The present thesis document delves into constructing a creative methodology within documentary ecology to approach narrative intersections between P'urhépecha families from Cherán, Mexico, living in Cobden, Illinois, and Monarch butterfly migration across North America. Doing so entails merging essential notions from Cultural Theory, Third Cinema, Native American and Indigenous Futurism, and Documentary futurism to draw a transdisciplinary approach invested in active negotiation across two sensitive realms in response to the experience of migration. "Footprints in the sky", the resulting creative project, merges elements from documentary film, experimental narrative, and the film essay, using Monarch butterfly migration as a metaphor in dialogue with the stories of migrant families from Cherán now living in Cobden. This multidisciplinary effort aims to shed light on the potential of the Monarch butterfly engaged with Indigenous Futurism as a multidimensional metaphor to negotiate trans-national corporate power, Nation-State borderland management, and the criminalization of immigration in a context marked by the continued prominence of neoliberal policies in North America.

Orientador: Reginaldo Carmello Correa de Moraes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T09:01:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Simiqueli_R.R._M.pdf: 774906 bytes, checksum: 736be8f4abd78f0215e71b8caa69db15 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Este trabalho trata de dois períodos distintos da reflexão liberal britânica sobre economia e política, assim como das possíveis ligações entre os autores estudados e seu contexto específico. Em um primeiro momento, analisamos as teses de Adam Smith sobre as colônias inglesas, e o que estas teriam a dizer sobre os rumos tomados pelo Império Britânico. Posteriormente, nos concentramos sobre a atuação da Manchester School e de seu representante mais vocal (Richard Cobden) nos embates políticos da década de 1840. Com isto, visamos construir, em alguma medida, uma breve história da incorporação dos argumentos smithianos sobre colonialismo na prática política liberal da Era Vitoriana / Abstract: This work deals with two distinct moments of the British liberal thought on economy and politics, as well as the possible links between the authors studied and their specific context. At first, we analyze the theories of Adam Smith on the English colonies, and what they would have to say about the courses taken by the British Empire. Subsequently, we focus on the performance of the Manchester School and its most vocal representative (Richard Cobden) in the political struggles of the 1840s. With this, we aim to present a brief history of the incorporation of smithian arguments about colonialism in the liberal political practices of the Victorian era / Mestrado / Ciencia Politica / Mestre em Ciência Política