O Ensino de Hist��ria, Cultura Africana e Afro-Brasileira, na perspectiva da Lei N�� 10.639/2003: an��lise de pol��ticas p��blicas na EE. Prof. H��lio Palermo, cidade de Franca SP

P��s-gradua����o em Planejamento e An��lise de Pol��ticas P��blicas - FCHS

Entram em cena as tecnologias de subjetiva����o: Corpos e Desejos na cinematografia brasileira pela ��tica de diretoras de cinema no per��odo de 2002 a 2012 e suas implica����es para (des)constru����o dos g��neros

P��s-gradua����o em Psicologia - FCLAS

O Brasil que n��o �� bem assim: representa����es do Brasil na cobertura da Copa do Mundo 2014 pelo jornal The Guardian

P��s-gradua����o em Comunica����o - FAAC

Contesting Sphere Boundaries Online: Private/Technical/Public Discourses in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Discussion Groups

The internet is fast becoming a means for people to obtain information, creating a unique forum for the intersection of the public, technical, and private spheres. To ground my research theoretically, I used J��rgen Habermas���s sphere theory. Habermas (1987) explains that the technical sphere colonizes the private sphere, which decreases democratic potential. In particular, the internet is a place for altering technical colonization of the private and public spheres. My research focuses on women���s health because it is a particularly useful case study for examining sphere tensions. Historically, the biomedical health establishment has been a powerful agent of colonization, resulting in detrimental effects for women and their health. The purpose of this study is to examine how the internet encourages expert and female patient deliberation, which empowers women to challenge the experts and, thus, make conversations between the private/technical spheres more democratic. I used PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) as a case to observe the changing sphere boundaries by studying the discourse that took place on multiple patient and doctor websites over a four-year period. Through my research, I found that the PCOS women challenge the biomedical model by appropriating medical language. By understanding the medical talk, the women are able to feel confident when discussing their health conditions with the doctor and with each other. The PCOS women also become lay-experts who have personal and medical experience with PCOS, reducing private sphere colonization. This case study exemplifies how female empowerment can influence expert culture, challenging our conventional understanding of democracy.

An Assessment of Local Peoples Opinions of Community Conservation Initiatives in Relation to Livelihood Strategies in Kenya

Abstract This paper analyzed the changing livelihood strategies in Kenya, and their cultural impacts via a literature review. I then combined this understanding with the data I collected while in Kenya to examine the opinions local people have of community conservation initiatives, based on their changing livelihood strategies. I expected to find that the following factors would have an affect on the opinions local community members have of community conservation initiatives: livelihood strategy, gender, ethnicity, whether or not they believe the distribution of benefits coming from wildlife conservation is equitable, what issues they would like to see improved within community conservation initiatives, and their overall satisfaction with community conservation initiatives. Through correlation tests done using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Scientists) I found that all five of these factors do influence the perceptions local community members have of community conservation initiatives within the Amboseli region in Kenya.

An Ardent Flame: Witness to Distant Suffering, Human Rights and Unworthy Victims in the Coverage by <i>The New York Times</i> and Two Journals of the Religious Left of the 1980s Civil Wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua

Scholars have investigated witness to distant suffering (WTDS) almost entirely in visual media. This study examines it in print. This form of reporting will be examined in two publications of the religious left as contrasted with the New York Times. The thesis is that, more than any technology, WTDS consists of the journalist���s moral commitment and narrative skills and the audience���s analytical resources and trust. In the religious journals, liberation theology provides the moral commitment, the writers and editors the narrative skills and trust and the special vision of the newly empowered poor the analytical foundation. In bearing witness to those who have suffered state or guerilla terrorism in El Salvador and Nicaragua during the 1980s, we will investigate a distinction between ���worthy��� and ���unworthy victims.��� This last issue has a special ethical and political significance. Media witnessing to the suffering of strangers can help them become known, and so ���worthy.��� It can help them, and their plight and cause, become better recognized. This is the power of the media.

O Brasil que n��o �� bem assim: representa����es do Brasil na cobertura da Copa do Mundo 2014 pelo jornal The Guardian

P��s-gradua����o em Comunica����o - FAAC

The identities of the Brazilian female athlete: the "points of temporary attachment" of women in sports

The aim of this study is to analyze the formation of the Brazilian Olympic female athletes' identities and the construction of this social role both in the Olympic scene as in Brazilian social context. The results, when compared with previous researches and the theoretical approach allows to conclude that even after inclusion of the growing Brazilian women in several sports - including pointing out that this did not occur in the form of confrontation, just as in other countries - this does not represent a rethinking of the social roles of the female and male letting to the athletes maintain a separation between sports life and life as a woman.

Perdere la testa. La morte di Orfeo, Gustave Moreau, l'arte simbolista: itinerari transculturali

Considerando la figura di Orfeo, si mette in luce la ricezione del mito della morte di questo personaggio leggendario nell���arte simbolista, con particolare attenzione per Gustave Moreau. Il lavoro di ricerca vuole approfondire anche la natura epistemologica e metodologica dello studio della sopravvivenza dei classici, prediligendo i processi di tipo comparatistico e quelli che si rifanno alla grande categoria dei Cultural Studies, intendendo attraversare i confini, le barriere, le frontiere, i limiti delle discipline tradizionalmente intese. Viene cos�� presa in considerazione anche l���interazione tra cultura verbale, scritta, letteraria e cultura visuale, sottolineando i meccanismi di transtestualit��, nelle loro valenze e potenzialit�� di ibridazione e contaminazione. Si punta, dunque, non solo sulla superificie tematica specifica ma anche sulla filigrana dei procedimenti di legittimazione scientifica e della prasseologia di questa specifica area filologica transdisciplinare.

Brasilien als "vorgestellte Gemeinschaft"?

Die Formation Brasiliens ��ber ein dynastisches Reich vollzog sich auf einem historischen Sonderweg, der innerhalb des neuweltlichen Kontextes als Abh��ngigkeit von der Metropole und ��Dephasierung�� interpretiert wird. In Andersons viel beachteter These von der Nation als imagined community, die es erm��glichte, die neuweltlichen Republiken als Avantgarde der Idealisierung und diskursiven Konstruktion der Nation zu betrachten (creole pioneers), bleibt Brasilien aus diesem Grund als ��interessante Ausnahme�� ausgeklammert. Die hier unternommene Untersuchung Brasiliens als vorgestellte Gemeinschaft zeigt, dass seit der Kolonialzeit eine auf den brasilianischen Raum bezogene Makronarrative existierte, welche positive Elemente des europ��ischen Neuweltdiskurses binden und zur Vision eines idealisierten neuen Imperiums formieren konnte. Diese ��Brasilienerz��hlung�� orientierte die politische Emanzipation von Europa (als invers��o brasileira statt Bruch mit der Metropole) und konstituierte sich als monarchischer Legitimit��tsdiskurs in einer Alterit��tsbeziehung zu Hispanoamerika. Die Tradition ersetzte in der Gr��ndungsliteratur weitgehend eine nationale Neuschreibung Brasiliens und zeigte sich sp��ter sogar mit dem modernisierenden Nationalismusdiskurs der Republik vereinbar. Demnach existierte parallel zu den kreolisch-republikanischen Konstruktionen in Form der traditionellen, kontinuierlichen und integrativen Makronarrative ��Brasilien�� eine weitere neuweltliche Erz��hlung mit Pioniercharakter, die ebenfalls gemeinschaftliche Sinnstiftung bef��rdern und die offizielle Legitimit��tsgrundlage gleicherma��en von Reich und Nation bilden konnte.

Rap et homosexualite: retranchement homophobe ou changement de cap?

With the advent of the law about same-sex marriage in France, the aim of this dissertation is to analyse the relationship between homosexuality and rap music in the country and to determine to which degree this musical genre can influence people on this matter. Islam has flavoured rap from its beginnings because the vast majority of rappers has a Muslim culture. It is true that, Islam goes beyond the mere disapproval of homosexuality affirming that it is a vile fornication punishable by death. This leads rappers to a rejection of homosexuality in their songs. And, thanks to mass media, these songs contributed to the spreading of the stigma of homophobia upon the ���mainstream���. Nevertheless, since 2009, a growing crop of rappers began to support the LGBT community with their work. Rap songs became in this way the anthem of the LGBT campaigns, out from the classic mass media. The result of this dissertation is that rap can have a strong influence upon population and can help them change their mind upon certain subjects, as it was the case for the homosexual cause.

Revisioning a Japanese Spiritual Recovery Through Manga: Kobayashi Yoshinori���s ���G��manism��� as Aesthetics and Ideology

This essay provides a critical analysis of the aesthetic ideology of ���Gomanism��� in the manga of Kobayashi Yoshinori (b. 1953), particularly Yasukuniron (On Yasukuni, 2005) and Tenn��ron (On the Emperor, 2009), in order to flesh out the implications of the author���s ���revisionist��� approach to Japanese religion, politics and history.

Ecriture romanesque post-apartheid chez J.M. Coetzee et Nadine Gordimer

Which changes has the official dismantling of apartheid brought in the novel writing of the two South African Nobel Prize winners? Focussing on Gordimer���s Get a life and Coetzee���s Elizabeth Costello, this study tries to reflect that main question. Theoretically, some elements of the cultural studies such as the popular, the liberalism and the fiction as a political work, help me develop my work. Narratology and structuralism help me for the literary study of the narratives, which constitute the core of my reflexion. From my study it appears that the post-apartheid novel as written by Coetzee and Gordimer has the same ideological orientation as their writing during the apartheid era. They write from the dominant perspective and dominant group. This situation challenges as Gordimer���s as Coetzee���s popularity on the ground of South African literature.

The Problematic of Privacy in the Namespace

In the twenty-first century, the issue of privacy--particularly the privacy of individuals with regard to their personal information and effects--has become highly contested terrain, producing a crisis that affects both national and global social formations. This crisis, or problematic, characterizes a particular historical conjuncture I term the namespace. Using cultural studies and the theory of articulation, I map the emergent ways that the namespace articulates economic, juridical, political, cultural, and technological forces, materials, practices and protocols. The cohesive articulation of the namespace requires that privacy be reframed in ways that make its diminution seem natural and inevitable. In the popular media, privacy is often depicted as the price we pay as citizens and consumers for security and convenience, respectively. This discursive ideological shift supports and underwrites the interests of state and corporate actors who leverage the ubiquitous network of digitally connected devices to engender a new regime of informational surveillance, or dataveillance. The widespread practice of dataveillance represents a strengthening of the hegemonic relations between these actors--each shares an interest in promoting an emerging surveillance society, a burgeoning security politics, and a growing information economy--that further empowers them to capture and store the personal information of citizens/consumers. In characterizing these shifts and the resulting crisis, I also identify points of articulation vulnerable to rearticulation and suggest strategies for transforming the namespace in ways that might empower stronger protections for privacy and related civil rights.