This thesis presents some articulations of environmentalism in Italy. Using the Italian environmental association Legambiente as entry point, it explores how the vision of a collective environmental conscience is constructed, represented, claimed and contested in the 2013 edition of the association’s principal campaign, Goletta Verde. The integration of theoretical tools [narrative-networks (Lejano et al. 2013), matters of concern (Latour 2008), imagined audiences (Litt 2012) and performance and impression management (Goffman 1959)], and research methods [fieldwork, interviews, participant observation, and the use of extensive literature], reveals analytical findings divided in three parts - how the campaign narrative is constructed, what are some of the discontinuities encountered, and what are implications of the associative vision for environmentalism and its study by anthropologists.

As a hauntological artist, I deconstruct my silenced First Nation Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) ancestry as I look towards the intergenerational narratives of my grandmother, mother, and I. As I employ the methodology of a/r/tography, the intersection of autobiography and art-making, I utilize diverse art forms to find that g(hosts) reside amongst spaces of liminality. Supported by the methodology of a/r/tography, as I draw on works which blur the boundary between past and present, self and other, I deconstruct the silencing of my First Nation lineage by creating three art(works). These art(works) are placed within an exhibition catalogue and inquire into 1) the specters that loom between the evocative objects of our narratives, 2) how script-writing and the script’s performance can reveal g(hosts) in spaces of liminality, and 3) how sculptures facilitate spectral movement. Each individual art(work) plays a role in breaking the silence. A(wake), specters arise.

In March 2011, following the self-immolation of a Syrian man named Hasan Ali Akleh, several demonstrations were staged across Syria, leading to the arrest of many Syrians in the town of Deraa. These demonstrations escalated into an ongoing conflict in most cities and towns, known as the “Syrian Conflict” (aka “Syrian Crisis,” “Syrian Civil War,” or “Syrian Uprising”). The conflict has resulted in the worst humanitarian disaster since World War II and the Rwandan genocide. According to recent published reports by many international organizations (e.g. United Nations, Amnesty International, Europa), 11.5% of Syria’s population has been killed or injured since the conflict erupted in March 2011, more than 500,000 people have died, over 5 million refugees have fled Syria since 2011, and there has been massive destruction in Syrian cities and towns. This dissertation draws on narrative theory, narrative features, narrative framing, media responsibility, and the representation of the Other to provide a theoretical and conceptual foundation and fulfill the dissertation’s objectives. To do this, it has established a theoretical and conceptual model of analysis specific to the event in question to investigate how the quotations and narratives of Syrian citizens, delivered as texts presented in translation in English-language newspapers, narrate, frame, and represent the Syrian humanitarian disaster. This dissertation also scrutinizes media responsibility of the selected English-language newspapers as revealed in the selected and translated quotations and narratives. The dissertation methodologically utilizes a qualitative narrative analysis research design, and analyzes a purposive sample of translated quotations and narratives in 404 news texts from the online versions of the three following English-language newspapers: the British The Guardian, the American The New York Times, and the Canadian National Post. The findings of this dissertation ultimately encourage a better understanding of the crucial role that translation plays in narrating, framing, and representing humanitarian disasters within global media outlets.

Drawing on traditions of cultural geography and creativity, the environmental humanities, and critical geographic theory, this dissertation includes five articles that develop geopoetics as a sub-field of the geohumanities. It sketches the contours of three modes of geopoetics: as creative geography, as literary geography, and as geophilosophy. Through site-based projects at three Sonoran Desert ecological research and tourism sites, it furthers the use of artistic and literary practice in geohumanities research, employs that practice to interrogate climate change and Anthropocene narratives, and addresses the role of art and literature in environmental issues. In addition, it utilizes the development and teaching of a community course on climate change and poetry as an additional "site" of research, to illustrate the role of arts and humanities approaches to global environmental change. Drawing on the content of the climate change and poetry course, it also includes a close reading of the work of five contemporary Indigenous ecopoets in relation to climate narratives. This dissertation proposes that geopoetics, literally "earth-making," is broadly relevant to questions of socio-ecological futures and is a means to imagine and enact other ways of inhabiting the world.

There is a long history of criticising the construction industry for its lack of innovation as a source of competitive advantage. However, through a critical literature review, it was found that the problem with managing innovation in construction has its roots in a misconception of innovation and indeed the industry is a source of new ideas. This thesis draws on prior publications in the field of innovation management, organisational narratives and sensemaking theory and aims to analyse innovation perception within the construction industry, focusing on the meanings attributed by the industry’s practitioners and policy makers. In contrast to the dominant positivist and rationalistic approach in studying construction innovation, this research employs a qualitative, interpretative, social constructionist perspective. Data is incorporated through twenty semi-structured interviews with practitioners who work within the UK construction firms as well as UK government reports published regarding the progress review of performance of the construction industry. The findings of the study indicated that there is a disconnection between managerial frameworks of innovation and practitioners’ action and their narratives. Through the viewpoint of sensemaking theory, this study argues that the construction of meaning of innovation is a dynamic process that can be changed constantly over a period of time. In narrating innovation, the practitioners draw on their own real-world experiences of a situation and the characteristics of the organisations which they work in. Moreover, individuals’ stories often are associated with the dominant popular examples of innovation mobilised with the organisational strategic settings and government initiatives in order to provide a shared perspective. This study demonstrates a discursive model of innovation, assigning the individuals’ innovation within an organisation as ‘situational innovation’ and ‘contextual innovation’ and the government report and policy makers’ innovation as ‘rhetorical innovation’. There has been limited application of a narrative approach to innovation in the domain of the construction industry. This thesis has provided theoretical and practical contributions through the application of narrative and innovation within the context of the construction industry. It has also demonstrated the value of the narrative approach to understanding innovation perception within a construction industry context, while identifying its limitations as a research method. The findings of the research further recommend implications for construction industry policy makers. Policy makers can tap into the ‘situational innovation’ and ‘contextual innovation’ to promote government programmes and policies, especially those concerned with change and innovation in the industry.

Orientador: Guilhermo Raul Ruben / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T01:36:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Muniz_CatiaRegina_D.pdf: 2639930 bytes, checksum: 0b16c002f1864bcfa38a65687ea86d94 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Esta tese propõe-se a analisar as trajetórias de uma empresa transnacional, a qual será descrita a partir das narrativas de três gerações de uma família de trabalhadores de uma fábrica localizada no interior do Estado de São Paulo. A proposta deste trabalho é muito mais do que apenas contar a história de uma empresa privada, mas escrever sobre as representações que seus trabalhadores e trabalhadoras elaboraram sobre ela, cujos relatos não falam apenas desta empresa, como também de si, de relações, de valores, de política e da história local / Abstract: This work attempts to analyse the selection process practiced within an enterprise of chemistry area in the region of São Paulo. This research privileged the gender relations, using ethnography as a methodological approach. The ethnographic research, conducted in this entrerprise, pursuits to interpret in this relations the representations that workers, women and men, do about ¿female¿ and ¿male¿, the sexual division, the output process and work¿s environment / Doutorado / Doutor em Ciências Sociais

Orientador: Rosana Teresa Onocko Campos / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T14:24:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Baccari_IvanaOliveiraPreto_M.pdf: 1579922 bytes, checksum: 195b5377fa4df5671e2d6b27b8d4d98f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Estudo conceitual sobre o uso de narrativas em Saúde. Parte-se de um panorama sobre paradigmas usados na Saúde Coletiva para, em seguida, aprofundar-se na noção de narratividade como princípio epistêmico, seja apenas de forma instrumental ou como instância metodológica estruturada a partir do pensamento do filósofo Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) - particularmente elaboradas nos livros Tempo e Narrativa (Tomo I, 1994), A Memória, A História, O Esquecimento (2012) e no artigo Documentos - Narratividad, fenomenología y hermenéutica, publicado na revista Anàlisi 25 (p. 189- 207, 2000). Discutem-se princípios da pesquisa qualitativa em Saúde Mental, defendendo-se as concepções de racionalidade e cientificidade em oposição à impertinência das de verdade absoluta e neutralidade para a construção científica / Abstract: A conceptual study of narratives in Health based on a panorama of paradigms used in Collective Health in order to, afterwards, deepen the notion of narrativity as an epistemological principal, be it in an instrumental manner or as a methodology structured on the ideas of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913 - 2005) particularly developed in the books: Tempo e Narrativa (Temps et récit) (Volume I, 1994), A Memória, A História, O Esquecimento (La mémoire, l'histoire, l'oubli) (2012) and the paper Documentos - Narratividad, fenomenología y hermenéutica, published in the journal Anàlisi 25 (p. 189-207, 2000). The principles of qualitative research in Mental Health are discussed defending the conceptions of racionality and scientificity in oposition to the irrelevance of the absolute truth and neutrality for scientific construction / Mestrado / Política, Planejamento e Gestão em Saúde / Mestra em Saúde Coletiva

As artes sequenciais (AS) ou narrativas gráficas (NG) são uma modalidade de expressão híbrida (multimodal) composta de texto imagem e texto palavra. Ao longo de toda sua história, as NG têm enfrentado diversos desafios na academia e no mercado, e, mesmo sendo um assunto de complexa multidisciplinaridade, é objeto de poucas pesquisas no design visual, que possui amplo conhecimento em metodologias projetuais e características intrinsecamente multidisciplinares, além de expertise técnica em comunicação visual. Esta pesquisa busca analisar os princípios metodológicos de projeto visual e o processo de produção das narrativas gráficas partir de pesquisa bibliográfica, fazendo uma análise etapa a etapa de metodologias selecionadas nas áreas de Design Generalista (MUNARI, 2008; BAXTER, 1995), Design Visual (FUENTES, 2006; DENARDI E GERALDES, 2016; MAYA, FRANCESCHI E NEROSKY, 2016; HALUCH, 2013), Narrativas (BEREITER E SCARDAMALIA, 1987; INGERMAN, 2014) e Narrativas Gráficas (LARSON, 2014; SALERNO, 2011; MOORE, 2003; BYRNE, 1999; MATEU-MESTRE, 2010). Utilizando bibliografia sobre projeto visual, imagem, linguagem visual, narrativas e narrativas gráficas como base para a construção de conhecimento teórico, as etapas são segmentadas em fases, utilizando como base as metodologias projetuais generalistas, mostrando que existem benefícios para os profissionais produtores de NG em utilizar as metodologias projetuais do Design Visual como linha projetual para a produção de HQ. / The sequential arts (AS) or graphic narratives (NG) are a modality of hybrid modality (multimodal) composed of image and word. Throughout its history, NG has faced several challenges in academia and in the market, and although it is a subject of complex multidisciplinarity, it has little research in the visual design field, that has ample knowledge in design methodologies and characteristics intrinsically multidisciplinary, as well as technical expertise in visual communication. This research seeks to analyze the methodological principles of visual design and the process of production of graphic narratives, making a step by step analysis of selected methodologies in the areas of General Design (MUNARI, 2008; BAXTER, 1995), Visual Design (FUENTES, 2006; DENARDI E GERALDES, 2016; MAYA, FRANCESCHI E NEROSKY, 2016; HALUCH, 2013), Narratives (BEREITER E SCARDAMALIA, 1987; INGERMAN, 2014) and Graphic Narratives (LARSON, 2014; SALERNO, 2011; MOORE, 2003; BYRNE, 1999; MATEU-MESTRE, 2010). Using bibliographic research on visual design, image, visual language, narratives and graphic narratives as the basis for the construction of theoretical knowledge, the steps are segmented in phases, using as base the generalist design methodologies, showing that there are benefits for the professional producers of NG to use the Visual Design methodologies as the design backbone for NG production.

As produções científicas sobre adoção, especialmente no campo da Psicologia, em geral são estudos que avaliam as crianças adotadas, muitas vezes comparando-as com as crianças não-adotadas. A criança aparece como foco principal, porém poucos estudos investigam a adoção a partir da ótica da própria criança. Os estudos falam sobre a criança e não com ela. No entanto, enquanto parte constitutiva do processo de adoção, a criança está submetida a uma série de fatores que circunscrevem este processo; ao mesmo tempo em que ela se relaciona com eles, negocia e, até certo ponto, tem a possibilidade de modificar o percurso do seu desenvolvimento. Neste trabalho, defende-se a idéia de que para se compreender os processos de adoção, faz-se necessário conhecer as significações construídas sobre o processo de adoção por parte daqueles que o estão vivenciando. Deixando o âmbito individual da adoção, propomo-nos a investigá-la enquanto relacional, contextual, abrangendo aspectos sociais e culturais, dentro de uma visão de processo. Nesse sentido, interessa-nos conhecer a perspectiva da criança sobre seu processo de adoção, assumindo-a como colaboradora de nossa pesquisa. Para tanto, optamos por um referencial que contemple essa complexidade, daí o trabalho com a perspectiva teórico-metodológica da Rede de Significações. Conversamos individualmente com três crianças entre 6 e 7 anos, que vivenciaram uma adoção tardia, durante seis encontros domiciliares facilitados por um material de apoio. Os pais adotantes foram entrevistados durante uma visita. Todos os encontros foram registrados por meio de gravações em áudio, fotografias dos materiais produzidos pelas crianças e notas de campo. As gravações foram transcritas integralmente e revisadas. O corpus da pesquisa foi composto pelas narrativas produzidas durante as conversas com as crianças, entrevistas com os pais e notas de campo. Entendemos esse contexto de investigação como sendo dialógico, em que as narrativas são construídas e situadas na relação entre pesquisador e participante. Ao narrar, as crianças aprendem sobre si e constroem significados. A partir das perspectivas dessas crianças, aprendemos sobre a relação intrínseca e dialética existente entre o processo de adoção tardia e os outros contextos (o abrigo, a família biológica e o Sistema Judiciário). No entanto, ao mesmo tempo em que evidenciou-se a necessidade de valorizar a história de vida, também evidenciou-se um processo de silenciamento do passado dessas crianças circunscrevendo as práticas associadas ao processo de adoção. Dessa forma, essa ambigüidade presente no processo de adoção tardia nos sugeriu a necessidade de um programa de acompanhamento familiar pré e pós-adoção, em que tanto a criança como seus pais possam ocupar um lugar com direito à voz, e que suas histórias de vida venham a ser respeitadas e valorizadas, assim como as expectativas mútuas entre pais e filhos possam ser discutidas em diferentes momentos. / Research on adoption is usually characterized by studies that evaluate the children: they talk about the children but not with them. Few studies have investigated adoption from the children?s perspective. In this work, we highlight the idea that to be able to understand the adoption process, it is important to take into consideration the meanings attributed to adoption from those experiencing it. This research aimed at investigating the children?s narratives about their adoption process. A theoretical-methodological approach called Network of Meanings has guided the construction of this corpus and its analysis. We have talked with three children around 6 and 7 years-old, who have experienced late adoption. Six interviews were made with each child at their own home, having props as external cues. The adoptive parents were interviewed during one visit. The interviews were registered through audiotape, complemented by pictures of the children?s productions and field notes. The tapes were fully transcribed and revised. The analysis was based on the children?s narratives, parents?narratives, and field notes. We understand this investigation as a dialogic context where the narratives are constructed and situated at the relationship between researcher and participant. By narrating, the children constructed meanings about their life history and may have learned about themselves. From these children?s perspectives we found out about the dialectic and intrinsic relationship between the late adoption process and other contexts, such as foster-home institution, biologic family and Judiciary System. While the value of life history became evident, at the same time a past silencing process also became evident, constraining the practices related to the adoption process. Thus, by listening to these children, we recognized the necessity of pre and post-adoption family programs in which children and parents could have voice, respect and value for their life history, and in which their mutual expectations could be discussed at different moments.

Drygt var tredje person i Sverige kommer någon gång vara med om ett cancerbesked. Att få diagnosen cancer kan göra livet annorlunda. Alla som drabbas av cancer dör inte, men många blir aktuella för palliativ vård och går över till ett lindrande skede istället för botande. Sjuksköterskan ansvarar inte bara för patientens välmående utan även de närståendes där vikten läggs på att bedriva en familjefokuserad omvårdnad där inkludering av närstående är viktigt. Syftet med litteraturstudien var att lyfta de närståendes erfarenheter av att leva med en person som är döende i cancer. Studien genomfördes som en allmän litteraturstudie med induktiv ansats där tio resultatartiklar valdes ut. Fyra huvudteman och nio underteman formades efter resultatbearbetning där huvudtemana blev: Stå bredvid, Pausa sitt eget liv, Vara med och Tacksamhet. Slutsatsen i litteraturstudien var att närstående till en person som var döende i cancer, kände en oro för att den döende personen skulle avlida ensam eller med obehandlade smärtor. Närstående var i behov av bra stöd och vägledning från sjuksköterskan. Genom att ta del av de närståendes upplevelser kan sjuksköterskan få en ökad förståelse, vilket underlättar för de närstående att ta emot stöd. / Approximately every third person in Sweden will be a part of a cancer diagnosis. When the diagnosis is set, the life may change. All of those who get a cancer diagnosis will not die but some will reach a palliative stage where the goal is to ease pain and anxiety instead of curative treatment. The registered nurse is not only responsible for the patient's wellbeing but also the wellbeing of the relatives. It´s important to conduct a family focused nursing care where the inclusion of close relatives is important. The aim of this study was to embrace the relatives´ experiences of living with a person who is dying from cancer. The study was conducted as a general literature study with an inductive approach in which ten result articles were selected. Four main themes and nine sub-themes were formed after the results were processed, where the main themes became: Standing on the side, Pause their own life, Be with and Gratitude. The conclusion of the literature study was that relatives of a person dying from cancer felt a distinct concern that the dying person would die alone or with untreated pain. The relatives were in need of better support and guidance from the registered nurse. By taking part of the relatives´ experiences, the registered nurse can gain an increased understanding, which makes it easier for the relatives to receive support.