The following report documents the evolution of the script The Other Side of Shadow and the effects that extensive rewriting, character work, and story restructuring have had on the author. / text

Collaborative ethnography is an innovative outgrowth of the postmodern debate and is defined as a "...co-conceived and/or co-written text (with local collaborators) that consider[s] multiple audiences outside the confines of academic discourse, including local constituencies..." (Lassiter n.d.:11). As a research and writing method, collaborative ethnographies seek to address ethical issues of authority, ownership, audience, relevance, reciprocity and representation. In this respect, I document and critically reflect on the collaborative process of the Other Side of Middletown project (OSM)—a collaboratively based ethnographic venture which involved local experts (community advisors), ethnographers and BSU students. I present the OSM project as a case study that adds to the existing data on the approaches to collaborative ethnography and explore how collaborative ethnography is useful to the negotiation of current postmodern debates. Furthermore, I track and document the collaborative process, and then synthesize the ways that collaboration was both effective, and not effective through data collected via structured and semi-structured informal interviews, focus groups and participant observation of the project collaborators.The significance of my thesis rests in documenting the collaborative process to reflect on the political, moral and ethical intricacies of present-day ethnography and to offer criticism, suggestions and/or techniques for better and more clearly articulated collaborative research and epistemology. Morespecifically, the value of this thesis is supported by the critical reflection of how the black community was represented by the OSM project. The OSM project is an interdisciplinary, intercultural, collaborative response to the debate of Western historical thinking. The collaborative approach used in the OSM project is an experimental method from the postmodern reflections and critiques that aim to resolve our ethical trepidations.While the collaborative approach is not relevant to all ethnographic research, the results of my research will be vital to the continuation of ethnography for academic purposes, and more importantly, for communities and consultants. / Department of Anthropology

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sergio Eduardo Lima Prudente.pdf: 2138844 bytes, checksum: 9f850eb2fb73448497b7bfa5f6a33850 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-25 / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo / This research proposes to present a study about shame from the point of view of lacanian psychoanalysis. As a starting point and guiding principle, we take as a reference the observation that shame is ( ) the hole from which the master signifier arises , given in 1970 by Lacan, in his seminar The Other Side of Psychoanalysis. This election puts before us two perspectives, explored in this present investigation: 1) the construction of a conceptual elaboration concerning shame and its relation to the notions of hole, crack, castration and repetition, that allows us to develop a structural point of shame in the subject; 2) considering the historical contingency in which Lacan stated his observation about shame mentioned above, that is, the moment when he was addressing direct criticisms against the students and the production of science for the market, we situate the structural element of shame in relation to the status of the subjectivity engendered under capitalism, that is, a subjectivity oriented for the obliteration of references, traces, singularity, that promotes a degeneration of the master signifier. This second perspective allowed us to enter the political/clinical/ethical aspect of shame, grounded in the passages of Lacan's work where shame was proposed as a fundamental element for the clinic and for the direction of the cure. The sprouting of shame was also proposed as a political/clinical counter-experience for the subject, considering that the discourse of the analyst is the one which can face the discourse of the capitalist, precisely because it can recover the singular experience of jouissance and its singular trace / Esta tese pretende apresentar um estudo sobre a vergonha do ponto de vista da psicanálise de orientação lacaniana. Como ponto de partida e fio condutor para a pesquisa, tomamos como referência a observação de que a vergonha é o buraco onde brota o significante-mestre, proferida em 1970, por Lacan, em seu seminário O Avesso da Psicanálise. Esta escolha nos coloca diante de duas perspectivas que atravessamos nesta tese: 1) a construção de uma elaboração conceitual sobre a vergonha e sua relação com a noção de buraco, furo, falha, castração e repetição, que nos possibilita elaborarmos um ponto estrutural da vergonha no sujeito; 2) levando-se em conta a contingência histórica em que Lacan fez a observação acima, ou seja, momento em que fazia uma crítica direta aos estudantes e à produção da ciência no mercado, situamos o elemento estrutural da vergonha em relação a uma subjetividade do sujeito no capitalismo, ou seja, uma subjetividade voltada para o apagamento das referências, dos traços, da singularidade, que engendra uma degenerescência do significante-mestre. Esta segunda perspectiva nos permitiu avançar no aspecto clínico/político/ético da vergonha tomando como fundamento os momentos em que ela foi proposta como elemento fundamental na clínica e na direção da cura. Aliado a isto, a vergonha foi apresentada como contraexperiência político/clínica para o sujeito, levando-se em conta o discurso do analista como o que pode fazer frente ao discurso do capitalista, justamente por recuperar a experiência singular de gozo e seu traço singular

I pull from what I see in my urban surroundings. There is always a sense of dread fused with optimism that prevails. Is it beautiful? Fragments of low-riders and tricked-out cars become symbols of desire and the glowing red lens of a stop light becomes a Cyclops poised to defend his garden. Candy-coated, blooming, dripping and seductively slick confronts you with the obvious warning: STOP! You could be next… …The grass really is greener on The Other Side of the Fence. At least until winter comes.

In the stories of olden times and in those of our own American Indians, we learned of the picture writing of primitive peoples. It became an early method of recording people's thoughts. This was a very useful method at a time when the race was young. This in turn was the beginning of our alphabet, later the beginning of shaping letters into words, and then word into sentences and paragraphs. As our world has grown older, new idea have come into use and we are no longer content to live as our grandparents lived. We travel by fast express trains, high powered auto- mobiles, airplanes, or zeppelins. The radio gives us the news before our papers containing it are on the street. are not able to talk with people on the other side of the world. Business men find this a very valuable means of doing business when time means money. The motion pictures bring us the story of the book we have not had time to read and the characters from its pages talk to us from the screen. In short, we must have quicker ways of doing things.