Esta dissertação analisa os discursos sobre as práticas dos repetidores de classe em documentos do acervo do Instituto Nacional de Educação de Surdos (INES) no período de 1855 a 1910 que incidem atualmente na atuação dos tradutores-intérpretes de língua de sinais (TILS) no Brasil. Para isso, inspiro-me na noção de discurso de Michel Foucault (1984, 2006, 2008, 2012). Os discursos produzem práticas e constituem modos de ser e de atuar no mundo. Para tratar sobre o TILS, apresento estudos das pesquisadoras Quadros (2004), Rosa (2005) e Santos (2006, 2013), as quais abordam, entre outros temas, algumas histórias que possibilitaram a emergência dessa profissão. Esses estudos são abordados ao longo do trabalho, além de outras leituras com as quais dialogo nesta dissertação, como Rocha (2008, 2009) e Lobo (2008), e as produções realizadas pela Série Histórica do Instituto Nacional de Educação de Surdos publicadas em 2011. Para refletir sobre o contexto da educação, utilizo Faria-Filho (2000), Schueler e Magaldi (2008), Mazzota (2003) e Jannuzzi (2006). Também reflito com as pesquisas de Martins (2008; 2013) e Nantes (2012), que desenvolveram estudos sobre os TILS no campo dos Estudos Foucaultianos. Além do comentador Veiga-Neto (2003, 2006, 2009 e 2012), inspiro-me nos textos de Fischer (2001, 2012) e Castro (2009) para a construção das unidades discursivas. Para as análises, foram extraídos excertos dos documentos, os quais foram agrupados pelas recorrências discursivas em três conjuntos temáticos que tratam sobre a atuação dos repetidores. Esses agrupamentos constituem as unidades de análise, que nomeei como: 1) Discursos morais: sujeitos de boa índole e de bons costumes – nessa unidade, apresento excertos que abordam a questão da exigência de profissionais moralmente aptos para assumir a função de repetidor; 2) Discursos profissionais: a formação pela convivência – unidade formada por excertos que traçam perfis, formações específicas e processos seletivos para o desempenho da função; e 3) Discursos jurídicos: a condução das condutas pelas leis – excertos que se referem a documentos legais que visavam à regulação, ao controle e à condução da atuação dos repetidores. Também faço uma contextualização das condições históricas, políticas e educacionais do Brasil no período que compreende Império e início da República, a fim de apresentar os discursos sobre as práticas dos repetidores de classe. Moralidade, idoneidade e convivência estão entre as principais exigências e hoje são verdades que atravessaram os tempos e incidem diretamente na atuação dos TILS em nosso país. / This dissertation considers the notion of discourse as proposed by Michel Foucault (1984, 2006, 2008, 2012) and analyzes discourses about teaching assistants’ practices found in documents from the files of the National Institute of Deaf Education (INES) from 1855 to 1910 that currently affect the work performed by sign language translators and interpreters (SLTIs) in Brazil. Discourses produce practices and constitute ways of being and acting in the world. In order to address SLTIs, I have used studies carried out by Quadros (2004), Rosa (2005) and Santos (2006, 2013), who have approached, among other topics, some stories that have enabled the emergence of that occupation. Those studies have been addressed along this dissertation, besides other authors that I have considered, such as Rocha (2008, 2009) and Lobo (2008), and productions of the Historical Series of the National Institute of Deaf Education published in 2011. In order to reflect on the education context, I have used works by Faria-Filho (2000), Schueler & Magaldi (2008), Mazzota (2003) and Jannuzzi (2006). I have also reflected with the help from Martins (2008; 2013) and Nantes (2012), who developed studies on SLTIs in the field of Foucauldian Studies. Besides the commentator Veiga-Neto (2003, 2006, 2009, 2012), I have been inspired by texts written by Fischer (2001, 2012) and Castro (2009) for the construction of discursive units. For the analyses, excerpts were taken from documents, which were grouped according to discursive recurrences in three thematic sets dealing with the performance of teaching assistants. The groups constitute the analysis units, which I have named as: 1) Moral discourses: good-natured, moral subjects - in this unit, I have presented excerpts approaching the requirement of morally suited professionals to take on the function of teaching assistants; 2) Professional discourses: education through living together - unit formed by excerpts that trace profiles, specific education and selective processes for the performance of the function; and 3) Juridical discourses: the conduction of conducts by laws - excerpts related to legal documents that aimed at regulating, controlling and guiding the teaching assistants’ action. I have also contextualized the historical, political and educational conditions of Brazil in the period ranging from the Empire to the beginning of the Republic, in order to evidence the discourses about the teaching assistants’ practices. Morality, integrity and living together are some of the major requirements that today are truths that have crossed time and directly incide on SLTI’s action in this country.

This thesis aims to understand the connexions between the ethical practices associated with suffering a chronic illness and possibilities of truth, subjectivity, governmentality and freedom. This is attempted via an analysis of the specific case of HIV/AIDS. In the 1980s there emerged a variety of competing ways to construct the truth of HIV/AIDS. By the early 1990s, however, one particular way of thinking about and problematizing the syndrome - an account which reflected less the repressive intentions and perspectives of recently ascendant neo-liberal governments than the efforts and world-views of grass-roots community activism - had achieved ascendancy. This approach to HIV/AIDS remains today the authoritative one, and that from which expertise on the subject is derived. The emergence to pre-eminence of this way of thinking about HIV/AIDS is mapped, and three of its principal manifestations are examined in detail, using techniques of textual analysis. It is argued that within these texts, through the use of various forms of textual management, ethical subject relations of the sort discussed by Foucault are constructed, which delimit the possibilities of being for those who are touched by the disease, and which comprise elements of an ethico-panoptic regulatory technology. The parallels and differences between the technologies of government articulated via these 'community' based discourses and those of recent neo-liberal discourses are explored, with consideration being given to their implications for the practising of resistance and of freedom by people infected or affected by HIV or AIDS. Engagement with the field in this fashion is uncommon within sociology of HIV/AIDS, and to do so raises a variety of conceptual and methodological issues. Hence, within this thesis the task of interrogating HIV/AIDS discourse is radically linked to the construction of a distinct form of sociology, derived from the Foucauldian project of the 'history of the present'.

BDSM (bondage, discipline/dominance, submission/sadism and masochism) has recently gained greater visibility in dominant discourses around sexuality. However, these depictions are often constructed in rigid ways to typically exclude experiences of sexual intimacy. Despite this apparent exclusion, constructions of subspace (an altered mental state induced through BDSM encounters) on online blogs intrigued me to consider it as an alternative to widely accepted notions of sexual intimacy. Using a poststructuralist theoretical framework, I conducted an online ethnographic study in which I explored the varied ways in which self-identified South African BDSM individuals construct meaning around sexual intimacy. Through a Foucauldian discourse analysis, I consider how constructions of intimacy in the BDSM community might have been silenced through exclusionary definitions in dominant discourses. I identified four discourses in the text: A discourse of romantic vulnerability, a discourse of knowledge, a discourse of difference/sameness and a discourse of role differentiation. The findings suggest that BDSM practitioners, in constructing meaning around intimacy, at times comply with dominant discourses and at other times subvert normative ideas around sexuality, gender and sexual intimacy. I conclude with implications for gender and sexuality studies as well as the discipline of psychology in its engagement with BDSM identities and practices. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / Psychology / Unrestricted

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.

Shalom Schwartz invented the theory of Basic Human Values in 1987 – based on a study in which the quantitative data he collected, had been organised within an obscure manner. His theory has been validated and positioned as the universal way all individuals organise their values on a personal and cultural level, and has been researched in over 70 countries. South African researchers have however found significant challenges in replicating Schwartz's model within this multi-cultural society, and have ascribed the difficulties to ‘unintended item biases' within Schwartz's measurement instruments. This has been observed when utilising two different measurement instruments, as well as when further assessing ‘finer' sub-value types. A viable quantitative trend in utilising non-verbal assessment techniques has emerged, but has not been adapted for adults yet. In addition, Schwartz's theory has largely only been explored from a quantitative perspective, since its inception in 1987. Only four qualitative studies could be traced within Values-research which all highlighted a different way values were constructed and ordered, through utilising psycho-lexical research methodology. This type of research methodology does not necessarily highlight the effect of socio-economic and educational disparities within its participant's constructions, which Schwartz' highlighted a possible effect within South African research efforts. This study utilised a Social Constructionist approach known as Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to assist in deconstructing the ecology of values-talk from South African participants' linguistic expressions. Four focus group discussions were conducted across four different racial groups (White; Black; Indian and Coloured), as a means for unlocking the different discourses which govern the different ways in which South Africans ‘talk' about personal values. The analysis uncovered five different discourses which were activated and replicated throughout discussions – when constructing values which embraced participants socio-economic and educational positions. These discourses seemed to function in a complimentary and opposing nature at times, depending on the value being discussed. These constructions were compared to Schwartz's Basic Human Values model, and similarities and differences in constructions were discussed. In addition, the research findings were scrutinised to see how they could inform future qualitative research efforts to further explore how Schwartz's Basic Human Values model is ‘lived'. Finally, the study discusses its limitations and various considerations researchers would need to employ, when considering applying non-verbal assessment methodology within an abstract topic like values. / Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2017. / Human Resource Management / MCom / Unrestricted

There is a scholar consensus that girls have been marginalized in childhood studies. Taking into account the gender effect in constructing different childhoods for boys and girls this thesis explores the frontiers of girlhood. Girlhood as being abandoned and not perceived in the here and now is constructed only in the future, namely in the frames of femininity and womanhood. This initiates pathology in the lives of girls. This thesis through film representation explored new constructions of girlhood. Two films Barbie as Rapunzel and Tangled based in the fairy tale of Rapunzel were explored through Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. The discursive constructions, the “preppy” girl and the “alternative” girl emerged accordingly as the versions of the “authentic” girl that is searching for her identity and leading to the “self-regulated” girl discourse as a way to reconstruct girlhood.These discursive constructions can be used in the reorientation of girlhood as they unravel the necessities that exist in girl studies.

This dissertation focuses on the following questions: 1) What is the structure of the Korean sport for international development discourse? 2) How are the historical transformations of particular rules of formation manifested in the discourse of Korean sport for international development? 3) What knowledge, ideas, and strategies make up Korean sport for international development? And 4) what are the ways in which these components interact with the institutional aspirations of the Korean government, directed by the official development assistance goals, the foreign policy and diplomatic agenda, and domestic politics? To address these research questions, I focus my analysis on the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and its 30 years of expertise in designing and implementing sport and physical activity–related programs and aid projects. For this research project, I collected eight different sets of KOICA documents published from 1991 to 2017 as primary sources and two different sets of supplementary documents including government policy documents and newspaper articles. By using Foucault’s archaeology and genealogy as methodological frameworks, the analysis highlights how KOICA sport has functioned for three decades as 1) an international development tool, 2) a diplomacy tool, and 3) a domestic policy tool of the Korean state. The conclusion focuses on 1) the relevance of findings to the larger context of SFD, sport diplomacy, and domestic policy and political literature; 2) additional cases demonstrating the ways other nations might employ sport for political purposes, in comparison with KOICA sport; 3) KOICA sport’s potential future as an alternative to Korean SFD and future direction of my research journey toward a big picture of East Asian SFD.

This study investigates how Greenpeace, a non-profit environmental organization, and Preem, a for-profit fuel company, construct sustainability in their external communication. Through Foucauldian discourse analysis, we explore the interests, values, and discursive strategies employed by Greenpeace and Preem and how they shape sustainability discourses. Our findings reveal distinct perspectives on sustainability: Greenpeace emphasizes vast and complex environmental issues such as climate change, pollution, and destruction of nature, advocating for radical societal changes and global solutions. Aligning with the dominant sustainability discourse, Greenpeace strategically leverages its legitimacy to promote an alternative discourse. On the other hand, Preem opposes the holistic discourse of Greenpeace, advocating for incremental reform and technological innovation within the existing politico-economic system. Thus, both organizations assert their authority and employ discursive strategies to legitimize their interests. Greenpeace portrays sustainability as a struggle, underscoring the need for collective action, while Preem presents sustainability as a journey, emphasizing individual responsibility in line with a neoliberal ideology. Our research contributes to our understanding of sustainability discourses in organizational communication. It sheds light on how different actors strategically construct and communicate sustainability messages, focusing on the ideological foundations, values, and interests that underlie these discourses. By enhancing our understanding of discourse transformation in shaping legitimate sustainability actions, our findings have implications for policymakers, researchers, and society at large.

Tourism visits to sites associated to varying degrees with death and dying have for some time inspired academic debate and research into what has come to be popularly described as ‘dark tourism’. Research to date has been based on the mobilisation of various social scientific methodologies to understand issues such as the motivations of visitors to consume dark tourism experiences and visitor interpretations of the various narratives that are part of the consumption experience. This thesis offers an alternative conceptual perspective for carrying out research into museums that represent genocide and occupation by presenting a discourse analysis of five Lithuanian museums which share this overchig theme using Foucault’s concept of ‘discursive formation’ from ‘Archaeology of Knowledge’. A constructivist methodology is therefore applied to locate the rhetorical representations of Lithuanian and Jewish subject positions and to identify the objects of discourse that are produced in five museums that interpret an historical era defined by occupation, the persecution of people and genocide. The discourses and consequent cultural function of these museums is examined and the key finding of the research proposes that they authorise a particular Lithuanian individualism which marginalises the Jewish subject position and its related objects of discourse into abstraction. The thesis suggests that these museums create the possibility to undermine the ontological stability of Holocaust and the Jewish-Lithuanian subject which is produced as an anomalous, ‘non-Lithuanian’ cultural reference point. As with any Foucauldian archaeological research, it cannot be offered as something that is ‘complete’ since it captures only a partial field, or snapshot of knowledge, bound to a specific temporal and spatial context. The discourses that have been identified are perhaps part of a more elusive ‘positivity’ which is salient across a number of cultural and political surfaces which are ripe for a similar analytical approach in future. It is hoped that the study will motivate others to follow a discourse-analytical approach to research in order to further understand the critical role of museums in public culture when it comes to shaping knowledge about ‘inconvenient’ pasts.

Esta dissertação problematiza o discurso da expertise neurocientífica no que se refere à produção de verdade acerca da caracterização de uma ética, uma moral e uma ontologia humana a partir da concepção das Neurociências. Inspirado no referencial teóricometodológico que Gilles Deleuze denominou de cartografia foucaultiana e na arqueologia de Foucault, o estudo tem como objetivo examinar e descrever o discurso midiatizado das Neurociências – designado como neurodiscurso –, no que tange ao objeto da pesquisa, e mapear diagramas de poder entre práticas discursivas e meios não discursivos relacionados com a dispersão do neurodiscurso nas práticas culturais e políticas da contemporaneidade. A problematização é derivada da trilogia foucaultiana saber-poder-si e das três esferas derivadas da concepção de biopoder contemporâneo, tal como apresentado por Paul Rabinow e Nikolas Rose: discursos experts verdadeiros; jogos de poder; modos de subjetivação. Os referenciais do campo da Saúde Mental Coletiva, a problematização acerca da moral realizada por Friedrich Nietzsche e a concepção de biopolítica proposta por Nikolas Rose também irão compor o solo epistemológico e dar subsídios às análises. Como corpus foram selecionadas para análise entrevistas de neurocientistas publicadas em páginas digitais de veículos de comunicação de ampla divulgação. Os enunciados selecionados foram reinterpretados a partir de determinadas formações discursivas. A designação humano demasiado orgânico, aqui, é tomada para dar visibilidade ao emergente modo de o ser humano pensar, interpretar, julgar e definir a si mesmo a partir de uma compreensão somática. Esse processo, no âmbito das Neurociências, tem sido identificado por diferentes autores como a aparição de uma nova figura antropológica, que busca redefinir filosoficamente a concepção de humanidade: o Sujeito Cerebral. O discurso das Neurociências tem constituído uma dada política de verdade acerca da ontologia humana por meio de fluxos de poder entre distintos domínios: um saber delimitado historicamente, o Cerebralismo; sua dispersão na cultura – as Neuroculturas; sua versão como estratégia biopolítica – as Neuropolíticas; a configuração de uma determinada figura de humanidade: o Homo neuronal; o surgimento de novos modos de subjetivação e de práticas sociais individuais e coletivas: o Sujeito Cerebral, as neuroasceses, e as neurossociabilidades – e um determinado projeto teleológico, denominado por Lucien Sfez como utopia da saúde perfeita. Como a caracterização desse discurso em larga medida tem sido atravessado pelo ideário biopolítico neoliberal, a problematização deste estudo evoca a recusa a formas de subjetividades coercitivas que correspondam a projetos reducionistas e totalitários de poder, e enseja a abertura a perspectivas ontológicas que criem novas possibilidades de compreensão de si e à invenção de formas de vida não fascistas. / This thesis discusses the discourse of neuroscience expertise with regard to the production of truth about the characterization of an ethics, a moral and a human ontology from the Neuroscience framework. Inspired by the theoretical framework that Gilles Deleuze called Foucauldian cartography and in Foucault's archeology, the study aims to examine and describe the mediatized discourse of Neuroscience – designated as neurodiscourse – with respect to the object of the research, and to map power diagrams between discursive practices and not discursive means related to the dispersion of the neurodiscourse in the cultural and political practices of contemporaneity. The questioning is derived from Foucault's trilogy knowledge-power-self and the three spheres derived from the notion of contemporary biopower as presented by Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose: true expert speeches; power games; modes of subjectivity. Works from the field of Public Mental Health, the questioning about the moral performed by Friedrich Nietzsche and the concept of biopolitics proposed by Nikolas Rose will also compose the epistemological ground and support analysis. As corpus were selected for analysis interviews with neuroscientists published in digital pages of full disclosure from media companies. The selected statements were reinterpreted from certain discursive formations. The designation human too organic, here, is taken to give visibility to the emerging ways humans think, interpret, judge and define itself from a somatic understanding. This process, in the context of Neuroscience, has been identified by different authors as the appearance of a new anthropological figure, which seeks to redefine the philosophical conception of humanity: the Cerebral Subject. The discourse of Neuroscience has given determined truth policy about human ontology through power flows between different areas: a knowledge delimited historically, cerebralism; its spread in the culture – the neurocultures; his version as biopolitics strategy – Neuropolitics; the settle of a determined figure of humanity: Homo neuronal; the emergence of new forms of subjectivity and individual and collective social practices: the Cerebral Subject, the neuroasceses, and neurosociabilities – and a certain teleological project, named by Lucien Sfez as utopia of perfect health. Since the characterization of this discourse to a large extent has been crossed by the ideology neoliberal biopolitics, the questioning of this study evokes the refusal to forms of coercive subjectivities that match reductionist and totalitarian projects of power, and entails the opening to ontological perspectives that create new possibilities for understanding of the self and the invention of non-fascist life forms.