On ‘A Piece for Two (Lovers)’ - an unrehearsed performance piece

This essay consists of three 15-minute audio files and a written essay. Audio files #1 and #2 are performance scores made by dance artists Antonio de la Fe and Robert Vesty for A Piece For Two (Lovers), a performance of which was realised on February 20, 2015 at Royal Holloway, University of London. # 3 is a conversation between de la Fe and Vesty recorded unrehearsed for this special issue of RiDE. Together, the essay draws attention to the way in which the performance piece theatricalised its inherent precariousness. De la Fe and Vesty have been in a romantic relationship since December 2012 and the piece draws on themes of volatility and strength. The essay then goes on to propose de la Fe’s notion of unrehearsed not just as a mode of making that can be seen as an ‘artrepreneurial’, (to use Jen Harvie’s term), disruption of conventional modes of making artistic work, but as way to simultaneously reclaim and denounce precarity by re-thinking unrehearsal as a vital choreographic process

Empire\u27s Children: Soviet Childhood in the Age of Revolution

Ideas of childhood and citizenship stood at the center of the Soviet Union’s empire-building project during the 1920s and 1930s. After the 1917 Revolution the Bolsheviks were faced with the challenge of establishing a new state structure and governing a vast territory inherited from its tsarist predecessor. In the early years of the Soviet project, new leaders enlisted a cadre of professionals tasked with not only creating the norms of childhood and the everyday, but also implementing policies to modernize habits and values of the empire’s younger citizens. To understand how children became a prime focus of Soviet imperial and ethno-cultural politics, my dissertation employs discourse analysis and compares the ways in which Soviet imperial policies were implemented in two ethnically different regions: the Buddhist Republic of Kalmykia as the colonial case study and Moscow as the Metropole. The current project examines newspapers, treatises, and inspectors’ reports over the span of twenty years. It finds that the Bolsheviks’ initial values and discourses in the realm of children’s education, health, leisure and nutrition, all which were scientifically designed to transform children into ideal Soviet and modern citizens, changed over time as a result of the competing ideologies among local elites and the challenges they faced while intervening in children’s everyday lives. The most significant conclusion in this dissertation reveals that, contrary to previous scholarly arguments, the modernization projects that took place in Moscow and Kalmykia were more similar in the challenges and outcomes that local officials faced when implementing state policies

Producción de autores cubanos en las revistas sobre ciencias de la computación registradas en el Journal Citation Report en el período 1990-2005

The features of the Cuban scientific production on computing science and informatics as registered in the main group of magazines mentioned within the 6 science disciplines defined by the Journal Citation Report in the period 1990-2005 are identified and described. For the information processing and presentation, the software Ucinet 6.0, Statistic 6.1, MS Excel 2003, Bibexcel and EndNote 9 were utilized. 95 articles were identified as published with the participation of Cuban authors in 44 magazines. Traditional bibliometric indicators, co-citation web analysis and co-citation maps generated with multidimensional escalation techniques were used. The disciplines with a greater presence in the production, as well as the main authors, institutions, magazines and collaboration levels among the authors, were identified

Strategic alliances, organisational learning and new product development: the cases of Rover and Seat.

The importance of the automotive industry in the global economy is widely recognised. The sector has undergone enormous changes in order to prepare for the fierce competition of the 21st century. Among these transformations, the most relevant are those technologies developed for the rapid evolution of activities linked to new designs, new products, and new manufacturing processes and systems. Innovative Japanese carmakers have stimulated international performance comparisons in these activities. International technology alliances may be one way of gaining access to new competitive technologies. Risks and costs associated with new product development can be shared among the partners and more effective use can be made of manufacturing facilities and production capabilities. Sometimes, an alliance agreement may lead to the deployment of new capabilities. However, in spite of this potential, the literature presents the success rate of alliances at less than 50%. Our study considers two examples of companies that developed international joint ventures (IJVs): Rover with Honda, and Seat with Volkswagen. Since these two European peripheral companies, Rover and Seat, no longer remain as independent firms, we are interested in identifying the reasons leading to the success or failure of these IJVs as regards the New Product Development (NPD) process. In particular, in both cases the paper looks at the problems of the weaker partner becoming increasingly dependent on the other partner and the need for a well-defined strategy to benefit from IJVs.Alianzas estratégicas; desarrollo de productos; Rover; Seat;

Strategic alliances, organisational learning and new product development: the cases of Rover and Seat

The importance of the automotive industry in the global economy is widely recognised. The sector has undergone enormous changes in order to prepare for the fierce competition of the 21st century. Among these transformations, the most relevant are those technologies developed for the rapid evolution of activities linked to new designs, new products, and new manufacturing processes and systems. Innovative Japanese carmakers have stimulated international performance comparisons in these activities. International technology alliances may be one way of gaining access to new competitive technologies. Risks and costs associated with new product development can be shared among the partners and more effective use can be made of manufacturing facilities and production capabilities. Sometimes, an alliance agreement may lead to the deployment of new capabilities. However, in spite of this potential, the literature presents the success rate of alliances at less than 50%. Our study considers two examples of companies that developed international joint ventures (IJVs): Rover with Honda, and Seat with Volkswagen. Since these two European peripheral companies, Rover and Seat, no longer remain as independent firms, we are interested in identifying the reasons leading to the success or failure of these IJVs as regards the New Product Development (NPD) process. In particular, in both cases the paper looks at the problems of the weaker partner becoming increasingly dependent on the other partner and the need for a well-defined strategy to benefit from IJVs.This research is partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Educación y Cultura, Dirección General de Enseñanza Superior (DGES) projects PB94-0372, PB97-0089, and PR95-583Publicad

Strategic alliances and new product development: the cases of Rover and Seat

The large influence of the automotive industry in the global economy is widely recognised. This sector has undergone enormous changes in order to be ready for the fierce competence of the next to come 21st century. Among theses transformations, the most relevant are those technologies developed for the rapid evolution of the activities linked to new designs, new products, and new manufacturing processes and systems, which aim to cope with the always innovative Japanese car makers. International technology alliances may be one option to gain access to the brand new competitive technologies. At the same time, the risks and costs associated with new product development are shared among the allies, as well as the manufacturing facilities and production capabilities. Sometimes, the agreement may even give place to the deployment of new capabilities. In spite of its many potentialities, the literature presents the success rate of alliances being below a 50 percent. Our study considers two examples of companies that developed international joint ventures (UVs), Rover with Honda, and Seat with Volkswagen, respectively. Since these two European peripheral companies, Rover and Seat, no longer remain as independent firms, we are interested on identifying the reasons leading to the success or failure of these UVs as regards the New Product Development (NPD) process. In spite of the fact that most of the literature characterises the strategic technology alliances as highly successful, new empirical evidences are questioning that consensus. In particular, some recent cases are bringing into the limelight the dangers associated to enter an UV when one of the partners is weaker than the other and it does not have a well defmed strategy. The weakest firm can become completely reliant on its associate, thus aggravating and accentuating its constraints. Our article addresses the question of possible dependencies along the NPD process in the Rover and Seat cases and looks for an answer to the question of how such type of addiction affects the survival of the firms

Un estudio comparativo de la inmigración en función del lugar de origen: variables psicosociales en los autóctonos murcianos

Presentamos un análisis comparativo de los principales grupos de inmigrantes en la Región de Murcia: magrebíes, subsaharianos, europeos del este y latinoamericanos. En este estudio han participado 93 estudiantes de educación secundaria, quienes respondieron a un conjunto de medidas psicosociales, evaluativas, cognitivas y afectivas respecto a cada uno de los grupos de inmigrantes. Las variables incluidas en el estudio han sido: evaluación general, valencia del estereotipo, amplitud del estereotipo, similitud con el endogrupo, emociones positivas, emociones negativas, contacto intergrupal, contribución social positiva y contribución social negativa. Todas las variables, excepto una (las contribuciones sociales positivas), han mostrado diferencias significativas en un análisis de varianza de medidas repetidas en función del origen de los grupos de inmigrantes. Son los inmigrantes magrebíes los que salen más perjudicados en este análisis comparativo.We present a comparative analysis of the main immigrant groups in the Region of Murcia: Magrebians, Sub-Saharans, eastern Europeans and Latin-Americans. 93 secondary school students have taken part in this research. These students answered a set of evaluative, cognitive and affective psychological measurements related to every immigrant group. The variables included in this study are the following: general evaluation, stereotype valency, stereotype extent, ingroup similarity, positive emotions, negative emotions, intergroup contact, positive social contributions and negative social contributions. All variables except for one (the positive social contribution), have displayed significant differences in a repeated measurement Anova, according to the immigrant group origin. Magrebian immigrants are the ones who are more damaged in this comparative analysis