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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Généalogie et famille insulaire : les unions mixtes et leurs descendants sur l’île de San Andrés, caraïbe colombienne / Genealogy and island families : mixed relationships and their descendants on San Andrés island, Colombian Caribbean

González Delgadillo, Gabriel Gilberto 10 June 2015 (has links)
Depuis quelques années, l’île colombienne de San Andrés fait beaucoup parler d’elle, particulièrement par rapport aux problèmes démographiques et la position défensive que certains de ses habitants ont adoptée face aux politiques gouvernementales. Leur position de refus contre les politiques du gouvernement central se traduit par des revendications ethniques et culturelles et par un désir d’autonomie qui s’appuie sur la nouvelle Constitution politique de 1991. Cependant, obnubilés par ce conflit politique, les travaux de recherche menés à San Andrés oublient souvent un élément important : les rapports sociaux entre les habitants insulaires. Ce travail prétend apporter un nouveau regard sur l’ethnohistoire, la mémoire et le présent des relations sociales et généalogiques de la société de San Andrés. En partant du point de vue des généalogies et de l’anthropologie de la parenté, son objectif est de comprendre les formes d’organisation sociale, culturelle et religieuse afin d’élucider le rôle et l’importance des unions mixtes et leurs descendants dans la société de San Andrés d’aujourd’hui. / In recent years, much attention has been paid to the Colombian island of San Andrés, focusing primarily on demographic problems and the defensive posture displayed by some of the island’s residents regarding central government policies. This posturing manifests itself through ethnic and cultural identity claims and a desire for political autonomy, which are legitimated by the 1991 Constitution. However, blindsided by the idea of a political conflict, the research done on San Andrés often omits a key aspect of life on the island: the social relationships that link its inhabitants to one another. This research aims to shed a new light on the ethnohistory and memory as well as the social and genealogical relationships that shape San Andrés’s present day society. From a genealogical point of view based in kinship studies and a thorough understanding of this society’s social, cultural and religious organization, this study’s objective is to identify the role and importance of mixed relationships and their descendants on San Andrés’s society today.
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Networks of Displacement Genealogy, Nationality, and Ambivalence in Works by Vladimir Nabokov and Gary Shteyngart

Darnell, Michael Richard January 2016 (has links)
In this dissertation I examine Vladimir Nabokov’s and Gary Shteyngart’s use of family metaphors to manage intersecting Russian and American literary and cultural continuities. Both authors fashion their relationships to literary predecessors and common cultural narratives in terms of disrupted filial relationships, describing both an attachment to the conservative narratives of the nation and a desire to move beyond their rigid structure. I articulate this ambivalence as a productive state of transnational subjecthood that allows these authors to navigate apparently oppositional national identities. Central to this reorientation is a critique of the hierarchical schema of the national canon, which frames literary culture as a determinative series of authoritative relationships. By reimagining these relations as part of a branching network of co-constituting associations, we open the space for transnational subjects to move within and overlap these networks.
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Communicating Across Time: Female Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination

O'Loughlin, Emma Bridget January 2016 (has links)
This dissertation, “Communicating Across Time: Female Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination,” explores the range of genealogical forms, alternative to patrilineage, that British writers used to depict the transmission of women’s power across time in early-twelfth to late-fourteenth-century literature. By taking an expansive definition of genealogy and exploring romance and hagiography, it highlights a widespread and persistent interest in medieval literature in the ways female characters record their legacies and communicate these legacies to future generations. By examining genealogy in these literary terms, this study revises current understandings of a core aspect of medieval culture and expands current definitions of what constitutes medieval historiography. Though patrilineal genealogy has been widely studied, we currently have little vocabulary to talk about female genealogies. Broadly stated, genealogy in this study describes the author’s description of a deliberate communication from the past that explains, curates or contests contemporary social-political landscapes, and to make claims to the future. Patrilineage, which became the main system of genealogy from the twelfth century, idealized the transmission of power – name, land holdings, and the legend of a common ancestor – from father to son. Even the notion that women possessed power and stories to communicate threatened a system that relied on mothers as passive genealogical vehicles. Aristocratic women, as landholders, heirs, politicians and religious leaders, did of course have legacies to communicate. Because medieval women’s claims to land and power were more mobile and less standardized than men’s, this dissertation is less interested in what female protagonists communicate across time and more interested in how - the means and processes of communication. This study’s focus on alternative female genealogies also highlights new ways of understanding literary representations of medieval maternity. In the texts examined, motherhood is not limited to the domestic, bodily and momentary, but is a political and agential role that is actively managed by the woman herself, often in conjunction with other forms of written and verbal communication. Literary texts reveal the various, and often unexpected, means medieval writers and readers imagined for women’s cross-temporal communications. Female characters frequently employ alternative genealogical ‘bodies’ to that of a male child, actively revising the topos of women as simply the bodily matter and means for a male line. The characters inscribe their claims to land, power and spirituality through footprints in rocks, blood-impressed doors, tenderly-handled books, a mother’s exact resemblance imprinted in her child’s face. The intimacy and deliberateness with which these women create and manage their cross-generational communications both draws on and destabilizes traditional ideals of motherhood and genealogy. The four chapters read across French, English and Latin texts, as many English readers would have done, with a focus on the genres of hagiography, romance and chronicle from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.
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Using genealogical trees to examine admixture between modern humans and Neandertals

Frangou, Anna January 2016 (has links)
This thesis uses genealogical trees to identify, date, and quantify patterns of admixture between Neandertals and individual modern human populations, using a combination of high quality data and parametric methodology. Previous methods on this subject have either approximated features of trees, or inferred them indirectly. Here, genealogical trees are used directly to understand the admixture process between humans and Neandertals by extending a recently developed method named CEPHi: Coalescent Estimation of Population History. CEPHi uses recombinationally cold regions of the human genome to build genealogical trees specifying the relationships between individuals in two input populations (one Neandertal, one human), including estimated population size histories, split times, and coalescence and mutation times. Using CEPHi, a Neandertal-human population split time of ~712,000 years in the past is estimated, as well as uncovering loci introduced by Neandertal-human admixture, revealing distinct bimodal distributions of estimated coalescence times between non-African and Neandertal haplotypes. A Neandertal population history is inferred, from the time of their split with humans up to ~50,000 years ago (the fossil age), showing this archaic species to have suffered a bottleneck at this time, consistent with leaving Africa, followed by a further reduction to extinction. Contrasting African-Neandertal and Eurasian-Neandertal analyses are used to define admixture using genealogical trees, and test our procedures in CEPHi via coalescent-based simulations. This region-level definition of admixture is used to specify sets of introgressed coldspots across 13 modern human populations. These sets are compared between pairs of populations, revealing information about the possible timing of interactions between Neandertals and modern humans, and sharing of admixture events between human groups, especially with respect to the split time between European and Asian populations. Online sets of introgressed regions for each of the four continents in our dataset are provided: African, American, Asian, and European. Finally, in order to investigate the variation in time of contact between Neandertals and individual human populations, a novel method is described and implemented which dates admixture between individual human populations and Neandertals, using information from genealogical trees. Dates of admixture are estimated as ~50-60,000 years in the past in European populations, and ~80-90,000 years in the past in Asian populations, suggestive of potentially somewhat distinct histories between European and Asian populations. This method can be applied to date any set of introgressed regions, including those shared between particular populations, enabling a clearer picture of the joint evolutionary history of modern humans, Neandertals, and other archaic species.
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'Hallowed be thy Grime? : a musicological and sociological genealogy of Grime music and its relation to Black Atlantic religious discourse' (#HBTG?)

Charles, Monique January 2016 (has links)
Grime is a Black British music genre originating from London in the early 2000s. Linked to inner-city street/road culture, it is a subaltern subculture that initially experienced criminalisation, racialisation and marginalisation through the media and music industries, politicians, legislation, policing – mainstream British society. This ethnographic project reclaims power from the mainstream marginalising gaze by enabling the scene's predominantly Black and White working class members to elucidate and direct Grime's narrative from its inception. The project uses Foucault’s (1997) definition of genealogy to interrogate Grime's emergence musically and subculturally. It uses Lena’s AgSIT (2012) genre model to examine Grime's development teleologically. Hall's (1978) 'Internal Colonies' and Baker's Black Public Sphere (1996) are used in conjunction to examine the significance of local (tangible) and cultural (intangible) influences on Grime and how these connect to African diasporic cultural and spiritual practice (Mbiti 1991). Scene directed narrative highlights subcultural understandings of British society, the world, universe and sublime. It interrogates communal and personal identifications, subcultural fan practices and affective investments, to draw out subversive or normative meaning making with respect to politics, religion/spirituality, race, class, gender and technological democratisation. Ethnographic data was captured through in-depth semi-structured interviews, participant observation (events and Twitter) and Musicological Discourse Analysis (sonic and lyrics), to enable the exploration of 21st century inner-city subaltern youth experience; independent from, and, in dialogue with wider British society. Thematic analysis was applied across all data collection methods. This enabled the triangulation of Grime subcultural experience through various vantage points. This project makes a scholarly contribution by creating a new narrative for Grime, identifying the substantive issues of music, ‘race’, religion/spirituality, subalternity and technological democratisation, in addition to developing theories for musical analysis and affective investment through music, culture and spirituality for the social sciences.
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On the genealogy of power, truth-telling and self-care : (neo)governmentality and globalisation

Lais, Dimitrios January 2016 (has links)
This thesis considers Foucault’s political value with respect to ‘governmentality’. It does this by attending to Foucault as an ethical philosopher, drawing on Foucault’s progressive use of genealogy as three interrelated axes (power, truth, and ethics). The ‘governmentality concept’ and Foucault’s political value can be fully realized only on this basis. ‘Governmentality’ is a critical concept that initially appears in a discussion of instrumentally rational power tied to a genealogy of power, but becomes more nuanced and, perhaps, relevant to contemporary forms of democratic governance when Foucault discusses ancient ethics and the Enlightenment. Therefore, the concern with how to govern the freedom of others interlinks with the problematisation of how to govern the self. Instead of reading Foucault’s discussion of parrhesia and enlightenment as merely sources that contribute to contemporary theories of democratic emancipation, I suggest that both Foucault’s preference for the Phaedo-Laches/Cynic parrhesia over the Alcibiades’ version—with its Neoplatonic connotations—and his condemnation of the Enlightenment as a project of man leading to a telos, generates both a genealogical critique of the present and an ethos of living. To put it differently, a genealogy of ethics is identified and further realised in this thesis. Genealogy driven by the ethical axis contemplates how power, truth-telling and self-care interact to interrupt ‘games of power’ by leading to ‘games of knowledge’ rather than ‘games of truth’. Building on David Owen’s ‘legislation versus orientation in thinking’, Thomas Osborne’s ‘scientific/therapeutic enlightenment versus aesthetic enlightenment’ and Nikolas Rose’s ‘ethopolitics’, I forge a twofold ‘neogovernmentality critique’. Thus, I give an overview of Foucault’s theory before laying the groundwork for a ‘neogovernmentality critique’. This overview attempts to bring the genealogy of antiquity and the genealogy of instrumental rationality together for the sake of understanding the present. The ‘critique’ contributes to the established Habermas-Foucault debate with respect to parrhesia and enlightenment, while focussing on the less discussed connection between governmentality and deliberative democracy. It also illuminates the discussion between Foucault and the reflexive sociology of Beck and Giddens with respect to the ideas of parrhesia and enlightenment, while elaborating the connections between governmentality and cosmopolitanism.
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Ética e educação em perspectiva teleológica : genealogia e crítica

Reis, Alexandre Henrique dos January 2016 (has links)
A presente tese é uma hermenêutica das ideias educacionais de Platão e de Aristóteles; uma leitura do vir a ser das Universidades no contexto medieval — e um debate com Kant e com Nietzsche sobre suas concepções a cerca do Esclarecimento (Aufklärung). Reunidos esses elementos de leitura sobre a mesa, a tese esforça-se em empreender uma compreensão de nosso tempo, perseguindo a construção de uma crítica da educação e da ética a partir de uma visão teleológica. Para além do esforço interpretativo que mira a concepção educacional tradicional, cada capítulo é finalizado com uma seção intitulada Disputatio Praesens, em que se procura debater o tema abordado na Idade contemporânea. Toda a discussão sobre as relações entre a educação crítica e a posição dogmática desemboca em um exame da missão da Universidade atual e da prática dos Comitês de Ética em Pesquisa. Trata-se, portanto, de provocar um debate atual sobre temas que foram colocados no centro da atenção da tradição europeia, a fim de se estabelecer novamente um exame de problemas fundamentais, como a ética e a educação, a partir de uma posição filosófica crítica. / This thesis is a hermeneutic of the educational ideas of Plato and Aristotle, a reading of what became the universities in the medieval context - and a debate with Kant and Nietzsche about their understanding of Enlightment (Aufklärung). Putting these elements together, the thesis makes an effort to understand our times, pursuing the construction of a critique of education and ethics from a theleological perspective. Beyong an interpretative effort looking at the traditional educational conception, each chapter ends with a section entitled Disputatio Praesens, in which we seek to address the subject in the contemporary age. The whole discussion about the relations between critical educaction and the dogmatic position falls into an examination of the mission of the current University and of Research Ethics Committees. Thus, we provoke a debate around issues which were the center of attention in european tradition, with the goal of establishing again an examination of fundamental problems, like ethics and education, from a critical philosophical position.
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O urbanismo dos arquitetos : genealogia de uma experiência de ensino

Mello, Bruno César Euphrasio de January 2016 (has links)
Este é um trabalho historiográfico. Realiza uma genealogia do ensino de urbanismo na Faculdade de Arquitetura da UFRGS (FA-UFRGS). Busca, com isso, compreendê-lo e identificar seus sentidos subjacentes. Para tanto, recupera a trajetória do ensino da arquitetura e do urbanismo nas instituições que a deram origem – a Escola de Engenharia e o Instituto de Belas Artes – e percorre suas três primeiras décadas de existência. O recorte temporal se encerra nos anos 1970, momento em que ocorrem fatos que se revelariam capitais para o programa de ensino até hoje oferecido pela instituição: a extinção do curso de urbanismo, existente desde os anos 1940, a criação do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento Urbano e Regional (PROPUR) e a “migração” dos conteúdos do curso desaparecido ao PROPUR e à graduação em arquitetura. A tese sustenta que, na FA-UFRGS – desde o início, e até hoje – o ensino do urbanismo é tributário de saberes e práticas análogos aos do ensino da arquitetura, voltados essencialmente para o projeto de edificações. Sendo assim, a instrução em urbanismo buscou desenvolver a aptidão para elaborar projetos, entendidos como momento de síntese dos conhecimentos-diretores da produção de artefatos, em ponto grande ou pequeno (Alberti). Este seria o eixo central, o tronco ou a espinha dorsal do ensino de urbanismo naquela instituição, abordado finalmente como uma extensão (marginal) da arquitetura. O trabalho dialoga teórico e metodologicamente com a pesquisa historiográfica. De um lado, com a história dos conceitos, que articula seus sentidos a um tempo. Mas também com aquela que trata da constituição do urbanismo como domínio de saberes e práticas. Todavia, o faz a partir de corpo documental pouco usual, relativo ao ensino. / This is a historiographical study on the genealogy of urban planning teaching at the School of Architecture of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (FA-UFRGS), aiming at understanding and identifying its underlying directions. It retraces the first three decades of the history of architecture and urban planning from its origins - the School of Engineering and the Institute of Fine Arts. The last period studied is the 1970s, when landmarks of the current trajectory were established: the extinction of urban planning course that existed since the 1940s, the creation of the Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning (PROPUR) and the "migration" of the contents of the extinct course to PROPUR and to the undergraduate course in architecture. The thesis argues that at FA-UFRGS, since the beginning and until today, urban planning teaching is secondary to knowledge and practices applied in the teaching of architecture, essentially focused on building design. Therefore, urban planning education has sought to develop skills to develop projects, understood as the synthesis between guiding knowledge and the production of artifacts, according to Alberti. This is be the central axis, the trunk or the backbone of urban planning teaching, which has been essentially approached as an (marginal) extension of architecture. This thesis establishes a theoretical and methodological dialogue with historiographical research. On one hand, the history of concepts that links their meanings to a determined period, and on the other hand, it also discusses urban planning as a domain of knowledge and practices. However, this discussion is made from an unusual perspective – that of teaching.
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Straight edge: uma genealogia das condutas na encruzilhada do punk

Fernandes, Walisson Pereira 09 March 2015 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:55:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Walisson Pereira Fernandes.pdf: 3336996 bytes, checksum: 5e0932a05bfd9f262378354964e1b59b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-09 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Straight edge is the word used to describe persons who, in their everyday lives, are allied to the punk to not use substances considered addictive as alcohol, tobacco and psychoactive. Its beginnings derive from the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States. However, the genealogical analysis of their practices through the centuries, going back to abstainers movements of the United States and England between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and its ballast in the formation of moral, instilling in policy that determine behavior. With the emergence of punk in the 1970s as criticism of moralism, society and the state, the straight edge emerges in this context bringing a punk hygiene and, over the years, has become more violent and reductionist, emancipating itself from protoform and pouring a new ways to build and to solidify. The straight edge approached the environmental movements, looking to list anarchist aspects in their practice, but only reiterated other political forms that are linked more to progressivism that, in fact, to anarchism. In this purpose, several straight edgers who sought anarchism as a way of life, broke with the straight edge to proceed their libertarian path, and kept at the same time, the practical abstainers without the use of the nomenclature that identified previously. In Brazil, similar to what happened in the United States and Europe, the intensification of the straight edge scene brought also the anarchist cells of eruption for the construction of a group of vegan orientation appropriating an anarchist nomenclature for its consolidation among young libertarians causing not only the bedlam among their peers, but catches of anarchism and punk / Straight edge é a palavra utilizada para descrever os sujeitos que, em suas vidas cotidianas, aliam-se ao punk de modo a não utilizarem substâncias consideradas viciantes, como álcool, tabaco e psicoativos. Seus começos derivam do final da década de 1970 e começo da década de 1980 nos Estados Unidos. No entanto, a análise genealógica de suas práticas atravessa os séculos, remontando aos movimentos abstêmios dos Estados Unidos e da Inglaterra entre os séculos XIX e XX e seu lastro na formação da moral, infundindo na elaboração de políticas que determinariam condutas. Com o surgimento do punk na década de 1970 como crítica aos moralismos, à sociedade e ao Estado, o straight edge emerge neste contexto trazendo uma higienização do punk e, com o passar dos anos, se tornou mais violento e reducionista, desvinculando-se de sua protoforma e vertendo novos meios para se construir e se solidificar. O straight edge aproximou-se dos movimentos ambientalistas, procurando elencar aspectos anarquistas em sua prática, mas reiterou apenas outras formas políticas que vinculam-se mais a progressismos que, de fato, aos anarquismos. Neste intento, vários straight edgers que procuraram os anarquismos como forma de vida, romperam com o straight edge para dar prosseguimento a sua trajetória libertária, e mantiveram, ao mesmo tempo, as práticas abstêmias sem o uso da nomenclatura que os identificava anteriormente. No Brasil, semelhantemente ao ocorrido nos Estados Unidos e na Europa, a intensificação da cena straight edge trouxe, ainda, o irrompimento de células anarquistas para a construção de um grupo de orientação vegana apropriando-se de uma nomenclatura anarquista para sua consolidação entre jovens libertários, causando não apenas a balbúrdia entre seus pares, mas capturas dos anarquismos e do punk
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Fios de memórias. Um estudo sobre parentesco e história a partir da construção da genealogia manoki (irantxe) / Lines of memories. A study on kinship and history through manoki´s (irantxe´s) genealogy

Bueno, Ana Cecilia Venci 13 March 2015 (has links)
Essa tese tem como ponto de partida e referência a tessitura de uma rede de relações genealógicas e matrimoniais entre os Manoki (e os Mky), falantes de uma língua isolada distribuída em duas variantes dialetais (Irantxe e Mky). Esses coletivos reconhecem um passado comum e habitam atualmente duas Terras Indígenas distintas situadas no vale do rio Juruena, formador do Tapajós, na região noroeste do estado de Mato Grosso. A população manoki é atualmente estimada em 373 pessoas distribuídas em sete aldeias na Terra Indígena Irantxe, localizada em uma área predominantemente de cerrado, na margem esquerda do rio Cravari. Os 129 indivíduos mky vivem em uma única aldeia na Terra Indígena Menkü, região de transição de mata e cerrado circunscrita pelos rios Papagaio e do Sangue. O parentesco é aqui considerado um idioma privilegiado para compreender quem são essas populações, como pensam sua história e as maneiras como modulam suas relações com as diferentes figuras da alteridade, que vão desde as relações internas a este conjunto linguístico, passando pelas relações com os brancos e outros povos ameríndios vizinhos, até chegar ao vasto número de seres dotados de agência, que chamam de espíritos, bichos e assombrações. / This thesis has as a starting point and reference the fabric of a kinship and marriage network among the Manoki (and the Mky), speakers of an isolated language distributed in two dialects (Irantxe and Mky). These Amerindian peoples acknowledges a common past and inhabit nowadays two distinct Indigenous Lands located in the valley of the Juruena river, a tributary of the Tapajós, in the northwestern region of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. Nowadays the Manoki population is estimated over 373 people distributed in seven different villages in the Indigenous Land Irantxe, situated in a predominantly savannah area on the left bank of the Cravari river. The 129 mky individuals live in a single village in the Indigenous Land Menkü, located in an area of transition between forest and savannah circumscribed by the rivers Papagaio and Sangue. Kinship relations are here considered as a privileged idiom to understand who these peoples are, how they think their own history and the ways they modulate their relations with different figures of alterity, ranging from internal relations between the speakers of these dialects, passing through the relations with whites and other Amerindian neighboring peoples and reaching a vast number of beings endowed with agency capabilities, which they call spirits, beasts and spectrums.

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