Submitted by Suelen Reis (suziy.ellen@gmail.com) on 2013-04-17T18:54:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Friedrich Sieringseg.pdf: 4292669 bytes, checksum: 083ce929411bb11c9eaaa0d36251842c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Meirelles(rodrigomei@ufba.br) on 2013-05-24T11:41:37Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Friedrich Sieringseg.pdf: 4292669 bytes, checksum: 083ce929411bb11c9eaaa0d36251842c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-24T11:41:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Friedrich Sieringseg.pdf: 4292669 bytes, checksum: 083ce929411bb11c9eaaa0d36251842c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Essa dissertação procura estudar o processo de conquista e dominação dos povos indígenas no sertão da Capitania da Bahia, especificamente no sertão dos Maracás entre 1650 e 1701. No processo de enfrentamento dos indígenas as frentes coloniais tiveram de utilizar de diversos artifícios para compreender os grupos que se opunham tão ferozmente à conquista. Dentre estes artifícios foi necessário buscar a aliança entre os grupos silvícolas para combater-los, pois o processo colonial favoreceu a criação de alianças entre grupos indígenas tradicionalmente inimigos com o objetivo de se resistir à conquista e dominação dos portugueses. Tais alianças constituíam inovações do processo colonial, ao ocorrer tanto com os colonizadores (as muralhas do sertão), quanto entre os indígenas, resultando num processo de etnificação dos grupos indígenas que tanto podiam (re)elaborar as suas identidades dentro das aldeias no sertão, quanto nos aldeamentos do litoral. Nos dois casos o que estes grupos estão buscando é o resistir e o viver dentro da sociedade colonial. / Salvador

What is the political significance of affiliation with voluntary associations for people with and without foreign backgrounds in Sweden? Does associational affiliation offer an opportunity to influence the political decision-making process for those otherwise disfavoured in terms of political resources? Or does it rather aggravate the political marginalisation of people with foreign backgrounds? This thesis is based on two large-scale surveys that have been designed explicitly to deal with questions of this sort. It is shown that there are substantial differences in associational affiliation between people with and without foreign backgrounds. Interestingly, these differences are strongly correlated with patterns of ethnification and ethnic discrimination in Swedish society. Individuals who have migrated to Sweden from Western Europe and North America participate in voluntary associations to the same extent as native Swedes. In contrast, the levels of associational affiliation are consistently lower among people who have migrated to Sweden from other parts of the world, even controlling for age, education, occupation and other potentially important factors. The study supports the widely held notion that there is a positive causal relation between associational affiliation and political participation. However, this seems to be true only with regard to certain forms of political participation and only seldom to such an extent that differences in associational affiliation can be said to strongly affect the relative levels of political engagement of people with and without foreign backgrounds. In particular, the observed differences in associational affiliation seem to have little to do with the often debated marginalisation of immigrants in the electoral arena. / Etnisk organisering och politisk integration i storstaden

This thesis concerns how identity among young people (aged 16-19) living in a multicultural area in Stockholm is made relevant. The aim is to analyse the identities that arise in situated interaction between young people and their peer group and with other people in their everyday life. The material consists of arranged four-party conversations, interviews and audio tapes made by the young people themselves of everyday activities at school and during their leisure time. In the study, identity is perceived as being made relevant thorough dialogue. Identity is also seen as a strategic and flexible tool available to the individual for positioning him- or herself in a particular situation and for expressing solidarity and distance on the micro level. A topic analysis of the arranged four-party conversations shows that the young people proceed following a global structure of topics, making it possible to discern a super topic for each conversation. The types of topics chosen show similarities and can be presented as ethnicity-related, school-related and related to the setting of the recording. The preoccupation with ethnicity-related topics is partly seen as a response to the investigation itself, making double positioning necessary for the participants. An analysis of the pronoun vi 'we' is aimed at making visible the groups that the young people include themselves in and their positioning vis-à-vis each other. The situationally inclusive 'we' and the situationally in- and exclusive 'we' are used to regulate and modify conversations. The extended inclusive 'we' makes categorisations like classmate, Swede and immigrant relevant. An analysis of the ethnifications shows that ethnic identities are closely connected to the micro level and arise in contrast to or in comparison with other participants or groups outside the conversations. Ethnic identities and school-related identities are often resisted in the material. Resistance is seen as an interactional way of levelling the unequal relations that categorisation produces. It is also considered a reflection of their shared reality being just as important as the differences generated by categorisation. An intra-individual study of three young people in different everyday situations provides evidence that ethnic identities are flexible, context-sensitive and made relevant depending to a large degree on the participants at the situation at hand.

This study explores the relationship between international intervention and the ethnification of politics and seeks to explain the degree to which international involvement affects the degree of ethnification of politics. Deriving from explanations that suggest that the ethnification of politics is attributed to the greater interethnic trust facilitated through credible institutions, this study argues that the ethnification of politics is lower in cases where the greater involvement by the international intervention in local institution-building can be observed. Using the method of structure focused comparison, the suggested hypothesis is tested on two cities in Bosnia and Hercegovina – Mostar and Sarajevo. Data was collected through a manual empirical analysis and the tracing of historical institution-building actions by the international community in each city. The main finding shows relative support for the causal relationship; however, the observed causal mechanism is different to the expected one. This signals that the degree of international involvement in local institution-building processes cannot, in isolation, explain variation on the ethnification of politics. Thus, further research is needed to both identify additional causal factors and build the interaction effects that can explain the observed variation.

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