Práticas de Financiamento para organizações culturais e economia criativa

This article aims to analyze the practices of funding for cultural organizations and Creative Economy of Brazil, explaining the Rouanet law and the new project with the name ProCultura. The Rouanet law advanced in several aspects, but some points need improvement. Thus, it is currently being discussed a new law, called ProCultura. The results show the differences between the Rouanet law and new proposals for financing cultural organizations.Este artigo tem por objetivo analisar as práticas de financiamento para organizações culturais e Economia Criativa do Brasil a partir da lei Rouanet e projeto de lei Pró-cultura. A lei Rouanet avançou em vários aspectos no incentivo à cultura, mas apresenta pontos com necessidades de melhorias. Desta forma, está atualmente em discussão uma nova lei, denominada Pró-Cultura. Os resultados da pesquisa apresentam as diferenças entre a Lei Rouanet e as novas propostas para financiamento cultural, bem como motivos e objetivos para o novo projeto de lei

Getting beyond the surface : using geometric data analysis in cultural sociology

Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) refers to a group of statistical techniques that disclose underlying patterns in categorized data. GDA represents categories of variables and individuals as points in a multi-dimensional Euclidean space. This contribution presents some of GDA’s analytic properties and their connection to a relational approach of the social world. Moreover, the potential of GDA for cultural sociology will be discussed. What does GDA add to insights based on ‘orthodox’ correlational techniques and exactly how does it get beyond the surface of things? Research on the association between cultural consumption and socio-economic background will serve as an illustration

Aerogel Insulation Applications for Liquid Hydrogen Launch Vehicle Tanks

Aerogel based insulation systems for ambient pressure environments were developed for liquid hydrogen (LH2) tank applications. Solutions to thermal insulation problems were demonstrated for the Space Shuttle External Tank (ET) through extensive testing at the Cryogenics Test Laboratory. Demonstration testing was performed using a 1/10th scale ET LH2 intertank unit and liquid helium as the coolant to provide the 20 K cold boundary temperature. Cryopumping tests in the range of 20K were performed using both constant mass and constant pressure methods. Long-duration tests (up to 10 hours) showed that the nitrogen mass taken up inside the intertank is reduced by a factor of nearly three for the aerogel insulated case as compared to the un-insulated (bare metal flight configuration) case. Test results including thermal stabilization, heat transfer effectiveness, and cryopumping confirm that the aerogel system eliminates free liquid nitrogen within the intertank. Physisorption (or adsorption) of liquid nitrogen within the fine pore structure of aerogel materials was also investigated. Results of a mass uptake method show that the sorption ratio (liquid nitrogen to aerogel beads) is about 62 percent by volume. A novel liquid nitrogen production method of testing the liquid nitrogen physical adsorption capacity of aerogel beads was also performed to more closely approximate the actual launch vehicle cooldown and thermal stabilization effects within the aerogel material. The extraordinary insulating effectiveness of the aerogel material shows that cryopumping is not an open-cell mass transport issue but is strictly driven by thermal communication between warm and cold surfaces. The new aerogel insulation technology is useful to solve heat transfer problem areas and to augment existing thermal protection systems on launch vehicles. Examples are given and potential benefits for producing launch systems that are more reliable, robust, reusable, and efficient are outlined

Santos viajeros en el Códice de Autos Viejos

10 pagesInternational audienceEntre las numerosas piezas de inspiración bíblica recogidas en el manuscrito conocido como el Códice de Autos Viejos tres muestran una práctica teatral que parece inusual para la época, siempre y cuando consideremos que las obras de este corpus de 96 piezas dramáticas son representativas y constituyen un muestrario suficientemente fiable de lo que se llevaba a los escenarios en el Quinientos. Las piezas tratan todas ellas de materia mariana y concretamente la muerte de la Virgen, a veces sepultura, y Asunción. Son, según el orden establecido en la edición de Léo Rouanet, las siguientes: Aucto de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora (XXXI); Aucto de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora (XXXII), y Auto de la Asumption de Nuestra Señora (LXII)Parmi les nombreuses pièces de théâtre tirées des récits bibliques dans le recueil connu sous le nom de Codice de Autos Viejos, compilé au XVI siècle, trois drames montrent une pratique théâtrale assez originale : celle du voyage d'un personnage qui se déplace étrangement vite et par voie surnaturelle d'un lieu à un autre

Displaying desire and distinction in housing

The article discusses the significance of cultural capital for the understanding of the field of housing in contemporary Britain. It explores the relationship between housing and the position of individuals in social space mapped out by means of a multiple correspondence analysis. It considers the material aspects of housing and the changing contexts that are linked to the creation and display of desire for social position and distinction expressed in talk about home decoration as personal expression and individuals' ideas of a `dream house'. It is based on an empirical investigation of taste and lifestyle using nationally representative survey data and qualitative interviews. The article shows both that personal resources and the imagination of home are linked to levels of cultural capital, and that rich methods of investigation are required to grasp the significance of these normally invisible assets to broaden the academic understanding of the field of housing in contemporary culture

“We Do Not Know Which Path to Take” Mahieddine Bachetarzi, Music, Theater, and Salafist Nationalism in Interwar Algeria (1919 – 1939)

Algerian nationalism in the interwar period did not emerge via a simple progression, nor as a unitary awakening; it was a polyvocal and multivalent movement comprised of disparate Muslim Algerian, Jewish Algerian, and European voices. The outward appearance of a singular movement is due in no small part to the cooption and monopolization of nationalist discourse by the Islamic reformist organization, the Association des oulémas musulmans algériens (AOMA), and their followers, including the Muslim musician and playwright, Mahieddine Bachetarzi. Indeed, while AOMA clerics and affiliated historians created the exclusively Arab-Muslim story of Algerian history that prevails today, cultural figures like Bachetarzi were instrumental in disseminating and naturalizing the AOMA’s narrative in musical and literary works. By examining Bachetarzi’s life and work, and by engaging with his personal memoirs with unprecedented depth and rigor, this paper demonstrates both the ‘constructedness’ of Algerian nationalism and the importance of culture to nationalist messaging

Comprendo las fórmulas de área de figuras geométricas

La comprensión de las fórmulas para el cálculo de medida de área de las figuras geométricas, es un proceso que requiere de la participación activa de los alumnos. Esto implica la realización de actividades como manipulación de material, recorte de figuras para transformar una figura en otra en donde la fórmula ya se conoce y, proponer diferentes maneras de calcular el área de una figura determinada. El proceso de aprendizaje es de manera constructivista, hasta llegar a la generalización que constituyen las fórmulas. Con esta forma de aprendizaje se garantiza que el alumno pueda aplicarlas a diversidad de problemas que implica cálculo de área

Asesinatos y otras maldades bíblicas en el Códice de Autos Viejos

International audienceThis article studies the presentation and staging of violence in two religious plays from the Códice de Autos Viejos, a manuscript compiled around 1575. The two texts taken into account deal respectively with the death of Samson and that of John the Baptist.Cet article étudie l'évocation et la mise en scène d'actes de violence dans deux pièces du manuscrit connu sous le nom de Códice de Autos Viejos (c. 1575

The global politics of an urban age: creating 'cities for all' in the age of financialisation

Our globalised and increasingly urban world demands an understanding of how ideas about how to build cities travel to become embedded in places. In this context, private actors operating across borders such as investors, real estate developers, international consultants, global construction companies and engineering firms appear as key agents of change in cities. However, real estate developers’ interactions with local stakeholders and their role in territorialising global financial strategies have been relatively under-explored in urban studies and global discussions about our 'urban future', especially within discussions on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA). This paper aims to initiate future research on this topic, providing some preliminary reflections on the role of developers as key transfer agents in the global movement of capital and its anchoring in places through the transformation of the urban built environment. In this way, we hope to offer some clarity on the transnational movement of financial capital to new places and markets, asking how real estate developers contribute to the dissemination of a global capitalist logic across cities, and what challenges this poses to the implementation of the NUA? To do so, the piece brings together insights from policy mobility literature and recent work on the financialisation of urban developments with the aim of critically assessing whether and how some of the key objectives of the NUA can be achieved in a context characterised by heavy involvement by real estate actors in city-making