Braving the Atlantic waves

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 315-330
Author(s):  
Thérèse De Raedt
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Humanitarian Crisis ◽  
Political Opinion ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
International Audience ◽  
The Sacrifice

This article discusses three films that focus on migrants who departed from the Senegalese Cape Verde peninsula, braving the Atlantic in dugout boats (pirogues), in order to reach the Canary Islands. The year 2006 saw a phenomenal rise in migrants arriving undocumented at this key point of entry to Europe. Directors Idrissa Guiro, Moussa Sène Absa and Moussa Touré saw it as their mission to respond to this urgent humanitarian crisis by humanizing the all-too-common reality of failed migration. They use testimonies and autofictional narratives in order to give a voice to migrants and, in so doing, to influence public and political opinion. Guiro’s documentary film Barça ou Barzakh (2007) appears to be intended for a western audience and focuses especially on the socio-economic conditions that drive migration. Absa’s docufiction Yoolé (The Sacrifice) (2010), referring to Senegalese youth, is overtly political and targets Senegalese people as its primary audience. Touré’s fictional film La Pirogue (2012) tries to appeal to a wider national and international audience by compiling testimonies of would-be migrants and staging their attempted sea crossing. Detailed analyses of certain sequences reveal how words, images and music combine to convey the directors’ political and aesthetic goals.

scholarly journals Factors Constraining International Growth in Nautical Tourism Firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen E. Lam-González ◽  
Chaitanya Suárez-Rojas ◽  
Carmelo J. León
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Incentive Mechanisms ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
International Growth ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Key Driver ◽  
Social Environmental

In tourism, entrepreneurial internationalisation is considered a measure of the development of the industry and a key driver of innovation, competitiveness and image enhancement. In nautical tourism, research is still scarce in terms of supporting business’ internationalisation. This paper analyses factors constraining the international growth of island-based nautical tourism organisations. For the research, a sample of 60 nautical tourism SMEs´ owners of six different islands in the Macaronesia Region (Canary Islands, Madeira and Cape Verde archipelagos) were interviewed. As a result, we provide up to date information about current conditions and barriers to the internationalisation process within the segment and also identify the profile of the firms with the best international performance. The study is of great usefulness for the industry as it guides on the areas that require special attention to enhance those social, environmental and economic conditions of nautical tourism firms that ensure sustainable international growth. Moreover, it helps policymakers of island destinations seeking specialisation and positioning within the international nautical tourism market to raise the efficiency of current incentive mechanisms for internationalisation, thus contributing to increase tourism competitiveness. Finally, the study highlights the importance of fostering wider cooperation among islands with common interests in nautical specialisation and the challenges that this represents for the tourism management.

The travels of Carl Bolle to the Cape Verde and the Canary Islands

1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-254
Author(s):  
SUSANNE SALINGER ◽  
HARRO STREHLOW
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
Cape Verde

scholarly journals Flora of Macaronesia. Checklist of vascular plants. 3. revised edition.

Sommerfeltia ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-171
Author(s):  
A. Hansen ◽  
P. Sunding
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Cape Verde Islands ◽  
Madeira Archipelago ◽  
Flora Of Macaronesia

Abstract A complete and up-to-date checklist of the vascular plants of Macaronesia (the Azores, the Madeira archipelago, the Salvage Islands, the Canary Islands, and the Cape Verde Islands) is given. 3.125 species belonging to 1.041 genera are listed, as are also a number of intraspecific taxa down to variety level. New combinations are proposed within the genera Cheilanthes, Pericallis and Pulicaria. A second section lists 2.250 synonyms and their presumed identity.

Hearing Secondary Explosions

2021 ◽  
pp. 574-593
Author(s):  
Randolph Jordan
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Audiovisual Media ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center

This chapter uses the shot of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center, as captured in the Naudet brothers’ documentary film 9/11, as a point of entry to consider how conventions of asynchronous sound in the cinema are challenged by recent forms of media production and dissemination, and, by extension, to think about whether or not we should revise our understanding of what “cinematic” might mean in relation to listening. It situates the Naudets’ 9/11 within the discourse of “performativity” in documentary film, and assesses the implications of the Naudet footage proliferating in other media outside their own film. The notion of “secondary explosions” acts as a guiding metaphor for the concept of “asynchronization,” and it leads to the argument that the proliferation of Naudet sound elements outside of the film requires an expanded notion of the work of asynchronous sound in audiovisual media.

scholarly journals Marine interstitial Amphipoda and Isopoda (Crustacea) from Santiago, Cape Verde Islands

1992 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan H. Stock ◽  
Ronald Vonk
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Cape Verde Islands

Three species of Amphipoda are recorded from interstices of a marine beach on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde Archipelago: Cabogidiella littoralis n. gen., n. sp. (Bogidiellidae), Psammogammarus spinosus n. sp. (Melitidae), and Idunella sketi Karaman, 1980 (Liljeborgiidae).The latter, widely distributed species (West Indies, Canary Islands), is new to the Cape Verde Islands. Furthermore, an isopod is described from the same locality, Caecostenetroides mixtum n. sp. (Gnathostenetroididae).

Checklists of Crustacea Decapoda from the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, with an assessment of Macaronesian and Cape Verde biogeographic marine ecoregions

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4413 (3) ◽  
pp. 401
Author(s):  
JOSÉ A. GONZÁLEZ
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
Decapod Crustacean ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Benthic Habitat ◽  
Cape Verdean ◽  
Biogeographic Patterns ◽  
Bathymetric Data ◽  
Popular Book ◽  
Oceanic Archipelagos ◽  
First Time

The complete list of Canarian marine decapods (last update by González & Quiles 2003, popular book) currently comprises 374 species/subspecies, grouped in 198 genera and 82 families; whereas the Cape Verdean marine decapods (now fully listed for the first time) are represented by 343 species/subspecies with 201 genera and 80 families. Due to changing environmental conditions, in the last decades many subtropical/tropical taxa have reached the coasts of the Canary Islands. Comparing the carcinofaunal composition and their biogeographic components between the Canary and Cape Verde archipelagos would aid in: validating the appropriateness in separating both archipelagos into different ecoregions (Spalding et al. 2007), and understanding faunal movements between areas of benthic habitat. The consistency of both ecoregions is here compared and validated by assembling their decapod crustacean checklists, analysing their taxa composition, gathering their bathymetric data, and comparing their biogeographic patterns. Four main evidences (i.e. different taxa; divergent taxa composition; different composition of biogeographic patterns; different endemicity rates) support that separation, especially in coastal benthic decapods; and these parametres combined would be used as a valuable tool at comparing biotas from oceanic archipelagos. To understand/predict south-north faunal movements in a scenario of regional tropicalization, special attention is paid to species having at the Canaries their southernmost occurrence, and also to tropical African warm-affinity species. 

scholarly journals Serological survey of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii and Coxiella burnetii in rodents in north-western African islands (Canary Islands and Cape Verde)

2015 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Foronda ◽  
Josué Plata-Luis ◽  
Borja Del Castillo-Figueruelo ◽  
Ángela Fernández-Álvarez ◽  
Aarón Martín-Alonso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Toxoplasma Gondii ◽  
Coxiella Burnetii ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
Q Fever ◽  
Rattus Rattus ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay ◽  
North Western

Coxiella burnetii and Toxoplasma gondii are intracellular parasites that cause important reproductive disorders in animals and humans worldwide, resulting in high economic losses. The aim of the present study was to analyse the possible role of peridomestic small mammals in the maintenance and transmission of C. burnetii and T. gondii in the north-western African archipelagos of the Canary Islands and Cape Verde, where these species are commonly found affecting humans and farm animals. Between 2009 and 2013, 108 black rats (Rattus rattus) and 77 mice (Mus musculus) were analysed for the presence of Coxiella and Toxoplasma antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and indirect immunofluorescence (IFA), respectively. Our results showed a wide distribution of C. burnetii and T. gondii, except for T. gondii in Cape Verde, in both rodent species. The overall seroprevalence of C. burnetii antibodies was 12.4%; 21.1% for Cape Verde and 10.2% for the Canary Islands. With respect to T. gondii, seropositive rodents were only observed in the Canary Islands, with an overall seroprevalence of 15%. Considering the fact that both pathogens can infect a large range of hosts, including livestock and humans, the results are of public health and veterinary importance and could be used by governmental entities to manage risk factors and to prevent future cases of Q fever and toxoplasmosis.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Humanitarian Military Intervention in Nigeria: Focus on Saving Victims or Defeating Boko Haram?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Tiffany Setyo Pratiwi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
African Union ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Humanitarian Crisis ◽  
Internet Studies ◽  
Humanitarian Interventions

ABSTRACT This paper discusses the humanitarian intervention in Nigeria because the Boko Haram’s attack. Humanitarian intervention was carried out because there had been gross human rights violations in an area and the government's inability to solve them. Boko Haram attack has caused a humanitarian crisis in Nigeria. Unfortunately, Nigeria has been unable to solve the problem. Boko Haram is a separatist group that wants to replace Nigeria’s legitimate government to Sharia Law. Thus, humanitarian intervention is needed. This paper will explain three sub chapters of the discussion, such as: First, the political and economic conditions in Nigeria. Second, process of Boko Haram attack. Third, humanitarian intervention efforts in Nigeria carried out by international actors, such as: The African Union, some countries in Africa, the United States and some international humanitarian agencies. The research method used in this study is a descriptive qualitative method. Data sources from literature and internet studies. This paper finds that the humanitarian intervention consists of a military approach and a socio-economic approach. In 2020, humanitarian interventions focus on recovery in education, health issues, and assisting the shelter of refugees.    

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