This thesis is an auto/ethnographic venture to explore the politics of bullying inside Bangladeshi classrooms. The thesis explores bullying in the frameworks of affect, anti-oppressive and intersectional gender pedagogy. Using autoethnographic and ethnographic means, the author revisits past encounters of being bullied and collects data from four schools in Dhaka, Bangladesh, drawing connections between narratives and theories. The thesis explores how schools fix and essentialize the identities of bully and bullied in discursive readings, which result in troubling approaches to deal with bullying, such as discipline, punishment and surveillance, which further exclude and other the bully and bullied. The thesis offers an affective reading of bodies inside classrooms, and employs theories of anti-oppressive and intersectional gender pedagogy to address and bring down the binary between bully and bullied, address power relations in classrooms and revise the roles of teachers and students. By acknowledging tensions and disruptions, aiming for self-reflexivity and transgressions, it offers a reading of how to think of transformations and turn the classroom into a ‘risky,’ yet generative space, to start a dialogue about bullying.

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Pour des raisons spécifiques propres à leur histoire, à leur identité, ou à certaines problématiques complexes rencontrées, il peut arriver que les organisations activent des processus de gouvernement par la discussion. De tels processus prennent la forme de dispositifs par lesquels des acteurs provenant d’horizons élargis se livrent à un travail politico-stratégique, d’imagination de mondes souhaitables et possibles, de confrontation et de composition de leurs expériences et leurs affects dans des espaces plus ou moins instrumentés de discussion, de partage, d’élaboration, de mise en mots: des processus de sémantisation.En prenant le point de vue d’un intervenant, la finalité de ce travail sera de proposer des repères pertinents pour le design et l’accompagnement de ces processus. Entre les illusions « idéalistes » et les injonctions « pseudo-pragmatiques », les processus de sémantisation doivent être conçus et instrumentés dans la perspective singulière de régénération de souverainetés hybrides, vis-à-vis d’objets qui excèdent les capacités à penser et à agir des acteurs à l’intérieur de compromis de gouvernement institués. Prenant le contre-pied des tendances contemporaines à la liquéfaction des institutions, l’axiologie sous-jacente de tels critères de conception s’appuie sur l’idée que la régénération des institutions suppose l’instrumentation d’une capacité dynamique à ouvrir des formes de travail politico-stratégique tournées vers la formation de rythmes organisationnels et politiques de meilleure qualité. Les processus de sémantisation apparaissent alors comme activateurs de dynamiques d’action collective instituant des souverainetés plus fécondes. / Driven by reasons specific to their history or identity, or driven by complex problems, organizations may at times decide to engage in processes of “government by discussion”. These processes will take the shape of dispositive enabling stakeholders from various backgrounds to contribute to a political-strategic work whereby they imagine more desirable and feasible worlds, by which they may confront and compose between their experiences and affects within more or less instrumented spaces for discussion, sharing, controversies, collective wording and enacting: namely processes of “semantics building”.Taking the point of view of a consultant, the final aim of this work will be to suggest markers useful for the designing and accompanying of such processes. Avoiding traps of idealist illusions as well as those of pseudo-pragmatism, processes of “semantics building” must be designed bearing in mind the particular idea of regeneration of hybrid sovereignties, towards objects which exceed the capacities to think and act of stakeholders within the institutionalized organizational and political compromises. Aiming at going beyond the current tendencies of liquefaction of institutions, the underlying axiology of such design heuristics relies on the idea that the regeneration of institutions implies the instrumentation of a dynamic capacity to launch political-strategic work geared towards the emergence of organizational and political rhythms of a higher quality. Processes of “semantics building” then appear as the triggers of dynamics of collective action whereby more fruitful sovereignties can be instituted.

The purpose was to investigate whether there was any change in psychological well-being during a 20 days period during rehabilitation from sport injuries. Also, one second purpose was to investigate the within-person relationship between affects, social support, adherence to rehabilitation and psychological well-being during rehabilitation. Data collection was conducted via contact with three physiotherapy clinics, where athletes who suffered a sports injury that needed rehabilitation of 30 days or more was asked to participate. In total 81 athletes decided to participate in the study. The athletes who decided to participate were, on three occasions at a 10 day intervals, asked to complete a questionnaire. The result showed that the psychological well-being changed between the three measurement occasions. Also, positive- as well as negative affects were the psychological factors that had the strongest relationship to psychological well-being. Based on the results of this study, further recommendations will be that physioterapists and significant others facilitates positive affective responses to improve the athletes psychological well-being during rehabilitation. / Studiens syfte var att undersöka om det fanns någon förändring i psykologiskt välbefinnande under en 20 dagars period under rehabilitering från en idrottsskada. Ett ytterligare syfte var att undersöka hur affekter, socialt stöd samt följsamheten till rehabilitering, på inom-individnivå, var relaterade till psykologiskt välbefinnande under rehabilitering. Datainsamling skedde via kontakt med tre fysioterapeutkliniker där idrottare som drabbats av en idrottsskada som innebar rehabilitering på minst 30 dagar tillfrågades att delta. Totalt valde 81 av de tillfrågade idrottarna att delta i studien. De idrottare som valde att delta fick, vid tre tillfällen med 10 dagars intervall, fylla i ett frågeformulär. Resultatet visade att psykologiskt välbefinnande förändras över tid. Vidare visade resultatet att positiva- respektive negativa affekter var de psykologiska faktorerna som visade starkast samband till psykologiskt välbefinnande. Baserat på studiens resultat rekommenderas fysioterapeuter och andra viktiga personer i en skadad idrottares omgivning att främja positiva affekter för att öka psykologiskt välbefinnande hos skadade idrottare under en rehabiliteringsprocess.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luiz Carlos Montans Braga.pdf: 2026970 bytes, checksum: b9e75123d2d8a0ce2129b35361430610 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The research started from the relationship among affects, politics and right in Spinoza s philosophy. Indeed, the Ethics Part III is the place where all affects are taken as specific topic. However, the affect subject also appears, in a more or less explicit way, in the exclusively political texts of the author, namely the Theological-Political Treatise and the Political Treatise, in addition to being quickly presented in argumentative moments of the Ethics Part IV, in which the issue of civitas is posed. Another aspect is the presence of the concept of power in the very definition of the concept of affect, in the Ethics Part III, thus closing the circle where the three concepts are presented, because Spinoza identifies right to power (jus sive potentia). The initial hypothesis referred to the existence of ties and intersections between such concepts, which was later confirmed by the detailed reading of Spinoza s texts, as well as of some of his commentators that have worked on the topics presented in the initial issue. The hard core of the dissertation tries to approach this conceptual relationship, explaining it by analyzing the author s texts, namely Ethics, the Theological-Political Treatise and the Political Treatise. In this argumentative proposition, the main thesis I try to defend is that Spinoza creates a political philosophy founded in the theory of affects. From this assumption, a second formulation comes up (but not a second thesis) over the pertinence of Spinoza s concepts for the contemporary emancipatory right. So, the path followed throughout the research has had two approaches, one far more finished and derived from the initial project, which makes an effort to solve the issue hereby posed, and another one more characterized by notes, bringing Spinoza s concept to the analysis of contemporary legal issues. This second moment of the dissertation looks into the pertinence of Spinoza s natural right concept for the contemporary right, besides analyzing the importance of the author s concepts to lend potency to one of the aspects of critical legal studies / O problema do qual partiu a pesquisa foi o da relação entre afetos, política e direito na filosofia de Espinosa. Com efeito, a Ética III é o local em que os afetos são tomados como tema específico. Ocorre que o tema dos afetos aparece também, mais ou menos explicitamente, nos textos exclusivamente políticos do autor, a saber, o Tratado Teológico-político e o Tratado-político, além de ser apresentado brevemente em momentos da argumentação da Ética IV em que a questão da civitas é posta. Outro ponto é a presença do conceito de potência na definição mesma do conceito de afeto, na parte III da Ética, fechando-se o círculo em que se apresentam os três conceitos, pois Espinosa identifica direito a potência (jus sive potentia). A hipótese inicial foi a da existência de laços e intersecções entre tais conceitos, o que se confirmou pela leitura em detalhe dos textos espinosanos, bem como dos comentadores que trabalharam os temas apresentados no problema inicial. O núcleo duro da tese procura alinhavar esta relação conceitual, explicitando-a por meio da análise dos textos do autor, especialmente a Ética, o Tratado Teológico-político e o Tratado-político. Neste movimento argumentativo, a principal tese que procuro defender é a de que Espinosa constrói uma filosofia política fundada na teoria dos afetos. Decorre desta tese uma elaboração (não uma segunda tese) acerca do tema da pertinência dos conceitos espinosanos para o direito emancipatório contemporâneo. Assim, o caminho percorrido em todo o trabalho tem dois movimentos, um mais bem acabado e decorrente do projeto inicial, o qual procura resolver a questão lá posta, e outro mais caracterizado por apontamentos, trazendo os conceitos espinosanos para a análise de questões jurídicas contemporâneas. Esse segundo momento da tese se debruça sobre o tema da pertinência do conceito de direito natural espinosano para o direito contemporâneo, bem como analisa a importância dos conceitos do autor para dar potência a uma das vertentes do direito crítico

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Thiago da Silva Prada.pdf: 951774 bytes, checksum: c6f71f7c6e3073c604d3944a5e6e0535 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper goal was to perform a research on the inhabitants of São Paulo who are subway users, in order to assess which effects the using of this mean of public transportation can have on their daily lives. That was made through their perceptions and story narration for getting a social, affective and political understanding of these subjects everyday. The literature related to mobility is quite extensive, however there is not much particular data on the everyday matter not either about the emotions concerning these users lives. Because of this, it has been focused on the narration of these individuals about their daily lives and the several affections involved in their day-by-day use of the subway system, aiming for bringing out their voices and the impacts that these rides may have on the production of a life and on the contemporaneous subjectivity. For accomplishing this study, the theoretical and methodological focus was based on the multidisciplinary approach in order to reach varied perspectives of the phenomenon with no reduction of it to any particular category. Theories of the sociology of the daily life, the anthropology of the emotions and philosophy have been used, as well as the narrative interview has been chosen to examine in a wider and deeper way the story of the users of public transportation, what has been complemented by the field observation. The analysis has evinced a shared social suffering, drawn in multiple affects and negative feelings related to daily life in public transportation, to the production of a subjectivity and an impotent life, but with some resistance tactics being put in practice to deal with this suffering / O objetivo deste trabalho foi realizar uma pesquisa com os moradores de São Paulo que são usuários do metrô a fim de verificar os efeitos provocados no cotidiano de suas vidas na utilização deste transporte público, através de suas percepções e narrativas para uma compreensão social, afetiva e política do cotidiano desses sujeitos. A literatura acerca da mobilidade possui vasto material, mas sem uma grande concentração voltada especificamente para a questão do cotidiano e das emoções envolvidas na vida desses usuários, e, por isso, o enfoque escolhido foram as narrativas dos usuários sobre seu cotidiano e os diversos afetos envolvidos na utilização diária do metrô, para trazer à tona suas vozes e os impactos que estas viagens tem na produção de uma vida e subjetividade contemporânea. Para realizar tal pesquisa, o foco teórico metodológico se baseia na multidisciplinaridade para abarcar de múltiplas perspectivas o fenômeno sem reduzi-lo a nenhuma categoria, foram utilizadas teorias da sociologia do cotidiano, antropologia das emoções e filosofia, assim como foi escolhida a entrevista narrativa para verificar de maneira ampla e em profundidade a história dos usuários no transporte público complementando com observação de campo. As análises evidenciaram um sofrimento social compartilhado, envolvido em múltiplos afetos e sentimentos negativos acerca das vivências diárias no transporte público, na produção de uma subjetividade e vida em impotência, mas com algumas táticas de resistência sendo postas em práticas para lidar com esse sofrimento

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:55:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Thiago da Silva Prada.pdf: 951774 bytes, checksum: c6f71f7c6e3073c604d3944a5e6e0535 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper goal was to perform a research on the inhabitants of São Paulo who are subway users, in order to assess which effects the using of this mean of public transportation can have on their daily lives. That was made through their perceptions and story narration for getting a social, affective and political understanding of these subjects everyday. The literature related to mobility is quite extensive, however there is not much particular data on the everyday matter not either about the emotions concerning these users lives. Because of this, it has been focused on the narration of these individuals about their daily lives and the several affections involved in their day-by-day use of the subway system, aiming for bringing out their voices and the impacts that these rides may have on the production of a life and on the contemporaneous subjectivity. For accomplishing this study, the theoretical and methodological focus was based on the multidisciplinary approach in order to reach varied perspectives of the phenomenon with no reduction of it to any particular category. Theories of the sociology of the daily life, the anthropology of the emotions and philosophy have been used, as well as the narrative interview has been chosen to examine in a wider and deeper way the story of the users of public transportation, what has been complemented by the field observation. The analysis has evinced a shared social suffering, drawn in multiple affects and negative feelings related to daily life in public transportation, to the production of a subjectivity and an impotent life, but with some resistance tactics being put in practice to deal with this suffering / O objetivo deste trabalho foi realizar uma pesquisa com os moradores de São Paulo que são usuários do metrô a fim de verificar os efeitos provocados no cotidiano de suas vidas na utilização deste transporte público, através de suas percepções e narrativas para uma compreensão social, afetiva e política do cotidiano desses sujeitos. A literatura acerca da mobilidade possui vasto material, mas sem uma grande concentração voltada especificamente para a questão do cotidiano e das emoções envolvidas na vida desses usuários, e, por isso, o enfoque escolhido foram as narrativas dos usuários sobre seu cotidiano e os diversos afetos envolvidos na utilização diária do metrô, para trazer à tona suas vozes e os impactos que estas viagens tem na produção de uma vida e subjetividade contemporânea. Para realizar tal pesquisa, o foco teórico metodológico se baseia na multidisciplinaridade para abarcar de múltiplas perspectivas o fenômeno sem reduzi-lo a nenhuma categoria, foram utilizadas teorias da sociologia do cotidiano, antropologia das emoções e filosofia, assim como foi escolhida a entrevista narrativa para verificar de maneira ampla e em profundidade a história dos usuários no transporte público complementando com observação de campo. As análises evidenciaram um sofrimento social compartilhado, envolvido em múltiplos afetos e sentimentos negativos acerca das vivências diárias no transporte público, na produção de uma subjetividade e vida em impotência, mas com algumas táticas de resistência sendo postas em práticas para lidar com esse sofrimento

Whereas transformative pedagogy is a well researched subject, intersectional feminist pedagogy and specifically Transversal dialogue has not been used to ease conflict in Catalonia. This research examines the potential for intersectional feminist pedagogy to change oppressive behaviours in both students and teachers in a classroom conflict in a Catalan secondary school. Using ethnography, the thesis describes and analyses a five month research process, which involved participant observation, participatory action research and anti-oppressive sessions using Transversal dialogue. By concluding that changes in oppressive behaviours in both teacher and students can be empowering, the research challenges the idea put forward by Kevin Kumashiro about changes occurring through crisis. Rather, I argue that Edyta Just’s adaptation of Deleuzian philosophy to pedagogy offers a more flexible framework to understand these changes. This thesis aims to contribute to intersectional feminist pedagogy by first demonstrating that changes in oppressive behaviours can occur in empowering ways and second that theories of how to bring about those changes need to be flexible.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Helena Carvalho de Oliveira.pdf: 7402478 bytes, checksum: 6416a0d4f012af98bef0be176cc30585 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research intends to understand how art contributes to a widening of the field of affects which interfere with clinical activity in Psychology. In analysis, through the follow-up of processes, including those belonging to the author with her own affects, experiences and encounters, trigger situations which discuss the state of the art; the work of Frida Kahlo as a passage way in the relationship life-art, and some scenes, fragments and syntheses, which articulate themselves in the central question of the research: life, art, affects and clinical activity, organized with the fundamental support of the philosophy of Deleuze, which helped me thinking more strongly about an open therapeutic space, in some deviant way which overflows the consulting room and the classroom. In my daily practice of the art-informed making of psychology, I understand life as an intensive map composed by passages, possibilities and landscapes where, with the strength of sensitivity, each person produces their own artwork, which is not necessarily an object, but instead their own lives, a transitional space towards some kind of emancipatory transformation, autonomous, critical and creative / Esta pesquisa busca compreender como a arte contribui para o alargamento do campo dos afetos que atravessam a relação do fazer clínico na psicologia. Em análise, por meio do acompanhamento de processos, inclusive os da própria autora com os seus afetos, experiências e encontros, situações disparadoras que discutem o estado de arte; a obra de Frida Kahlo como via de passagem na relação vida-arte, e algumas cenas, fragmentos e sínteses, que se articulam na questão central da pesquisa: vida, arte, afetos e clínica, organizada com o auxílio principal da filosofia de Deleuze, que me ajudou a pensar mais fortemente num espaço terapêutico aberto, num caminho de desvio que transborda o consultório e a sala de aula. Na minha prática cotidiana dos fazeres da psicologia atravessados pela arte, entendo a vida como um mapa intensivo composto por passagens, possibilidades e paisagens onde, com a força da sensibilidade, cada um produz a sua própria obra de arte, que não é necessariamente um objeto, mas sim a própria vida, um espaço de trânsito rumo a algum tipo de transformação emancipatória, autônoma, crítica e criativa

Notre recherche s'inscrit dans le domaine de la relation homme-technologie et se focalise plus spécifiquement sur le processus d'adoption d'un Environnement Numérique de Travail (ENT). Il est de plus en plus admis, dans la littérature, que l'utilisabilité est un critère nécessaire mais non suffisant pour prédire et expliquer l'acceptation des technologies (Bonnardel et al., 2006 ; Bonnardel, Piolat & Le Bigot, 2011 ; Demirbilek & Sener, 2003 ; Dillon, 2001 ; Hassenzahl, Beu & Burmester, 2001 ; Helander, 2003 ; Norman, 2004a, 2004b ; Robert, 2008). Par conséquent, il est aujourd'hui recommandé de prendre en compte d'autres facteurs dits non instrumentaux, en plus de l'utilité et de l'utilisabilité. Pour répondre à ces évolutions, nos travaux s'inscrivent dans une démarche qui combine les approches de l'acceptation et de l'expérience utilisateur (UX). Une place est ainsi donnée, aux aspects ergonomiques, hédoniques, mais aussi aux affects et aux caractéristiques des utilisateurs. Au sein de ce cadre théorique, cette thèse poursuit un double objectif : 1) examiner, d'une part, l'effet du niveau de complexité des tâches à réaliser et, d'autre part, l'effet d'une l'humeur préalable négative sur les variables de l'UX et de l'acceptation ; 2) aboutir à un modèle structural intégrateur " expérienceacceptation " qui rende compte du rôle joué par des variables instrumentales et non instrumentales dans le processus d'adoption des technologies. Les principaux résultats montrent, notamment, que les perceptions d'utilisabilité sont consistantes avec le niveau réel d'utilisabilité (en accord avec les propos de Thüring et Mahlke (2007)). De plus, il apparaît que les affects et l'utilisabilité perçue sont particulièrement sensibles à la manipulation du système, tandis que les qualités hédoniques perçues ne le sont pas. Ces dernières restent stables dans le temps, quelles que soient les conditions d'interaction. Ces résultats sont consistants avec ceux de Hassenzahl (2003, 2004) et Van Schaik et Ling (2008, 2011). Enfin, un modèle structural intégrateur encourageant est obtenu. Il met notamment en évidence que les caractéristiques des utilisateurs, la sphère affective, les qualités hédoniques perçues ainsi que les jugements d'utilité et d'attrait contribuent à la détermination des intentions d'usage d'un ENT. Sur la base de l'ensemble de nos résultats, nous proposons, en discussion, un méta-modèle théorique pour l'étude de l'adoption des technologies