Characterization of an ancestral territory of the indigenous community of Macedonia was performed (Colombian Amazon located 57 km upstream from Leticia); through the cultural maps analysis obtained of ethnographic methodology based on social mapping and one analysis through intersubjective processes of consensus.As a result, georeferenced maps that generate an approximation of non-places that give access to shamanistic macro-space were obtained, which in turn is used to generate a local cultural revaluation that encourage glocalization  processes in the context of globalization. / Se realizó una caracterización ancestral del territorio de la comunidad indígena de Macedonia (Amazonas Colombiano ubicada a 57 km de Leticia río arriba); a partir del análisis de mapas culturales obtenidos de una metodología etnográfica sustentada en cartografía social y un análisis a través de procesos intersubjetivos de consensualización. Como resultado se obtuvieron mapas georreferenciados que generan una aproximación a los no lugares que dan acceso al macroespacio chamanístico, lo que a su vez sirve para generar una revalorización cultural local que fomentaría procesos de glocalización en el marco de la globalización.

Yes / What is the nature and extent of engagement within peace research with the unfolding global environmental crisis, as captured in discourses about the ‘Anthropocene’(Bonneuil & Fressoz, 2017; Dalby, 2015)? Is the peace research scholarly community connecting with significant debates taking place in the earth sciences or among social and political movements? If it is, in what ways? Are concepts of violence and peace evolving in line with the major trends driving change this century, including climate change? This article seeks answers to these questions through a systematic survey and thematic analysis of publications in key peace-related journals and book series.What is the nature and extent of engagement within peace research with the unfolding global environmental crisis, as captured in discourses about the ‘Anthropocene’(Bonneuil & Fressoz, 2017; Dalby, 2015)? Is the peace research scholarly community connecting with significant debates taking place in the earth sciences or among social and political movements? If it is, in what ways? Are concepts of violence and peace evolving in line with the major trends driving change this century, including climate change? This article seeks answers to these questions through a systematic survey and thematic analysis of publications in key peace-related journals and book series.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The traditional cartography aims to find points and sites themselves, often leaving aside other important elements to the location shown on the map. In this perspective, the cartography seems to be just a framework of point locations and places, strategic or not. The making of a map is typically linked to trained professionals for that which, in fact, is required when taken into account the scientific and the use of the techniques necessary for the accurate location. However, one must take into account that there are other ways of cartography that do not necessarily require location accuracy, but rather perception. The map, in addition to the location function is for social, anthropological, historical, biological or even geographic locations studies and also be the product of these studies. In this sense, create new methods and meanings to the cartography can lead to several problems found in the disciplinary field, it is necessary to open the doors to the outside, to the new. That´s what the construction of a new cartography need: insert new insights and perspectives about the forms of representation, without losing the essential character of a map of the location. Considering the strategic importance of the Itabaiana city for the state of Sergipe, we understand that a study involving the view that social groups have of the city is quite relevant. The work has as main objective to analyze the socioeconomic, cultural and environmental potential of Itabaiana from the social cartography produced by students of the campus of the Federal University of Sergipe in the municipality. Specific objectives were proposed: to identify UFS students views from socioeconomic, cultural and environmental Itabaiana city; interpret the social cartography produced by students; and present views of students on campus of the UFS in Itabaiana through social cartography in order to facilitate studies that emphasize the importance of social cartography to aid more effective public policies that take into account aspects often unnoticed by the look manager. It was found from the views of respondents that social cartography is a tool that enables reading of the perceptions of places, so as to contribute for the planning and better distribution and allocation of public resources, as well as it serves as a source of research for several areas of knowledge. / A cartografia tradicional tem por finalidade localizar pontos e locais propriamente ditos, muitas vezes deixando de lado outros elementos importantes para a localidade representada no mapa. Nesta perspectiva, a cartografia parece ser apenas um arcabouço de localizações de pontos e de lugares, estratégicos ou não. A confecção de um mapa está normalmente ligada a profissionais capacitados para isso o que, de fato, é necessário quando levado em conta a cientificidade e o uso das técnicas necessárias à precisão da localização. Porém, é preciso levar em conta ainda que há outras formas de mapeamento que não necessariamente exigem precisão de localização, mas sim, percepção. O mapa, além da função de localização serve para estudos sociais, antropológicos, históricos, biológicos ou mesmo geográficos locais e, também, ser produto destes estudos. Neste sentido, criar novas metodologias e significados à cartografia pode levar a diversas problematizações no campo disciplinar, sendo necessário abrir as portas para o externo, para o novo. É disso que a construção de uma nova cartografia precisa: inserir novos olhares e perspectivas acerca das formas de representação, sem com isso perder o caráter primordial de um mapa: a localização. Considerando a importância estratégica do município de Itabaiana para o Estado de Sergipe, entendemos que um estudo que envolva a visão que grupos sociais tenham do município é bastante relevante. O trabalho tem como objetivo geral analisar as potencialidades socioeconômicas, culturais e ambientais de Itabaiana a partir da cartografia social produzida por discentes do campus da Universidade Federal de Sergipe localizada no município. Como objetivos específicos foram propostos: identificar as visões que discentes da UFS possuem do município de Itabaiana nos aspectos socioeconômicos, culturais e ambientais; interpretar a cartografia social produzida pelos estudantes; e apresentar visões dos alunos do campus da UFS em Itabaiana por meio da cartografia social, a fim de servir de subsídio para outros estudos que enfatizem a importância da cartografia social para auxiliar políticas públicas mais eficazes, que levem em consideração aspectos muitas vezes despercebidos pelo olhar do gestor. Foi possível constatar, a partir das visões dos entrevistados que a cartografia social é um instrumento que possibilita leituras das percepções dos lugares, de modo a contribuir para o planejamento e melhor distribuição e alocação de recursos públicos, bem como servir de fonte de pesquisa para diversas áreas do conhecimento.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Marcos Piter Lopes - 2015.pdf: 3239176 bytes, checksum: 0a43e3e633fbc15bdc3d83eb90c786b7 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-29 / This research aims to investigate the contribution of the use of mind maps in teaching Geography in 9th grade of Youth and Adult Education (EJA) in a public school in the city of Inhumas / GO, from the integration of geographic and cartographic knowledge present in that language and that allows students to make a critical reading of the world, tied their realities and daily practices. For the purposes proposals were met, it was necessary to recognize and understand the importance of mental maps in teaching geography at EJA, from the development of school activities, and to examine the potential that the mental map presented as relevant language for the student develop world readings, linking scientific knowledge with everyday. It will also be important to highlight the social Cartography in the teaching of Geography, highlighting the school teaching-learning process and verify the associations of geographical concepts in the production of mental map, from the relationship with the studied school subjects. This research works with research in the case study approach. Thus, the survey and analysis of bibliographic references of Geography and Cartography School, as well as conducting observations and application of mind maps proposals to know the real situation experienced by teachers and students in the classroom was essential, as regards the contribution that can provide maps for teaching geography, linking content with social practices. The main results of research on the link between the maps and your school use were highlighted; maps as a means of appropriation and daily representation; and care that students must observe when integrating the Cartography and the teaching of geography. Thus, the appreciation of everyday life, as the place of decisions and experiences that make individuals, it is important in this approach to geographic and cartographic education in an attempt to observe the importance of private life relationships with scientific knowledge to build a critical thinking about the world. Thus the construction of mental maps becomes pedagogical practice instrument in Geography for individuals to recognize the geographic content in the daily life of the same. / A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar a contribuição da utilização dos mapas mentais no ensino de Geografia do 9º ano da Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) de uma escola pública na cidade de Inhumas/GO, a partir da integração entre conhecimentos geográficos e cartográficos presentes nessa linguagem e que possibilite aos alunos realizar uma leitura crítica do mundo, atrelado as suas realidades e práticas cotidianas. Para que as finalidades propostas fossem alcançadas, foi necessário reconhecer e compreender a importância dos mapas mentais no ensino de Geografia na EJA, a partir do desenvolvimento das atividades escolares, bem como analisar o potencial que o mapa mental apresentou como linguagem pertinente para que o aluno desenvolva leituras de mundo, interligando os saberes científicos com os cotidianos. Além disso, será importante destacar a Cartografia social no ensino de Geografia, destacando o processo de ensino-aprendizagem escolar e verificar as associações dos conceitos geográficos na produção do mapa mental, a partir da relação com os conteúdos escolares estudados. Essa pesquisa trabalha com a investigação sob o enfoque do estudo de caso. Para tanto, foi essencial o levantamento e análise de referenciais bibliográficos da Geografia e Cartografia Escolar, assim como a realização de observações e aplicação de propostas de mapas mentais para conhecer a real situação vivenciada por professores e alunos em sala de aula, no que se refere à contribuição que os mapas podem proporcionar para o ensino de Geografia, vinculando o conteúdo com as práticas sociais. Foram destacados os principais resultados da pesquisa quanto à articulação entre os mapas e seu uso escolar; os mapas como forma de apropriação e representação do cotidiano; e os cuidados que os educandos devem observar ao integrar a Cartografia e o ensino de Geografia. Assim, a valorização do cotidiano, como o lugar das decisões e vivências que compõem os indivíduos, se faz importante na aproximação deste com a educação geográfica e cartográfica, na tentativa de observarmos a importância das relações particulares de vida com o conhecimento científico para construir um pensamento crítico sobre o mundo. Dessa forma a construção de mapas mentais torna-se instrumento de prática pedagógica na Geografia para que indivíduos possam reconhecer os conteúdos geográficos no cotidiano dos mesmos.

Abstract This research project explores how notions of Canadian exceptionalism are being challenged and/or reproduced in responses of students of seven Canadian universities to a survey related to internationalization of higher education. The study analyses data from surveys (n=1451) completed by undergraduate students in different disciplines collected between 2013 and 2015. This data is part of a larger database of surveys that was developed within the Ethical Internationalization in Higher Education (EIHE) research project (2012–2016). This research adopts a mixed-methods approach to the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. A post-representational approach to the methodology of social cartography is used to map two facets of the data. These facets are the general discursive field in which various exceptionalist tendencies are being contested and/or reproduced, and the multiple dimensions of articulations of exceptionalist tendencies. Canadian exceptionalism is in this research understood as a complex set of self-constitutive discursive practices, policies, self-perceptions and assumptions that simultaneously affirm and construct an imaginary of Canadian society and Canadian nationals as morally, ethically and culturally superior by exalting both the nationals’ and the nation-state’s inherent character as already good global citizens. Exceptionalism is used as an umbrella term that joins together several problematic aspects of unexamined ennobled narratives about the nation and national subjects. In this research the concept of exceptionalism is developed by drawing on multiple critiques of different aspects of liberal subjectivities. The findings suggest that exceptionalist tendencies and articulations can be observed in the responses of both international and Canadian students. They also suggest that while critical thinking and engagement with diversity are valued highly by almost all students, the responses in the survey exhibit a high level of ambivalence in terms of how (and to what extent) critical thinking is deployed, while diversity is often constructed in commodified ways that seem to indicate a desire for consumption of the Other’s difference for personal and/or national benefit. / Tiivistelmä Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan kanadalaista poikkeuksellisuutta koskevien käsitysten haastamista ja/tai toisintamista seitsemän kanadalaisen yliopiston opiskelijoiden vastauksissa kyselyyn, joka liittyi korkeakoulutuksen kansainvälistymiseen. Aineisto (n=1451) on kerätty eri alojen kandidaattivaiheen opiskelijoilta vuosina 2013–2015 ja se on osa laajempaa Ethical Internationalization in Higher Education (EIHE) -projektissa (2012–2016) syntynyttä kyselytietokantaa. Tutkimuksessa hyödynnetään monimenetelmällistä lähestymistapaa laadullisen ja määrällisen aineiston analyysiin. Aineistoa kartoitetaan kahdesta näkökulmasta jälkiedustuksellisen sosiaalisen kartografian avulla. Nämä näkökulmat ovat 1) yleinen diskursiivinen kenttä, jossa erilaisia poikkeuksellisuuden tendenssejä haastetaan ja/tai toisinnetaan ja 2) poikkeuksellisuuden tendenssien artikulaatiot ja niiden moninaiset ulottuvuudet. Kanadalainen poikkeuksellisuus ymmärretään tässä tutkimuksessa monimutkaiseksi rakennelmaksi itseään toteuttavia diskursiivisia käytäntöjä, toimintatapoja sekä ihmisten käsityksiä ja oletuksia itsestään, jotka samanaikaisesti vahvistavat ja rakentavat kuvitelmaa kanadalaisesta yhteiskunnasta ja Kanadan kansalaisista moraalisesti, eettisesti ja kulttuurisesti ylempiarvoisina ihmisinä ylistämällä kansalaisten ja kansallisvaltion luonnetta luonnostaan hyvinä maailmankansalaisina. Poikkeuksellisuutta käytetään ylemmän tason terminä, joka nostaa esiin useita ongelmallisia näkökulmia tutkimattomiin kansakuntaa ja kansalaisia koskeviin ylevyyden narratiiveihin. Poikkeuksellisuuden konseptia rakennetaan tässä tutkimuksessa viimeaikaisen liberaalin subjektiivisuuden eri näkökulmia koskevan kritiikin pohjalta. Tulokset viittaavat siihen, että poikkeuksellisuuden tendenssejä ja artikulaatioita esiintyy sekä ulkomaisten että kanadalaisten opiskelijoiden vastauksissa. Vaikka tulosten perusteella lähes kaikki opiskelijat arvostavat vastauksissaan kriittistä ajattelua ja moninaisuuden kohtaamista, vastauksista välittyy hyvin ristiriitainen näkemys siitä, miten (ja missä määrin) kriittistä ajattelua lopulta hyödynnetään. Tällöin diversiteetti jäsentyy usein kulutushyödykkeen tavoin osoittaen ilmeistä halua käyttää toisen erilaisuutta oman ja/tai kansallisen edun hyväksi.

Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2018-04-30T13:41:20Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Jackson Douglas Leal Silva - 2018.pdf: 2808008 bytes, checksum: 40ec2e8640828bb1c98d7c0894730463 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2018-04-30T14:04:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Jackson Douglas Leal Silva - 2018.pdf: 2808008 bytes, checksum: 40ec2e8640828bb1c98d7c0894730463 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-30T14:04:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Jackson Douglas Leal Silva - 2018.pdf: 2808008 bytes, checksum: 40ec2e8640828bb1c98d7c0894730463 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This present thesis according to cultural studies in their contemporary line of thought. The aim of this study is implementing anti-racist politics from a critic and conceptual about communicative process actualized by the Teatro Experimental do Negro (TEN). Created in 1944 from Rio de Janeiro city by Abdias Nascimento (1914-2011) the TEN is categorized as a political-aesthetic and artistic organization that developed actions as a mechanism for valuing Brazilian black culture and person. Our hypothesis is based by the idea that the TEN created mechanisms for the black population to articulate and create means to be present in theatrical stages, in academic productions, in the labor market, in social life, as well as to affirm their racial identity; this makes us use the following question: what would be the body and black corporeity, working from the TEN, if not a receptacle of subversion and transgression to the situation of the black person in the theatrical and social scenario of the time? In this sense, through social cartography and documentary analysis, we search to achieve one of the central objectives of the work, which is to understand how the TEN initiatives, marked by confrontation with the hegemonic aesthetics and valorization of culture, black and AfroBrazilian identity, contributed to reorient socio-spatial trajectories in Brazil. In this way, we study social cartography as a mechanism of speech of the subalternized person, socio-spatial trajectories as a movement of exchange of affections and how these lines cross in the search for an affected theory. We also reflect on the possibility of thinking about citizenship in construction, as well as the social mediations made possible by theatrical art. We also bring to the debate the discussion on racism and anti-racism from Abdias Nascimento’s exile; we also considered the possibility and suggestion of an anti-racist agenda for the Brazilian black population. / O presente trabalho parte dos estudos culturais, linha contemporânea do nosso pensamento. O mote que sustenta a nossa discussão é a implementação de políticas antirracistas a partir da reflexão crítico-conceitual acerca dos processos comunicacionais efetivados pelo Teatro Experimental do Negro (TEN). Fundado em 1944 na cidade do Rio de Janeiro por Abdias Nascimento (1914-2011), o TEN é categorizado como uma organização político-estética e artística que desenvolvia ações como mecanismo de valorização da cultura e da pessoa negra brasileira. Nossa hipótese é fundamentada pela ideia de que o TEN criou mecanismos para que a população negra articulasse e criasse meios para se mostrar presente nos palcos teatrais, nas produções acadêmicas, no mercado de trabalho, na vida social, assim como afirmar sua identidade racial. Lançamos, então, mão do seguinte questionamento: o que seria o corpo e a corporeidade negras, trabalhados a partir do TEN, se não um receptáculo de subversão e transgressão à situação da pessoa negra no cenário teatral e social da época? Nesse sentido, por meio da cartografia social e da análise documental buscamos alcançar um dos objetivos centrais do trabalho que é compreender de que forma as iniciativas do TEN, marcadas pelo enfrentamento à estética hegemônica e de valorização da cultura, da identidade negra e afro-brasileira, contribuíram para reorientar trajetórias socioespaciais no Brasil. Deste modo, estudamos sobre a cartografia social como mecanismo de fala da pessoa subalternizada, trajetórias socioespaciais como movimento de troca de afetos e como essas linhas se atravessam na busca por uma teoria afetada. Refletimos, também, sobre a possibilidade de se pensar uma cidadania em construção, assim como as mediações sociais possibilitadas pela arte teatral. Trazemos ainda para o debate a discussão sobre racismo e antirracismo a partir do exílio de Abdias Nascimento; pensamos, ainda, a possibilidade e a sugestão de uma agenda antirracista para a população negra brasileira.

This dissertation documents the everyday lives and spaces of a population of youth typically constructed as out of place, and the broader urban context in which they are rendered as such. Thirty-three female and transgender street youth participated in the development of this youth-based participatory action research (YPAR) project utilizing geo-ethnographic methods, auto-photography, and archival research throughout a six-phase, eighteen-month research process in Bogotá, Colombia. This dissertation details the participatory writing process that enabled the YPAR research team to destabilize dominant representations of both street girls and urban space and the participatory mapping process that enabled the development of a youth vision of the city through cartographic images. The maps display individual and aggregate spatial data indicating trends within and making comparisons between three subgroups of the research population according to nine spatial variables. These spatial data, coupled with photographic and ethnographic data, substantiate that street girls’ mobilities and activity spaces intersect with and are altered by state-sponsored urban renewal projects and paramilitary-led social cleansing killings, both efforts to clean up Bogotá by purging the city center of deviant populations and places. Advancing an ethical approach to conducting research with excluded populations, this dissertation argues for the enactment of critical field praxis and care ethics within a YPAR framework to incorporate young people as principal research actors rather than merely voices represented in adultist academic discourse. Interjection of considerations of space, gender, and participation into the study of street youth produce new ways of envisioning the city and the role of young people in research. Instead of seeing the city from a panoptic view, Bogotá is revealed through the eyes of street youth who participated in the construction and feminist visualization of a new cartography and counter-map of the city grounded in embodied, situated praxis. This dissertation presents a socially responsible approach to conducting action-research with high-risk youth by documenting how street girls reclaim their right to the city on paper and in practice; through maps of their everyday exclusion in Bogotá followed by activism to fight against it.

[pt] O fenômeno da Intolerância é complexo, duradouro e se apresenta de diferentes formas, entre elas, sua manifestação religiosa. Por isso, frente a todas essas dificuldades, ele precisa ser debatido nos vários setores da sociedade, incluindo o ambiente escolar. Assim, o presente trabalho aborda a sua discussão por intermédio da Educação Geográfica, destacando a linguagem como elemento importante para tal situação. O pensamento geográfico, elemento formador da Educação Geográfica, é determinante para a compreensão da realidade, logo permite que o fenômeno em questão seja entendido. Associado ao pensamento geográfico, a linguagem cartográfica, que constitui uma linguagem própria da Geografia, pode representar uma ferramenta valorosa no combate à Intolerância. Nessa perspectiva, vislumbramos, na Cartografia Social um caminho poderoso que pode colaborar para a transformação do cenário da Intolerância. / [en] The phenomenon of Intolerance is complex, lasting and presents itself in different ways, including its religious manifestation. Therefore, given all these difficulties, it needs to be debated in various sectors of society, including the school environment. Thus, the present work addresses its discussion through Geographic Education, highlighting language as an important element in such a situation. Geographical thinking, a formative element of Geographic Education, is crucial for understanding reality, and therefore allows the phenomenon in question to be understood. Associated with geographical thinking, the cartographic language, which is a language specific to Geography, can represent a valuable tool in the fight against Intolerance. From this perspective, we see in Social Cartography a powerful path that can contribute to the transformation of the scenario of Intolerance.

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Hence a panorama of the organizations could be observed: where they are located, when they were formed how they operate and their relationships with other sectors (the state, the market and civil society) in addition to basic facts and location. The principal lines of enquiry were a) the OSC which operate with the public comprising adolescents and young people and b) the OSC operating or having branches in four suburbs on the periphery of the western administrative region of the city (Felipe Camar?o, Bom Pastor, Cidade Nova and Guararapes).The present report has identified the impacts of ongoing social transformation caused by the process of globalization ,by the various currently contested political projects which are as follows: the project of neoliberal globalized capitalism(hegemonic)and the project of social emancipation (contra-hegemonic),how these are seen from the local viewpoint and how they influence the profiles and operation of the cartographic organizations. The area of the OSC is a heterogenous one with political, cultural and ideological strains, characterized by its infiltration, its local/global and multicultural dimensions. As civil organizations are fundamental in the processes of transformation within society, and following the idea of social emancipation referred to by Boaventura Santos, the enquiry classified the organizations according to the afore-mentioned characteristics, establishing eight types of associations. These different types and their respective characteristics were analysed from a related perspective using the mechanisms of symbolic cartography: scale, projection and symbolisation. The theoretical references underpinning this research arise from the debate on civil society which becomes redefined as a result of the dispute involving the two afore-mentioned political projects. These demand the theoretical application of the comprehension of heterogeneity in its diversity and complexity together with the idea of social emancipation.The main authors consulted were Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Antonio Gramsci, through the texts translated by Marco Aurelio Nogueira; Carlos Nelson Coutinho and Alberto Rivera ,who supported the construction of the types of associations identified by the local reality.Finally this research enabled an understanding of the current form of social action happening in the Space of the Four Neighbourhoods (Espa?o dos 4 Bairros) and how the distinct profiles analysed together with the ares of operation of the organizations define their emancipatory potencials within the following two poles: regulation/adaptation and emancipation/transformation / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo realizar uma cartografia social com vistas a mapear e caracterizar as organiza??es da sociedade civil (OSC) que atuam com adolescentes e jovens da Regi?o Oeste da cidade de Natal, observando-se suas caracter?sticas quanto: ao perfil, temas, atividades principais, formas de inser??o no espa?o p?blico e participa??o em redes sociais, buscando identificar as diferen?as e semelhan?as que as singularizam e identificam. Uma vez que existem poucos estudos sobre o universo da sociedade civil do Rio Grande do Norte e de Natal, o ponto de partida foi a constru??o de um banco de dados objetivando construir uma vis?o geral, panor?mica dessas organiza??es - onde est?o, quando foram criadas, o que fazem, como se relacionam com os demais segmentos (Estado, Mercado, Sociedade Civil) - al?m de dados b?sicos formais e de localiza??o. Os principais recortes adotados foram: a) as OSC que atuam com o p?blico adolescente e jovem; e b) as OSC que atuam ou t?m sede em quatro bairros perif?ricos da Regi?o Administrativa Oeste da cidade (Felipe Camar?o, Bom Pastor, Cidade Nova e Guarapes). O presente estudo identificou como os impactos das transforma??es sociais em curso, motivadas pelos processos da globaliza??o, se manifestam no espa?o local e influenciam nos perfis e atua??o das organiza??es cartografadas. O campo das OSC ? um campo heterog?neo, com marcas pol?ticas, culturais e ideol?gicas, caracterizado pela sua capilaridade, sua dimens?o local/global e multicultural. Sendo as OSC um sujeito social de import?ncia fundamental nos processos de transforma??o, e tendo a id?ia de Emancipa??o Social em Boaventura de Sousa Santos, como refer?ncia, a pesquisa realizou uma classifica??o das organiza??es conforme o conjunto de caracter?sticas, j? mencionadas, estabelecendo oito tipos de associativismo. Esses tipos, e suas respectivas caracter?sticas foram analisadas numa perspectiva relacional, a partir dos mecanismos da Cartografia Simb?lica: a escala, a proje??o e a simboliza??o. Os referenciais te?ricos, que deram luz a presente pesquisa, foram: o debate sobre Sociedade Civil e a id?ia de Emancipa??o Social que se redefinem em meio ? disputa entre dois projetos pol?ticos - o projeto do capitalismo neoliberal globalizado (hegem?nico) e o projeto da emancipa??o social (contra-hegem?nico) - e exigem um esfor?o te?rico de compreens?o de sua heterogeneidade, diversidade e complexidade. Os autores centrais foram Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Antonio Gramsci, atrav?s das leituras trazidas por Marco Aur?lio Nogueira, Carlos Nelson Coutinho, al?m de Alberto Rivera que ap?ia a constru??o dos tipos de associativismo identificados na realidade local. Finalmente, a pesquisa permitiu conhecer como se configura, no presente momento, o campo social da sociedade civil que atua no Espa?o dos 4 Bairros e como os distintos perfis analisados e as ?reas de atua??o das organiza??es definem os potenciais emancipat?rios das mesmas, fazendo com que estas se movimentem ou se situem entre dois p?los: o p?lo da regula??o/adapta??o e o p?lo da emancipa??o/transforma??o