Nesta dissertação discuto a Festa do Coco e a prática do coco de roda, realizadas todo último sábado de cada mês pelas comunidades quilombolas Ipiranga e Gurugi, pertencentes ao município paraibano do Conde. Tive como objetivo evidenciar as transformações ocorridas na Festa do Coco e na brincadeira de coco de roda durante o período de visitas, entre julho de 2013 e maio de 2016, a partir da análise dos acontecimentos registrados nos diários de campo escritos por mim. No decorrer das primeiras visitas realizadas, levantei a hipótese de que a Festa do Coco não é um espaço de reprodução de uma prática realizada no passado, mas um espaço de produção de acontecimentos e de criação de outras formas de negociação entre os corpos participantes. Uma das perguntas que mais me interessavam era entender o que fazia com que diferentes pessoas, moradoras do quilombo ou não, vindas de diferentes locais da Paraíba e do Brasil, desejassem estar na festa, mesmo esta acontecendo em um barracão pequeno, dentro da comunidade quilombola Ipiranga, e sem nenhum apelo midiático sobre o evento. Os procedimentos de pesquisa delinearam-se no processo de realização da mesma: assumi, para o trabalho de campo, uma participação observante, por meio da qual pude ser mais uma brincante da festa e me deixar ser levada pelas suas linhas de força, seus fluxos. A cada festa eu escrevia diários de campo, focando-me nas experiências vividas e percebidas durante a festa. Minhas apostas teóricas se deram nos registros das filosofias da diferença, e em especial no registro deleuziano-guattariano, e da Antropologia da Performance, que discutem as práticas coletivas num registro do acontecimento, da performance e da criação. Esta dissertação traz então o conceito deleuziano de acontecimento como um dos conceitos chave para entender as transformações ocorridas nas festas e o interesse dos visitantes que procuram a festa: produzir acontecimentos. O participante da festa deseja estabelecer agenciamentos, formas de se conectar, de se relacionar com outros corpos e gerar novidade, criar. Dentre esses agenciamentos, a corponegociação se dá como um dos mais significativos. O conceito, criado por mim para esta pesquisa, surge através da brincadeira realizada no centro da roda de coco, onde o corpo negocia e cria sem o uso da produção verbal; o improviso é gerado pela contaminação dos diferentes repertórios de movimentos / In this dissertation I discuss the Festa do Coco and the practice known as the Coco de Roda, held every last Saturday of each month by the quilombola communities of Ipiranga and Gurugi, belonging to the municipality of Conde in the Brazilian state of Paraiba. I aimed to focus on the transformations that took place in the Festa do Coco and the Coco de Roda during visits between 2013 july and 2016 may. The experiences where recorded in the field diaries I wrote whilst visiting and analyzed on return to São Paulo in the wake of each party. During the first visits, I developed the hypothesis that the Festa do Coco is not the staging of a traditional or historical practice, but a space which allows for the creation of events and the production of alternate forms of negotiation amongst participating bodies. One of the issues that intrigued me most was what drew different people, people within or without the quilombola community, coming from different parts of Paraíba and Brazil, to the Festa do Coco: a party which took place in a small shed, inside the quilombola community of Ipiranga, without any mediatic appeal or visibility. In the process, I assumed a methodology which would allow me to be part of the party, to be taken by the forces at play in each celebration. After each party, I worked on the field diaries, focusing on the experiences and impressions derived from the celebration. My theoretical bets inscribed within the Philosophies of Differences, theorized by Deleuze and Guattari in special, and Performance Anthropology, which discuss collective practices in terms of event, performance and creation. This dissertation thus takes the Deleuzian idea of event as one of the key concepts to understand the transformations occurring at the Festa do Coco and the interest of visitors who seek to experience it and partake in the production of an event. The party participant wants to establish agencies, connections, to relate to other bodies and generate newness. Among these assemblages, bodily-negotiation is most significant. This concept, coined by myself for this research, refers to the events that take place at the epicenter of the Roda do Coco, in the middle of the ring formed by the other players, where the body negotiates and creates without the use of verbal production and different repertories of movements contaminate each other

La thèse examine les relations franco-suisses au début du XVIIIe siècle en s’interrogeant sur les pratiques et les canaux de négociation d’un côté, et celles du statut des acteurs de l’autre. Elle s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une histoire diplomatique renouvelée s’appuyant sur les acquis de l’histoire culturelle et sociale. Une première partie traite des relations entre les souverains : les autorités suisses et le roi de France. Face à l’asymétrie entre le roi et les cantons, leurs relations peuvent non seulement être décrites selon un modèle de relation entre souverains (inégaux), mais aussi selon un modèle patron-client. Une deuxième partie analyse les relations personnelles de l’ambassadeur français en Suisse. Il y est démontré comment les pratiques de communication entre l’ambassadeur et ses interlocuteurs suisses étaient façonnées par la culture politique différente des cantons qui n’acceptaient pas tous dans la même mesure les relations personnelles entre magistrats et diplomates étrangers. La troisième partie examine les canaux de communication et de négociation entre la Cour de France et les autorités suisses. Grâce à la présence de nombreux diplomates accrédités en Suisse et en s’appuyant sur leurs sujets séjournant aux cours étrangères en tant qu’officiers ou diplomates au service d’un prince étranger, les cantons pouvaient pratiquer une « diplomatie sans diplomates » qui ne coûtait presque rien. En dernier lieu, l’analyse des négociations du renouvellement d’alliance entre le roi de France et le canton de Berne soulève le problème des négociations avec une république aux temps modernes. / The thesis examines the Franco-Swiss relations in the early 18th century and probes into both the practices and channels of negotiation as well as the status of the actors. As a contribution to the flourishing ‘new diplomatic history’, it draws on the methods and innovations of cultural and social history. The first part discusses the relations between two unequal sovereigns: the Swiss authorities and the French king. Given the asymmetry between the king and the cantons, their relations can not only be described as relations between (unequal) sovereigns but also as patron-client ties. The second part examines the personal relations of the French ambassador in Switzerland and shows how the different political cultures of the cantons shaped the communicative practices between the ambassador and his Swiss interlocutors. In the third part, the channels of communication and negotiation between the French court and the Swiss authorities are analysed. Thanks to the presence of numerous foreign diplomats accredited in Switzerland and relying on the services of Swiss subjects staying at foreign courts as officers and diplomats serving a foreign prince, the Swiss republics were able to practice “diplomacy without diplomats”, thus economizing on the expenses associated with maintaining a formal diplomatic body. In the final part, the analysis of the negotiations for the renewal of the alliance between the French king and the Republic of Berne provides a case study of what it meant to negotiate with a polyarchy in the early modern period.

Economic game theory has been a challenge to traditional models of selfish human nature. Resource acquisition games, such as the dictator game, which have been primarily played by adults, have revealed that humans are inclined to share even when it is not in their best interest to do so. Few studies have been conducted on the development of resource distribution in children, and fewer still have explored the effect of context and level of involvement of a second player in such games. In the current study, 179 children from kindergarten, first, and second grades participated in a modified dictator game with another player. Children were randomly assigned to one of four conditions; a control condition, where they played individually with an anonymous player, or one of three experimental conditions with two players who each played with varying levels of involvement with the second player. It was found that kindergarteners shared significantly less across conditions than first and second graders, with first and second graders sharing similar amounts. The presence of another player significantly increased the amount of sharing for all grades. Additionally, second players shared significantly less than first players. Developmental and contextual patterns of sharing are discussed. / by Jason Grotuss. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Information leakage before full acquisitions has been widely documented. The information leakage, and the resulting pre-bid runup in the target's stock, generally increases the total cost of the acquisition. That is, information leakage and the ensuing pre-bid runup is a gain to the target and loss to the acquirer. Herein, I first ascertain the characteristics of full acquisitions that affect the amount of information leakage. I find that if the acquirer borrows to finance the acquisition then information leakage is greater. Further if the acquirer is foreign, if the target is a high-tech firm, and if the target has options on its stock all increase information leakage. I find hostile deals are effective in reducing information leakage. Lastly, information leakage increases in the percentage of managerial ownership. I next hypothesize that the identity and intent of partial acquirers is known to market participants before the announcement of a partial acquisition. I find that the market can anticipate whether a partial acquirer intends to fully-acquire or take an active role in the management of the target. Also, the market anticipates whether the acquirer is a private investment find or a non-financial corporation. Further, the acquirer's identity or intent is fully reflected in the target's stock price before the announcement of the partial acquisition. These results help explain why there are few partial acquisitions as precursors to full acquisitions. / I next hypothesize that macroeconomic factors affect information leakage, and may serve as a signal of when to speculate on acquisitions. I find that information leakage is positively related to shocks in both expected economic conditions and financing costs, the latter signaling to speculators that acquisitions are imminent. I also find information about an imminent full acquisition is leaked earlier when there are positive shocks to economic conditions and financing costs. / by Matthew David Brigida. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

A presente dissertação investiga a possibilidade jurídica e as limitações da utilização de meios consensuais para resolução de conflitos que tenham a Administração Pública como parte. Mais especificamente, a dissertação tratará da escolha entre valer-se de meios consensuais para a solução do conflito ou de relegá-lo a um meio adjudicatório, especialmente o processo judicial. No primeiro capítulo, o trabalho situa a adoção dos meios consensuais pela Administração Pública no contexto de desenvolvimento das ADRs no Brasil, com influência da experiência norte-americana. No segundo, trata de revisitar alguns dogmas do Direito Administrativo que possam configurar óbices à adoção dos meios consensuais, como a legalidade estrita e a supremacia do interesse público, bem como situar novamente o tema no contexto de expansão da atuação administrativa consensual. O terceiro capítulo apresenta conceitos importantes para compreender a questão como: interesse público e indisponibilidade; meios adjudicatórios de solução de conflitos; meios consensuais de solução de conflitos (negociação, mediação e conciliação). No quarto capítulo, serão abordadas as limitações que o regime de direito público impõe à adoção de meios consensuais pela Administração Pública. O quinto capítulo traz um contraponto aos meios consensuais, relatando algumas críticas e riscos de sua adoção. Por fim, o sexto capítulo relata pesquisa empírica realizada na Procuradoria-Geral do Município de São Paulo com a finalidade de revelar experiências e óbices práticos à adoção de meios consensuais. / This essay investigates the legal possibility and limitations of the use of consensual mechanisms of dispute resolution by Public Administration as one of the parties. More specifically, the essay addresses the choice between using consensual mechanisms to resolve the dispute or relegate it to adjudication, especially the judicial process. In the first chapter, the essay poses the use of consensual mechanisms by Public Administration in the context of ADRs development in Brazil, influenced by north american experience. In the second chapter, the essay revisits some tenets of Administrative Law that may constitute obstacles to the adoption of consensual mechanisms, such as strict legality and the supremacy of the public interest, and also poses the issue in the context of the expansion of consensual administrative action. The third chapter presents important concepts to understand the issue, such as: public interest and availability; adjudicatory mechanisms of dispute resolution; consensual mechanisms of dispute resolution (negotiation, mediation and conciliation). The fourth chapter adresses the limitations imposed by Public Law to the adoption of consensual mechanisms by Public Administration. The fifth chapter provides a counterpoint to consensual mechanisms, reporting some criticism and risks of its adoption. Finally, the sixth chapter reports empirical research conducted at São Paulo Citys Attorney General Office in order to reveal experiences and practical obstacles to the adoption of consensual mechanisms.

Por mais que os cientistas separem e classifiquem os elementos da realidade para melhor compreendê-la, ele preserva a sua natureza complexa e multidisciplinar. O mesmo raciocínio pode ser aplicado aos conflitos. A sociedade de massa, por sua vez, potencializou o surgimento de conflitos complexos. As peculiaridades e os diferentes aspectos destas situações tornam improvável que sejam adequadamente tratados e solucionados por mecanismos genéricos. Considerando isso e em uma perspectiva de meios adequados de solução de conflito, o método do desenho de sistemas de solução de conflito (Dispute System Design DSD) propõe que sejam criados sistemas personalizados a partir de princípios e técnicas. Dessa forma, seriam dadas as respostas processuais aos diferentes aspectos do conflito. Com o intuito de analisar a aplicação dos princípios e técnicas do DSD à realidade, estudar-se-ão os casos da Câmara de Indenização Voo 3054 (CI3054) e do Programa de Indenização Voo 447 (PI447). Estes sistemas tinham como escopo solucionar os conflitos provenientes de acidentes aéreos que ocorreram em 2007 e 2009, com aeronaves das companhias TAM e Air France, respectivamente. Nas duas tragédias não houve sobreviventes. / Although the scientists separate and classify the elements of reality to understand it better, it preserves its complex and multidisciplinary nature. The same reasoning can be applied to conflicts. The mass society, in its turn, increased the emergence of complex conflicts. The peculiarity and the different aspects of these situations makes it unlikely to be adequately processed and solved by generic mechanisms. Considering this and the perspective of adequate conflict resolution, the Dispute System Design - DSD suggests that custom systems can be created from principles and technical. Therefore would be given the procedural responses to the different aspects of the conflict. In order to examine the application of the principles and techniques of DSD to reality, will be studied the cases of the Câmara de Indenização Voo 3054 (CI3054) and Programa de Indenização Voo 447 (PI447). These systems were scoped to resolve conflicts arising from plane crashes that occurred in 2007 and 2009, with TAM and Air France aircraft. In the two tragedies there were no survivors.

A pesquisa visa compreender como os cooperados da UNIWIDIA – Cooperativa Industrial de Trabalhadores em Ferramentas de Metal Duro – negociam interesses e entendimentos no processo cotidiano de construção da autogestão de sua cooperativa. No trabalho de campo foi realizada observação etnográfica do cotidiano de trabalho na cooperativa, bem como realizadas entrevistas com seis cooperados. Os resultados apresentam: a cooperativa, o histórico da cooperativa, o cotidiano de trabalho, os interesses em disputa e os processos formais e informais de negociação. O estudo identifica que os cooperados formularam ao menos três importantes regras sobre seu funcionamento coletivo: “todos são iguais"; “todos são responsáveis" e “todos estão no mesmo barco". Tais regras são utilizadas pelos cooperados para manter a simetria de poder na cooperativa, cobrar atitudes uns dos outros e manter a coesão do grupo. A cada regra enunciada corresponde uma característica psicossocial destes cooperados: eles se preocupam com a cooperativa; controlam os demais cooperados e se sentem membros da cooperativa. A pesquisa conclui que os cooperados alternam posições e interesses, ora se posicionam como sócios favoráveis “à cooperativa", ora como trabalhadores em prol “dos cooperados" e ora como pessoas em busca “de uma vida melhor". Entretanto, conclui também que os cooperados desejam e trabalham para que estes interesses coincidam. / This project tries to understand how the workers affiliated with UNIWIDIA - the cast and die workers cooperative - bargain in the every day process of the self-management of their cooperative. We have done the ethnographic observation of the day to day working of the cooperative and we have also interviewed six workers who were members of the cooperative. The results are: the cooperative, the work day of the members, the goals fought over and the formal and informal bargaining processes. This project concludes that the cooperative members drew up at least three important rules about their collective functioning: “everybody is equal", “everybody is responsible", and “everybody is in the same boat". These rules are used by the members to maintain a certain symmetry of power in the cooperative, to demand correct attitudes from each other and to maintain group cohesion. Each one of the rules corresponds to a psychosocial characteristic of the members: they are concerned about the cooperative, they control the other members, and they feel that they belong to the cooperative. We conclude that the members of the cooperative oscillate between their positions and interests: sometimes they are members “ in favor of the cooperative", sometimes they are workers “in favor of the members of the cooperative", and sometimes they are “workers looking for a better life". We conclude too that the members of the cooperative desire and strive for the coincidence of these three interests.

Engagement with religion has recently become an important issue to development theoreticians, donors and practitioners. It is recognised that religion plays a key role in shaping moral frameworks and social identities, but little attention is paid to how this is played out in everyday life: the focus remains on ‘faith communities’ and ‘faith-based organisations’ as unified bodies. This thesis uses ethnographic methods to examine how members of two churches in rural Ghana are influenced by and engage with religion. Rather than viewing religion simply as (potentially) instrumental to development, it seeks to approach it in its own right. It challenges the rigidity of categories such as ‘physical/spiritual’ and ‘religious/non-religious’, and the notion of ‘faith communities’ as discrete, unified entities with coherent religious cosmologies. Insights from witchcraft studies and medical anthropology indicate that spiritual discourses are drawn on to negotiate hybrid and continuously changing modernities, and people tend to act pragmatically, combining and moving between discourses rather than fully espousing a particular ideology. Residents of the village studied appear to inhabit a world of different but interconnecting powers, which they are both, to some extent, subject to and able to marshal. These include God, secondary deities, juju, witchcraft, family authorities, traditional leaders, biomedicine and churches. Relationships with both spirits and humans are ambivalent and each of these powers can bring both blessings and harm. Religious experience is fluid, eclectic and pragmatic as people continually enter and exit groups and marshal different powers simultaneously to protect themselves from harm and procure blessings. Approaches by the development world seeking to engage with religion and to take seriously local people’s interests and viewpoints should thus be wary of oversimplification according to traditional Western social science categories, and be underpinned by an understanding of how religious discourses are interpreted and enacted in people’s everyday lives.

"Current approaches to design are often serial and iterative in nature, leading to poor quality of design and reduced productivity. Complex artifacts are designed by groups of experts, each with his/her own area of expertise. Hence design can be modeled as a cooperative multi-agent problem-solving task, where different agents possess different expertise and evaluation criteria. New techniques for Concurrent Design, which emphasize parallel interaction among design experts involved, are needed. During this concurrent design process, disagreements may arise among the expert agents as the design is being produced. The process by which these differences are resolve to arrive at a common set of design decisions is called Negotiation. The main issues associated with the negotiation process are, whether negotiation should be centralized or distributed, the language of communication and the negotiation strategy. The goals of this thesis are to study the work done by various researchers in this field, to do a comarative analysis of their work and to design and implement an approach to handle negotiation between expert agents in an existing Concurrent Engineering Design System."

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T18:12:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 22 / Nenhuma / Nesta dissertação de mestrado, estudamos o processo de produção da escrita em oficina literária. As teorias da enunciação de Émile Benveniste e de Jacqueline Authier-Revuz fundamentam nosso estudo. Em Benveniste, tomamos as reflexões sobre a dupla significância da linguagem para daí derivar uma forma de compreender o uso artístico da linguagem. Em Authier-Revuz, ancoramo-nos na teoria das heterogeneidades constitutivas / não-coincidências do dizer, para fundamentar a compreensão do ato enunciativo como palco de uma negociação constante e obrigatória do sujeito-autor com o(s) outros(s)/Outro que o atravessa(m) no ato de produção da escrita literária. Tomamos como objeto de estudo oito rascunhos e a versão final de um conto elaborado a partir de exercício proposto em uma Oficina de Criação Literária. Com o auxílio de classificações formuladas pela crítica genética – supressão, inserção e substituição -, acrescidas de categorias propostas por Endruweit (2006), observamos as alterações ocorridas de uma para outra / This master’s dissertation studies the process of writing production on a literary workshop. Émile Benveniste’s and Jacqueline Authier-Revuz’s enunciation theories are the basis for our study. From Benveniste, we borrow the reflection about the double meaning of language in order to derive a way to understand the artistic use of language. From Authier-Revuz, we take the theory of constitutive heterogeneity / non-coincidence of speech, to fundament the understanding of the act of enunciation as the stage for a constant and mandatory negotiation between subject-author and the other(s)/Other that cross him/her in the act of production of literary writing. Our object of study is comprised of eight drafts and a final version of a short story elaborated from an exercise suggested at a Workshop of Literary Creation. With the aid of classifications formulated by genetic criticism – suppression, insertion and substitution -, added of categories proposed by Endruweit (2006), we observed the changes that took place from