Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 337-346).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-61).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2008. / Adviser: Catherine Preston. Includes bibliographical references.

L’activité professionnelle des acteurs sportifs suscite de la conflictualité. Les litiges qui en découlent sont extrêmement diversifiés. Matériellement, ils sont de nature associative ou contractuelle, administrative ou judiciaire, sociale, fiscale ou pénale, disciplinaire ou non disciplinaire. Territorialement, ils sont de dimension nationale ou internationale. Tous s’inscrivent dans un système de sources particulièrement étoffées : à des normes imposées aux acteurs (normes sportives, étatiques, supra-étatiques) se superposent des normes négociées par eux. Créant des interactions inévitables entre ces ensembles juridiques, un tel pluralisme juridique est à l’origine d’un véritable pluralisme de justice aux incidences processuelles et matérielles fortes.D’un point de vue processuel, qu’ils soient situés dans un ordre juridique national ou rattachés à un ordre juridique supranational ou transnational, les organes de justice ont des caractéristiques et des pouvoirs forts différents, mais répondent néanmoins à des logiques procédurales communes. Si les principes de répartition entre les divers modes de justice diffèrent selon que le litige sportif demeure dans la sphère nationale ou dépasse celle-ci, il reste que, dans leur ensemble, les juges interviennent dans une relation de combinaison, de complémentarité, plutôt que dans un rapport d’opposition.D’un point de vue du droit substantiel, cette démultiplication des juges n’en est pas pour autant malheureuse dans la mesure où ce pluralisme de justice vient, de son côté, opportunément consacrer et alimenter le pluralisme juridique sportif. Forts de leur action jurisprudentielle normative, ces juges, ces arbitres, participent, par une action isolée ou parfois dans le cadre d’un dialogue constructif, à une régulation adaptée et cohérente des différends liés à l’activité professionnelle des acteurs sportifs, en tenant compte des particularités de l’organisation du mouvement sportif et des rapports juridiques noués par ces derniers.Si bien qu’en définitive, les relations entre les phénomènes de pluralisme juridique et de pluralisme de justice participent d’un règlement des litiges sportifs fédéraux et de travail généralement conforme aux principes élémentaires de bonne justice et paraissant résolument adapté aux spécificités de l’activité professionnelle sportive. Ne serait-ce pas là, au fond, l’illustration saillante d’un « pluralisme ordonné » qui tend à respecter la diversité tout en permettant une harmonie d’ensemble ? / The professional activity of those involved in sport provokes much conflict. Consequent disputes are extremely diverse. Materially, they are associative or contractual, administrative or legal, social, fiscal or criminal, disciplinary or non-disciplinary in nature. Territorially, they are national or international. All fit into a particularly robust system of sources: norms imposed on actors (sporting rules, state rules, and supranational rules) overlap with norms negotiated by them. Creating inevitable interactions between these legal entities, such legal pluralism is the source of a true pluralism of justice with strong litigation and material consequences.From a procedural standpoint, whether they are attached to a national legal system or a supranational or transnational one, legal bodies have strongly different characteristics and powers, yet still meet a common procedural logic. In general, judges intervene with a combination and a complementary approach, rather than in an adversarial relationship, even if the principles of distribution between the various methods of justice differ, whether a sporting dispute remains within the domestic sphere or exceeds it. From a substantive law standpoint, this multiplication of judges is not necessarily unfortunate in so far as this pluralism of justice appropriately consecrates and nourishes legal sporting pluralism. With their normative case law actions, these judges and arbitrators take part by acting alone or sometimes within a constructive dialogue, to an appropriate and consistent regulation of disputes relating to the professional activity of those involved in sport. This takes into account the peculiarities of the organisation of sport and the legal relationships established by these actors.Whereby, ultimately, the relationships between legal pluralism and pluralism of justice are part of a general settlement of federal sporting disputes and working disputes that generally conform to the basic principles of fair justice and appearing resolutely adapted to the specificities of professional sporting activity. Does this not illustrate an “ordered pluralism ?

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:55:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LuanGSO_DISSERT.pdf: 1646950 bytes, checksum: 3dd041c2855afd8060b22e51316a696c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-07 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / It starts with the understanding that the relationship between society / nature is largely problematic in a context of socio-environmental crisis. In this context, we use the principle of hope to plan and work out new ways of understanding social reality, the relationship between science and alternative knowledge. The research is to investigate how the actors influence the social construction of urban environmental policy of the city of Mossor? / RN with reference to the processes of implementing the Master Plan and Agenda 21 of the municipality. The hypothesis of this research is that the Environmental Policy in Mossley has a normative character that is expressed primarily in the creation of an institutional political framework to manage environmental issues involving so incidental and or functional society participation mossoroense. Thus questioned who are the actors that build environmental policy Mossor? / RN. The specific objectives of this research are: Identify the environmental dimension of the Master Plan Agenda 21 articulated Mossor? / RN mapping information from the managers, engineers and members of the Municipal Environment and Municipal Council of Cities on the operation of urban environmental policy mossoroense and how it is performed by the Manager of Environmental Management in conjunction with the Department of Environment and Territorial Development (SEDETMA) and Executive Management of Urban Development. As a methodology, we used the method of the sociology of absences and emergencies in conjunction with the ecology of knowledge and productivity. It is a qualitative research and documentary, which was used as the Master Plan documents Mossor? / RN, minutes of meetings of boards and complementarity were carried out 12 semi-structured interviews with managers and directors of the Urban Environmental Policy of the Municipality of Mossor? / RN. They used also the social analytical or thematic maps for the translation of the dialogue among social partners, managers and directors who make the Environmental Policy Council. We conclude that these dialogues and experiences point to the construction of an environmental policy more participatory and effective, committed to individual and collective transformation of society mossoroense / Parte-se da compreens?o que a rela??o sociedade/natureza ? largamente problematizada em um contexto de crise socioambiental. Neste contexto, lan?amos m?o do princ?pio da esperan?a para planejarmos e elaboramos novas formas de se entender a realidade social, na articula??o entre ci?ncia e saberes alternativos. A pesquisa consiste em investigar, como os atores sociais interferem na constru??o da pol?tica ambiental urbana da cidade de Mossor?/RN tendo como refer?ncia os processos de implementa??o do Plano Diretor, bem como da Agenda 21 do munic?pio. A hip?tese desta pesquisa ? que a Pol?tica Ambiental em Mossor? tem um car?ter essencialmente normativo que se expressa na cria??o de um arcabou?o pol?tico institucional para gerir as quest?es ambientais envolvendo de maneira acess?ria e ou funcional a participa??o da sociedade mossoroense. Desse modo questionou-se quem s?o os atores que constroem a pol?tica ambiental de Mossor?/RN. Como objetivos espec?ficos desta pesquisa s?o: Identificar a dimens?o ambiental do Plano Diretor articulado a Agenda 21 de Mossor?/RN; mapear informa??es junto aos gestores, coordenadores e membros do Conselho Municipal de Meio Ambiente e o conselho Municipal de Cidades sobre o funcionamento da pol?tica ambiental urbana mossoroense e como ela ? executada pela Ger?ncia Executiva de Gest?o Ambiental em conjunto com a Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Territorial e Ambiental (SEDETMA) e a Ger?ncia Executiva do Desenvolvimento Urban?stico. Como caminho metodol?gico, foi utilizado o m?todo da sociologia das aus?ncias e das Emerg?ncias em articula??o com a ecologia dos saberes e das produtividades. ? uma pesquisa qualitativa e documental, onde utilizou-se documentos como o Plano Diretor de Mossor?/RN, atas de reuni?es dos conselhos e em complementaridade foram realizadas 12 entrevistas semi-estruturadas com os gestores e conselheiros da Pol?tica Ambiental Urbana do Munic?pio de Mossor?/RN. Usaram-se tamb?m os mapas sociais anal?ticos ou tem?ticos para a tradu??o dos di?logos entre os atores sociais, gestores e conselheiros que fazem a Pol?tica Ambiental Municipal. Conclui-se que estes di?logos e experi?ncias, apontam para a constru??o de uma pol?tica ambiental mais participativa e efetiva, comprometida com a transforma??o individual e coletiva da sociedade mossoroense

Submitted by Rebeka Godeiro (rebeka_carvalho@hotmail.com) on 2018-06-13T14:16:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIA DE FÁTIMA COSTA CABRAL PEIXOTO - DISSERTAÇÃO CIÊNCIAS FLORESTAIS 2011.pdf: 14529919 bytes, checksum: 2b511b30e0fe66031fe375c6f14a6e39 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-13T14:16:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIA DE FÁTIMA COSTA CABRAL PEIXOTO - DISSERTAÇÃO CIÊNCIAS FLORESTAIS 2011.pdf: 14529919 bytes, checksum: 2b511b30e0fe66031fe375c6f14a6e39 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-27 / Capes / Os registros da história humana surgiram por volta de 6.000 anos a . C , com a utilização de entalhes na pedra, na madeira ou em placas de argila. Com o aperfeiçoamento deste processo artesanal, surgiu o papiro para registro de informações, depois o pergaminho e o papel. Assim, a evolução das técnicas de produção industrial do papel contribuiu para a degradação ambiental. Diante disso, o objetivo do trabalho é avaliar a percepção dos atores sociais quanto aos impactos ambientais resultantes da produção e uso do papel, sob o foco da sustentabilidade ambiental. A metodologia empregada nesta pesquisa foi o uso de estudo de caso, embasado por uma revisão bibliográfica, aplicação de questionários semi estruturados em duas Instituições de Ensino Superior e com atores sociais e, ao final, apresentam-se propostas para auxiliar projetos de educação ambiental. Identificou-se, no ambiente acadêmico, em relação à percepção, sustentabilidade e impactos ambientais, uma visão globalizante, evidenciando-se as relações recíprocas entre natureza e sociedade. Em ambas as lESs, constatou-se que há um maior entendimento quanto à produção de papel, enquanto que a reutilização, a reciclagem e o descarte de papel foram pouco abordados. Quanto às práticas pedagógicas, poucos projetos são desenvolvidos, ficando a discussão voltada mais para sala de aula. Os atores sociais consideraram a prática do reuso do papel necessária para a reciclagem, minimizando os impactos ambientais e contribuindo para a preservação dos recursos naturais, embora não representem segurança econômica. As propostas para alcançar a sustentabilidade no âmbito acadêmico devem partir de diretrizes e ações que contribuam para o ensino, a pesquisa e a extensão, dando suporte às experiências locais de reuso e reciclagem do papel na preservação ambiental. / The records of human history appeared around 6000 years BC, with the use of stone and wood carvings or clay tablets. With the improvement of this handmade process, papyrus emerged in order to record information, and then came parchment and afterwards paper. Thus the evolution of industrial production techniques of paper contributed to environmental degradation. Therefore, the objective of this project is to assess the perception of the social actors regarding environmental impacts resulting from production and use of paper under the focus of environmental sustainability. The methodology used in this research was the use of case study, based on a literature review, application of semi-structured questionnaires in two higher education institutions and with social actors. In the end, proposals were presented in order to help environmental education projects. It was identified, within the academic environment, regarding perception, sustainability and environmental impacts, a global view, highlighting the mutual relations between nature and society. In both Institutions, we found that there is a great understanding about the paper production, whereas reusing, recycling and discarding paper was rarely mentioned. In regard to the pedagogical practices, few projects are carried out, so the discussion occurs mostly in the classroom. The social actors considered the practice of reuse of paper necessary for recycling, minimizing environmental impacts and contributing to the preservation of natural resources, although it may not be financially viable. Proposals to achieve sustainability in the academic environment must come from guidelines and actions which contribute to teaching, research and extension, supporting local experience of reusing and recycling paper, as they play an essential role in environmental preservation.

Construction is one of the largest industry sectors in terms of size and output in the United Kingdom (UK). The sector contributes about 10% directly to the UK's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and drives historical GDP growth. However, Construction projects and Organisations continue to underperform at significant levels which is underpinned by actors' Information Behaviours (IBs).

L'administration tunisienne vit des transformations considérables au niveau de ses moyens de fonctionnement et de gestion dues à l'implantation générale des TIC dans son mode d'organisation.À l'heure où de nombreuses équipes se mobilisent pour organiser ou pérenniser cette implantation dans leur structure, il nous parait intéressant de faire un état des lieux de l'existant sur les TIC et les différentes modalités d'évolution.Notre recherche est focalisée plus exactement sur l'analyse du processus du changement organisationnel engendré par les technologies d'information et de communication dans l'organisation. Les TIC en tant que moyen de communication et d'information à l'intérieur de l'organisation ont suscité notre curiosité scientifique. Nous avons essayé, à travers quatre administrations tunisiennes, de retracer les modalités d'appropriation ou de résistance des TIC à travers une analyse méticuleuse des jeux d'acteurs, des formes de perception des TIC pour comprendre par la suite les différentes formes d'usages des TIC et les attitudes des salariés envers ce nouveau modèle d'organisation dans l'administration tunisienne.Le discours promotionnel sur les TIC en Tunisie, soutient l'idée, selon laquelle, ces outils contribueraient à l'amélioration des conditions de travail et à l'accroissement de la productivité des salariés. Ce discours “prophétique” nous allons le confronter à la réalité de l'administration tunisienne et aux usages réels des salariés. Usages “réels” et usages “prescrits”, un écart perceptible dans l'administration tunisienne digne d'analyse et d'approfondissement. / The Tunisian government saw significant transformations in its means of operation and management due to general ICT implementation in itsorganization. At a time when many teams are working to organize and sustain this presence in their structure,it seems interesting to do an inventory of the existing ICT and the different ways of evolution.Our research is focused more specifically on the analysis of organizational change caused by information and communication technologies in the organization process. ICT as a means of communication and information within the organization has raised our scientific curiosity. We tried,through four Tunisian offices to trace the methods of appropriation or resistance of ICT through a deep analyzing office's actors,forms of perception to understand ICT thereafter, the different types of use ICT and employee attitudes toward this new model organization in the Tunisian government.Promotional discourse on ICT in Tunisia supports the idea that these tools contribute to improving working conditions and increasing employee productivity. This "prophetic" speech we will confront the reality of the Tunisian government and the actual use of employees. Uses "real" and uses "prescribed" a perceptible difference in the Tunisian administration worthy of analysis and deepening.

With the inclusion of sexual orientation in the Equality clause of the post-Apartheid constitution which demands equal rights and protection for all individuals regardless of sexual orientation, South Africa has been praised as one of the most liberal countries in the world. Because of this legal equality, gay and lesbian experiences have become a lot more visible in every day South African lives. This includes visibility in South African television programmes and film. Today, a number of South African produced television programmes have included at least one lesbian character in their storyline and many LGBTIQ activist organisations have deemed this increased visibility as a positive step for LGBTIQ rights. However, discriminatory discourses such as same-sex sexualities as 'un-African ' and unnatural, which often result in brutal hate crimes against LGBTIQ individuals (such as corrective rape), contribute to the social and cultural intolerance of same-sex sexualities. South African research into the lives of lesbian women has often related lesbian experience to that of gay men or has focused on lesbian women as victims of corrective rape and oppressive practices at the hands of the dominant heteronormative culture. This research was a discursive reception study, using three focus group discussions with self-identified lesbian audiences (black and white). The study explored how this audience received (interpreted/talked about) the available fictional representations of 'black' lesbian women and 'white' lesbian women in three clips from two South African television programmes, Society and The Mating Game. Using Wetherell's (1998) critical discursive psychology approach, this research focused on examining the 1) Subject positions made available in/by these representations; 2) Interpretive repertoires used by the audience in appropriating and/or negotiating and/or reSisting these subject positions; and 3) Ideological dilemmas experienced by participants in this negotiation process. The predominant subject positions made available in these representations were differentiated according to binary racial categories of white lesbian women and black lesbian women. For example, participants positioned white lesbian women as "lumberjacks" and "tomboys" while black lesbian women were positioned as "township lesbians" and "hood rats". In working with these subject positions, participants drew on interpretative repertoires of othering and otherness as well as interpretative repertoires of survival. In negotiating with these subject positions and others found in the discussions, ideological dilemmas often arose when participants found themselves having to draw on interpretative repertoires which extend from a heteronormative discourse. These kinds of interpretative repertoires included religion, nature, and compromise which contradicted and created a troubled position when used in relation to the participants' lesbian sexualities. Therefore, when the ideological dilemma and troubled position became apparent, participants had to work to repair the troubled position by justifying their use of these heteronormative interpretative repertoires.