in the stylized fiction of Le
citta invisibili is treated as an example of the way in which a text which is meant to provide
an escape from a low-status genre can become an icon of that same genre once it is
translated and read in a different cultural context.
Finally, the case of Claudio Magris's Danubio and of its English-language
translation provides evidence of the complex network of literary references which marks the
reception of a text in different cultures, and of the way in which generic affiliation can both
promote the recognition of a 'marginal' text and constrain its more idiosyncratic (and
original) characteristics
Steering Taste: Ernest Marsh, a study of private collecting in England in the early 20th Century
No full textThe primary aim of this thesis is to focus attention on the bourgeois, 'un-named' collector. The driving force behind most museum and art gallery collections of the Victorian and Edwardian period. British museum and art gallery records of gifted collections, bequests and loans usually note their donors. However, with a few notable exceptions, little is known about the collectors, their activities and motivation in making such presentations.
Using the interests and activities of the Quaker miller and collector Ernest Marsh (1843-1945) as a case study, this thesis explores how in the period 1890-1945 a collector came to be a key agent in the construction and manifestation of taste in British Applied Arts and to a lesser degree in the Fine Arts. Through primary visual and documentary evidence of the Marsh home, and reference to contemporary and later commentaries it considers the relative influences of husband and wife on decorating and furnishing the domestic interior, the evolution of taste, and, for Ernest Marsh, its impact upon his artistic interests within the public arena.
By examination of private papers, metropolitan and provincial art gallery and museum archives it also considers evidence of the inter-relationships between donors and curators, and the mutual advantages and disadvantages accruing to both, particularly focussing on the processes in bringing about changes in individual and institutional collecting policy. Further, by review of records of, in particular, the Contemporary Art Society and the Greenslade archive, it examines the degree to which private benefactors and those in public or semi-public office, acting as fund-raisers and spenders exercise influence through patronage of particular practitioners, choice of works and initiating new designs
Exploited Edens: paradise discourse in colonial and postcolonial literature
No full textThis thesis examines the relation between figures of paradise and the ideologies and economies of colonialism, imperialism, and global capitalism, arguing that paradise myth is the product of a value-laden discourse related to profit, labour, and exploitation of resources, both human and environmental, which evolves in response to differing material conditions and discursive agendas. The literature of imperialism and conquest abounds with representations of colonies as potential gold-lands to be mined materially or discursively: from the EI Dorado of the New World and the 'infernal paradise' of Mexico, to the 'Golden Ophir' of Africa and the 'paradise of dharma' of Ceylon. Most postcolonial analyses of paradise discourse have focused exclusively on the Caribbean or the South Pacific, failing to acknowledge the appearance of fantasies of paradise in association with Africa and Asia. Therefore, my thesis not only performs a comparative reading of marginalized paradisal topoi and tropes related to Mexico, Zanzibar, and Ceylon, but also uncovers literature from these regions which has been overlooked in mainstream postcolonial .criticism, mapping the circulations, continuities, and reconfigurations of the paradise myth as it travels across colonie{and continents, empires and ideologies. My analysis of these three regions is divided into six chapters, the first of each section excavating colonial uses ofthe paradise myth and constructing its genealogy for that particular region, the second investigating revisionary uses of the motif by postcolonial writers including Malcolm Lowry, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera. I address imperialist discourse from outside the country in conjunction with discourse from within the independent nation in order to demonstrate how paradise begins as a literal topos motivating European exploration and colonization, develops into an ideological myth justifying imperial praxis and economic exploitation, and [mally becomes a literary motif used by contemporary postcolonial writers to challenge colonial representations and criticize neocolonial conditions
Iowa History and Culture : A Bibliography of Materials Published Between 1952 and 1986, 1989
No full textThis bibliography was compiled by two reference librarians, Patricia Dawson and David Hudson with the goal of making it easier of tracking down material on Iowa history and culture. This supplements the Iowa History Reference Guide published in 1952 by William Petersen
