Understanding the Institutional Evolution of the European Rural Policy: A Methodological Approach

Last decades have seen the development of a new rural policy. Different problems occurring in rural areas have pushed the EU Commission to draft policy instruments aiming to address them. However this rural policy path has not always been explicit neither has followed a continuous trend but rather has seen a series of forward and backward steps. Given the lack of a method to establish the relevance and the level of political acceptance of EU rural policy, a methodology has been developed. This methodology has tried to identify the EU political procedure trend, though this is not a formal sequence, and to establish a classification of different events according to a proposed hierarchy. Several EU documents, decisions, directives and financial resource allocations have been analysed. Within the review performed, each rural policy milestone has been classified following the proposed hierarchical chart. This has enabled the drawing of the different backs and forwards taken by this process. Besides, it has lead to the interpretation of the rural policy instruments current position in relation with other European policy instruments.Rural development, policy analysis, institutional processes, Agricultural and Food Policy,

Sota and me: Miguel Fisac interview at «El Cerro del Aire», january 13th, 1998

[Resumen] Se trata de una entrevista realizada a Miguel Fisac en 1998 y que cobra pertinencia en el centenario de su nacimiento. La efemérides coincide con la de su compañero Alejandro de la Sota, sobre el que el arquitecto manchego narra algunos datos desconocidos de su relación personal y profesional. Fisac también aborda otros temas como sus inicios profesionales, su evolución, su previsión para la arquitectura del tercer milenio o su personal renuncia a la docencia.[Abstract] Miguel Fisac was interviewed in 1998 which was relevant to the centenary of his birth and coincides with his partner Alejandro de la Sota. Th roughout the interview Fisac shows us some unknown information about their personal and professional relationship. He also reveals other interesting things like his professional beginnings, evolution, his forecast for the architecture of the third millennium and also his decision not to teach

Por gracia pediré la muerte al cielo : Teresa Vera, poetisa suicida del siglo XIX

1 archivo PDF (16 páginas)El suicidio de Teresa Vera la hizo célebre, no obstante que su obra, emotiva y de ardiente romanticismo, carecía de la suficiente calidad. El ensayo indaga lo que ocurre en el imaginario social para que esto suceda. Más allá de que en ella operaban dos transgresiones propias de la época en la que le tocó vivir: la de escribir, siendo mujer, y la de atentar en contra de su vida. La hipótesis del ensayo discurre en la doble esfera de lo masculino y lo femenino. En el primero, en el imaginario dominante, al hombre se le asocia con la cultura; mientras que lo femenino es relacionado con la naturaleza. En esta dicotomía, el suicidio de una escritora ratificaba la presencia de una naturaleza emotiva e irracional, propia de lo femenino, a lo que se sumaría la impresión de que el suicidio en las mujeres era consecuencia de su incapacidad para enfrentarse a la realidad sin la guía masculina. De modo que el suicidio restituía en ella lo que en el imaginario social parecía escaparse: delicada, tierna, sacrificada, apasionada hasta el grado de renunciar a la cordura que la habría anclado a la vida. Teresa Vera’s suicide made her famous, although her work, emotional and full of romance, lacked sufficient quality. This essay explores what happens in the social imaginary to make this happen. Beyond that in her were two transgressions typical of her time: being a female writer, and the attempt against her life. The hypothesis of this essay runs on the dual sphere of masculine and feminine. In the first, the dominant imaginary, the man is associated with the culture, while the female is related to nature. In this dichotomy, the suicide of a writer ratified the presence of an emotional and irrational nature, typical of the feminine. Could be added the feeling that suicide in women, was due to their inability to face reality without male guidance. So is in this way that suicide replaced her in the social imaginary that was looked away: she delicate, tender, self-sacrificing, and passionate to the point of giving up the sanity that would anchor her to life. Palabras clave / Key words: Teresa Vera, poesía mexicana, romanticismo mexicano, escritoras mexicanas / Teresa vera, Mexican poetry, Mexican romanticism, Mexican writers. tyvlx

Gotas de lluvia : la ampliación del Monasterio de San Pedro Regalado en La Aguilera, Burgos

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Documenting online writing practices: The case of nominal plural marking in Zamboanga Chabacano

The emergence of computer-mediated communication has brought about new opportunities for both speakers and researchers of minority or under-described languages. This paper shows how the analysis of spontaneous contemporary language samples from online social networks can make a contribution to the documentation and description of languages like Chabacano, a Spanish-derived creole spoken in the Philippines. More specifically, we focus on nominal plural marking in the Zamboangueño variety, a still imperfectly understood feature, by examining a corpus composed of texts from online sources. The attested combination of innovative and vestigial features requires a close look at the high contact environment, different levels of metalinguistic awareness or even some language ideologies. The findings shed light on the wide variety of plural formation strategies which resulted from the contact of Spanish with Philippine languages. Possible triggers, such as animacy, definiteness or specificity, are also examined and some future research areas suggested

Un’arte al servizio dell’uomo e del suo ambiente

L’architettura è al servizio dell’uomo e del suo paesaggio. Gli architetti dovrebbero produrre spazi per l’uomo: case, scuole, parchi urbani, città “all’altezza dell’uomo”, spazi che siano anche capaci di generare empatia con ogni altro essere vivente e con il mondo intero. Le città sono così il palinsesto di generazioni: il nostro lavoro comincia con il mettere a fuoco i nostri occhi, un esercizio che ci permette di svelare la realtà e di corrispondere ad essa, persino se una certa confusione contemporanea tra il design e l’architettura ci ha condotto a sviluppare edifici oltre il ruolo che essi occupano. Una sorta di falsa monumentalità oggi confonde la scala o il budget dell’intervento con la dignità e la memoria