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ARROWS AND EARTH SHRINES: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF DAGARA EXPANSION IN SOUTHERN BURKINA FASO
2002
The history of the Black Volta region in what is currently south-west Burkina Faso and north-west Ghana has been marked by the agricultural expansion of Dagara-speaking groups. This article explores how and why these groups were able to expand at the expense of neighbouring segmentary societies such as the Phuo and the Sisala. Violence certainly played a role in their territorial expansion, but so did specific strategies of ritual appropriation of new territories. The Dagara system, with its characteristic fission of existing earth shrines and networks of interlinked shrines, allowed mobility and helped the migrants bring new territories under their ritual control. In addition, patriclans a…
Disputas políticas en un territorio de frontera. La incorporación de la Provincia Oriental a la monarquía bragantina
2021
El presente trabajo se centra en analizar los años de 1820-1823 en la ciudad de Montevideo. La capital de la Provincia Oriental fue ocupada en 1817 por las tropas portuguesas y en 1821 formalizó —mediante un Congreso Extraordinario— la incorporación del territorio a la monarquía portuguesa de los Braganza. Es por ello que, cuando triunfó la segunda revolución liberal en España en 1820 y la primera portuguesa, en el mes de agosto de ese mismo año, la provincia, convertida en la Cisplatina, se adhirió al movimiento constitucional portugués. A lo largo de estas páginas veremos cómo fue el proceso de incorporación del territorio a la monarquía bragantina, y cómo se vivió en Montevideo la disput…
Landscape 100: How Finland, Estonia and Latvia Used Landscape in Celebrating their Centenary Anniversaries
2019
Abstract In the aftermath of what was then the Great War several European countries like Finland, Estonia and Latvia gained independence, marking their centenary jubilees 2017–2018. This paper observes how landscapes were used in anniversary celebrations and what historical themes were foregrounded and which omitted, revealing how collective historical commemoration in landscape enacts within national identity framework depending also on how landscape is understood in each respective country.
Education policy in the Republic of Latvia: lessons from experience
2015
The idea for this article proceeds from personal, practical, and emotional experience and reflections on holding the position of the Minister for Education and Science during the period of the economic crisis in Latvia (2007–2010). The article consists of three parts. The first part outlines the potential of a position in power with a particular focus on developments in education policy. The second part gives an overview of the most important initiatives in the education sector undertaken by ministers for education during the first period of independence of the Republic of Latvia (1918–1940). Analyses of developments in the content of education in line with alterations in organisation of st…
A Reluctant Hero: Hannes Kolehmainen and the Politics of Sporting Fame in Finland
2012
A multiple Olympic champion and pioneer of long-distance running in Finland, Hannes Kolehmainen migrated to the United States after having triumphed at the 1912 Stockholm games. In spite of his working-class credentials that had led to tension prior to Stockhom, the Finnish bourgeois sport authorities adopted him as their hero and literally bought him back from America in the 1920s, soon after Finland had gained independence. Subsequently, a number of prominent observers and scholars have claimed that Kolehmainen's running prowess not only brought the Finnish people together but also contributed to Finland's quest for independence. This essay takes a critical look at the hegemonic understan…
La coronación de Agustín I de México en los sermones religiosos impresos
2020
Este artículo analiza los cuatro sermones publicados sobre la coronación del militar Agustín de Iturbide como emperador del Imperio mexicano, que tuvo lugar en la catedral metropolitana el 21 de julio de 1822. A través de dichos documentos se estudian los referentes político-culturales y religiosos que manejaron los autores eclesiásticos a la hora de legitimar al nuevo emperador y explicar el proceso que había llevado hasta su coronación. Las opiniones que sostuvieron permiten un acercamiento a las interpretaciones que realizaron sobre la independencia del país, así como al modelo de gobierno que idearon. También se observan las pretensiones de buscar un encaje privilegiado para la Iglesia …
Making Bishops in the Malta of the Knights, 1530-1798
2015
During the early modern age the appointment of Maltese bishops involved conflicts in the management of ecclesiastical patronage, jurisdictional issues and international diplomacy. The procedure for appointment, established by Charles v in 1530 when he granted Malta to the Order of St John, was the result of a compromise: safeguarding rights of royal patronage without undermining the independence of an international military order. It is important, however, to underline the reforming activity conducted by bishops appointed in such political ways, especially through the application of some institutions provided by the Council of Trent, such as diocesan synods.
Women cross borders: economic migration in contemporary Italian and Polish graphic novels
2014
This article provides a comparative analysis of two European graphic novels of the past decade that focus on the theme of female economic migration, namely Sara Colaone’s Ciao ciao bambina (2010) and Agata Wawryniuk’s Rozmowki polsko-angielskie (2012). By exploring these two distinctive immigrant stories, which depict the Italian migration to Switzerland in the 1950s and the contemporary Polish migration to Britain, respectively, this article illustrates the shifting experiences of mobility in Europe across decades. While the Italian narrative presents the stay abroad as a chance to achieve independence and personal fulfilment, the Polish comic views it as a mere financial opportunity. This…
Lealtad y unidad en Miguel de Lastarria y Francisco Magariños. Dos proyectos políticos para el Río de la Plata entre la restauración y el trienio lib…
2021
En este trabajo se pretende un abordaje de lo político desde dos experiencias vitales en las que impactaron las revoluciones de independencia durante los años de la restauración y el trienio liberal. Se trata de dos personajes, Miguel de Lastarria y Francisco Magariños, cuyas vivencias en el marco revolucionario del Río de la Plata impactaron sus horizontes de expectativas y configuraron sus identidades a través de unas posiciones de defensa y lealtad a la monarquía hispánica. En ambos casos, la línea que definió sus posicionamientos políticos ante la crisis monárquica fue la de una postura de absoluta fidelidad a la monarquía, pero que se tradujo en proyectos políticos distintos como soluc…
Audit Committee Independence and Auditor-Manager Disputes
2020
This paper analyzes the role of audit committee independence in resolving disagreements between management and the auditor regarding financial reporting. The common intuition suggests that the audit committee must be independent from management to be able to support the auditor against the manager's manipulation attempts. We build a one-period strategic model to show that this intuition is valid only if overinvestment is a bigger concern to shareholders than underinvestment. Otherwise, any audit committee will agree with management to avoid underinvestment. The audit committee's optimal independence level, which can be fully independent or partially dependent, is affected by investment effi…