Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-86). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1974. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: leaves 504-519.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-86). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 413-442).

Este trabalho visa testar a hipótese do desaparecimento da classe média brasileira. Ainda, procura-se estabelecer a distinção entre os conceitos de desigualdade e de polarização, tendo em vista serem conceitos muito próximos, e analisar a evolução de ambas as medidas entre 1987 e 2003 para o Brasil, traçando-se um paralelo com o Rio Grande do Sul. Para alcançar tais objetivos, utilizou-se ferramentas estáticas de mensuração, nas quais se destacam o coeficiente de Gini, para medir a desigualdade, e o índice de Wolfson, para medir a polarização. Os resultados apontam que a hipótese não é verdadeira. Pelo contrário, mostram que a classe média brasileira está aumentando. Por outro lado, evidenciam que a desigualdade brasileira permanece praticamente estável no período. Para a economia do RS os resultados apontam para a mesma direção, porém com os dois índices apresentando evolução mais significativa. / The objective of this dissertation is to analyse the hypothesis of a decreasing number of individuals in Brazil belonging to its middles classes. The work tackles a conceptual distinction between the notions of inequality and polarization, focusing on their measures for Rio Grande do Sul and Brazil (1987-2003). To reach such objectives, used static tools of measurement, which detach the coefficient of Gini, to measure the inaquality, and the index of Wolfson, to measure the polarization. The results point that the hypothesis is not true. For the opposite, they show that the Brazilian middle class is increasing. On the other hand, they evidence that the Brazilian inaquality practically remains steady in the period. In respect to the economy of the RS the results point to the same direction, however with the two indices presenting more significant evolution.

My dissertation is a historicist examination of the circulatory relationship among popular fiction, theatre, and related non–fiction texts in mid–nineteenth–century America. Though previous critics have acknowledged interactions between mid–century theatre and print, none have fully fleshed out the performative contexts or social consequences of this interplay. In contrast, I contend that the narrative and visual exchanges between theatre and literature are crucial to deciphering how different social classes formed and distinguished themselves. My central claim is that cultural arbiters from the print world (including activist authors and advice–text writers) and from the public amusement realm (entrepreneurial theatre producers and melodrama playwrights) poached each other's work in order to capitalize on preexisting consumer communities. By cultivating socially homogenous audiences, these arbiters became vital contributors to the consolidation of self–conscious, class–based identities in nineteenth–century America. Chapter One examines George Lippard's urban–crime novel The Quaker City; or The Monks of Monk Hall (1844). In it, I argue that Lippard reproduces apocalyptic scenes of disaster familiar to readers from spectacle–centric theatrical melodramas in order to unify a diverse working class. Chapter Two contends that W.H. Smith's temperance melodrama The Drunkard (1844) co–opts the real–life speeches of working–class temperance lecturers and reframes them as a middle–class landlord's story of redemption; through featuring this popular show at their curiosity museum theatres, proprietors Moses Kimball and P.T. Barnum established the nation's first theatrical spaces solely for middle–class audiences. Chapter Three claims that the 1860s proliferation of home theatrical guidebooks—which detailed how to construct makeshift stages, simulate special effects, and adapt well–known stage dramas—offered the emergent middle classes a viable substitute for commercial theatergoing and a key outlet to reinforce their social status. My final chapter studies Louisa May Alcott's sensation novella Behind a Mask; or, A Woman's Power (1866), a work which engages the dissertation's collective themes of theatricality, social class, and private space. By depicting a professional actress utilizing her theatrical skills to infiltrate an aristocratic family, Alcott presents the private estate as the ideal venue to gain social status and reveals performance as a critical means for upward mobility.

The thesis is a study of migration and its links to belonging, class, national identity and recognition in United Arab Emirates (UAE) federation. It focuses on Pakistani migrants, especially Pakistani professionals in Dubai, which is the second largest Emirate of the UAE because of its territorial extension and economic production (Davidson, 2008a). It is not only an empirical study but also partly a conceptual and analytical treatise on migration in the GCC countries. By comparing the extant literature on migration in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and the findings of my own field research, I argue the need to move beyond concepts such as belonging despite exclusion (Vora, 2013), citizenship as belonging (Vora & Kock, 2015) and nationalism for nationals (Kock, 2015), which have dominated the literature on migration in this region, to better grasp that belonging, class and national identity are contested and situational. Dubai as a transit lounge is an expression used by one of my Pakistani participants to describe the dynamic nature of the city. But more than that, it was used to emphasize that foreign workers life in the emirate is characterized by temporariness. The UAE authorities have categorized people through the citizenship law (no. 17, 1972) in Emiratis and non-Emiratis by conceiving of them as two distinct categories. In my view, this might be interpreted as a fracture between two groups of individuals. In particular, non-Emiratis have been considered and represented in the literature as a monolithic group (Mahdavi, 2011), as disempowered individuals and, especially low-wage migrants, as victims of the market economy over which they cannot wield any control (Kathiravelu, 2016). The extant literature on migration in the GCC countries has portrayed the image of foreign communities in which the role of human agency in the migration experience is underestimated. Starting from the historical evolution of migration in the Arab Gulf region and the links with African and Asian countries, which have contributed towards shaping the ethnic diversity of the UAE and the GCC countries, my research focuses on the presence of Pakistani migrant professionals in Dubai in order to understand the development of migration in the Emirate; the role and importance of the Pakistan Association Dubai (PAD) in contributing towards determining belonging; and therefore how migration affects the Emirati national identity. This thesis challenges the extant literature on migration in the Arab Gulf region by questioning the dichotomy between nationals and non-nationals as two reciprocally-exclusive categories. Instead, it argues the need to look at inter and intra dynamics that take place in the field between the two groups in order to understand how their relations are constructed. It is thus important to consider social interactions between nationals and non-nationals because individuals occupy contradictory and multi-layered locations, spaces and social categories (Yuval-Davis, 2011; Anthias, 2015). This reasoning stems from my historical analysis of ethnic composition and social stratification in the Gulf port cities, especially Dubai, where the coexistence of different ethnic groups resulted from economic exchanges and intermarriages with people coming from African and Asian countries, which in turn contributed towards shaping the ethnic diversity of the region. For example, the construction of belonging cannot be grasped only by looking at non-nationals as an isolated category (Koch, 2015) but it has to be analysed and discussed in relation to others . As such, it is important to consider the role played by migrants and their ethno-national migrant associations in forging the discourse on the Emirati national identity. Migrants, through civic engagement and their participation in the Emirati public sphere, contribute towards strengthening Emirati national identity via their sense of belonging to the country and their agential capacity (e. g. migrant organizations).

Este trabalho visa testar a hipótese do desaparecimento da classe média brasileira. Ainda, procura-se estabelecer a distinção entre os conceitos de desigualdade e de polarização, tendo em vista serem conceitos muito próximos, e analisar a evolução de ambas as medidas entre 1987 e 2003 para o Brasil, traçando-se um paralelo com o Rio Grande do Sul. Para alcançar tais objetivos, utilizou-se ferramentas estáticas de mensuração, nas quais se destacam o coeficiente de Gini, para medir a desigualdade, e o índice de Wolfson, para medir a polarização. Os resultados apontam que a hipótese não é verdadeira. Pelo contrário, mostram que a classe média brasileira está aumentando. Por outro lado, evidenciam que a desigualdade brasileira permanece praticamente estável no período. Para a economia do RS os resultados apontam para a mesma direção, porém com os dois índices apresentando evolução mais significativa. / The objective of this dissertation is to analyse the hypothesis of a decreasing number of individuals in Brazil belonging to its middles classes. The work tackles a conceptual distinction between the notions of inequality and polarization, focusing on their measures for Rio Grande do Sul and Brazil (1987-2003). To reach such objectives, used static tools of measurement, which detach the coefficient of Gini, to measure the inaquality, and the index of Wolfson, to measure the polarization. The results point that the hypothesis is not true. For the opposite, they show that the Brazilian middle class is increasing. On the other hand, they evidence that the Brazilian inaquality practically remains steady in the period. In respect to the economy of the RS the results point to the same direction, however with the two indices presenting more significant evolution.

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