This qualitative study, grounded in a phenomenological perspective, delves into the lived experiences of early childhood teachers who teach multilingual children in mainstream classrooms in Tennessee. Amidst the rising number of multilingual learners in mainstream educational settings and the dearth of adequate teacher training to address their needs, this research illuminates the experiences of these teachers. Furthermore, it seeks to advocate for the integration of translanguaging pedagogy into teacher training programs and state policies. This study employed a qualitative study using the three-in-depth-interview series from a phenomenological perspective (Seidman, 2019). The first interview focused on participants’ overall teaching experiences and classroom dynamics, while the second delved into their specific experiences with multilingual children. The final interview facilitated reflections on the preceding interviews and the participants’ reflections on the research process. Additionally, participants engaged in reflexivity by reviewing interview transcripts and adding comments. The study encompassed three kindergarten and three first-grade teachers in public schools in Tennessee. Data collection included in-depth interviews, screener and demographic questionnaires, and transcript comments. Key findings highlighted the high number of multilingual learners in mainstream classrooms, constraints stemming from scripted curricula, teachers’ assimilationist perspective on culture and monoglossic view on language; however, they demonstrated some positive views toward multilingual learners. Regarding the research process, both participants and the researcher expressed positive views. Ultimately, this study advocates for state policies to embrace a translanguaging approach to foster equitable environments for multilingual children so that they can use and develop their full linguistic repertoire. It also recommends the incorporation of translanguaging pedagogy and critical reflection in teacher training programs. Finally, it highlights the potential of research as a means for reflection, learning, and professional growth.

FundaÃÃo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e TecnolÃgico / A EducaÃÃo Ambiental DialÃgica busca a inserÃÃo dos saberes populares na construÃÃo de uma prÃxis crÃtica, reveladora de uma nova forma de conceber o conhecimento. Dessa forma, os indÃgenas, diante de sua tradiÃÃo cultural ancestral, mostram que tÃm muito a colaborar com a tessitura de prÃticas educativas ambientais. Nesta pesquisa tenho como objetivo discutir como os saberes ancestrais dos Tapeba de Caucaia (CE) podem contribuir e dialogar com a EducaÃÃo Ambiental DialÃgica. Nesse sentido, esta pesquisa nasceu com o propÃsito de colocar em cena e em relaÃÃes igualitÃrias as lÃgicas, prÃticas e modos culturais diversos de pensar, atuar e viver desse povo, de modo que possamos atentÃ-las de forma solidÃria. A pesquisa à qualitativa (MINAYO, 2007), de carÃter etnogrÃfico (GEERTZ, 2008). A maior coleta de dados se deu a partir da relaÃÃo, do estar com eles, dentro de suas realidades. Ainda assim, contei com a realizaÃÃo de entrevistas, narrativas orais e do CÃrculo DialÃgico (FIGUEIREDO, 2012), resultado da alianÃa entre o CÃrculo de Cultura proposto por Paulo Freire e o CÃrculo DialÃgico-Afetivo EcobiogrÃfico, sinteticamente chamado de CÃrculo EcobiogrÃfico, abordagem construÃda por Ferreira (2011). Paulo Freire està enraizado em todas as partes deste trabalho, por meio de suas contribuiÃÃes teÃricas e prÃticas. A EducaÃÃo Ambiental DialÃgica (FIGUEIREDO, 2007) toma para si os aportes deixados por esse autor e dialoga com a EducaÃÃo Ambiental CrÃtica para, assim, nascer de maneira sÃlida e sensÃvel ao cenÃrio educacional, social e polÃtico. A Perspectiva Eco-Relacional, desenvolvida por Figueiredo (2007), aponta para o horizonte da relaÃÃo afetiva com o ambiente. Ciampa (2004; 2005) deu preciosa contribuiÃÃo ao servir de suporte para a reflexÃo e entendimento sobre a questÃo da identidade. Por sua vez, AnÃbal Quijano (1993; 2005; 2010), Walsh (2008) e Figueiredo (2009; 2010) foram essenciais para a discussÃo acerca da colonialidade/descolonialidade. Jà para tratarmos a respeito da Interculturalidade CrÃtica, servimo-nos dos aportes deixados por Walsh (2008), Fleuri (1998), Figueiredo (2009b). Como contribuiÃÃo da Ancestralidade Tapeba para o fazer e o pensar em EducaÃÃo Ambiental DialÃgica, podemos dizer que os saberes ancestrais ultrapassam o entendimento de meros registros histÃricos e sÃo sentidos como guardiÃes da sabedoria de todo um povo, conotando, tambÃm, ensinamentos para a convivÃncia em grupo. Esses saberes revelam que o trato com o ambiente deve se dar de forma afetiva a partir do respeito, do cuidado e da valorizaÃÃo. AlÃm disso, a Ancestralidade Tapeba acredita numa relaÃÃo horizontal entre todos os elementos da natureza, na qual o amor à cultivado, sendo todos essenciais a uma vida em harmonia. O TorÃ, por sua vez, à um exemplo de coesÃo, organizaÃÃo dos participantes e sua conexÃo com a espiritualidade, fundamental para uma prÃtica educativa nesse Ãmbito. Os indÃgenas tÃm a sabedoria e a paciÃncia de acatar o tempo natural do ciclo da vida, esperando o melhor momento para realizar suas atividades de pesca, caÃa e plantio. AlÃm disso, ensinam a ter o ambiente como parceiro, demonstrando preocupaÃÃo com as geraÃÃes futuras. / Dialogic Environmental Education seeks to include indigenous values and knowledge in the construction of a critical praxis that reveals a new way of conceiving knowledge. In this manner, indigenous peoples, given their ancient cultural tradition, can contribute greatly to the fabric of environmental educational practices. In this thesis I discuss how the ancient knowledge of the Tapebas located in Caucaia (CE) can contribute and dialogue with Dialogic Environmental Education. In this manner, this research project was born out of the intent to apply egalitarian logical relations to diverse cultural practices and ways of thinking, acting, and living as a means of approaching these relations in a unified and supportive fashion. The research is both qualitative (MINAYO, 2007) and ethnographic (GEERTZ, 2008). For the most part, data collection occurred through the development of a relationship with the Tapebas, within their daily living conditions. At the same time, I also utilize interviews, narratives, and the âDialogic Circleâ (FIGUEIREDO, 2012), a juxtaposition of the Cultural Circle proposed by Paulo Freire and the Ecobiographical Affective-Dialogic Circle (a term frequently shortened to âEcobiographical Circleâ) (FERREIRA, 2011). This research project is indebted to Freireâs practical and theoretical contributions. Environmental Dialogic Education (FIGUEIREDO, 2007) not only utilizes his theoretical background, but it also dialogues with Critical Environmental Education in order to be accurately applied to a given socio-political and educational setting. The Eco-Relational Perspective developed by Figueiredo (2007) combines the affective relationship perspective with the environment. Ciampa (2004; 2005) has also made an important contribution by establishing the basis for reflecting and understanding the concept of identity. Additionally, AnÃbal Quijano (1993; 2005; 2010), Walsh (2008), and Figueiredo (2009; 2010) were of paramount importance to the discussion of coloniality/decoloniality. Finally, in order to approach Critical Interculturality, this study benefits from the theoretical background offered by Walsh (2008), Fleuri (1998), and Figueiredo (2009b). Ancestral Tapeba contributions regarding acting and thinking in Dialogic Environmental Education are essential for harmonious living in three ways. First, ancient knowledges go beyond mere historical registers and are stores of knowledge for an entire people; these different forms of knowledge also act as guidelines for community cooperation. Second, the Tapeba create an affective relationship with the environment stemming from respect, care, and valorization. Finally, Tapeba ancestry believes in a horizontal relationship between all elements of nature in which love is cultivated. In this context, the Torà ritual is an example of cohesion, participant organization, and spiritual connection, all essential values to such an educational practice. In addition to demonstrating patience and knowledge in daily activities such as fishing, hunting, and harvesting, the Tapebas teach us how to coexist with the environment by expressing concern with future generations.  

This thesis examines the political thought of Achille Mbembe. It deploys decolonial critical analysis to unmask traces of coloniality with regard to the African existential conditions foregrounded in the conception of the African subject, its subjection, and subjectivity. The theoretical foundation of this thesis is decolonial epistemic perspective—the epistemic intervention that serves as a lens to understand Mbembe’s work and—that is the theoretical foundation outside the Euro-North American “mainstream” canon foregrounded in coloniality. Decolonial epistemic perspective in this thesis is deployed to expose three kinds of coloniality in Mbembe’s work, namely: coloniality of power, coloniality of knowledge and coloniality of being. The thrust of this thesis is that Mbembe’s political thought is inadequate for the understanding of the African existential condition in that it does not fully take coloniality into account. In order to acknowledge the existence of coloniality through decolonial critical analysis, the political thought of Mbembe is examined in relation to modes of self-writing, power in the postcolony, the politics of violence in Africa, Frantz Fanon’s political thought, and the idea of South Africa as major themes undertaken in this thesis. Decolonial critical analysis deals with foundational questions that have relevance to the existential condition of the African subject and the manner in which such an existential crisis can be brought to an end. These foundational questions confront issues like—who is speaking or writing, from where, for whom and why? This thesis reveals that Mbembe is writing and thinking Africa from outside the problematic ontology of the African subject and, as such, Mbembe precludes any form of African subjectivity that challenges the Euro-North American canon. This then reveals that Mbembe is not critical of coloniality and this has the implications in that subjection is left on the wayside and not accounted for. Having explored the genealogy, trajectory and horisons of decolonial critical analysis to understand the political thought of Mbembe, this thesis highlights that it is essential to take a detour through the shifting of the geography of reason. Herein lies the originality of this thesis, and it is here that Africa is thought from within a standpoint of decolonial critical analysis and not Africa that is thought from the Euro-North American canon. Therefore, the shifting of the geography of reason is necessary for the authorisation of the subjectivity of the African subject in order to combat subjection. / Political Sciences / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Politics)

Ce mémoire propose une analyse du roman historique La Carthagénoise (Germán Espinosa, 1982). Ce roman porte sur l’échange des idées entre l’Amérique coloniale et l’Europe éclairée. L’invasion française au port caraïbe de Carthagène d’Indes en 1697 est l’événement historique qui déclenche sa trame. Cette œuvre littéraire effectue un parcours à travers deux espaces et périodes historiques – l’Amérique sous domination espagnole et l’Europe des Lumières – dans lesquels s’entrecroisent des personnages réels et fictionnels. L’analyse que propose le présent travail aborde en premier lieu les antécédents du roman historique en Amérique latine. Dans une deuxième partie, il se penche sur les stratégies narratives utilisées dans le roman d’Espinosa et sur l’impact éventuel de ces procédés sur la facette critique de l’œuvre. L’hypothèse centrale de ce travail est que la fiction historique contribue à une vision critique de l’histoire officielle et qu’elle propose une réflexion sur les causes de la stagnation épistémologique en Amérique latine ainsi que des processus historiques inachevés tels que la libération épistémologique et la consolidation des épistémologies émergentes suggérées par la théorie postcoloniale et la pensée décoloniale. Le roman montre également la naissance, la mise en œuvre et l’échec de ce projet de libération épistémologique mené par un personnage féminin. Ce projet vise à finir avec la marginalisation du savoir latino-américain plutôt qu’à sa décolonisation. Parmi les conclusions tirées par ce mémoire, il y a l’idée qu’en raison de la causalité historique de l’Amérique latine, telle que montrée par le roman, le moment n’est pas encore venu de l’avènement d’une libération culturelle qui permette la consolidation des épistémologies émergentes, dans la ligne de ce que suggèrent les études postcoloniales et la décolonialité. Une autre conclusion importante à mentionner est que l’évolution des idées est un processus historique dans lequel les courants idéologiques ne sont pas absolus et sont assujettis aux conjonctures sociales qui déterminent leur existence et permanence. / This dissertation proposes an analysis of the historical novel The Weaver of Crowns (Germán Espinosa, 1982). This novel deals with the exchange of ideas between colonial Latin America and the Europe of the Enlightenment. The French invasion of the Caribbean port of Cartagena de Indias in 1697 is the historical event that triggers the plot. The novel covers two geographical spaces and two historical periods – America under Spanish domination and Enlightened Europe – in which real and fictional characters interact. In a first step, this dissertation undertakes an analysis of the roots of the historic novel in Latin America. In a second step it examines narrative strategies used in Espinosa’s novel and the way they may influence the critical side of this work. The central hypothesis suggested by this dissertation is that historical fiction contributes a critical view of the official historiography of Latin America by showing its hidden or silenced sides. It offers a reflection on the causes of the epistemological stagnation in Latin America as well as the unresolved historical processes in Latin America such as its epistemological liberation and the consolidation of its emerging epistemologies as described by the postcolonial theory cited in this work. The novel also shows the emergence, development and failure of an epistemological liberation project undertaken by a female character. This liberation project is aimed at putting an end to the marginalization of the Latin American knowledge rather than decolonizing it. Among the conclusions drawn by this dissertation is the idea that because of the historical causality of Latin America, as presented by the novel, the moment has not yet arrived for a cultural and epistemological liberation. This pending process would allow the consolidation of the emerging epistemologies along the lines proposed by the postcolonial and decoloniality studies. Another conclusion of note is that the evolution of ideas is a historical process in which the ideological currents are not absolute but subjected to the social situations that determine their existence as well as their continuity. / La memoria propone un análisis de la novela histórica La tejedora de coronas (Germán Espinosa, 1982). Esta novela trata del intercambio de ideas entre la América colonial y la Europa del Iluminismo y desarrolla su trama a partir del asedio francés al puerto caribeño de Cartagena de Indias acaecido en el año 1697. La novela hace un recorrido por dos períodos históricos, – la América española y la Europa de las luces –, en los que entrelaza personajes reales y de ficción. Este trabajo plantea un análisis que aborda en primer lugar los antecedentes de la novela histórica en América Latina, propone seguidamente una aproximación a algunas estrategias narrativas utilizadas en la novela y su posible injerencia en la faceta crítica de la misma. La hipótesis central que se defiende es que la ficción histórica propone una visión crítica de la historia oficial y una reflexión sobre la dialéctica histórica de las causas del estancamiento epistemológico de América Latina. Igualmente, señala los procesos históricos inconclusos en América, como su liberación epistemológica y la consolidación de sus epistemologías emergentes de las cuales hablan el postcolonialismo y el pensamiento descolonial. De igual modo, la novela muestra el surgimiento, la puesta en obra y el fracaso de un proyecto de liberación epistemológica, llevado a cabo por un personaje femenino. Este proyecto apunta más a una desmarginalización que a una descolonización del saber americano. Entre las conclusiones que arroja el trabajo se podrían mencionar, entre otras, que, debido a la causalidad histórica de América Latina planteada por la novela, está pendiente por realizarse una liberación cultural, que permita la consolidación de las epistemologías emergentes tal como lo señalan los estudios postcoloniales y la decolonialidad. Otra conclusión significativa obtenida es que la novela defiende la posición según la cual la evolución de las ideas es un proceso histórico en el cual las corrientes ideológicas no son absolutas y están sujetas a las coyunturas sociales que determinan su vigencia y permanencia.

This thesis examines the political thought of Achille Mbembe. It deploys decolonial critical analysis to unmask traces of coloniality with regard to the African existential conditions foregrounded in the conception of the African subject, its subjection, and subjectivity. The theoretical foundation of this thesis is decolonial epistemic perspective—the epistemic intervention that serves as a lens to understand Mbembe’s work and—that is the theoretical foundation outside the Euro-North American “mainstream” canon foregrounded in coloniality. Decolonial epistemic perspective in this thesis is deployed to expose three kinds of coloniality in Mbembe’s work, namely: coloniality of power, coloniality of knowledge and coloniality of being. The thrust of this thesis is that Mbembe’s political thought is inadequate for the understanding of the African existential condition in that it does not fully take coloniality into account. In order to acknowledge the existence of coloniality through decolonial critical analysis, the political thought of Mbembe is examined in relation to modes of self-writing, power in the postcolony, the politics of violence in Africa, Frantz Fanon’s political thought, and the idea of South Africa as major themes undertaken in this thesis. Decolonial critical analysis deals with foundational questions that have relevance to the existential condition of the African subject and the manner in which such an existential crisis can be brought to an end. These foundational questions confront issues like—who is speaking or writing, from where, for whom and why? This thesis reveals that Mbembe is writing and thinking Africa from outside the problematic ontology of the African subject and, as such, Mbembe precludes any form of African subjectivity that challenges the Euro-North American canon. This then reveals that Mbembe is not critical of coloniality and this has the implications in that subjection is left on the wayside and not accounted for. Having explored the genealogy, trajectory and horisons of decolonial critical analysis to understand the political thought of Mbembe, this thesis highlights that it is essential to take a detour through the shifting of the geography of reason. Herein lies the originality of this thesis, and it is here that Africa is thought from within a standpoint of decolonial critical analysis and not Africa that is thought from the Euro-North American canon. Therefore, the shifting of the geography of reason is necessary for the authorisation of the subjectivity of the African subject in order to combat subjection. / Political Sciences / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Politics)

The U.S. Southwest is a semi-arid region affected by numerous environmental problems. Chicana/o communities have been directly affected by such problems, especially ever since the region was annexed from Mexico by the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. From this moment onwards they lost their environmental sovereignty, mostly through their dispossession of the natural resources.   This environmental humanities dissertation focuses on the ethics, politics, and practices around water (management), for water is a key natural resource and a central element of Chicana/o cultural identity. It explores the ways in which Chicana/o culture is interconnected with environmental practices and sites in subaltern literary works about the Chicana/o experience. It investigates how the hegemonic Anglo-American environmental, political, and economic practices have challenged and undermined Chicana/o culture, identity, and wellbeing, and how this has been addressed in fiction; and it questions whether establishing such a connection adds any useful insights to the larger discussion on the global socio-environmental crisis. This dissertation also analyzes the writer activist character of the subaltern narratives of the corpus, with attention to the relevance of rhetoric in subverting and constructing environmental discourses and ethics.   By examining regional and border narratives, as well as fiction and non-fiction narratives about the socio-environmental struggles of other ethnic minorities in the Southwest and in other parts of the world, this dissertation puts literature about the Chicana/o experience in a regional, national, and transnational context. It moreover explores the pivotal role of literature in reclaiming environmental sovereignty, in asserting cultural identities, and in countering the environmental crisis by imagining alternative managerial practices and socio-environmental relations, as much as in challenging cultural hegemonies. / <p>QC 20170508</p>

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Marcela do Espírito Santo para Publicação Biblio.pdf: 892020 bytes, checksum: 100b6e1597ce35a9d0f070107e9e96b5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-01-28 / The dilemmas and strategic challenges for economic viability and legitimacy faced by social organizations in Brazil -organizations without economic purpose -resemble those faced by other types of organization in different parts of the world. The dominant literature of management and strategy favors, in its framework, concepts and practices that support and are supported by large private corporations. The growing influence of these organizations in academia and society helps explain the role of importance that strategies of corporate social responsibility have achieved in the legitimation of neoliberal ideology and practices which help to reaffirm. In turn, this framework helps to explain the marginal position that social organizations occupy inside the area of strategic management. This dissertation seeks to expand the discussion of the studies in the field of strategic management that addressed the hegemonic construction of the field, their processes of legitimation and diffusion and their critical approaches, including the aspect of coloniality in which the dominant literature falls. The understanding of strategic trajectory of a social organization, the Social Service of Commerce - SESC, was given by the research processes of legitimation mobilised within the organization itself and in the context in which it operates. For such, the contextualist perspective allowed the observation by internal and external relationships established and the changes and continuities promoted due to its legitimacy. To represent organizations as political and cultural systems that influence and are influenced by the environment, this research promotes understanding of the ideological components and power in strategic management, commonly naturalized by the mainstream literature, making room for even the decolonization of the area of strategic management, emphasizing the diversity of organizations and practices, and the possibility of coexistence of different types of organizations in the area. / Os dilemas e desafios estratégicos para viabilização econômica e legitimação enfrentados por organizações sociais no Brasil – organizações sem finalidade econômica - se assemelham aos enfrentados por outros tipos de organização nas diversas partes do mundo. A literatura dominante de gestão e estratégia privilegia, em seu arcabouço, conceitos e práticas que apoiam e são apoiados nas grandes corporações privadas. A crescente influência dessas organizações na academia e na sociedade ajuda a explicar o papel de importância que estratégias de responsabilidade social corporativa alcançaram na legitimação das práticas e ideologia neoliberal que ajudam a reafirmar. Por sua vez, este quadro ajuda a explicar a posição marginal que as organizações sociais ocupam na área de gestão estratégica. Esta dissertação busca a ampliação da discussão dos estudos do campo da gestão estratégica que abordaram a construção hegemônica do campo, seus processos de legitimação e difusão e as respectivas abordagens críticas, inclusive o aspecto de colonialidade no qual a literatura dominante se insere. A compreensão da trajetória estratégica de uma organização social, o Serviço Social do Comércio – Sesc, se deu pela investigação dos processos de legitimação mobilizados dentro da própria organização e no contexto em que atua. Para tal foi utilizada a perspectiva contextualista que permitiu a observação mediante as relações internas e externas estabelecidas e as mudanças e continuidades promovidas em função de sua legitimação. Ao representar organizações como sistemas políticos e culturais que influenciam e que são influenciados pelo meio, esta investigação promove o entendimento dos componentes ideológicos e de poder na gestão estratégica, comumente naturalizados pela literatura dominante, abrindo espaço ainda para a descolonização da área de gestão estratégica, enfatizando a diversidade de organizações e de práticas e na possibilidade da coexistência de diferentes tipos de organização na área.

Submitted by Sergio Wanderley (sergiow.gaz@terra.com.br) on 2015-04-08T15:36:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_Sergio_Wanderley_versão_final.pdf: 5039778 bytes, checksum: c0ee12f333f32f7f1749dab0c1542144 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by ÁUREA CORRÊA DA FONSECA CORRÊA DA FONSECA (aurea.fonseca@fgv.br) on 2015-04-13T14:32:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_Sergio_Wanderley_versão_final.pdf: 5039778 bytes, checksum: c0ee12f333f32f7f1749dab0c1542144 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2015-04-14T18:02:28Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_Sergio_Wanderley_versão_final.pdf: 5039778 bytes, checksum: c0ee12f333f32f7f1749dab0c1542144 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T18:03:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_Sergio_Wanderley_versão_final.pdf: 5039778 bytes, checksum: c0ee12f333f32f7f1749dab0c1542144 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-25 / The objective of this dissertation is to investigate how the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) and Superior Institute of Brazilian Studies (ISEB) have contributed to management history in Brazil. This dissertation departed from a consolidated historiography methodology, but employed the decolonial perspective to problematize the term history and, thus, proposes a new investigation agenda. The importation of historiography themes such as Americanization and Cold War fosters the mimicry of investigation agendas that subalternizes other local processes that have contributed to management historiography. The geo-historical investigation is carried out from the interaction of the two concepts of development(alism) that emerge from the literature review – one that emerges from the Latin American reality and the other received externally via Americanization – that come closer or get further away from each other, and that are inserted in the long durée of Latin America modernity/coloniality. The search for management science began, in Brazil, in connection with the modernization and development of the country that led to the creation of the first graduate management schools and the courses object of this dissertation, which formed 1.316 professionals at postgraduate level. During this period, the role of Americanization should be minimized and one should relativize the role of management schools in management geo-history. The aim is to bring to the fore knowledges belonging to the tradition of the Latin American social critical thought - subalternized by management literature - that can inform the area in Brazil and abroad. This is a way to decolonize historiography investigation agendas and to eschew the tendency of acritically repeating foreign content. / O objetivo desta tese é investigar a atuação da Comissão Econômica para a América Latina (CEPAL) e do Instituto Superior de Estudos Brasileiros (ISEB) na história da educação em administração no Brasil. Esta tese partiu de uma metodologia historiográfica consolidada na área, mas utilizou a abordagem descolonial para problematizar o termo história e, assim, propor uma nova agenda de pesquisa. A importação de temas de pesquisa historiográfica como americanização e Guerra Fria provoca um mimetismo de agendas de investigação e termina por subalternizar outros eventos locais que contribuíram para a historiografia da administração. A investigação geo-histórica desta tese é feita a partir da interação entre dois conceitos de desenvolviment(ism)o – o que emerge a partir da realidade da América Latina e o que é recebido de fora via americanização – que ora se aproximam, ora se afastam, e que estão inseridos na long durée da modernidade/colonialidade da América Latina. A busca pela ciência da administração se iniciou, no Brasil, vinculada ao processo de modernização e desenvolvimento do país, que levou à criação, durante a década de 1950, das primeiras escolas de ensino de graduação em administração e dos cursos objetos desta tese, que formaram 1.316 profissionais em nível de pós-graduação. Neste período deve ser minimizado o papel da americanização e relativizada a atuação destas escolas de ensino de graduação na geo-história da administração. Devemos, portanto, descolonizar a atuação da CEPAL e do ISEB como instituições de ensino e pesquisa para trazer à tona conhecimentos da tradição do pensamento social crítico latino-americano que foram subalternizados na literatura de administração, para que possam informar a área no Brasil e no exterior. Este é um caminho para descolonizar a agenda de pesquisa historiográfica e escapar da tendência de reproduzir acriticamente conhecimento recebido do exterior.

This study is a critical examination of the complex search for peace, reconciliation and unity in Zimbabwe between the years 1978 and 2008, with a view to identify factors that have been blocking sustainable peace, national unity, reconciliation and development. It is a qualitative study which draws data from document analysis and oral interviews. The specific focus of the study is an analysis of the four peace agreements signed in this period namely; the 1978 Internal Settlement, the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement, the 1987 Unity Accord and the 2008 Global Political Agreement. Its central thesis is that coloniality in its multifaceted invisible forms is largely responsible for conflicts that have engulfed Zimbabwe and for compromising the chances of success of the four peace agreements. Coloniality has produced a ‘postcolonial’ leadership that has continued to practice politics in a violent, repressive, corrupt and unaccountable manner because of interpellation by the very immanent logic of colonialism that reproduces such inimical practices as racism, tribalism, regionalism and patriarchy. Theoretically, the study deploys de-colonial epistemic perspective in its endeavour to unmask and explain challenges to peace, unity, reconciliation and development in Zimbabwe. Finally, the thesis makes a strong case for pursuit of decoloniality as the panacea to conflicts and as an approach to conflict resolution and peace building that privileges decolonization and deimperialization so that Zimbabwe’s development goals could be achieved. / Development Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Development Studies)

nÃo hà / A prÃtica drag queen diz respeito a um processo de adequaÃÃo que desloca a aparÃncia corriqueira de uma pessoa para uma outra que pode transitar entre gÃneros (masculino, feminino, polimorfo, diversos) e espÃcies (humano e animal, como à o caso de drags que se apresentam como animais e atà alienÃgenas). O presente trabalho tem por objetivo observar e participar dessa prÃtica na cidade de Fortaleza â CE com intuito de absorver seus processos de criaÃÃo, adaptaÃÃo, montagem e desmontagem. Entender as mutaÃÃes as quais essa prÃtica està sujeita, as influÃncias externas e a capacidade de adaptaÃÃo das drag queens estudadas. Usar lentes analÃticas que possibilitem enxergar as prÃticas atravÃs de uma epistemologia da performance que leve em consideraÃÃo a decolonizaÃÃo do pensamento e a apreensÃo crÃtica da tradiÃÃo cientÃfica europeia. O estudo se configura por meio de uma experiÃncia etnogrÃfica embasada no exercÃcio da descriÃÃo densa e de entrevistas pontuais. Os registros foram feitos mediante diÃrio de campo, fotografias, vÃdeos e gravador de voz. Concluiu-se que a prÃtica drag queen na cidade de Fortaleza â CE passou e passa por mudanÃas constantes no que diz respeito à tradiÃÃo e ao surgimento de novas formas de fazer drag. Formas essas impactadas pelo reality show americano RuPaulâs Drag Race e sua tendÃncia de transformaÃÃo da drag queen em um produto passÃvel de ser comercializado mundialmente atravÃs da TV. Observou-se ainda que, ademais da forte influÃncia trazida por esse reality show, o contexto local tem se mostrado resistente Ãs tentativas de suplantaÃÃo da tradiÃÃo, tendo como elementos de resistÃncia o bate- cabelo e o dialeto yorubà que se contrapÃem à forÃa histÃrica de opressÃo conhecida como colonizaÃÃo.