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This dissertation is an exploratory study of the ideas put forward by theorists of post-Development. This current of thought emerged as a radical critique of the Development discourse, proclaiming that no reformulation could change the essential character of it, that being the "Westernisation" of the world. As post-Development's definitions rely on their opposition to what Development represents, from a theoretical point of view as well as in the myriad of behaviours resulting from it, the starting point of the thesis is an analytical account of Development discourse through the various theories that have shaped it during the second half of the 20th century. Other theories that can be considered outside mainstream Development are also analysed as well as those conventionally classified as alternative Development. A whole chapter is then dedicated to thoroughly review the historical unfolding of the Development discourse. The following chapter deals with the ideas put forward by post-Development. It relies on a series of publications identified with this current of thought as well as with information provided by one of its most prominent authors, Dr. Wolfgang Sachs, in an interview conducted by the author of this thesis. It also uses an unpublished manuscript given to the author by Gustavo Esteva, also prominent in the constitution and dissemination of the ideas of post-Development. In an effort to identify whether post-Development has remained at the level of theoretical formulation or if it has informed practices on the ground, research about the activities and underlying beliefs of the Global Barter Network (in Uruguay and in Argentina) and the World Social Forum was undertaken. The field-study, which is presented in the 4th chapter of the thesis, aimed at researching these particular initiatives and draw conclusions with respect to the existence of coincidences with the ideas of post-Development. The dissertation concludes then with an analysis of post-Development's major contributions to the Development debate, of its relationship with already existing practices, of its distinctiveness from alternative Development. It analyses the originality of the post-Development discourse and makes proposals for further research. / Development Studies / D.Litt. et Phil.

Esta é uma etnografia sobre práticas de trabalho que visa a entender os dispositivos presentes na constituição de um tipo específico de trabalhador que emerge na região industrializada no nordeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, no Brasil, conhecida como Serra Gaúcha. A pesquisa coloca em perspectiva uma fábrica de calçados na cidade de Farroupilha. Focalizo as experiências dos trabalhadores migrantes em processo de inserção na fábrica como uma forma estratégica de acompanhar, por meio dos estranhamentos iniciais, as experiências pelas quais passam a incorporar capacidades de ação e propensões para pensar, sentir e emocionar-se naquele contexto. Ao inserirem-se na fábrica, os sujeitos aprendem novas competências para trabalhar que também se tratam de uma competência social. Destaco, nesse contexto, os discursos do mito do imigrante e do mito neoliberal, que convergem e participam das ações dos sujeitos motivados a aderir a práticas econômicas como a intensificação do trabalho. As dinâmicas geridas são parte de acontecimentos econômicos mais amplos de um processo dialético que evidencia os impactos da expansão dos mercados nas circunstâncias materiais, nas práticas culturais e nos novos arranjos espaciais locais que colocam em funcionamento o amplo “sistema” do capitalismo. / This is an ethnography of work practices which intends to understand the present devices in the constitution of a specific kind of worker who emerges in the industrialized region in the northwest of the Rio Grande do Sul state, in Brazil, also known as Serra Gaúcha. The research puts a shoes factory of Farroupilha city into perspective. We focus on migrant workers in process of adaptation as a strategic way to follow the experiences they live, based on the initial unfamiliarity, to incorporate capacity to act and tendency to think, to fell and to become moved in that context. When they become part of the factory, the subjects learn new skills to work which can be considered a social skill. We highlight, in this sense, the speech of the immigrant myth and the neoliberal myth, which converge and take part in the actions of the subjects who are motivated to adhere to the economic practices as work intensification. The managed dynamics are part of broader economic events of a dialectic process which points the impacts of market expansion in material circumstances, in cultural practices and in the new local spatial arrangements which make the large capitalism “system” work.

This ethnography aims to identify the role of the Pentecostal beliefs that peasants in South Brazil use in justifying their life situations. Anthropological data were collected in the Sertão region of Jaguariaíva, in the Brazilian State of Paraná. An interpretative approach was used with concepts including the moral order of peasantness, moral economy, and multiple livelihood strategies. The core results indicated that Pentecostals in the countryside are not monolithic in terms of religion and have varying degrees of engagement with a variety of churches as well as their relations with the wider capitalism. Their economic and life-changing decisions are articulated by a moral order of peasantness expressed by dependence on Providence and the interpretation of events as a revelation of Divine will. The moral order is significant for maintaining viable peasant communities, orienting their relations to land, kinship, work, and consumption in a way that sets them apart from the “world.” Such findings question the Weberian explanations for the role of Pentecostalism in Latin American capitalism and confirm the repeasantization theory concerning the persistence of a distinctive peasant way of life. / Esta etnografia visa identificar o papel das crenças pentecostais com as quais os camponeses do sul do Brasil se expressam para justificar sua subsistência. O trabalho de campo antropológico no Sertão de Jaguariaíva, Paraná, serviu para a coleta de dados. Em uma abordagem interpretativa, a análise emprega conceitos de ordem moral da campesinidade, economia moral e múltiplas estratégias de subsistência. Os principais resultados são: o pentecostalismo rural não é monolítico e conta com diferentes graus de envolvimento com uma variedade de igrejas e com o capitalismo em geral. Não obstante, suas decisões econômicas, ou de grande impacto na vida, são articuladas por uma ordem moral campesina expressa pela espera na providência e pela interpretação de eventos como uma revelação da vontade divina. A ordem moral tem relevância para a manutenção de comunidades camponesas viáveis, orientando suas relações com a terra, o parentesco, o trabalho e o consumo, de modo a distingui-las do “mundo”. Tais resultados juntam-se ao debate das explicações weberianas sobre o papel do pentecostalismo no capitalismo latino-americano e confirmam a teoria do retorno do camponês como categoria e sua persistência como um distinto modo de vida.

Esta é uma etnografia sobre práticas de trabalho que visa a entender os dispositivos presentes na constituição de um tipo específico de trabalhador que emerge na região industrializada no nordeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, no Brasil, conhecida como Serra Gaúcha. A pesquisa coloca em perspectiva uma fábrica de calçados na cidade de Farroupilha. Focalizo as experiências dos trabalhadores migrantes em processo de inserção na fábrica como uma forma estratégica de acompanhar, por meio dos estranhamentos iniciais, as experiências pelas quais passam a incorporar capacidades de ação e propensões para pensar, sentir e emocionar-se naquele contexto. Ao inserirem-se na fábrica, os sujeitos aprendem novas competências para trabalhar que também se tratam de uma competência social. Destaco, nesse contexto, os discursos do mito do imigrante e do mito neoliberal, que convergem e participam das ações dos sujeitos motivados a aderir a práticas econômicas como a intensificação do trabalho. As dinâmicas geridas são parte de acontecimentos econômicos mais amplos de um processo dialético que evidencia os impactos da expansão dos mercados nas circunstâncias materiais, nas práticas culturais e nos novos arranjos espaciais locais que colocam em funcionamento o amplo “sistema” do capitalismo. / This is an ethnography of work practices which intends to understand the present devices in the constitution of a specific kind of worker who emerges in the industrialized region in the northwest of the Rio Grande do Sul state, in Brazil, also known as Serra Gaúcha. The research puts a shoes factory of Farroupilha city into perspective. We focus on migrant workers in process of adaptation as a strategic way to follow the experiences they live, based on the initial unfamiliarity, to incorporate capacity to act and tendency to think, to fell and to become moved in that context. When they become part of the factory, the subjects learn new skills to work which can be considered a social skill. We highlight, in this sense, the speech of the immigrant myth and the neoliberal myth, which converge and take part in the actions of the subjects who are motivated to adhere to the economic practices as work intensification. The managed dynamics are part of broader economic events of a dialectic process which points the impacts of market expansion in material circumstances, in cultural practices and in the new local spatial arrangements which make the large capitalism “system” work.

Esta é uma etnografia sobre práticas de trabalho que visa a entender os dispositivos presentes na constituição de um tipo específico de trabalhador que emerge na região industrializada no nordeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, no Brasil, conhecida como Serra Gaúcha. A pesquisa coloca em perspectiva uma fábrica de calçados na cidade de Farroupilha. Focalizo as experiências dos trabalhadores migrantes em processo de inserção na fábrica como uma forma estratégica de acompanhar, por meio dos estranhamentos iniciais, as experiências pelas quais passam a incorporar capacidades de ação e propensões para pensar, sentir e emocionar-se naquele contexto. Ao inserirem-se na fábrica, os sujeitos aprendem novas competências para trabalhar que também se tratam de uma competência social. Destaco, nesse contexto, os discursos do mito do imigrante e do mito neoliberal, que convergem e participam das ações dos sujeitos motivados a aderir a práticas econômicas como a intensificação do trabalho. As dinâmicas geridas são parte de acontecimentos econômicos mais amplos de um processo dialético que evidencia os impactos da expansão dos mercados nas circunstâncias materiais, nas práticas culturais e nos novos arranjos espaciais locais que colocam em funcionamento o amplo “sistema” do capitalismo. / This is an ethnography of work practices which intends to understand the present devices in the constitution of a specific kind of worker who emerges in the industrialized region in the northwest of the Rio Grande do Sul state, in Brazil, also known as Serra Gaúcha. The research puts a shoes factory of Farroupilha city into perspective. We focus on migrant workers in process of adaptation as a strategic way to follow the experiences they live, based on the initial unfamiliarity, to incorporate capacity to act and tendency to think, to fell and to become moved in that context. When they become part of the factory, the subjects learn new skills to work which can be considered a social skill. We highlight, in this sense, the speech of the immigrant myth and the neoliberal myth, which converge and take part in the actions of the subjects who are motivated to adhere to the economic practices as work intensification. The managed dynamics are part of broader economic events of a dialectic process which points the impacts of market expansion in material circumstances, in cultural practices and in the new local spatial arrangements which make the large capitalism “system” work.

Après avoir présenté les prestations qui composent les foires de troc dans les Andes argentines en mobilisant les concepts de l'anthropologie économique (le don et l'échange éventuellement monétaire, marchand ou lucratif), je me tourne vers l'anthropologie religieuse, et précisément le concept de ritualisation, pour saisir les spécificités de ces transactions extraordinaires. Dans une optique comparative, j'examine les foires organisées par les institutions locales de développement à la lumière de ce même cadre d'analyse. / Doctorat en sciences sociales, Orientation anthropologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This ethnographic research examines socioeconomic vulnerabilities to resettlement from a large hydropower dam and agricultural commodification in a Tibetan village in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. After providing an initial background on the dynamics of the research region and hydrodevelopment on its rivers, the research framework of examining vulnerability through a lens of political ecology and local knowledge is outlined. Utilizing this framework, the socioeconomic strategies surrounding agriculture and commodified forest products within the study village are initially outlined through the use of oral histories, previous literature, and quantitative household survey data. After providing a detailed background on these income strategies, vulnerabilities to resettlement are examined through qualitative analysis of individual household interviews. This analysis shows that village households are highly reliant on the village's specific location in order to collect the resources and pursue the agriculture that they do; making them vulnerable to future resettlement. The analysis also shows that in the opinions of villagers, a good standard of living is significantly defined by their ability to pursue specific economic strategies. Next, interview results are analyzed to show how agricultural commodification and a very high reliance on one government sponsored company to purchase crops has also made the village highly vulnerable economically. The thesis concludes with reflections on future hydrodevelopment and resettlement scenarios within the village, and provides recommendations to improve local level resilience and promote better capacity to adapt to change. / Graduation date: 2013

Mozambique is undergoing intensive socio-economic reforms to reconstruct war damages and develop the nation. The reforms consist of economic liberalisation through structural adjustment and monetarist economic stabilisation, e.g. government withdrawal from economic activities, privatisation, deregulation, reduction of tariff levels on imports and tax on investments, cuts of expenditure on social services, restrictive credit system, focus on monetarism, increased taxation on individual income, etc. The nature of these reforms, on the surface, leads to morally questionable conditions. There is social chaos and disintegration, high indices of corruption, subtle recolonisation, decline of civil services, etc. At the bottom lie the market ethics and fundamentalist theological discourse by dint of which the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund deny historical consciousness, lack institutional memory, vest themselves with unquestionable international authority, dictate and impose policies without accountability for the social consequences. If there is any hope for Mozambicans, it lies in development ethics which relies heavily on the liberation motif, historical consciousness, and African Heritage. / Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Theological Ethics)

Mozambique is undergoing intensive socio-economic reforms to reconstruct war damages and develop the nation. The reforms consist of economic liberalisation through structural adjustment and monetarist economic stabilisation, e.g. government withdrawal from economic activities, privatisation, deregulation, reduction of tariff levels on imports and tax on investments, cuts of expenditure on social services, restrictive credit system, focus on monetarism, increased taxation on individual income, etc. The nature of these reforms, on the surface, leads to morally questionable conditions. There is social chaos and disintegration, high indices of corruption, subtle recolonisation, decline of civil services, etc. At the bottom lie the market ethics and fundamentalist theological discourse by dint of which the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund deny historical consciousness, lack institutional memory, vest themselves with unquestionable international authority, dictate and impose policies without accountability for the social consequences. If there is any hope for Mozambicans, it lies in development ethics which relies heavily on the liberation motif, historical consciousness, and African Heritage. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Theological Ethics)