Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Idalina Maria Almeida de Freitas.pdf: 6730973 bytes, checksum: 9a8562cea09bb19860bbc77a95847a5d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-22 / This thesis aims to reflect the construction of devices for the female body in the city of Fortaleza in the first half of the twentieth century (1910-1950). It analyzes the construction of subjectivities for the body amid the experiences of individuals banned by the medical-scientific discourse. The documental base of research is divided into two stages: at first, looks and perceptions of the body that pluralized in city of Fortaleza every day, focusing on issues of criminal cases of deflowering, seduction, sex crimes in which bodily practices were related against established standards, especially with regard to relationships. Then, discusses the production of images illustrated in the form of ads that circulated in Fortaleza, bringing depictions of female bodies which, by means of a medical-scientific discourse, sought to construct meaning for aspects of the body in relation to beauty, health, appearance, pain, suffering and happiness. In this sense, the goal of the research is to historicize the invention of wants and desires created and recreated by speeches, with the purpose of actually teaching, under the auspices of a modernity abrupt, discontinuous. It is observed also that attempts to represent the female body comprise a universe of interventions that draws attention to the need to design your interfaces in the body socio-politic-cultural / Esta tese busca refletir a construção de dispositivos para o corpo feminino na cidade de Fortaleza na primeira metade do século XX (1910-1950). Para tanto, analisa a construção de subjetividades para o corpo em meio às experiências de sujeitos interditos pelo discurso médico-científico. A base documental da pesquisa divide-se em dois momentos: no primeiro, os olhares e as percepções sobre o corpo que pluralizam no cotidiano da cidade de Fortaleza, centrando na problemática dos processos-crime de defloramento, sedução, crimes sexuais em que as práticas corpóreas estiveram relacionadas na contramão de normas estabelecidas, sobretudo no que diz respeito aos relacionamentos afetivos. Em seguida, aborda a produção de imagens ilustradas na forma de anúncios que circulavam em Fortaleza, trazendo representações de corpos femininos que, pelo viés de um discurso médico-científico, buscavam construir significados para os aspectos do corpo no tocante à beleza, saúde, aparências, dor, sofrimento e felicidade. Nesse sentido, o objetivo da pesquisa é historicizar a invenção de desejos e vontades criados e recriados por discursos, com efeitos de verdade, pedagógicos, sob os auspícios de uma modernidade abrupta, descontínua. Observa-se, ainda, que as tentativas em representar o corpo feminino compreendem um universo de intervenções que chama a atenção para a necessidade de conceber o corpo em suas interfaces sócio-político-culturais

En cancerdiagnos påverkar inte bara patienten, utan även patientens närstående. Cancersjukdomen kan innebära stora förändringar i vardagen för de inblandade, både psykosociala och praktiska. Hos närstående uppstår behov som kanske inte helt och hållet tillfredställs på grund av den patientfokuserade vården. Syftet var att undersöka vilket stöd närstående till en cancersjuk patient önskar. Totalt granskades 10 resultatartiklar som inriktade sig på patient- och närståendestöd och vilket stöd de uppskattade som betydelsefullt. Resultatet redovisades i huvudkategorier och underkategorier som uppstått ur databearbetningen. Kategorierna var informativt stöd och socialt stöd där emotionellt, instrumentellt och andligt stöd ingick. I resultatet framträdde informativt stöd som något närstående framför allt eftertraktade. I det sociala stödet kunde närstående och vänner stödja varandra genom erfarenheter, känslor och tankar.  Det emotionella stödet var något framträdande i närståendes gemenskap och kunde uppfattas som kärlek och omsorg, varav instrumentellt stöd kunde ingå. Detta stöd innefattar hjälp med praktiska och materiella saker. En del närstående kunde också önska andligt stöd. Närståendes önskemål visade sig inte alltid vara tillfredsställda samt att olika önskemål om stöd kan förekomma, exempelvis på grund av kultur. Därför finns ett ökat behov av kunskap om närståendes personliga behov och kulturellt inflytande i omvårdnadsarbetet. / A cancer diagnosis affects not only the patient but also the patient's family. The cancer disease can lead to huge changes in the lives of those involved, both psychosocial and practical. With relatives’, needs arises that may not entirely satisfy because of the patient-focused care. The aim was to investigate what support the relatives to a cancer patient desire. A total of 10 research articles were examined that focused on patient and relative support and what support they estimated to be valuable. The result is presented in main and sub-categories which emerged from the data processing. These categories were informational support and social support in which emotional, instrumental and spiritual support were included. The support relatives particularly sought after was the informational support. In the social support the relatives and friends support each other through their experiences, feelings and thoughts. Emotional support was prominent for relatives and could be perceived as love and caring, where instrumental support could be included. This support includes help with practical and tangible things. Some relatives could also wish for spiritual support. It turned out that relatives did not always get their support needs met as well as various requests for support may occur, for example, because of culture. Therefore there is a need for increased knowledge of relatives' personal needs and the meaning of cultural impact in nursing care.

Abstract: This thesis aims to explore how utopian desires re/shape the posthuman, cyberspace and histories by means of information technologies in William Gibson¡¦s Idoru and All Tomorrow¡¦s Parties, which construct a fragmented but subversive power by representing the world in a utopian text that allows the free play of ideology. Gibson uses utopian imagination to cobble together a near future that reflects his concern with information technologies and media over contemporary society. Utopian imaginations on the one hand open up possibilities and transform fixed ideas; on the other, utopian imaginations are easily turned into utopian desires that are subject to manipulation if utopian designers want to sell. I intend to discover how desires to realize a utopia (body, space, and history), which is the ultimate goal of utopian program, are being manipulated by utopian designers. I will mainly adapt and blend Katherine Hayles¡¦s notion of the posthuman perspectives to challenge human possibilities, Donna Haraway¡¦s notion of the cyborg as a blasphemy to Western traditions, Louis Marin¡¦s Disneyland analysis as an apparatus to examine utopic expressions in William Gibson¡¦s textual constructions of utopias, and Walter Benjamin¡¦s notions of material historiography and history¡¦s messianic power in tracing individual memories under a capitalist contextualized History. In Chapter One, I will argue that Idoru as well as Idoru metamorphosize from a dialectical structure into an informational pattern-random structure, from a commodity into a posthuman subjectivity. I will adopt Katherine Hayles¡¦s concept of information narratives in explaining the re/shaping of Rei¡¦s body and her concept of the posthuman to explicate the struggle between the posthuman and the transhuman. In Chapter Two I will argue that cyberspace serves as a utopia that brings forth the desire to transcend the flesh. This utopian desire is a transgressive discourse that breaks up the totality of a closed system. Moreover, cyberspace exposes the feedback looping of the discourses of capitalism and anti-capitalism. Respectively, by the representation of virtual Venice and the Walled City, these two utopias write proposals that project discourses of pleasure and criticism for achieving their programs. I will adopt Donna Haraway¡¦s cyborg ontology in explaining cyberspace as a transgressive discourse and Louis Marin¡¦s Disneyland analysis as an apparatus of utopic expressions and the limits of utopia. Next, in Chapter Three, I shall expose how Harwood the capitalist manipulates the world to fit into his utopian proposal: modernization of the city as a manifestation of a utopia by means of cyberspace as a network that connects people globally. To contravene Harwood, Idoru, Laney and the Walled City denizens collaborate to checkmate Harwood¡¦s king. I will elaborate on the interactions between the universal history and the individual histories based on Walter Benjamin¡¦s concept of history.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 melo_ra_me_assis.pdf: 1486696 bytes, checksum: 7288803410217e25e6099b8e2eb06d18 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-01-13 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / As visibilidades e as múltiplas possibilidades de novas experimentações que são postas nos mais diversificados palcos do contexto social, no tocante as sexualidades, gêneros e desejos, acabam por traçar territórios estéticos nos campos das artes, tais como o cinema, o teatro, a dança, etc. Expressões de desejos que se colocam em resistência às estratificações e normatizações heteronormativas, abrindo espaços para invenções de políticas/éticas/estéticas que rompam com o pragmatismo, com o essencialismo das normas e dos poderes estabelecidos por enunciações e discursos de saberes/verdades/prazeres hegemônicos. Neste contexto, essa dissertação propôs-se mapear os modos como são produzidos os discursos, os desejos e as performances de gêneros e sexualidades dissidentes à heteronormatividade em curtas-metragens brasileiros exibidos durante o Festival Mix Brasil de Cultura da Diversidade – Cinema, Teatro, Música e Literatura, que tenham como protagonistas homens gays. Para tal, utilizamos uma metodologia que buscou dar visibilidade às conexões rizomáticas das linhas que se entrecruzam entre Psicologia, Sexualidades, Gêneros, Desejos e Cinema. Assim, inspiramo-nos nas interlocuções potentes do método genealógico e da técnica da análise do discurso foucaultiana, combinados às perspectivas Queers e o pensamento deleuzeguattariano sobre a produção dos desejos. O campo amostral da pesquisa percorreu os anos de 2008 a 2013, onde foi selecionado para análise um curta-metragem edição/ano, além de entrevista com os organizadores do respectivo Festival. A partir disso observamos que os elementos presentes nos discursos e enunciados destes curta-metragens analisados possibilitam a desconstrução e desnaturalização dos desejos e das (homos)sexualidades dentro de padrões normativos e essencializadores. Todavia, tais curtas apresentam também outros elementos que nos levam a pensar em certa suavização da homocultura nacional retratada nas personagens gays dos curtas-metragens exibidos no Festival Mix Brasil de Cultura da Diversidade, na cidade de São Paulo. / Multiple visibilities and the several possibilities of new experimentations that are often staged on the many stages of social context, regarding sexualities, genders and desires, end up making up aesthetic territories in the realms of arts, such as the cinema, the theater, dancing, etc. These expressions of desires, which oppose to the social stratifications and heteronormative norms, create, as a result, scope for the invention of policies/ethics/aesthetics that will set themselves apart from pragmatism ideals, essentialism norms and power struggles established through discourse related to knowledge/truths/hegemonic pleasures. From this perspective, this study aims to map the means of discourse production, the desires and gender performances and sexual performances associated with the heteronormativity present in Brazilian short films that were exhibited at the Festival Mix Brasil de Cultura da Diversidade – Cinema, Teatro, Música e Literatura (Mix Brasil Culture and Diversity Festival – Cinema, Theater, Music and Literature), which shared a common topic: gay male protagonists. In order to do so, a methodology was used that sought to make visible rhizomatic connections between Psychology, Sexualities, Genders, Desires and Cinema. Thus, powerful dialogues of genealogical method and Foucault's discourse analysis technique were the main inspirations for this dissertation, combined with Queer perspectives and ideas concerning the production of desires conceived by Gilles Deleuze. Samples were taken throughout the years of 2008 to 2013, where one short film was selected for analysis each year, in addition to an interview with the festival organizers. From there, it was observed that the elements present at the discourses and dialogues from the short films enable the deconstruction and denaturalization of desires and (homo) sexualities inside normative and essential standards. However, such short films also showed other elements that may lead us to think about certain mitigation of the national homosexual culture portrayed by the gay characters displayed at the Festival Mix Brasil de Cultura da Diversidade – Cinema, Teatro, Música e Literatura (Mix Brasil Culture and Diversity Festival – Cinema, Theater, Music and Literature), in São Paulo.

The overall purpose of this thesis is to study the association between remittances, socioeconomic status and ties to destination and origin country among immigrants and the second-generation in the UK. The data stem from wave 1 and 4 (2009 and 2013) of the Understanding Society - The UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS). Two Models are specified. The first one is cross-sectional and places an explicit focus on remittances to family and friends. The second Model utilizes longitudinal data to study the dynamics between remittances and employment status. Employment status is the main independent variable in both Models. The main findings harmonize with previous research indicating that while economic factors are important, other factors, for example, family bonds and time since migration, can be of equal weight for the understanding of remittances. Relative to an immigrant, the second generation is found to have significantly lower odds of remitting to family and friends and to remit for any reason. It is likely that an intricate mix of individual capacity, incentives and desires guide the decision to remit, making it a truly multifaceted phenomenon.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s critically acclaimed classic The Great Gatsby, written in 1925, poetically captures the zeitgeist of the roaring twenties, and has attracted considerable attention regarding the depiction of the American dream. Early critics argued that it offered a rendition of the quintessential American dream, claiming that the novel stays true to the dream’s original values. However, this analysis makes an effort to reveal the false materialistic values that corrupt and taint the vision of the original American dream projected in the narrative. More specifically, the analysis attempts to demonstrate that the core values of the American dream are gradually distorted and corrupted throughout the novel. Moreover, the novel is approached through the use of certain psychoanalytic concepts which are concerned with mental processes and constructions of personality. By applying these psychoanalytic concepts to Jay Gatsby, the analysis investigates the gradual perversion of the dream through a number of passages and pivotal moments throughout the novel as to showcase the reasons why the dream is perverted. The analysis concludes that the investigated events in fact demonstrate a gradual perversion of the American dream. Furthermore, the essay showcases a clear causal connection between the disrupted balance in the mental processes within Gatsby and the investigated events. The stressful events that Gatsby experiences prompt certain cognitive responses within Gatsby, causing him to pervert the American dream and its core values.

Museums in Sweden are found to be more and more mission-laden, as they gradually evolve from a custodian role to a visitor-focused socio-cultural institution. In their efforts to live up to their newly acquired role, more and more museums are prompted to inject entrepreneurial mindset and practices into their activity, leading to a nascent interest from the academic field in the possibility offered by entrepreneurship in the context of museums. We identify museums as a unique context motivated by the values and desires of the museum workers, whilst arguing that research on museum entrepreneurship has so far neglected the social aspect of these museum workers. Instead, the popular discourse has generally favored functionalism and positivism. As such, we propose to explore and potentialize an alternative view of entrepreneurship in museums that places the people, along with their values and desires, at its core. To that end, we conduct a case study with the Naval Museum, a governmental museum located in Karlskrona, Sweden. Through an iterative abductive approach inspired by grounded theory method, we shed light on several potentials and phenomena emerging from a combination of the museum workers’ values and the unique context of the Naval Museum. After performing a metamorphosis analysis inspired by Weiskopf and Steyaert, we give birth to child-museum-entrepreneurship, a concept unburdened of preconceptions. We then infuse it with Hjorth’s public entrepreneurship theory and discover a new form of becoming of museum entrepreneurship, potentializing its existence and power of re-creation and opening the door towards a human-centered museum entrepreneurship.

Trackers is a collection of short stories that attest to the oddities and complexities found even in the non-exotic middle-class American suburbs. The characters in these stories experience disappointments that result from the physical and emotional distancing of families. In "Tokens," a woman's attempts at revenge on her cheating husband are unsatisfying because she ends up feeling more alone than before. In "Trackers," eleven-year old Richard hunts for Bigfoot as he and his family cope with the emotional aftermath of his sister's suicide attempt. In these stories people struggle to maintain normalcy in their lives--sometimes through inappropriate means. When their expectations are destroyed, they are forced to deal not only with specific abandonment, but also the reality that the world around them has no knowledge--let alone appreciation--of their personal struggles or fears. Occasionally, however, some good can come from this realization. In "Camilla," a ten-year-old girl learns that she can depend on her own experiences for strength rather than knowledge borrowed from fantasies inspired by a collection of obituaries. A woman recovering from the loss of a romantic relationship strengthens her bond with her young niece in "Cattywampus," and they are both strengthened by the world they share as women in different stages of self-discovery.

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A growing body of research suggests that mindfulness, a receptive attentiveness to one’s present moment experiences, has the potential to adaptively regulate habitual behaviors. No prior study has tested the effect of mindfulness interventions on people’s daily desire experiences to inform the potential for adaptive desire regulation. The present exploratory randomized controlled trial examined the effect of a 14-day smartphone-based mindfulness intervention (versus a coping control intervention) on the frequency, intensity, duration, and enactment of everyday desires in 19 participants. The desire domains included basic need-based desires (i.e., for food, drink, sleep) and secondary desires (e.g., for sex, media, social interactions, work), assessed for 7 days pre- and post-intervention through ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Emotion data collected alongside, also through EMA, permitted examining the role of the mindfulness intervention in altering a potential link between experienced emotion (positive and negative) and desire. Results showed that intervention condition significantly predicted post-intervention desire frequency; those in the mindfulness condition experienced a higher frequency of desires post-training, and specifically, increased secondary desire frequency, but not basic desire frequency. Intervention condition did not predict the other desire outcomes (enactment, strength, or duration). Results also revealed that intervention significant moderated the association between positive emotion and overall desire frequency; those in the mindfulness condition experienced fewer desires when experiencing increased positive emotion, whereas there was no association between positive emotion and desire after coping training. Intervention condition did not moderate associations between positive emotions and other desire variables, or negative emotions and any desire variables.