The perception by any group of ineffectiveness in the dispensation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to major stakeholders may result in friction, reduction in productivity, and an overall loss of social and economic capital. The problem addressed in this study, which represented the gap in knowledge and practice, was that CSR initiatives in the Niger Delta region lack a community-centric framework to ensure optimal and sustainable returns on CSR investments for multinational corporations and local Nigerian landowners. The purpose of the study was to develop a deeper understanding of what it means to experience CSR for Nigerian landowners in the Niger Delta, using Freeman's stakeholder theory and Grice's causal theory of perception. Data were obtained through interviews regarding the lived experiences of a sample of 15 participants selected through a purposeful nonrandom sampling from a variety of backgrounds. The data analysis using content and inductive techniques with NVivo illustrated the factors leading to a deeper understanding of what it means to experience CSR for landowners. The results include expectations from operators, activities of the operators in the Niger Delta, operators' relationship with land owners, and operators' need to take environmental responsibility. The study has the potential to enhance the CSR managerial capacity of operators, resulting in peace and equity for all. The findings may lead to peaceful coexistence between the operators in the area and landowners with increased mutual benefits. The findings may also result in a stable global supply of energy, oil, and gas, as well as a healthier environment for landowners, ultimately resulting in local and global positive social change.

Quelle est l’utilité du philosophe en politique ? L’objet du présent travail est d’interroger la manière dont cette question a pu être posée et la façon dont on a pu y répondre, en France, dans les années qui vont du milieu du XVIIIe siècle jusqu’à 1780 environ. Dans un contexte qui se caractérise à la fois par l’omniprésence du discours philosophique et par son absence d’autonomie, on se propose de cerner la façon dont sont identifiés les effets possibles des écrits politiques des philosophes. Deux problèmes se posent alors. D’une part, il s’agit de déterminer à quelles conditions le discours philosophique sur la politique est jugé utile, et quel type de prise il doit assurer sur son objet pour être évalué comme tel. D’autre part, la question des effets produits par le texte doit nous inviter à considérer la manière dont le rapport entre le philosophe et ses lecteurs s’établit à travers le texte : comment se fait la communication des idées, et quelles sont ses conséquences pratiques ? Quels liens faut-il établir entre connaissance et action ?Notre enquête a procédé en deux approches successives. Dans un premier temps, nous avons cherché à repérer les termes dans lesquels dont on pose, dans cette seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle, la question des effets des ouvrages politiques écrits par des philosophes. Ce travail nous a permis notamment de mettre en évidence le fait que l’utilité d’un écrit est envisagé dans une double dimension : dans la mesure où il est susceptible d’affecter le monde mais aussi dans la mesure où il est susceptible de contribuer au progrès de la connaissance et d’alimenter un débat intellectuel. Dans un cas comme dans l’autre, la forme et le style de l’ouvrage sont considérés comme centraux pour assurer son effet auprès du lecteur et le faire, à son tour, penser. Dans un second temps, nous nous sommes intéressé à quelques exemples d’un genre particulier : les textes de conseil de Rousseau et de Diderot à propos de la Corse, de la Pologne et de la Russie nous ont permis d’analyser la manière dont le philosophe définit son rôle par rapport au législateur, mais aussi dont il s’essaie à élaborer un langage qui tout à la fois lui permette de saisir son objet dans sa singularité et de se faire entendre auprès de son lecteur. Nous avons vu à travers ces deux approches se dessiner une sphère propre de la parole du philosophe en politique. À distance de l’action, le philosophe est l’homme de la vérité ; la contestation progressive de la référence au philosophe-législateur laisse la place à un usage critique de la connaissance. La fécondité politique de la parole philosophique apparaît alors non dans sa capacité à instituer mais à faire imaginer d’autres institutions possibles. / What is the purpose of the philosopher in politics? We examine the way in which this question has been posed and the way in which it was answered in France in the years from the mid-18th century to about 1780. For a context characterized both by the omnipresence of philosophical discourse and its lack of autonomy, we put forward our understanding of the way the possible effects of the political writings of philosophers are identified. Two problems then arise. On the one hand, there is the question of determining under what condition philosophical discourse on politics is deemed useful, and what type of hold it must have on its object to be evaluated as such. On the other hand, the question of the effects produced by the text should invite us to consider how the relationship between the philosopher and his readers is established through the text: how are the ideas communicated, and what are the direct consequences? What is the relationship between knowledge and action?Our investigation has taken two subsequent approaches. First, we sought to identify the terms in which the question of the effects of political works written by philosophers was raised in the second half of the eighteenth century. This has enabled us to highlight the fact that the usefulness of writing is envisaged in two dimensions: insofar as it is likely to affect the world but also insofar as it is likely to contribute to the progress of knowledge and to fuel an intellectual debate. In either case, the form and style of the work are considered central to ensure its effect on the reader and encourage him to think. In a second phase, we sought out examples of a particular genre: Rousseau and Diderot's writing on Corsica, Poland and Russia allowed us to analyze how the counseling philosopher defines his role in relation to the legislator but also attempts to elaborate a language which at the same time allows him to grasp his object in its singularity and to make himself heard by his reader. These two approaches have shown us a distinct sphere of the philosopher's word in politics. While keeping his distance from action, the philosopher is the man of truth; the gradual contestation of the reference to the philosopher as legislator leaves room for a critical use of knowledge. The political fecundity of the philosophical word then appears not in its capacity to institute but rather to facilitate imagining other possible institutions.

O jovem universitário brasileiro possui um importante papel na transformação da sociedade. O universitário evangélico brasileiro ao possuir uma fé como aquilo que o toca incondicionalmente e ao participar ativamente da missio Dei contribui de maneira ainda mais significativa nesta transformação. Este estudo busca compreender a participação do universitário evangélico brasileiro na Missio Dei e na propagação do Evangelho para a transformação da sociedade. Na primeira parte busca-se difinir o conceito de missio Dei mostrando que esta missão é um chamado para todas as pessoas e procura-se enfatizar a necessidade da pregação do evangelho através de palavras e obras, entendendo que esta pregação levará à transformações na sociedade. Na segunda parte apresenta-se um perfil do jovem universitário evangélico brasileiro, mostrando as principais características da Geração Y e a maneira como os jovens vivem a religiosidade. Na terceira parte é analisado a partipação do jovem universitário evangélico brasileiro na missão de Deus, e como ele se insere na propagação do evangelho para a transformação da sociedade. / The young Brazilian academic has an important role in the transformation of society. The Brazilian evangelical academic, as they have a faith which touch him/her unconditionally and as they actively participate in the missio Dei contribute in an even more significant way in this transformation. This study seeks to understand the participation of Brazilian evangelical academic in the missio Dei and in the promulgation of the Gospel to transformation of society. In the first part seeks to difine the concept of missio Dei showing that this mission is a call to all people and seeks to emphasize the necessity of preaching the gospel through word and deed, believing that this preaching will lead to changes in society. The second part presents a profile of the young Brazilian evangelical academic, showing the main characteristics of Generation Y and the way young people live their religiosity. The third part analizes the young Brazilian evangelical academic in God's mission, and how it fits in the promulgation of the gospel to transform society.

[pt] A escrita de Carlos de Oliveira é profundamente marcada por mecanismos que particularizam o seu posicionamento como artista e intelectual comprometido com a cena política da sociedade portuguesa na segunda metade do século XX, articulando um engajamento na reflexão sobre o processo de criação literária com a sua atuação política e cultural. Dessa forma, a presente dissertação propõe identificar, com base nas questões programáticas definidas pelo movimento neorealista, o projeto de ficção do escritor Carlos de Oliveira no romance Casa na Duna e o seu propósito de estabelecer um critério de interpretação da realidade social, política e econômica da sociedade portuguesa nas primeiras décadas do século XX, estimulando uma transformação radical do homem pela transformação radical da sua vida. / [en] Carlos de Oliveira’s way of writing is profoundly composed by mechanisms which characterize his position as an artist and intellectual committed with the Portuguese society political scene of the middle twentieth century, articulating a reflective political engagement concerning the process of literary production regarding cultural and political actions. In this way, the following thesis aims to identify, according to the issues enhanced in the Neo- Realism movement, the fictional issue raised by the Portuguese writer Carlos de Oliveira in Casa na Duna as well as his purpose of establishing some comprehension criteria in order to understand the social, the political and the economic reality of the Portuguese society in the first decades of the twentieth century, stimulating a complete transformation in men through a radical transformation in their lives.

[pt] Este trabalho busca apresentar uma compreensão mais aprofundada da relação entre mídia e transformação social na sociedade contemporânea, propondo, para tanto, uma articulação entre a Análise Crítica do Discurso e a Sociolinguística Interacional na análise do processo de construção de identidade em narrativa de um indivíduo reconhecido como porta-voz de movimentos sociais, em sua participação em uma interação midiática. Os dados da análise são narrativas pessoais encaixadas em argumentos materializadas na participação no programa televisivo Câmara Ligada, veiculado pela TV Câmara, de um dos representantes do movimento Hip Hop no Brasil, o rapper MV Bill - também fundador da Central Única das Favelas (CUFA), escritor e cineasta, nacional e internacionalmente reconhecido por sua luta por transformações sociais, especialmente as relacionadas às diferenças sócioeconômicas, ao preconceito racial e à violência urbana. Com base no método tridimensional para uma análise crítico-discursiva proposto por Fairclough e adotando uma perspectiva flexível do modelo de narrativa laboviano, a análise dos dados se desenvolve em três níveis considerando, para tanto, as alternâncias pronominais; recorrendo às noções de estrutura de participação e formato de produção, de Goffman, bem como aos conceitos de enquadre, de Bateson e Goffman, e de alinhamento, de Goffman, e ao conceito de resistência na narrativização das estruturas sociais conforme proposto por Edwick e Silbey. A análise dos dados identifica as diferentes identidades que MV Bill constrói em narrativas articuladas a argumentos que mobiliza na defesa de sua opinião diante de questões que se referem à relação entre a mídia e as desigualdades sociais; à violência urbana; às mobilizações sociais e aos preconceitos social e racial. Ao mostrar como, situadas em uma interação midiática, essas identidades são narrativamente construídas em argumentos, a análise ressalta as estratégias discursivas mobilizadas para a ocupação do espaço e da agenda midiática por um líder portador da voz da resistência pela transformação social, contribuindo para a compreensão crítica e consciente da importância da mídia (e dos que nela atuam) para o estabelecimento, manutenção e/ou transformação das condições sociais excludentes no atual contexto de profunda redefinição de conceitos e valores que caracterizam o momento histórico do qual estamos participando. / [en] This thesis seeks to provide deeper understandings of the relationship between media and social change in contemporary society, proposing an articulation between Critical Discourse Analysis and Interactional Sociolinguistics in the analysis of the identity construction process occurring in narratives of a subject recognized as social movement spokesman, during his participation in media-interactions. The data for this analysis is formed by personal narratives embedded in arguments materialized in the participation of MV Bill in the television show Câmara Ligada, aired by TV Câmara. MV Bill is one of the most important rappers of the Brazilian Hip Hop movement - he is also the founder of the Central Única das Favelas, CUFA (Central Organization of Slums); writer and filmmaker, both nationally and internationally recognized by his struggle for social change, especially those related to socioeconomic differences, racial prejudice and urban violence. Based on the tridimensional method for critical-discursive analysis proposed by Fairclough and adopting a flexible perspective of Labov s narrative model, the analysis is developed on three levels. For this purpose, the study considers pronominal alternation, resorting to Goffman s notions of structure of participation and format of production, to the concepts of frame as proposed by Bateson and Goffman, as well as to Goffman s notion of footing and to the concept of resistance in narrativization of social structures as used by Edwick and Silbey. The analysis identifies different identities constructed by MV Bill through stories that articulate the arguments he mobilizes in defense of his opinions on issues that concern the relationship between media and social inequality, urban violence, social movements and social and racial prejudices. By showing how, located in a media interaction, these identities are narratively constructed in arguments, the analysis highlights the discursive strategies deployed in the occupation of media agenda and space by a leader who carries the voice of resistance for social transformations. Furthermore, the thesis contributes to enhanced understandings about the importance of the media (and of those who work in it) for the establishment, maintenance and/or transformation of conditions for social exclusion in the current context of profound redefinition of concepts and values that characterize the historic moment in which we are participating.

Submitted by Mario Mesquita (mbarroso@fiocruz.br) on 2014-11-18T16:04:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Irene_Goldshimidt_EPSJV_Mestrado_2010.pdf: 754877 bytes, checksum: ae0c48b5f37008a963d6b07a2efb893c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Mario Mesquita (mbarroso@fiocruz.br) on 2014-11-18T16:18:04Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Irene_Goldshimidt_EPSJV_Mestrado_2010.pdf: 754877 bytes, checksum: ae0c48b5f37008a963d6b07a2efb893c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-11-18T16:18:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Irene_Goldshimidt_EPSJV_Mestrado_2010.pdf: 754877 bytes, checksum: ae0c48b5f37008a963d6b07a2efb893c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Profissional em Saúde. / A presente pesquisa objetiva levantar possibilidades e implicações da utilização do teatro para a educação dos trabalhadores. Desenvolve revisão bibliográfica referenciada no materialismo histórico e dialético. Discute processo de conhecimento e suas relações com a racionalidade científica, ressaltando a importância da percepção e da sensibilidade. Analisa o desenvolvimento dos Estudos Culturais na Inglaterra, que apontam para o conceito de cultura como produção social de uma coletividade. Pesquisa em Adorno e Benjamim o papel da arte nas sociedades capitalistas, o desenvolvimento da indústria cultural e a alienação do artista. Estabelece relações entre estética e poder no capitalismo. Estuda elementos da formação cultural brasileira detendo-se no desenvolvimento do Projeto Nacional Popular, destacando os Centros Populares de Cultura, a educação de Paulo Freire e o teatro de Augusto Boal. Investiga relações entre arte e educação na escola básica, na educação popular em saúde e na educação profissional em saúde. Analisa duas experiências: o uso do teatro na formação do agente comunitário de saúde, pela Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio e o desenvolvimento de um grupo de teatro com funcionários da Escola de Formação Técnica em Saúde Enfermeira Izabel dos Santos. Apresenta depoimentos a partir de entrevistas com profissionais atuando na interseção dos campos da educação, teatro e saúde. Destaca questões como a valorização da experiência, processo de trabalho coletivo, liberdade e criatividade na educação dos trabalhadores. / The purpose of the present research is to discuss possibilities and implications of the utilization of Theater at worker’s education. Develops bibliographic revision refered to dialectic and historic materialism. It discuss the process of knowledge and its relation with scientific rationality, pointing out the importance of perception and sensibility. It also analyzes the development of Cultural Studies in England, which leads to the concept of culture as a collective social production. It researches in Adorno and Benjamim the role of Art in capitalist societies, the development of cultural industry and artist’s alienation, and analyzes relations between aesthetics and power in capitalism. It studies elements of Brazilian cultural development emphasizing the Projeto National Popular, with a special attention towards the Centros Populares de Cultura, the education of Paulo Freire and the theater of Augusto Boal. It investigates relations between art and education in basic school, popular education in health and professional education in health. It considers two experiences: the utilization of theater in education of community health agents, by Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio, and the development of a theater group with public employees from Escola de Formação Técnica em Saúde Enfermeira Izabel dos Santos. It presents statements from interviews with of professionals who act in the intersection of the fields of Education, Theater and Health. It also points out questions such as valorization of the experience, collective work process, liberty and creativity in worker’s education.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T16:18:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 113871.pdf: 5484671 bytes, checksum: aedda52eddd9b538208856f48196740e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-31 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This dissertation discusses formation in art and education, made from practical non-formal education, aimed at inclusion and social transformation. The object of the research is the analysis of the processes of training and practice of three photographers, artists and educators. João Roberto Ripper, founder of Programa Imagens do Povo developed in Complexo da Maré in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Ricardo Peixoto, founder of the cultural producer Ensaio Brasil Produções ltda, operating in the city of Joao Pessoa in Paraiba, and Miguel Chikaoka, founder of the Associação Fotoativa, which develops its actions in the city of Belém in Pará. The three experiments develop actions of art education through the photographic language envisioning social change. The research focused on the formation processes and practices developed by these photographers, artists and educators. The present study arose from concerns that arise throughout the work of art and education in communities that I have been developing since 2003, where photography is also the instrument that I use to establish pedagogic and artistic relationship with the communities in which I work. How photography can be used as an artistic practice and educational reflection, inclusion and social transformation? These were the main questions that motivated me to pursue this research. To develop the study, it was used qualitative research. Thus, the data were organized and analyzed from interviews with respondents, the observation of workshops, experiences at their sites and the collection of projects developed by them, in different economical, social and cultural factors that characterize the communities where they operate. In the data analysis, it was found, among other things, that its formations were formed in an interdisciplinary way, by means of academic, technical and self-taught, who move between methodologies of popular education and public art activist slant, collaborative and relational, highlighting the consistent practice of photography as an incisive quality of these actions and art education conducted in the field of Teaching Visual Arts. / A presente dissertação discute formações em arte e educação, constituídas a partir de práticas não-formais de educação, que visam inclusão e transformação social. O objeto da pesquisa é a análise dos processos de formação e prática de três fotógrafos, artistas e educadores. João Roberto Ripper, idealizador do Projeto Imagens do Povo, desenvolvido no Complexo da Maré na cidade do Rio de Janeiro; Ricardo Peixoto, idealizador da produtora cultural Ensaio Brasil Produções ltda, com atuação na cidade de João Pessoa na Paraíba; e Miguel Chikaoka, idealizador da Associação Fotoativa, que desenvolve suas ações na cidade de Belém no Pará. As três experiências desenvolvem ações de arte e educação por meio da linguagem fotográfica vislumbrando transformação social. A pesquisa focou nos processos de formação e prática desenvolvidos por estes fotógrafos, artistas e educadores. O presente estudo originou-se de inquietações surgidas ao longo do trabalho de arte e educação que venho desenvolvendo em comunidades desde 2003, onde a fotografia é também o instrumento que utilizo para estabelecer relações pedagógicas e artísticas com as comunidades nas quais atuo. Como a fotografia pode ser utilizada como prática artística e educativa de reflexão, inclusão e transformação social? Foram estas as principais questões que me motivaram a buscar esta pesquisa. Para desenvolvimento do estudo, foi utilizada a pesquisa qualitativa. Dessa forma, os dados foram organizados e analisados a partir de entrevistas realizadas com os pesquisados, da observação de oficinas, vivências nos respectivos locais e do acervo de projetos desenvolvidos pelos mesmos, em diferentes contextos econômicos, sociais e culturais que caracterizam as comunidades onde atuam. Na análise dos dados, constatou-se, entre outras coisas, que suas formações foram constituídas de forma interdisciplinar, por meio de formações acadêmicas, técnicas e autodidatas, que transitam entre metodologias da educação popular e de arte pública de cunho ativista, colaborativo e relacional, destacando-se a consistente prática fotográfica como elemento contundente na qualidade destas ações de arte e educação realizadas no campo do Ensino das Artes Visuais.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo investigar os aspectos ideológicos que se revelam no discurso jurídico quanto ao poder transformador do direito sobre a realidade social. Para tanto, será utilizado como principal exemplo o preceito constitucional da função social da propriedade rural, a fim de revelar o modo ambíguo como preceitos de transformação social participam da função que o direito, por sua vez, exerce na sociedade, a um só tempo estimulando e limitando as reivindicações. / This work aims to investigate the ideological aspects revealed at the legal speech about the transforming power of law on the social reality. Therefore, will be utilizated as main example the constitucional rule of social function of rural property, in order to reveal the ambiguous manner that rules of social transformation take part in the function that the law, by its turn, exerts on society, at the same time stimulating and limiting the demands.

Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS) / This study reflects the vital role the church should play in the social transformation of society. It undoubtedly has the potential to be a strategic organisation for social change. However, in the past it has failed to reach that potential. The hope for the future is that the church will embrace that potential and become active in the process of social transformation. The Church of the Province of Southern Africa (CPSA) has been the researcher's spiritual home for her entire life. During this time, and particularly over the past five years, she has sought to find her place in the church's inflexible, bureaucratic and patriarchal structure. While this study was in the final stages of being written, the CPSA took the historic decision to ordain women to the priesthood. Her personal struggle had been vindicated. However, more importantly, the church's decision attests to that organisation's potential for creative change. Thus this study is dedicated to the members of the CPSA in the Diocese of Cape Town, in the hope that they will embrace the challenge, both as individuals and as a community to become active agents of social change. The field research was conducted during the period March 1989 to March 1990 by the researcher herself, who was a paid employee of the Diocese of Cape Town at the time. Both the promoter and co-promoter of this thesis supervised this research. The results were first published in August 1990 by the Diocese of Cape Town in a report entitled, Voices of the Church: An Anglican perspective on welfare and development in the Diocese of Cape Town. Permission to use the research material in this study has been granted by the Most Reverend Desmond Mpilo Tutu, and is acknowledged with thanks. There are many people who during that period enabled the research to take place because of their willingness, enthusiasm and interest: the Most Reverend Desmond Tutu; Bishop Edward the liaison Bishop; members of Chapter and Diocesan Council; the support committee; the 130 people in the parishes who so willingly shared of themselves and their opinions, and in many instances opened their homes; and the clergy of the diocese, who participated wholeheartedly in the process.