Becoming Mapuche Course, Magnus
2011, 20111128, 2011-11-30, 20110101
eBook, Book
Magnus Course blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this superb ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile. Based on many years of ethnographic ...fieldwork, Becoming Mapuche takes readers to the indigenous reserves where many Mapuche have been forced to live since the beginning of the twentieth century. Exploring their way of life, the book situates the Mapuche within broader anthropological debates about indigenous peoples in South America._x000B__x000B_Comprising around 10 percent of the Chilean population, the Mapuche are one of the largest indigenous groups in the Americas. Despite increasing social and political marginalization, the Mapuche remain a distinct presence within Chilean society, giving rise to the burgeoning Mapuche political movement and holding on to their traditional language of Mapundungun, their religion, and their theory of self-creation. In addition to accounts of the intimacies of everyday kinship and friendship, Course also offers the first complete ethnographic analyses of the major social events of contemporary rural Mapuche life--eluwün funerals, the ritual sport of palin, and the great ngillatun fertility ritual. The volume includes a glossary of terms in Mapudungun.
El presente artículo se centra en una experiencia de propaganda fascista en el extranjero, en concreto sobre la obra de Mario Appellius, Cile e Patagonia. Empezaremos con trazar algunas de las ...características generales de la propaganda de Mussolini a nivel nacional e internacional, poniendo mayor énfasis sobre el concepto de cultura fascista. En segundo lugar, abordaremos el tema de la cultura fascista en el extranjero, haciendo hincapié sobre los mecanismos utilizados por el Duce para aumentar su consenso. Después, nos centraremos en la figura de Mario Appellius y analizaremos algunos capítulos de su obra dedicada a Chile, focalizándonos en la actitud del autor hacía el pequeño país andino; por último, trazaremos nuestras conclusiones subrayando los aspectos más interesantes de esta experiencia literaria de propaganda fascista en Chile.
Leadership Dispatches Michael Useem, Howard Kunreuther, Erwann Michel-Kerjan
2015, 2015-03-11
eBook
On February 27, 2010, Chile was rocked by a violent earthquake five hundred times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti just six weeks prior. The Chilean earthquake devastated schools, hospitals, ...roads, and homes, paralyzing the country for weeks and causing economic damage that was equal to 18 percent of Chile's GDP. This calamity hit just as an incumbent political regime was packing its bags and a new administration was preparing to take office. For most countries, it would have taken years, if not decades, to recover from such an event. Yet, only one year later, Chile's economy had reached a six percent annual growth rate.In Leadership Dispatches, Michael Useem, Howard Kunreuther, and Erwann Michel-Kerjan look at how the nation's leaders—in government, business, religion, academia, and beyond—facilitated Chile's recovery. They attribute Chile's remarkable comeback to a two-part formula consisting of strong national leadership on the one hand, and deeply rooted institutional practices on the other. Coupled with strategic, deliberative thinking, these levers enabled Chile to bounce back quickly and exceed its prior national performance. The authors make the case that the Chilean story contains lessons for a broad range of organizations and governments the world over. Large-scale catastrophes of many kinds—from technological meltdowns to disease pandemics—have been on the rise in recent years. Now is the time to seek ideas and guidance from other leaders who have triumphed in the wake of a disaster. In this vein, Leadership Dispatches is both a remarkable story of resilience and an instructive look at how those with the greatest responsibility for a country, company, or community should lead.
Patrick Barr-Melej here illuminates modern Chilean history with an unprecedented chronicle and reassessment of the sixties and seventies. During a period of tremendous political and social strife ...that saw the election of a Marxist president followed by the terror of a military coup in 1973, a youth-driven, transnationally connected counterculture smashed onto the scene. Contributing to a surging historiography of the era's Latin American counterculture, Barr-Melej draws on media and firsthand interviews in documenting the intertwining of youth and counterculture with discourses rooted in class and party politics. Focusing on "hippismo" and an esoteric movement called Poder Joven, Barr-Melej challenges a number of prevailing assumptions about culture, politics, and the Left under Salvador Allende's "Chilean Road to Socialism."While countercultural attitudes toward recreational drug use, gender roles and sexuality, rock music, and consumerism influenced many youths on the Left, the preponderance of leftist leaders shared a more conservative cultural sensibility. This exposed, Barr-Melej argues, a degree of intergenerational dissonance within leftist ranks. And while the allure of new and heterodox cultural values and practices among young people grew, an array of constituencies from the Left to the Right berated counterculture in national media, speeches, schools, and other settings. This public discourse of contempt ultimately contributed to the fierce repression of nonconformist youth culture following the coup.
Příspěvek se zabývá problematikou turistické dopravy. Konkrétně je zaměřen na organizaci turistické dopravy na území Národního parku a Chráněné krajinné oblasti Šumava. Zde je velkým problémem nárůst ...poptávky po dopravě zejména v tzv. letní turistické sezóně od poloviny června do poloviny září. Příspěvek předkládá konkrétní technologický postup řešení a návrhy na zmírnění negativních dopadů turistické dopravy na vybraném území Šumavy.
As an abundant, inexpensive, and renewable biomass raw material, taro Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott stalks were employed as a simple biochar template due to their porous structure. A composite ...composed of gold microsphere and taro stalk derived porous carbon (Au-MS@TSPC) was used to construct an electrochemical sensor for the sensitive determination of rutin. Under the optimized conditions, the sensor exhibited a wide linear range from 0.12 to 10.0 μmol·L
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with a detection limit of 0.0265 μmol·L
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. The sensor demonstrated good selectivity and was applied to the determination of rutin in human serum with recoveries from 94.0% to 105.8%. The fabrication of Au-MS@TSPC in this study provides a promising approach for the subsequent utilization of taro stalks.
This is a study of the relations between Britain and Chile during the Spanish American independence era (1806–1831). These relations were characterised by a dynamic, unpredictable, and changing ...nature, imperialism being only one and not the exclusive way to define them. The book explores how Britons and Chileans perceived each other from the perspective of cultural history, considering the consequences of these ‘cultural encounters’ for the subsequent nation–state building process in Chile. From 1806 to 1831 both British and Chilean ‘state’ and ‘non–state’ actors interacted across several different ‘contact zones’, and thereby configured this relationship in multiple ways. Although the extensive presence of ‘non–state’ actors (missionaries, seamen, educators and merchants) was a manifestation of the ‘expansion’ of British interests to Chile, they were not necessarily an expression of any British imperial policy. There were multiple attitudes, perceptions, representations and discourses by Chileans on the role played by Britain in the world, which changed depending on the circumstances. Likewise, for Britons, Chile was represented in multiple ways, the image of Chile acting as a pathway to other markets and destinations being the most remarkable. All these had repercussions in the early nation–building process in Chile.
Svět, který chceme přináší přehled Cílů udržitelného rozvoje (SDGs) formou přístupnou pro děti. Publikace je dostupná na stránkách OSN v Praze, kde ji doplňuje animovaný film Největší lekce pro svět, ...jehož scénář napsal sir Ken Robinson a režírovala jej Sarah Cox. Publikace vznikla podle předlohy The World We Want. A Future For All, kterou vydala organizace Global Movement for Children of Latin America and Caribbean (MMI-LAC) v roce 2014. Českou verzi připravilo Informační centrum OSN v Praze ve spolupráci s dalšími organizacemi. V textu jsou využity ilustrace ELYX francouzského kreslíře YAK poskytlo Regionální informační centrum OSN v Bruselu (www.unric.org). Publikaci lze získat v tištěné formě; výdejními místy jsou tyto instituce spolupracující na jejím vzniku: • Informační centrum OSN v Praze • Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR (Lukáš Pokorný) • Centrum pro otázky životního prostředí Univerzity Karlovy v Praze • Člověk v tísni • Národní síť Global Compact Česká republika
Doprava je klíčovým prvkem, který umožňuje plnění několika cílů udržitelného rozvoje. Výrazně přispívá k cílům udržitelného rozvoje v oblasti hospodářského rozvoje, průmyslu a malých a středních ...podniků a také obchodu a investic. Proto také pomáhá plnit cíle udržitelného rozvoje, které se zaměřují na podporu zaměstnanosti a životních podmínek a zmírňování nerovností a vyloučení. Doprava však přináší v oblasti cílů udržitelného rozvoje také řadu výzev, jako je potřeba snížit dopady na klima a životní prostředí, zlepšit dopravní systémy a bezpečnost silničního provozu a řešit obavy týkající se pracovních míst a důstojné práce. Cílem příspěvku je poskytnout obsahovou analýzu aspektů trvale udržitelného rozvoje ve vztahu k dopravě a to v souvislosti s naplňováním vybraných cílů Agendy 2030. Prezentovaný příspěvek je součástí řešení projektu VEGA č.1/0302/18 “Inteligentní města jako možnost implementace konceptu udržitelného rozvoje měst ve Slovenské republice”
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