Construction de l'Est et de l'Ouest : vers des compétences interculturelles. Un exemple de recherche à Hong-Kong en situation de mobilité académique

Numerous scholars have already stressed the need to prepare students prior to academic mobility (Abdallah-Pretceille, 2003; Jackson, 2013, for example) in order to face hypermodernity (Aubert, 2004). As per the new mobilities paradigm (Urry, 2007), this implies considering individuals at the centre of political and institutional issues. Furthermore, the multiplicity of terminology of references towards academic mobility, and intercultural competences, justifies this research. The theory, for this doctoral dissertation, applies “renewed interculturality” (Dervin, 2012), a move away from a culturalist approach. Intercultural competences are therefore defined as a stepping back from discourses on the Other that may emerge during encounters. In order to collect the data, six focus groups have been organised with two batches of students from a Higher Education Institution in Hong-Kong, an “education hub” (Dervin & Machart, 2014) that is striving to be competitive particularly in increasing the number of incomingand outcoming students. Training and education to interculturality have been implemented prior to academic mobility in order to observe the impact on participants’ discourses before and after the mobility. Theories of enunciation and dialogism represent the methodology allowing us to compare and analyse the reported voices in the participants’ discourse and their prosodic realisation (Martin & White, 2005) before and after the experience of academic mobility. I have attempted to observe the dialogic space available to welcome the Other during encounters in the participants’ discourse. The results seem to underline the increased number of reported voices in participants’ discourse after study abroad, but as the space opened for negotiation is instable and depends on the interlocutors and the voices addressed, consequently, further research appears necessary to study the influences of a preparation prior to mobility on the contraction or expansion of heteroglossia. All in all, this doctoral dissertation aimed to renew preparation

Prendre le loisir au sérieux : les pratiques sportives des jeunes professionnels comme observatoire de l'individuation hypermoderne.

La présente thèse porte sur l’interface entre les pratiques de loisir sportif des élites professionnelles au Québec et l’évolution récente du capitalisme cognitif. En se concentrant sur les activités récréatives de l’élite de prestige (Coenen-Huther 2004) composée de diplômés universitaires en début de carrière, population nommée ici jeunes professionnels hypermodernes (JPH), l’étude vise à décrire l’articulation entre l’espace social du loisir sérieux (Stebbins 1982) et les transformations des modes de vie hypermodernes. L’enquête qualitative menée est composée d’entretiens biographiques conduits auprès de jeunes adultes professionnels amateurs de sport et d’une observation participante réalisée à Montréal au sein de deux équipes d’Ultimate. Elle pose un regard critique vis-à-vis des théories qui prônent l’émergence d’un individu réflexif et autonome qui serait épargné de toute forme de contrainte normative extérieure. Contrairement à ce genre d’interprétation, l’approche configurationnelle développée par Norbert Elias (1991) est mobilisée pour montrer comment les maillages d’interrelations entre JPH nous permettent de comprendre de manière relationnelle l’évolution des processus de socialisation propres à la « classe créative » du capitalisme post-industriel.

La construction de la conjugalité chez des conjoints de couples formés sur des sites de rencontre en ligne : une perspective interactionniste symbolique

Le couple est le commencement de la famille, la cellule fondamentale de la société et un des principaux lieux de solidarité pour les individus. Or, depuis quelques années l’irruption d’internet a permis l’instauration de rapports sociaux nouveaux que l’on peut identifier dans les façons de rencontrer quelqu’un ou de tomber amoureux. L’apparition des sites de rencontre a notamment permis à des individus de pouvoir faire la rencontre amoureuse de l’autre sur un site dédié et à convenance. Cette étude vise à une meilleure compréhension du phénomène social qu’est la construction de la conjugalité à partir de la rencontre sur des sites dédiés sur internet et partant des représentations des participants interrogés. Notre but était également de démontrer comme l’a souligné Marie-Chantal Doucet (2009) que l’action de l’individu sur les sites de rencontre en ligne n’est pas le fait de déterminations mais qu’il bénéficie plutôt d’une marge de jeu, lui permettant d’interpréter les codes et de donner un sens à ses actions et aux actions des autres car l’individu sur les sites de rencontre en ligne joue un personnage. Pour mener à bien cette étude, nous avons adopté un cadre théorique qui s’inscrit dans la perspective de l’interactionnisme symbolique en nous appuyant sur une approche par théorisation ancrée. Il ressort entre autre de l’enquête qualitative que nous avons menée que la construction conjugale est surtout le fruit de la rencontre en face à face car la rencontre en ligne proprement dite est marquée par le stigma et la marchandisation des corps que proposent les sites de rencontre ne sont pas propice au sentiment d’intimité favorable au développement du lien conjugal.

Instâncias da representação imagética hiper-real

The approach that undertakes this work revolves around the emergence of iconic structures on reflecting about the meaning of different methods of image representation through which the contemporaneity reveals itself. At baseline, three aspects are considered looking for an analytical ontology of the act of representation and imagery: the transition of representation in the oral culture of societies for writing, from these to typography, and finally the creation of a representation device. Resorted to, therefore, the argument by some genealogy reference points that technological instances such as writing, printing and photography, the evolution of this process, correspond, in itself, a consequent shift technique, for each representation precedent. In the area of the image, the most salient aspect of this change in foward process is the emergence of hyper-reality: the instances of hyper-realistic representation. In the Western context, the 'simulation of the world' - essential idea of mimesis is the work of an autonomous an conventional system. It should be noted, then the fact that under unreflective of the post-industrial societies, the mass-media image is coating with natural or fake code including - according to Baudrillard - tends to replace the real world in the "perpetuation of a large chain of simulacra." Hence in modern times, in the postindustrial society, during the crisis of the representation regimen and perception, centered in the referent. In this limit, new settings are established by aesthetic representations of imagery in contemporary culture: establishing spaces of simulation [Jean Baudrillard] the spectacle [Guy Debord] and hypermodernity [Gilles Lipovetsky] in which they operate. In these assemblages, saps the emergence of Hyper-reality Representation Instances - as seen in this study aesthetic events to configure itineraries of a new sensibility. It is the nature of this practice sign-iconic, ingrained in the creation of current artistic expression, which this research engaged in peering: the hyper-realistic setting, taking empirical support central to contemporary imagery production, diverse formats of analog representation.

A festa do Peão de Boiadeiro: espaço-mercadoria, indústria cultural e consumo

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

O protagonismo do indivíduo na sociedade hipermoderna

Este trabalho pretende discorrer sobre os vários signifi cados que o termo individualismo pode assumir na sociedade hipermoderna. Isso será feito a partir da elaboração de uma tipologia dos indivíduos: indivíduo pouco indivíduo; indivíduo muito indivíduo e indivíduo narcísico altruísta, mostrando que o último tipo é o que melhor expressa a sociedade de hoje: uma sociedade paradoxal na qual coabitam sentidos contrários. E é exatamente em função das contradições e paradoxos que se pode acenar com otimismo para as possibilidades do indivíduo: ele pode ser, a um só tempo, obcecado por si mesmo e sensível ao outro.

Representação, crise e mal-estar institucional

Assuming from the very beginning that contemporary democracies cannot work without active parliaments, this article deals with the recurrent image of the crisis of representation of the modern State, that is, with the latter's alleged difficulties to fulfill some of the strategic roles demanded by complex societies in recent times. I contend that the problems of legitimacy in today's political systems are linked with the crisis of the State triggered by the new economic and social structures of contemporary capitalism. According to my hypothesis, the transformations of capitalist society - i.e., of hypermodernity - jeopardized and bypassed representation, which is now facing serious operational issues.

Comunicação de marcas de moda: nova proposta para a ação do Relações Públicas

This study has the objective of presenting a new suggestion to the public relations professional into the Brazilian fashion business, seeing that, besides promising and little explored, presents social-economic conditions that allow the profession actuation. For this, it has been deeply analyzed the social character of fashion history e its development parallel to the society historical and economic transformations, basing, then, the study of fashion history in Brazil. To understand contemporaneity and the relations which interlace on it, there were used two analyzes about nowadays social order, liquid pos-modernity, from Bauman; and the hypermodernity, from Lipovetsky. In this context, it‟s approached new ways of relating with marks and with products which, since their consumption, are prepared to posterior discard. In the accelerated scenario of marks and consumption, the human relations, more liquids and tenuous, create the urgent possibility of action from on communication professional, who knows to identify the consumers desires and foresee their needs, rendering the tenuous laces stronger and the relationships more solid. This is when the profession of public relations presents itself as a new proposal to create experiences and to tight the loose laces on the consumption era

Desafios da universidade pública na hipermodernidade

This article supposes that the Brazilian public university has dilemmas and challenges due to a more complex process that affects the whole society: Brazil has to deal with specific problems of its modernization process, at the same time that it is under pressure by the new challenges that are resulted from the globalization process. Based on a specialized literature, the aim of this article is to show how this interweaving modern/hypermodern process is challenging Brazilian public university toward more and more complex and diversified demands.

El humano como recurso de las organizaciones hipermodernas: resonancias del poder gerencialista

Nowadays, the current work perspective is characterized by a management economy in which the accounting and financial considerations overlap the human and social considerations. Therefore, there is a creation of a social imaginary dominated by a capitalist and utilitarist logic. With this in mind, we intend, in this theoretical-reflexive study, learn the power resonances and managerialist ideology for the included subjects in the hypermodern organizations. This way, this research was constructed by the light of Psichosociology. The reading through these approaches emphasizes the imaginary dimension, intersubjective and group of the organizations, contributing to the understanding of job relations and worker's mental health.

A criança nativa digital no contexto de filmes publicitários

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

A criança nativa digital no contexto de filmes publicitários

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

La narrativa italiana degli anni Duemila - tra postmodernità e ipermodernità

Nel corso degli ultimi quindici anni, il dibattito letterario italiano si è rivolto soprattutto alla persistenza dei caratteri del postmoderno italiano nella produzione letteraria nazionale, e parallelamente sulla ricerca dei sintomi e dei segnali che possano dimostrare un superamento di questo periodo storico e letterario. Le posizioni prese dalla critica letteraria sono polarizzate, da una parte i sostenitori di un necessario recupero dei caratteri al contempo realisti e modernisti e dall’altra coloro che ritengono che il postmoderno sia evoluto verso una forma più matura. In questo lavoro, sulla scorta di Luperini, Donnarumma e Cortellessa, consideriamo il postmoderno come una fase artistica e storica consumata. Pertanto, abbiamo indagato le forme che rappresentano i nodi tematici più riconoscibili della nuova produzione letteraria italiana; lo si è fatto attraverso le opere di alcuni autori che più di altri mostrano una sensibilità comune e degli elementi problematici affini, malgrado delle differenze stilistiche profonde. Abbiamo scelto di concentrarci sulla produzione di Giorgio Falco, Nicola Lagioia, Laura Pugno e Giorgio Vasta. Nella prima parte, abbiamo osservato la presenza della corporalità in alcune opere di tali autori, alfine di verificare le modalità del ritorno alla dimensione fisica dell’esistenza. Nella seconda parte, abbiamo indagato il ritorno all’impegno, osservando la rappresentazione degli anni Settanta e Ottanta e lo sguardo degli autori verso la città diffusa del nord Italia.