In contemporary New Zealand discourses the 1950s, 1960s and the early 1970s are seen as the era of the ‘Golden Weather’. This time came to an end when social change on an unprecedented scale took place from the end of the 1960s onwards. During the 1980s and 1990s the changes became very rapid due to transformations as part of the neoliberal reforms. Neoliberalism established new ways of governing the self through discourses of personal reflection, flexibility and choice as well notions of uncertainty, instability and risk. Risk discourses can be found at different junctures in New Zealand’s history, but contemporary discourses surrounding the self and childhood have shifted risk discourses in new ways. This has led to new regimes of rationality and practices of childhood and an increased governance of children and their families. This research documents the contexts and the interrelationships which influenced the new regimes of rationality and governance of childhoods in New Zealand. It also discusses the way a range of contradictory and conflictual cultural repertoires are negotiated and reproduced in the middle classes. In the last decades Pakeha and Dutch middle-class families in New Zealand have faced the prospect of declining fortunes. They have therefore adopted a cultural logic of childrearing which stresses the concerted cultivation of children. These regimes of concerted cultivation include risk discourses which affect everyday relationships and practices. This more global middle-class regime coexists with a local regime based on the New Zealand narrative of the time of the ‘Golden Weather’. Within this local repertoire a ‘typical’ New Zealand childhood is seen as safe and quite relaxed. This perceived childhood space is filled with beaches and other activities associated with nature which give children the opportunity and freedom to explore and develop a distinct Kiwi self. This local figuration is in contradiction with the often hectic pace of concerted cultivation and the anxieties surrounding risk discourses. Dutch middle-class parents in New Zealand also use concerted cultivation and they have adopted some of their host country’s figurations surrounding childhood and the outdoors. However, there is a difference in emphasis as Dutch parental narratives of self are more focussed on relationships with people rather than nature. / The Ministry of Social Development, Building Research Capacity in the Social Sciences Doctoral Research Award, The New Zealand-Netherlands Foundation, The Anthropology Department,University of Auckland.

In contemporary New Zealand discourses the 1950s, 1960s and the early 1970s are seen as the era of the ‘Golden Weather’. This time came to an end when social change on an unprecedented scale took place from the end of the 1960s onwards. During the 1980s and 1990s the changes became very rapid due to transformations as part of the neoliberal reforms. Neoliberalism established new ways of governing the self through discourses of personal reflection, flexibility and choice as well notions of uncertainty, instability and risk. Risk discourses can be found at different junctures in New Zealand’s history, but contemporary discourses surrounding the self and childhood have shifted risk discourses in new ways. This has led to new regimes of rationality and practices of childhood and an increased governance of children and their families. This research documents the contexts and the interrelationships which influenced the new regimes of rationality and governance of childhoods in New Zealand. It also discusses the way a range of contradictory and conflictual cultural repertoires are negotiated and reproduced in the middle classes. In the last decades Pakeha and Dutch middle-class families in New Zealand have faced the prospect of declining fortunes. They have therefore adopted a cultural logic of childrearing which stresses the concerted cultivation of children. These regimes of concerted cultivation include risk discourses which affect everyday relationships and practices. This more global middle-class regime coexists with a local regime based on the New Zealand narrative of the time of the ‘Golden Weather’. Within this local repertoire a ‘typical’ New Zealand childhood is seen as safe and quite relaxed. This perceived childhood space is filled with beaches and other activities associated with nature which give children the opportunity and freedom to explore and develop a distinct Kiwi self. This local figuration is in contradiction with the often hectic pace of concerted cultivation and the anxieties surrounding risk discourses. Dutch middle-class parents in New Zealand also use concerted cultivation and they have adopted some of their host country’s figurations surrounding childhood and the outdoors. However, there is a difference in emphasis as Dutch parental narratives of self are more focussed on relationships with people rather than nature. / The Ministry of Social Development, Building Research Capacity in the Social Sciences Doctoral Research Award, The New Zealand-Netherlands Foundation, The Anthropology Department,University of Auckland.

In contemporary New Zealand discourses the 1950s, 1960s and the early 1970s are seen as the era of the ‘Golden Weather’. This time came to an end when social change on an unprecedented scale took place from the end of the 1960s onwards. During the 1980s and 1990s the changes became very rapid due to transformations as part of the neoliberal reforms. Neoliberalism established new ways of governing the self through discourses of personal reflection, flexibility and choice as well notions of uncertainty, instability and risk. Risk discourses can be found at different junctures in New Zealand’s history, but contemporary discourses surrounding the self and childhood have shifted risk discourses in new ways. This has led to new regimes of rationality and practices of childhood and an increased governance of children and their families. This research documents the contexts and the interrelationships which influenced the new regimes of rationality and governance of childhoods in New Zealand. It also discusses the way a range of contradictory and conflictual cultural repertoires are negotiated and reproduced in the middle classes. In the last decades Pakeha and Dutch middle-class families in New Zealand have faced the prospect of declining fortunes. They have therefore adopted a cultural logic of childrearing which stresses the concerted cultivation of children. These regimes of concerted cultivation include risk discourses which affect everyday relationships and practices. This more global middle-class regime coexists with a local regime based on the New Zealand narrative of the time of the ‘Golden Weather’. Within this local repertoire a ‘typical’ New Zealand childhood is seen as safe and quite relaxed. This perceived childhood space is filled with beaches and other activities associated with nature which give children the opportunity and freedom to explore and develop a distinct Kiwi self. This local figuration is in contradiction with the often hectic pace of concerted cultivation and the anxieties surrounding risk discourses. Dutch middle-class parents in New Zealand also use concerted cultivation and they have adopted some of their host country’s figurations surrounding childhood and the outdoors. However, there is a difference in emphasis as Dutch parental narratives of self are more focussed on relationships with people rather than nature. / The Ministry of Social Development, Building Research Capacity in the Social Sciences Doctoral Research Award, The New Zealand-Netherlands Foundation, The Anthropology Department,University of Auckland.

In contemporary New Zealand discourses the 1950s, 1960s and the early 1970s are seen as the era of the ‘Golden Weather’. This time came to an end when social change on an unprecedented scale took place from the end of the 1960s onwards. During the 1980s and 1990s the changes became very rapid due to transformations as part of the neoliberal reforms. Neoliberalism established new ways of governing the self through discourses of personal reflection, flexibility and choice as well notions of uncertainty, instability and risk. Risk discourses can be found at different junctures in New Zealand’s history, but contemporary discourses surrounding the self and childhood have shifted risk discourses in new ways. This has led to new regimes of rationality and practices of childhood and an increased governance of children and their families. This research documents the contexts and the interrelationships which influenced the new regimes of rationality and governance of childhoods in New Zealand. It also discusses the way a range of contradictory and conflictual cultural repertoires are negotiated and reproduced in the middle classes. In the last decades Pakeha and Dutch middle-class families in New Zealand have faced the prospect of declining fortunes. They have therefore adopted a cultural logic of childrearing which stresses the concerted cultivation of children. These regimes of concerted cultivation include risk discourses which affect everyday relationships and practices. This more global middle-class regime coexists with a local regime based on the New Zealand narrative of the time of the ‘Golden Weather’. Within this local repertoire a ‘typical’ New Zealand childhood is seen as safe and quite relaxed. This perceived childhood space is filled with beaches and other activities associated with nature which give children the opportunity and freedom to explore and develop a distinct Kiwi self. This local figuration is in contradiction with the often hectic pace of concerted cultivation and the anxieties surrounding risk discourses. Dutch middle-class parents in New Zealand also use concerted cultivation and they have adopted some of their host country’s figurations surrounding childhood and the outdoors. However, there is a difference in emphasis as Dutch parental narratives of self are more focussed on relationships with people rather than nature. / The Ministry of Social Development, Building Research Capacity in the Social Sciences Doctoral Research Award, The New Zealand-Netherlands Foundation, The Anthropology Department,University of Auckland.

This PhD thesis builds on the current trends in the research on entrepreneurship and gender, which pay attention to the fact that women are being excluded from or ignored by the entrepreneurship research and that female entrepreneurship is studied and assessed from a male perspective and no attention is paid to important contexts which affect the situation of entrepreneurs. With regard to this criticism, the focus is on the embeddedness of entrepreneurship in various contexts. In order to approach this issue I use the institutional perspective and I look for relations with formal and informal institutions in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The research deals with entrepreneurial couples as it is possible to look into their entrepreneurial embeddedness in the domestic context. The aim of the thesis is to provide a micro-insight into the construction of role distribution in the domestic and work area and show how these constructions are justified by cultural repertoires. I look into the negotiation of roles in heterosexual couples by the method of qualitative interviews which I carried out with each of the partners individually. Thanks to his method it is also possible to study the suppressed voices in the couple (more often female than male). I analysed the data using the social constructivist...

Submitted by Aelson Maciera (aelsoncm@terra.com.br) on 2017-06-23T19:17:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseLRRF.pdf: 1828970 bytes, checksum: f6d92256401223cfcfe780c5b3b0194a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-06-28T08:52:33Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseLRRF.pdf: 1828970 bytes, checksum: f6d92256401223cfcfe780c5b3b0194a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-06-28T08:52:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseLRRF.pdf: 1828970 bytes, checksum: f6d92256401223cfcfe780c5b3b0194a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-28T08:57:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseLRRF.pdf: 1828970 bytes, checksum: f6d92256401223cfcfe780c5b3b0194a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / This dissertation seeks to understand what I call the aspiration horizons of women from brazilian popular classes and how the access to digital media allows a sociality around the negotiation of the limits and possibilities of such horizons. The objective was to show the context of housing, leisure and work of the subjects, in order to understand that the digital media are mobilized according to social relations established beyond them. This work is in agreement with the theories of the social modeling of technology to understand that both the nature of digital media and the needs and desires of users shape the meaning and utility of a technology in a given historical moment and context. In this sense, technologies are used according to social class relations, gender, sexuality, generational issues, among other aspects that need to be understood. In the same way, the media interfere in the daily life of the subjects, transforming their relations and, sometimes, increasing the possibility of access to diverse cultural repertoires. The empirical field was built on the Internet through Social Networking Service Platforms such as Facebook and Whatsapp, seeking to observe the network sociality of women in the research, their postings, shares, likes and exposure dynamics; outside of the Internet, I did an ethnography in the Baixada Fluminense and in the popular classes of the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro in order to access their daily lives, their places of residence, their structure of access to technology, their circulation throughout the city and their moments of recreation. / Esta tese busca compreender o que chamo de horizontes de aspiração das mulheres das classes populares brasileiras e de que forma o acesso às mídias digitais permitem uma socialidade em torno da negociação dos limites e possibilidades de ampliação de tais horizontes. O objetivo consistiu em mostrar o contexto de moradia, lazer e trabalho dos sujeitos da pesquisa, de forma a compreender que as mídias digitais são mobilizadas de acordo com relações sociais estabelecidas para além delas. Este trabalho se mostra de acordo com as teorias da modelagem social da tecnologia que nos ajudam a compreender que tanto a natureza da mídia como as necessidades e desejos dos usuários moldam o significado e a utilidade de um determinado meio digital em um dado momento histórico e contexto. Nesse sentido, as tecnologias são usadas de acordo com relações de classe social, gênero, sexualidade, questões geracionais, dentre outros aspectos que precisam ser entendidos. Da mesma forma, as mídias interferem no cotidiano dos sujeitos, transformando suas relações e, por vezes, ampliando a possibilidade de acesso à repertórios culturais diversos. O campo empírico foi construído, na internet, por meio de Plataformas de Serviços de Redes Sociais como o Facebook e Whatsapp com vistas a observar a socialidade em rede das mulheres da pesquisa, suas postagens, compartilhamentos, curtidas e dinâmicas de exposição; fora da internet realizei etnografia na Baixada Fluminense e em regiões de classes populares da Zona Oste do Rio de Janeiro de forma a acessar os cotidianos dessas pessoas, seus locais de moradia, sua estrutura de acesso à tecnologia, sua circulação pela cidade e seus momentos de lazer.