Submitted by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2016-09-21T16:16:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Renata Vilela Rodrigues.pdf: 3049901 bytes, checksum: a6dc6735c6b97aaeff0a135c3ee208c8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2016-09-21T16:17:37Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Renata Vilela Rodrigues.pdf: 3049901 bytes, checksum: a6dc6735c6b97aaeff0a135c3ee208c8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-21T16:17:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Renata Vilela Rodrigues.pdf: 3049901 bytes, checksum: a6dc6735c6b97aaeff0a135c3ee208c8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-30 / CAPES / As utilizações de biotecnologias direcionadas à manipulação das células-tronco do cordão umbilical parecem se constituir como novas promessas para a cura de algumas patologias existentes e outras que sequer foram identificadas. Tais biotecnologias acabam por viabilizar modos de subjetividades configuradas como precaucionárias, amedrontadas e empresariais, as quais reivindicam para si o cuidado de sua saúde e a otimização da vitalidade. Na biopolítica contemporânea, as células-tronco do sangue do cordão umbilical fazem parte de uma faceta da capitalização da vida, que consiste em valoração econômica e afetiva dessa parte do corpo. Apoiado nos aportes teórico-metodológicos focaultianos e da Teoria Ator-Rede (ou estudos de Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade), este trabalho tem como objetivo problematizar as estratégias biopolíticas, na contemporaneidade, as quais impulsionam uma capitalização da vida nos bancos públicos e privados de células-tronco do cordão umbilical, com foco no Brasil. Nesses bancos, partes do corpo tornam-se fonte de capital, as quais se ligam a uma rede heterogênea de aparatos biotecnológicos que mobilizam biossocialidades articuladas a políticas de afetividade. Ao depositarem o sangue nos bancos privados e públicos, os pais, na medida em que estão se precavendo contra possíveis doenças futurológicas, apostam e participam dos avanços biotecnológicos da biomedicina e enredam um espaço de troca de informações, de socialidades e de afetividades mediadas principalmente por estratégias de marketing, que, mais do que certezas quanto às utilizações das células umbilicais, fomentam a segregação e as desigualdades sociais, no Brasil. / The uses of biotechnologies directed to manipulation of the umbilical cord stem cells seem to be as new promises for the cure of certain existing conditions and others have even been identified. Such biotechnologies ultimately enable subjectivities modes configured as precaucionárias, frightened and business, which claim for themselves the care of your health and the optimization of vitality. In contemporary biopolitics, the umbilical cord blood stem cells are part of a facet of the capitalization of life, which consists of economic and affective valuation of that part of the body. Supported in focaultianos theoretical and methodological contributions and the Actor-Network Theory (or studies of Science, Technology and Society), this paper aims to discuss the biopolitics strategies, in contemporary times, which drive a market capitalization of life in public and private banks stem cells from umbilical cord, with focus on Brazil. In these banks, body parts become a source of capital, which bind to a heterogeneous network of biotechnical devices that mobilize biossocialidades articulated affectivity policies. To deposit the blood in private and public banks, the parentes are being precautious against possible futurological diseases, and participate in the biotechnological advances in biomedicine and entangle an information exchange space, socialities and affectivity mediated primarily by marketing strategies, which, more than certainties as to the uses of umbilical cells, promote segregation and social inequalities in Brazil.

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This thesis explores the everyday experiences with unemployment and job searching practices in a so-called work club in Northern England. A work club is a place, often a community initiative, where jobseekers who are finding it difficult to look for work independently can go to for support and assistance. These initiatives are encouraged to be set up by volunteers by the UK Department for Work and Pensions and its Jobcentre Plus and are aimed at reducing unemployment levels by helping people apply for jobs. Specifically, the thesis focuses on contemporary job searching practices and asks what Banterby SC work club, the fictional name of the field work location, can tell us about how neoliberal ideologies influence both these job searching practices as well as the way we think about the relationship between employment and citizenship. Work clubs have only received scant academic attention, and this study shows how more in-depth explorations can provide us with some valuable insights. Specifically, because doing so helps us to look beyond policy formulations, framings and imperatives to the implications of neoliberal ideologies in peoples everyday lives. The study uses an iterative inductive ethnographic approach, focusing on one single site field work location, encompassing two hundred hours of field work, during which at least 96 jobseekers have visited the premises of the work club. The study s approach to doing ethnographic fieldwork was based on viewing participant observation as hanging out ; that is, more than merely being somewhere, but rather as engaging and being active in an informal fashion, something that the flexible and unstructured nature of the field work location suited very well. Through this ethnographic, in-depth exploration, then, I do not only explore the observations and findings as offered by some of the previous scholars exploring work clubs, but also seek to connect the findings to Bourdieu s theories of symbolic power/violence as a theoretical framework, which allows us to explore the wider implications of neoliberal governmentalities imposed on jobseekers that influence their everyday practices. This study extends not only our knowledge of the lived experiences of unemployment, but also provides a contemporary insight into work clubs, and how Banterby SC work club has proven to be a valuable site of knowledge about everyday experiences with neoliberal governmentalities toward unemployment and job searching practices. It also extends the application of a symbolic power/violence lens by bringing it together with Foucault s neoliberal governmentalities. Specifically, the study argues that neoliberal governmentalities influencing job searching and unemployment practices are a form of symbolic violence. This approach helps us to problematise job searching practices at work clubs in order to argue for increased critical attention on these sites. Furthermore, the study uncovers the extent to which a welfare system gearing towards a digital by default administration disadvantages many jobseekers who are finding it difficult to work with computers and navigate the internet. The study also addresses and explores to what extent compliance with symbolic power/violence is also shared by staff and volunteers of third sector organisations whose main goal it is to alleviate the burden of unemployment by assisting jobseekers to fulfil their job searching obligations as asked of them by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Jobcentre Plus. Finally, the study calls for more beneficiary-centred voluntary sector research, and proposes a new methodological model for exploring voluntary action and organizations, arguing for a more integrated analysis of the experiences of various actors.