Browsing by Author "Heffes, Gisela"

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    Aldea Lounge
    (2014) Heffes, Gisela
    Salir al lounge: hacer una pausa; es un lugar de descanso. El lounge es un movimiento particular, una actitud compartida a través del mundo.
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    Gender Quotas and The Representation of Women: Empowerment, Decision-making, and Public Policy
    (2012-09-05) Barnes, Tiffany; Jones, Mark P.; Carroll, Royce A.; Stevenson, Randolph T.; Heffes, Gisela
    Over the past two decades governments worldwide have begun to take action to correct gender disparity in representative bodies, resulting in drastic increases in women’s numeric representation. It is unclear, however, how these increases influence legislative behavior. This research contributes to our understanding of how increases in women’s numeric representation influences substantive representation of women. I collected an original dataset to examine this relationship across twenty-three subnational Argentine legislatures over eighteen years. This project represents one of the first empirical efforts to examine women’s substantive representation over a large number of legislatures over a long duration of time. A key piece of the puzzle is to understand if female exhibit distinct preferences from their male colleagues. The second chapter of the dissertation uses a new data set of ideal point estimates recovered from cosponsorship data to examine gender differences in legislative preferences. I find strong evidence to suggest women display different legislative preferences than their male colleagues. Chapter three investigates how increases in women’s numeric representation influence women’s legislative behavior. Previous research suggests that increasing women’s numeric representation should enhance the probability that women work together to pursue common legislative agendas. Yet, I demonstrate that as the percentage of women in the chamber increases, women are increasingly less likely to work together. I argue that this unexpected finding can be explained by considering how institutions shape women’s legislative incentives. In chapter four, I develop theoretical expectations about the conditions under which increases in the proportion of female legislators, in combination with institutional arrangements, will foster or stifle women’s opportunities and incentives to represent women’s interests. The chapter provides strong empirical support for the hypothesis that women behave differently conditional on institutional incentives. These findings imply that understanding institutions is key to understanding how and when female representatives will stand for women. Taken together, this dissertation makes an important contribution to our understanding of how changes in the proportion of female legislators and differences in institutional contexts shape women’s legislative behavior.
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    Impact
    (2013-09-16) Halka, Charles; Gottschalk, Arthur W.; Bailey, Walter B.; Heffes, Gisela
    Impact (2013) is an eight-minute work for full orchestra that explores an aural gesture best described as a heavy thud. This gesture, which opens the work in its clearest form, is a steep drop from the upper register of the orchestra, such as the flutes and triangle, to its depths in instruments such as the basses, contrabassoon, and tuba. Each time the gesture plummets to the bottom, the impact of this arrival generates various “resonances” – shards of harmonic or melodic material that proceed to develop on their own, contributing to subsequent thuds and eventually blooming into more lyrical sections of music. Along the way, the thudding gesture is dissected, reversed, and fragmented before finally regaining its original form and prominence near the end. One giant, swirling thud brings the work to a rumbling close. The work was greatly influenced by my exposure to electronic music techniques, many of which focus on non-traditional aspects such as register, timbre, and abstract shapes and gestures rather than rhythm, melody, and harmony. Also central to the work’s creation was my desire to treat the orchestra as a single, metamorphosing instrument rather than a layering of its distinct parts.
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    Muerte y transfiguración de la ciudad: territorios urbanos y marginalidad
    (la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2012) Heffes, Gisela
    Este artículo examina un conjunto de narrativas y films latinoamericanos de las últimas dos décadas, los cuales articulan la creciente desigualdad social, política y económica en América Latina, en conjunción con las prácticas y experiencias culturales, desde una perspectiva urbana. Al tomar como eje la configuración del espacio de la ciudad latinoamericana, el artículo explora cómo estas narrativas reformulan nociones clásicas del diseño urbano con el objeto de presentar, en su lugar, un espacio distintivo, con códigos específicos, los que operan como formas alternativas de sustraerse al poder de la globalización y las políticas del neoliberalismo.
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    Poéticas de los (Dis)locamientos
    (2012) Heffes, Gisela
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    Talud
    (2012) Herrera, Yuri; Heffes, Gisela