Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Pontian Greeks'

This thesis examines the performance techniques for playing the Politic l>>ra, a vertically-held bottle-shaped bowed lute which is the main instrument of the Poetic Greeks. The objectives of the research were to identify the ways in which the traditional performance techniques for the lyra have been extended in the past, especially in the work of Gogos Petrides, and to explore the possibilities of extending these further in order to enable the lyra player to effectively perform styles and repertoires from outside Greece, with particular reference to the music of Afghanistan. A detailed discussion of changes in performance practices required the use of a broad range of contextualising material, enabling the author to position his work in the context of modern Greece. The thesis begins with a historical overview and provides background information about the culture and history of the Pontic settlements on the Black Sea coast of what is modern Turkey, up to the population exchanges of 1922. It provides a detailed organological study of the instrument and looks into its history, concluding it has a European/Byzantine rather than a Middle Eastern origin. The author also discusses the traditional and the contemporary performance techniques of the Pontic lyra and describes his own experience as both performer and ethnographer during extended periods of fieldwork. The DVD and CD included in the thesis are of major importance as they provide a key role in demonstrating and illustrating the author's core research methods, findings and outcomes. The author's work was `mirrored' in an unassessed recital given at the end of the research. Chapter 1 provides a historical overview of the culture of the Pontic Greeks. Chapter 2 describes the morphology of the Pontic lyra and discusses its origins. Chapter 3 discusses the traditional and the contemporary performance techniques for the lyra; the author also describes his own learning experience within the context of a musical family. Chapter 4 considers three traditional genres of lyra music, the extended techniques attributed to Gogos Petrides, which have been further developed by the author. Chapter 5 recounts fieldwork carried out in Greece with six well-established Pontic musicians, who have much to say about the influence of Gogos Petrides. Chapter 6 explains how, through making a study of Afghan music as played on the dutar and rubab, the author has adapted pre-existing and devised new techniques for playing the Afghan repertoire on the Pontic lyra. Chapter 7 summarises the research carried out, while an Appendix describes the preparations made for the recital which is part of the examination process. This thesis is accompanied by a CD and a DVD illustrating aspects of the research.

Pour former nos hypothèses, il fallait examiner les discours scientifiques sur le genre et leurs applications dans le cas grec, ce que nous avons essayé de faire dans notre introduction.Notre travail s’est articulé en cinq grandes parties. La première aborde la formation de la diaspora grecque de la fin du 18ème siècle aux révolutions de 1917 et les représentations féminines dans l’historiographie gréco-pontique. La deuxième partie aborde l’accès des femmes au savoir, les modes d’intégration à la nouvelle société soviétique. La conservation des rôles culturels nous mène à dresser une typologie des femmes « grecques » et des femmes « soviétiques ». La troisième s’intéresse à la reformation ou disparition des rôles au cours des répressions politiques qui affectèrent considérablement la diaspora grecque. Nous avons également dressé un bilan des femmes-victimes des purges. La dernière partie a montré enfin que l’exile constitua un moment-rupture avec le passé, au moins dans les témoignages oraux de ses protagonistes. Les femmes qui nous ont parlé d’elles-mêmes et les hommes qui se sont demandés sur les questions de genre nous ont offert une image du passé originale, digne d’intérêt
In order to form our hypothesis, it would be necessary to examine the scientific discourse on gender and its application to the greek case, and this is what we tried to do in our introduction. Our study was organized in five large parts. The first one approaches the formation of greek diaspora from the end of the 18th century to the revolutions of 1917 and the woman representation in pontic-greek historiography. The second one approaches the access of women in education, the ways of integration in the new soviet society. The preservation of the cultural roles leads us to develop a typology between “greek” women and “soviet” women. The third part focuses on the reformation or disappearance of the roles during political repressions that would have an impact on greek diaspora. Furthermore, we discussed on the women-victims of purges. Finally, the last part demonstrates that the exile constituted a rupture with the past, at least as it resulted from its protagonists’ oral testimonies. The women who talked about themselves and the men surveyed on gender issues give us an original image of the past, worthy of interest

This explorative study presents an empirical analysis that identifies specific patterns of integration of the Muslim-Turkish and the Christian-Pontic minorities in Greece. The qualitative analysis of secondary data and in-depth interviews with members of the two minority groups provide a new interpretation of their current situation as a special case of insiders-outsiders under which policies can be informed and developed. The analysis is an exploration of the different mechanisms that affect the two minority groups, the majority of the population and the different social institutions in the country. It has been informed by historically informed structuration that is based on two basic premises. First, societal structures and human agency (re )constitute each other over time and second, the importance of the past to the present. In other words, the structural phenomena in any given society predefine human action and human action redefines the structural phenomena through time. The analysis has exposed the constant production and reproduction of inequalities on many social levels despite the positive orientation of the minorities towards their integration through the classification of the different patterns of integration that different factors sustain. Structural and agentic factors are shown to generate different forms of integration and therefore the insiders-outsiders' integration processes combine different patterns making their integration more complex.

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In this work, using the Green-Kubo method combined with Molecular Dynamic (DM), we calculate the thermal conductivity of a solid Argon "free of defects"and with point defect present, for temperatures varying from 10 up to 60 K at density 22,3 ml/mol. The obtained results are in good agreement with the available theoretical and experimental results in the limites of low and high temperatures, but with some discrepances in about 15 % for intermediate values of temperatures. The purpose to include point defects with the objective of correction of the simulational results to compare with experimental measuremments for intermediate temperatues had not the expected e?ect. However, we believe that it should be due to the fact that the density used in the simulation for the point defect is high based on the experimental estimates of point defect density in this system. Our results suggest that the Green-Kubo method combined with Molecular Dynamics is a powerful tool to calculate the thermal conductivity of solids at high temperatures. With the construction of accurate and reliable interatomic potentials to describe more complex materials, such as high temperature ceramic and minerals at extreme condiction of pressure and temperature, this method could soon become very useful to calculate thermal conductivity in materials where the access to experimental data is hard.
Neste trabalho, usando o método de Green-Kubo combinado com a Dinâmica Molecular (DM), calculamos a condutividade têrmica do Argônio sólido livre de defeitos ;e com defeitos pontuais presentes, para um intervalo de temperatura variando de 10 a 60 K e uma densidade de 22,3 ml/mol. Os resultados obtidos estão em pleno acordo com os resultados teóricos e experimentais disponíveis nos limites de baixa e alta temperatura, mas com alguma discrepância em torno de 15 % para valores intermediários de temperatura. A proposta para incluir defeitos pontuais com o objetivo de correção dos resultados da simulação para comparar com as medidas experimentais para temperaturas intermediárias não surtiu o efeito esperado, no entanto, acreditamos que isto se deve ao fato da densidade de defeitos ser alta baseado em estimativas da densidade de defeitos neste sistema. Nossos resultados sugerem que o método de Green-Kubo combinado com DM é uma ferramenta poderosa para se calcular a condutividade térmica de sólidos a altas temperaturas. Com a construção de potenciais interatômicos mais precisos e con fiáveis para descrever materiais mais complexos, como é o caso de cerâmicas a altas temperaturas e minerais em condições extrema de pressão e temperatura, esse método poderá em breve ser muito útil para calcular a condutividade térmica em materiais onde o acesso a dados experimentais é mais difícil.

In this dissertation, I investigate a number of interrelated developments affecting the morphosyntax of nouns in Cappadocian Greek. I specifically focus on the development of differential object marking, the loss of grammatical gender distinctions, and the neuterisation of noun inflection. My aim is to provide a diachronic account of the innovations that Cappadocian has undergone in the three domains mentioned above. !ll the innovations examined in this study have the effect of rendering the morphology and syntax of nouns in Cappadocian more like that of neuters. On account of the historical and sociolinguistic circumstances in which Cappadocian developed as well as of the superficial similarity of their outcomes to equivalent structures in Turkish, previous research has overwhelmingly treated the Cappadocian developments as instances of contact-induced change that resulted from the influence of Turkish. In this study, I examine the Cappadocian innovations from a language-internal point of view and in comparison with parallel developments attested in the other Modern Greek dialects of Asia Minor, namely Pontic, Rumeic, Pharasiot and Silliot. My comparative analysis of a wide range of dialect-internal, cross-dialectal and cross-linguistic typological evidence shows that language contact with Turkish can be identified as the main cause of change only in the case of differential object marking. On the other hand, with respect to the origins of the most pervasive innovations in gender and noun inflection, I argue that they go back to the common linguistic ancestor of the modern Asia Minor Greek dialects and do not owe their development to language contact with Turkish. I show in detail that the superficial similarity of these latter innovations’ outcomes to their Turkish equivalents in each case represents the final stage in a long series of typologically plausible, language-internal developments whose early manifestations predate the intensification of Cappadocian–Turkish linguistic and cultural exchange. These findings show that diachronic change in Cappadocian is best understood when examined within a larger Asia Minor Greek context. On the whole, they make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the history of Cappadocian and the Asia Minor Greek dialects as well as to Modern Greek dialectology more generally, and open a fresh round of discussion on the origin and development of other innovations attested in these dialects that are considered by historical linguists and Modern Greek dialectologists to be untypically Greek or contact-induced or both.

Orientador: Ricardo Luiz Coltro Antunes
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Trans-frontier conservation areas (TFCAs), large cross-border areas dedicated to biodiversity conservation, multi-national co-operation and development are expanding in southern Africa, fast becoming the dominant conservation solution in the region. TFCAs adopt a celebratory discourse of ecological, community, economic and political gains, while the reality is often far more complicated. This thesis situates the expansion of TFCAs within a critical political ecology approach, and argues that they represent a neoliberal solution to a complex series of development, environment and political challenges. Drawing on five and a half months of fieldwork to Mozambique along with policy and discourse analysis it examines the first marine reserve to be linked to a TFCA in Africa, the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve (PPMR) in southern Mozambique. It makes three arguments: First, it argues that Mozambique’s embrace of TFCAs represents the neoliberalisation of conservation through novel tourism-based products, techniques of governance, creation of subject positions based on entrepreneurialism, and new arrangements of space. At the same time, the adoption of TFCAs also stems from Mozambique’s post-war politics, especially the ways in which elite state actors have sought to reconstruct and reorder the country through engagement with donors. Second, the thesis uses a combined governmentality and assemblage framework to explore how neoliberal conservation is made to cohere as a truth discourse, how it materially co-produces human and non-human life in the marine reserve, and how it is fragile, partial and contested. Third, it critiques the increasingly close relationship between the extractive and conservation sector at a policy, state and donor level, exploring how and why marine conservation is increasingly intertwined with Mozambique’s resources boom through its green economy discourse. Through these three points of engagement, the thesis contributes to debates around the intensifying relationship between extraction and conservation, Mozambique’s post-war development, and processes of neoliberalisation of nature.

This essay is about use, misuse and non-use of history in politics. To recognize genocide is a use of history that has been established in politics, but also sparked debate. The position of non-use of history in international policy towards Turkey's denial policy has increasingly been replaced by recognition of genocide as a matter of making up with the story, moral consider, and where fundamental issues of culture, identity, history and morality has become guiding element in the discourse behind European expansion and integration policies. A breakthrough for this change is due to the Cold War's end; since the 1980s it has become possible to realize the humanitarianism which has its roots in the Enlightenment humanism underlying the United Nations, and later the EU conventions on human rights and genocide conventions. A genocide concept has become an important discourse in world politics that puts moral pressure on states to act. Parliamentary recognition of the genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians / Syrians / Chaldeans and Pontic Greeks, is partly redress for the victims and their descendants, but also an opportunity for reconciliation.

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According to the importance of public spaces, especially parks, both for city population and the urban environment, this research aims to analyze the conditions of the squares of the city of Ponta Grossa-PR. For that there were used methodologies which were capable of evaluate qualitative and quantitative the afforestation and infrastructure of squares and to analyze the spatial aspects, checking the morphology, typology, distribution and functionality of these spaces, in order to promote and enhance the public open spaces of the city. Regarding the spatial distribution of the squares it was found that the concentration of them are presented in the central area of the city, and the downtown area has the highest Index for Quarter Square (IAPB), with 4.25%. While verified the morphology of the squares, it was observed that most of them 30.1% has the rectangular shape. Some areas considered as squares by the City Hall of Ponta Grossa are shown as an area without direct social function, and 83.1% could be considered effectively as squares. The most common function in the squares is the passive leisure (92.6%). In the survey of afforestation there were accounted 2,369 individuals, which 55.56% are from exotic origin. Regarding the infrastructure, the roads (85.71%), lighting (79.76%) and banks (69.05%) were the most frequent structures in squares. From the results, it is observed that there is a heterogeneous scenario in all analyzed items, since there are squares that have an extensive infrastructure and some areas have no equipment available to the population.
Em função da importância dos espaços públicos, sobretudo de praças, tanto para a população citadina como para o ambiente urbano, a presente pesquisa busca analisar as condições em que se encontram as praças da cidade de Ponta Grossa-PR. Para tanto se utilizou metodologias capazes de avaliar qualiquantitativamente a arborização e infraestrutura das praças e analisar os aspectos espaciais, verificando a morfologia, tipologia, distribuição e funcionalidade desses espaços, com o intuito de promover e valorizar os espaços livres públicos da cidade. Quanto à distribuição espacial das praças verificou-se que a concentração das mesmas apresenta-se na área central da cidade, sendo o Centro a região com maior Índice de Praças por Bairro (IAPB), com 4,25%. Quando verificado a morfologia das praças observou-se que a maioria das praças 30,1% possui o formato retangular. Algumas áreas consideradas pela Prefeitura Municipal de Ponta Grossa como praças se comportam como espaço sem função social direta, sendo que 83,1% podem ser consideradas efetivamente como praças. A função mais frequente nas praças é o lazer passivo (92,6%). No levantamento da arborização contabilizou-se 2.369 indivíduos os quais 55,56% são de origem exótica. E quanto ao levantamento da infraestrutura os caminhos (85,71%), iluminação (79,76%) e bancos (69,05%) foram as estruturas mais frequentes nas praças levantadas. A partir dos resultados observa-se um cenário heterogêneo em todos os itens analisados, visto que há praças que contam com ampla infraestrutura e algumas áreas não possuem nenhum equipamento disponível para a população.

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The evaluation of vegetal coverage, open spaces and green areas play a fundamental role for the planning and development of cities like Ponta Grossa. It enables both to highlight the effectiveness and identify the weakness related to those elements on the urban space. In this sense, this thesis proposes to understand the open spaces, green areas and spatial dynamics of the vegetal coverage of the Ponta Grossa's urban area.To accomplish this, it recurs to bibliographical review, data generation and to identify both tipology and spatialization of green areas as well as to evaluate its availability to the public. The thesis classifies Ponta Grossa's vegetation and analysis its distribution along 2004. In this context, it quantifies open spaces and green areas per borough by means of geotechnologies. In the aforementioned year, Ponta Grossa had 172,59 km² of urban area and 266,683 habitants. In turn, vegetal coverage had 49% of the entire urban area and presented an index of 319,3 m²/habitant. Finally, open space had an area of 2,5% composed by 230 spaces, they are: 132 sport fields, 63 public squares, 4 parks, 6 cemeteries and 8 clubs; with an index of 16,4 m²/habitant. In summary, in spite of the fact the numeric results for each category can be classified as satisfactory, their distribution can not and might impairing their effectiveness.
A avaliação da distribuição da cobertura vegetal, espaços livres e áreas verdes em cidades médias como Ponta Grossa-PR, constitui uma parte importante a ser considerada no planejamento nas cidades em desenvolvimento. Essa avaliação permite identificar as fragilidades e apontar a eficácia das funções que eles desempenham no espaço urbano. Dentro deste contexto, a presente dissertação se propõe a compreender a dinâmica espacial da cobertura vegetal, espaços livres e áreas verdes na área urbana de Ponta Grossa por meio da identificação da tipologia das áreas verdes, espacialização das mesmas e avaliação da disponibilidade à população, a partir de revisão bibliográfica, levantamento de dados e utilização de geotecnologias. Foi analisada a distribuição da cobertura vegetal, espaços livres e áreas verdes para o ano de 2004 na área urbana de Ponta Grossa bem como, realizada a classificação dessa cobertura vegetal. Foram realizadas quantificações dos espaços livres e áreas verdes por bairro, além de apontadas as disponibilidades dos mesmos, a partir de produtos gerados pelas geotecnologias. Neste período, a área urbana correspondia a 172,59 km² e contava com 266.683 habitantes. Verificou-se que a cobertura vegetal ocupava 49% do total da área urbana, com um índice de 319,3 m²/habitante. Os espaços livres ocupavam 2,5% de área composto por 230 espaços dos quais: 132 campos de esportes, 63 praças, 4 parques, 6 cemitérios e 8 clubes de lazer, com um índice de 16,4 m²/habitante. As áreas verdes ocupavam 2% distribuídos em 102 espaços com índice de 13m²/habitante. Embora os resultados numéricos para cada categoria sejam indicadores positivos, a distribuição compromete a sua eficácia.

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Esta disserta??o apresenta um simulador semi-anal?tico de fluxo em reservat?rios homog?neos fechados atrav?s da aplica??o do m?todo de elementos de contorno (Boundary Element Method - BEM) utilizando a solu??o da fonte pontual em reservat?rio infinito. Este m?todo ? conhecido por prover vantagens valiosas sobre outros m?todos de discretiza??o de dom?nios, como a redu??o no esfor?o de discretiza??o quando comparado ao m?todo de elementos finitos. A implementa??o foi feita na linguagem de programa??o Python associada a bibliotecas amplamente testadas e utilizadas em aplica??es cient?ficas. Os resultados foram validados atrav?s de um simulador semi-anal?tico de funcionamento comprovado e demonstraram-se vi?veis para todos os cen?rios estudados.
Solving the problem of fluid flow inside closed reservoirs holds great importance for the oil industry as it allows field managers to evaluate oil producing fields and supplies data to infer production and income. One of the most common ways to solve this problem is by using the Images Method, which models closed barriers as image wells, but requires excessive processing power as it depends on the convergence of sums of infinite series. As an alternative to the Images Method, this work presents a semi-analytical simulator for monophasic and laminar fluid flow on closed, homogeneous and isotropic reservoirs based on the Boundary Element Method (BEM) associated with the Green?s function for a point source in an infinite reservoir as the fundamental solution. This method has known advantages over other numerical methods including, mainly, the reduction on discretization efforts. This work applies the Python programming language associated to scientific libraries, thoroughly tested and applied on this area. The simulator was tested on 5 different scenarios (well on infinite reservoir, well on small and large reservoir, and well decentralized on 1 and 2 axis) and was validated through another semi-analytical simulator whose results were already thoroughly tested. On all scenarios, the simulator achieved correlation values of more than 95%.

Dans les cités grecques, et particulièrement dans les systèmes démocratiques, l’exercice des magistratures amenait de nombreux citoyens à manier de l’argent public. L’oikonomos est l’une des magistratures financières civiques qui s’épanouit dans l’ensemble du monde grec à la fin de l’époque classique et pendant la période hellénistique, et plus précisément en Asie Mineure et dans les cités du Pont-Euxin.Le terme oikonomos renvoie à l’administration de l’oikos, l’unité économique et sociale de la société grecque. L’organisation de l’oikos et les pratiques déployées pour assurer la survie et le développement de ses membres, correspondent à des principes élémentaires connus depuis les poèmes épiques. À partir de la fin du Ve siècle, l’oikonomos est identifié comme détenteur d’une technè qui suscite les réflexions philosophiques dans la cité d’Athènes. Il est reconnu comme l’agent de la pratique de l’oikonomia, la science de la gestion domestique. À une époque de changements économiques, politiques et sociaux importants, les philosophes et les prosateurs font le lien entre la gestion domestique et l’administration des affaires de la cité. Grâce à l’apport des sources littéraires, notre enquête permet d’identifier et de comprendre le passage qui s’effectue à la fin du IVe siècle entre l’oikonomos, gestionnaire de l’oikos et la magistrature civique. Dans un second temps, l’étude des sources épigraphiques met en lumière le rôle et la place de la magistrature dans les cités où elle est attestée. Le plus souvent magistrat unique, l’oikonomos intervient à la fois dans le règlement des dépenses et dans la prise en charge matérielle des honneurs décrétés par la cité. Néanmoins, il n’est pas le seul magistrat. Trésoriers, néôpes ou d’autres magistratures, financières ou non, ont des rapports étroits avec l’oikonomos. L’analyse de leurs relations apporte des éléments de compréhension à la fois sur les attributions des oikonomoi, sur la chaîne des responsabilités engagées dans le processus de publication et de résolution des honneurs et enfin sur la gestion des finances des cités
In Greek cities, and especially in democratic systems, many citizens had to deal with public money. The oikonomos is one of the civic financial magistracies that spread throughout the Greek world in classical and Hellenistic times but especially in Asia Minor and Pont-Euxin.Firstly, the oikonomos refers to the administration of the oikos, the economic and social unit of Greek society. The organisation of the oikos and the practices implemented to ensure the survival and development of its members correspond to elementary principles known since epic poems. From the end of the 5th century onwards, the oikonomos has been identified as the holder of a technè that stimulated philosophical reflection in the city of Athens. The oikonomos was identified as the agent of the practice of oikonomia, the science of domestic management. In an era of significant economic, political and social change, philosophers established the link between domestic management and the administration of the city's affairs. The analysis of literary sources has made it possible to identify and understand the transition that took place at the end of the 4th century between the oikonomos, the manager of the oikos, and the civic magistracy. Secondly, the study of epigraphic sources highlights the role and place of the oikonomos in the cities where it is documented. In most cases, there was only one holder of the magistracy. The oikonomos was involved both in the payment of expenses and in the material support for the honours decreed by the city. Sometimes it may has been associated with other people. Treasurers, neopes or other financial or non-financial magistrates worked with the oikonomos. The analysis of their relationships provides elements for understanding not only the attributions of oikonomoi, the chain of the responsibilities involved in the process of honours publication and resolution but also on the management of the cities' finances

In this thesis, I explore the experience and significance of absence in the lives of Pontians who live in Adelaide. Pontians are descendants from colonies of Greeks who, for at least 3000 years, inhabited the area bordering the Black Sea in northern Turkey in an area once called Pontos. Their underlying and ongoing sense of absence derives from two historical events of loss. One is from a genocide and enforced exile from Pontos wherein 350,000 of their people died between 1917 and 1923. The other is from voluntary migration when some of the Pontic Greeks who had settled in Greece, and/or their descendants, came to Australia as part of the mass migration of peoples in the mid 20th century. The memories and narratives of the traumatic loss of people and place from Pontos, and the experiences associated with migration to Australia, have played a pivotal role in the construction and experience of absence for Pontians and is an important dimension of their identity as Pontians. The memory of loss is always in the present and is evoked by present experiences and sensed through a multi-faceted expression of emotions. It is embodied in a variety of corporeal practices such as commemorations, dance, community gatherings and return visits and is experienced as an absence. Given that many of my informants have lived in Adelaide for up to fifty years, a central question of this thesis is, how do they continue to remember the loss of their former homelands and why does this elicit an often deep emotional response? In this thesis, I explore how social memory, emotions and embodiment intertwine in the practices of commemoration, dance and journeys to show how loss from the past events of exile and migration are brought into the present to be experienced as both an absence and the presence of that absence. Focusing on how the body experiences being-in-the-world through temporally and historically informed sensory engagement, as well as drawing on a conscious as well as an unconscious reservoir of meaning, loss is not only tied to past events but in and through the body becomes both an absence of a presence and the presence of an absence.
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, 2013