The social and political history of Catalonia has long been dominated by debates about language, nation and identity and forty years of linguistic and cultural repression have impacted the sociocultural landscape of the region. The new millennium and new nationalist/gendered identities in the context of changing patterns of migration, growing multiculturalism and economic crisis have led to a resurgence of nationalism and renewed demands for Catalan independence since 2010. Adopting oral history as a central method, this thesis examines language, nation and identity from a gendered perspective and investigates to what extent women use Catalan in their everyday social practices to construct gendered and national identities. The focus of the study is three female 'generations' from one Catalan village. It covers 50 years of historical change from the 1960s to the present. The thesis explores women’s contribution to the preservation of Catalan language during Franco's regime (1939-75); how the emergence of a feminist movement and discourse, and changing patterns of migration, have transformed the relationship between gender and national identity in Catalonia; and the role that Catalan plays today in defining women's (individual) identities and as a nation-building tool. Previous research has not considered an intergenerational approach and this study addresses this gap. Drawing on theories of nationalism, gender and nation and language ideologies, I adopt a new analytical approach incorporating discourse analysis and small story research to examine the narratives of 40 oral history interviews and a corpus of social media data. In order to organise the diverse themes in my data I develop a spatial framework in which I identify three principal spaces: physical, ideological and temporal. Mainstream and political discourse exemplify the Catalan nation as civic, intercultural and tolerant. This study challenges these canonical beliefs. The findings reveal ethnolinguistic ideologies and a complex divergence/convergence of issues surrounding migration that are difficult to reconcile with official discourse. Specifically the findings provide insights into some of the issues of inclusion and exclusion that are absent in political and nationalist discourse and suggests that an increased understanding of cultural pluralism at a local level can be abstracted to the Catalan community as a whole.

abstract: By drawing from six oral histories of Mexican immigrant women living in Phoenix, Arizona, this thesis builds on the current literature on Mexican immigrant women living in the United States. Through an analysis of U.S. policies that spur Mexican migration to the U.S. and its simultaneous policies that dissuade and criminalize immigrant presence in the U.S., I highlight the increased level of migration through Arizona and the ensuing anti-immigrant politics in the state. By centering women in this context, I demonstrate the obstacle Mexican immigrant women face in the crossing and upon arrival in Phoenix, Arizona. In sharing the stories of Mexican immigrant women who overcome these obstacles, I challenge the portrayal of Mexican immigrant women as victims of violence and use the work of Chicana feminist theorists and oral history methodology to highlight the experiences of Mexican immigrant women adapting to life in the U.S. in order to expand literature of their unique lived experiences and to also contribute the stories of resiliency of Mexican immigrant women in the contentious anti-immigrant city of Phoenix, Arizona. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. Social Justice and Human Rights 2012

Orientadora: Lídia Maria Vianna Possas / Banca: Antônio Mendes da Costa Braga / Banca: Cristiana Scheibe Wolff / Resumo: A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo compreender práticas e representações culturais a respeito da viuvez feminina e como a viuvez "compulsória institucionalizada" no período da Ditadura Brasileira nos anos de 1970 a 1980 rompe com os padrões instituídos socialmente. Partindo da construção da educação feminina e os modelos pré-estipulados para os padrões exigidos as chamadas "moças de família", analisamos como os papeis sociais femininos influenciaram na construção de representações estereotipadas de viuvez feminina. Trata-se de retomar o estado civil dado como naturalizado, bem como os valores atribuídos que reforçam estereótipos, que obscurecem a participação das viúvas enquanto atores sociais, relegando-as aos resmungos e representações incômodas, o que as manteve invisíveis como objetos de pesquisa. A partir da perspectiva da História Cultural, a pesquisa baseia-se na análise empírica de uma realidade, através de relatos orais de mulheres no Estado de São Paulo (oficialmente casadas ou não), que possuem vivências díspares diante da perda dos maridos/companheiros por intervenção dos órgãos de repressão. Busca ainda analisar informações que não foram devidamente analisadas pela historiografia tomando como premissa inicial a ressignificação da viuvez, dos relatos orais e análise de fontes múltiplas para considerar as distintas vivências de viúvas que, revendo papéis tradicionais, construíram novas identidades transformando-se em sujeitos de poder e protagonistas na História. A partir das distintas experiências, procuramos destacar as alterações nos rituais da morte e a influência que esses tiveram na manutenção da memória de seus maridos/companheiros. Partimos da construção de uma identidade feminina estereotipada dos manuais de boas maneiras e da educação familiar ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research aims to understand cultural practices and representations of the female widowhood and widowhood as "institutionalized compulsory" in the period of the Brazilian dictatorship in the years 1970 to 1980 breaks with the standards established socially. From the construction of female education and pre-stipulated models for the standards required socalled "family girls", we analyze how women's social roles influenced the construction of stereotypical representations of female widowhood. This is to resume the marital status given as national as well as the assigned values that reinforce stereotypes that obscure the participation of widows as social actors, relegating them to the grumbling and uncomfortable representations, what remained invisible as research subjects. From the perspective of Cultural History, the research is based on empirical analysis of a reality through oral histories of women in the State of São Paulo (officially married or not) who have disparate experiences at the loss of their husbands / partners by intervention of the enforcement agencies. Search also analyze information that were not properly analyzed by the historiography taking as initial premise the redefinition of widowhood, oral reports and analysis from multiple sources to consider the different experiences of widows who, reviewing traditional roles, built new identities turning into subjects power and protagonists in history. From the different experiences we seek to changes in the rituals of death and the influence these have in maintaining the memory of their husbands / partners. We start with the construction of a woman from childhood through youth and focusing on adulthood to understand how these women conceived his life from the marriage and how death was breaking project plans and a family life. As official militant leftist ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

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Scholars of Irish migration in twentieth-century Britain have tended to present migrants' experiences through two opposing stories about 'assimilation' and the struggle to preserve an 'Irish ethnic identity' in the face of official attempts at repression. Based on in-depth analysis of oral history interviews conducted by the author between 2009 and 2011, with eight Irish migrants who settled in England between 1945-69, this thesis suggests that individual migrant experiences resist simple incorporation within this dichotomy. It does so through exploration of the diverse ways the psychic and the social intersect in the production of migrant subjectivities within specific contexts. The thesis argues that such subjectivities were not coherently constituted or unified through a single discourse on 'identity', but that there were always multiple, often contradictory, possibilities available for self-construction within the different spaces migrants inhabited, in both the past and present. Through investigation of the distinct ways different respondents constructed themselves in relation to four sites of memory, namely leaving Ireland, pre-marriage years in the post-war British city, the construction industry, and 'The Troubles', the thesis shows how migrants negotiated and drew upon a diverse range of subject-positions in order to constitute themselves within their personal accounts of settlement. This inter-subjective process was conditioned by the possibilities and constraints of the various local, communal, and institutional discourses which mediated the lived realities of migration to Britain and which were available in the present for self-construction. But it was affected too by the active if usually unconscious workings of memory. How migrants interacted with available discourses was never predetermined but was shaped by on-going dialogues between public and private, past and present, there and here. Within each narrative these dialogues formed parts of individually specific strategies of 'composure' through which subjects, with varying degrees of success, sought to render their experiences into a coherent, integrated whole. The thesis argues that Irish migrant 'identity' in post-1945 England was never the finished product of a linear process of 'assimilation' or simple determinants like national origin, class, or religion. It is more usefully approached as a variable set of dialogic processes, as part of which migrants made investments in a diverse range of discourses in a bid to formulate self-affirming understandings of the migration experience.

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Orientador: Antonio Vicente Marafioti Garnica / Banca: Maria Ângela Miorim / Banca: Romulo Campos Lins / Resumo: Essa pesquisa procura constituir um primeiro cenário do trabalho na interface história oral e Educação Matemática e, a partir deste, olhar para as questões que têm fundamentado este trabalho. Para tanto, optou-se pela realização de entrevistas com pesquisadores em Educação Matemática que se dedicam ao trabalho/estudo da história oral e por uma revisão das produções (publicações em revistas, periódicos, teses e dissertações) destes pesquisadores. As entrevistas parecem ter se constituído como uma forma interessante de re-significação de trabalhos escritos em épocas distintas e de "atualização" da compreensão de alguns conceitos. Emergem desse estudo discussões acerca dos fundamentos da história oral e de como esta vem sendo pensada na/para a Educação Matemática. As noções de documento, História, memória, análise, entre outras, colocam-se como fundamentais para a constituição/compreensão deste primeiro cenário e a história oral na Educação Matemática é apresentada como uma trajetória peculiar que se diferencia, por vezes, veementemente de como a história oral vem sendo pensada em outras áreas de pesquisa como a Sociologia, a Antropologia, os Estudos Culturais e a própria História. / Abstract: This work intends to sketch a general picture of the relation between Mathematics Education and Oral History, in order to understand the theoretical framework which supports that work. Mathematics Education researchers whose work involves Oral History were interviewed and their work (papers, dissertations, reports etc) analyzed. The interviews and data analysis were an interesting way to notice that these scientific works and the concepts they present gradually assume different meanings to the researchers themselves. Documents, History and memory, among other themes, are essential elements to understand the theoretical framework we are working within. Our analysis focusing investigations in Mathematics Education in which Oral History takes part as the main methodology shows that Oral History in Mathematics Education can be taken as a resource truly distinct from the Oral History developed by other areas of knowledge, as Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and History itself. / Mestre

O tema desta pesquisa é a escola rural e o problema da escolarização de crianças de Atibaia, estado de São Paulo. O período estudado tem como marco inicial o ano de 1964, quando ocorreu o Golpe Militar até 1985 ano que marcou o início da nova redemocratização brasileira. Foi realizado um estudo da escolarização de crianças em escolas rurais, enfatizando os papéis integrador e socializador da escola junto aos filhos dos trabalhadores nascidos na região, além de migrantes que se estabeleceram em dois bairros rurais de Atibaia, Portão e Água Espraiada. Abordam- se as diferenças existentes na população rural, tanto em relação às condições materiais de vida, quanto à produção dos bens simbólicos, papéis anteriormente contemplados pela escola. Para compreender esse processo, optou-se metodologicamente pelas técnicas da História Oral, entrelaçadas aos estudos da memória, enquanto fenômeno social. Através da realização de entrevistas semi estruturadas, foram coletadas informações que contribuíram para a compreensão da complexidade das questões que envolvem o campo brasileiro e a educação escolar de sua população. / The theme of this research is the rural school and the problem of access and education of childrens from Atibaia, State of Sao Paulo. The study period is from 1964, when there was the military coup, to 1985, marked by the beginning of Brazilian democracy. The study focused on rural schools and their integrating and socialing role in the education of workers and migrants families located in two rural districts of Atibaia, Portão and Água Espraiada neighborhoods. To understand this process, the oral history methodology was chosen, and memory studies as a social phenomenon. By carrying out semi-structured interviews, information was collected that contributed to the understanding of the complexity of the issues surrounding the Brazilian countryside and the education of its population.

FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Cearà / Este trabalho refere-se a experiÃncia da memÃria de homens e mulheres moradores da cidade de Jaguaruana â CE sobre as enchentes ocorridas nos anos de 1960, 1974 e 1985. Trabalhando com fonte orais, jornais e documentos oficiais, procura-se ver como as cheias do Rio Jaguaribe marcaram as lembranÃas do entrevistados e a forma como estas foram contadas. Percebendo tambÃm a materialidade do ato enunciativo atravÃs da performance, busca-se um entendimento das vÃrias nuances e dos vÃrios temas apontados pelas memÃrias. O trabalho està divido em trÃs capÃtulos. O primeiro capÃtulo trÃs narrativas sobre o momento da saÃda e retorno para casa durante a enchente. No segundo capÃtulo, discute-se outros temas que figuravam nas entrevistas como as histÃrias sobre o trabalho, as doenÃas e as polÃticas pÃblicas em tempos de enchente. O terceiro capÃtulo, centra-se na necessidade de ouvir as histÃrias sobre a construÃÃo da Vila do Padre. / This work refers the experience of the men and womenâs memory residents of the city of Jaguaruana - CE on the inundations happened in the years of 1960, 1974 and 1985. Working with oral source,newspapers and official documents,tries to see her as the full of Rio Jaguaribe they marked the interviewees' memories and the form as these they were counted. Also noticing the material form of the act enunciated the performance, an understanding of the several nuances is looked for and of the several pointed themes for the memoirs. The work is I divide in three chapters. The first chapter back narratives on the moment of the exit and return home during the inundation. In the second chapter, other themes that represented in the interviews as the histories on the work, the diseases and the public politics in times of inundation is discussed. The third chapter is centered in the need of hearing the histories about the construction of the Priest's Villa.