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This poststructuralist research into managerial subjectivity follows ten senior managers’ experience, during significant organizational restructuring in the National Health Service. Located in the North of England the managers were interviewed three times during an eighteen-month period. An autoethnographic component is integral to the study; this recognises the researcher was a practising manager undergoing the same organizational change, whilst researching the field. Judith Butler’s theories provide the principle theoretical framework for the study. Whilst the managers narrated a fantasy of having a ‘true’ and coherent self, the research illustrated how fragile, fleeting and temporary each managerial self is and how passionately attached to their managerial subjectivity (despite how painful) they were. Emotion is presented as inextricably tied up with gender performativity and managerial subjectivity; despite best efforts the emotional ‘dirt’ of organizations cannot be ordered away; there is a constant seepage and spillage of emotion – as illustrated in the vignettes and profiled in the Butlerian deconstruction. During organizational change there was a fear of a social (organizational) death and even the most senior of managers were profoundly vulnerable. This fear and vulnerability heightened in contact with others perceived as more powerful (in critical conversations and interviews). Failure to receive the desired recognition and the risk of being organizationally unintelligible compounded this vulnerability and triggered recurrent, unpredictable patterns of loss, ek-stasis and unravelling of the managerial self. This acute vulnerability during restructuring anticipates and therefore (re) enacts a Machiavellian discourse, one that excuses unethical behaviour and relations as a ‘necessary evil’.

My thesis examines the ways in which blood is represented in vampire novels, films, and vampire communities. I locate my thesis within a postmodern framework that encompasses a diverse range of critical approaches such as postmodern, feminist and materialist theories, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and histories of medicine and ideas. The mixture of high and low status texts selected examine the ways identity, self-fashioning and the body are constructed through their use of a symbolics of blood. The first chapter examines the changing meanings of blood in vampire texts from the nineteenth century to the present through the discourses of medical science and technology. While blood is shown to be an important fluid in biomedicine, at the same time it conjures up associations with identity and corporeality. The second chapter examines consumption as a trope to define and control the female vampire. Through the analysis of literal and figurative acts of cannibalistic consumption, eating and incorporation in vampire literature, the chapter seeks to address female appetite, disease and identity. The third chapter examines the use of blood and postmodern self-fashioning in vampire communities in order to expose the various meanings of real or symbolic blood within postmodern culture. I conclude by addressing issues and ideas that my thesis has brought to the fore and which can be explored further.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005-12-01Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:26:53Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 gomes_rff_me_assis.pdf: 477559 bytes, checksum: fe362f45c423396166d3b19af396220c (MD5) / A presente pesquisa buscou investigar o convívio das crianças, mediado pela atividade lúdica, segundo a ótica infantil. Para além da postura adultocêntrica, até aqui priorizada; meu objetivo consistiu em analisar a construção social da masculinidade e da feminilidade a partir das significações e sentidos atribuídos por elas à categoria de gênero durante as relações que estabeleciam com seus pares ao brincar. Assim, para compreender como meninas e meninos vivem, pensam e representam o gênero em suas vivências lúdicas me reportei a conceitos da história, da sociologia, da antropologia e, especialmente, da psicologia sócio-histórica para definir criança, infância e brincar; e, para a compreensão do gênero como categoria analítica recorri às teorias feministas que se fundamentam na perspectiva pós-estruturalista. A transgressão de fronteiras disciplinares foi necessária para abranger a complexidade da articulação dos fenômenos estudados. Desta forma, refleti sobre o processo de constituição da subjetividade das crianças - especialmente quanto às identidades de gênero - em suas interações sociais em um contexto institucional, discutindo os limites e possibilidades da brincadeira, do lúdico, da fantasia, da imaginação, da diversidade e da cultura infantil. Escolhi como método de pesquisa qualitativa a abordagem etnográfica por me permitir considerar a experiência infantil a partir da própria perspectiva da criança, concebendo-a como ser social que produz e se apropria da cultura. / The presented research tried to investigate the conviviality between children, mediated by the recreational, from the infantile view. Beyond the adultcentric attitude, until here priorized; my target was to analyze the social construction of masculinity and femininity from the significance and directions attributed by them to the category of gender during the relations that were established with their partners while they were playing. Thus, to comprehend how boys and girls live, think and represent the gender in their recreational experiences I reported to history, sociology, anthropology and specially to socio-historical psychology concepts to define child, childhood and playing; and for the comprehension of gender as an analytical category I reported to feminist theories that are found into the post-structuralism perspective. The transgression of disciplinary frontiers was necessary to comprise the complexity of the articulation from the studied phenomena. So, I considered the constitution process of subjectivity of children - especially when talking about gender identities - in their social interactions in an institutional context, discussing the limits and possibilities of joke, recreational, fantasy, imagination, diversity and infantile culture. I've chosen the ethnographic broach as a method of qualitative research because it allows me to think the childish experience from the children's own point-of-view, conceiving them as social beings that produce the culture and adapts themselves to it.

Orientador: Beatriz Belluzzo Brando Cunha / Banca: Maria de Fátima Araújo / Banca: Marilene Proença Rebello de Souza / Resumo: A presente pesquisa buscou investigar o convívio das crianças, mediado pela atividade lúdica, segundo a ótica infantil. Para além da postura adultocêntrica, até aqui priorizada; meu objetivo consistiu em analisar a construção social da masculinidade e da feminilidade a partir das significações e sentidos atribuídos por elas à categoria de gênero durante as relações que estabeleciam com seus pares ao brincar. Assim, para compreender como meninas e meninos vivem, pensam e representam o gênero em suas vivências lúdicas me reportei a conceitos da história, da sociologia, da antropologia e, especialmente, da psicologia sócio-histórica para definir criança, infância e brincar; e, para a compreensão do gênero como categoria analítica recorri às teorias feministas que se fundamentam na perspectiva pós-estruturalista. A transgressão de fronteiras disciplinares foi necessária para abranger a complexidade da articulação dos fenômenos estudados. Desta forma, refleti sobre o processo de constituição da subjetividade das crianças - especialmente quanto às identidades de gênero - em suas interações sociais em um contexto institucional, discutindo os limites e possibilidades da brincadeira, do lúdico, da fantasia, da imaginação, da diversidade e da cultura infantil. Escolhi como método de pesquisa qualitativa a abordagem etnográfica por me permitir considerar a experiência infantil a partir da própria perspectiva da criança, concebendo-a como ser social que produz e se apropria da cultura. / Abstract: The presented research tried to investigate the conviviality between children, mediated by the recreational, from the infantile view. Beyond the adultcentric attitude, until here priorized; my target was to analyze the social construction of masculinity and femininity from the significance and directions attributed by them to the category of gender during the relations that were established with their partners while they were playing. Thus, to comprehend how boys and girls live, think and represent the gender in their recreational experiences I reported to history, sociology, anthropology and specially to socio-historical psychology concepts to define child, childhood and playing; and for the comprehension of gender as an analytical category I reported to feminist theories that are found into the post-structuralism perspective. The transgression of disciplinary frontiers was necessary to comprise the complexity of the articulation from the studied phenomena. So, I considered the constitution process of subjectivity of children - especially when talking about gender identities - in their social interactions in an institutional context, discussing the limits and possibilities of joke, recreational, fantasy, imagination, diversity and infantile culture. I've chosen the ethnographic broach as a method of qualitative research because it allows me to think the childish experience from the children's own point-of-view, conceiving them as social beings that produce the culture and adapts themselves to it. / Mestre

This poststructuralist research into managerial subjectivity follows ten senior managers’ experience, during significant organizational restructuring in the National Health Service. Located in the North of England the managers were interviewed three times during an eighteen-month period. An autoethnographic component is integral to the study; this recognises the researcher was a practising manager undergoing the same organizational change, whilst researching the field. Judith Butler’s theories provide the principle theoretical framework for the study. Whilst the managers narrated a fantasy of having a ‘true’ and coherent self, the research illustrated how fragile, fleeting and temporary each managerial self is and how passionately attached to their managerial subjectivity (despite how painful) they were. Emotion is presented as inextricably tied up with gender performativity and managerial subjectivity; despite best efforts the emotional ‘dirt’ of organizations cannot be ordered away; there is a constant seepage and spillage of emotion – as illustrated in the vignettes and profiled in the Butlerian deconstruction. During organizational change there was a fear of a social (organizational) death and even the most senior of managers were profoundly vulnerable. This fear and vulnerability heightened in contact with others perceived as more powerful (in critical conversations and interviews). Failure to receive the desired recognition and the risk of being organizationally unintelligible compounded this vulnerability and triggered recurrent, unpredictable patterns of loss, ek-stasis and unravelling of the managerial self. This acute vulnerability during restructuring anticipates and therefore (re) enacts a Machiavellian discourse, one that excuses unethical behaviour and relations as a ‘necessary evil’.

This thesis explores EU borders and bordering in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the context of the 2004 EU enlargement, the 2007 extension of the Schengen zone and the 2004 Eastern Dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) that, in 2009, was upgraded to the Eastern Partnership (EaP). The thesis links borders with identities and governing orders to argue that while the EU has successfully included, inter alia, Czechs and Poles, it has excluded Ukrainians sufficiently to impact negatively on their lives and on the achievement of EU goals in the neighbourhood. The de-bordering and re-bordering inherent to enlargement, Schengen, ENP and EaP have (partially) displaced CEE borders from traditional locations at state frontiers. Bordering activities still take place within the supposedly borderless Schengen zone as well as at external frontiers with neighbouring states, but the EU has also exported border practices onto the territories of its neighbours. These processes prompted the questions addressed in this thesis: where, how, why and with what effects the EU makes its borders in CEE. An analytical framework – the ‘Borderscape’ – is developed to explore the complex manifestations of post-frontier bordering and to understand its socio-political, spatial and temporal underpinnings, and the consequences that EU bordering has for identities and subjectivities, order and governance in CEE. The borderscape encompasses border features, bordering discourses and bordering practices, which are constituted by EU and national governmental actors, border security and law enforcement agencies, by civil society actors and the people who move and dwell in the region. The borderscape is tailored to the regional particularities of CEE, with specific reference to processes of post-communist transition, EU accession and the EU’s engagement with its neighbours, specifically Ukraine. The findings of the research are based on extensive, interpretive fieldwork conducted in the Czech Republic, Poland and Ukraine. The thesis shows the various sites, forms and functions of contemporary EU bordering that comprise a diverse yet connected border archipelago stretching from the Schengen interior into the Eastern neighbourhood. The EU’s bordering discourses are shown to be plural and often contradictory: notions of freedom, security and justice and the desire to benefit from sharing these with Central and Eastern Europeans are juxtaposed with narratives of fear, suspicion and narrow-minded self-interest. The EU’s Europeanised bordering practices, including Risk Analysis and the protection of both borders and migrants, have enhanced mobility for EU-Europeans (such as Czechs and Poles) who now share in the highly desirable form of order that it has created. However, the EU has also restricted mobility for Ukrainians, who are still seen as ‘Eastern-Europeans’. The borderscape betrays the EU’s internal crises of identity and confidence, which has had psycho-social exclusionary effects on Ukrainians and contributed to the politico-strategic crisis in the Eastern Neighbourhood. However this analysis also points to ways that the EU can address these issues.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work aims to a critical analysis of Erico Verissimo‟s first works Clarissa and Música ao longe. A well-known writer of the 30‟s, Erico Verissimo received many negative criticism because of the themes, characters and plot present in his works, as well as the ideological and psychological treatment given to the stories and his political and religious posture. Thus, we were concerned about how the relationship Character/writer is established, and what is the role of literature and the academic background in Verissimo‟s writings. We understand that every writer is formed by what he reads and how he fantasizes such works in his mind. These are marks that the reader, in one way or another, associates to the writer. This way, the creation of structures and meanings that overcome his writings have a relation to what the writer read in the past or still reads, no matter the kind of reading, for it has no end in itself, given the fact that literature is found in many places and many forms, not to mention the interpersonal relations and daily routines. From the analysis of the literary works in this dissertation, we will be able to see how the act of reading makes part of the characters‟ reality, realizing how the author works with subjectivity and representations on his literary works, as well as what is the importance given by him to an academic function from a literary perspective. / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo a análise crítica das obras iniciais de Erico Verissimo, Clarissa e Música ao longe. Romancista da década de 1930, Erico Verissimo foi muito criticado pela temática apresentada em suas obras, pelos personagens, pelo tratamento psicológico e ideológico dado ao enredo, pela sua postura política e religiosa. Dessa forma, preocupou-nos entender como se dá a relação autor/personagem, leitor/personagem e qual o papel da literatura e a formação acadêmica em sua própria literatura. Entendemos que todo escritor é formado por suas leituras variadas fantasiadas em sua imaginação. São marcas que o leitor, de um modo ou de outro, associa ao autor. Dessa forma, a elaboração das estruturas e sentidos que ultrapassam sua escrita, tem uma relação com o que leu ou lê. Não importa o tipo de leitura realizada, pois ela não é um fim em si mesma, sendo que a literatura se encontra em todos os lugares e das formas mais diversas, sem falar nas relações interpessoais e nas rotinas diárias. Sendo assim, a partir das análises dos romances veremos como a leitura faz parte da realidade impressa na vida dos personagens entendendo como o autor trabalha com as representações e subjetividade nesses romances e qual a importância dada, pelo autor, na função acadêmica, dentro da literatura. / Mestre em Teoria Literária

Sulla base della teoria delle Comunità di Pratica e dell'Azione Situata, la ricerca si propone come scopo generale lo studio delle dinamiche interattive, relazionali e comunicative legate all’introduzione di una Cartella clinica medico-infermieristica informatizzata da parte di Comunità di Pratica professionali, composte da medici ed infermieri. Il primo obiettivo è quello di studiare in un’ottica psicosociale la creazione (primo studio) e il funzionamento (secondo studio) di Comunità di Pratica professionali nate intorno alle Nuove Tecnologie, tenendo conto anche se e in quale misura una comunità che segue un nuovo paradigma di interazione sociale possa essere considerata una vera e propria Comunità di Pratica. Il secondo obiettivo è quello di affinare una metodologia di indagine psicosociale in riferimento alle dinamiche che si concretizzano all’interno delle Comunità di Pratica, senza dimenticare la dimensione dell’Identità/Soggettività. I risultati, in un'ottica esplicativa di comprensione delle dinamiche sottostanti all’essere parte di una Comunità di Pratica o all’iniziare a farne parte, hanno restituito interessanti risvolti dal punto di vista interpersonale e organizzativo, con particolare riferimento alla costituzione e allo sviluppo delle due Comunità di Pratica e agli aspetti comunicativi e identitari della relazione medico-infermiere. Il terzo e ultimo obiettivo è provare a rispondere al quesito: per le Comunità di Pratica è possibile parlare di ‘Soggettività di pratica’? Per fare questo, una riflessione teorica conclusiva si propone di collegare il costrutto di Comunità di Pratica ai recenti sviluppi teorici sulla Soggettività. / According to the Community of Practice and the Situated Action Theories, the general aim of the research is the evaluation of the interactive, relational and communicative dimensions of the introduction and use of an interactive clinical-nursing record by medical professionals (doctors and nurses) Communities of Practice. In particular, the two studies investigate, from a psychosocial perspective, the emergence (first study) and the process (second study) of Communities related to the New Technologies, estimating if this kind of communities can be properly considered as Communities of Practice, referring also to the Identity/Subjectivity dimension. The results offers interesting practical implications -from the interpersonal and organizational point of view- on communication and identity aspects of the relationship among colleagues and between doctors and nurses. The last objective is then to try to answer to the question if it’s possible to assume a “subjectivity of practice”: a conclusive theoretical proposal aims to rely the Community of practice theory to the recent progress in Subjectivity concept.