The Zionist type of churches under the African Independent Churches have proven to be a force to be reckoned with against the more organized ecclesiastical movements (in particular the Mission Churches). This can be seen in their emphasis around matters related to culture and its methods of healing. As s result this led to the migration of people from the mission churches to these churches and threatened their existence in Botswana. The mission churches have been experiencing the decline in their membership to the Zionist churches because of the lack of openness to the cultural and the value systems of Batswana in Botswana. Mission churches were left with an option of doing introspection and finally acknowledging their failures to contextualise their theology and Christianity among the people they serving. Mission churches ended up opening their doors to the needs of their members. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th. (Church History)

The use in pictorial art of visual reference to prototypes and conventions in encoding reality forms the crux of the theoretical research. The theoretical component complements the practical research, which focuses on the interplay between perceptions of 'reality' and visual conventions in landscape art. The existence of diverse realities, based on individual ideological and sociocultural perspectives, is acknowledged. In encoding these realities, artists may draw on a reservoir of stylistic, formal and conceptual prototypes. Visual reference constitutes an allegorical procedure because the artist refers to an antecedent text in the representation of a particular 'reality'. Pictorial signs also rely on conventions to convey meaning. Both the perception and the artistic recreation of different realities may thus be regarded as recycling processes. In a world saturated with visual information, reference to prototypes is a powerful procedure which assists contemporary pictorial artists in the creation of meaningful images of current realities. / Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology / M.A. (Fine Arts)

The narratives about the postexilic Judean community are an ancient biblical account of the socio-economic and political experiences of the Judeans when they were finally restored back to Judah from Babylonian captivity. Although the Judean restoration was celebrated when they were restored by King Cyrus’ decree, real freedom did not prevail in the Persian province of Yehud; corruption, usury, greed, oppression, enslavement and loss of property impacted negatively on the poor. The leadership expropriated from poor citizens land, vineyards, and houses in exchange for food. In addition, the governors also charged heavy interest on money borrowed by poor members of society. Parents and their children were subjected to enslavement. In response to these corrupt practices, Nehemiah challenged the leadership to stop oppressing the poor. Nehemiah went further to provide food to the starving Judeans and other people from surrounding nations which served as a stimulus to strive towards alleviating poverty and starvation among communities. By employing an approach known as hermeneutics of appropriation, this thesis appropriates the experience of the postexilic Judean community to the post-independence Zimbabwean context. Between the years 1999 and 2008 many people lost their lives due to unemployment and lack of income, shelter, nutrition, and access to health-care facilities because of the economic meltdown following the controversial fast-track land reform programme in Zimbabwe. The majority of people are still experiencing the negative impact of the land reform as people strive to make a living in the absence of jobs and income scarcity. Corruption by the leadership has continued to further exacerbate starvation among the poor until today.This study attempts to employ the biblical Nehemiah’s social justice reforms (Neh 5) to challenge the Zimbabwean leadership to focus on rebuilding the country which was ravaged by a decade of both political and socio-economic crises. Lessons drawn from Nehemiah would be used to stimulate the leadership in the Zimbabwean government and members of society at large, to strive towards helping the poor and alleviating poverty. / Old Testament & Ancient Near Eastern Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Biblical Studies)

I am a collage artist working with multiple mediums such as paint, photography, video, audio, and performance. As a New Orleans’ native, I have a unique history that is unflattering, for my history echoes that of America’s historical misdeeds. I make sociopolitical art because I am of a historically oppressed people. I make art that celebrates my diverse culture that is a collage of Native American, African, and New Orleans’ French Creole.

[pt] Este trabalho focaliza o ensino de português como segunda língua para surdos sob uma perspectiva sociointeracional do discurso. O estudo reflete sobre os aspectos fundamentais que se presentificam dentro do processo de ensino- aprendizagem da língua portuguesa escrita no Centro Educacional Pilar Velazquez, uma escola com proposta de Educação Bilíngüe para surdos. É um trabalho que se pretende de base para a orientação dos profissionais do ensino que transitam no mundo da surdez. Levantamos alguns pontos teóricos significativos: a língua de sinais brasileira (LIBRAS) como língua legítima da comunidade surda, sua primeira língua; a perspectiva da surdez sob uma ótica antropológica; a reflexão sobre os significados sociais do mundo da língua escrita e suas implicações na conjuntura que cerca os surdos; a orientação da língua portuguesa descrita como uma segunda língua. A partir desses pilares, lançamos o olhar sobre a produção escrita de alunos surdos, iluminando e apontando um efetivo, mas nem sempre identificado, processo de aprendizagem da língua escrita. Nosso trabalho pretende explicitar como o surdo passa a ser visto como um sujeito plenamente capaz de desenvolver suas potencialidades, quando lido sob uma perspectiva interacional do discurso, através do progresso em suas produções escritas. / [en] This thesis focus on teaching Portuguese as a second language to deaf people under a socio-interactional approach to discourse. The study analyses fundamental aspects that appear in the process of teaching/learning Portuguese, in its written form, in a school named Centro Educacional Pilar Velazquez. This school proposes Bilingual Education to deaf people. This work aims at serving as a basis tothose teaching professionals involved in the universe of deafness. We raise some significant theoretical issues: the Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) as the legitimate language of the deaf comunity, their first language; deafness under an anthropological point of view; reflections on the social meaning of written language and its implications regarding the world surrounding deaf people; the orientation of Portuguese when it is viewed as a second language. From these pillars, we have analysed deaf students´s compositions, enlightening and pointing to a genuine - although often not identified - process of learning written language. Our research intends to explicit how deaf people can be regarded as totally capable of developping their potentialities, under an interactional perspective of discourse and by means of the progress shown in their written work. / [fr] Ce travail se focalise sur l´enseignement du portugais comme deuxième langue pour les sourds dans une perspective socio-interactionnelle du discours. L´étude analyse les aspects fondamentaux que se révèlent à l´intérieur du processus de l´enseignement-apprentissage de langue portugaise écrite au Centro Educacional Pilar Velazquez, une école que propose l´Éducation Bilingüe pour les sourds. C´est um travail qui se veut une base pour l´orientation des professionnels de l´enseignement qui transitent dans le monde de la surdité. Nous avons relevé quelques points theóriques significantifs: la langue de signes (LIBRAS) comme légitime de la communauté sourde, sa première langue; la perspective de la sourdité sous une optique anthropologique; la réflexion sur les signifiés sociaux du monde de la langue écrite et ses implicatoins dans la conjoncture qui entoure les sourds; l´orientation de la langue portugaise décrite comme une deuxième langue. À partir de ces piliers, nous avons posé le regard sur la production écrite d´élèves sourds, éclairant et désignant um effectif, mais, pas toujour identifié, processus d´apprentissage de la langue écrite. Notre travail a l´intention d´expliciter comment, dans une perspective interactionnelle du discours, le sourd em vient à être perçu comme um sujet pleinement capable de développer son potentiel.

L’agriculture est un secteur d’activité privilégié pour notre objet qui est l’étude de la dynamique sociotechnique et du travail. Nous montrons dans cette étude comment des éleveurs transformés de plus en plus en agro-pasteurs, à la suite de la sécheresse et la surcharge des hommes et du cheptel sur les ressources naturelles des parcours collectifs, sont amenés à changer progressivement leurs systèmes de production et partant leurs rapports sociaux.<p><p>Au-delà d’une vision figée et homogénéisante de la paysannerie véhiculée par certains modèles sociologiques et par la vulgarisation agricole au Maroc, nous mettons l’accent sur l’hétérogénéité de la paysannerie et les aspects dynamiques de l’activité agricole et de ses acteurs.<p><p>Bien que les éleveurs/agriculteurs évoluent dans un environnement physique et économique souvent défavorable à leurs activités, ils manifestent de différentes stratégies pour améliorer leurs conditions de vie ou renforcer leurs acquis. <p><p>A partir d’une étude sur le terrain rurale de la Commune de Ben Smim, au Moyen Atlas berbère marocain et ayant mobilisé différents instruments de recueil d’informations, nous avons relevé que l’activité agricole n’est pas simplement une activité de production mais aussi de repositionnement des acteurs dans le système social. L’ethnique, le social et le politique se mêlent dans l’orientation des rapports de production. C’est pourquoi il est difficile d’isoler une pratique agricole des autres pratiques qui lui sont intimement liées et qui peuvent concerner d’autres domaines de vie des agriculteurs.<p><p>Avec la crise du nomadisme, les éleveurs/agriculteurs se fixent dans les douars ou les villages et élargissent ainsi leurs réseaux sociaux et professionnels. Ils deviennent ainsi de plus en plus perméables aux innovations techniques et organisationnelles et améliorent la performance de leurs troupeaux, introduisent de nouvelles cultures de marché et diversifient leurs stratégies de vente. Les minorités du point de vue ethnique et économique, d’intégration dans le système social local, les notables sont à même d’apporter de nouvelles variantes à leurs systèmes de production.<p><p>En fin de compte, chacun, en fonction de sa situation et de son projet, participe à la dynamique socio-technique locale. <p> / Doctorat en sciences sociales, Orientation sciences du travail / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

[pt] O medidor de vazão de fluido multifásico (MM) se desenvolveu impulsionado principalmente pela necessidade da indústria de óleo e gás em medir a vazão da produção dos poços que comumente é composta por petróleo, gás e água. Em outubro de 2015, a Agência Nacional de Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis (ANP) publicou o Regulamento Técnico de Medição de Fluido Multifásico para Apropriação de Petróleo, Gás Natural e Água que apresenta os requisitos através de planos que as empresas operadoras de óleo e gás precisam preparar e submeter para obter a autorização para aplicar o MM na medição para apropriação. Contudo, esse regulamento não especifica a metodologia que deve ser utilizada no denominado plano de verificação de desempenho para avaliar desempenho do MM no campo, cabendo a cada operadora desenvolver a sua metodologia para esse fim e apresentar a ANP. Este trabalho propõe e aplica uma metodologia para verificação de desempenho para MM com resultados de testes realizados em laboratório com fluidos reais e em campo de produção de petróleo e gás. É observado que testes com tempo curto de duração, inferior a 1000 segundos, tendem a gerar incertezas mais elevadas do que testes com longa duração, com mais de 1000 segundos, como os realizados na plataforma. Sendo assim, os resultados de incerteza de medição maiores gerados no laboratório com tempos de integração curtos podem ser considerados mais conservativos que os resultados dos testes realizados na plataforma. / [en] The multiphase flowrate (MM) was driven by the necessity of the oil and gas industry to measure the production flow of the wells that are commonly composed of oil, gas and water. In October 2015, the National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) published the Technical Regulation for Measurement of Multiphase Fluid for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Water produced, which presents the requirements through plans that oil and gas companies need to prepare and submit for authorization to apply the MM in the measurement for allocation. However, this regulation does not specify the methodology that should be used in the so-called performance verification plan to evaluate the performance of the MM in the field, it being incumbent on each operator to develop its methodology for this purpose and present the ANP. This work proposes and applies a methodology for performance verification for MM with test results performed in the laboratory with real fluids and in oil and gas field. It was observed that short duration tests, below 1000 seconds, tend to generate higher uncertainties than long tests, higher than 1000 seconds, such as those performed on the platform. Thus, the higher measurement uncertainty results generated in the laboratory with short integration times can be considered more conservative than the results of the tests performed in the platform.

Submitted by Maria Aparecida (cidazen@gmail.com) on 2017-11-27T20:18:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Isa Prazeres Pestana.pdf: 1967644 bytes, checksum: 126e377e02ce70433d5512a91248e655 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-27T20:18:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Isa Prazeres Pestana.pdf: 1967644 bytes, checksum: 126e377e02ce70433d5512a91248e655 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-10 / Este estudio tiene como objetivo analizar el discurso y las prácticas religiosas de la Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, destacando la guerra contra el diablo y el proceso de demonización de los cultos afro-brasileños, en el período entre 1992 - en la primera edición del diario Folha Universal y 2017 - año de la realización de las entrevistas. Además, se busca comprender la figura del diablo en el imaginario cristiano, que tuvo presencia marcada desde el período medieval y resurge como elemento central en el discurso de la Igreja Universal en el siglo XX, período analizado por algunos investigadores como: de la secularización y del desencanto. Las fuentes utilizadas durante la investigación fueron orales (entrevistas), documentación escrita (periódicos, procesos, publicaciones), bibliografía especializada sobre la temática. / This study aims to analyze the discourse and religious practices of the Church Universal of the Kingdom of God, highlighting the war against the devil and the demonization of Afro-Brazilian cults, in the period between 1992 - in the first edition of the newspaper Folha Universal and 2017 - year of the interviews. In addition, we are looking for understand the figure of the devil in the Christian imaginary, which had a marked presence since the medieval period and resurges as a central element in the discourse of the Universal Church in the twentieth century, a period analyzed by some researchers such as: secularization and disenchantment The sources used during the research were oral (interviews), written documentation (newspapers, processes, publications), specialized bibliography on thematic. / Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar o discurso e as práticas religiosas da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, destacando a guerra contra o diabo e o processo de demonização dos cultos afro-brasileiros, no período compreendido entre 1992 – ano da primeira edição do jornal Folha Universal e 2017 – ano da realização das entrevistas. Além disso, busca-se compreender a figura do diabo no imaginário cristão, que teve presença marcada desde o período medieval e ressurge como elemento central no discurso da Igreja Universal no século XX, período analisado por alguns pesquisadores como: da secularização e do desencantamento. As fontes utilizadas durante a pesquisa foram orais (entrevistas), documentação escrita (jornais, processos, publicações), bibliografia especializada sobre a temática.

Using interpretive methods of social inquiry, this thesis explores the socio-political significance of body tattoos made of Chinese-like text, which have recently become popular Western phenomena. It theorizes how contemporary Western tattooing complicates bodily and social boundaries, providing context to interrogate ideas of authenticity. Coining the term "Chinesenough" (from “Chinese” and “enough”), I describe how many such tattoos do not reflect in Chinese what many wearers and viewers assume they do. I contrast how Chinesenough tattoos (re)produce whiteness to the multiple and contradictory Chinesenesses that are also (re)produced. Reading Chinesenough flash art on tattoo studio walls as objects constituting social space, I consider the social meaning of their English subtitles and manner of organization. I theorize the body’s absence from Chinesenough flash art while articulating my body’s sense experience of encountering the same. Finally, I produce and theorize five illustrations that carnivalize Chinesenough iconography to disrupt and transform the phenomenon.

Using interpretive methods of social inquiry, this thesis explores the socio-political significance of body tattoos made of Chinese-like text, which have recently become popular Western phenomena. It theorizes how contemporary Western tattooing complicates bodily and social boundaries, providing context to interrogate ideas of authenticity. Coining the term "Chinesenough" (from “Chinese” and “enough”), I describe how many such tattoos do not reflect in Chinese what many wearers and viewers assume they do. I contrast how Chinesenough tattoos (re)produce whiteness to the multiple and contradictory Chinesenesses that are also (re)produced. Reading Chinesenough flash art on tattoo studio walls as objects constituting social space, I consider the social meaning of their English subtitles and manner of organization. I theorize the body’s absence from Chinesenough flash art while articulating my body’s sense experience of encountering the same. Finally, I produce and theorize five illustrations that carnivalize Chinesenough iconography to disrupt and transform the phenomenon.