Regional Integration and Ceramic Consumption in the Border Region of Bolivia and Argentina (ca. AD 1000–1450)

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ester Echenique ◽  
Axel E. Nielsen ◽  
Florencia Avila ◽  
William Gilstrap
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
Border Region ◽  
San Juan ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Technological Style ◽  
Alliance Building ◽  
Ceramic Consumption ◽  
Consumption Strategies

This article investigates the mechanisms by which different communities were articulated during the Late Intermediate period (ca. AD 1000–1450) in the Río Grande de San Juan Basin, also called the Chicha Region, located in the border region of Bolivia and Argentina. Through analyses of systems of pottery production, circulation, and consumption, we examine interaction networks, social integration, and alliance building at a regional level. Yavi-Chicha pottery from two sites in the Chicha Region—Chipihuayco, in the Talina Valley (Bolivia), and Finispatria, in San Juan Mayo (Argentina)—provide key insights into regional integration and constellations of practice through their localized technological style and shared consumption strategies. This study reveals that people of Finispatria incorporated the entire Yavi-Chicha-style household assemblage—partly produced in Chipihuayco, partly in Finispatria, or partly at some unknown location—into their everyday lives. We argue that the entire household ceramic repertoire of the study region played a fundamental and socially integrative role as it circulated across the region.

scholarly journals Regional Integration and Ceramic Consumption in the Border Region of Bolivia and Argentina (ca. AD 1000–1450) – CORRIGENDUM

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-226
Author(s):  
Ester Echenique ◽  
Axel E. Nielsen ◽  
Florencia Avila ◽  
William Gilstrap
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Ceramic Consumption

scholarly journals The Human Capital of Scandinavia?: Citizenship Dilemmas in the Cross-Border Øresund Region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Toni Lucia Grace
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
National Citizenship ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Secondary Information ◽  
The Øresund Region

<p>The Øresund Region of Eastern Denmark and Southern Sweden is an ambitious cross-border integration project, aiming to make the region “The Human Capital of Scandinavia”. Integration has deepened to include cross-border social rights, with regional proponents heralding the emergence of “Øresund citizens”. Yet the two welfare states, despite their common attributes, have developed dissimilar attitudes towards the rise of a multicultural society in recent years, establishing divergent national citizenship policies in response. This thesis uses the Øresund region as a critical case study, which contributes to wider European debates about the tension between regional freedom of movement and national determination over citizenship. To explore this regional integration — national citizenship nexus, this thesis asks; to what extent do divergent national citizenship models inhibit deeper cross-border integration and prospects for regional citizenship? Drawing on a range of primary and secondary information sources, including interviews with regional political actors, this thesis reveals how divergent national citizenship policies rouse political debate about belonging and entitlement of foreigners in the cross-border region. Discordant national citizenship policies have reinforced organisation and conceptual borders along national lines, revealing that the cultural proximity of these Nordic neighbours is no guarantee of seamless cross-border movement and integration. This thesis demonstrates that citizenship policies not only have a domestic impact but can also become a point of tension between member states, with implications for regional integration and citizenship.</p>

scholarly journals The Human Capital of Scandinavia?: Citizenship Dilemmas in the Cross-Border Øresund Region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Toni Lucia Grace
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
National Citizenship ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Secondary Information ◽  
The Øresund Region

<p>The Øresund Region of Eastern Denmark and Southern Sweden is an ambitious cross-border integration project, aiming to make the region “The Human Capital of Scandinavia”. Integration has deepened to include cross-border social rights, with regional proponents heralding the emergence of “Øresund citizens”. Yet the two welfare states, despite their common attributes, have developed dissimilar attitudes towards the rise of a multicultural society in recent years, establishing divergent national citizenship policies in response. This thesis uses the Øresund region as a critical case study, which contributes to wider European debates about the tension between regional freedom of movement and national determination over citizenship. To explore this regional integration — national citizenship nexus, this thesis asks; to what extent do divergent national citizenship models inhibit deeper cross-border integration and prospects for regional citizenship? Drawing on a range of primary and secondary information sources, including interviews with regional political actors, this thesis reveals how divergent national citizenship policies rouse political debate about belonging and entitlement of foreigners in the cross-border region. Discordant national citizenship policies have reinforced organisation and conceptual borders along national lines, revealing that the cultural proximity of these Nordic neighbours is no guarantee of seamless cross-border movement and integration. This thesis demonstrates that citizenship policies not only have a domestic impact but can also become a point of tension between member states, with implications for regional integration and citizenship.</p>

Multilevel cross-border governance in the Czech-Saxon borderland: working together or in parallel?

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Spacek
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Multilevel Governance ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Research Gap

Despite a large amount of literature on multilevel governance, relatively little empirical attention has been paid to decision-making in Central and Eastern Europe. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by focussing on multilevel cross-border decision-making across the Czech-Saxon border region. Specific attention is paid to the involvement of non-state actors and to the main challenges of cross-border multilevel governance in the case study’s region. Although there is a tendency on both sides of the border to invite partners from the private and nonprofit sectors into the decision-making process, the situation in the case-study region is far from the normative conceptualization of EU multilevel governance. For whole region the most important obstacles to balanced regional development were shown to be a multilevel mismatch, different languages, and the lack of a common strategy, while insufficient capacities at the local and regional levels were found on the Czech side.

scholarly journals O patrimônio histórico-cultural na Amazônia Sul-Ocidental: o que o Acre e o turismo têm de oferta turística

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dermerson Sousa Lima ◽  
Luzia Neide Menezes Teixeira Coriolano
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
The State ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Natural Protected Areas ◽  
The North

O estudo do patrimônio histórico-cultural e ambiental envolve a compreensão da história e cultura local, além das identidades materiais e imateriais que fazem os territórios acreanos atrativos ao turismo, pois, são dotados de objetos, costumes e valores de interesse ao lazer e ao turismo. A área de estudo da pesquisa faz parte de um território de fronteira, o Estado do Acre que faz parte da região da Amazônia Sul-Ocidental. Esta região da Amazônia está localizada no extremo oeste na região norte do território brasileiro, fazendo fronteira nacional com os estados amazônicos do Amazonas e Rondônia e internacionalmente com os países da Bolívia e do Peru. A região fronteiriça da Amazônia Sul-Ocidental passa por processo de integração rodoviária que permite a circulação terrestre entre Brasil, Bolívia e Peru com a conclusão da Estrada do Pacífico, que possibilita perspectivas de integração e desenvolvimento regional de países da América Latina e do disputado mercado comercial asiático. As iniciativas públicas e privadas dos países Brasil, Bolívia e Peru defendem a dinamização do turismo regional e fronteiriço como alternativa de desenvolvimento econômico, a valorização do patrimônio regional e da oferta turística. Identificam-se ações governamentais para a valorização do turismo com base no patrimônio histórico-cultural e ambiental da região. A pesquisa busca compreender as relações entre patrimônio histórico-cultural e ambiental e o turismo, no Estado do Acre com vistas ao desenvolvimento da oferta turística. Adota-se metodologia dialética com vista a entender o jogo de poder e forças na área estudada após a integração regional. A revisão bibliográfica ofereceu o suporte teórico para teorização do empírico, somadas a pesquisas institucionais e de campo para informações in loco, que possibilitaram as análises conclusivas. Os resultados demonstram que a região de fronteira é promissora e possui um valioso patrimônio associado a festas e peregrinações religiosas, patrimônio histórico da Revolução Acreana, retratados em museus e espaços de memórias, sítios arqueológicos com geoglifos. Somados a um significante território de áreas naturais protegidas e de uso sustentável, retratadas em reservas extrativistas, terras indígenas, projetos de assentamentos agroextrativistas, que com intervenções do poder público na adequação de infraestrutura e de logística têm concretizado a oferta e o aumento do fluxo de turistas na região, fortalecendo a identidade cultural e o turismo no território de fronteira. The Historical and Cultural Heritage in the Southwest Amazon: what the Acre (Brazil) and the tourism have as touristic offer ABSTRACT The study of the historical, cultural and environmental heritage involves the understanding of the historical and cultural heritage, beside the identity of material and immaterial that makes Acre’s territory attractive to tourism. This study was made in the State of Acre, that is a border territory that belongs to the Southwest Amazon. The Amazon region is located in the west of the north county of Brazil, and it makes national borders with the State of Amazonas and Rondônia, and international borders with Bolivia and Peru. The border region in the Southwest Amazon goes through a road integration process that allows terrestrial access between Brazil, Bolivia and Peru with the conclusion of the Pacific Road. This road will allows integration and regional development between Latin American countries and the disputed Asian commercial market. The Brazilian, Bolivian and Peruvian public and private initiatives stand up for promotion of the regional and borderer tourism as alternative to the economic development, the valorization of the regional heritage and the touristic offer. Governmental actions are identified for the purpose of valorizes the tourism based on the regional historical, cultural and environmental heritage. This study aims to understand the relationship between historical-cultural-environmental heritage and tourism in the State of Acre, focusing the development of the tourist offer. The methodology adopted for this study was the dialectics in order to understand the game of power and strength in the studied area after the regional integration. The literature review offered the theoretical framework for the empirical theorization added to institutional and field researches in order to inform in loco, which enabled the finals analysis. The results have shown that the border region is promising and it has a valuable heritage associated to local parties and religious peregrination, and the Revolution of the Acre heritage that is portrayed in museums and memorial spaces, archeological sites and geoglyphs sites. Added up to a significant natural protected areas and sustainable use, it is represented by extractive reserves, indigenous territory, agroextractivist settlement project which with the public intervention on the adequacy of infrastructure and logistical have brought supplies and increased flow of tourists in the region, making stronger the cultural identity and tourism in the border area. KEYWORDS: Amazon; Acre; Historical and Cultural Heritage; Environment; Tourism.

Rebuilding the State in Highland Peru: Herder-Cultivator Interaction during the Late Intermediate Period in the Tarama-Chinchaycocha Region

1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey R. Parsons ◽  
Charles M. Hastings ◽  
Ramiro Matos M.
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Middle Horizon ◽  
Late Intermediate Period ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Strong State ◽  
Sociopolitical Evolution ◽  
State Organization ◽  
Andean Highlands ◽  
Economic Specialization

We address the general problem of sociopolitical evolution in highland Peru during the Late Intermediate period (ca. A.D. 1000-1470) from the perspective of changing relationships between herders and cultivators in the Tarama-Chinchaycocha region. First, we use ethnographic and ethnohistoric information to help model central Andean herder-cultivator interaction. Here we emphasize the ecological and sociological foundations for economic specialization, the ritually based integration of pastoral and agricultural groups in the absence of strong state organization, and how the ritually interactive units define and maintain their borders. Second, in the light of these perspectives, we examine archaeological settlement pattern data from our study area in the central highlands of Peru. We conclude that the Late Intermediate period was a time of significant organizational change that included new forms of ritually based local and regional integration of pastoral and agricultural economies. Third, we briefly consider the general implications of our findings for understanding organizational change throughout the central Andean highlands during the Late Intermediate period. We suggest that the largest and most complex Late Intermediate highland polities depended on the full integration of specialized pastoralists and agriculturalists in those regions where both economies could attain maximal combined productivity in the aftermath of the breakdown of large states at the end of the Middle Horizon (ca. A.D. 600-1000).

scholarly journals The Role of the University in the Integration of International Border Territories

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ivor Prolo ◽  
Fernanda Geremias Leal ◽  
Manolita Correia Lima ◽  
Gonçalo Canto Moniz
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Special Contribution ◽  
University Outreach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
International Border

The purpose of this paper is to understand the social role played by the University in the international integration of border territories. The following questions guided the study: What are the relations of belonging built by the University's internal actors? What strategy can collaborate with the integration of the University in the border territory? The study focused on the case of the Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-americana (Unila), founded in 2010 with the purpose of promoting regional integration at an international level, and located in a triple border region between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. Results portray three phases through which integration into the territory constituted itself: strangeness in the territory; identity construction; and belonging relationships, with special contribution from university outreach/extension.

scholarly journals Institutionalizing (cross-border) citizenship on subnational level – The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) as new administrative space for participatory and functional governance in Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ulrich
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Border Region ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Interregional Cooperation ◽  
Conceptual Shift ◽  
Administrative Elites ◽  
The Eu

Cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation of subnational entities within the European Union have been strengthened politically, legally and financially by the EU and the Council of Europe. Nearly every border region in the EU participates in some form of cooperation structure across borders – mainly due to financial support by the EU joint initiative INTERREG. In general, these Europeanization effects of regional administrative integration have been described by scholars using neofunctionalist (multilevel governance) and intergovernmentalist approaches highlighting the cooperation rationale of cross-border actors.The aim of the research project is to go a step ahead following a conceptual shift towards a normative - participatory approach of (cross-border) regional integration. On the basis of the EU legal instrument European Grouping of territorial cooperation (EGTC), processes of re-scaling, re-territorialization and paradiplomacy in a “Europe of the territories” will be analyzed with regard to inclusiveness and modes of subnational participatory governance.In general, policy-making and strategic development of the EU regional policy, particularly the European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) are products of a successive bargaining and functional technocratic regulation between the administrative elites within the EU multilevel (supranational, national, subnational) polity excluding the local community. The aim of the research project is thus to elaborate forms and channels of transborder participatory governance in EU transnational spaces and to examine pre-conditions for the establishment of an increased inclusion of a cross-border citizenship. Moreover, it focuses on the problems and obstacles of the institutionalization of deliberative and participatory mechanisms of a subnational citizenship in a postnational multilevel arena.  Finally, the research - that is based on a case study of the EGTC Galicia-Norte de Portugal - analyzes to what extent the EGTC foster both the consolidation of cross-border cooperation and institutionalization of transnational participation on a subnational level.

scholarly journals Study on Vertically Distributed Aerosol Optical Characteristics over Saudi Arabia Using CALIPSO Satellite Data

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 603
Author(s):  
Ziyue Zhang ◽  
Bo Su ◽  
Yuanyuan Chen ◽  
Jinjing Lan ◽  
Muhammad Bilal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Optical Characteristics ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Aerosol Layer ◽  
Strong Positive Correlation ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Northern Border

The optical characteristics of vertically distributed aerosols over Saudi Arabia were investigated using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) data from 2007 to 2019. The study region was divided into three parts (Region I: Tabuk, Makkah, Al Madinah, Asir, Al Bahah, Jizan, Riyadh, Mecca, Medina, the eastern region, Kassim, Hale, Asir, Baha, Tabuk, the northern border region, Jizan, Najilan, and Jufu. Region II: Ar, Al, Ha, Al, and Najran. Region III Al Hudud ash Shamaliyah and Ash Sharqiyah) to understand regional aerosol characteristics by performing interannual and seasonal analysis for nine aerosol types during the day and nighttime. We found that the aerosol optical depth (AOD) estimates were the highest over eastern Saudi Arabia (region III) and were seemingly driven by the presence of an expansive desert in the region. As anticipated, the AOD observations were substantially higher in spring and summer than in autumn and winter owing to the frequent occurrence of dust events during the former. Daytime observations exhibited higher AOD values than those at nighttime, which might be related to higher daytime anthropogenic activities. The estimates of the base height of the lowest aerosol layer (HB1) and the top altitude of the highest aerosol layer (TAH) were altered depending on the topography (the higher the altitude, the higher the annual mean value of HB1 and TAH). The aerosol layers (N) were relatively abundant over region III, seemingly due to the relatively stronger atmospheric convection over this region. The volume depolarization ratio of the lowest aerosol layer (VDR1) was considerable during the night due to deposition at nighttime, and VDR1 was relatively substantial in spring and summer. The color ratio of the lowest aerosol layer (CR1) estimates over regions II and III was higher at night. We report a weak positive correlation between the thickness of the lowest aerosol layer (HTH1) and the AOD of the lowest aerosol layer (AOD1) in the three regions, a strong positive correlation between TAH and N, and a negative correlation between the AOD proportion of the lowest aerosol layer (PAOD1) and N in Saudi Arabia. In this paper, the optical and physical properties of aerosols in Saudi Arabia have been studied for 13 years. Our results could provide references for researchers and the government, and relevant departments with data support on the aerosol layer to help control air pollution in Saudi Arabia.

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