This thesis explores the relationship between development representations and diaspora audiences. It brings together literature on representations, with concepts of audience, diaspora and identity to provide an in-depth study of how and with what effects, visual representations of development in NGO fundraising campaigning that depict Africa, impact on Nigerian diaspora audiences. This study challenges the tendency in much of development literature in this field to homogenise British audiences of NGO communication. This has imagined audiences as some form of monocultural Western-situated community, coextensive with the 'general' British public. It further assumes audiences read, interpret and are impacted by NGO representations in very similar ways. This assumption precludes critical engagement with the complexities and particularities of audiences and is unable to reflect the multiple and differentiated ways in which audiences think, feel and behave in response to development representations. By using focus group discussions with UK Nigerian diaspora audiences, one-to-one interviews and online-ethnography as the methodological tool, and postcolonialism as an analytical framing, this thesis reveals the complex and contested ways that individual diaspora subjectivities, positionalities and life experiences are implicated in their construal of development representations and the perspicuity of their impact. One of the key findings of this study is that development representations impact African diaspora audiences in diverse and complicated ways, that both reproduce and contradict negative and, stereotypical 'ways of seeing' and knowing Africa. Furthermore, it highlights how diaspora ethno-racial/cultural identities affect, and are implicated in, the reading and interpretation of development representations of Africa. Indeed, diaspora audiences affirm and challenge their connections or, lack thereof, with their country of origin through these representations. Moreover, the study shows how NGO development representations provide symbolic spaces from which diaspora audiences can articulate their identities as well as, forge relationships among themselves and with their wider communities. This study builds on Stuart Hall's ([1973]1980) Encoding/Decoding theorisation on audiences, by demonstrating that Nigerian diaspora audiences of development representations are sophisticated, varied and paradoxical in how they interpret and decipher media representations. Indeed, their socio-cultural positioning, personal histories and lived-experiences inform and shape how they discursively construct perceptions and knowledge of their place of origin through representations. Furthermore, it contributes to postcolonial theorisations of hybridity in diaspora identities, by showing that Nigerians strategically adopt new and preferential ethnosymbolic identities, in response to representations. These re-configurations of the Diaspora 'Self' are neither stable or consistent but are nonetheless utilised by Nigerians to subvert development representations and harmful public perceptions and stereotypes about Africans that they shape.

Saber-realidade: das prescrições aos desejos de constituir docências na Educação Matemática Contemporânea é uma dissertação de mestrado que trata da docência. Sua analítica - pautada nos escritos de Michel Foucault, com pinceladas de Friedrich Nietzsche - aponta para um efeito de verdade no contemporâneo: o uso pedagógico da realidade. No percurso analítico de nosso trabalho, tencionamos o aparecimento desse uso como um saber sobre a docência. Para tal exercício, analisamos excertos da etnomatemática, principalmente os produzidos a partir dos estudos de educador matemático Ubiratan D’Ambrósio para pensarmos o surgimento do discurso da realidade no campo educacional da matemática como uma verdade, apontando, assim, para o que denominamos de saber-realidade. No momento seguinte, nos debruçamos no material que denominamos de documentos oficiais para pensarmos as prescrições das práticas que já estão sendo realizadas nas instituições de ensino e que normatizam os modos de ser e agir dos docentes contemporâneos. Como último percurso, tomamos como material analítico os anais do X e do XI Encontro Gaúcho de Educação Matemática (EGEM) para tencionarmos identidades docentes que estão sendo produzidas à medida que se usa pedagogicamente a realidade. Dessa forma, acreditamos que o presente estudo traz a discussão do uso pedagógico da realidade que denominamos de saber-realidade para apontar o quanto ainda engessamos, enclausuramos os modos de ser e agir do docente contemporâneo. / Know-reality: from the prescriptions to the desires to constitute teaching in Contemporary Mathematics Education is a master's thesis that deals with teaching. His analysis - based on the writings of Michel Foucault, with the brushstrokes of Friedrich Nietzsche - points to a real effect in the contemporary: the pedagogical use of reality. In the analytical course of our work, we intend the emergence of this use as a know about teaching. For this exercise, we analyze excerpts from ethnomathematics, especially those produced from the studies of mathematical educator Ubiratan D'Ambrósio to think about the emergence of the discourse of reality in the educational field of mathematics as a truth, thus pointing to what we call know -reality. The next moment, we look at the material we call official documents to think about the prescriptions of practices that are already being carried out in educational institutions and that regulate the ways of being and acting of contemporary teachers. As a last step, we take as analytical material the annals of the X and XI Gaucho Mathematics Education Meeting (EGEM) to consider teaching identities that are being produced as the reality is used pedagogically. Thus, we believe that the present study brings the discussion of the pedagogical use of the reality that we call know-reality to point out how much we still plaster, we enclose the ways of being and acting of the contemporary teacher.

A dissertação trata de recente fenômeno juvenil urbano marcado pela identificação com um estilo musical chamado emo; os jovens que fazem parte dessa cultura juvenil se consideram mais emotivos que as outras pessoas em geral. Os emos caracterizam se também pela negação, tanto de uma identidade de grupo quanto da associação estigmatizada com um estilo específico de se vestir, se comportar e se expressar. As questões teóricas presentes nesse trabalho discutem como emos se utilizam das categorias nativas, emoções e expressões de sentimentos para representar a música, os indivíduos e o próprio grupo. A abordagem analítica central é sobre esta articulação entre música e emoção como um recurso identitário. A Internet é uma importante referência para os sujeitos pesquisados, e como ferramenta de investigação está acompanhada de considerações metodológicas sobre a etnografia virtual. / The dissertation deals with recent phenomenon marked by identifying urban youth with a music style called emo, young people who are part of this youth culture in particular consider themselves more emotional than other people in general. The Emos also characterizes themselves with a denial of both a group identity as the stigmatized association with a specific style of dress, behave and express themselves. The theoretical issues present in this paper discuss how "Emos" make use of native categories, "emotions" and "expressions of feelings" to represent music, individuals and the group itself. The analytical approach is central on this link between music and emotion as a resource identity. The Internet is an important reference for the research subjects, and as a research tool is accompanied by methodological considerations on virtual ethnography.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Minha tese teve como base a busca de imagens de mulheres negras, para tentar contar uma história, aquela que aparece em álbuns e histórias para jovens e crianças. Essas imagens me indicam possibilidades para a aplicação da Lei n 10.639/3. Nesses espaçostempos tão plurais, repletos de cores, identidades e significados podemos trabalhar de uma maneira simples seguindo um currículo único? A tese principal da minha pesquisa é buscar entender a importância dessas publicações que crescem significativamente em nosso país, nos últimos anos, em práticas curriculares possíveis. Esse aumento de produções de álbuns, conjugado a uma forte vertente editorial visando à publicação de literatura que resgata a história da África, reforçado por uma linha voltada para o público infanto-juvenil se relaciona à expansão de ações de movimentos sociais, relacionados à igualdade social de negros. Tudo isto reforçou a necessidade de um comprometimento governamental, através de leis, decretos e reformas educacionais. Desse modo pesquisei, utilizando esse material, buscando compreender sua importância para a discussão da questão da educação étnico-cultural e racial e na desconstrução social do preconceito e da discriminação racial direcionados à população negra. Nossa base teórica se encontra em Stuart Hall, Franz Fanon, Kabenguele Munanga, Nilma Gomes, Raul Lody, Nilda Alves, Michel de Certeau, Boris Kossoy, Arlindo Machado, Armando Silva, entre outros tantos. / My thesis was based on the search for images of black women, in order to try to tell a story, one that appears in albums and stories for teenagers and children. These images suggest to me a number of possibilities for applying Law No. 10.639/3. In these space-times that are so plural and so full of colors, identities and meanings, is it possible for us to work in a simple way following a single curriculum? The main thesis of my research has been to try to understand the importance of these publications, which have, in recent years become increasingly prevalent in our country, in relation to possible curricular practices. This increase in the production of albums, combined with a strong editorial bias towards the publication of literature that revives African history, and reinforced by a line aimed at the child/teen audience, is related to the expansion of initiatives by social movements aimed at social equality for black people. All this has reinforced the need for a commitment by government, in the form of laws, decrees and educational reforms. Thus I researched, using this material, trying to understand its importance to the debate over the issue of ethnic-cultural and racial education and to the social dismantling of prejudice and racial discrimination aimed at the black population. Our theoretical foundations are based on Stuart Hall, Franz Fanon, Kabenguele Munanga, Nilma Gomes, Raul Lody, Nilda Alves, Michel de Certeau, Boris Kossoy, Arlindo Machado, Armando Silva, among many others.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:01:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tatiana de Santana Vieira.pdf: 1386566 bytes, checksum: b2b10681bbf6c57b4e7ce49cebd6c6ef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-29 / This study is an essay on the trajectories of training and representations of six students from the courses of PROEJA (National Program of the Integration of Professional Education with the Elementary Education in the Modality of Young Adults) at Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo (Ifes). It aims in analyzing the meanings of PROEJA and the possibilities of building the identities and the social representations among/with students of this program. The qualitative nature of the methodology used approaches and strategies of the Discussion Groups as a guide for the analysis of the reference of the Documentary Method. The research theoretical contribution involved dialogues among thinkers from different fields of knowledge, as from cultural studies approaches with social representations, with the liberating pedagogy and with public policy. The results point out that PROEJA students are tensioned by social representations crystallized in disconcepts about them. Although the plastered and fixed identities escape, something that is fundamental in the trajectories of the subjects is the identification with the situation of the working class that permeates the time-space of the students.Despite these practices of marginalization, PROEJA students struggle to occupy a place they have been historically denied and provoke the Institute to reflect on the guarantee of public policy, in particular the right to a education which utopian horizon is the whole formation of the working class / Este estudo disserta sobre as trajetórias de formação e representações de seis educandos e educandas de cursos do Programa Nacional de Integração da Educação Profissional com a Educação Básica na Modalidade de Educação de Jovens e Adultos (PROEJA) no Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo (Ifes). Tem como objetivo analisar os sentidos do PROEJA e as possibilidades de construção de identidades e as representações sociais entre/com educandos e educandas desse Programa. A metodologia, de natureza qualitativa, utilizou a abordagem e estratégias dos Grupos de Discussão, tendo como orientação para as análises a referência do Método Documentário. O aporte teórico da pesquisa envolveu diálogos entre pensadores de diversos campos de conhecimento, a partir de aproximações dos estudos culturais com as representações sociais, a pedagogia libertadora e políticas públicas. Os resultados apontam que educandos e educandas do PROEJA são tensionados por representações sociais cristalizadas em desconceitos sobre eles. Embora escapem a identidades engessadas e fixas, algo fundamental nas trajetórias dos sujeitos é a identificação com a situação da classe trabalhadora que perpassa os tempos-espaços escolares. Apesar das práticas de marginalização, os educandos e educandas do PROEJA lutam para ocupar um lugar que lhes foi historicamente negado e provocam o Instituto a refletir acerca da garantia de políticas públicas, em especial, de educação que tenham como horizonte utópico a formação integral da classe trabalhadora

La place de l'oralité dans le patrimoine québécois et la particularité du lien qui unit expression poétique et revendication politique dans le Québec contemporain constituent les questions essentielles qui sous-tendent ce travail. Les Nuits de la poésie offrent un remarquable observatoire de la place, des spécificités et des évolutions de la poésie vivante au Québec au cours des quarante dernières années. La première édition en 1970 s'est affirmée comme l'acte de naissance d'une authentique tradition établissant un lien étroit entre oralité, expression poétique et affirmation politique et nationale.La première partie de cette thèse présente et analyse les conditions d'émergence de cet événement fondateur à partir de l'étude du contexte historique, politique et linguistique qui a vu la naissance d'une culture spécifiquement québécoise. La deuxième partie est consacrée à l'étude de la Nuit de la poésie 1970. Elle s'attache aux questions théoriques liées à l'analyse du document filmique, seul témoin de cette édition et support concret sur lequel s'appuie cette étude. Elle met également l'accent sur les questions formelles liées à l'inscription de l'oralité sur un support mécanique ou écrit. La troisième partie étudie la réitération de l'événement. Elle observe ensuite la continuité et les évolutions thématiques et esthétiques qu'a connues la poésie québécoise de 1980 à 2010 et jusqu'aux manifestations plus contemporaines et mondialisées que constituent les scènes de slam.Au gré des éditions de La Nuit de la poésie et des manifestations qui la prolongent, se dessine le visage d'un pays qui s'est particulièrement affirmé à travers la prise de parole poétique. Les années 1970 sont bien celles de la revendication et de l'illustration du fait littéraire et poétique québécois. Les années 1980 ont consacré l'avènement des voix féminines et le début d'une diversification des esthétiques poétiques alors que la décennie 1990 a vu l'émergence d'une identité plus métissée, plus ouverte au monde et faisant place à la parole des cultures migrantes. La non-réitération de l'événement en 2000 est moins le signe d'un essoufflement que la conséquence de l'essor du genre poétique au Québec et de sa diffusion sur une plus vaste échelle et face à des publics élargis. Quant à l'édition de 2010, elle se présente comme un hommage à cette pratique publique de la poésie et illustre son extrême vitalité et son importance dans la société québécoise. / The place and function of Oral poetry in contemporary Quebec as well as the narrow relationship between poetic expression and political commitment are the key issues underlying this doctoral thesis. The Nuits de la poésie are an outstanding observatory of specificities and evolutions of poetry life in Quebec over the last forty years. The first edition in 1970 stands out as the birth of an authentic tradition which establishes a close link between the Oral, the poetic public expression and the statement of national existence.The first part of this thesis presents the conditions of the emergence of this seminal event and studies the historical, linguistics and political context, which saw the birth of a specifically Quebec culture. The second part is devoted to the first edition of the Nuit de la poésie. It focuses on practical and theoretical issues related to the analysis of the document film, the only witness of this edition. It also focuses on the issues related to the registration of oral performance on a mechanical support as well on printed books. The third part examines the repetition of the event. It then analyses continuity and thematic and aesthetic evolutions in Quebec poetry from 1980 to 2010 and even more contemporary and globalized manifestations as those of slam poetry.Through the four several editions of the Nuits de la poésie and of extending events, emerges the face of a country that is particularly linked to poetic word and practice. The 1970s are those of defense and illustration of the literary and poetic Quebec. The 1980s saw the advent of female voices and the beginning of an aesthetic diversification, while the 1990s point out the emergence of an identity more open to migrant cultures. The non-repetition of the event in 2000 is less a sign of a slowdown than a result of the development of poetic genre in Quebec and its dissemination on a wider scale for wider audiences. Concerning the edition of 2010, it is presented as a tribute to the national practice of poetry and illustrates the extreme vitality and importance of poetry in Quebec society.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this research explores Zimbabwean literary and other cultural texts within the broader context of the construction of identities and the politics of inclusion and exclusion in nationalist and oppositional discourses. It also analyzes two texts by major non-Zimbabwean African writers to examine the thematic links between Zimbabwean and other African writing. Through combining historical, anthropological and political approaches with postcolonial, postmodern and feminist critical theories, the thesis explores the ways in which African writing and performance represent alternative histories to official versions of the nation. It further investigates questions of gender and their significance in nationalist discourses and shows how writing on war, trauma and healing informs and develops readers’ understanding of the relationship of the past to the present. Considered together as a coherent body of work, the published items submitted in this thesis explore how Zimbabwean and other African writers, through re-visioning history and writing from oppositional or marginal positions, intervene in political debates and suggest new transformative ways of constructing and negotiating identities in postcolonial societies.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / A dissertaÃÃo ora apresentada consubstancia um esforÃo de compreensÃo do universo dos habitantes das ruas em Fortaleza, ao longo de dois anos, implicando um processo de redefiniÃÃes do objeto, a partir das interpelaÃÃes do prÃprio campo. O trabalho circunscreve, como eixo investigativo, as trajetÃrias e percursos de pessoas que habitam as ruas, enfocando processos de desfiliaÃÃo e refiliaÃÃo, o habitus do ser âmorador de ruaâ, as exclusÃes e inclusÃes precÃrias, as discriminaÃÃes e preconceitos, as concepÃÃes e valores assumidos por esses personagens, particularmente, as concepÃÃes e atitudes face ao HIV/Aids. O foco de anÃlise terminou por incidir na construÃÃo dos processos identitÃrios em suas trajetÃrias e percursos. O adentrar nesse universo peculiar exigiu a construÃÃo de uma etnografia das ruas, vivenciada na PraÃa da GentilÃndia e quatro casas de acolhida, buscando acompanhar as rotas dos personagens constitutivos do campo investigativo. Este trabalho etnogrÃfico foi vivenciado de um lugar peculiar que possibilitou viver e sentir, na âprÃpria peleâ, a condiÃÃo do âmorador de ruaâ, ao ser confundido, no exercÃcio de pesquisa com os prÃprios sujeitos, cujo universo buscava compreender. O processo investigativo, processualmente construÃdo, exigiu movimentar aportes teÃricos com base em uma permanente pesquisa bibliogrÃfica, possibilitando ampliar e reconfigurar teorizaÃÃes, em coadunÃncia com as prÃprias configuraÃÃes empÃricas. Utilizou-se o conceito de desfiliaÃÃo social de Castel (1997), caracterizando o duplo desligamento do indivÃduo do mercado de trabalho e das relaÃÃes familiares e, a noÃÃo de estigma de Goffman (1988), que aparece como estratÃgia de classificaÃÃo dos indivÃduos nas interaÃÃes cotidianas atravÃs da diferenÃa, em relaÃÃo aos atributos considerados normais. A ideia de refugo humano de Bauman (2005), nomeando os seres excessivos e redundantes da modernidade a vivenciar situaÃÃes-limite e, a perspectiva desconstrutivista de identidades de Hall (2006) sÃo outros aportes teÃricos usados no trabalho. De fato, os habitantes das ruas vivenciam processos de exclusÃo e vulnerabilidade que perpassam a infÃncia, adolescÃncia e idade adulta, suas trajetÃrias revelam situaÃÃes de pobreza, destituiÃÃo de direitos e rupturas familiares. ComeÃam a trabalhar cedo para ajudar no sustento da casa, com experiÃncias no trabalho informal, no comÃrcio de bens ilÃcitos, no trÃfico de drogas, realizaÃÃo de assaltos e outras formas de economia urbana nas periferias da cidade. Em seu nomadismo urbano e experiÃncia de vida, desenvolvem formas e mecanismos de inclusÃo precÃrios, trabalho informal como catadores de resÃduos sÃlidos, flanelinhas, âbicosâ na construÃÃo civil, prÃtica de delitos, adesÃo a abrigos e casas de acolhida. / This dissertation supports an effort for the understanding of the universe populated by street dwellers in Fortaleza by means of a two-year research encompassing a process of redefinitions of the object from interpretations arising from the field. The work includes as its investigative axis the trajectories of people inhabiting the streets of Fortaleza focusing on processes of disaffiliation and new affiliation, the âhabitusâ that imprint the âstreet dwellerâ, precarious exclusions and inclusions, discriminations, prejudices, conceptions and values adopted by these characters inhabiting the streets and, especially, conceptions and attitudes in face of the HIV/AIDS. The main point of the analysis ended up focusing upon the construction of identity-based processes found at the trajectories of the streets dwellers. To enter this universe required the buildup of a âstreet ethnographyâ that was carried up in the Gentilandia Square and four Homes in a period of 18 months trying to follow the routes of constituting characters of the investigation field. The ethnographic work carried out from a special place allowed the researcher to feel the street dwellerâs condition on âhis very skinâ considering that he was in the course of the research confounded with those subjects whom he was trying to understand. The investigative process in the streets, clerically constructed, led the researcher to approach theoretical support based on a permanent biographical search which allowed amplifying and reconfiguring theorizations in accordance with his own empirical ideas. Castelâs (1997) concept of social de-affiliation was used here to characterize the individualâs double alienation from the labor market on the one hand and familyâs ties on the other, and Goffmanâs (1988) concept of stigma which becomes evident as a classification strategy for individuals within daily interactions, emphasizing difference in relation to features that have been considered normal. Baumanâs (2005) idea of human waste that nominates human beings, plagued by excesses and redundancies from the modern age, and who live at the brink of inescapable situations, and Hallâs (2006) deconstructivist perspective of identities are other theoretical approaches used by this work. Indeed, street dwellers, that experience processes of exclusion and are subjected to risks going from infancy up to adolescence and adult age, reveal through their lives poverty-ridden situations, negation of rights and family ruptures. They start working very early in life in order to help feed the family by doing odd jobs, trading illicit merchandise, trafficking drugs, perpetrating assaults, besides engaging in other urban economic activities in poor areas of the city. By their urban mobility and experience of life, they develop forms and mechanisms of precarious inclusions such as working as collectors of solid wastes, keeping guard of cars in the streets, taking temporary jobs in the construction of buildings and houses, practicing illicit acts and resorting to shelters and homes.

A presente tese de doutorado tem por objetivo retratar em um plano paralelo e comparativo, as ações de governo, a atividade política e o perfil da sociedade das regiões Norte e Sul do estado de Mato Grosso uno ao longo dos anos que antecederam sua divisão, que ocorreu em 1977, e no período pós divisão, até 2010. O trabalho está organizado em duas partes. A primeira se inicia com a descrição das disputas intra-oligárquicas pelo poder de mando em Mato Grosso entre a Proclamação da República, em 1889, e a eclosão da Revolução de 1930. A narrativa enfoca os fatos históricos que marcaram o debate divisionista entre as elites dirigentes do Norte e Sul do estado e abalaram a estabilidade política de Cuiabá enquanto capital. Inicialmente, Corumbá surgiu como rival e como opção de capital para Mato Grosso; em um segundo momento Campo Grande passa a ocupar esta posição. A pesquisa estabelece uma relação entre acontecimentos emblemáticos como a instalação da Estrada de Ferro Noroeste do Brasil e a Revolução Constitucionalista de 1932 e a ulterior efetivação da divisão; demonstra que a partir da instauração do Estado Novo, o governo autoritário promoveu a ocupação de espaços vazios em prol da segurança nacional e aliou seu projeto de Brasil Potência aos interesses da elite agrária sul-mato-grossense, o que impulsionou decisivamente o desmembramento do estado. Em relação a esta hipótese a tese se debruça sobre os Manuais da Escola Superior de Guerra (ESG), e, ancorada na historiografia especializada sobre o Governo Militar, sustenta a afirmação de que a divisão de Mato Grosso foi amplamente inspirada nos conceitos da geopolítica nacional vigentes naquele momento. Esta estrutura geopolítica, que conferiu coerência doutrinária às ações de reconfiguração territorial do país, foi erigida sobre os fundamentos da segurança nacional e do desenvolvimento, conceitos elaborados pelos militares e amplamente aplicados durante o governo autoritário. Acompanha esta análise o estudo da fusão dos estados do Rio de Janeiro e da Guanabara, ocorrida em 1975 através da Lei Complementar 20/75. A avaliação comparativa entre o desmembramento de Mato Grosso e a fusão dos estados litorâneos expôs os intrincados contornos políticos e interesses econômicos permeando a decisão governamental de se alterar a composição federativa do país. Na segunda parte da tese são analisadas a construção e manutenção da multifacetada identidade do povo mato-grossense contemporâneo, formada e transformada a partir das novas territorializações ocasionadas pelo intenso fluxo migratório destinado ao estado de Mato Grosso, especialmente durante os anos setenta. Em sua etapa final, a pesquisa examina informações, índices e vetores socioeconômicos coletados em diversos bancos de dados oficiais. A análise dos indicadores da atividade econômica revela que Mato Grosso cresceu economicamente após a divisão e atualmente a unidade federativa se apresenta como estado brasileiro líder na produção agropecuária. Não obstante, se verifica uma grande discrepância entre os elevados índices de crescimento econômico e as reduzidas taxas de desenvolvimento social. Esta conclusão sugere que entre o último quartel do século XX e os anos iniciais do século XXI, a evolução econômica regional em Mato Grosso decorreu de um modelo desenvolvimentista desequilibrado, e que se mantém heterogêneo e desigual no espaço intra-regional, com a coexistência de ilhas de crescimento e áreas com reduzidas perspectivas de desenvolvimento. / This doctoral thesis aims to portray in a parallel and comparative plan, government actions of the political activity and the profile of the society of the North and South of Mato Grosso one state over the years before his division, which occurred in 1977, and after division period until 2010. The work is organized in two parts. The first begins with the description of the intra-oligarchic power struggles of command in Mato Grosso between the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889 and the outbreak of the Revolution of 1930. The narrative focuses on the historical events that marked the divisive debate among elites North and South leaders of the state and rocked the Cuiabá political stability as capital. Initially, Corumbá emerged as a rival and as capital option for Mato Grosso; in a second moment, Campo Grande comes to occupy this position. The research establishes a relationship between iconic events as the installation of the railroad northwest of Brazil and the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932 and the subsequent execution of the division. It shows that from the Estado Novo, the authoritarian government promoted the occupation of \"empty spaces\" for the sake of national security and allied his project \"Brazil power\" to the interests of South Mato Grosso landed elite, which decisively boosted the state of dismemberment. In relation to this hypothesis the thesis focuses on the manuals of the Superior School of War (ESG), and anchored in the historiography specialized on the Military Government, supports the contention that Mato Grosso division was largely inspired by the concepts of national geopolitics existing at that time. This geopolitical structure which gave \"doctrinal coherence\" to the territorial reconfiguration of country actions, was erected on the grounds of national security and development, concepts developed by the military and widely applied during the authoritarian government. Accompanies this analysis the study of fusion of the states of Rio de Janeiro and Guanabara, which occurred in 1975 by Supplementary Law 20/75. The comparative evaluation of the break up of Mato Grosso and the melting of coastal states exposed the intricate contours political and economic interests permeating the government\'s decision to change the federal composition of the country. In the second part of the thesis are analyzed the construction and maintenance of the multifaceted identity of contemporary Mato Grosso people, formed and transformed from the new territorializations caused by the intense migratory flow for the state of Mato Grosso, especially during the seventies. In its final stage, the research examines information, socioeconomic indices and vectors collected from several banks of official figures. The analysis of indicators of economic activity shows that Mato Grosso grew economically after the division and currently the federal unit is presented as Brazilian state leader in agricultural production. Nevertheless, there is a large discrepancy between the high levels of economic growth and reduced rates of social development. This finding suggests that between the last quarter of the twentieth century and the early years of the century, the regional economic development in Mato Grosso was due to an unbalanced development model, and it remains heterogeneous and unequal intra-regional space, with the coexistence of \"islands\" of growth and areas with low development prospects.

Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar a questão da circulação de ideias e a construção de identidades na América Latina a partir de três ensaios produzidos entre fins do século XIX e inícios do século XX: El porvenir de las naciones hispanoamericanas (1899), do mexicano Francisco Bulnes (1847-1924); A América Latina: males de origem (1905), do brasileiro Manoel Bomfim (1868-1932) e Les democraties latines de lAmerique (1912), do peruano Francisco García Calderón (1883-1953). Por meio desses textos, este trabalho procura discutir as concepções sobre o fazer intelectual presente em cada um desses autores, o processo de elaboração e circulação das ideias no subcontinente em relação aos paradigmas europeu e norte-americano e a variedade de projetos identitários existentes na América Latina no umbral do século XX. O cotejo desses três ensaios permite que se explicite um conjunto de temas e problemas comuns que permeavam o pensamento político na América Latina da época, entre os quais é importante ressaltar a discussão sobre o lugar do subcontinente no mundo diante da expansão do capitalismo e do imperialismo entre fins do século XIX e inícios do século XX. / I intend to analyze in this research three major essays produced in Latin America in the beginning of the 20th Century: El porvenir de las naciones hispanoamericanas (1899), by Mexican Francisco Bulnes (1847-1924); A América Latina: males de origem (1905), by Brazilian Manoel Bomfim (1868- 1932) and Les démocraties latines de lAmerique (1912), by Peruvian Francisco García Calderón (1883-1953). I will emphasize the problems around the circulation of ideas and the building of identities in the subcontinent. The comparison among these three essays will allow me to discuss a whole set of common themes and issues related to political ideas in Latin America at that time and to think about Latin Americas place during the so called Age of Empire.