Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul / This study aims to investigate the construction process of collective identities in the social movement Slut Walk SM, collective action empirically located in Santa Maria, center of Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil, from network communication dynamics built between the online and offline environments. We start, therefore, the conceptual approach that shapes the contemporary social movements along the processes of communication and information. Taking this premise in mind, we turn to the context of digital networks ubiquity and the Internet communication to reflect its appropriation in the effectuation and coordination of collective actions organization developed nowadays. With emphasis on communication processes, the work is performed from ethnographic experience in a communication research, in particular, from the combination of a field observations between online and offline environments. Thus, from a previous literature review, we define the cultural social movements as the Slut Walk, as analytical constructs developed around actions related to collective identities, oppositions, conflicts and struggle projects. Moreover, with the gender theory we present a brief conceptual framework about the universe of contemporary feminism and its contextual crossings on the ground of communication. Also, with the network society concept, we reflect the particularities of a social context organized through the communication and technological changes, and relate to the current configuration of the network social movements. From this, the research focuses on the interpretation of the research field reaching the settings that constitute the Slut Walk - SM as a social movement anchored by network communication logic through social uses of a Page and a Group of discussion in the social network Facebook. In the end, the study revealed that the communication network integrates the dynamics of identity construction of the Slut Walk under the scope of the differences, of gender policies, and senses about feminism. Senses, that are deliberate from the positions, opinions, debates and conflicts between the subjects in networks and on the streets. / Este estudo tem por objetivo investigar o processo de construção das identidades coletivas no movimento social Marcha das Vadias SM, ação coletiva empiricamente localizada na cidade de Santa Maria, centro do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, na região Sul do Brasil, a partir das dinâmicas de comunicação em rede construídas entre os ambientes online e offline. Partimos, assim, do enfoque conceitual que configura os movimentos sociais contemporâneos junto aos processos de comunicação e informação. Levando essa premissa em consideração, recorremos ao contexto de ubiquidade das redes digitais e da comunicação pela internet para refletir sua apropriação na efetivação e articulação no contorno organizacional das ações coletivas desenvolvidas na atualidade. Com ênfase nos processos comunicacionais, o trabalho é realizado a partir da experiência etnográfica em uma pesquisa no campo da comunicação, em especial, a partir da combinação de um campo de observações entre os ambientes online e offline. Assim, a partir de uma pesquisa bibliográfica prévia, definimos os movimentos socais de base cultural, como a Marcha das Vadias, como construções analíticas desenvolvidas em torno de ações relacionadas a identidades coletivas, oposições, conflitos e projetos de luta. Além disso, nos contornos da teoria das relações de gênero, construímos um breve arcabouço conceitual sobre o universo do feminismo contemporâneo e seus atravessamentos contextuais sobre o terreno da comunicação. Também, junto ao conceito de sociedade em rede, refletimos as particularidades de um contexto social organizado através das transformações comunicacionais e tecnológicas, e o relacionamos com a configuração atual dos movimentos sociais em rede. A partir disso, a pesquisa centra-se na interpretação do campo de investigação chegando às definições que constituem a Marcha das Vadias SM enquanto um movimento social ancorado pelas lógicas de comunicação em rede através dos usos sociais de uma Página e de um Grupo de discussão da rede social online Facebook. Ao final, o estudo permitiu identificar que a comunicação em rede integra as dinâmicas da própria construção identitária da Marcha das Vadias, sob o espectro diferenças, das políticas de gênero, e dos sentidos sobre o feminismo que o movimento busca enunciar. Sentidos estes, deliberados a partir do contato com posicionamentos, opiniões, debates e conflitos entre os sujeitos nas redes e nas ruas.

Cette thèse étudie un corpus de livres et d’expositions de photographies qui abordent les questions d’identité sociale, ethnique et nationale [en Grande-Bretagne]. Elle procède à une historicisation du champ photographique en s’intéressant au contexte social et politique de production et de diffusion des images, et en particulier aux politiques culturelles. Elle considère photographies et expositions comme des discours et pratiques qui contribuent à la formation des identités collectives. Le genre des photographies, et notamment le documentaire, est discuté au fil de l’étude, en lien avec la problématique de l’identification. En s’attachant aux rapports entre représentations, identités collectives, culture et pouvoir, l’analyse s’inscrit dans la lignée des cultural studies, dont quelques auteurs, comme Stuart Hall ou Paul Gilroy sont régulièrement évoqués. Il ressort que la photographie se fait le témoin et l’agent d’une dissolution des identités collectives dans les années 1990, en interrogeant l’identité nationale et ses vecteurs et en revendiquant un plus grand pluralisme culturel. Pour aborder la question sociale, devenue moins centrale, elle rompt avec le documentaire classique et la figure du photographe engagé. Par ailleurs, une photographie noire se structure autour d’Autograph-ABP. Lorsqu’une New Britain (jeune, créative et multiethnique) est promue par les travaillistes, la photographie en révèle les dissonances. Néanmoins, en entrant dans le domaine de l’art contemporain, le médium devient aussi l’objet des politiques culturelles multiculturalistes et se fait parfois source d’ethnicisation et d’essentialisation des identités. Après 2001, lorsque le multiculturalisme est critiqué, la photographie enregistre la diversité de la société britannique et démonte les stéréotypes qui visent particulièrement musulmans et réfugiés. Elle est aussi force de proposition dans la recherche de nouvelles formes de cohésion. Des pratiques documentaires collaboratives sont expérimentées pour un renouveau de la citoyenneté. La capacité de la photographie à explorer le rapport entre territoire et citoyens lui permet aussi d’inventer d’autres modes d’identification collective ancrés dans l’expérience quotidienne. / This thesis is based on a corpus of photography books and exhibitions dealing with social, ethnic, and national identities in Britain. It adopts a historicizing perspective by analysing the political and social contexts for the production and circulation of photographs, with special attention to cultural policies. Photographs and exhibitions are studied as narratives and practices that contribute to the formation of collective identities. The genre of photographs, and especially the notion of documentary, is discussed throughout the work, as a corollary to the question of identification. With a focus on representations, collective identities, culture and politics, this study lies in the field of cultural studies and regularly summons some of its prominent figures like Stuart Hall or Paul Gilroy. It shows that photography both documented and helped the dissolution of collective identities at the end of the 1990s, by questioning national identity and its representations, and by advocating greater cultural pluralism. As the social question became less prominent, photography departed from traditional social documentary forms and from the figure of the committed photographer. Parallel to this, in the wake of Black Arts, Black Photography was institutionalized with the creation of Autograph-ABP. It is also argued that when the New Labour party promoted a New Britain, some photographs acted as a magic mirror, revealing dissonances in the brand new narrative of a young, creative, multi-ethnic Britain. However, as photography entered the realm of contemporary art, it also became subject to the multiculturalist policies of the period and sometimes turned into a source of ethnicisation and essentialization. After 2001, as multiculturalism was questioned, photography kept documenting the diversity of British society and helped debunk stereotypes, especially those associated with Muslims and refugees in Britain. Finally, the late 2000s are analysed as a period when new modes of social cohesion are explored through photographic practices. Collaborative documentary projects are experimented to re-engage citizens. New photographs documenting the relation between people and territory in Britain seem to suggest that collective identification may rather be found in shared everyday experience.

Scholars often consider ideology a crucial factor for radicalisation, but some groups appear radical even though they have been described as lacking clear ideologies. This thesis will explore why members of the incel community appear radical despite the community’s lack of a rigid ideology. I explore this through a narrative analysis focusing on collective identities and emotions as narrated and potential driving forces of radicalisation. My study has identified two narratives, the incel as inferior and the incel as superior. The analysis shows that radicalisation is more prominent in the second narrative. In the first narrative, the victimhood and hopelessness serve as a foundation for the expressions of violence found in the second one based on perceived injustices. My findings suggest that the narration of collective identities and emotional dimensions is crucial for the radicalisation of members of the incel community since collective identities create a sense of belonging to the community and guide actions based on “emotional batteries”.

Les grilles de lecture classiques sur la trajectoire sociopolitique du continent africain sont souvent pessimistes. Elles semblent avoir de beaux jours devant elles puisque l’histoire contemporaine montre une Afrique perpétuellement instable politiquement, traversée par des guerres civiles et des démocraties émergentes sous tension à l’approche des élections.Ce travail invite à une réflexion et une perspective scientifique alternatives, autour d’un pays comme le Bénin. Depuis son indépendance, il n’a pas connu la violence létale, facteur d’un état social « chaotique et pathologique » entraînant un gros volume de destructions et de catastrophes, pour les biens comme pour les individus. Cette thèse relie et articule plusieurs points : l’imaginaire collectif, la relation à l’autre, l’idée que les habitants ont de l’appartenance à un ensemble nommé Bénin, les symboles à l’actif du pays, le travail de socialisation à une communauté de sens et le processus de pacification. Les tensions d’un niveau infra-létal existent mais restent jusqu’à présent contenues. Elles sont les contingences de la construction d’une société politique et traversent certaines étapes de son histoire sociopolitique.Notre démarche théorique favorise une réflexion globale autour de l’interaction entre la double altérité ‒ on est toujours un "autre" pour "l'autre" ‒ et la question de la paix, principalement à l’intérieur d’un pays comme le Bénin. Les profils identitaires ne sont jamais les mêmes à travers le temps et l’espace. Mais au-delà des écarts différentiels, le fait qu’un espace favorise l’émergence des identités collectivement partagées rend probable tout processus de pacification. Dans la mise en œuvre de celui-ci, l’idée du Bénin devient ainsi plus forte que le Bénin lui-même, entité d’abord voire surtout substantielle. Les Béninois ne sont pas en paix parce qu’ils auraient nécessairement la même couleur de peau, la même histoire, une langue commune. Pour nous, même en l’absence de ces trois critères, la paix reste accessible. Pour le démontrer, trois années sur le « terrain » (2007-2010) ont constitué le temps fort de la recherche empirique. Nous avons mené une centaine d’entretiens et réalisé des focus group au sein des communautés où la question de l’identité partagée est mise à l’épreuve quotidiennement. Cette étude doctorale est ainsi un compte rendu des résultats obtenus et des analyses proposées. / Classical perspectives on the socio-political trajectory of the African continent are often pessimist. They will mostly remain so for some time to as contemporary history reveals a continent continually riddled with political instability and wracked by civil wars, whilst emerging democracies are subjected to tensions at the onset of elections. This work offers a reflection and an alternative scientific perspective by focusing on Benin. Since its Independence, Benin has not experienced lethal violence or pathological social chaos causing immense destruction and disaster. This thesis addresses and links several issues: a collective memory, relationships to other people, the idea that residents belong to a unity called Benin; the existence of symbols that benefit national consciousness; socialization aimed at achieving a sense of community; and a peace process. Tensions were at low lethality levels were present and still exist but have so far been limited. They characterize the contingent stages of a political society and its political history.Our theoretical approach privileges a general reflection on: the interaction between duality and otherness – there is always on “other” for an “other” – and the issue of peace; here (within a country), and elsewhere (abroad). Identity profiles are never the same across time and space. But beyond various differences, the fact that space promotes the emergence of collectively shared identities possibly contributes to the peace process. During the implementation of the peace process, the idea of Benin becomes stronger than Benin itself; an entity which is, first of all, substantive in nature. The Beninese are not in peace just because they have the same skin colour, the same history or a common language. Three years of field research (2007 – 2010) constituted the most important period of the empirical research that was used to demonstrate this. About a hundred interviews were conducted and focus group discussions were held within communities where the issue of shared identity was a daily problem. This doctoral study is therefore an account of results obtained and proposed analyses.

Nous avons poursuivi plusieurs desseins dans cette étude portant sur les dynamiques funéraires à l’est du Lassithi, du XIVe au Ve siècle av. J.-C. L’identification, au travers des traces matérielles, des pratiques collectives et codifiées que constituent les rituels funéraires, empreints d’une forte dimension identitaire, a constitué un premier objectif. Nous avons également cherché à saisir les stratégies territoriales de mise en place des sites funéraires parallèlement aux changements sociopolitiques majeurs qui affectent la Crète durant la délicate période transitionnelle que constitue le passage de l’âge du Bronze à l’âge du Fer. Dans un premier temps, après une présentation du contexte spatiotemporel et du vocable propre à l’archéologie de la mort, nous avons focalisé notre travail sur la description systématique de chaque sépulture dans son environnement propre. Dans un second temps, nous avons procédé en croisant les données matérielles, à une analyse thématique et comparative des nécropoles. La dimension systémique des dynamiques funéraires à l’est du Lassithi a enfin été envisagée à l’aune du contexte chrono-culturel égéen. / This doctoral thesis examining funerary dynamics in the east of Lassithi from the fourteenth to the fifth century B.C.E. has several aims. In the first instance, I seek to identify through the material vestiges the collective and codified practices that constitute the funerary rituals marked by a strong identitarian dimension. I also endeavour to grasp the territorial strategies used in the organisation of funerary sites in parallel to the major socio-political changes affecting Crete during the delicate transitional period marking the passage from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. After an initial presentation of the spatio-temporal context and the vocabulary specific to the archaeology of death, the thesis turns towards the systematic description of each sepulchre in its own environment. This material data is subsequently combined with a thematic and comparative analysis of the necropolis. Finally, the systematic dimension of funerary dynamics in the east of Lassithi is considered in light of the Aegean chrono-cultural context.

L’objectif de cette thèse est de reconstituer l’évolution sociale et culturelle de la ville de San Cristóbal de Las Casas, au Chiapas (Mexique), depuis sa fondation en 1528 et jusqu’aux premières décennies du XXe siècle.Centrée sur l’étude du seul cimetière existant dans la ville depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, la recherche explore « la question funéraire » comme ensemble de croyances, de pratiques et de représentations mentales et matérielles sur la Mort et les souvenir des morts. Celle-ci est abordée selon trois axes dont les mots-clés sont : sécularisation, panteón* et coleto. 1) A travers la sécularisation, il s’agit d’analyser les rivalités institutionnelles entre l’Église et l’État dans l’histoire du Chiapas, 2) A travers le panteón*, il s’agit de rendre compte des transformations urbaines, artistiques et idéologiques liés à un nouvel aménagement spatial et aux nouvelles pratiques du funéraire dans son ancienne capitale et 3) Le gentilé coleto se trouve au centre des enjeux politiques et culturels qui entourent la construction des identités collectives de cette ville et au niveau régional. L’analyse de longue durée portant sur la naissance et le développement de ce cimetière peut remettre en perspective le début d’une période dite « modernisatrice » au Chiapas. Elle amène également à regarder autrement la pensée binaire dominant cette ville depuis plusieurs siècles, l’écartelant constamment entre des pôles antagonistes tels que le religieux / le politique, le colonial / le national, ou l’indigène / l’étranger. / The central aim of the theses is to reconstruct the social and cultural evolution of the city of San Cristobal de Las Casas in Chiapas (Mexico), since its foundation in 1528 until the first decades of the 20th century. It is focused on the only city’s cemetery established at the end of the 19th century, to further explore “the funerary question” as the broad range of beliefs, practices and material and mental imagery about Death and the memory of the dead. The study is addressed by three thematic axes articulated by the keywords secularization, panteón* and coleto. 1) Through secularization, the institutional rivalries between the Church and the State can be analyzed concerning the history of Chiapas, 2) By means of panteón* are examined the aspects relating the urban, artistic and ideological transformations caused by the new burial spatial organization and the emergence of new funerary practices in its former capital city, and 3) the demonym coleto is the key issue in the political and cultural matters behind the construction of the city’s and regional collective identities. The long-term perspective about the origin and development of this cemetery can bring a new questioning to that period of “modernization” in Chiapas. It can also help to reconsider the binary thought dominating the city for centuries, splitting it continuously between opposites such as religion/politics, colonial/national or indigenous/foreigner. / El objetivo de la tesis consiste en reconstituir la historia social y cultural de la ciudad de San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, desde su fundación en 1528 hasta las primeras décadas del siglo XX. A partir del único cementerio que se instauró en la ciudad a fines del siglo XIX, la investigación explora de manera más amplia la aquí llamada “cuestión funeraria”; es decir, el conjunto de creencias, prácticas y representaciones mentales y materiales acerca de la muerte y la memoria de los difuntos. El estudio se divide en tres temas articulados, cada uno por una palabra clave: secularización, panteón y coleto. 1) Con el concepto de secularización se analizan las rivalidades institucionales entre la Iglesia y el Estado en la historia de Chiapas, 2) el término panteón expone las transformaciones urbanas, artísticas e ideológicas a partir de la reorganización de los lugares de defunción y la realización de nuevas prácticas funerarias en su antigua capital y 3) el gentilicio coleto nos lleva al centro de aspectos políticos y culturales que intervienen en la construcción de las identidades colectivas de la ciudad y la región. El análisis de larga duración acerca del nacimiento y desarrollo de este cementerio permite dar otras dimensiones a un período considerado de “modernización” en Chiapas. El mismo procedimiento ofrece también la posibilidad de superar la lógica binaria que domina a esta ciudad desde hace varios siglos, atrapándola continuamente entre polos antagónicos tales como lo religioso/lo político, lo colonial/lo nacional y lo indígena/lo extranjero.

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This thesis focuses on issues of multi-layered identities within a social space. It analyzes ritual (or ceremony) as one of the codified displays of culture within which collective ideas and attitudes regarding identity are manifested, shared, and strengthened. Bosnian Serbs - due to political and social change - were forced to redefine their position in society, as well as their (collective) identities and social ties. Slava is a fundamental ritual seen as an attribute of "Serbianness", and in the context of this study, manifests itself as an indicator of establishment and validity of collective identities. Slava is a traditional celebration practiced by Orthodox believers in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bulgary, Albania, and Macedonia. It is a festivity of either a family, village, or local church patron. At the center of this research will be an individual slava of a family patron saint, krsna slava, or krsno ime. For Bosnian Serbs, krsna slava is currently a revitalized ritual concurring with local tradition and convening with social ambitions of current inhabitants in the region (otherwise it would not be revitalized). The pertinence of this research subject is given by the nature of ritual itself as it is founded on collective sharing and the manifestation of common ideas1 ....

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