Tecnologias de gênero, masculinidades e apriosionamentos na execução penal

The study articulates the relations of power / knowledge in the production of crime and operationalization of the law, the subtle way in which technologies of gender naturalize actions and reactions in relationships, partnerships and daily struggles between staff and prisoners and the processes of subjectivity in contemporaneity . This study has as epistemological matrix the genealogy proposed by Michel Foucault, who has allowed diverse pathways as document reviews, semi-structured interviews, performance groups and courses. The interweaving of the forces and discourses has engendered the impact of technologies on gender, especially masculinity, in the present relations between staff and prisoners. The impact of this relationship puts on display the modulations of subjectivity in a continuum of oscillation between normalizing and singularizing modes of subjectification.

Habemus doctorem?: considerações sobre processos de subjetivação no campo acadêmico contemporâneo

Pós-graduação em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa - FCLAR

Relações de trabalho dos jogadores profissionais do poker: um estudo à luz da psicossociologia

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

L'attrazione sessuale: processi psichici e strumenti di indagine. L'adattamento italiano del Cuestionario de Atraccion sexual

The sexual attraction is a complex emotional event, with somatic modifications, that like all the emotions, belongs to the psychic dimension and that, too much simply, can be led back, from a explicative point of view, to biological and psychical causes. The sexual attraction represents a personal experience, that is difficult to record, but of which every adult is able to delineate a correspondence with own “lived”. In the within of biological sciences, many experimental studies were been conducted with the aim to know which chemistries substances and cerebral zones are involved in front of a stimulus assessed like sexually attractive. Contrarily, there are little researches conducted in psychological field, aimed to the understanding the psychical factors, often unconscious, tinged to the subjective processes of sexual attraction: the sexual attraction remains an unexplored psychological event and unprovided of adapted instruments of assessment. The present thesis is oriented in primis to examine the existing scientific literature, in order to provide an exhaustive picture of the sexual attraction and to analyze the instruments of survey available for the empirical assessment of it. Secondly, the thesis is oriented to introduce two studies: the first study is aimed to adapt the Cuestionario de Atracción Sexual - CAS (Fernández ET to, 2006a; 2006b; 2006c) to the Italian language; the second study is aimed to assess the attitudes towards the sexual attraction in a sample of university students, in order to establish if some differences or association with some psychological dimensions (attachment stiles and alexithymia) exist.

La potencia en la escena. Teatro Comunitario de Rivadavia : Historicidad, política, actores y sujetos en juego/s (2010-2014)

La tesis titulada "La potencia en la escena. Teatro Comunitario de Rivadavia: historicidad, política, actores y sujetos en juego/s (2010-2014)", propone un análisis histórico-político de las prácticas del Grupo de Teatro Comunitario de Rivadavia: los modos de intervención en el territorio y los niveles de transformación/ reproducción de las dinámicas sociales en las comunidades en las cuales se desarrolla. A su vez, aborda el estudio de los procesos subjetivos que atraviesan a los miembros del grupo, generando interrogantes en torno al modo de sentir, significar y enunciar de los participantes en su articulación individual/colectiva. Partimos de la hipótesis de que la conformación del grupo teatral creó prácticas estéticas novedosas que motivaron la constitución de nuevos actores, proyectos políticos, culturales y sociales concretos, como la Cooperativa La Comunitaria. Como en todo proceso de transformación, los movimientos inscriptos en el orden de lo social involucran diversos actores e intereses en pugna que se entrecruzan dinámicamente en el espacio público, y las luchas por el poder que se desarrollan en el ámbito político-institucional y en espacios de construcción colectiva configuran un mapa poco claro de las lógicas de fondo que delinean estas propuestas. Buscando explorar estos ?grises?, proponemos construir un análisis en torno al proyecto que sustenta los procesos generados por el grupo y las diversas dimensiones que lo configuran. Planteamos reconstruir y analizar las diversas dimensiones que atraviesan las prácticas del grupo de teatro para rescatar el "estar siendo" del mismo y estudiar articulaciones entre niveles de realidad y niveles de abstracción en campos diversos

La potencia en la escena. Teatro Comunitario de Rivadavia : Historicidad, política, actores y sujetos en juego/s (2010-2014)

La tesis titulada "La potencia en la escena. Teatro Comunitario de Rivadavia: historicidad, política, actores y sujetos en juego/s (2010-2014)", propone un análisis histórico-político de las prácticas del Grupo de Teatro Comunitario de Rivadavia: los modos de intervención en el territorio y los niveles de transformación/ reproducción de las dinámicas sociales en las comunidades en las cuales se desarrolla. A su vez, aborda el estudio de los procesos subjetivos que atraviesan a los miembros del grupo, generando interrogantes en torno al modo de sentir, significar y enunciar de los participantes en su articulación individual/colectiva. Partimos de la hipótesis de que la conformación del grupo teatral creó prácticas estéticas novedosas que motivaron la constitución de nuevos actores, proyectos políticos, culturales y sociales concretos, como la Cooperativa La Comunitaria. Como en todo proceso de transformación, los movimientos inscriptos en el orden de lo social involucran diversos actores e intereses en pugna que se entrecruzan dinámicamente en el espacio público, y las luchas por el poder que se desarrollan en el ámbito político-institucional y en espacios de construcción colectiva configuran un mapa poco claro de las lógicas de fondo que delinean estas propuestas. Buscando explorar estos ?grises?, proponemos construir un análisis en torno al proyecto que sustenta los procesos generados por el grupo y las diversas dimensiones que lo configuran. Planteamos reconstruir y analizar las diversas dimensiones que atraviesan las prácticas del grupo de teatro para rescatar el "estar siendo" del mismo y estudiar articulaciones entre niveles de realidad y niveles de abstracción en campos diversos

La potencia en la escena. Teatro Comunitario de Rivadavia : Historicidad, política, actores y sujetos en juego/s (2010-2014)

La tesis titulada "La potencia en la escena. Teatro Comunitario de Rivadavia: historicidad, política, actores y sujetos en juego/s (2010-2014)", propone un análisis histórico-político de las prácticas del Grupo de Teatro Comunitario de Rivadavia: los modos de intervención en el territorio y los niveles de transformación/ reproducción de las dinámicas sociales en las comunidades en las cuales se desarrolla. A su vez, aborda el estudio de los procesos subjetivos que atraviesan a los miembros del grupo, generando interrogantes en torno al modo de sentir, significar y enunciar de los participantes en su articulación individual/colectiva. Partimos de la hipótesis de que la conformación del grupo teatral creó prácticas estéticas novedosas que motivaron la constitución de nuevos actores, proyectos políticos, culturales y sociales concretos, como la Cooperativa La Comunitaria. Como en todo proceso de transformación, los movimientos inscriptos en el orden de lo social involucran diversos actores e intereses en pugna que se entrecruzan dinámicamente en el espacio público, y las luchas por el poder que se desarrollan en el ámbito político-institucional y en espacios de construcción colectiva configuran un mapa poco claro de las lógicas de fondo que delinean estas propuestas. Buscando explorar estos ?grises?, proponemos construir un análisis en torno al proyecto que sustenta los procesos generados por el grupo y las diversas dimensiones que lo configuran. Planteamos reconstruir y analizar las diversas dimensiones que atraviesan las prácticas del grupo de teatro para rescatar el "estar siendo" del mismo y estudiar articulaciones entre niveles de realidad y niveles de abstracción en campos diversos

Cartografia do trabalho de agentes penitenciários: reflexão sobre o “dispositivo prisão”

The Brazilian prison system is going through a serious crisis, not only due to the growth in the number of prisoners and the consequent overcrowding of prisons, but also for the violation of human rights, institutionalization and difficulty in social rehabilitation of inmates. Furthermore, the harmful effects of the prison system affect their workers, who generally are not prioritized by researchers, health programs and government policies. The literature pointing to some consequences of work in prison, among them, the mental illness, stress, alcohol abuse, etc., but little is known about this profession, their problems, the difficulties of their work routine, so as subjective processes involved. So, what are the effects of this work in the prison in the lives of correctional officers? What strategies developed to address the work in prison? This research aims to analyze the effects of this work in the prison in the lives of correctional officers from the state prison in Parnamirim, located in the metropolitan region of Natal-RN. Within the theoretical and methodological perspective of institutional analysis and cartography were carried conversation circles, interviews, in addition to participant observation of the correctional officers work’s routine. The results point to a working routine marked by the performance of procedures that involve risk to the worker, generating situations of tension and stress. Besides, the culture of violence (which is implemented in jail everyday) as well as the training and initial learning of the profession, are responsible for the militarization process of the subjectivities of the correctional officers, producing hard subject, disciplined, stiff, likely to violent practices and other rights violations. Other mapped effects relate to the acquisition of knowledge about the human (“psy” knowledge) responsible for forging the conception of the criminal as "dangerous subject", which, in turn, acts as subjectivity vector in the daily life of prison guards by setting up a way of life crossed by fear and insecurity outside the work environment. Produces a control in the open about their lives and their families, limiting them with regard to family and community life and the realization of leisure activities in public spaces. In this sense, it appears that the arrest acts producing “bad meetings” (from Espinosa's perspective), once it produces sad affections responsible for weakening the conatus, limiting the possibilities of action of these subjects. Although agents develop some strategies to deal with the difficulties of working in prison (among which stand out the development of other professional or leisure activities, spirituality / religiosity and the ability to separate the labor moments from those of their the personal lives, is advocated that such strategies do not offer significant resistance, since they do not question the contemporary legal-criminal logic. The thesis presented supports the proposals of penal abolitionism to present other conceptions of crime and justice through the invention of other practical and conceptual strategies.

Emoções, documentos e subjetivação na construção de transexualidades em João Pessoa/PB

This research aims to understand how the affective components involved in transgender relations with documents constitute specific ways in which these people recognize themselves and build their bodies and their paths, their life projects and their relationship with others. We understand that the documents, if the personal identification or those produced by social movements, legal actors and health and the State, are experienced by trans people beyond administrative functions that are initially thought, but also involve a series of emotional experiences mark their subjective processes, in how these people produce themselves and design in the world their sociality networks. We elected as research field two institutions located in the city of João Pessoa (Paraíba State), noting the intense institutional movement, political, social in favor of the rights of transexuals that have occurred in that city in recent years. Thus, the Rights Reference Centre for LGBT and Fight Against Homophobia (Espaço LGBT) and Health Clinic of Transvestites and Transexuals (Ambulatório de Saúde de Travestis e Transexuais) were the spaces where we find our interlocutors and analyze their experiences with the documents noting two key aspects: the search for first name change in the civil registry and the relationship of trans people with documents produced by the health policies and services such as protocols, records, receipts and psychiatric reports. We realized that although there is disagreement about the perception that our interlocutors have on the documentation that regulates health services, all reported experiencing embarrassment in social situations when you have those who make use of a document that is not consistent with the performance and “social face” taken. In addition to the reports of embarrassment, we saw that the discussion of social distress and trauma has grounded the platforms of social movements, public policy, legal processes and become “narratives of pains” that present strong potential micro-political on demand for rights to “trans people”.

Interactive processes link the multiple symptoms of fatigue in sport competition

Muscle physiologists often describe fatigue simply as a decline of muscle force and infer this causes an athlete to slow down. In contrast, exercise scientists describe fatigue during sport competition more holistically as an exercise-induced impairment of performance. The aim of this review is to reconcile the different views by evaluating the many performance symptoms/measures and mechanisms of fatigue. We describe how fatigue is assessed with muscle, exercise or competition performance measures. Muscle performance (single muscle test measures) declines due to peripheral fatigue (reduced muscle cell force) and/or central fatigue (reduced motor drive from the CNS). Peak muscle force seldom falls by >30% during sport but is often exacerbated during electrical stimulation and laboratory exercise tasks. Exercise performance (whole-body exercise test measures) reveals impaired physical/technical abilities and subjective fatigue sensations. Exercise intensity is initially sustained by recruitment of new motor units and help from synergistic muscles before it declines. Technique/motor skill execution deviates as exercise proceeds to maintain outcomes before they deteriorate, e.g. reduced accuracy or velocity. The sensation of fatigue incorporates an elevated rating of perceived exertion (RPE) during submaximal tasks, due to a combination of peripheral and higher CNS inputs. Competition performance (sport symptoms) is affected more by decision-making and psychological aspects, since there are opponents and a greater importance on the result. Laboratory based decision making is generally faster or unimpaired. Motivation, self-efficacy and anxiety can change during exercise to modify RPE and, hence, alter physical performance. Symptoms of fatigue during racing, team-game or racquet sports are largely anecdotal, but sometimes assessed with time-motion analysis. Fatigue during brief all-out racing is described biomechanically as a decline of peak velocity, along with altered kinematic components. Longer sport events involve pacing strategies, central and peripheral fatigue contributions and elevated RPE. During match play, the work rate can decline late in a match (or tournament) and/or transiently after intense exercise bursts. Repeated sprint ability, agility and leg strength become slightly impaired. Technique outcomes, such as velocity and accuracy for throwing, passing, hitting and kicking, can deteriorate. Physical and subjective changes are both less severe in real rather than simulated sport activities. Little objective evidence exists to support exercise-induced mental lapses during sport. A model depicting mind-body interactions during sport competition shows that the RPE centre-motor cortex-working muscle sequence drives overall performance levels and, hence, fatigue symptoms. The sporting outputs from this sequence can be modulated by interactions with muscle afferent and circulatory feedback, psychological and decision-making inputs. Importantly, compensatory processes exist at many levels to protect against performance decrements. Small changes of putative fatigue factors can also be protective. We show that individual fatigue factors including diminished carbohydrate availability, elevated serotonin, hypoxia, acidosis, hyperkalaemia, hyperthermia, dehydration and reactive oxygen species, each contribute to several fatigue symptoms. Thus, multiple symptoms of fatigue can occur simultaneously and the underlying mechanisms overlap and interact. Based on this understanding, we reinforce the proposal that fatigue is best described globally as an exercise-induced decline of performance as this is inclusive of all viewpoints.

Objectifying the Subjective : Assessment and Feedback in Creative Arts Studio Learning and Teaching

This paper examines the Assessment and Feedback aspects of Studio Teaching as Creative Arts pedagogy. Prompted by USQ’s newly offered Bachelor of Creative Arts (BCA), the author has developed an Assessment Matrix specifically designed to satisfy a number of imperatives, including: • ‘objectifying’ the subjective aspects of creative practice as assessable coursework/research • providing the means by which accurate, detailed, personalised and confidential feedback may be provided to students individually • providing consistent, accurate, meaningful assessment records for student, lecturer, and institution • ensuring consistency, continuity, and transparency of assessment processes and records to satisfy quality audits • minimising marking and assessment time, whilst maximising assessment integrity and depth • requiring only basic level skills and knowledge of a computer application already in common use (Microsoft Excel) • adaptability to a range of creative courses ‐ across disciplines This Assessment Matrix has been in development (and trialled) since January 2009.

Neural bases for individual differences in the subjective experience of short durations (less than 2 seconds)

The current research was designed to establish whether individual differences in timing performance predict neural activation in the areas that subserve the perception of short durations ranging between 400 and 1600 milliseconds. Seventeen participants completed both a temporal bisection task and a control task, in a mixed fMRI design. In keeping with previous research, there was increased activation in a network of regions typically active during time perception including the right supplementary motor area (SMA) and right pre-SMA and basal ganglia (including the putamen and right pallidum). Furthermore, correlations between neural activity in the right inferior frontal gyrus and SMA and timing performance corroborate the results of a recent meta-analysis and are further evidence that the SMA forms part of a neural clock that is responsible for the accumulation of temporal information. Specifically, subjective lengthening of the perceived duration were associated with increased activation in both the right SMA (and right pre-SMA) and right inferior frontal gyrus.

Religion, emotions and social transformation along migratory processes. The cases of African church leaders in Spain and South Africa

221 p.

Harnessing the power of personality assessment:Subjective assessment predicts behaviour in horses

Objective assessment of animal personality is typically time consuming, requiring the repeated measure of behavioural responses. By contrast, subjective assessment of personality allows information to be collected quickly by experienced caregivers. However, subjective assessment must predict behaviour to be valid. Comparisons of subjective assessments and behaviour have been made but often with methodological weaknesses and thus, limited success. Here we test the validity of a subjective assessment against a battery of behaviour tests in 146 horses (Equus caballus). Our first aim was to determine if subjective personality assessment could predict behaviour during behaviour testing. We made specific a priori predictions for how subjectively measured personality should relate to behaviour testing. We found that Extroversion predicted time to complete a handling test and refusal behaviour during this test. It also predicted minimum distance to a novel object. Neuroticism predicted how reactive an individual was to a sudden visual stimulus but not how quickly it recovered from this. Agreeableness did not predict any behaviour during testing. There were several unpredicted correlations between subjective measures and behaviour tests which we explore further. Our second aim was to combine data from the subjective assessment and behaviour tests to gain a more comprehensive understanding of personality. We found that the combination of methods provides new insights into horse behaviour. Furthermore, our data are consistent with the idea of horses showing different coping styles, a novel finding for this species. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.

Relating the spatial component and users interests to improve applications based on questions, petitions and participatory processes

Nowadays, participatory processes attending the need for real democracy and transparency in governments and collectives are more needed than ever. Immediate participation through channels like social networks enable people to give their opinion and become pro-active citizens, seeking applications to interact with each other. The application described in this dissertation is a hybrid channel of communication of questions, petitions and participatory processes based on Public Participation Geographic Information System (PPGIS), Participation Geographic Information System (PGIS) and ‘soft’ (subjective data) Geographic Information System (SoftGIS) methodologies. To achieve a new approach to an application, its entire design is focused on the spatial component related with user interests. The spatial component is treated as main feature of the system to develop all others depending on it, enabling new features never seen before in social actions (questions, petitions and participatory processes). Results prove that it is possible to develop a working application mainly using open source software, with the possibility of spatial and subject filtering, visualizing and free download of actions within application. The resulting application empowers society by releasing soft data and defines a new breaking approach, unseen so far.