This study examines the oral histories of midwives who practiced in Ontario without legal status in the two decades prior to the enactment of midwifery legislation on December 31, 1993. The following questions are answered: Who were Ontario’s pre-legislation midwives? What inspired and motivated them to take up practice on the margins of official health care? Current scholarship on late twentieth century Ontario midwifery focuses on a social scientific analysis of midwifery’s transition from a grassroots movement to a regulated profession. Pre-legislation midwives are commonly portrayed as a homogenous group of white, educated, middle class women practicing a “pure” midwifery unmediated by medicine and the law. Analysis of the oral history narratives of twenty-one “alegal” Ontario midwives reveals more complex and nuanced understandings of midwives and why they practiced during this period. The midwives’ oral histories make an important contribution to the growing historiography on modern Canadian midwifery.

This study examines the oral histories of midwives who practiced in Ontario without legal status in the two decades prior to the enactment of midwifery legislation on December 31, 1993. The following questions are answered: Who were Ontario’s pre-legislation midwives? What inspired and motivated them to take up practice on the margins of official health care? Current scholarship on late twentieth century Ontario midwifery focuses on a social scientific analysis of midwifery’s transition from a grassroots movement to a regulated profession. Pre-legislation midwives are commonly portrayed as a homogenous group of white, educated, middle class women practicing a “pure” midwifery unmediated by medicine and the law. Analysis of the oral history narratives of twenty-one “alegal” Ontario midwives reveals more complex and nuanced understandings of midwives and why they practiced during this period. The midwives’ oral histories make an important contribution to the growing historiography on modern Canadian midwifery.

Este trabalho visa a analisar e interpretar O ovo apunhalado, coletânea de contos de Caio Fernando Abreu, publicada em 1975, em sintonia com as cartas do escritor, a fim de investigar em que medida — e tendo em vista o conjunto da obra — se estabelecem diálogos com as diferentes representações sócio-culturais do seu tempo, em especial dos anos 70, fase assinalada pela conquista da notoriedade do ficcionista sul-riograndense no cenário da literatura brasileira. Os distintos modos de composição utilizados em O ovo apunhalado assinalam a postura de permanente contravenção à realidade objetiva e subjetiva, resultado de um jogo dialético com as vicissitudes históricas. Para tanto, os fundamentos teóricos de Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel, entre outros, contribuem para elucidar que as rupturas com a forma literária efetuam-se por uma não conformidade aos fenômenos histórico-sociais. As cartas, por sua vez, reiteram a contundência literária, diretamente relacionada à irreverência do escritor enquanto sujeito social. Evidencia-se que a estranheza da escritura de Caio Fernando Abreu em relação a padrões da literatura sul-rio-grandense e da literatura brasileira é concomitante à estranheza do sujeito social, o que se funda, sobretudo, numa postura anticonvencional originária de um sonho: o de que a realidade pudesse ser outra. / The present paper aims at analyzing and interpreting O ovo apunhalado, which is a collection of short stories by Caio Fernando Abreu, published in 1975, in synchrony with the writer’s letters, in order to investigate in what measure – and in view of his entire work - dialogues are established with the different social-cultural representation of his time, especially in the 1970’s, a phase which was designated for the conquest of the notoriety of this fictionist from Rio Grande do Sul in the Brazilian literature scene. The distinct ways used to compose O ovo apunhalado designate the posture of permanent contravention of the objective and subjective reality, result of a dialectic game with the historical vicissitudes. For in such a way, the theoretical beddings of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel, among others, contribute to elucidate that the ruptures with the literary form are added by a non-conformity to the historical-social phenomena. The letters, in their turn, reiterate the literary force, directly related to the writer’s irreverence as a social subject. It is evident that the queerness of Caio Fernando Abreu’s writing in relation to the standards of Brazilian literature and the literature from Rio Grande do Sul is concomitant to the queerness of the social citizen, the one who relates, over all, to an anti-conventional posture which was originated from a dream: that the reality could be another one.

Este trabalho visa a analisar e interpretar O ovo apunhalado, coletânea de contos de Caio Fernando Abreu, publicada em 1975, em sintonia com as cartas do escritor, a fim de investigar em que medida — e tendo em vista o conjunto da obra — se estabelecem diálogos com as diferentes representações sócio-culturais do seu tempo, em especial dos anos 70, fase assinalada pela conquista da notoriedade do ficcionista sul-riograndense no cenário da literatura brasileira. Os distintos modos de composição utilizados em O ovo apunhalado assinalam a postura de permanente contravenção à realidade objetiva e subjetiva, resultado de um jogo dialético com as vicissitudes históricas. Para tanto, os fundamentos teóricos de Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel, entre outros, contribuem para elucidar que as rupturas com a forma literária efetuam-se por uma não conformidade aos fenômenos histórico-sociais. As cartas, por sua vez, reiteram a contundência literária, diretamente relacionada à irreverência do escritor enquanto sujeito social. Evidencia-se que a estranheza da escritura de Caio Fernando Abreu em relação a padrões da literatura sul-rio-grandense e da literatura brasileira é concomitante à estranheza do sujeito social, o que se funda, sobretudo, numa postura anticonvencional originária de um sonho: o de que a realidade pudesse ser outra. / The present paper aims at analyzing and interpreting O ovo apunhalado, which is a collection of short stories by Caio Fernando Abreu, published in 1975, in synchrony with the writer’s letters, in order to investigate in what measure – and in view of his entire work - dialogues are established with the different social-cultural representation of his time, especially in the 1970’s, a phase which was designated for the conquest of the notoriety of this fictionist from Rio Grande do Sul in the Brazilian literature scene. The distinct ways used to compose O ovo apunhalado designate the posture of permanent contravention of the objective and subjective reality, result of a dialectic game with the historical vicissitudes. For in such a way, the theoretical beddings of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel, among others, contribute to elucidate that the ruptures with the literary form are added by a non-conformity to the historical-social phenomena. The letters, in their turn, reiterate the literary force, directly related to the writer’s irreverence as a social subject. It is evident that the queerness of Caio Fernando Abreu’s writing in relation to the standards of Brazilian literature and the literature from Rio Grande do Sul is concomitant to the queerness of the social citizen, the one who relates, over all, to an anti-conventional posture which was originated from a dream: that the reality could be another one.

Este trabalho visa a analisar e interpretar O ovo apunhalado, coletânea de contos de Caio Fernando Abreu, publicada em 1975, em sintonia com as cartas do escritor, a fim de investigar em que medida — e tendo em vista o conjunto da obra — se estabelecem diálogos com as diferentes representações sócio-culturais do seu tempo, em especial dos anos 70, fase assinalada pela conquista da notoriedade do ficcionista sul-riograndense no cenário da literatura brasileira. Os distintos modos de composição utilizados em O ovo apunhalado assinalam a postura de permanente contravenção à realidade objetiva e subjetiva, resultado de um jogo dialético com as vicissitudes históricas. Para tanto, os fundamentos teóricos de Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel, entre outros, contribuem para elucidar que as rupturas com a forma literária efetuam-se por uma não conformidade aos fenômenos histórico-sociais. As cartas, por sua vez, reiteram a contundência literária, diretamente relacionada à irreverência do escritor enquanto sujeito social. Evidencia-se que a estranheza da escritura de Caio Fernando Abreu em relação a padrões da literatura sul-rio-grandense e da literatura brasileira é concomitante à estranheza do sujeito social, o que se funda, sobretudo, numa postura anticonvencional originária de um sonho: o de que a realidade pudesse ser outra. / The present paper aims at analyzing and interpreting O ovo apunhalado, which is a collection of short stories by Caio Fernando Abreu, published in 1975, in synchrony with the writer’s letters, in order to investigate in what measure – and in view of his entire work - dialogues are established with the different social-cultural representation of his time, especially in the 1970’s, a phase which was designated for the conquest of the notoriety of this fictionist from Rio Grande do Sul in the Brazilian literature scene. The distinct ways used to compose O ovo apunhalado designate the posture of permanent contravention of the objective and subjective reality, result of a dialectic game with the historical vicissitudes. For in such a way, the theoretical beddings of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel, among others, contribute to elucidate that the ruptures with the literary form are added by a non-conformity to the historical-social phenomena. The letters, in their turn, reiterate the literary force, directly related to the writer’s irreverence as a social subject. It is evident that the queerness of Caio Fernando Abreu’s writing in relation to the standards of Brazilian literature and the literature from Rio Grande do Sul is concomitant to the queerness of the social citizen, the one who relates, over all, to an anti-conventional posture which was originated from a dream: that the reality could be another one.

We have seen a connection between the ritual dances us humans have been engaging in for a huge part of our evolution and the rave-culture of today. How they both use music and the moving body as a vehicle to access states of being beyond the everyday life. By diving head first in the world of dance and trance we have discovered even more similarities that we today share with the humans 10.000 years ago than we ever could have imagined. We have with the help of interviews and our personal experience tried to capture what the trance means for the human today, and with our research we want to illustrate the similarities and differences between in digital world we live in today compared to the world we have lived in for thousands of years before the digital technology’s advance. This text has been our vehicle to analyse and discuss the things we still hold on to as humans even though the world around us has changed. / Vi har sett ett samband mellan de rituella danserna som människan har ägnat sig åt under en stor del av vår utveckling och dagens rådande rave-kultur. Hur de båda forumen använder musik och kroppen i rörelse som ett fordon för att ta sig till andra sinnesstadier bortom det vardagliga varandet. Genom att djupdyka ner i dansens och transens värld har vi stött på ännu större likheter vi idag delar med människan för 10.000 år sedan än vad vi någonsin hade kunnat ana. Vi har med hjälp utav intervjuer och egna upplevelser försökt att skapa oss en bild om vad transen har för roll hos människan än idag, och vill med denna undersökning belysa de likheter och skillnader i den digitala världen vi lever i idag gentemot den värld människan levt i under tusentals år innan den digitala teknologins frammarsch. Denna text har varit vårt fordon för att undersöka samt diskutera de som vi har hållit oss kvar vid som människor även fast omvärlden har förändrats.

The central goal of this thesis is to direct attention to the underappreciated role that radical media has played in communicating social movement messages, which challenge dominant discourses and politicize youth culture, by helping advance master protest frames, reframe collective identities and promote movement-specific collective action frames. To demonstrate the relationship between radical media and movements, this thesis identifies a gap in social movement research regarding how movements communicate reframed meaning to participants. Furthermore, to address this lacuna, it proceeds to assess the movement-oriented content and discursive master, collective identity and collective action frames found in Vancouver’s ‘underground’ newspaper, the Georgia Straight, between 1967 and 1969. The research into these frames supports the argument that Georgia Straight in this period did act as a form of radical media, reflecting and reinforcing the broader social movement of youth radicalism in existence at the time. / Graduate / 0615 / 0391 / 0352 / willett.cody@gmail.com

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Le courant des musiques industrielles, apparu au milieu des années 1970 et loin de s’en tenir à un phénomène d’expérimentation sonore, a produit en quelques années une culture visuelle globale croisant différents médias (graphisme, film, performance, vidéo), dans un dialogue étroit avec l’héritage de la modernité et sous l’emprise croissante des technologies. Ce phénomène britannique amorce un mouvement qui connaît un grand développement en Europe, aux États-Unis et au Japon durant les années 1980. Les expérimentations sonores déployées par les groupes industriels – élaboration de synthétiseurs, manipulation et transformation de sons enregistrés issus de bandes audio, recyclées ou conçues par les artistes – viennent enrichir un éventail de productions visuelles radicales, prenant ses sources dans les utopies modernistes de la première partie du XXe siècle. Cette thèse entend inscrire le projet visuel de la culture industrielle dans une histoire générale de l’art en analysant les différentes thématiques abordées par les principaux acteurs du mouvement. Dans la première partie, l’étude du contexte postindustriel de l’époque révèle combien ces performers intègrent à leurs œuvres une esthétique de la destruction par une appropriation des friches industrielles et urbaines comme nouveaux lieux de création. La deuxième partie envisage les « tactiques de choc » du genre industriel par le prisme du contrôle mental, de la criminalité, du totalitarisme et de la psychiatrie, avant de traiter d’un féminisme pro-sexe radical. Ces enjeux transitent vers un fort intérêt pour l’occultisme et le transhumanisme, faisant l’objet d’une troisième partie consacrée à la façon dont les artistes modifient leurs corps par des rituels magiques contemporains et par des expériences physiques confrontées aux nouvelles technologies qui renouvellent les protocoles habituels du domaine de la performance. / Industrial musics appeared in the mid-1970s, and far from sticking to a phenomenon of sound experimentation, produced in a few years a global visual culture operating at the intersection of a multitude of media (graphics, film, performance, video), in a close dialogue with the legacy of modernity and under the growing influence of technology. This British movement had a great development in Europe, the United States and Japan during the 1980s. The sound experiments deployed by the industrial bands – designing synthesizers, manipulate and transform sounds recorded from audio tapes, recycled or conceived by the artists – were supplemented by a rich array of radical visual productions, taking its sources in the modernist utopias of the first part of the 20th century. This thesis aims to include the visual project of industrial culture in a general history of contemporary art by analyzing the different topics tackled by the main actors of the movement. In the first part, the study of the postindustrial context of this period reveals how these performers integrate in their works an aesthetic of destruction through industrial and urban wastelands used as new places of creation. The second part examines the “shock tactics” of industrial music through mind control, crime, totalitarianism and psychiatry, before dealing with radical sex-positive feminism. These issues move towards a strong interest in occultism and transhumanism, studied in the third part, which is devoted to the body modifications of these artists through contemporary magic rituals and physical experiments confronted with new technologies that renew the usual protocols in performance art.

This thesis describes the phenomenon of alternative culture in public policy. The first part seeks to define what alternative culture means and builds on the research mainly from sociology and cultural studies. Very useful are then specific theory of social deviance, the theory of subcultures and postsubcultures. At the same time, the paper looks into the past, before 1989, when the alternative culture phenomenon was clearly defined, standing outside the mainstream culture and the alternative culture was illegal. Through the analysis of some events and political cases from the recent past, there could be seen both differences between alternative culture and an attitude to it before 1989, but also some important parallels with the current situation of alternative culture. Alternative culture is later specified by current alternative underground subcultures: freetekno - DIY, squatting and street art. In the case of these three controversial subcultures, the paper deals with an attitude of public policy to these subcultures through the extremism policy. The next part the paper deals with the contemporary cultural politics in the country. Briefly, it describes and outlines the current situation and possible areas for innovation in the context of alternative culture. In the last phase this thesis deals...