This research project falls under the broader Apartheid Archives Project. The aim of the project was to collect the narratives of black and white South Africans, of their earliest quotidian or everyday racist experiences. This project focused particularly on the nature of the experiences of racism of (particularly ‘ordinary’) white South Africans under the old apartheid order and their continuing effects on individual and group functioning in contemporary South Africa, especially on the ways in which white South Africans are positioned by racialised discourses and the reproduction of power relations through these positions. The project utilised narratives that were written by white South Africans and were available on the Apartheid Archive Project’s database. In total, the narratives of twelve white, middle-aged, middle class South Africans were analysed using Parker (1992) and Willig’s (2008) guidelines for analysis of the discourses which converge with Foucault’s ideas. This research report gives prominence to the discourses of race present in the narratives of white South Africans which were examined and it also focuses on how racialised discourses offer the narrators different subject positions to occupy in present day South Africa. Three discursive themes were identified, namely rationalising discursive strategies, race and racism discourses and discourses of redemption. Rationalising discursive strategies were found to utilise discourses of innocence, discourses of denial and discourses that avoid complicity. These discourses enabled the narrators to be positioned as victims. Race and racism discourses included othering discourses, discourses of whiteness and discourses of interracial relationships. Through an appeal to these kinds of discourses narrators were able to occupy opposing positions, such as perpetrator, hero, privileged and non-racial. Finally, discourses of redemption were also found to be prominent in the narratives. These comprised of religious discourses and notions of white liberalism. The utilisation of such discourses enabled constructions of the narrators as moral, virtuous and honest.

Nesta tese problematizo os modos de incorporação da Educação Sexual no currículo de licenciatura em Biologia da Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS). Para tanto, busquei articular os campos de estudos de sexualidade e gênero, estudos sobre currículo e os estudos culturais pós-estruturalistas com aporte em teorizações foucaultianas, visando analisar como discursos acerca de sexualidade e gênero atravessam a proposta de Educação Sexual desse currículo. Para produção do material empírico, essa trajetória investigativa envolveu: exame de documentos, como o projeto político pedagógico e a matriz curricular do curso; grupos focais com sete licenciandos/as e/ou recém-licenciados/as em Biologia organizados em três encontros; realização de 14 entrevistas semiestruturadas com os sete participantes do grupo focal e mais sete formandos/as e/ou egressos do curso. A trajetória analítica foi norteada pela análise foucaultiana do discurso, que permitiu descrever os limites e as possibilidades da Educação Sexual incorporada nesse currículo. No primeiro capítulo analítico, questiono ‘o que a biologia tem a enunciar’ sobre sexualidade e gênero. Os ditos dos/as (futuros/as) biólogos/as anunciaram questionamentos, conflitualidades e contradições decorrentes de uma multiplicidade de discursos essencialistas, fundacionalistas e universalistas, que instituem binarismos e normatizações acerca dessas dimensões da vida. Entretanto, um incessante exercício de problematização e desconstrução desses discursos deixou marcas nesse currículo para além do que a Biologia costumava ‘enunciar’, principalmente ao reconhecer sexualidade e gênero como “constructos socioculturais”. Ao argumentar a Educação Sexual como um campo transdisciplinar que engloba discursos sobre sexualidade e gênero, a partir das enunciações dos/as participantes, discuti as (des)conexões entre abordagens biológico-higienistas e sociocultural, bem como problematizei as pedagogias culturais encenadas nesse currículo. Nesse cenário, destaquei os limites e as possibilidades para mudanças e ressignificações, visto que o currículo investigado sugeriu tanto conflitualidades quanto rasuras e deslocamentos decorrentes da problematização de “verdades absolutas” acerca das temáticas da Educação Sexual; principalmente por meio da inclusão das disciplinas Corpo, Gênero e Sexualidade (CGS) e Perspectivas culturais no Ensino de Biologia e Educação, que instigaram acionar um campo discursivo com múltiplas identidades e diferenças ecoantes além da Biologia. Conclusões contingentes e transitórias permitem sintetizar esse processo sociocultural e político ensaiado para uma ressignificação da Educação Sexual “além do biológico”, o que instiga múltiplos questionamentos e (des)aprendizados acerca dos regimes de verdade no campo da Biologia e distintos modos de produção e/ou manutenção de relações de poder que marcam sexualidade e gênero. / In this thesis, I problematize the ways of incorporating Sexual Education in the undergraduate curriculum in Biology of the Federal University of Sergipe (FUS). In order to do so, I sought to articulate the fields of sexuality and gender studies, studies on curriculum and post-structuralist cultural studies with contributions in Foucauldian theorizations, aiming to analyze how discourses about sexuality and gender cross the Sexual Education proposal of this curriculum. For the production of the empirical material, this investigative trajectory involved: examination of documents, such as the pedagogical political project and the curricular matrix of the course; focus groups with seven graduates and/or recent graduates in Biology organized in three meetings; 14 semi-structured interviews with the seven focal group participants and seven other graduates and/or alumnus of the course. The analytical trajectory was guided by the Foucauldian discourse analysis, which allowed us to describe the limits and possibilities of Sexual Education incorporated in this curriculum. In the first analytical chapter, I question ‘what biology has to say’ about sexuality and gender. The sayings of future biologists have raised questions, conflicts and contradictions stemming from a multitude of essentialist, foundational and universalist discourses that institute binarisms and norms about these dimensions of life. However, an incessant exercise in the problematization and deconstruction of these discourses left traces in this curriculum beyond what Biology used to ‘enunciate’, especially when recognizing sexuality and gender as ‘sociocultural constructs’. In arguing Sexual Education as a transdisciplinary field that encompasses discourses on sexuality and gender, from the enunciations of the participants, I discussed the disconnections and connections between biological-hygienist approaches and sociocultural, as well as problematizing the cultural pedagogies staged in this curriculum. In this scenario, I highlighted the limits and possibilities for changes and resignifications, since the curriculum investigated suggested both conflicts and destabilities and displacements resulting from the problematization of “absolute truths” about the themes of Sexual Education; mainly through the inclusion of the disciplines Body, Gender and Sexuality (BGS) and Cultural Perspectives in the teaching of Biology and Education, which instigated a discursive field with multiple identities and echoing differences beyond Biology. Contingent and transient conclusions allow us to synthesize this socio-cultural and political process rehearsed for a re-signification of Sexual Education “beyond the biological”, which instigates multiple questions and learning and/or unlearning about the regimes of truth in the field of Biology and different modes of production and/or maintenance of power relations that mark sexuality and gender.

Submitted by Mariana Dornelles Vargas (marianadv) on 2015-05-08T14:06:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 constituicao_docencia.pdf: 21300070 bytes, checksum: b5e1a21604f66d716d5dbc4e07932667 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-08T14:06:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 constituicao_docencia.pdf: 21300070 bytes, checksum: b5e1a21604f66d716d5dbc4e07932667 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A presente Tese apresenta um diagnóstico crítico das atuais tecnologias de governo que operam na constituição da docência no Ensino Médio no Brasil contemporâneo, servindo-se das teorizações foucaultianas como inspiração analítica. Consideraramse como condições de possibilidade para a constituição da docência no Ensino Médio a centralidade dos saberes tecnocientíficos e o advento das condições do capitalismo cognitivo, bem como a inserção da profissão docente no interior das tramas contemporâneas da bioeconomia. Ao escolher-se a docência no Ensino Médio como problemática investigativa, optou-se por tomar como superfície analítica 45 edições da revista Carta na Escola, publicação da Editora Confiança dirigida aos professores dessa etapa da Educação Básica, distribuídas no período entre 2005 e 2010. O olhar analítico estendido a esse material primou por reconhecê-lo como uma superfície de inscrição das pautas sociais de nosso tempo. A ferramenta analítica colocada em ação foi a governamentalidade, conceito elaborado pelo filósofo Michel Foucault em seus estudos do final da década de 1970. Considerou-se tal conceito como uma noção metodológica, ou seja, como um instrumento para operar sobre uma determinada problemática. Os achados da pesquisa estão organizados a partir da noção de tecnologias de governo. Pensar a partir dessa perspectiva implicou a constituição de uma analítica de governo. Sugere-se que tais tecnologias sejam otimizadoras, na medida em que privilegiam conduzir as ações docentes a estágios elevados de desempenho, assim como se propõem a qualificar suas performances nas tramas do contemporâneo. Enfim, nesta Tese, mostram-se três tecnologias em ação articulada e produtiva: a inovação como um investimento pedagógico permanente, a interatividade como modo de pensamento e a comunidade como espaço de intervenção. A conjunção dessas três tecnologias de governo ? a inovação, a interatividade e as proteções ? demarca a constituição da docência nessa etapa da Educação Básica no Brasil contemporâneo, uma docência politicamente útil e economicamente produtiva. / Using Foucauldian theorizations as analytical inspiration, this thesis presents a critical diagnosis of current government technologies that operate in the constitution of High School teaching in contemporary Brazil. The centrality of techno-scientific knowledges, the emergence of the cognitive capitalism conditions, as well as the insertion of the teaching profession into the contemporary bio-economy networking, have been considered as possibility conditions for the constitution of High School teaching. The study, which has taken High School teaching as its investigation problem, analyzes 45 issues of Carta na Escola magazine published between 2005 and 2010. This magazine, published by Editora Confiança, is meant to teachers working at that level of Basic Education. The analytical approach to this material has attempted to acknowledge it as a surface of inscription of todays prevailing social discourses. Governmentality, a concept created by Michel Foucault in the late 1970's, has been used as an analytical tool. Such concept has been considered as a methodological notion, i.e. as an instrument to operate on a certain problem. The research findings have been organized from the notion of technologies of government. Thinking from that perspective has implied the constitution of a government analysis. It is suggested that such technologies may be optimizing, since they both privilege the conduction of teaching actions towards high performance levels and propose the qualification of performances in contemporaneity. Finally, in this thesis, three technologies have been shown in an articulated, productive action: innovation as a permanent pedagogical investment, interactivity as a way of thinking, and community as an intervention space. The conjunction of those three technologies of government - innovation, interactivity and protections - signalizes the teaching constitution at this level of Basic Education in contemporary Brazil - a kind of teaching that is both politically useful and economically productive.

A presente Dissertação teve por objetivo problematizar a interdisciplinaridade, entendendo que essa tem se constituído em uma das verdades contemporâneas pertencentes ao discurso do campo educacional que teria por objetivo romper, ou minimizar, as fronteiras disciplinares. Neste sentido, as questões que moveram a investigação foram: Quais são as enunciações dos educandos do Curso Licenciatura em Educação do Campo: Ciências da Natureza a respeito da interdisciplinaridade? Que enunciados emergem de tais enunciações? Que efeitos de verdade sugerem? No intuito de responder tais questões entrevistei 32 discentes do curso Licenciatura em Educação do Campo: ciências da natureza – da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – campus Litoral Norte UFRGS/CLN. Para análise e produção do material empírico visitei a oficina de Foucault e recolhi algumas ferramentas conceituais tais como: enunciado, enunciação, discurso e verdade. O exercício analítico sobre o material empírico mostrou que: a) a interdisciplinaridade é adotada como perspectiva para o curso Licenciatura em Educação do Campo porque há alinhamentos entre as enunciações dos pesquisadores vinculados a discussões sobre a educação para os povos do campo e os discursos sobre a Interdisciplinaridade. b) os estudantes, mesmo em um curso interdisciplinar, ainda fazem referência aos campos disciplinares e isto talvez ocorra em virtude do baixo grau de remanência das enunciações interdisciplinares e c) o discurso da interdisciplinaridade tem aditividade com os provenientes do campo da sociologia que se propõe a descrever as condições da sociedade atual. Estas articulações entre os enunciados acabam por fortalecer ambos os discursos, forjando-os como verdades contemporâneas. / The purpose of this dissertation was to problematize interdisciplinarity, understanding that this has become one of the contemporary truths belonging to the discourse of the educational field that would aim to break, or minimize, the disciplinary boundaries. In this sense, the questions that moved the research were: What are the enunciations of the students of the Graduation Course in Field Education: Nature Sciences regarding interdisciplinarity? What statements emerge from such enunciations? What effects do they suggest? In order to answer such questions, I interviewed 32 students of the Undergraduate Course in Field Education: Nature Sciences - from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - North Coast campus UFRGS / CLN. For analysis and production of the empirical material, I visited Foucault's workshop and collected some conceptual tools such as statements , enunciation, speech and truth. The analytical exercise on the empirical material showed that: a) interdisciplinarity is adopted as a perspective for the graduation course in Field Education blecause there are alignments between the enunciations of researchers linked to discussions about education for the rural people and the discourses about the Interdisciplinarity. b) students, even in an interdisciplinary course, still make reference to the disciplinary fields and this may occur because of the low degree of remanence of interdisciplinary utterances and c) the discourse of interdisciplinarity has additivity with those coming from the field of sociology that proposes to describe the conditions of present-day society. These articulations between the statements end up strengthening both discourses, forging them as contemporary truths.

Quais as condições de possibilidade para a emergência dos Estudos Surdos em Educação no Brasil? Esta é a questão central da presente pesquisa, desenvolvida no campo dos Estudos Culturais em Educação. Tal questão reaparece e expande-se no objetivo geral, que consiste em conhecer e analisar as condições de emergência dos Estudos Surdos em Educação no Brasil. A materialidade analítica foi produzida a partir de entrevistas narrativas com pesquisadoras do Núcleo de Pesquisa em Políticas Educacionais para Surdos da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (NUPPES/UFRGS). Os conceitos-ferramenta utilizados para operar as análises são o de narrativa, conforme vem sendo trabalhado no campo dos Estudos Culturais, e a noção de emergência, a partir do pensamento de Michel Foucault. Os objetivos específicos consistem em: 1) analisar os debates educacionais e políticos que configuravam a educação de surdos na metade dos anos de 1990 no país, 2) compreender as condições para emergência da perspectiva cultural sobre os surdos, a surdez e sua educação e 3) investigar o cenário político e acadêmico do PPGEdu/UFRGS e as produções de pesquisas no campo dos Estudos Surdos em Educação A dissertação está organizada em duas partes: I - Condições para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, na qual apresento a aproximação com o tema e questões teórico-metodológicas; e II - Condições de emergência dos Estudos Surdos em Educação no Brasil, na qual apresento a produção do campo a partir das narrativas das pesquisadoras entrevistadas. Para contemplar o primeiro objetivo específico, verifico que a educação de surdos, na metade dos anos de 1990 no país, estava situada no campo da Educação Especial em uma perspectiva clínica e que a luta do movimento surdo era pela oficialização da língua de sinais. Para atender o segundo objetivo, discuto a articulação das áreas da educação e da linguística nas produções da década de 1990 no Brasil como condição de possibilidade para a produção de outros discursos sobre os surdos, a surdez e sua educação. No que tange ao terceiro objetivo, mostro como a produção política e acadêmica no cenário do PPGEdu/UFRGS se constituiu a partir de diferentes linhas teóricas e na articulação entre Universidade, escolas de surdos e movimento surdo. / What are the conditions of possibility for the emergence of the Deaf Studies in Education in Brazil? This is the central question of the present research, which has been carried out in the field of Cultural Studies in Education. Such question reappears and is expanded in the general objective, i.e. to know and analyze the conditions for the emergence of the Deaf Studies in Education in Brazil. The analysis material consisted of narrative interviews with researchers of the Center of Research into Educational Policies for the Deaf at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (NUPPES/UFRGS). The concepts used as tools to perform the analyses are narrative as it has been addressed in the field of Cultural Studies, and the notion of emergence as conceived by Michel Foucault. The specific objectives are the following: 1) to analyze the educational and political debates that molded the deaf education in the middle of the 1990s in the country, 2) to understand the conditions for the emergence of the cultural perspective about the deaf, deafness and their education, and 3) to investigate the political and academic scenario of PPGEdu/UFRGS and the researches carried out in the field of Deaf Studies in Education This dissertation has been divided into two parts: I – Conditions for the research development, in which I present the theme and theoretical-methodological issues; and II – Conditions for the emergence of the Deaf Studies in Education in Brazil, in which I show the production in the field considering the narratives of the interviewed researchers. In order to contemplate the first specific objective, I have found out that deaf education, in the middle of the 1990s in the country, was situated in the field of Special Education from a clinical perspective and that the struggle of the deaf movement was aimed at making the sign language become official. In order to achieve the second objective, I have discussed the articulation of the areas of education and linguistics in 1990’s productions in Brazil as a condition of possibility for the production of other discourses about the deaf, deafness and their education. Regarding the third objective, I have shown how the political and academic production in the scenario of PPGEdu/UFRGS was grounded on both different theoretical lines and the articulation between University, deaf schools and deaf movement.

Interpersonal violence and abuse in New Zealand is so widespread it is considered a normative experience. Mental health nurses witnessing the inscribed effects of abuse on service users are lead to consider whether we are dealing with a breakdown of the mind or a breakdown in social or cultural connection (Stuhlmiller, 2003). The purpose of this research is to examine the cultural context which makes violence and abuse against women and children possible. In 2003, the public debate on prostitution law reform promised to open a space in which discourses on sexuality and violence, practices usually private or hidden, would publicly emerge. Everyday discourses relating to prostitution law reform reported in the New Zealand Herald newspaper in the year 2003 were analysed using Foucauldian and feminist post-structural methodological approaches. Foucauldian discourse analysis emphasises the ways in which power is enmeshed in discourse, enabling power relations and hegemonic practices to be made visible. The research aims were to develop a complex, comprehensive analysis of the media discourses, to examine the construction of harm in the media debate, to examine the ways in which the cultural hegemony of dominant groups was secured and contested and to consider the role of mental health nurses as agents of emancipatory political change. Mental health promotion is mainly a socio-political practice and the findings suggest that mental health nurses could reconsider their professional role, to participate politically as social activists, challenging the social order thereby reducing the human suffering which interpersonal violence and abuse carries in its wake.

This study analyzes the three most recent pieces of Canadian immigration legislation: the Immigration Act of 1952, the Immigration Act of 1976, and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of 2001 (herein referred to collectively as the documents). The intent is to contribute to the archaeology of immigration in Canadian Federal legislation, and more specifically, to the ways that the immigration applicant, immigrant, and the immigration process in Canada, have been constituted over time. This project uses a modified version of Jean Carabine’s (2001) method of Foucauldian discourse analysis to articulate the various meanings and potential effects that are produced in the documents. The work of Michel Foucault and the governmentality approach is then applied to make sense of these findings. Two main conclusions are generated. The first details how elements of state racism and bio-nationalism are apparent in all three acts, and must be regarded as complimentary to one another, as they co-exist and operate together on different planes. The second discusses a shift in the documents from a focus on welfare rationalities, to neo-liberal rationalities, using the example of the shifting portrayal of the immigrant (and immigration applicant) from someone with the potential to become a liability to the welfare state, to a neo-liberal subject.

This study analyzes the three most recent pieces of Canadian immigration legislation: the Immigration Act of 1952, the Immigration Act of 1976, and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of 2001 (herein referred to collectively as the documents). The intent is to contribute to the archaeology of immigration in Canadian Federal legislation, and more specifically, to the ways that the immigration applicant, immigrant, and the immigration process in Canada, have been constituted over time. This project uses a modified version of Jean Carabine’s (2001) method of Foucauldian discourse analysis to articulate the various meanings and potential effects that are produced in the documents. The work of Michel Foucault and the governmentality approach is then applied to make sense of these findings. Two main conclusions are generated. The first details how elements of state racism and bio-nationalism are apparent in all three acts, and must be regarded as complimentary to one another, as they co-exist and operate together on different planes. The second discusses a shift in the documents from a focus on welfare rationalities, to neo-liberal rationalities, using the example of the shifting portrayal of the immigrant (and immigration applicant) from someone with the potential to become a liability to the welfare state, to a neo-liberal subject.

This thesis is an attempt to theorise the therapeutic subjectivity of the 'young sexual abuser'. It falls into two parts. In the first, I make the case for an 'analytic bridging' between Foucauldian and other more broadly sociological perspectives in theorising sexual and therapeutic subjectivities. Specifically, I extend the Foucauldian idea of governmental practices into the therapeutic hour - that is, into the space and tie of therapeutic interaction. At the same tie, I also draw on more sociological readings about the self in interaction, sexuality and gendered embodient - themes which are revisited throughout the thesis when looking at chidhood, therapeutic practices and sexual risk. The second part of the thesis presents an empirical analysis of popular, practice and research accounts of 'problematic' young people and young sexual abusers; interview data with both 'young sexual abusers' and practitioners; and video-recordigs of a therapeutic programme for sexually abusive boys. Through ths analysis, I argue that the therapeutic subjectivity of the young sexual abuser is actually made up of three emergent subjectivities: the risky self, the victi-victiser and the controlled self. The thesis as a whole contributes to debates withn the sociology of chidhood, includig the relationship between gender, generation and sexual risk; to debates about the relationship between social theory and analysis of practice; and to debates about subjectification practices in late modernity, particularly with the gendered therapeutic project of sexual control.

This study analyzes the three most recent pieces of Canadian immigration legislation: the Immigration Act of 1952, the Immigration Act of 1976, and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of 2001 (herein referred to collectively as the documents). The intent is to contribute to the archaeology of immigration in Canadian Federal legislation, and more specifically, to the ways that the immigration applicant, immigrant, and the immigration process in Canada, have been constituted over time. This project uses a modified version of Jean Carabine’s (2001) method of Foucauldian discourse analysis to articulate the various meanings and potential effects that are produced in the documents. The work of Michel Foucault and the governmentality approach is then applied to make sense of these findings. Two main conclusions are generated. The first details how elements of state racism and bio-nationalism are apparent in all three acts, and must be regarded as complimentary to one another, as they co-exist and operate together on different planes. The second discusses a shift in the documents from a focus on welfare rationalities, to neo-liberal rationalities, using the example of the shifting portrayal of the immigrant (and immigration applicant) from someone with the potential to become a liability to the welfare state, to a neo-liberal subject.