Published in Semiotica
Greimas’s conception of narrative is based on a causality linked to basic paradigms establishing the deep meaning of a story; Girard’s conception of narrative is rooted in a universal mimetic desire which leads the “lynchers” to justify exclusion by producing mythical narratives demonstrating that the excluded was evil; Kymlicka’s perspective on cu...
Cette thèse a pour objectif de comprendre les phénomènes définis par Laurent Vidal comme territoires de l’attente, qui sont soit des lieux où l’attente est conceptualisée et prévue, soit des territoires où l’attente s’insinue dans la migration et modifie la perception des hommes en mouvement. La période choisie, s’étalant de la fin du 19ème siècle ...
ve areas. Passive surveillance, together with enhanced methods and serological screening techniques, can therefore be of value. The insularity of the Caribbean makes it ideal for conducting pilot studies on reservoir host population management. Best practice guidelines developed for these reservoir hosts can be individually modified to the epidemio...
The introduction of Zika virus (ZIKV) to the Americas raised concern that the virus would spill back from human transmission, perpetuated by Aedes aegypti, into a sylvatic cycle maintained in wildlife and forest-living mosquitoes. In the Americas, Sabethes species are vectors of sylvatic yellow fever virus (YFV) and are therefore candidate vectors ...
Description: The history of the Caribbean world is inseparable from its relationship to space, perceived or imagined. It begins with the ambition to conquer the world through a spatial representation seeking the artistic talent of seafarers. Since the time of conquest, this “other” space—at times superimposed on the space of the other—is subject to...
AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council), UK: 3 years, full-time.
This book develops an international comparative approach to water conflicts in several American cities (USA, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia). Struggles for water can be related to different issues: increase in water prices, installation of water catchment systems, negotiations of commissioning contracts, promotion of municipal plans for water delive...
La vasta bibliografía que ha sido dedicada al concepto de “partido político” suele dejar de lado la historia no-occidental de este concepto (con excepción de Rusia), y los trabajos que la abordan suelen limitarla a un marco nacional. Las páginas que siguen proponen remediar en parte esta carencia. Con el objeto de mostrar la complejidad de los proc...
