Leyendo Bourdieu en Casanova: teoría de campo, illusio y habitus

Pascale Casanova’s world literature theory and methodology developed in The World Republic of Letters draws heavily from Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology. While criticism to date has noted that Casanova builds on Bourdieu and makes use of a number of his concepts, the extent to which Bourdieu underpins Casanova’s work has not been fully uncovered. This paper analyses some of the methodological, conceptual, and theoretical elements which Casanova has drawn from Bourdieu, particularly through her adaptation and development of concepts such as the literary field, illusio, and habitus. In an explicit sense, Casanova extends Bourdieu’s nationally focused field theory and analysis to a complex international scale. Yet, more implicitly, Casanova draws on concepts such as illusio, habitus, and methods of critical reflexivity and epistemological vigilance, which she also borrows from Bourdieu. As such, by reading Bourdieu in Casanova, it is possible to gain a deeper understanding of Casanova’s theory and methodology.La teoría y la metodología literarias de Pascale Casanova avanzadas en La República Mundial de las letras recurre en gran medida a la sociología de Bourdieu. Aunque la recepción crítica hasta la fecha ha notado que Casanova se basa en Bourdieu y aprovecha varios de sus conceptos, la medida en que Bourdieu sustenta la obra crítica de Casanova aún no se ha descubierto. Este artículo analiza algunos de los elementos metodológicos, conceptuales, y teóricos que Casanova ha tomado de Bourdieu, específicamente a través de su aplicación y desarrollo de conceptos como el campo literario, illusio, y habitus. Abiertamente, Casanova extiende la teoría y el análisis de campo literario nacional de Bourdieu a una escala internacional compleja. Sin embargo, de manera más implícita, Casanova saca provecho de conceptos como illusio, habitus, y metodologías de reflexividad crítica y vigilancia epistemológica que también tienen su origen en el pensamiento bourdieusiano. Así, al leer la obra de Bourdieu en Casanova se logra una comprensión más profunda de la teoría y la metodología de Casanova

The Recontextualization of Things

This flyer promotes an art exhibition by artist Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova called The Recontextualization of Things. Rodriguez-Casanova is the 2010 Felix Gonzalez-Torres Community Art Project Visiting Artist. The event was held at the Patricia &Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU on April 21,2010.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1152/thumbnail.jp

Molecular integration of casanova in the Nodal signalling pathway controlling endoderm formation

International audienceEndoderm originates from a large endomesodermal field requiring Nodal signalling. The mechanisms that ensure segregation of endoderm from mesoderm are not fully understood. We first show that the timing and dose of Nodal activation are crucial for endoderm formation and the endoderm versus mesoderm fate choice, because sustained Nodal signalling is required to ensure endoderm formation but transient signalling is sufficient for mesoderm formation. In zebrafish, downstream of Nodal signals, three genes encoding transcription factors (faust, bonnie and clyde and the recently identified gene casanova) are required for endoderm formation and differentiation. However their positions within the pathway are not completely established. In the present work, we show that casanova is the earliest specification marker for endodermal cells and that its expression requires bonnie and clyde. Furthermore, we have analysed the molecular activities of casanova on endoderm formation and found that it can induce endodermal markers and repress mesodermal markers during gastrulation, as well as change the fate of marginal blastomeres to endoderm. Overexpression of casanova also restores endoderm markers in the absence of Nodal signalling. In addition, casanova efficiently restores later endodermal differentiation in these mutants, but this process requires, in addition, a partial activation of Nodal signalling

El atlas lingüístico de la península ibérica y sus influencias lingüísticas indirectas

In 1998, Emili Casanova made the discovery that the Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica (ALPI) had, overtime, served to enrich the contents of the Diccionari català-valencià-balear (DCVB), particularly vocabulary from the islands of Majorca and Minorca. The author provided previously unknown information, analysing the results (about 2,500 words) obtained from six of the twelve island villages surveyed. However, he did not know what method had been applied by Francesc de B. Moll, the sole author of the last eight volumes of the DCVB and one of the two fieldworkers in the Catalan ALPI surveys. The aim of this paper is twofold: on one hand, it verifies the assertion of Casanova (1998), who discovered that the Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica (ALPI); on the other hand, it helps to clearly identify the vocabulary that Casanova suggested was incorporated into the DCVB, by using as a reference Antoni M. Alcover’s and Francesc de B. Moll’s notebooks.En 1998, E. Casanova dio a conocer que el Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica (ALPI) había servido para incrementar los contenidos del Diccionari català-valencià-balear (DCVB), en particular el vocabulario de las islas de Mallorca y Menorca. Casanova proporcionó información que era desconocida previamente y analizó los resultados (cerca de 2.500 palabras) obtenidos en seis de las doce localidades insulares encuestadas. Sin embargo, desconocía el método que Francesc de B. Moll había aplicado en el traspaso de esta información al DCVB. Moll fue el autor en solitario de los últimos ocho volúmenes del diccionario y uno de los encuestadores de la parte catalana del ALPI. El objetivo de este trabajo es doble: por un lado, verificar la afirmación de Casanova; y por el otro, identificar con más claridad el vocabulario que, según este autor, fue incorporado al DCVB, mediante el acceso al léxico incluido en los cuadernos de campo de Antoni M. Alcover y Francesc de B. Moll

The application of gibberellic acid increases berry size of ‘Emperatriz’ seedless grape

Gibberellic acid (GA3) increases berry size of "Emperatriz" seedless grape, the response depending on the phenological stage of vine at treatment date and on the concentration applied. From berry fruit set to 21 days later, 80 mg/L GA3 increased commercial berry weight by 50%-90%, depending on the year, reaching similar size to that of "Aledo" seeded grape, used as comparison. This effect takes place through: a) a larger berry growth rate; b) an early glucose, fructose and sucrose uptake; c) an increase of absolute glucose and fructose content (mg/berry) of seedless berries up to similar values to those of seeded berries; and d) an increase of absolute berry water content but not of relative content to fresh weight, thus water potential and osmotic potential are not significantly modified by treatments. GA3 does not affect berry pericarp cell number but increases pericarp cell diameter

El pucará de Hornillos

Fil: Casanova, Eduardo. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia