Construction Of Territory Research Articles

Violência contra crianças e adolescentes: intervenções multiprofissionais da Atenção Primária à Saúde na escola

ABSTRACT This excerpt of a master’s thesis aims to describe the construction of proposals for the prevention, combat, and attention to intrafamily and school violence against child and adolescent students in a suburban district of a municipality in the inland region of Bahia, Brazil. A qualitative, descriptive, exploratory study was conducted through action research. The social stakeholders of the research were the school community, the family, and health professionals. Data were collected by systematic observation, conversation circles, and seminars adopted for situational diagnosis and the development of interventions. Data was interpreted through content analysis. The activities revealed the relevance of the work developed in intersectoral and multidisciplinary qualified network, resulting in behavioral changes of adolescents at school and in the family, their leadership in educational workshops for a peace culture, the implementation of a conflict mediation space at school, the establishment of a physical activity project, drawing parents closer to the school, and raising the awareness toward better possibilities of non-violent domestic education. We conclude that the interventions initiated a movement of change of practices and dialogue of the several district services, resulting in a gradual construction of peace territories in the school and the community.

ДОСВІД РОЗБУДОВИ ТЕРИТОРІІ ХОРВАТІЇ ПІСЛЯ ЗБРОЙНОГО КОНФЛІКТУ: УМОВИ, ПРІОРИТЕТИ ТА ІНСТРУМЕНТАРІЙ

The article examines experience of the Republic of Croatia in the development of de-occupied and affected territories post the armed conflict. The authors analyzed economic and legal conditions for the construction of the Croatian territories destroyed after the armed conflict and their financial support by international donors through the creation of local economic development agencies, development and implementation of the local economic development concept in Croatia and adaptation of the legal framework to new economic goals. The priorities and four components of the strategic project of the social and economic recovery of Croatia have been determined. The first component of the project aimed at attracting investment in territorial communities, the second component devoted to the process of demining de-occupied territories, the third is the provision of consulting services to strengthen management potential, and the fourth component of the project aimed at supporting sub-projects in such areas as: social integration, economic revival and infrastructure for small communities in Croatia. The article demonstrates the economic and legal instruments of special state support for the development of the de-occupied territories of Croatia as well as the classification of territories requiring special state support. Emphasis placed on the expediency of state administration decentralization and the use of tax incentives, including real estate transfer tax, income tax received in the territory of special state supervision and corporate tax. In addition, noteworthy is the creation of three types of territories that received special state aid through income tax exemption or tax rate differentiation over time. Special state support was provided by providing housing to the population affected by the “Croatian War”. The conducted research made possible to establish the successes and shortcomings of the Croatian experience for the possible extrapolation of developments to Ukrainian realities.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF CONSTRUCTION AND TERRITORY DEVELOPMENT AS AN IMPERATIVE FOR THE FORMATION OF STRATEGIES OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS

The stages of formation of digitalization strategies of participants in the investment and construction process and construction stakeholders are proposed, as well as a methodical approach to assessing the degree of digitalization at the macro, meso, and micro levels within the framework of investment and construction projects. 
 It was found that digitalization led to the need to adapt the participants of the investment and construction process to new requirements, assess their own level of digital development, develop digitalization strategies that should be adapted to the requirements of participation in various investment and construction projects. Improving the mechanism of digital transformation of construction participants within the framework of investment and construction projects includes the creation of a system of indicators designed to evaluate and monitor the progress of digitalization and adaptation to project requirements, the development of measures for the development of digitalization, the definition of indicators and methods for evaluating the development of construction based on digital technologies. The basis of digitalization strategy formation is the use of indicators of digital development, which have different dimensions. Some are rated simply on a linguistic scale of "yes" or "no" or "adequate", "poor", "super high", "high", "low" or "average" development, others have corresponding numerical values. The company's self-assessment of its current level of digitalization is an integral stage of the formation of a competitive strategy, which is carried out in the form of target management and implemented in the form of interconnected stages. It is proposed to evaluate the list of measures to identify the existing state of digitization of construction participants, monitor their changes, and establish target indicators using expert evaluation methods. Prospects for further research are the creation of a complex economic and management toolkit to determine the level of digital development of participants in the process of digital transformation of construction and development of territories.

ESTRATÉGIAS DE REPRODUÇÃO E MODO DE VIDA QUILOMBOLA NO MUNICÍPIO DE SÃO MIGUEL DO GUAMÁ, PA

The text addresses the emergence of quilombola identity, which highlights elements that mark the feeling of belonging to the territory in the municipality of São Miguel do Guamá, state of Pará. I believe that this feeling triggers the process of construction of quilombola territoriality, which is somewhat based on the struggle for permanence on earth, on the work of swiddens and on relationships of kinship, neighborhood and religiosity. The process of construction of quilombola identity, replaced in the problem of the land, at work and in the family as a primary unit of production and reproduction.

Heritage as Restitution: The Dadaab Refugee Camps, Kenya

AbstractRecognizing architectures of unelected migration as sites of modern history and heritage not only expands the consideration of modernities in Africa but also constitutes a form of restitution to those who have fled insecurity and violence imposed by others. In this paper and pictorial presentation based on 12 years of archival and on‐site research, I argue that the Dadaab refugee camps and their inhabitation of the Kenya‐Somalia borderland may be understood and valued for a long history as well as a recent materiality, which has taken form in architecture, spatial practices, and territorial construction. Rather than accepting the relegation of refugee architecture to policy studies or the applied social sciences, which privilege the logics of emergency and an epistemology of the security state over knowledge stemming from people's migratory lives, this paper takes seriously the paradoxes of Dadaab as a heritage site. At Dadaab, the Kenyan government and UNHCR established relief operations in a region inscribed with colonial and postcolonial frontiers and wars, carrying a memory of detention and an imaginary of a borderland. These modern historical forces are reiterated in humanitarian settlements holding half a million registered refugees and unregistered migrants, enacting confinement in architectures figured as much by the visual frailty of dwellings dusted red by the wind and clad in recovered textile fragments as by a spectacular array of satellite dishes, aeronautic fleets on tarmac, aluminum and polyvinyl chloride water storage towers, and hydraulic extraction machinery penetrating a Jurassic‐era aquifer. These architectures signal transience even if anchored in the earth and sky, part of an ecology that once supported pastoralists and now undergirds another migratory world. My pictorially oriented paper uses these historical and aesthetic paradoxes to argue for this complex African heritage site, and with it, restitution of a fraught landscape of migration through a meaningful reconsideration of modern heritage.

State, economic power, and citizen mobilization in the construction of hydrosocial territories in La Laguna region, States of Durango, and Cohahuila, Mexico (in Spanish)

State, economic power, and citizen mobilization in the construction of hydrosocial territories in La Laguna region, States of Durango, and Cohahuila, Mexico (in Spanish)

Coupling study on territory space suitability evaluation and construction land expansion simulation: a case study of Jiangxi province, China

Coupling study on territory space suitability evaluation and construction land expansion simulation: a case study of Jiangxi province, China

The Visibility of Citizen Participation and the Invisibility of Groundwater in Mexico

The aim of this study is to assess the social responses to protect and prevent conflict over groundwater resources. By means of a qualitative method and a study of the Valles Centrales and Valle de Mexicali aquifers in Mexico, we found that centralized water management, citizens’ socio-environmental awareness, an asymmetry of power between stakeholders, an imposition of government policies, and economic interests are all contributory factors to emerging conflicts over groundwater. However, citizen participation has developed to provide organized individuals with an opportunity to influence public decisions through the recognition of their rights with respect to water inequalities. However, a limitation of the study is the illustration of conflictual events through the interpretation of qualitative data and of the opinions of the actors studied. However, the construction of hydrosocial territory in these aquifers is concretized in the potentiality and significance of citizen participation in promoting sustainable and socially responsible public groundwater policy at the regional level.

Designerly ways of speaking: Unpacking the discourse of Design Thinking

Creating knowledge allows research communities to claim intellectual territory. Knowledge created by communities is not wholly evidence based; it is skewed, allowing them to claim territory. Existing research suggests that skewed knowledge helps the Design Thinking research community to construct a contentious dichotomy between Design Thinking and scientific thinking. There remains a significant gap in knowledge on how the community creates territory. This paper reports on an empirical study of journal articles. It uncovers how the processes of classifying key concepts and creating frameworks enable researchers to claim territory. It finds that flawed use of methodology and a lack of coherence may contribute to the acts of classifying concepts and creating frameworks – and therefore the construction of territory. It also finds that focusing on the idea that Design Thinking is ‘complex’ may allow the community to downplay the need for rigour. These troubling aspects are termed ‘Designerly Ways of Speaking’.

The Construction of Territory in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century International Legal Doctrine

In today’s international law, territory is largely considered as a portion of the surface of the Earth, subject to the sovereignty of a state. This view of territory as an unmediated reality that presents itself to our senses masks the complex doctrinal debates on the juridical nature of territory that occurred during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This article foregrounds the normative assumptions that undergird the three principal doctrines on territory from the nineteenth and early twentieth century and that still continue to shape views on territory in international law. The principal argument in this article is that legal imaginations of sedentariness and unsettledness played an important role in the doctrinal construction of territory by public and international lawyers. The figure of the nomad thereby functioned as an antipode in imagining sedentariness, civilization, international legal subjectivity, and a distribution of territorial rights along public-private law categories.

La participación de las mujeres zapatistas y el territorio desde el enfoque de ecología política feminista

Zapatismo is a social movement on which there is an extensive literature, mainly focused on the gender issue. However, analyzes of the territory from the perspective of feminist political ecology are uncommon. Therefore, this research combined this approach and a qualitative methodology to meet the following objectives: (a) Describe the participation of Zapatista women in a Zapatista Autonomous Rebel Municipality (MAREZ), (b) Analyze their proposal for an ecologically viable livelihoods, (c) Investigate access to the territory and its control for women based on Zapatista autonomy. The outcomes suggest that there are advances, contradictions, and challenges in the participation of women. The Zapatistas build territories from rivers, gardens, acahuales, and mountains, whose access and control are influenced by gender roles and, therefore, women seek to transform. For instance, agroecological options achieved the ecologically viable livelihoods and have changed gender relationships in the study communities. In conclusion, the construction of the Zapatista territories is in dispute with other actors and has made it possible to promote the participation of women in this process.

The Construction of Territories in the Qin Empire

Abstract This essay revisits the territoriality of the Qin empire by examining the spatial division underneath its commandery-county system. With the universal implementation of centralized administration, scholars usually believe that the Qin empire exerted strong control across its territories. But new Qin sources suggest otherwise. It is evident that the Qin regime devised multiple schemes to structure its empire into three concentric zones with asymmetrical political relations. The respective features and functions of these zones were consonant with those of the center, semiperiphery, and periphery in the “core-periphery” model. The regime’s spatial strategy can be understood as a compromise made to accommodate the diverse landscape in different parts of its vast empire, especially in the newly conquered regions. This reminds us that despite having installed the unitary commandery-county system, the territorial control wielded by the Qin regime in its new territories was tenuous at best.

LIGHTING CONCRETE PRODUCTION FEATURES AND PROSPECTS OF APPLICATION IN RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION

The prospect of light-conducting concrete in railway construction is associated with an increase in recent years in interest in creating a barrier-free environment, including at railway stations, platforms, pedestrian crossings, in pedestrian tunnels, and so on. The material makes it possible to duplicate marking elements in hazardous areas of passenger movement at night without breaking the material environment, which will facilitate care for it in the winter.
 When creating innovative pedestrian crossings (equipped with interactive lanes that duplicate the traffic light for pedestrians), the use of light-conducting concrete will increase the antivandistance of the engineering arrangement. Unlike polymeric materials, the litracon material considered in the article does not change its properties under the influence of high temperatures, is not susceptible to instantaneous violation of the integrity and loss of surface properties under mechanical stresses.
 The high cost of the material does not yet allow its widespread use in the construction of railway infrastructure facilities on an industrial scale, however, with an increase in the production of optical fiber (the most expensive component of light-conducting concrete) and the search for new technologies that reduce the cost of its production, a drop in prices for this type of raw material is naturally expected.
 One of the areas of application of light-conducting concrete can be transport construction and landscaping of on-site territories (sidewalks, stairs, platforms) in terms of increasing their interactivity in the dark.
 The article proposes a composition (No. 1) corresponding to the compressive strength and tensile strength when bending, the requirements for products used in railway construction, for which light-conductive concrete can be used. The problem of light-transmitting concrete in the maintenance of railway infrastructure in the Republic of Belarus is being raised for the first time

La maritimización y su huella territorial: una trayectoria sociotécnica.: El caso de la Bahía de Pasaia (País Vasco, España)

The objective of this article is to describe the process of maritimization using the concept of the sociotechnical trajectory of the Bay of Pasaia since the XVI century, date from which cartography is available, up to the present time thanks to the development of geographic information systems (GIS), which allow locating places with precision, by means of maps prepared from existing historical cartographic and documentary sources on the matter. In this exercise, it is proposed to distinguish the events of the ruptures in order to produce a geohistorical synthesis through the elaboration of maps whose purpose is to study the port footprint in a territory over time. The methodology used observation, through the old maps, of the different stages of change and mutation of the city-port relationship and measurement of this process in its spatial dimension. This approach questions the role of a port in the process of territorial construction and, ultimately, allows us to question the legitimacy of decreasing ports to retain a form of authority in terms of territorial development.

Structural processes in local societies and cultures: A dialogue between historiography and anthropology in Pearl River Delta studies

As a major area of dialogue between socio-economic history research and anthropology, land settlement, lineage development, worship of gods, the evolution of household registration system, and ethnic group issues all showed the dynamic process of the regional socio-cultural structure. The study of history was not only an account of people's agency in the social construction of territories, but also an examination of how historical narratives themselves were structured in the social construction of territories, and how this structure drove and constrained people's actions.

Afro-Colombian internal migration and participatory music: Ethnically and politically charged religious festivals in Bogota

This paper reports an analysis of the roles of music performance in traditional patron saint celebrations from Afro-Colombian communities originally from the Pacific region but who currently live in the capital city of Bogotá. Since the late 1980s, a group of Afro-Colombian cultural leaders have used local traditional expressive cultural practices to construct social cohesion and a sense of collectivity among Afro-Colombians in the city. Here, I argue that the performative, expressive, and affective aspects inherent in Afro-Colombian patron saint celebrations can enable the potential of this transplanted practice for constructing ethnic identity and civic participation, thus catering to the needs of migrants and forcibly displaced people. Looking specifically at the case of the Virgin of Atocha saint wake in Bogotá, I discuss how several musicking, semiotic, and communicative techniques can be identified as facilitating social cohesion and cooperative behavior among participants. In this regard, creating an atmosphere overflowing with carefully selected social, expressive, cultural, and religious stimuli, as well as the idea of active participation, enables deep affective experiences that have an impact on elastic processes of identity construction and resignification of space and territory.

Construction of Sustainable Territories and the Multiple Dimensions of Sustainability: An Assessment of Urban and Environmental Instruments in the Juqueri-Cantareira Sub-basin of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region

This article explores the relationship between legal frameworks, urbanization, and environment in the context of metropolitan fringes. The focus of study is the Juqueri-Cantareira sub-basin, a strategic territory for the ecosystemic balance of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMP), Brazil. This region is also home to critical natural remnants and watersources protected by Law and encompasses smaller cities undergoing intense urbanization out of step with prevailing instruments of urban and environmental planning. The article examines the limits and challenges of the urban and environmental instruments proposed for a section of the Juqueri-Cantareira sub-basin, particularly those lying within the protected area for Spring recovery (Alto Juquery). It is assumed that municipal Master Plans and the Specific Law for Protection and Recovery of Springs (State Law 15.790/2015) should be within the framework of an integrated planning process, in which sustainability is systemic and has multiple dimensions. A qualitative assessment methodology was adopted that covers four dimensions of sustainability (political, environmental, territorial, and socioeconomic) in an analysis of the urban instruments of the cities of Caieiras, Franco da Rocha and Mairiporã, and of the environmental instrument—the Specific State Law for the Protection and Recovery of Springs. The study sought to determine how these instruments articulate and incorporate these dimensions to promote strategies contributing to sustainable development and addressing socio-spatial inequalities in the region. The results revealed that, although the instruments analyzed addressed, to a greater or lesser extent, the dimensions of sustainability defined for the study, a sectoral fragmented view prevailed, as did the model of a sprawling city. The planning process should be reviewed to provide an integrated vision of regional scope to value the territory, environmental heritage and local communities, favoring their sustainable development.

Modeling of program-target organization and management of competitiveness of territorial reproduction systems in construction

.This study examines modern theoretical and methodological approaches to solving the problem of program-target organization and management of meso-competitiveness in construction as a prerequisite for effective practical implementation of transformational development according to key monitoring indicators such as productivity, organizational and technical reliability. Taking into account the inevitability of the involvement of territorial construction complexes in the reproduction processes as a meso-economic competitive territorial-reproduction construction system, the article substantiates the need to develop special program-target methods for regulating these processes. It shows the expediency of combining the competitiveness, productivity of territorial construction complexes and reproduction processes in construction by the program-target method. The adopted programs should essentially become mortgage and investment programs for long-term management of the reproduction of territorial-portfolio land and property complexes in various industries and infrastructures. The study presents the efficiency of using consortium-type structures to implement the idea of forming high-performance cluster systems in construction at regional and inter-regional levels. Mortgage and investment programs for sustainable development of residential construction should become a tool for managing the process of transformational regulation of competitiveness from its local level to the interregional and international levels with a clear system organization.

AVALIAÇÃO DE UM SISTEMA AGROALIMENTAR NO SEMIÁRIDO BRASILEIRO: UM OLHAR ECONÔMICO-ECOLÓGICO

A implantação de um assentamento rural pelo Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária – INCRA representa a construção de um novo território para o agricultor e sua família, onde é possível implantar práticas sustentáveis de agricultura. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida para avaliar um agroecossistema composto por quatro assentados de um mesmo núcleo familiar, sendo que dois praticam agricultura e pecuária conforme a tradição da região, enquanto os outros dois seguem os conceitos agroecológicos da permacultura. Para avaliar o agroecossistema foi escolhido o método de Análise Econômico-Ecológica de Agroecossistemas desenvolvido pelas Articulação Nacional de Agroecologia e AS-PTA – Agricultura Familiar e Agroecologia. A criação de uma rede de suporte que levou a uma série de cursos e benefícios como projetos de plantio de frutíferas e capineira, alavancaram a produção do núcleo familiar do agroecossistema e proporcionaram maior autonomia às mulheres do assentamento. A entrada da linha de crédito Fomento Mulher através do INCRA foi uma das causas apontadas para essa mudança. Investimentos na irrigação da horta e na capineira através de empréstimos do AgroAmigo e do CrediAmigo foram decisivos para garantir a soberania alimentar do Núcleo de Gestão Social do Agroecossistema – NSGA. A implantação da mandala proporcionou o plantio de novas culturas de frutas, legumes e verduras, além da piscicultura. A diversificação de produtos trouxe um incremento na qualidade e segurança da alimentação do NSGA, abriu um leque maior de produtos comercializáveis, onde se destacam como fonte de renda cada vez mais crescente a venda de Tilápia e das hortaliças.

L’homme et son environnement. L’approche interdisciplinaire sur l’évolution des territoires insulaires de l’archipel du Kvarner (Croatie)

Mankind and its environment: an interdisciplinary approach on the development of the insulare territories of Kvarner archipelago (Croatia) The present article aims to introduce the IATEKA programme “Interdisciplinary Approach to the Territorial Evolution of the Kvarner Archipelago” and its first results, started in 2018 and focused on examining the long-term relationship between humans and their environment, with a particular focus on the construction, management and transformation of the island territories and landscapes of the Kvarner Archipelago, as well as the fluctuation of the different populations and their impact and/or adjustment to the particular environment. As an interdisciplinary programme, methods and results obtained in the field of sedimentary and landscape archaeology, physical anthropology or bioarchaeology, specific analyses such as stable isotopes, ancient DNA, paleobiology and sedimentology are brought to a new level of inter-examination. Although this programme aims to approach the questions of human-environment interactions over a long, or even very long period in as comprehensive a manner as possible and through an interdisciplinary approach, the article focuses only on the results of the palynological studies, relating to the period between Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Indeed, the results obtained on the lake sediments allow us to better understand the evolution of the environment of one of the islands of the archipelago, the island of Cres. It also seemed impossible to approach the changes observed for the period of Late Antiquity stricto sensu without addressing, even if only briefly, the character traits of the region that were established from the beginning of Antiquity and the effective presence of Roman power in the region. [Authors]