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Elsa Chartin
No full textUnder Stockholm Craft Week presenterar hangmenProjects en samtida historiesaga med konsthantverk av 17 materialbaserade konstnärer. Berättandet och utförandet speglar en lång historia av hantverk med kopplingar både till värde- och genushierarkier.En av skiljelinjerna mellan konst och konsthantverk grundar sig i en fabel som glömmer att de flesta former av konstutövande bygger på kunskap om en teknik. En annan fabel är över- och underordningen av tanke och hand. Ett evigt antingen-eller, som lika gärna kan vara både-och.Därom finns något viktigt att berätta, och på hangmenProjects har vi valt 17 konstnärsperspektiv. Utifrån deras verklighet. Ett handgjort historieberättande.Esmé Alexander, Beatrice Brovia, Elsa Chartin, Evelina Dovsten, Sara Elggren, Åsa Elmstam, Markus Emilsson/Markus Bergenheim, Jennifer Forsberg, Ylva W Franzén, Karin Gustavsson, Serena Holm, Sarah Hurtigkarl, Hanna Kisch, Agnieszka Knap, Mariana Silva Varela, Maya Strandberg och Yoko Yamano. Utställningen är curerad av Jenny Bergman och Auli Laitinen.04.10 - 01.11 2019</p
Art and the artist in the literary works of Elsa Triolet
No full textThis thesis takes a representative selection of Triolet's works to study the themes of writing and creativity as they are presented in the novels. These are all portraits of artists and the accounts of the search for a synthesis of aesthetic freedom and ethical responsibility. It considers Triolet's importance as a foreign writer, adopting a new creative language to be adopted by a different cultural
environment, to be essential in understanding her importance to the French literary tradition. By emphasising her formative years in the avant-garde circles of prerevolutionary Russia, my study demonstrates her considerable contribution to the meeting of Russian and French aesthetic theories. I extend this with close textual
readings of certain works to demonstrate her techniques in novelistic construction which reveal many Formalist practices before Formalist works in translation made
their official influence on creative methods.
The introduction considers the reasons for Triolet's neglect as a writer. It then considers various contemporary and recent critical appraisals which indicate
the interest she has received until present and which allow me to define my own critical approach. Part One traces Triolet's literary evolution from her formative
years in Russia, through exile to her first publications in Russian. It then considers her insertion into French literary activity, and her association with the schools of
socialist realism and the "nouveau roman".
Part Two examines two traditional novels which portray the creative and metaphorical roles of the artist and his work, showing the constant conflict between private and public lives. In Part Three, I show how aspects of novelistic
traditionalism are gradually foregrounded so that the work develops a dual-sided character where it both narrates and examines the processes of its own narration. In Part Four, this move to highly self-conscious aesthetics demonstrates an idiosyncratic exploration of new paths for the novel that bring visual, auditive and cinematographic media into the traditional domain of written art. Accompanying
the very post-modernist experimentation, I show how this research within the novel into the novel's own future has an ethical and redemptive purpose whose final conclusion is that creativity and human freedom are inexorably interwoven
«Where there is no vice of exterminating poets»: Elsa Morante and The world saved by kids
No full textreservedIn questo elaborato verrà analizzato il libro più eccentrico di Elsa Morante: Il mondo salvato dai ragazzini.
Dopo un iniziale inquadramento storico e una precisazione in merito al genere letterario in cui l'opera rientra, si analizzeranno gli influssi che la cultura orientale ha avuto sull'opera e i rimandi intertestuali con Simone Weil, dichiarato modello dell'autrice.
Si passerà poi a un'analisi più puntuale sulla terza sezione: le Canzoni popolari, e si spiegherà dettagliatamente chi siano i Felici Pochi e i ragazzini a cui Elsa Morante affida il compito di salvare il mondo.
Per concludere si porteranno degli esempi puntuali di Felici Pochi anonimi, mettendoli in relazione con alcuni personaggi di un'altra importante opera della stessa autrice: La Storia.This paper will analyse Elsa Morante's most eccentric book:The World Saved by Little Kids.
After an initial historical background and a clarification regarding the literary genre in which the work falls, the influences that Eastern culture had on the work and the intertextual cross-references with Simone Weil, the author's declared model, will be analysed.
It will then turn to a more pointed analysis on the third section: the Folk Songs, and will explain in detail who the Happy Few and the little kids are to whom Elsa Morante entrusts the task of saving the world.
To conclude, timely examples of anonymous Happy Few will be brought in, relating them to some of the characters in another important work by the same author, The Story
Elsa Oestreicher Collection 1878-1963 bulk: 1942-1945
No full textElsa Oestreicher, the wife of a physician, had a successful career of her own as a cooking teacher instructor and author of cookbooks. Series II and III of the collection comprise her notes on Theresienstadt, written in camp from 1942 to 1945, as well as a collection of poems from the same time. Moreover, the collection contains concentration-camp insignia, such as yellow “Jew” stars, camp money, ration cards, a library card, working papers etc. Further items of the collection are certificates related to her profession, culinary arts material, correspondence with relatives and former students and family papers as well as memoirs written by Elsa Oestreicher, which provide detailed genealogical information on her ancestors.Some handwritten notes, written in Theresienstadt and Deggendorf (box 1, folder 4) are available in electronic form in an English translation by Vernon Mosheim.Photographs of Jewish communities of Beerfelden and Frankfurt am Main have been removed to the LBI Photograph CollectionElsa Herz was born in Berlin on November 6, 1878, the first child of Salomon Herz and Anna Margarete Alexander. In 1898 she married the physician Dr. Jacques Oestreicher and in 1899 their daughter Anni Henriette Oestreicher, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1935, was born. During World War I Elsa Oestreicher worked as a Hilfsschwester (assistant nurse) for the Red Cross for more than 4 years and received two medals, a Zivilverdienstkreuz and the Rote Kreuzmedaille, for her efforts. After World War I she worked as a cooking instructor for about five years at the Schule der Hausfrauen (Am Karlsbad 13) and wrote a number of cookbooks. Due to growing anti-Semitism she had to give up her position there and she opened a private cooking school which operated successfully until Elsa was at first forbidden to instruct Christian students and later on, to teach Jewish students as well. After that, Elsa Oestreicher worked in a Jewish hospital, the Siechenheim der Reichsvereinigung in Gross-Lichterfelde and when it was dissolved, in the kitchen of the Durchgangslager (transit camp), Grosse Hamburgerstrasse. Three months after her husband’s death in August 1942, she was deported to Theresienstadt on November 4, 1942. In Theresienstadt Elsa Oestreicher worked as a cook, a cooking instructor and as head of the soup-kitchen. After the liberation of Theresienstadt she had to stay at the Displaced Persons Center Deggendorf until she immigrated via Sweden to the United States in 1946, where she died in New York in 1963.3-page inventory.digitizedBeerfelden ; Frankfurt am Mai
Fire Eaters : Exploring Consumer Preferences for Labeling Extensive Livestock Products Providing Wildfire Prevention Services
No full textExtensive livestock grazing has proved to be a valuable tool to reduce wildfire risk in Mediterranean landscapes. Meat from herds providing wildfire prevention services exhibit sustain-ability traits that can appeal to ethical consumers and find a suitable niche in local markets. This study assesses the preferences of a consumer sample in the province of Girona (north-eastern Spain) for different lamb meat labeling options from herds providing wildfire prevention services. The aim is to disentangle consumer profiles, providing evidence for improved product labeling. This may increase the added value and the viability of small farms providing this service. Employing a latent class modeling approach, we explore how meat consumption patterns and socioeconomic features may contribute to explain preferences for different meat labeling options. Our results have identified three consumer profiles: traditional rural consumers relying on trust with producers, younger consumers more akin to new labeling schemes, and urban consumers that support local butchers as a trusted information source. Different labeling mechanisms may work in a complementary way to arrive to different audiences of potential consumers. Geographical indication labels can serve as a good departure point, complemented with information cues on environmental factors related to wildfire protection
Mediterranean farmers’ understandings of ‘good soil management’ and ‘good farmer’ identity in the context of conservation agriculture
No full textMediterranean agriculture is increasingly threatened by soil degradation and climate change. Conservation agriculture (CA) is a farming approach characterized by reduced soil disturbance, soil cover, and crop rotation that provides agronomic, economic, and environmental benefits to farmers, but which is not yet widespread in the Mediterranean region. To investigate the sociocultural aspects of CA adoption, we examined farmers’ understandings of ‘good soil management’ and a ‘good farmer’ identity. We employed network analysis to visualize and compare farmers’ mental models of these concepts and how they differed according to farmers’ tillage practices. We found that crop rotation is a prominent concept cognitively tied to fertilizer application, bridging conventional and reduced tillage practices. CA farmers’ mental models of soil management are more complex than conventional farmers’. Demonstrating productivity and having experience and knowledge were the most prominent aspects of farmers’ understanding of a ‘good farmer’. For CA farmers, this was tied to environmental responsibility and innovation, whereas for conventional farmers, a set of best practices including tillage and the use of mineral fertilizers, was valued more highly. CA may compete with held understandings concerning soil management among conventional farmers. CA adoption programmes could be better tailored to align with their cultural values
The state of development of fire management decision support systems in America and Europe
No full textThis article belongs to the Special Issue: Fire use policies and practices in Europe: Solving
the Fire Paradox.Forest fires affect millions of people worldwide, and cause major ecosystem and economic impacts at different scales. The management policies implemented to minimize the negative impacts of forest fires require substantial investment of financial, human and organizational resources, which must be justifiable and efficient. Decision support systems based on economic models can help to optimize the allocation of limited resources. This paper exposes the development of the economic theory for the efficiency analysis of fire management measures. Then, it provides a review of four fire management decision support systems applied in America and Europe, investigating their degree of performance according to the theoretical foundations of the efficiency analysis.This article is based on work performed in the context of the Fire Paradox project-IP (FP6-018505).Peer reviewe
Social demand for multiple benefits provided by Aleppo pine forest management in Catalonia, Spain
No full textThis paper estimates the social demand for key benefits provided by Aleppo pine forests in Catalonia that can be enhanced by management. These so-called externalities are the side effects of forest management on citizens’ welfare and can be either positive or negative. The externalities addressed are: biodiversity (measured as the number of tree species), accessibility for practicing recreational activities, CO2 sequestration and annual burned area by wildfires. By the use of a choice experiment, an economic valuation method, we estimate in a joint manner people’s preferences for these externalities and show that there is a social demand for their enhanced provision. Based on these estimates, we construct three hypothetical scenarios reflecting the range of likely outcomes of different management strategies and calculate the social demand for these scenarios. Results show that the highest gains in terms of social benefits are obtained under a scenario that minimizes the burned area (2044.23 €/ha year). Our estimates show that an increase in the investment in forest management is in line with the social demand for forest benefits and the social support that exists for a related cost increase for inhabitants.This paper estimates the social demand for key benefits provided by Aleppo pine forests in Catalonia that can be enhanced by management. These so-called externalities are the side effects of forest management on citizens’ welfare and can be either positive or negative. The externalities addressed are: biodiversity (measured as the number of tree species), accessibility for practicing recreational activities, CO2 sequestration and annual burned area by wildfires. By the use of a choice experiment, an economic valuation method, we estimate in a joint manner people’s preferences for these externalities and show that there is a social demand for their enhanced provision. Based on these estimates, we construct three hypothetical scenarios reflecting the range of likely outcomes of different management strategies and calculate the social demand for these scenarios. Results show that the highest gains in terms of social benefits are obtained under a scenario that minimizes the burned area (2044.23 €/ha year). Our estimates show that an increase in the investment in forest management is in line with the social demand for forest benefits and the social support that exists for a related cost increase for inhabitants.</p
Charging tenants with maintenance fees. Analysis on the basis of tax on goods and services
No full textArtykuł opublikowany w czasopiśmie "Przegląd Prawniczy Europejskiego Stowarzyszenia Studentów Prawa ELSA Poland" w zeszycie 1/2013, został wyłoniony w drodze konkursów organizowanych przez Grupy Lokalne ELSA Poland w 2013r.This article identifies key problems connected with imposing a value added tax on re-invoicing
the costs of utilities relating to rental agreement. I throws doubt on whether all the supplies which the
landlord makes to the tenant constitute a single supply from the point of view of VAT. Author discusses
possible classification of above -mentioned transaction for VAT purposes (i.e. as an autonomous and
separate from tenancy supply or as a indivisible economic supply which it would be artificial to split
rental component). It also gives the readers the insight into tax consequences of designed legal and tax
classifications. Moreover, the article shows differences between standpoints presented in a recent
interpretation issued by tax authorities and judicial decisions. It also gives an overview of the most
recent judicial practice of the Court of Justice of the EU connected with re-invoicing service charge.
Author emphasizes the relevance of judgments issued by the CJEU (especially the verdict
on 27 September 2012 in case C-392/11 Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP v. Commissioners for Her
Majesty’s Revenue and Customs which seems to play a major part in resolving the dispute in question)
What shapes silvopastoralism in Mediterranean mid-mountain areas? Understanding factors, drivers, and dynamics using fuzzy cognitive mapping
No full textSilvopastoral systems, integrating woody vegetation and livestock farming, are increasingly recognized as a sustainable
land-use supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services provision in the Mediterranean. However, this traditional practice has declined
in recent decades, mainly because of land abandonment and intensification processes. We investigated the relationships between the
factors involved in the dynamics of silvopastoralism in two contrasting Spanish case studies in Mediterranean mid-mountain areas:
Sierra de Guara Natural Park and Lluçanès region. Combining semi-structured interviews with researchers and participatory workshops
with key stakeholders, we built a Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) representing the shared perception of forest grazing in each region and
implemented methodological improvements in FCM post-processing and analysis leading to an improved understanding of FCM
outcomes. Results revealed that the dynamics of forest grazing are highly influenced by the socioeconomic attractiveness of the farming
sector because it was a central factor in both case studies, whereas the importance of other factors such as farm abandonment in Guara
and access to land in Lluçanès were site-specific. Climate change and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) were identified as the
main external drivers undermining forest grazing in both sites while the incidence of other economic activities (i.e., tourism or other
livestock production systems) relied on the context of each region. In contrast, technological innovations, including GPS collars and
virtual fencing, along with the existence of infrastructures such as water points and active forest management, were identified to promote
beneficial feedback loops for forest grazing. Although the current policy framework is failing in fostering silvopastoralism, a policy
shift from direct payments to result-based schemes for biomass reduction and wildfire prevention tailored to each region’s environmental
constraints and potentials would lead to better outcomes for society as a whole.This work was supported by Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA Spain) under the project: “Silvopastoralism as an adaptation strategy for integrated rural development in the Mediterranean” (RTA2017-00036-C01/02). The first author was funded by the European Social Fund through a pre-doctoral fellowship associated with this project (PRE2018- 084779). The authors acknowledge the support by the Open Access Publication Funds/transformative agreements of Göttingen University. Elsa Varela acknowledges the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The authors are especially grateful to the experts that participated in the consultation process and to the participants in the cognitive mapping workshops. We also acknowledge the support of Daniel Martín-Collado and Marc Taüll in the facilitation of the workshops. Last but not least, we acknowledge Jeroen Groot and Glory Edwards for their assistance with the FuzzyDANCES software.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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