O presente trabalho teve como objetivo central compreender um sentido identitário de nação construído pela Minissérie Grande Sertão: Veredas por meio de gêneros e temas. O referencial teórico e procedimentos adotados possibilitaram compreender a articulação entre gêneros literários, gêneros do discurso, gêneros televisuais e acabamento temático numa perspectiva de construção histórica de um sentido de nação socialmente determinado. Essa abordagem abriu-nos caminho para discutir questões referentes aos diversos enfoques teóricos sobre a problemática dos gêneros no campo da Comunicação. Analisamos os discursos dos principais artífices da minissérie, os discursos da imprensa sobre a minissérie e os elementos constitutivos da minissérie com base em uma perspectiva dialógica em que a dimensão de significação das relações humanas é permeada pela ideologia do enunciado. O estudo da minissérie Grande Sertão: Veredas revelou que a escolha temática e o tratamento estético estão sujeitos às injunções sociais, que, em certa medida, privilegiam a abordagem de um ou de outro tema. Como resultado dessas discussões, identificamos características do gênero minissérie permeadas por um acabamento temático até certo ponto inovador demonstrado pelo tratamento estético diferenciado de alguns elementos narrativos, como por exemplo: personagens, sonorização, ambiente. Enfim, o acabamento temático e o tratamento estético se articulam harmoniosamente e se concretizam num produto artístico no qual é possível discernir o gênero como articulador de um modelo de interpretação e de visão do mundo. / The central target of this work is to comprehend a sense of nation identity built by the television miniseries Grande Sertão: Veredas through gender and theme. The theoretical referential and procedures adopted allow to understand the articulation between literary genders, discourse genders, televisual genders and thematic finishing in a perspective of historical construction of socially determined sense of nation. This approach has opened to us a path to discuss questions referring to several theoretical focus about the question of genders in Communication. The miniseries main personages discourses, the press discourses about the miniseries and the miniseries constitutive elements were analyzed based in a dialogical perspective where a signification dimension of human relations is permeated by the enunciation ideology. The study of the miniseries Grande Sertão: Veredas revealed that the thematic choice and the aesthetic treatment are subject to social injunctions which, in certain measure, privilege the approach of one or other themes. As result of these discussions, characteristics of the miniseries gender were observed permeated by a thematic finishing untill certain point innovative. This was demonstrated by the aesthetic finishing differentiated from some narrative elements, for instance: personages, sonorousness and ambient. In short, the thematic finishing articulates itself harmoniously and turn into an a artistic product in which is possible to discern the gender as the articulator of a paradigm of interpretation and a world vision.

O presente trabalho teve como objetivo central compreender um sentido identitário de nação construído pela Minissérie Grande Sertão: Veredas por meio de gêneros e temas. O referencial teórico e procedimentos adotados possibilitaram compreender a articulação entre gêneros literários, gêneros do discurso, gêneros televisuais e acabamento temático numa perspectiva de construção histórica de um sentido de nação socialmente determinado. Essa abordagem abriu-nos caminho para discutir questões referentes aos diversos enfoques teóricos sobre a problemática dos gêneros no campo da Comunicação. Analisamos os discursos dos principais artífices da minissérie, os discursos da imprensa sobre a minissérie e os elementos constitutivos da minissérie com base em uma perspectiva dialógica em que a dimensão de significação das relações humanas é permeada pela ideologia do enunciado. O estudo da minissérie Grande Sertão: Veredas revelou que a escolha temática e o tratamento estético estão sujeitos às injunções sociais, que, em certa medida, privilegiam a abordagem de um ou de outro tema. Como resultado dessas discussões, identificamos características do gênero minissérie permeadas por um acabamento temático até certo ponto inovador demonstrado pelo tratamento estético diferenciado de alguns elementos narrativos, como por exemplo: personagens, sonorização, ambiente. Enfim, o acabamento temático e o tratamento estético se articulam harmoniosamente e se concretizam num produto artístico no qual é possível discernir o gênero como articulador de um modelo de interpretação e de visão do mundo. / The central target of this work is to comprehend a sense of nation identity built by the television miniseries Grande Sertão: Veredas through gender and theme. The theoretical referential and procedures adopted allow to understand the articulation between literary genders, discourse genders, televisual genders and thematic finishing in a perspective of historical construction of socially determined sense of nation. This approach has opened to us a path to discuss questions referring to several theoretical focus about the question of genders in Communication. The miniseries main personages discourses, the press discourses about the miniseries and the miniseries constitutive elements were analyzed based in a dialogical perspective where a signification dimension of human relations is permeated by the enunciation ideology. The study of the miniseries Grande Sertão: Veredas revealed that the thematic choice and the aesthetic treatment are subject to social injunctions which, in certain measure, privilege the approach of one or other themes. As result of these discussions, characteristics of the miniseries gender were observed permeated by a thematic finishing untill certain point innovative. This was demonstrated by the aesthetic finishing differentiated from some narrative elements, for instance: personages, sonorousness and ambient. In short, the thematic finishing articulates itself harmoniously and turn into an a artistic product in which is possible to discern the gender as the articulator of a paradigm of interpretation and a world vision.

This study addresses the concept of fair governance based on an empirical study with marginalized groups, primarily Muslims, and their interaction with government agencies as its salient locus of investigation. Employing the research method of in-depth interviewing, I present a qualitative analysis of 35 semi-structured interviews with Muslims and government administrators. The methodological framework based on which these interviews are interpreted is rooted in the tradition of social constructivism as manifested in the grounded theory perspective of Charmaz. My examination of the hitherto unspoken political visions of the study participants and their shared perspectives offers pragmatic solutions to create greater equity and fairer inclusion of the marginalized in civic and political dialogues and in the administrative practice of government. Remarkably, the cultural changes towards justice and inclusion in the Government of British Columbia manifest that fair government is committed to creating a fundamental transformation in favour of marginalized groups. I find the most promising approach for such transformation occurs where bottom up and dynamic approaches of civil society are aligned with top down approaches of government to justice. The findings suggest that fair governance enhances its functionality and capacity through reflecting universal universalism in its policies and practices, heartening public spirituality and moving towards a more humane modernity rather than the extant western model of modernity. Thus, fair governance calls for diversity in expression of religious identity and challenges the mistaken images of Muslim women. Subsequently, fair government welcomes female religious actors, who act upon religious values, to its administration and respects their choice of clothing encompassing the scarf. Fair government, at all levels, ameliorates the ethical standards of its employees and employs authentic leaders, who act in a virtuous manner, care about employees’ deeply held values, and implement direct communication with staff. Such government supports legislative and constitutional reforms to consider a different outlook of the marginalized on political and social concerns, respects religious practices, honours Muslims’ identity and interpretation of life, and supports individuals who aim to improve humanity in Canada and its occupational settings. Rethinking Islamophobia in the context of the distinct need of government administrators for the institutional education about Islam, as a key finding of the study, depicts the emergence of “Islamoexploria”, as a new expression, which I coin. In my study, there is ample evidence to suggest that a sample of government administrators in British Columbia is in the age of post Islamophobia since they, as pioneers, have passed the stage of Islamophobia and entered a new era of “Islamoexploria”. Thus, they have produced the profound socio-cultural changes towards understanding Islam by shifting from fear of, ostensibly, the unknown to knowledge about the unknown and to approaches that are more sympathetic to Muslims. This finding suggests that fair government facilitates the journey from western Islamophobia, a demonstration of old racism, to “Islamoexploria”, a contemporary thirst for knowledge about Islam. Concurrently, Muslims remain responsible to contribute to fairness at large by role modeling their religious values, which greatly promote justice, compassionate attitudes, and humanitarian actions. / Graduate / 2022-12-07