A presente dissertação de mestrado visa estudar a tutela inibitória aplicada na defesa dos direitos transindividuais. Para tanto, parte-se de um estudo sobre as novas tendências da responsabilidade civil, nas quais há a aplicação do princípio da precaução como forma de prevenção de danos e atos ilícitos. Após, procura-se delinear as principais características da tutela inibitória nos processos coletivos, por meio de uma análise da técnica processual, a fim e se verificar se ela adquire alguma peculiaridade em relação à tutela inibitória, bem como como pode ser aplicada a esta espécie de tutela jurisdicional. Por fim, estudam-se mecanismos de efetivação da tutela inibitória coletiva, em um estudo comparado com as injunctions do sistema norte-americano, instituto análogo à tutela inibitória, visando conferir ao processo maior efetividade. / The aim of this dissertation is to study prohibitory injunctions applied in the defence of transindividual rights. The starting point for this work is the study of new trends of civil responsibility where there is an application of the precautionary principle in order to prevent damage and unlawful acts. Thereafter, the aim is to outline the main characteristics of prohibitory injunctions in collective processes through an analysis of procedural techniques. Thereby, any changes in the prohibitory injunction can be verified. In addition, how it can then be applied to this type of judicial protection is highlighted. Finally, the mechanisms of the effectiveness of collective prohibitory injunctions are studied through comparative work with the injunctions of the North American system with the aim of checking the most effective of processes.

‘The commons’ is a concept originating from the traditional shared use of land, but which now often refers to any social asset, physical or abstract, that is shared. This research concerns one aspect of the commons, namely the knowledge commons. The thesis explores community roles in developing and sustaining cultural institutions as key components of the knowledge commons. It focuses particularly on processes of participatory design, and on the capacity of digital technologies to support community engagement. The study takes place across the cultural contexts of the State of Victoria (Australia) and Singapore. The three key aims of the thesis are to explore in what ways and to what extent: I. The emerging concept of the knowledge commons relates to the role of cultural institutions as systems for the creation and sharing of sustainable knowledge resources by their communities. II. The notion of participative design may be applicable to the ongoing development of such systems as multi-stakeholder partnerships to meet community needs. III. Differences in national culture may affect the generality of such an analysis. The research design employs literature analysis and multiple case studies as a basis for proposing new theorisations and an analytical tool to assist future action by cultural institutions and relevant communities. The main perspective used in framing the literature analysis and case studies is Giddens’ structuration theory. Structuration sees the continuing interplay between social action and social structure as the means by which the cultural patternings known as institutions are recursively produced. A complementary perspective used is Hofstede’s model of cultural dimensions. Other theorists from a range of disciplines provide perspectives on particular concepts or aspects, such as the commons and participatory design. Five chapters are headed ‘Foundations’. These seek to explicate key dimensions of the research, namely the knowledge commons, community knowledge, cultural institutions, participatory design, and the cultural contexts of Victoria and Singapore. Four chapters are headed ‘Case Study’ and deal with individual cultural institutions, or clusters of institutions, which were the sites of exploratory enquiry (generally consisting of interviews and observation, but in the case of Museum Victoria also elements of action research). The cultural institutions covered by these chapters are Museum Victoria/Women on Farms Gathering, the Asian Civilisations Museum, Public Libraries in Victoria and Public Libraries in Singapore. These insights are analysed to propose a series of related typologies. The coverage of these typologies includes resource characteristics, collective processes, and cultural dimensions. The typologies come together as components of an integrated, explanatory conceptual model concerning the relationships between the commons, cultural institutions, communities, collective processes (including the role of information and communication technologies) and participatory design within cultural institutions. In the final chapter answers are formulated for the initiating research questions. Also the integrated model developed by the thesis is used as the basis for a proposed analytical tool to assist action towards enhanced community engagement in the development of cultural institutions. Use of the tool is illustrated by application to several examples of collective action encountered during the research.

A presente dissertação de mestrado visa estudar a tutela inibitória aplicada na defesa dos direitos transindividuais. Para tanto, parte-se de um estudo sobre as novas tendências da responsabilidade civil, nas quais há a aplicação do princípio da precaução como forma de prevenção de danos e atos ilícitos. Após, procura-se delinear as principais características da tutela inibitória nos processos coletivos, por meio de uma análise da técnica processual, a fim e se verificar se ela adquire alguma peculiaridade em relação à tutela inibitória, bem como como pode ser aplicada a esta espécie de tutela jurisdicional. Por fim, estudam-se mecanismos de efetivação da tutela inibitória coletiva, em um estudo comparado com as injunctions do sistema norte-americano, instituto análogo à tutela inibitória, visando conferir ao processo maior efetividade. / The aim of this dissertation is to study prohibitory injunctions applied in the defence of transindividual rights. The starting point for this work is the study of new trends of civil responsibility where there is an application of the precautionary principle in order to prevent damage and unlawful acts. Thereafter, the aim is to outline the main characteristics of prohibitory injunctions in collective processes through an analysis of procedural techniques. Thereby, any changes in the prohibitory injunction can be verified. In addition, how it can then be applied to this type of judicial protection is highlighted. Finally, the mechanisms of the effectiveness of collective prohibitory injunctions are studied through comparative work with the injunctions of the North American system with the aim of checking the most effective of processes.

This study sets out to investigate Sahrawi women’s understanding of maternities as bodily and embodied experiences of collective and individual resistance within the Sahrawi liberation struggle against the occupation of Western Sahara. By using the Sahrawi liberation front’s pronatalist politics as a starting point to explore Sahrawi women’s positioning in the liminal space between reproductive health and biological reproduction as a socio-political action, I draw on a decolonial understanding of agency to analyse the relationship between individual health and collective resistance – especially in correlation with the increase of humanitarian projects targeting sexual and reproductive health. As a result of semi-structured interviews, focus groups and desk review, I argue that the change in the social landscape of the camps with the arrival of humanitarian aid provided Sahrawi women with new perspectives on biological reproduction that, in turn, affected the way they contribute to the revolutionary cause, confirming their role as socio-political agents implementing new strategies of survival as acts of individual resistance.

O moderno conceito de democracia não se sustenta apenas sob o pilar único do modelo representativo. O respeito aos direitos fundamentais faz-se elemento imprescindível para o delineamento do Estado Democrático de Direito. Não obstante, a cláusula de que todo poder emana no povo também deve ser revisitada no estágio atual, de modo a contemplar instrumentos da democracia participativa, que devem se imbricar ao processo representativo. Esta ideologia participativa também é sentida perante o Poder Judiciário, com reflexos sensíveis às garantias processuais, mormente ao contraditório. Deste modo, é pela ótica dos princípios irradiados pelo Estado Democrático de Direito que a intervenção do Poder Judiciário no controle das políticas públicas deve ser analisada. Por este paradigma instituído pela Constituição Federal de 1988, torna-se poder-dever do Poder Judiciário, juntamente com as demais funções estatais, concorrer para a efetivação dos objetivos constitucionais, o que representa a possibilidade de deliberação judicial em assuntos de largo espectro político e social. Não há dúvidas de que esta intervenção tem limites, de modo a impedir qualquer invasão indevida do Poder Judiciário em assuntos que, a priori, são de atribuição das demais funções estatais, executiva e legislativa. Por esta razão, torna-se imprescindível definir os parâmetros da atividade jurisdicional no controle das políticas públicas, o que exige o estudo da interpretação constitucional e da discricionariedade administrativa. Para o cumprimento deste mister, a escolha do instrumento processual adequado torna-se condição sine qua non com vistas ao alcance de uma decisão justa. Afastando-se do modelo individualista, o processo coletivo acompanha a evolução do direito material, impulsionado por um contexto dominado pelos valores da solidariedade e do coletivismo. As políticas públicas, compreendidas enquanto método para a distribuição igualitária dos bens comuns, são direcionadas sempre a uma coletividade. Diante disso, a tutela de direitos essencialmente coletivos, é, preferencialmente, a forma mais adequada para o controle das políticas públicas perante o Poder Judiciário, pois a característica da indivisibilidade do direito preserva o valor da isonomia inerente às políticas públicas. Aliados à técnica processual coletiva, estão outros instrumentos que corroboram para a democratização do provimento jurisdicional. O primeiro deles refere-se à análise da representatividade adequada do legitimado coletivo. Em uma abordagem política da representação dos membros ausentes, a proposta é que o órgão julgador possa analisar, no caso concreto, se os interesses sociais foram adequadamente postulados na ação coletiva. Ademais, a realização de audiências públicas durante o curso do processo torna-se um mecanismo de participação popular, evitando-se que o debate sobre as importantes deliberações políticas restrinja-se às partes processuais formais, tornando-o eminentemente técnico. Por fim, a intervenção do amicus curiae nos processos coletivos, que tem como pauta o controle das políticas públicas, qualifica o debate, trazendo importantes vozes da sociedade que, por sua experiência e conhecimento, podem contribuir para uma escorreita deliberação judicial. / The modern democracy concept cannot hold itself under the sole pillar of the representative model. The respect of the fundamental rights becomes a mandatory element for the Democratic State of Rights outlining. Inspite of this, the clause that all power emanates from the people must be taken into consideration in the current stage, so as to contemplate participative democracy instruments that have to conform to the representative process. This participative ideology is also felt in the face of the Judiciary Power, with meaningful reflexes on the processual guarantees, mainly to the principle of an adversarial process. Thus, it is through the optic of the principles irradiated by the Democratic State of Rights that the intervention of the Judiciary Power in the control of public policies must be analyzed. By this model instituted by the Federal Constitution of 1988, it becomes power-duty of the Judiciary Power, together with the other state functions, collaborate for the effetivation of the constitutional aims, which represent the possibility of Judiciary deliberation in matters of wide political and social spectrum. There is no doubt that this intervention has limits, so as to avoid an undue invasion of the Judiciary Power in matters that, a priori, are attribution of the other state functions, as the Executive and Legislative. For this reason, it becomes mandatory to define the parameters of the juridical activities in the control of public politics, which demands the study of the constitucional interpretation and of the administrative discritionarity. To ful-fill this aim, the choice of the proper processual becomes a sine qua non with a view to reaching a fair decision. Getting far from the individualist, the collective process follows the evolution of the material right, moved ahead by a context dominated by the solidarity and collectivism values. Politic public actions, understood as a method for the equal distribution of common wellfare, are always directed for a collectivity. So, the guardianship of essentially collective goods is, preferably, the most adequate form for the control of public policies before the Judiciary Power, for the characteristic of the indivisibility of right will preserve the value of the isonomy inherent to public policies. Together with the processual collective technique, there are other instruments which collaborate for the democratization of the juridical provision. The first of them refers to the analysis of the proper representativity of the legitimate collective. In a political approach of the representation of the absent members, the proposal is that the judging organ may analyze, in the concret case, whether the social interests have been properly postulated in the collective action. Furthermore, the realization of public audiences during the process becomes a mechanism of popular participation, avoiding that the debate about the important politic deliberations is restricted to the processual formal parties, making it become eminently technical. Last, the intervention of the amicus curiae in the collective processes, having as aim the control of public policies, gives quality to the debate, bringing in important voices of society, which, for their experience and knowledge, may contribute for a fair judicial deliberation.

O moderno conceito de democracia não se sustenta apenas sob o pilar único do modelo representativo. O respeito aos direitos fundamentais faz-se elemento imprescindível para o delineamento do Estado Democrático de Direito. Não obstante, a cláusula de que todo poder emana no povo também deve ser revisitada no estágio atual, de modo a contemplar instrumentos da democracia participativa, que devem se imbricar ao processo representativo. Esta ideologia participativa também é sentida perante o Poder Judiciário, com reflexos sensíveis às garantias processuais, mormente ao contraditório. Deste modo, é pela ótica dos princípios irradiados pelo Estado Democrático de Direito que a intervenção do Poder Judiciário no controle das políticas públicas deve ser analisada. Por este paradigma instituído pela Constituição Federal de 1988, torna-se poder-dever do Poder Judiciário, juntamente com as demais funções estatais, concorrer para a efetivação dos objetivos constitucionais, o que representa a possibilidade de deliberação judicial em assuntos de largo espectro político e social. Não há dúvidas de que esta intervenção tem limites, de modo a impedir qualquer invasão indevida do Poder Judiciário em assuntos que, a priori, são de atribuição das demais funções estatais, executiva e legislativa. Por esta razão, torna-se imprescindível definir os parâmetros da atividade jurisdicional no controle das políticas públicas, o que exige o estudo da interpretação constitucional e da discricionariedade administrativa. Para o cumprimento deste mister, a escolha do instrumento processual adequado torna-se condição sine qua non com vistas ao alcance de uma decisão justa. Afastando-se do modelo individualista, o processo coletivo acompanha a evolução do direito material, impulsionado por um contexto dominado pelos valores da solidariedade e do coletivismo. As políticas públicas, compreendidas enquanto método para a distribuição igualitária dos bens comuns, são direcionadas sempre a uma coletividade. Diante disso, a tutela de direitos essencialmente coletivos, é, preferencialmente, a forma mais adequada para o controle das políticas públicas perante o Poder Judiciário, pois a característica da indivisibilidade do direito preserva o valor da isonomia inerente às políticas públicas. Aliados à técnica processual coletiva, estão outros instrumentos que corroboram para a democratização do provimento jurisdicional. O primeiro deles refere-se à análise da representatividade adequada do legitimado coletivo. Em uma abordagem política da representação dos membros ausentes, a proposta é que o órgão julgador possa analisar, no caso concreto, se os interesses sociais foram adequadamente postulados na ação coletiva. Ademais, a realização de audiências públicas durante o curso do processo torna-se um mecanismo de participação popular, evitando-se que o debate sobre as importantes deliberações políticas restrinja-se às partes processuais formais, tornando-o eminentemente técnico. Por fim, a intervenção do amicus curiae nos processos coletivos, que tem como pauta o controle das políticas públicas, qualifica o debate, trazendo importantes vozes da sociedade que, por sua experiência e conhecimento, podem contribuir para uma escorreita deliberação judicial. / The modern democracy concept cannot hold itself under the sole pillar of the representative model. The respect of the fundamental rights becomes a mandatory element for the Democratic State of Rights outlining. Inspite of this, the clause that all power emanates from the people must be taken into consideration in the current stage, so as to contemplate participative democracy instruments that have to conform to the representative process. This participative ideology is also felt in the face of the Judiciary Power, with meaningful reflexes on the processual guarantees, mainly to the principle of an adversarial process. Thus, it is through the optic of the principles irradiated by the Democratic State of Rights that the intervention of the Judiciary Power in the control of public policies must be analyzed. By this model instituted by the Federal Constitution of 1988, it becomes power-duty of the Judiciary Power, together with the other state functions, collaborate for the effetivation of the constitutional aims, which represent the possibility of Judiciary deliberation in matters of wide political and social spectrum. There is no doubt that this intervention has limits, so as to avoid an undue invasion of the Judiciary Power in matters that, a priori, are attribution of the other state functions, as the Executive and Legislative. For this reason, it becomes mandatory to define the parameters of the juridical activities in the control of public politics, which demands the study of the constitucional interpretation and of the administrative discritionarity. To ful-fill this aim, the choice of the proper processual becomes a sine qua non with a view to reaching a fair decision. Getting far from the individualist, the collective process follows the evolution of the material right, moved ahead by a context dominated by the solidarity and collectivism values. Politic public actions, understood as a method for the equal distribution of common wellfare, are always directed for a collectivity. So, the guardianship of essentially collective goods is, preferably, the most adequate form for the control of public policies before the Judiciary Power, for the characteristic of the indivisibility of right will preserve the value of the isonomy inherent to public policies. Together with the processual collective technique, there are other instruments which collaborate for the democratization of the juridical provision. The first of them refers to the analysis of the proper representativity of the legitimate collective. In a political approach of the representation of the absent members, the proposal is that the judging organ may analyze, in the concret case, whether the social interests have been properly postulated in the collective action. Furthermore, the realization of public audiences during the process becomes a mechanism of popular participation, avoiding that the debate about the important politic deliberations is restricted to the processual formal parties, making it become eminently technical. Last, the intervention of the amicus curiae in the collective processes, having as aim the control of public policies, gives quality to the debate, bringing in important voices of society, which, for their experience and knowledge, may contribute for a fair judicial deliberation.