Disney on aculturação crianças latino-americanas's

This work is been analyzed from the psychoanalytic framework, acculturation that Disney is producing in the subjectivity of Latin American children with its stories created and re-created for children of new generations. Reflecting about the utopian characters and figures that they project, fleeting corporeal transformations given in the characters and the effects that these has on children who watch these films, when they introyect the messages, imitating the behavior and the speech delivered by Disney characters. Speech by an other enters in homes with the consent and approval of parents.En este trabajo se analiza desde el marco psicoanalítico, la aculturación que Disney está produciendo en la subjetividad de la niñez latinoamericana, con las historias creadas y recreadas para los niños de las nuevas generaciones. Reflexionando sobre los personajes y figuras utópicas que proyectan, las fugaces transformaciones corpóreas que se dan en los personajes y los efectos que esto tiene en los niños que ven dichas películas al introyectar los mensajes que reciben, al imitar los comportamientos de los personajes del discurso ofrecido por Disney, discurso de un otro que entra a los hogares con el consentimiento y aprobación de los progenitores.  Este trabalho é analisado a partir do enquadramento psicanalítico, aculturação que a Disney está produzindo a subjetividade da infância americana, as histórias criadas e recriadas para as crianças das novas gerações. Refletindo sobre os personagens e figuras projeto utópico, as mudanças corporais que ocorrem fugazes nos personagens e os efeitos que isso tem sobre as crianças que assistem a esses filmes para introjetar as mensagens que recebem, imitando o comportamento dos personagens no discurso proferido pela Disney. Outro discurso que entra em uma casa com o consentimento e aprovação dos pai

Biodiversity Prospecting: Fulfilling the Mandate of the Biodiversity Convention

After a brief overview of biodiversity prospecting, the authors review the historical context of biodiversity prospecting, including the common heritage doctrine, international patent law, and the Biodiversity Convention. The authors analyze the four major United States prospecting initiatives to date and identify their strengths and shortcomings. The authors then investigate two possible alternatives: (1) biological resource cartelization and (2) the development of a new type of biodiversity enterprise. The authors advocate the latter as a means of complying with the Biodiversity Convention

Roundtable Discussion

Mr. Asebey: I agree with Professor Tinker absolutely about indigenous rights. But one thing we did not focus on very much, and I think is one of the most important aspects of conservation, is not how many species are or are not lost, and what the satisfactorily verifiable data establishes. If you go to Latin American and other developing countries, the people closest to biodiversity are the people who are most impacted by deforestation and some other destructive uses. These people who depend on the forest or the biosystems for their living, for their survival, they are being displaced all the time. In Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, and other states, the governments are often at odds with the interests of indigenous people. Signing a great Convention with the government will not take care of the interests of indigenous people. If you look at the Convention from a Southern perspective, the number one impact is deforestation. In our academic and scientific centers, we get the statistics on the number of species and related information, and I think sometimes we lose sight of the fact that the real issue in developing countries is people. We not only have recognition here in Article 8, but also the means for giving a real voice to indigenous peoples throughout the world. That is something I would like to have seen

Change and Subjectivity in International Environmental Law: The Micro-Politics of the Transformation of Biodiversity into Genetic Gold

There is no hope for international environmental law to be an engine for global social change, when it can no longer provide a compelling account of itself. This article presents a theoretical framework, constructed from the works of Michel Foucault, capable of tracing this loss of descriptive capacity, as well as the resultant prescriptive confusion. The analysis examines the challenges posed by the triptych of biodiversity, biotechnology and neoliberalism housed under the idea of genetic gold and calls for attention to micro-politics, in the shape of the apparatuses for the production of environmental subjectivity that operate outside the formal structures of the international legal sphere. The trope of genetic gold is revealed as an obsolete attempt to protect a fixed idea of biodiversity based on an outdated conception of environmental value. In response, the author argues for a mature confrontation with the end(s) of international environmental law