Chris GerryUniversidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro | utad · Departamento de Economia, Sociologia e Gestão
Chris Gerry
Phd + Portuguese Aggregation
BEFORE: Micro-enterprise promotion; local & rural development.
NOW: Literary translation and translation studies
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Introduction
At the Universities of Leeds, Exeter and Swansea, I studied the informal economy in poor countries. At Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique I analysed the teething problems of nationalised industries. From 1981, I focused on urban/rural poverty alleviation policies. In Portugal (1995-2016), I studied local development issues. Now retired, I am a literary translator and researcher into "transgressive" Portuguese literature from the 1920s and 30s and Belle Époque women author-translators.
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September 1997 - June 2002
April 1981 - August 1997
April 1979 - March 1981
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O presente artigo tem dois propósitos: (1) avaliar até que ponto os valores e vivências pessoais de Florbela Espanca poderiam ter contribuído para a estratégia que a poetisa adoptou na tradução dos vários romances estrangeiros que verteu em língua portuguesa; e (2) em que medida o seu trabalho como tradutora poderia ter influenciado a sua obra em p...
O presente trabalho assenta em algumas das reflexões feitas ao longo do processo de preparação de uma primeira tradução inglesa das quatro obras em prosa – duas novelas e duas "conferências" – que Judith Teixeira produziu. O objectivo principal do artigo é de colocar, sobretudo do ponto de vista muito particular do tradutor, uma série de interrogaç...
O objetivo do presente artigo é apresentar os resultados de uma pesquisa mais de curadoria do que propriamente de cariz estritamente literário, recentemente concluído. O projeto visava identificar, localizar e reunir as obras originais cuja tradução para o português foi confiada a Florbela Espanca por duas editoras sediadas na cidade do Porto (Port...
Our essay focuses on what we see as a pivotal scene from Sister Maria de Mesquita Pimentel's 'A Commemoration of the Miracles of Christ and the Triumph of Divine Love', namely the arrival of the Virgin Mary at the Wedding at Cana, in the poet's reimagined depiction of the famous biblical passage. We examine the key attributes that simultaneously id...
The critical and biographical literature on Camilo Castelo Branco neglects almost entirely the numerous translations of fiction and non-fiction he undertook. This is why there exists no reliable updated listing of his translations and the texts on which he worked, and when researchers refer to this aspect of his creative work, they rarely reflect o...
This article is structured around my translation into English of two of Judith Teixeira's most iconic poems - 'Flor de cactus' and 'Ilusão'. When she published 'De mim'(About me) in 1926 in defence of her work and futurist aesthetics, she chose two of her own poems to exemplify and elucidate her poetics and, implicitly, her sexual politics. I begin...
After a brief introduction, I present the first English translation of a text by Judith Teixeira. Although the author describes 'De Mim' as a 'conferência', i.e., a type of public lecture, the subtitle reveals her intention of “setting out” her “arguments concerning life, aesthetics and morality” in defence of her modernist poetics and futurist aes...
In 2015, Pessoa Plural published a set of poems by Maria Lúcia Dal Farra entitled De Florbela para Pessoa, com amor [From Florbela to Pessoa, with love] in which Florbela Espanca, the Portuguese poet, short story writer, and translator, addresses Fernando Pessoa from beyond the grave, suspecting him to be the elusive soul-mate she has been seeking...
In “Diet, Consciousness and Ethics. Convergent Praxis in the Animal Rights and Vegetarian Writings of Henry Salt and Agostinho da Silva”, José Eduardo Reis and Chris Gerry turn to some of the main publications of Henry Stephens Salt (1851-1939) and Agostinho da Silva (1906-1994). Considering the courageous missions on which each embarked, and the p...
This paper reports and reflects on the results of an evaluation of the contribution to local and regional development of the EDP Sustainable Entrepreneurship Award, as applied in the Tua Valley (North East Interior of Portugal). Using semi-structured interview schedules, data was collected from young participants in the programme – both those who h...
Abstract: The study’s purpose is to identify the psychological profile of women entrepreneurs, and assess the extent to which their entrepreneurial motivation may be influenced by the territorial and conjunctural contexts in which they operate, and by their capacity to reconcile the demands of family and business. A questionnaire was used to gather...
O presente trabalho assenta em algumas das reflexões feitas ao longo do processo de preparação de uma primeira tradução inglesa das quatro obras em prosa – duas novelas e duas conferências – que a poeta portuguesa Judith Teixeira produziu. O objetivo principal do artigo é o de levantar, sobretudo do ponto de vista muito particular do tradutor, uma...
Having read Maria Lúcia Dal Farra’s magical text, “De Florbela para Pessoa, com amor”, we were unable to resist the temptation of trying to imagine the correspondence that may have passed between Florbela Espanca and Judith Teixeira in the middle of the 1920s, when both were experimenting with prose, the former was in the throes of a messy divorce...
The purpose of this study is to examine trainees’ perceptions of the effectiveness of public policy measures – introduced by the State Government of Ceará, Brazil, via its Entrepreneurial Youth Project (JUVEMP, in Portuguese) – that aimed to promote entrepreneurial culture among youth in general and, in particular, among those considered socially a...
The study's purpose is to identify the psychological profile of women entrepreneurs, and assess the extent to which their entrepreneurial motivation may be influenced by the territorial and conjunctural contexts in which they operate, and by their capacity to reconcile the demands of family and business. A questionnaire was used to gather data on r...
Depois de ler o texto mágico de Maria Lúcia Dal Farra, “De Florbela para Pessoa, com amor” (Pessoa Plural, Nº. 7, Primavera, 2015, pp. 116-131), não consegui resistir à tentação de procurar imaginar a correspondência que poderia ter passado entre Florbela Espanca e Judith Teixeira, no meio da década de 1920. Com a primeira confrontada em simultâneo...
This paper aims to evaluate the contribution to local and regional development of the EDP Sustainable Entrepreneurship Award as applied in the Tua Valley in North Interior Portugal. Data was collected using a semi-structured interview schedule and applied to young people enrolled in the programme – both those who went on to set up their own busines...
Abstract: The aim of this study was to promote a better understanding of the factors influencing innovation in the provision of health services by branches of the Catholic church’s ‘Sacred House of Mercy’ (Santa Casa de Misericórdia) operating in Portugal, and to determine the effects of innovation on the performance of individual staff and the loc...
Apesar de ter vertido 10 romances estrangeiros para a língua portuguesa nos derradeiros anos da sua vida, as traduções realizadas por Florbela são praticamente desconhecidas e, até recentemente, não têm sido sujeitas a qualquer tipo de apreciação séria, nem articuladas devidamente com as principais actividades literárias da poetisa calipolense. Ao...
This is the concluding chapter of the book "Voices of Rural Youth: Breaking with Traditional Patterns?" edited by T. Dax and I. Machold. It summarizes the findings of the research project "“Policies and Young People in Rural development “ (PAYPIRD) carried out within the 4th EU-Framework Programme (FAIR6 CT-98-4171), coordinated by the Arkleton Cen...
One of the great challenges of contemporary society is the unceasing search for ways of generating, incorporating and diffusing innovation – and this is true of the most widely varying sectors of human activity, ranging from finance, through the arts to social welfare. Looking at society today we can readily confirm that social innovation predomina...
Today, a new paradigm of governance is on the agenda that is more local, more collective, more negotiated, and more integrated. In addition to issues related to the adoption of more horizontal institutional architectures, this paradigm incorporates the idea that key actors in public affairs should participate in ways that allow various dimensions o...
The purpose of this study was to estimate in what ways the dual work-family role of women impacts on the entrepreneurial motivation of female entrepreneurs in Portugal, and to examine the influence of the urban-rural dichotomy on their profile as businesswomen. In order to validate the theoretical model adopted, a questionnaire was administered to...
There is a general consensus that in a competitive business environment, firms' performance will depend on their capacity to innovate. To clarifying how, when and to what extent innovation affects the market and financial performance of firms, the authors deploy seemingly unrelated regression equation model to examine innovation in over 500 Portugu...
Until 2004, Portuguese spas were traditionally thought of as establishments in which noninvasive therapies based on naturally occurring sources of mineral water are provided under professional supervision. With the publication of the Decree-Law No. 142/2004, Portuguese legislation regulating spas changed quite dramatically: from that moment on, spa...
This volume presents fresh approaches to the role that translation – in its many forms – plays in enabling and mediating global cultural exchange. As modes of communication and textual production continue to evolve, the field of translation studies has an increasingly important role in exploring the ways in which words, images and performances are...
Drawing on contributions from social anthropology, sociology, geography, and history, the article examines the social dynamics that have shaped urban space in Southern Mozambique. The authors first problematise the question of space, then provide a spatial, political, social, and historical characterisation of the town of Manjacaze, ending with an...
Much of the literature on the determinants of entrepreneurship focuses either on behavioural or contextual variables. The aim of the present research was to assess students’ propensity to launch business start-ups on graduation, taking into account both of these sets of influences. The analysis presented here was based on a survey of 640 undergradu...
This article aims to contribute to the broadening of critical knowledge of Florbela Espanca 's prose work and to probe - in preparation for a more detailed future study - to what extent her short story writing displays evidence of figurative and imagetic resonances emanating from the novels she translated during the last 5 years of her life. The fi...
Drawing on contributions from social anthropology, sociology, geography, and history, the article examines the social dynamics that have shaped urban space in Southern Mozambique. The authors first problematise the question of space, then provide a spatial, political, social, and historical characterisation of the town of Manjacaze, ending with an...
The aim of this article is twofold: (a) to evaluate the extent to which undergraduate students at UTAD, a Portuguese university in the less-developed northeast interior of the country, might wish to create their own companies on graduation; and (b) to analyze the personal characteristrics and competencies that may influence such intentions. The dat...
Owners/managers of a small sample of firms from both the Spanish and Portuguese sides of the Douro-Duero Valley, were interviewed to discover (a) from whom and from where they sourced their principal inputs and to whom and in what territories they sold the bulk of their output; and (b) their current strategic perspectives and recent strategic initi...
Recentemente, um conjunto de forças bem conhecidas têm propiciado a importação de modelos do sector privado para a gestão da administração pública, provocando, desta forma, alterações na malha das relações institucionais, sem que, ao mesmo tempo, se processe a adaptações e reformas internas. Os processos decisionais ao nível das organizações de saú...
The central aim of this paper, based on the results of a study of 60 firms situated in the Douro-Duero Valley that links Portugal and Spain, is to contribute to the discussion of the business strategies currently being deployed by small and medium-sized firms in the rural border areas between EU member states. It is hoped that this type of research...
Recentemente, um conjunto de forças bem conhecidas têm propiciado a importação de modelos do sector privado para a gestão da administração pública, provocando, desta forma, alterações na malha das relações institucionais, sem que, ao mesmo tempo, se processe a adaptações e reformas internas. Os processos decisionais ao nível das organizações de saú...
Cada vez mais, as iniciativas de promoção e dinamização do empreendedorismo têm vindo a assumir um papel estratégico no desenvolvimento das potencialidades dos territórios e dos seus recursos humanos. Neste sentido, a Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), no âmbito do projecto de promoção do empreendedorismo GLOCAL-Empresas Locais com...
Irmânia, por Jorge, A. Vila Nova de Famalicão: Edições Quasi/‘Biblioteca das Utopias’, 111 pp. In Utopian Studies, St. Louis: Universidade de Missouri, 17 (3), pp. 520-525.
A small sample of firms from the Douro-Duero Valley, drawn from both sides of the Spanish-Portuguese border, provided data concerning (a) from whom and from where frims sourced their principal inputs and to whom and in what territories they sold the bulk of their output; and (b) their strategic initiatives and perspectives in recent years. On the b...
This review looks at an anthology of 8 Portuguese pamphlets from the 18th and early 19th centuries that could be interpreted as being utopian in content and intention. These texts are supported by an excellent introductory essay in which the editor, Jorge Miguel Bastos da Silva, tries to explain why contemporary Portugal—with a national psyche that...
Neste capítulo, examinar-se-á a problemática do desenvolvimento rural, tanto na perspectiva dos seus principais antecedentes teórico-conceptuais, como na dos debates mais recentes sobre a reforma das políticas que visam não só inverter a perda da viabilidade socioeconómica das áreas rurais, mas também preservar a sua integridade ambiental e cultura...
"Marxismo sem Utopia" [Marxism without Utopia], published in Portuguese in 2000 by Jacob Gorender, a maverick veteran of the Brazilian left, will be of interest to scholars and activists keen to reassess the relevance of Marxism both as a political philosophy and as a guide to action. The book's title reflects the author’s main aim – to invest Marx...
Após a derrocada do sector agrícola que viu o valor das importações aumentar com a adesão de Portugal à União Europeia, bem como a estagnação continuada dos rendimentos agrícolas, a castanha foi o produto que, ao contrário dos outros produtos agrícolas, viu o seu preço (e o seu consumo) aumentar por todo o mundo, passando de “produto de sobrevivênc...
The paper first discusses how the penetration of the countryside by different types of global capital may impinge on the rural economy in general. In subsequently examining how globalization may have affected specifically Portuguese rural communities and their livelihoods in recent years, the authors focus first on the particularities of the Portug...
The chapter first discusses how the penetration of the countryside by different types of global capital may impinge on the rural economy in general. The authors subsequently examine how globalization may have specifically affected Portuguese rural communities and their livelihoods in recent years,l focusing first on the particularities of the Portu...
The purpose of this chapter is to foster discussion about rural development in the Mediterranean context and so we take as our point of departure two fundamental assumptions concerning rural economy and society. The first is the fact: that agriculture still constitutes the vital core of the rural economy, particularly in the least favoured areas of...
The paper first discusses how the penetration of the countryside by different types of global capital may impinge on the rural economy in general. In subsequently examining how globalization may have affected specifically Portuguese rural communities and their livelihoods in recent years, it focus on the particularities of the Portuguese state, eco...
The North of Portugal is asymmetrically divided in terms of the physical location of production and the spatial distribution of value-added and wealth. The coast is relatively rich, with a high level of business concentration including most of the more advanced firms, while the hinterland has problems of productivity and finds it hard to attract ei...
This chapter presents some of the results of a Portuguese case study that forms part of the Europe-wide project on rural youth to which this volume is devoted. The young people whose school-to-work transition is analysed here live in Northern Portugal. The primarily qualitative nature of our research was justified, in part, by the lack of previous...
Esta comunicação baseia-se num relatório realizado pela equipa portuguesa num projecto de investigação de 7 parceiros europeus sob o título de Policies and Young People in Rural Development 1, e descreve parte da pesquisa feita num concelho rural do Douro: Santa Marta de Penaguião. O objectivo específico desta parte do trabalho foi o de diagnostica...
o objectivo desta lição de síntese é relacionar o processo da globalização (na sua generalidade) com a problemática actual e mais específica do desenvolvimento rural e local , ou seja, abordar de uma maneira preliminar as seguintes questões:
1) Qual é a natureza e significado da globalização? É uma nova tendência, ou apenas uma intensificação qua...
Ao longo das últimas décadas tem-se assistido a uma progressiva diminuição da população do Douro, explicada quer por movimentos migratórios quer, mais recentemente, por crescimentos naturais negativos. Esta evolução demográfica tem vindo a afectar negativamente o sector agrário desta região, a sua actividade económica dominante e, consequentemente,...
The aim of this paper is to identify some of the points of comparison between the key rural development-related challenges that both the more recent Southern European EU member states and the transitional economies of Eastern Europe have confronted in the first phases of their respective processes of
restructuring, adaptation and convergence. Beari...
The main aim of this paper is to provide an overview and evaluation of chestnut production – generally accepted as being a key activity and an important indigenous resource of the region, focusing on the county of Vinhais. Based on official data and interviews conducted with key actors in the value chain, an attempt is made to characterise the fili...
This paper presents the preliminary results of the research-in-progress on the 1990-95 subsidised investment boom in greenhouse agriculture in the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro region, in the Northeast of Portugal. The primary aims of the initial phase of this research are : (1) to build a profile of the type of farmers involved, (2) to evaluate the...
Este trabalho apresenta os resultados preliminares dum projecto de investigação em curso, sobre o boom no investimento em agricultura de estufas na região de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, durante o período de 1990-95. Na primeira fase deste projecto, a cujos resultados este artigo se refere, realizamos uma análise detalhada de 100 planos de melhoria...
The complexities and unevenness of industrial diffusion in a period of increasingly internationalised production and markets, and the doubts these have cast on the validity and applicability of a blueprint model of flexible specialisation, have significant implications for the research agenda. To gain a better understanding of the process of indust...
In his celebrated 1990 book "The Competitive Advantage of Nations", Michael Porter primarily sought to identify on what basis 10 advanced industrialised countries (7 European economies, the USA, Japan and two 'Newly Industrialised Countries') had constructed their international competitiveness. Having concluded that there existed key national sourc...
Na literatura generalista, ainda se defende a ideia de que a ascendência do modelo fordista de industrialização já terminou e que foi substituído por uma abordagem pós-fordista mais especializada e flexível. Obviamente, novas fronteiras de acumulação têm sido traçadas ao longo da adaptação das empresas, instituições, comunidades e entidades estatai...
This monograph presents the initial results of ongoing research on entrepreneurship and the investment boom in greenhouse-based agriculture in the North East Interior of Portugal. The first phase of the research involved the detailed analysis of farm improvement plans submitted by young farmers to the Trás-os-Montes regional office of IFADAP (Insti...
In this short book the authors argue that for anti-poverty initiatives in developing countries to be more effective in meeting the needs prioritised by the poor, policy must be better by research. If knowledge continues to be defined in terms of what serves policymakers’ interests, and research remains subordinated to policy needs that have a minim...
Young people in developing countries suffer disproportionately from high unemployment. In response, government youth enterprise programmes have implemented welfare-orientated employment-creation strategies, emphasising the role of vocational training for wage-employment. Where relief and development are closely interwoven, programmes for young comb...
In the 1970s, social scientists used the term "informal economy" to describe the economic survival strategies of many of the working poor in Third World cities. Now, both terminology and analysis are applied in the advanced, industrialized countries to the often proliferating variations in nonwage employment that have emerged during the world reces...
In the 1970s, social scientists used the term “informal economy” to describe the economic survival strategies of many of the working poor in Third World cities. Now, both terminology and analysis are applied in the advanced, industrialized countries to the often proliferating variations in nonwage employment that have emerged during the world reces...
This is a short review of Silvina Arrossi et al's book "Funding community initiatives: the role of NGOs and other intermediary institutions in supporting low income groups ...". The text focuses on the institutional and financial parameters of community self-help in developing countries, and constitutes a useful resource both for development practi...
Charles Gore's recently published book aims to demystify the 'conventional wisdom' of regional development and the policies derived therefrom by exposing the current orthodoxy of 'Anglo-American' regional development theory as (1) inherently positivistic and instrumentalist (i.e. it claims to be a regional 'science' comparable to physical science)...
Lucy Mair's 1984 volume assesses, not altogether successfully in the reviewer's opinion, the contribution anthropologists can make to the design, implementation and evaluation of development policies and projects.
The principal question raised in this paper is how we might better understand the lives and values of those occupying an intermediate position between the peasantry and the proletariat and whose survival depends on successfully navigating the no-man’s land of so-called ‘informal’ employment. The authors’ analysis is based on fieldwork recently cond...
This chapter on institutionalized betting (such as state lotteries) examines "chance" (a legalised form of the "numbers racket") in Colombia's third city, Cali. Through a discussion of the chanceros' working conditions, incomes and socioeconomic networks, the author challenges both the conventional analysis of self-employment in the urban centres o...
This paper extneds some of the conclusions draws on the author's recent research on small businesses and the thesis of the 'disappearing working class' . It argues that, in its attempt to resolve the current crisis of capitalism (albeit at a local level), the UK state will find it both necessary and desirable to deploy a substantial part of its mat...
Review of Alan Gilbert, Jorge Enrique Hardy, Ronaldo Ramírez (1982) Urbanisation in Contemporary Latin America: Critical Approaches to the Analysis of Urban Issues, London: Wiley.
A tribute to Ruth First, assassinated by letter bomb in August 1982.
The paper examines three national case studies of 'hard' and 'soft' energy policies and assesses the impact on the lives and liveihoods of the population in general.
We attempt, in this paper, to contribute to a charting of the advance of the class struggle in the work place in Mozambique in the period immediately following independence; this is done by way of a case study that traces the experiences at TEXLOM, widely recognised as one of the most advanced “model” enterprises both in terms of the technology use...
The definition of class according to the nature of the relations of production has traditionally centred on the distinction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, a focus which has involved the identification of concepts which are in direct contradiction — the private ownership of the means of production by a privileged minority and the neces...
The definition of class according to the nature of the relations of production has traditionally centred on the distinction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, a focus which has involved the identification of concepts which are in direct contradiction — the private ownership of the means of production by a privileged minority and the neces...
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