LIMA, Deyseane Maria Araújo. Educação ambiental dialógica e descolonialidade com crianças indígenas Tremembé: vinculação afetiva pessoa-ambiente na Escola Maria Venância. 2014. 320f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2014. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-01-19T14:37:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_tese_dmalima.pdf: 3576146 bytes, checksum: c330f37c63307c78cb6d98c7bdd25543 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-01-19T15:37:02Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_tese_dmalima.pdf: 3576146 bytes, checksum: c330f37c63307c78cb6d98c7bdd25543 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-01-19T15:37:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_tese_dmalima.pdf: 3576146 bytes, checksum: c330f37c63307c78cb6d98c7bdd25543 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / The proposal for research pervaded decoloniality, promoting dialogue between indigenous knowledge and scientific knowledge about educational practices with a focus on Environmental Education Dialogic (EED) in Eco-Relational Perspective (ERP), which aims the deconstruction of exclusion and discrimination. The general objective was to analyze the affective link between Tremembé indigenous children and differentiated school environment as descolonialization strategy regarding the fabric of environmental knowledge, based on EED and ERP. The specific objectives were: to investigate the affective link between educators and Tremembé children; analyze the coloniality/environmental decoloniality in the relationship between person-environment; understand the meanings of childhood for Tremembé indigenous people and analyze educational practices of decolonialization based on affective ties between Tremembé children and reality. The methodological trajectory of the thesis focuses on the Qualitative Approach and the Engaged Intervention Research in EED and ERP. We feature authors and actors of research (children, educators, Tremembé leaders) and detail the stages of data collection, such as carrying out semi-structured interviews, workshops, participative observation and documentary research; for data analysis, we used content analysis. In this study, the proposition was to observe and interact with children, considering them subjects who have something meaningful to say to us in relation to educators, families and the community. We investigate the meanings of childhood for Tremembé as a singular being and with particular way of being, because it is related to the specificities of culture, social context, life history and family relationships, as we see in other childhoods constitutions, because we consider children, in general, unique. We mainly focused on investigating the affective link between indigenous Tremembé children and differentiated school environment as decolonialization strategy regarding the environmental fabric of knowledge, based on Dialogic Environmental Education in Eco-Relational Perspective, that we consider essential bonding in the relationship between educators and Tremembé children for the establishment of a Differentiated School Education. It was possible to examine the relationship between children and the environment, which have permeated influences of decolonialization, other realities and the presence of educational practices with Tremembé children and educators. It is crucial for indigenous and non-indigenous humans value the indigenous culture (of various ethnicities). It was essential to analyze daily life, the activities, relationships with family and community, the ways to play, how they learn and teach in their culture. The research promoted dialogic and affective relationship between child and environment in an indigenous context Tremembé in an education that recognizes the environmental and emotional issues in training, production, reframing, and knowledge acquisition process. This work has generated contributions for Differentiated School Education to Tremembé Children and their relationships with family and the community, as was a proposal of praxis interaction with reality, ie, the development in partnership of environmental and popular knowledge by social actors /authors and the researcher. / A proposta da investigação perpassou a vertente da descolonialidade, promovendo o diálogo entre o saber indígena e o saber científico sobre as práticas educativas com enfoque na Educação Ambiental Dialógica (EAD) na Perspectiva Eco-Relacional (PER), que visa à desconstrução da exclusão e da discriminação. O objetivo geral foi analisar a vinculação afetiva entre as crianças indígenas Tremembé e o ambiente escolar diferenciado como estratégia descolonializante referente à tessitura dos saberes ambientais, com base na EAD na PER. Os objetivos específicos foram: investigar a vinculação afetiva entre os(as) educadores(as) e as crianças Tremembé; analisar a colonialidade/descolonialidade ambiental na relação entre pessoa-ambiente; compreender os significados da infância para os(as) indígenas Tremembé e analisar as práticas educativas descolonializantes com base na vinculação afetiva entre as crianças Tremembé e a realidade. O percurso metodológico da tese foca-se na Abordagem Qualitativa e na Pesquisa Intervenção Engajada em EAD na PER, caracterizamos os autores e atores da investigação (crianças, educadores, lideranças Tremembé) e detalhamos as etapas da coleta de dados, como a realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas, oficinas, observação participante e pesquisa documental; e para a análise de dados, utilizamos a análise de conteúdo. Neste estudo, a proposição foi observar e interagir com as crianças, considerando-as sujeitos com algo significativo para nos dizer, em relação aos(às) educadores(as), à família e à comunidade. Pudemos investigar os significados da infância para o Tremembé como um ser singular e com um jeito particular de ser, pois está relacionada às especificidades da cultura, do contexto social, da história de vida e das relações familiares, assim como verificamos em outras constituições de infâncias, pois consideramos as crianças de maneira geral únicas em sua singularidade. Tivemos como foco principal investigar a vinculação afetiva entre as crianças indígenas Tremembé e o ambiente escolar diferenciado como estratégia descolonializante referente à tessitura dos saberes ambientais, com base na Educação Ambiental Dialógica, na Perspectiva Eco-Relacional, em que consideramos como essenciais os laços afetivos na relação entre os(as) educadores(as) e as crianças Tremembé para a constituição da Educação Escolar Diferenciada Tremembé. Foi possível analisar a relação entre as crianças e o ambiente, que perpassaram as influências colonializantes de outras realidades e a presença de práticas educativas descolonializantes com as crianças e os(as) educadores(a) Tremembé. Podemos constatar que é fundamental para os seres humanos indígenas e não indígenas valorizar a cultura indígena (das diversas etnias) em razão dos contributos que estes saberes proporcionam, tais como a valorização da afetividade, do modo de se relacionarem entre si e com a natureza. Foi essencial analisar o cotidiano, as atividades realizadas, o relacionamento com a família e a comunidade, as maneiras de brincar, como aprendem e ensinam em sua cultura. A pesquisa promoveu a relação dialógica e afetiva entre criança e ambiente no contexto indígena Tremembé, em uma educação que reconhece as questões ambientais e afetivas no processo de formação, produção, ressignificação e aquisição de conhecimentos. Este trabalho, em sua dimensão dialógica, gerou contribuições para a Educação Escolar Diferenciada Tremembé Infantil e suas relações com a família e a comunidade, pois foi uma proposta de interação prática com a realidade, ou seja, a elaboração parceira de saberes ambientais e populares pelos(as) atores(as)/autores(as) sociais e a pesquisadora.

Esta tese dispõe-se a compreender as contribuições da concepção indígena do Bem Viver para uma educação intercultural e descolonial. Para tanto, analiso um conjunto de materiais elaborados colaborativamente entre povos indígenas e o Conselho de Missão entre Povos Indígenas (COMIN) para escolas não indígenas, o Material da Semana dos Povos Indígenas. Assim, em primeiro lugar busco compreender os conceitos de interculturalidade, descolonialidade e a concepção indígena do Bem Viver. Na sequência, relato o processo intercultural e colaborativo de construção do material junto ao povo Laklãnõ Xokleng de Santa Catarina, em que a metodologia indígena da roda de conversa, o silêncio, o ouvir, o fazer junto, a reciprocidade, e o diálogo comunitário estão presentes na elaboração. Igualmente, evidencio como os conhecimentos, ou seja, as epistemologias, as filosofias, as técnicas e a concepção ancestral indígena do Bem Viver estão presentes no material do coletivo que o construiu, apresentando as nuances específicas no contexto do Povo Kaingang e Guarani do Rio Grande do Sul. Nesse sentido, evidencio as possibilidades de contribuição das metodologias como a roda de conversa, o silêncio, a intuição, o diálogo e o aprender e fazer juntos. Também destaco os conhecimentos indígenas, especialmente o Bem Viver. São metodologias e conhecimentos presentes no processo de construção de uma educação intercultural e descolonial, principalmente no que se refere aos cuidados comunitários, recíprocos e complementares com todas as formas de vida no cosmos. / This work tries to understand the contributions of the Indigenous Concept of Good Living for an intercultural and decolonial education. For this purpose, I analise a set of materials colaboratively elaborated between indigenous peoples and the Indigenous Mission Council (COMIN) for non-indigenous schools, the Indigenous People Weekly Material. Therefore, at first I try to understand the concepts of interculturality, decoloniality and the concept of Good Living. In sequence, I report the intercultural and colaborative process of construction of the material with the Laklãnõ Xokleng people from Santa Catarina, where the indigenous methodology of Talking Circle, the silence, the listening, the doing together, the reciprocity and the community dialogue are present. I also point out how the knowledges, that is, the epistemologies, the philosophies, the techniques and the ancestral indigenous conception of Good Living are present on the material that the colective of people have built – presenting the specific nuances of the Kaingang and Guarani People of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In this sense, I evidence the possible contributions of these methodologies such as the Talking Circle, the silence, the intuition, the dialogue and the learning and doing together. I also emphasize the indigenous knowledges, mainly the Good Living. These are methodologies and knowledges that are present in the construction process of an intercultural and decolonial education, mostly regarding to the community, reciprocal and complementary care with all kinds of life forms in the cosmos. / Esta tesis pretende comprender la contribución de la concepción indígena del Buen Vivir para una educación intercultural y descolonial. Fueron analizados un conjunto de materiales elaborados de forma colaborativa entre Pueblos Indígenas y el Consejo de Misión entre Indígenas (COMIN) para las instituciones educativas escolares no indígenas. Este material fue denominado como Material de la Semana de los Pueblos Indígenas. En primer lugar, busque comprender los conceptos de interculturalidad, decolonialidad y la concepción indígena del Buen Vivir. Seguidamente, relato el proceso intercultural y colaborativo en la construcción del material suscitado junto al pueblo Laklãnõ Xokleng de Santa Catarina (SC - Brasil), donde metodologías indígenas como la rueda de conversación, el silencio, el oír, el hacer junto, la reciprocidad y el diálogo comunitario estuvieron presentes en la elaboración de dicho material. De la misma forma, se evidenció como los conocimientos, es decir, las epistemologias, filosofías, técnicas y la concepción ancestral indígena del Buen Vivir se encuentran presentes en el material del grupo que lo constituyó, presentando diferencias específicas en el contexto del Pueblo Kaingang y Guaraní del Estado de Rio Grande do Sul. En este sentido, se evidenció la contribución de metodologías como la Rueda de conversación, el silencio, la intuición, el diálogo y el aprender a hacer juntos. También destaco los conocimientos indígenas, especialmente el Buen Vivir. Son metodologías y conocimientos presentes en el proceso de construcción de una educación intercultural y descolonial, principalmente en lo que se refiere a los cuidados comunitarios, recíprocos y complementares con todas las formas de vida del cosmos.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Bruna Angélica Gonçalves - 2018.pdf: 3830069 bytes, checksum: 6a2d1781962b8ac785496cf47065d379 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-06-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The literacy theme is constitute by extreme complexity and disagreement with regard to the discussions related to this theme. More than just a phenomenon related to the uses of writing, it constitutes as the main element of the trajectories of individuals, revealing the rich meanings that can be attributed to the most diverse uses of language. Thus, like all that is social in nature, literacies are permeated with the dynamics of power relations, being subject to hierarchies depending on where and by whom they are produced and / or analyzed. Bearing all this in mind and based on discussions so far raised in the literature of literacies, this research aims to describe the current state of the art studies of literacies developed outside the school agency; as well as compare perspectives developed in these studies with social literacy proposals and evaluate the impact of social literacy approaches in the studies described. To that end, the theoretical basis remains in the field of current critical studies on literacy from sociocultural perspectives, among them (STREET, 2003, 2014, TERRA, 2013) in interlocution with decolonial studies (SANTOS & MENESES, 2009; QUIJANO , MIGNOLO, 2003, 2014, NASCIMENTO, 2014) and critical studies of Modernity (MAKONI & PENNYCOOK, 2007). The concept of bibliographic research serves as a reference in that it has been made the survey of the references already published, in order to know, in a general way, what has already been studied on the subject (FONSECA, 2002). The corpus of the research, composed of 142 articles published in Portuguese between 1997 and 2016, was generated from searches in the Scielo and Capes’ Periodics Portal in the month of March 2017 taking as reference a pre-established criterion according to the objectives of the research. The discussions about the literacies were then less anchored to the very fields in which they are developed, and much more linked to already crystallized and hegemonic discourses. As shown, the theoretical framework in these last two decades has not changed much, and new discussions are not being highlighted. We continue to speak of literacies from geopolitically marked places as institutional spaces described by hegemonic voices. About literacies much remains to be discussed. Two decades of studies in Brazil have not been able to capture the complexity that surrounds this subject. We must construct our perceptions about the uses of language by people, forgetting simplistic conceptions, starting with the understanding of literacies, starting from the trajectories of the subjects by which they are produced. / O tema letramento se constitui de extremas complexidade e divergências no que diz respeito às discussões a ele relacionadas. Mais do que apenas um fenômeno relacionado aos usos da escrita, ele se constitui como elemento principal das trajetórias dos indivíduos, revelando a riqueza significados que podem ser atribuídos aos mais diversos usos de linguagem. Assim, como tudo que é de natureza social, os letramentos são permeados acompanham a dinâmica das relações de poder, estando sujeitos a hierarquizações a depender de onde e por quem são produzidos e/ou analisados. Tendo tudo isso em vista e partindo de discussões até então suscitadas na literatura dos letramentos, esta pesquisa objetiva descrever o estado da arte atual dos estudos sobre letramentos desenvolvidas fora da agência escola; bem como comparar perspectivas desenvolvidas nestes estudos com propostas de letramento social e avaliar o impacto das abordagens de letramento social nos estudos descritos. Para tanto, o embasamento teórico se mantem no campo dos atuais estudos críticos sobre os letramentos a partir de perspectivas socioculturais, dentre eles (STREET, 2003, 2014; TERRA, 2013) em interlocução com os estudos decoloniais (SANTOS & MENESES, 2009; QUIJANO, 2009; MIGNOLO, 2003, 2014; NASCIMENTO, 2014) e estudos críticos à Modernidade (MAKONI & PENNYCOOK, 2007). O conceito de pesquisa bibliográfica serve como referência na medida em que foi feito o levantamento das referências já publicadas, a fim de conhecer, de forma geral, o que já se estudou sobre o assunto (FONSECA, 2002). O corpus da pesquisa, composto por 142 artigos publicados em português entre os anos de 1997 a 2016, foi gerado a partir de buscas no Scielo e Portal de Periódicos da Capes no mês de março de 2017 tomando como referência critérios préestabelecidos de acordo com os objetivos da pesquisa. As discussões sobre os letramentos se mostraram então menos ancoradas aos próprios campos nas quais são desenvolvidas, e muito mais vinculadas a discursos já cristalizados e hegemônicos. Como mostrado, o quadro teórico nessas duas últimas décadas não mudou muito, e novas discussões não estão sendo evidenciadas. Continua-se falando dos letramentos a partir de lugares geopoliticamente marcados enquanto espaços institucionais descritos por vozes hegemônicas. Sobre letramentos ainda há muito a ser discutido. Duas décadas de estudos no Brasil ainda não foram capazes de captar a complexidade que envolve tal assunto. Há de se construir nossas percepções a respeito dos usos de linguagem pelas pessoas, esquecendo concepções simplistas, partindo para a compreensão dos letramentos a partir realmente das trajetórias dos sujeitos pelos quais eles são produzidos.

Den här interaktionsdesign uppsatsen bidrar till en omgående diskussion på Avkoloniserande design. Särskild genom att utforska identiteter i diaspora med latinamerikanska migranter. Mellan anpassning och total assimilation flera frågor dyker upp, om värderingar, egenskaper och vanor, och de materiella uttryck av dessa aspekter såsom de utmaningarna för interaktionsdesign och deras metoder. Resultatet är en kollektiv territorium uttryckt som en interaktiv karta som kontinuerligt vävas genom en smartphone app. Kartan fylls med minnen, låtar, matrecept och drömmar som förverkliga de identiteterna i diaspora (diasporic situatedness). Kartan är en kritisk fabulering om vad kartorna är och kan bli. Kartan vädjar till uppfattningen av den Pluriversum för att avkolonisera begreppen som hybriditet, identitet och territorium. Forskningen avgår från Chicano- och transnationella feminism, postkoloniala och avkoloniala teorier, epistemologier från Södern och kritisk design. I processens hjärta ligger den kollektiva spekulation, genom codesign metoder för att uppmuntra delade funderingar och diskussioner, med visuella och verbala resurser. En ny metod undersöker de berättande egenskaper av linjer för att väva och vandra den interaktiva kartan. / This interaction design thesis contributes to the discussion in Decolonial design, and in particular it explores diasporic identities of Latin American migrants. Between adaptation and assimilation, several questions arise: About traces, values, practices and the materialities of these aspects, as well as the challenges for Interaction design and its methods to address them.The design outcome is the concept of a collective identity territory expressed in an interactive map, that is continuously woven digitally through an app interface. The map is populated with memories, songs, recipes and dreams that materialise the diasporic situatedness. I consider it a critical fabulation on what maps can be. The contribution of the outcome appeals to the notion of the Pluriverse to decolonise the notions of hybridity, identity and territory.The research departs from the notions of Chicano and transnational feminism, postcolonial and decolonial theories, epistemologies of the South and critical design. In the center of the design process is the collective speculation, using codesign methods to encourage shared reflections through visual and verbal resources. A new method explores the narrative qualities of lines to weave and wander the interactive map.

This thesis seeks to understand the formation and representation of local, national and international identities of nations and their societies by critically analysing a big public international art event, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. It will thus address two complex historical and theoretical problems: first, the role such biennales have had in the nation building process for several Third World countries; second, the established hierarchies in theorizations of contemporary art from the global south. By addressing these problems, it aims to illustrate the issue at the heart of this thesis: to find the praxis which can break the model of binaries and representations established in the concept of modernity.

Orientador: Ana Cristina Biondo Salomão / Resumo: Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo discutir o tratamento da cultura na formação de professores de línguas estrangeiras e os desafios e caminhos para a interculturalidade crítica decolonial na formação docente. Por meio de pesquisa qualitativa interpretativista do tipo estudo de casos múltiplos latitudinal, analisou-se como o componente cultural se apresenta em cursos de formação de professores de línguas próximas de contextos do Sul e Norte globais. Especificamente, foram objeto de estudo quatro cursos universitários de formação de professores, sendo dois de formação de professores de espanhol — um no Brasil e um em Portugal — e dois de formação de professores de português — um na Argentina e um na Espanha. Foram analisados documentos pedagógicos de tais cursos, entrevistas com seus professores formadores, notas de campo, questionários e grupos de interação composto por estudantes em formação. A análise dos dados se fundamentou teoricamente na discussão sobre diferentes noções de cultura (CUCHE, 1996; GEERTZ, 1973; KRAMSCH, 2017), as definições de multiculturalismo, interculturalidade e interculturalidade crítica, com base nos trabalhos de Maher (2007), Candau (2008a, 2009), Guilherme (2019a) e Walsh (2010), a noção de colonialidade e pensamento decolonial (QUIJANO, 2001; DUSSEL, 1968, 2005; GROSFOGUEL, 2008) e reflexões sobre a formação do professor de línguas para a interculturalidade crítica decolonial, com base nos trabalhos de Candau (2008a, 2009), Daher e Sant’Anna (2010)... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research aimed to discuss the treatment of culture in foreign language teacher education and the challenges and paths for critical decolonial interculturality in teacher training. Through qualitative interpretive and latitudinal multiple case study research, it was analyzed how the cultural component presents itself in language teacher education courses for close language in the global South and North contexts. Specifically, four university teacher education courses were studied, two of which are Spanish teacher training — one in Brazil and one in Portugal — and two of Portuguese teacher training — one in Argentina and one in Spain. Pedagogical documents of such courses, interviews with their teacher teachers, field notes, questionnaires and interaction groups composed of students in training were analyzed. The data analysis was theoretically based on the discussion about different notions of culture (CUCHE, 1996; GEERTZ, 1973; KRAMSCH, 2017), the definitions of multiculturalism, interculturality and critical interculturality, based on the works of Maher (2007), Candau (2008a, 2009), Guilherme (2019a) and Walsh (2010), the notion of coloniality and decolonial thinking (QUIJANO, 2001; DUSSEL, 1968, 2005; GROSFOGUEL, 2008) and reflections on the education of the critical intercultural teacher and the decoloniality, based on the works of Candau (2008a, 2009), Daher and Sant’Anna (2010), Baptista (2017) and Rajagopalan (2003). The results indicated that in all cases analyzed... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Resumen: Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo discutir el tratamiento de la cultura en la formación de profesores de lenguas extranjeras y los retos y caminos para la interculturalidad crítica decolonial en la formación docente. Por medio de una investigación interpretativa cualitativa que consistió en un estudio de caso múltiple y latitudinal, se analizó cómo se presenta el componente cultural en los cursos de capacitación de docentes para la enseñanza-aprendizaje de lenguas próximas en los contextos Sur y Norte globales. Específicamente, se estudiaron cuatro carreras de formación de profesores universitarios: dos de español en Brasil y Portugal; y dos de portugués en Argentina y España. Con esa finalidad, se analizaron los documentos pedagógicos de dichas carreras, las entrevistas realizadas con sus formadores docentes, las notas de campo, los cuestionarios y los grupos de interacción compuestos por estudiantes en formación. El análisis de datos se basó en la discusión sobre diferentes nociones de cultura (CUCHE, 1996; GEERTZ, 1973; KRAMSCH, 2017); las definiciones de multiculturalismo, interculturalidad e interculturalidad crítica, basadas en los trabajos de Maher (2007), Candau (2008a, 2009), Guilherme (2019a) y Walsh (2010); la noción de colonialidad y pensamiento decolonial (QUIJANO, 2001; DUSSEL, 1968, 2005; GROSFOGUEL, 2008); y las reflexiones sobre la formación del profesor de lenguas para la interculturalidad crítica decolonial, basado en los trabajos de Candau (2008a, 2009... (Resumen completo clicar acceso eletrônico abajo) / Doutor

Carbon offsetting has a growing presence on the global climate action agenda where it is promoted as a triple-win for the environment, business and development. However, the opinions on carbon offsetting are divided. Projects with agroforestry and participatory methods are highlighted as having more positive aspects, but critics emphasize that carbon offsetting can become an excuse for the Global North to continue business as usual while using the Global South as a carbon dump. Carbon offsetting can reproduce unequal power structures where countries, while formally decolonized, are still affected by coloniality. This study examines carbon offsetting through tree planting projects and the potential discrepancies between discourse and documented effects in East Africa with focus on Uganda. Four projects are compared with each other, focusing on documented social effects and impacts on land access. We analyze how power structures are expressed in carbon offsetting generally and in the projects. This is a literature study with a combined theoretical framework of political ecology and the decolonial approach. Findings imply that there, to varying degrees, are discrepancies between rhetoric and reality for the projects. Differences between the projects’ outcomes mainly boil down to their planting method, degree of participation and operating logic. All the projects are to varying degrees based on a coloniality, permeated by power structures and have some level of exclusion. However, findings also imply that best practices involve the local communities in a bottom up approach with an agroforestry method and carbon offsetting as a co-benefit.

The nexus between migration and climate change is a topic that has received growing attention in both policymaking and mainstream media. While it has long been acknowledged that gender shapes the migratory process and the impacts of climate change are gendered, most discussions concerning migration and climate change have failed to incorporate a gender perspective into their analysis. At the same time, the international community, through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other initiatives, has committed itself to eradicating gender inequality. This has resulted in more institutions incorporating gender into their analyses of migration and climate change. While these commitments to developing a more nuanced understanding of migration in the context of climate change have been welcomed, it has been questioned how these institutions incorporate gender in their analyses and how this in turn impacts climate change adaptation efforts and migration policy. The aim of this study is to investigate how the relationship between gender, migration, and climate change is articulated in discourses at the level of international institutions, analyzing these discourses through a decolonial perspective. Using critical discourse analysis, the empirical material analyzed includes reports from international institutions that discuss migration and climate change. The findings suggest that the selected institutions tend to treat gender as a variable and focus on measurable, material impacts. While there is a possible discursive shift towards a more intersectional understanding of gender and social inequality, women are often perceived as an inherently vulnerable group. This feeds into a wider ‘feminization of vulnerability’ discourse that is present in climate change studies. An additional finding is migration is optimistically framed as a means of empowerment for women. This empowering discourse tends to promote individual agency over structural changes when it comes to climate change, aligning itself with neoliberal discourses and potentially obscuring larger questions pertaining to climate and mobility justice.

Debates concerning the concept of 'engaged scholarship’ (ES) in terms of university-society connectivity have become part of the discourse within the shifting South African higher education landscape after 1994. Given the legacy of historical inequalities continuing to permeate all spheres of South African society including higher education, the idea of social-justice-centred engaged scholarship forms the main thrust of the narrative in this thesis. Furthermore, with music inherently geared towards societal engagement, and 'engaged scholarship’ included in UCT’s latest Social Responsiveness Policy Framework, this thesis critically examines the ES responses - in terms of their perceptions and practices - of music academics at the SACM in post-1994 South Africa. The opening chapter outlines the largely two-pronged research methodology approach pertaining to the analysis and findings of: (1) literature and documents, and (2) in-depth interviews of a representative sample of full-time SACM music academics. Chapter 2 provides a historical sociology unpacking the ES concept as part of an emergent University Third Mission. With developments largely unfolding at American universities, the first part of Chapter 2 shows the development of ES as essentially following two routes. Firstly the Triple Helix notion of university-industry-government (U-I-G) relations since the mid-20th century, identified by Etzkowitz as a 'Second Academic Transformation’ grafted on an earlier 19th century 'First Academic Transformation’ which began in Germany. Then secondly, in the 1990s a broadened view of scholarship aimed at making universities more relevant to the needs of society (i.e. via U-CS or university-civil society links) proposed by Boyer. With the issue of an emergent University Third Mission also entering the South African higher education discourse after 1994, the second part of Chapter 2 highlights conceptual confusion by considering policy and conference debates on 'community engagement’ (CE), the preferred expression for university-society relations in South Africa. Unfolding developments at UCT however have resulted in a discourse of ES becoming integral to this university’s Social Responsiveness Policy Framework after 2012. Moreover with social justice largely absent from CE discourse and the Triple Helix, Cooper has proposed a Quadruple Helix whereby civil society is added as fourth helix (i.e. resulting in U-I-G-CS). The approach of this study, therefore, explores the concept of a social-justice-centred engagement (outlined in part three of Chapter 2) with which it strongly resonates. Chapter 3 focuses attention on the milieu and ethos of UCT and the SACM, putting SACM music academics, part of an elite historically 'white’ university, in perspective. This highlights the entrenched hegemony of the historically 'white’ European settler institutional culture and 'orphan’ status of music indigenous to Africa at the SACM. Against this backdrop Chapter 4 provides a snapshot of the ES perceptions and practices of SACM music academics derived from the in-depth interviews. Importantly, with music largely absent from ES discourse, including at UCT, the critical analysis of the narratives of music academics form the basis for this thesis creating four music-specific ES categories in this chapter, and a proposed typology of music-specific ES in Chapter 5. In addition, a particularly important finding in Chapter 5 depicts the SACM as probably the most engaged UCT department, mainly displaying elements of the Quadruple Helix (U-I-G-CS), but with this engagement significantly skewed towards largely 'white’ civil society. Moreover, given the historically Eurocentric ethos of the SACM, western classical music has retained its uncontested hegemony (including within the SACM student curriculum) despite the introduction in the 1980s of new streams of non-western classical music, including music indigenous to Africa. With reference to ES, the engagement of the majority of SACM music academics was, furthermore, found overwhelmingly to be with the elite social classes. However, 'black’ academics were significantly more engaged with the 'black’ working class than their 'white’ counterparts. Considering the core findings above, pathways enabling the development of more balanced SACM-society relationships, particularly with the 'black’ working class majority have been proposed in the concluding chapter. A crucial recommendation is the decolonisation of the institutional culture and curriculum of the SACM, thereby restoring the former 'Other’, to 'Self’. These being spaces outside the comfort-zone of most music academics, it is suggested that music-specific ES research, potentially able to shift embedded reasoning, should become integral to the decolonisation process.

The return of objects that belong to ethnographic collections to their places of origin is one of the topics of discussion that, despite not being new, has been gaining more and more relevance today. Taking the Iku indigenous craft collection in the archives of the National Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg as a case study, I pursue to develop an object-based methodology that increases and deepens the understanding of the notion of ethical stewardship, while joining current debates on indigenous heritage and decoloniality. This work aims to reveal material and immaterial aspects embedded in textile objects. The methodology included field visits to the museum archive, material culture analysis, and semi-structured interviews. The work evokes a decolonial discussion regarding the need to engage with epistemologies from the “South” and with methodologies not fully recognized by the dominant western-modern educational frameworks in order to achieve a more inclusive and assertive production of knowledge. / La restitución de colecciones etnográficas a sus lugares de origen es uno de los temas de discusión que, a pesar de no ser nueva, ha ido cobrando cada vez más relevancia en la actualidad. Tomando la colección de artesanía indígena Iku/arhuaca en los archivos del Museo Nacional de las Culturas del Mundo en Gotemburgo como estudio de caso, busco desarrollar una metodología basada en objetos que aumente y profundice la comprensión de la noción de administración ética, mientras me sumo a los debates actuales sobre patrimonio indígena y decolonialidad. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo revelar los aspectos materiales e inmateriales incrustados en los objetos textiles. La metodología incluyó visitas de campo al archivo del museo, análisis de cultura material y entrevistas semiestructuradas. El trabajo evoca una discusión decolonial sobre la necesidad de involucrar epistemologías del “Sur” y metodologías no plenamente reconocidas por los marcos educativos occidentales-modernos dominantes para lograr una producción de conocimiento más inclusiva y asertiva.