Repensem Mallorca. De l'especulació a la construcció de la dignitat (original) (raw)
Review of 'Mallorca: the Making of the Landscape' by R. J. Buswell
2013
REVIEWS SECTION Michael B. Gerrard and Gregory E. Wannier (eds). (2013). Threatened island nations: Legal implications of rising seas and a changing climate. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 639pp. ISBN: 978-1-107-02576-9. US$140. Low-lying island countries have become synonymous with climate change impacts. Even if they are not entirely inundated due to rising seas, changes which are detrimental, severe, and irreversible are expected to occur to their communities, so the islanders might need to move. Much has been written speculating and asking questions about the various social, political, and livelihood implications. Legal implications are much less studied, often with non-lawyers authoring pieces. To provide legal expertise regarding what happens to peoples, nations, and countries if their islands are no longer habitable under climate change, the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University's Law School, USA, joined forces with the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to organize a conference in May 2011 in New York, on the theme "Threatened Island Nations: Legal Implications of Rising Seas and a Changing Climate". This book, with the same title, publishes several edited papers based on this conference's presentations. The editors and all lead authors, except for those of one chapter, are either lawyers or work in the law field. They include academics and practitioners, some who are both, as well as others who hail from an interdisciplinary background involving law. Lawyers from, or working directly with, island states are well-represented. A good balance is achieved between male and female authors, as well as a wide geographic scope of contributors. The seventeen chapters are divided into four sections. First, an editorial introduction offers an overview of the book plus, from the only non-lawyer lead author, a summary of scientific knowledge on climate change and sea-level rise. The next three sections cover the main content, divided into "Part II: Sovereignty and Territorial Concerns", "Part III: Resettlement Protections and Proposed Solutions", and "Part IV: Establishing Accountability", each comprising five chapters. Part II represents one of the most thorough, pragmatic, and creative discussions that I have seen on what the legal implications are for states that disappear. It is immensely sad to be reading such material, but somewhat heartening that there might be legal prospects for continuing a state structure or state-based access to resources in the absence of land set aside for that state. Due to the dearth of precedents, and the lack of monitoring and enforcement mechanisms for the suggested legal principles, islanders might not wish to be too optimistic about putting the principles into practice-but congratulations to the chapter authors for providing some possibilities. Islanders potentially displaced by climate change are discussed in Part III. Prospects for supporting displaced people include a human rights approach, a formal convention, the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) negotiations, international law, domestic law, and immigration policies. As with Part II, the extent of possibilities and the depth to which they are covered is impressive, again tempered by the fact that such discussion is needed.
Entre la continuïtat i la innovació - el teatre del Memento mori a la Mallorca tardomedieval
El llindar de la modernitat: Mallorca a la tardor medieval i el Renaixmeent, editat per Rafael Ramis Barceló, Madrid, Sindéresis, ISBN 978-84-10120-36-5, 2024
El present text té com a objectiu presentar l’anàlisi de tres obres del teatre català antic que s’inscriuen en la tradició del Memento mori: la Consueta del Juý, la Representació de la Mort i la Consueta dels Set Sagraments, és a dir les peces núm. 11, 36 i 40 del Manuscrit Llabrés (Ms. 1139 de la Biblioteca de Catalunya), també conegut com a «consuetes mallorquines». Analitzem la manera en què aquestes tres peces enfoquen la presa de consciència de la mortalitat de l’ésser humà i la reflexió sobre les darreries de la humanitat, tot assenyalant aquells elements que pertanyen a la tradició medieval i aquells que es poden interpretar com a signes d’una aproximació contrareformista al tema en qüestió. The aim of this text is to present the analysis of three Catalan late medieval plays that are part of the Memento mori tradition: the Play of the Last Judgement (Consueta del Juý), the Performance of Death (Representació de la Mort) and the Play of the Seven Sacraments (Consueta dels Set Sagraments), that is to say the pieces no. 11, 36 and 40, respectively, of Ms. 1139 of the Biblioteca de Catalunya, which is known as Majorcan play texts (consuetes mallorquines). We analyze the way in which these three plays focus on the awareness of the mortality of the human being and the reflection of the end of the world, pointing out those elements that belong to the medieval tradition and those that can be interpreted as the signs of a counter-reformist approach to the subject.
Heritage Deviations in Relation to Town Planning in Ciutat de Mallorca
Journal of Mediterranean Studies , 2005
This article describes a case of urban reform in an area of the Historic Centre of Ciutat de Mallorca / Palma (Spain). The case study is framed within a global movement for recentralizing, embellishing, commodifying and calming the historic centres of many cities, in a process of re-direction of flows that can be observed both at metropolitan and global levels (competition between cities). This case is composed of three reform planning schemes (Sa Calatrava, Sa Gerreria and El Temple) legally independent but that are parts or phases of a single large-scale execution unit with shared aims (fundamentally the creation of added value) and which becomes obvious in its promotion as a single heritage tourism product. Nevertheless, the different planning schemes seem to coincide with a specific functional specialization of two differentiated sectors: Sa Calatrava becomes a luxurious and calmed residential area without neighbourhood or outdoor life; Sa Gerreria is to be upgraded both as a central and a corridor area. The paper shows an interest in the way in which the actors re-signify and appropriate this reforming action, re-creating from this ideas and social relations. Within this axiomatic approach, we have focused on two ethnographic examples that show a parallel logic of appropriation of discourse and action of reform, a logic that reads its arguments in a zealous manner and therefore uncovers resources, which we call deviations.
Les formes exocàrstiques de l'illa de Mallorca / The exokarstic landforms of Mallorca island
1995
Les morfologies exocarstiques estan rnolt ben representades en I'illa de Mallorca a causa de la dominancia d'aflorarnents de roques calcaries. Són rernarcables perla seva extensió i diversitat morfologica diferents tipologies de lapiaz, les quals es desenvolupen sobre arnplies extensions de terreny on arriben a formar, en ocasions, carnps de lapiaz gairebé intransitables. Les dolines no són rnassa abundants, pero algunes grans depressions carstiques destaquen en el modelat de deterrninades arees. Cal destacar la presencia de notables canyons carstics que solquen el sector septentrional de la Serra de Tramuntana, així corn la plataforma costanera de la regió del Migjorn. Sense cap dubte, les rnorfologies exocarstiques constitueixen per la seva espectacularitat i varietat un dels principals cornponents del paisatge rnallorquí.
Trabajos de Prehistoria
La excavación en curso de un monumento escalonado en el yacimiento de Mestre Ramon en la isla de Mallorca ha aportado nueva información cronológica y arquitectónica que ha motivado una revisión analítica de las estructuras conocidas como monumentos escalonados en Mallorca. La combinación de la información cronológica existente con nuevas dataciones radiocarbónicas relacionadas con el yacimiento de Mestre Ramon ha permitido situar el momento de construcción de los monumentos escalonados en el período Prototalayótico (ca. 1100/1000-850 cal a.n.e.). Este encuadre cronológico ha sido la base del análisis de las características arquitectónicas de dichos monumentos y su relación con otras estructuras. El trabajo que se presenta ofrece una caracterización preliminar, pero detallada, de las peculiaridades materiales de los monumentos escalonados y de su dimensión social dentro de los procesos de transformación social que se desarrollaron durante el final de la Edad de Bronce en Mallorca.
El paleocarst a Mallorca / Paleokarst in Mallorca
1995
Els diposits que conformen I'illa de Mallorca són roques carbonatades en una proporció del tot rnajoritaria, principalrnent calcaries i dolornies. La forta tectonització soferta per aquests rnaterials dins de la complexa estructuració que ha afectat la Mediterrania occidental (corn a part del Tethys) des dels inicis de I'era rnesozoica, ha propiciat al llarg dels ternps geologics diverses etapes d'ernersió del rnaterials carbonatats que han donat lloc al desenvoluparnent d'irnportants fenornens paleocarstics. Entre aquests períodes destaca-a part de puntuals ernersions d'edat intrajurassica-la fi del Cretaci i el cornencament del Paleogen, quan va tenir lloc la carstificació de bona part de les calcaries del Jurassic inferior. Aquest paleocarst desenvolupat basicarnent sobre el Lias, així com el desenvolupat al Mioce superior i que afecta les calcaries esculloses del Mioce terminal, són els exernples rnés espectaculars que poden ser estudiats a Mallorca.