This minithesis provides an ethnographic account of the life world of older people in the community of Belhar in the Cape Peninsula, which was historically categorised as a &lsquo / coloured&rsquo / community during the implementation of the Group Areas Act. By content analysing newspaper articles published in the early 1980s and specifically during the implementation of the Group Areas Act I found that many of the residents reported that they lived in fear of their lives, in what was once known as a &lsquo / prestige suburb&rsquo / . At the present time the community of Belhar is an intensely gang-infested area. From preliminary research done by myself at a senior citizen centre in Belhar, the high incidence of violence was a recurring theme throughout discussions with older people. In fact when I posed the question Why do you come to the centre five days a week? to a group of older people they answered without hesitation It is unsafe for an older person to be alone during the day. Answers like these to many of the questions that I posed would almost always be followed with Things were better then. It also was apparent that the older people in this community remember (or perhaps reconstruct) the past in the context of their present living situation. This became the leading theme in my study and is also the background against which I had formulated my research questions. However this study not only focused on the impact of the high incidence of violence on the community of older people but also essentially looked at elderly residents&rsquo / everyday lived experiences in Belhar. The research sample consisted of twenty elderly residents and four key informants. The latter provided mainly infrastructural data on the community. Primary data was collected by using ethnographic techniques of inquiry which included participant observation and unstructured interviews. Results revealed that older people occupy a liminal space both in the community and in their households. I also found that the elderly stroke victim is twice silenced and marginalized due to the constraints brought on by their chronic illness and their status as an older person in the community.

This minithesis provides an ethnographic account of the life world of older people in the community of Belhar in the Cape Peninsula, which was historically categorised as a &lsquo / coloured&rsquo / community during the implementation of the Group Areas Act. By content analysing newspaper articles published in the early 1980s and specifically during the implementation of the Group Areas Act I found that many of the residents reported that they lived in fear of their lives, in what was once known as a &lsquo / prestige suburb&rsquo / . At the present time the community of Belhar is an intensely gang-infested area. From preliminary research done by myself at a senior citizen centre in Belhar, the high incidence of violence was a recurring theme throughout discussions with older people. In fact when I posed the question Why do you come to the centre five days a week? to a group of older people they answered without hesitation It is unsafe for an older person to be alone during the day. Answers like these to many of the questions that I posed would almost always be followed with Things were better then. It also was apparent that the older people in this community remember (or perhaps reconstruct) the past in the context of their present living situation. This became the leading theme in my study and is also the background against which I had formulated my research questions. However this study not only focused on the impact of the high incidence of violence on the community of older people but also essentially looked at elderly residents&rsquo / everyday lived experiences in Belhar. The research sample consisted of twenty elderly residents and four key informants. The latter provided mainly infrastructural data on the community. Primary data was collected by using ethnographic techniques of inquiry which included participant observation and unstructured interviews. Results revealed that older people occupy a liminal space both in the community and in their households. I also found that the elderly stroke victim is twice silenced and marginalized due to the constraints brought on by their chronic illness and their status as an older person in the community.

Orientador: Guita Grin Debert / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-05T10:50:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_AmandaMarquesde_M.pdf: 1637229 bytes, checksum: b8907682e74d08607f1e45bc9d32c88c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Essa dissertação tem como base uma pesquisa realizada em uma Delegacia de Defesa da Mulher e num Distrito Policial localizados numa cidade do interior do Estado de São Paulo. Seu objetivo foi compreender os significados que a violência contra o idoso tem para os agentes policiais e o conjunto de práticas por eles desenvolvidas no tratamento das ocorrências que têm como vítimas pessoas com 60 anos ou mais. Com essa finalidade, a investigação articulou a análise da documentação produzida pela polícia com a observação de comportamentos e entrevistas no ambiente policial. Os dados levantados permitiram mapear os tipos de ocorrências; identificar o perfil social das vítimas; e a maneira como os agentes compreendiam as denúncias e a especificidade da situação dos velhos. Constatou-se que a compreensão dos policiais das duas delegacias sobre a violência contra o idoso invisibiliza a violência denunciada que, na maioria dos casos, tinha como agressor conhecidos ou familiares das vítimas. Os agentes policiais, por um lado, feminizavam a velhice considerando que as queixas envolvendo a família deveriam ser encaminhadas para a delegacia de defesa da mulher, mesmo quando a vítima era do sexo masculino. Por outro lado, associavam à velhice características como a passividade, a dependência e a falta de vigor físico, o que não corresponde ao perfil das vítimas compareciam às delegacias. Como esse trabalho demonstra, os velhos que denunciam estão muito distantes dessa imagem do velho frágil e dependente da família e das instituições voltadas para o cuidado da velhice. São homens e mulheres com autonomia funcional e de rendimentos que buscaram nas delegacias, especializadas e comuns, um espaço para solucionar seus conflitos e garantir a propriedade de seus bens / Abstract: This dissertation is based on a research carried out in a Police Station for Women Defense and in a District Police Station located in a city in the countryside of the State of São Paulo. The objective of this work was to understand the meanings that violence against the elderly have to police officers, as well as their practices in the treatment of occurrences that have people at the age of 60 or older as the victims. With that purpose, the investigation included the analysis of the documents produced by the Police, with the observation of behaviors and interviews at the police environment. The surveyed data allowed for the mapping of the types of occurrences, the identification of the social profile of the victims, and the way in which the officers understood the denunciations and the specificity of the elderly situation. It was observed in the two Police Stations that the officer¿s understanding about violence against the elderly makes the denunciated violence invisible, which in most cases have acquaintances or family members of the victims as the aggressors. On the one side, police officers feminized the elderly by deeming claims involving the family as a subject to be forwarded to the Police Station for Women Defense, even when the victim was a male. On the other side, they associated the elderly with characteristics such as passivity, dependence, and lack of physical strength, which did not correspond to the profile of the victims who went to those stations. As shown in this work, the denunciating elderly are far away from this image of the fragile elderly who depends on the family and on institutions dedicated to elderly care. They are men and women with functional and economic autonomy who sought in Police Stations, both specialized and common, a space to solve their conflicts and guarantee the property of theirassets / Mestrado / Mestre em Antropologia Social

Orientador: Tirza Aidar / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T06:10:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Belon_AnaPaula_M.pdf: 999877 bytes, checksum: 35afba21b9b0ad79c323d894c75e5ec6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: O cenário demográfico que se delineia no Estado de São Paulo é caracterizado pelo aumento envelhecimento relativo populacional e da participação relativa e das taxas de mortalidade por neoplasias malignas entre as causas de óbito. A estreita associação entre mortes por neoplasias malignas e a população idosa reforça a importância deste estudo, que apresenta como proposta investigar a relação entre as condições de vida dos idosos e a mortalidade por neoplasias de colo de útero, mama feminina e próstata para o Estado de São Paulo no ano de 2000. Parte-se do pressuposto que as desigualdades socioeconômicas se expressam nos diferenciais da mortalidade por neoplasias entre idosos e seu comportamento ao longo do tempo. Resgata-se as dimensões socioeconômicas e demográficas da mortalidade, numa tentativa de não se restringir à simples mensuração da desigualdade em saúde. Elege-se, como variáveis socioeconômicas para compor perfil socioeconômico dos idosos, os anos de estudo e rendimento domiciliar per capita, tendo como categorias de referência o analfabetismo funcional e o rendimento igual ou superior a 5 s.m. per capita. Para tanto, o Estado de São Paulo é dividido em Direções Regionais de Saúde (DIR) e a população idosa em grupos etários qüinqüenais e por sexo. Os anos censitários, que auxiliam a compreensão da evolução temporal, são 1980, 1991 e 2000. Através de análises de correlação e graus de dispersão, a dissertação aponta como resultados que: (1) ocorre um aumento mais significativo das taxas específicas de mortalidade por neoplasias entre idosos com idades mais avançadas no decorrer dos anos; (2) quanto maior a participação relativa do analfabetismo funcional entre os responsáveis pelo domicílio, menor são os riscos de morrer por neoplasias malignas; (3) quanto maior a proporção de domicílios com rendimento per capita igual ou superior a 5 s.m., maiores são as taxas específicas de mortalidade; (4) a localização e distribuição dos centros de saúde de alta complexidade, segundo as DIR¿s influem na magnitude das taxas; (5) as neoplasias de mama feminina e próstata apresentam maiores índices de correlação entre as taxas e as variáveis socioeconômicas, sendo que o comportamento de colo de útero seria mais aleatório / Abstract: There is a demographic scenery for the State of São Paulo (Brazil) characterized by population ageing and an increasing rate of death, among this population, caused by malignant neoplasms. Based on these findings, this study intends to investigate the relation between socioeconomics and demographic pointers and mortality by malignant neoplasms ¿ uterine cervical, feminine breast and prostate ¿ among the aged population of the State of São Paulo and its health regional services during the year of 2000. Presuming that the socioeconomics inequalities are expressed in the mortality rates by malignant neoplasms among aged people, it was elected as variables to compose the socioeconomic profiles, schooling and per capita domicile income. The reference categories are determined as functional illiteracy and the income of 5 minimal salaries or above per capita. The State of São Paulo is divided by the ¿regional health services¿ (DIR) and the aged population by sex in 5-aged groups. The census years which helps to understand the time evolution are 1980, 1991 and 2000. Through descriptive analysis as well as linear models adjusts, the results suggest that: (1) there is a significative increase in the mortality rates by malignant neoplasms among the eldest and this tendency does not present a homogeneity aspect among the DIR¿s; (2) the rate of mortality due to feminine breast and prostata cancers is, unexpectedly, higher in the more developed regions; (3) in areas with health centers of high complexity for cancer treatment, the same tendency occurs, i.e. the highest levels of deaths as a consequence of neoplasms in aged population were observed. / Mestrado / Saude e Morbi-mortalidade / Mestre em Demografia