[pt] Este trabalho tem como objetivo geral investigar os desafios e oportunidades da mediação de conflitos familiares. São objetivos específicos: a partir da perspectiva do(a) mediador(a), pesquisar as repercussões da conjugalidade no exercício da parentalidade e mapear estratégias de intervenções utilizadas pelos mediadores. Para tanto, realizou-se pesquisa qualitativa com a participação de oito mediadores: quatro do campo da Saúde e quatro do Direito. Os dados coletados através de entrevistas semiestruturadas foram objeto do método de análise de conteúdo na vertente categorial e apresentados em formato de dois artigos. Das narrativas, emergiram várias categorias de análise. O primeiro artigo discutiu a categoria repercussões da conjugalidade sobre a parentalidade no contexto da mediação de conflitos familiares, desdobrada em duas subcategorias: visões cristalizadas e dificuldade de diferenciar o par conjugal do par parental; e impactos da parentalidade conflituosa sobre os filhos. Os resultados indicaram que dificuldades de diferenciação entre o par conjugal e o par parental podem acarretar a reprodução da dinâmica conjugal conflituosa na parentalidade, com consequências danosas aos filhos. O segundo artigo discutiu a categoria intervenções do mediador, desdobrada em duas subcategorias: escuta inclusiva e devolutiva; e intervenções voltadas ao resgate de confiança. Os resultados indicaram que uma escuta atenta às possibilidades (escuta inclusiva) e indicativa dos temas a serem cuidados (escuta devolutiva) pode auxiliar na autoimplicação, protagonismo e colaboração. Indicaram também a pertinência de realização de reuniões privadas e celebração de acordos provisórios para a tentativa de resgate da confiança. Concluiu-se que o mediador de conflitos familiares deve adotar uma postura proativa, a fim de auxiliar na construção de parceria na parentalidade e promover transformação no sistema familiar, a despeito das dificuldades psíquicas inerentes à dissolução da conjugalidade. / [en] This paper aims to investigate the challenges and opportunities of mediating family conflicts. From the mediator s perspective, the specific objectives are to research the repercussions of conjugality on parenting performance and map intervention strategies used by mediators. Therefore, qualitative research was performed with the participation of eight mediators: four from the field of Health and four from Law. The data collected through semi-structured interviews were the subject of the content analysis method in the categorical aspect and presented in two papers. Several categories of analysis emerged from the narratives. The first paper debated the category of repercussions of conjugality on parenting in the context of family conflict mediation, broken down into two subcategories: stagnant views and difficulty in differentiating the marital pair from the parental couple, and the impacts of conflictual parenting on children. The outcomes demonstrated that difficulties determining the marriage pair from the parental couple may result in the reproduction of conflictual marital dynamics in parenting, with harmful consequences for children. The second article discussed the category mediators interventions, broken down into two subcategories: inclusive and feedback listening; and external interventions to restore trust. The results indicated that attentive listening to possibilities (inclusive listening) and, at the same time, indicative of the topics to be addressed (feedback listening) may assist in the auto implication, protagonism and collaboration. They also indicated the relevance of holding private meetings and concluding provisional agreements in an attempt to restore trust. It was concluded that the family conflict mediators should adopt a proactive attitude in order to assist in building a partnership in parenting and promoting the transformation of the familiar system, despite the psychic difficulties inherent to the dissolution of conjugality.

This thesis concerns the 2.0 decade, the decade when the social web started to develop. The main research objective is to contribute to our embedment in Internet technology in a conscious and livable way. The thesis is part of a general attempt to improve our understanding of the transformation taking place in the development of the web. We live in a time when knowledge contexts are moving from expert knowledge towards conversational knowledge. My research is mainly presented in the form of five essays. This thesis can be described as a conversational analysis of knowledge processes during the 2.0 decade. The 2.0 decade came to life in the wake of the information technology bubble in the end of the 1990s. The first decade of the 2000s was the decade when 'the Web' became 'Web 2.0' and the energy of the Internet switched from monetary speculations to conversations. Everyone wanted to start conversations and build digital technology, which induced conversations. Like the concept Web 2.0, this thesis came to life in the wake of the information technology bubble. It presupposes the knowledge relation between humans and our technology to be conversational rather than rational. This basically means that digital technology is not a tool but an integrated part in the person assemblage. There are many important thinkers embedded in this thesis. Some of them are more important than others, notably Gilles Deleuze and Donna Haraway. However, the thesis does not analyze the text of other thinkers, it involves them in the conversation. Important concepts as assemblage, rhizome (Deleuze) and cyborg (Haraway) are participants in the text rather than being its objectives. They are part of the general experience behind the essays, together with all the persons I have linked up to and the digital technology I have tried to become with. To become with (or develop together with) technology means to acknowledge the idea that technology is more than a tool. It is something within, not something external.

Through an experimental theatre play, this thesis explores the development of human-like agency in contemporary “social robot” technology. The entrance point of this study is the gender gap and lack of diversity in contemporary AI/robot development, with an emerging need for interdisciplinary research across robot technology and social sciences. Using feminist technoscience and critical posthumanism as the theoretical framework, this research involves an analysis of a particular social robot case, currently being developed at Furhat Robotics in Stockholm. Inspired by Judy Wajcman (2004), I analyze how socially intelligent machines impact perceptions of human agency, body, gender, and identity within cultural contexts and through interaction. The first part of the empirical research is carried out in the robot-lab. The robot is then, in the second part, invited to perform as an actor in a theatre play. Entangled amidst the other players and audience members, a queered agency starts to reveal itself through human-machine “intra-action” and embodiment (Barad 2003). Human-like agency in machines is shown to be a complex matter, drawing the conclusion that human-beings are vulnerable to a myriad of entanglements and preconceptions that artificial intelligence potentially embodies.

Esta pesquisa aborda as possibilidades de dramaturgia e de presença que as novas tecnologias da Era Digital oferecem para o fenômeno teatral a partir da observação e reflexão do processo de criação dos espetáculos de Teatro Expandido realizados pela companhia de teatro Os Satyros durante os anos de 2014 e 2015. Usando a abordagem metodológica de pesquisa/ação (Michel Thiollent), as investigações empíricas resultaram na dramaturgia e encenação dos sete espetáculos do projeto E se fez a humanidade ciborgue em sete dias. A partir da revisão bibliográfica baseada em pensadores do teatro como Béatrice Picon-Vallin, Josette Féral, Silvia Fernandes, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Marcelo Denny e Jeniffer Parker-Starbuck, bem como em cientistas sociais e estudiosos da Comunicação como Slavoj ?i?ek, Jürgen Habermas, Zygmunt Bauman, Manuel Castells e Shanyang Zhao, são analisados aspectos do processo de criação de cenas em que as tecnologias contemporâneas contribuíram para formas expandidas de presença e dramaturgia, do ponto de vista do diretor-dramaturgo. A pesquisa visa contribuir para a discussão das potencialidades tecnológicas do teatro contemporâneo. Este trabalho se dirige a alunos de graduação e pós-graduação interessados nas artes cênicas contemporâneas, encenadores interessados em tecnologia da cena e formas expandidas de dramaturgia. / This research discusses the possibilities of playwright and presence that the new technologies of the Digital Age offer to the theatrical phenomenon, based on the observation and thinking of the creation process of the augmented theater performances developed by the theater company Os Satyros during 2014. Following the action research methodology proposed by Michel Thiollent, the empirical investigations resulted in the dramaturgy and mise-en-scène of the seven performances of the project \"And so was the Cyborg Mankind made in seven days\". From the bibliographic review based on theater thinkers such as Béatrice Picon-Vallin, Josette Féral, Silvia Fernandes, Marcelo Denny and Jeniffer Parker-Starbuck, as well as social scientists such as Slavoj ?i?ek, Jürgen Habermas, Zygmunt Bauman, Manuel Castells and Shanyang Zhao, a series of scenes and investigations made in the project are analysed. The research aims to contribute to the discussion of the potentialities of contemporary theater. It adresses stage arts graduation and post-graduation students, theater directors interested in stage technology and hybrid stage artists.

<p>This study focuses on ecofeminist ethical theory. A first aim is to clarify ecofeminist views on five central issues in the field of environmental ethics. These issues are: (1) Views of nature, (2) social constructivism and nature, (3) values of nature, (4) ethical contextualism, and (5) ethical pluralism. A second aim is to compare ecofeminist standpoints with certain standpoints within nonfeminist environmental ethical theory. A third aim is to critically discuss some of the main standpoints in ecofeminism. The analysis focuses on the works of Karen Warren, Sallie McFague, Chris Cuomo, and Carolyn Merchant. Other important sources are the environmental philosophers and ethicists J. Baird Callicott, Paul Taylor, Irene Klaver, Bryan G. Norton, Christopher Stone, Eugene Hargrove, Holmes Rolston III, Per Ariansen, Don E. Marietta, and Bruno Latour.</p><p>The result of this study is that there are no main differences between ecofeminism and nonfeminist environmental ethics regarding the main standpoints on the five issues. Rather, the significant differences are found within these main standpoints. In addition, one important characteristic of ecofeminist ethics is its "double nature," that is, the fact that it is rooted in feminism and environmentalism. The double nature of ecofeminism results in a foundation out of which ecofeminism as an environmental philosophy has a unique potential to handle some of the theoretical tensions that environmental ethics creates.</p><p>From the perspective that environmental problems consist of complex clusters of natureculture- discourse and that environmental ethical theory ought to be action guiding, it is argued that ecofeminist ethical theory has an advantage compared to nonfeminist environmental ethics. This standpoint is explained by the fact that ecofeminism holds a variety of views of nature, kinds of social constructivism and contextualism, and conceptions of values and of the self, and from the presumption that this variety reflects the reality of environmental problems. However, in order for ecofeminist ethical theory to fulfill its promise as an acceptable environmental ethical theory, its theoretical standpoints ought to be explicated and further clarified.</p>

The aim of the dissertation is to examine the mechanisms at work when networks are formed and risk constructions made as bodies encounter frontline technology within the food sector. The concept of technoscience TS, is the link uniting the escalating technology of risk society, rebellious nature and the insidious threats of substances absorbed straight into the metabolism of our bodies through the food that we eat. The TS viewpoint is complemented by a short overview of Beck’s theory about the risk society, in order to explain how research creates risks rather than removing them. The four case studies are all concrete manifestations of technoscience. They are: 1) a study of the alliance between a research company and a bacteria culture, 2) the section about the Gaio controversy and the creation of scientific facts, 3) the case of the scientist and high-ranking official who was sued for defamation of the Danish pig, 4) and finally the scandal of the meat-eating cows. We can observe, aided by Bruno Latour, how particularly in the first two stories, the importance of networks becomes apparent. How network analysis can be a tool for understanding the high-tech development of the food industry in the late 20th century as stories of how scientific claims – or “truths” – are reconstituted and transformed. We are also able to observe how truth is dependent on our own viewpoint, in Donna Haraway’s word it is “situated” or context dependent. The case studies are also examples of the links between body, technology and risk. Because they deal with the food product trade, the link to the body becomes obvious as dangerous food products are absorbed into the body through the food and is spread through the metabolism. The thing that sets risk construction in the use of high-tech production methods in the food trade apart from other areas is the meeting or confrontation between the man-made advanced technology and the limits determined by “nature” through the body. The linking of technology and the human body becomes particularly exciting as we notice that no matter how advanced the technology that has been used to produce a food product, it is still there to be eaten and absorbed by the metabolism of our bodies. In this area of uncertainty the dividing line between the possible and the impossible is fuzzy and changing.

This study focuses on ecofeminist ethical theory. A first aim is to clarify ecofeminist views on five central issues in the field of environmental ethics. These issues are: (1) Views of nature, (2) social constructivism and nature, (3) values of nature, (4) ethical contextualism, and (5) ethical pluralism. A second aim is to compare ecofeminist standpoints with certain standpoints within nonfeminist environmental ethical theory. A third aim is to critically discuss some of the main standpoints in ecofeminism. The analysis focuses on the works of Karen Warren, Sallie McFague, Chris Cuomo, and Carolyn Merchant. Other important sources are the environmental philosophers and ethicists J. Baird Callicott, Paul Taylor, Irene Klaver, Bryan G. Norton, Christopher Stone, Eugene Hargrove, Holmes Rolston III, Per Ariansen, Don E. Marietta, and Bruno Latour. The result of this study is that there are no main differences between ecofeminism and nonfeminist environmental ethics regarding the main standpoints on the five issues. Rather, the significant differences are found within these main standpoints. In addition, one important characteristic of ecofeminist ethics is its "double nature," that is, the fact that it is rooted in feminism and environmentalism. The double nature of ecofeminism results in a foundation out of which ecofeminism as an environmental philosophy has a unique potential to handle some of the theoretical tensions that environmental ethics creates. From the perspective that environmental problems consist of complex clusters of natureculture- discourse and that environmental ethical theory ought to be action guiding, it is argued that ecofeminist ethical theory has an advantage compared to nonfeminist environmental ethics. This standpoint is explained by the fact that ecofeminism holds a variety of views of nature, kinds of social constructivism and contextualism, and conceptions of values and of the self, and from the presumption that this variety reflects the reality of environmental problems. However, in order for ecofeminist ethical theory to fulfill its promise as an acceptable environmental ethical theory, its theoretical standpoints ought to be explicated and further clarified.

This essay aims to examine how the synthetic non-human subjects, EDI and Legion, are constituted in terms of their bodies, gender, desire and emotion, in the gaming series Mass Effect. In a close-gaming method I also want to explore in which way the gamer can effect or even change the expressions of the body, gen­der, desire, and emotion made by the synthetic non-human subjects. In order to do this I use Judith Butlers and Sara Ahmeds queer theory, and Donna Haraways cyborg feminism. I concluded that EDI em­braces her embodiments and is given a highly sexualized female body, being more of a woman than a machine. While Legion is rather embracing disembodiment and is given a non sexualized, androgynous male body, be­ing more of a machine than a man. The gamer can decide whether EDI should have a romance with a human in the game or not, but the gamer cannot in the same way decide whether or not Legions and EDIs subject­ivity will be reco­gnized as human subjectivity or at least almost-human subjectivity.

The discourse that surrounds and constitutes the post-human emerged as a response to earlier claims of an essential or universal human or human nature. These discussions claim that the human is a discursive construct that emerges from various configurations of nature, embodiment, technology, and culture, configurations that have also been variously shaped by the forces of social history. And in the absence of an essential human figure, post-human discourses suggest that there are no restrictions or limitations on how the human can be reconfigured. This axiom has been extended in light of a plethora of technological reconfigurations and augmentations now potentially available to the human, and claims emerge from within this literature that these new technologies constitute a range of possibilities for future human biological evolution. This thesis questions the assumption contained within these discourses that technological incursions or reconfigurations of the biological human necessarily constitute human biological or human social evolution by discussing the role the evolution theories plays in our understanding of the human, the social, and technology. In this thesis I show that, in a reciprocal process, evolution theory draws metaphors from social institutions and ideologies, while social institutions and ideologies simultaneously draw on metaphors from evolution theory. Through this discussion, I propose a form of evolution literacy; a tool, I argue, is warranted in developing a sophisticated response to changes in both human shape and form. I argue that, as a whole, our understanding of evolution constitutes a metanarrative, a metaphor through which we understand the place of the human within the world; it follows that historical shifts in social paradigms will result in new definitions of evolution. I show that contemporary evolution theory reflects parts of the world as codified informatic systems of associated computational network logic through which the behaviour of participants is predefined according to an evolved or programmed structure. Working from within the discourse of contemporary evolution theory I develop a space through which a version of the post-human figure emerges. I promote this version of the post-human as an Artificial Intelligence computational programme or autonomous agent that, rather than seeking to replace, reduce or deny the human subject, is configured as an exosomatic supplement to and an extension of the biological human.

This practice-led research enquiry examines the form and experience of postdramatic theatre and intermediality. Through three practice-led enquiry cycles, the performance, Unstable Acts, was created. The study was designed to introduce the practitioner to a new process of practice within a postmodern aesthetic and to investigate the theory and practice of intermedial performance. Accordingly, Unstable Acts generated moments of praxis concerning postdramatic theatre and intermediality. By analysing this praxis an increasingly complex understanding of de-representational performance, the liminal experience, percipience, reflection and intermediality in postdramatic theatre was developed. In responding to Unstable Acts, the study proposes a working model for the poetics of postdramatic theatre which places intermediality as a formal recurrence of the postdramatic form. The model also proposes that the postdramaturgical strategy of de-representational performance is a central stylistic quality of postdramatic form, and that the liminal experience is central to the postdramatic theatre experience. Connecting de-representation and liminality through queer theory, the model contends that reflection is an important aspect of both the form and experience of postdramatic theatre. In so doing, the study provides a clearer understanding for theorists and practitioners of the poetics of postdramatic theatre and the position of intermediality in postdramatic practice.