We analyzed changes in the composition of the community of birds of prey and corvids in a rainfed agrosystem after the transformation of 37.2 % of the sampled area into irrigated land between 2005 ...and 2020. We sampled 57 transects (372 km per year) and fitted generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) to study changes in species occurrence. Our results showed that specific richness and the Shannon index did not vary significantly between rainfed and irrigated transects, but there was a certain positive trend when comparing the years 2005 and 2020. Regarding the differences detected for each species, the occurrence of Montagu’s harrier Circus pygargus, hen harrier Circus cyaneus, Eurasian short-toed eagle Circaetus gallicus, griffon vulture Gyps fulvus and carrion crow Corvus corone was significantly lower in irrigated land than in rainfed land, while magpie Pica pica, Western marsh harrier Circus aeruginosus, common kestrel Falco tinnunculus and black kite Milvus migrans showed a significantly higher occurrence in the irrigated transects. In addition, our findings confirm a significant decrease in occurrence between 2005 and 2020 both in rainfed and irrigated areas for Montagu’s harrier, hen harrier and magpie, while Western marsh harrier, golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, common buzzard Buteo buteo, red kite Milvus milvus, griffon vulture Gyps fulvus, red-billed chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax and Western jackdaw Coloeus monedula were detected significantly more frequently in 2020 than in 2005. These results suggest that assessment of the impact of a new irrigation system should focus on the most characteristic species of rainfed agrosystems because the apparently positive effect on other species, equally protected but more generalist, may mask the real effect on conservation.
Women are often asked to conform to a rigid set of heteronormative ideas of femininity within a culture that values women based on appearance. Historically, the female aerialist's muscularity ...challenged traditional stereotypes of female inferiority, displaying nuanced representations of femininity. Current research in social circus indicates that participation in circus activities can increase participants' self-confidence and self-belief. This participant-based research explores a group of eighteen to thirty-five-year-old women's experience of learning and performing aerial circus skills integrated with training in digital media production within a social circus context. As a circus performer and instructor this research emerged from over ten years of practitioner experience. The central aim of the article is to explore participants' experiences of aerial circus training with a focus on strength, muscularity, pain and bodily markings as having the potential to challenge traditional notions of femininity, and ideas of embodied trust and capacity as a result of developing an informed relationship with one's body. The article draws on participants' voices and experiences based on observation and interviews. The findings add to our understanding of female experience of social aerial circus. Participants spoke of increased self-confidence as a result of what their body can achieve as opposed to focussing on self-perceived lacks. Working within participants' concept of empowerment, aerial circus training offered participants a notional form of liberation, where through physical practice they were able to explore changing gender roles and embody ideas of self-reliance.
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Monitoring migrating raptors is among the most cost-effective and simple methods for forecasting shift in the ecosystem and environment. The Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus (Linnaeus, 1758) ...(Accipitriformes, Accipitridae) represents a widely wintering, on-passage raptor over Iraq's southern Mesopotamian marshlands. However, recent information related to this species’ population trend, as well as its spatial and temporal migration patterns, is not fully known. From October 2021–June 2022, nine ornithological field surveys were undertaken in the Central Marshes (UNESCO Site, RAMSAR Site, and Iraq's National Park). Three transect lines were chosen, and the surveying plot covered 40,000 hectares (400 Km2). Our recent surveys recorded a total of 64 harriers passing over the Central Marshes. The species density was determined using a distance sampling method; perpendicular distances were gauged using a digital range finder. During our surveys, the Central Marshes hosted a migratory population of ≈3,508-21,499 harriers. In addition, we assessed the breeding status of this bird species in the surveyed area; however, no confirmed breeding was found. Furthermore, illegal hunting/trapping were identified as the main threat facing the species in Iraq.
Careful observation of parasites, masters of camouflage, reveals an ingenious and fascinating world. However, students often perceive parasitology as impenetrable. What if a flamboyant flea circus ...director passionately introduced the multidimensional contexts of this discipline? Will role-play capture the imagination of students and guide them in their future learning?
Careful observation of parasites, masters of camouflage, reveals an ingenious and fascinating world. However, students often perceive parasitology as impenetrable. What if a flamboyant flea circus director passionately introduced the multidimensional contexts of this discipline? Will role-play capture the imagination of students and guide them in their future learning?
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Now available in paperback, this volume presents a theory of the circus as a secular ritual and introduces a method to analyze its performances as multimodal discourse. The book's fifteen chapters ...cover the range of circus specialties (magic, domestic and wild animal training, acrobatics, and clowning) and provide examples to show how cultural meaning is produced, extended and amplified by circus performances. Bouissac is one of the world's leading authorities on circus ethnography and semiotics and this work is grounded on research conducted over a 50 year span in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. It concludes with a reflection on the potentially subversive power of this discourse and its contemporary use by activists. Throughout, it endeavours to develop an analytical approach that is mindful of the epistemological traps of both positivism and postmodernist license. It brings semiotics and ethnography to bear on the realm of the circus.
“não lugar” do circo na escola Ribeiro, Camila da Silva; Cardani, Leonora Tanasovici; Rodrigues, Gilson Santos ...
Revista portuguesa de educação,
07/2021, Volume:
34, Issue:
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O circo contemporâneo vem ocupando uma considerável variedade de espaços sociais, projetando maior visibilidade midiática e também mostrando suas potencialidades educativas. Nesse contexto emerge o ...debate: qual o espaço da arte circense na educação, mais precisamente na escola? Com isso, analisamos o caso de uma escola de Ensino Fundamental na cidade de Campinas- São Paulo/Brasil. As análises indicam de modo inequívoco que a escola é também lugar para o Circo, tanto na forma de conteúdo programático como espaço de compartilhamento dessa cultura patrimonial. Considerando esse e outros casos disponíveis na literatura recente, entendemos que a arte em geral, e o Circo, em particular, precisam de maior atenção nos debates pedagógicos, desde a formação docente até a prática pedagógica, o que requer esforços governamentais e também das próprias instituições educativas.
The so-called pseudo-Olympics include all kinds of events organised before 1896 that referred in varying degrees to the traditions of the ancient Olympic Games. Sports historians who have studied the ...subject of pseudo-Olympics focus mainly on the sports games and cultural festivals initiated in the seventeenth century, which, in terms of their organisation, programme and nomenclature, imitated the games held in ancient Olympia. At the same time they often ignore various circus performances, many of which used Olympic themes and can also be classified as pseudo-Olympics. The forerunner of such performances in Europe was the English circus, which became a pattern to follow for French and German circuses. The latter had the greatest impact on the development of circus art in nineteenth-century Polish territories. Staged circus productions were examples of performance forms that popularised the Olympic tradition in a more or less conscious manner.
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Supporting pupils’ development regarding subject knowledge and disciplinary literacy is a complex and challenging task for teachers. Research shows that language-integrated physical education (PE) ...can assist children’s language development. However, it tends to reduce the time for physical activity, which is problematic since youth’s physical inactivity is a growing problem. This article examines how teachers can emphasize disciplinary literacy and stimulate pupils’ use of verbal language to enhance their learning in PE in a culturally and linguistically diverse context in Sweden. In this practice-based research study grounded in action research methodology, 20 ten-year-old pupils with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds participated with a teacher-researcher in 10 PE lessons in which disciplinary literacy and verbal language were intertwined with exploratory circus assignments. The theoretical framework is based on Biesta’s concept of risk. Data were collected through participant observation, video observation, interviews, and field diary. The data analysis was abductive, oscillating between the theory and the data. A thematic analysis was carried out. The results show that the exploratory circus assignments offered opportunities to emphasize disciplinary literacy and stimulate pupils’ use of verbal language. Focusing on language to ensure all pupils could partake and develop knowledge required time, which encroached on the pupils’ opportunity to be physically active. This was resolved through adding time before the PE lesson to activate the pupils’ background knowledge, anchor the language, and create pre-understanding. Further, including all pupils was challenging, and the pupils had different expectations regarding PE. The findings suggest that inviting pupils to speak involves an embedded risk in communication, but also carries dialogical potential. In collaboration with teaching colleagues, PE teachers can support and strengthen the pupils’ literacy development.
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Der Zirkus als paradigmatischer Ort trickreicher Scheinerzeugung und authentischer Extremleistung lebt von der Spannung des Widerspruchs und ist ein Spielfeld vielfältiger Inszenierungen. Die ...Affinitäten zwischen Zirkus und Literatur lassen sich auf die der Ästhetik des Hyperbolischen inhärenten fiktionalen und narrativen Elemente zurückführen, auf seine originären, das Erdichten, Erfinden und Fingieren auslotenden Dimensionen, die als Spielarten der Lüge täuschen können und das Manegenspiel attraktiv für literarische Ausgestaltungen und Interpretationen machen. Vor dem Hintergrund der Kulturgeschichte der Manegenkunst und ihrer literarischen Traditionen, die zur Hochphase des Zirkus um 1900 unvergleichlich aufblühten, diskutiert diese erste umfassende Studie zur Zirkusliteratur seit der Postmoderne die Ästhetik des Manegenspiels in 'Zirkusromanen' und 'zirzensischen Romanen', wobei Texte von Peter Carey bis Sara Gruen typologisch differenziert und poetologisch charakterisiert werden.
The study’s objective was to understand and observe the experiences and learnings acquired by students who participated in an extension program of a public university’s Physical Education course, ...whose main theme was teaching circus for children. It included a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with the participating monitors conducted in the initiation and finalization of the course, as well as observation of the participants during classes. The results illustrate how the project con-tributed to several aspects of the monitor’s learning, who acquired knowledge both about circus, as well as various aspects of educational methodology. In turn, circus activities continue to constitute an interesting path of acquisition of such knowledge in the undergraduate education level.
O estudo teve por objetivo compreender e acompanhar as vivências e aprendizagens dos discentes de um curso de Educação Física numa universidade pública, por meio da sua participação em um projeto de extensão que tinha como temática principal o ensino do circo para crianças. Contou com a realização de questionário e entrevista semiestruturada junto aos monitores participantes, no início e final do projeto, assim como observação participante das aulas. Os resultados mostram como o projeto contribuiu em várias dimensões da aprendizagem dos monitores, que adquiriram conhecimentos sobre o circo e sobre diversos aspectos didático-metodológicos. Por sua vez, as atividades circenses continuam se mostrando como um caminho interessante para abordar estes conhecimentos na formação inicial.
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