Throughout the twentieth century so-called Poor Whites caused anxiety in countries where racial domination was crucial, such as South Africa, the colonies of European empire and the United States. The Poor Whites were troubling for a number of reasons, not least because they threatened white prestige and the entire system of racial control. The efforts of various governments, organisations and experts to discipline, control and uplift the group necessarily disadvantaged other races. These controls, such as colour bars and Jim Crow laws, had an enormous effect on the countries where the Poor Whites were seen as a problem. The results can still be seen in the profoundly unequal contemporary racial landscape, and which is given expression by protest groups such as Black Lives Matter. Yet the efforts to manage the Poor Whites have thus far been examined on a national basis — as a problem of the United States, or of South Africa, to name just the most significant locales and regimes. This dissertation attempts to expand our understanding of the geography of the Poor Whites by arguing that the ‘Poor White Problem’ was a transnational concern rooted in racial interests that transcended national concerns. The racial solidarity displayed by so-called ‘white men’s countries’ was also extended to the Poor Whites. Efforts to control and discipline the population were thus in service of the white race as a whole, and ignored national interests and national borders. The transnational management of the Poor Whites was done through a network of transnational organisations such as the League of Nations and the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as the careering experts they employed. The dissertation argues that these attempts constituted a transnational ‘governmentality’ according to which these organisations and their experts attempted to discipline a Poor White population that they viewed as transnational in order to uphold white prestige and tacitly maintain both global and local racial systems. This dissertation examines some of the ways in which Poor Whites were disciplined and racially rehabilitated. It examines health and sanitation, education and training, housing standards and the management of urban space, and finally photographic representation.

The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) has been significantly drawing global attention for the past decade. The solving of social, political and economic problems now fully requires the involvement of both the public and private sectors, particularly in the context of developing countries. In Zimbabwe, CSR has mainly been the responsibility of large firms, NGOs and the government. Little has been done to encourage SMEs to take initiative and responsibility on CSR matters, although these SMEs constitute about ninety percent of all economic activities in Zimbabwe. For CSR to be implemented, there is need for access to information. Public libraries are one of the major focal points in the provision of information. These public libraries have vast potential to support CSR initiatives and are capable of partnering with various organisations from different sectors as well. However, when it comes to visibility on CSR, public libraries in Zimbabwe and in other developing countries are almost non-existent. The aim of this study was to investigate the role that public libraries play in promoting CSR to SMEs in Zimbabwe as a means of contributing in shaping policies which ensure that public libraries are more relevant in society through their support of, as well as their involvement in sustainable developmental issues. In order to attain this, the study adopted the interpretive paradigm and the qualitative approach. In addition, the case study design was used, allowing the researcher to obtain detailed information about the Harare City Library in relation to the promotion of CSR to SMEs. The target population for this study included librarians at public libraries in Zimbabwe and the owners or managers of formally registered SMEs in the country. The study revealed that a great number of SMEs have limited knowledge about CSR and do not engage in it. SMEs consider CSR to be mainly philanthropic in nature, as their knowledge does not extend to include other important aspects of the concept. In addition, public libraries are not the major source of CSR information provision to SMEs, although a fair number of SMEs believe that they should be at the forefront. The study recommends that public libraries should reach out to SMEs to promote CSR to them, in addition to marketing the library’s own information resources and services. Public libraries need also to establish strategic alliances with relevant stakeholders as a means of encouraging SMEs to engage in CSR initiatives. / Information Science / M. Inf. (Information Science)

La thèse étudie, à partir du cas des pensionnats privés internationaux de Suisse romande, les mécanismes de l’acquisition d’un pouvoir social sur l’espace et d’une gestion spatiale des ressources, notamment économiques, pour les établissements et pour les élèves. La thèse porte sur les mécanismes par lesquels les pensionnats produisent des ancrages sur le territoire suisse pour les élèves et les anciens élèves. Cette recherche repose sur des entretiens semi-directifs auprès de plusieurs établissements privés, avec directeurs et managers, anciens élèves, enseignants et tuteurs d’internat et sur un travail socio-historique et quantitatif. La première partie étudie au XXe siècle la genèse progressive du secteur du secondaire privé des « pensionnats pour étrangers » et des « écoles internationales » de la région lémanique. L’attraction des grandes fortunes, notamment européennes et états-uniennes, dans ces écoles privées et l’organisation locale de ce secteur éducatif se sont appuyées sur des discours et des pratiques liées aux ressources du territoire suisse. Si les pensionnats suisses occupent aujourd’hui une place périphérique dans le monde international des certifications d’une éducation « d’élite », récemment, de nouveaux processus d’intégration financière mondiale et de défense de la place éducative suisse permettent de redéfinir leur mise en concurrence dans un espace international « d’écoles d’élites ». La deuxième partie porte sur le rôle que joue l’espace suisse dans des stratégies de placement multidimensionnelles en pension par les familles fortunées et sur les rapports à l’espace suisse des élèves et anciens élèves. La notion d’école « refuge » prend un triple sens, celui d’éducation « familiale » et affective de la vie à l’internat, celui d’un évitement des institutions très sélectives sur le plan scolaire et celui lié à un envoi en pension sur le territoire suisse. Les origines nationales des élèves se sont progressivement transformées depuis les années 1950 pour accueillir des nouvelles fortunes non européennes et non américaines, mais les anciens élèves continuent de revenir ou de rester en Suisse. Les forces de rappel des anciens élèves sur le territoire suisse sont le fruit d’une tension : manifestation d’une centralité suisse de leurs carrières financières, espace protecteur face à des incertitudes familiales, politiques et nationales. / The thesis examines how international boarding schools in Switzerland have been producing spatial resources for their students and alumni. The research is based on socio-historical analysis, quantitative analysis, and on semi-directive interviews with headmasters and managers, alumni, teachers and boarding staff at a diversity of international private schools in the Lake Geneva region. The first part of the thesis focuses on the emergence of the private educational sector progressively uniting « boarding schools for foreigners » and « international schools ». Since the beginning of the 20th c., schools have promoted their territorial resources for attracting the very rich, notably from Europe and the United States, and organized sectorial interests accordingly. Swiss boarding schools now have a peripheral part to play in the international spheres of certification and accreditation that govern elite education on a global scale. Nevertheless, recent processes of financialization of the educational sector and ways of protecting the Swiss educational sector contribute to redefine their place within internationalizing governance schemes of elite schools. The second part of the thesis examines the role played by spatial resources in wealthy families’ educational strategies in Switzerland and the spatial relations to Switzerland that students and alumni develop. The notion of « refuge school » or « recovery school » encompasses three dimensions : the « family » education that the boarding schools promote, parental strategies of avoiding selective national educational systems, socio-political determinations. Under the rise of non-European and non-American wealthy clienteles, students’ national origins have changed since the 1950s, but alumni continue to stay or come back to Switzerland. This results from a tension : Swiss centrality for financial careers and protection against family, political and national uncertainties.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-10-18T12:41:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 mirellaloteriosiqueira.pdf: 1095485 bytes, checksum: 141e74e6db7f6995121748dbd35a6048 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-10-25T12:08:17Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 mirellaloteriosiqueira.pdf: 1095485 bytes, checksum: 141e74e6db7f6995121748dbd35a6048 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-25T12:08:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 mirellaloteriosiqueira.pdf: 1095485 bytes, checksum: 141e74e6db7f6995121748dbd35a6048 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-11-23 / A presente dissertação aborda a participação das entidades religiosas na política pública destinada a infância e adolescência em Juiz de Fora no período posterior ao Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente. Trata-se de compreender os desafios que se colocam na atualidade em relação à implementação do Estatuto num cenário em que muita experiência com a tradição conservadora do assistencialismo, do paternalismo e do clientelismo ainda permanece como mecanismo para o enfrentamento da questão social. Além disso, as mudanças do Estado na condução das políticas sociais têm recolocado na agenda a relevância das ações filantrópicas e revalorizado a atuação religiosa neste campo. A intervenção deste tipo de instituição na área social em nosso país não é recente, pelo contrário, marcou a origem do atendimento neste campo atuando pelo viés da caridade, da benemerência, do “amor ao próximo”. No entanto, a existência de experiências locais de inserção de grupos religiosos nas ações sociais de enfrentamento a pobreza contrasta com o que efetivamente sabemos sobre eles, suas práticas e contribuição efetiva. Este trabalho buscou analisar a relação das entidades religiosas com a política de atendimento destinada a crianças e adolescentes no município através da adequação das mesmas aos princípios e diretrizes desta política, em consonância ao Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, e também da relação estabelecida com o Conselho Municipal dos Direitos da Criança e do Adolescente – CMDCA/JF, com o Poder Público Municipal no seu órgão gestor e “executor”, e com o próprio Estatuto. Para tanto, realizamos dezesseis entrevistas com dirigentes das entidades de atendimento e três entrevistas com conselheiros de direito. Entrevistamos também a coordenadora da Equipe de Monitoramento e Avaliação da Secretaria de Política Social, órgão responsável pelo monitoramento das entidades registradas no CMDCA. Optamos ainda pela observação participante no Conselho num período de quatro meses, buscando apreender a dinâmica de funcionamento do mesmo e o jogo de correlação de forças nesse espaço, que supúnhamos ter um peso significativo nas discussões e encaminhamentos à política. Além da participação nas reuniões plenárias quinzenais, participamos também de dois eventos promovidos pelo Conselho. O procedimento metodológico foi complementado com o levantamento e análise documental referente à política municipal de atendimento a infância e adolescência em Juiz de Fora, às entidades de atendimento e ao Conselho Municipal dos Direitos da Criança e do Adolescente. Pretendeu-se contribuir com o debate dos direitos de cidadania e da democracia e com a apreensão dos desafios da Política para a infância e adolescência na escala municipal, arena onde o embate entre filantropia e cidadania acontece. / This dissertation deals with the participation of religious organizations in public policy for the children and adolescents in Juiz de Fora, in the period after the Statute for Children and Adolescents. It is about understanding the challenges faced at the present time in relation to the implementation of the Statute, in a scene of great experience with the conservative tradition of welfarism, paternalism and patronage still remains as a mechanism for the confrontation of the social issue. Moreover, changes of State in the conduct of social policies are back on the agenda the relevance of the shares philanthropic and revalued the religious activity in this field. The intervention of this kind of institution in the social area in our country is not recent, however, marked the origin of the attendance in this area acting by the charity, the benevolent act, the love of each other. However, the existence of local experiments of insertion of religious groups in social actions to confront poverty contrasts with that, actually, we know about them, their practices and effective contribution. This work searched for analyze the relationship of religious organizations with the policy of attendance for children and adolescents in the town, through the adequacy of them to the principles and guidelines of this policy, according to the Statute of the Child and Adolescent, and also the relationship established with the City Council on the Rights of the Child and Adolescent - CMDCA/JF, with the Municipal Public Power in its manager and “executor” institution, and with its own Statute. Then we performed sixteen interviews with the leaders of the organizations of attendance and three interviews with advisors of law. We also interviewed the coordinator of the Monitoring and Evaluation Team of the Department of Social Policy, the institution responsible for monitoring the organizations registered in the CMDCA. We still decided for the participated observation in the Council, in a period of four months, seeking to apprehend the dynamics of its operation and the game of correlation of forces in this area, that we supposed to have a significant weight in the discussions and referrals to the policy. In addition to the participation in the plenary sessions fortnightly, we also participated in two events promoted by the Council. The methodological procedure was complemented with the survey and the documentary analysis with reference to the municipal policy of attendance for children and adolescents in Juiz de Fora, to the organizations of attendance and to the City Council on the Rights of Children and Adolescents. The intention of this work is to contribute with the discussion of the rights of citizenship and democracy and the apprehension of the challenges of policy for children and adolescents in the municipal scale, arena where the collision between philanthropy and citizenship happen.

Cette thèse a été menée à bien grâce au soutien financier du Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQSC), de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales de l’Université de Montréal (FESP) et du Département d’histoire de l’art de l’Université de Montréal. / À la fin des années 1990 et au début des années 2000, les musées cherchent à renouveler leur image de marque afin d’attirer des publics plus diversifiés. Dans la foulée d’un utopisme généralisé qui caractérise Internet comme une force démocratisante pour les sociétés occidentales, les musées voient une occasion de fidéliser de nouvelles clientèles sur la base d’une participation supposée dialogique et émancipatrice. Les institutions muséales font alors l’acquisition d’œuvres d’art internet et certaines, pionnières, en font même la commande. Pour quelles raisons ? Les cas analysés dans cette recherche permettent d’élucider cette question par l’analyse culturelle des œuvres inaugurales de cette pratique artistique et muséale : Ding an sich (The Canon Series) de Piotr Szyhalski, commandée par le Walker Art Center ; Uncomfortable Proximity de Graham Harwood acquise par la Tate ; IdeaLine de Martin Wattenberg présentée par le Whitney Museum of American Art. Nous constatons que, arrimées à des infrastructures en ligne développées en étroite collaboration avec et par l’industrie technologique, ces œuvres se situent à la rencontre d’intérêts convergents des mondes institutionnel et entrepreneurial. L’industrie technologique trouve dans l’espace muséal internet une opportunité de déployer son offre de service à des clientèles favorables – les œuvres sont un attrait ; l’institution discerne dans l’entreprise un partenaire d’affaires expert à même de raffiner son image en ligne auprès de spectateurs à conquérir – les œuvres sont un atout. Les productions qui en découlent s’immiscent dans des espaces hybrides : entre espace expositionnel et page informationnelle ; entre fonction artistique et discours démocratisant autour de l’œuvre ; entre objet de collection et distinction philanthropique. Au carrefour des relations entre institution et industrie, ces œuvres portent un regard acéré sur leurs conditions d’émergence et mettent au jour les dynamiques muséo-entrepreneuriales qui sous-tendent leur arrivée. Face à des ensembles discursifs connotés, elles sont à même de conceptualiser l’industrie technologique non pas comme une autorité commerciale hégémonique, mais comme un appareillage théorique riche de stratégies thématiques et de modes opératoires à même d’être démantelés, détournés, renversés, critiqués. / At the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, museums sought to revitalise their image with the aim to attract increasingly diversified audiences. The general view of the Internet as a democratic force in western societies lead institutions to consider it as an opportunity to acquire new audiences through participation which was thought to foster emancipation and dialogue. Enthused, museums thus acquire internet artworks and some even commission them in order to inaugurate newly developed media arts programs. For what reasons? Our case studies provide an answer to this question, along with a cultural analysis of artworks, annual reports, press releases and other pertinent documents: Ding an sich (The Canon Series) by Piotr Szyhalski acquired by the Walker Art Center; Uncomfortable Proximity by Graham Harwood commissioned by the Tate; IdeaLine by Martin Wattenberg presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art. We found that these artworks are at the intersection of converging interests on the part of the institutional and business worlds as they are presented in online infrastructure developed in close collaboration with the technological industry. To this industry artworks are enticing as they offer an opportunity to expose a favourable clientele to its products; to the institution artworks are an asset to attract expert business partners able to enhance the online museum brand in the eyes of audiences. As such, artworks are located in hybrid spaces: between exhibition and information spaces, between artistic purpose and democratising discourse, between collection and philanthropy. At these crossroads, artworks take a sharp look at the conditions and dynamics that underlie their arrival. In the face of connoted discourses, they conceptualise the technological industry not as hegemonic commercial authority but as theoretical apparatus, rich with thematic strategies and operating modes ripe for dismantling, diverting, reversing, and criticising.

The awareness and concern regarding social and environmental issues is growing among representatives of the business sector and they cannot eliminate the impact that they have. Corporate Social Responsibility is a complex strategy to govern the whole process of doing business. The objective of the Diploma Thesis is to prepare comprehensive analysis of current CSR practices in the Czech Republic and find out what type of impact the socially responsible practices of a company can have on a customers behaviour. The used literature represents pervious findings in the field, mainly researches done among Czech customers. In the practical part personal interviews with the company representative will be held in order to examine practical implications of CSR practices for the biggest brewery; Anheusher-Busch InBev.

Scholars over the past two decades (Denning, Szalay, Edmunds, Robbins) have theorized the different ways literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century reflects the dawn of the liberal US welfare state. While these studies elaborate on the effect rapidly expanding public aid had on literary production of the period, many have tended to undervalue the lingering influence on midcentury storytelling of private charity and philanthropy, those traditional aid institutions fundamentally challenged by the Great Depression and historically championed by conservatives. If the welfare state had an indelible impact on US literatures, so did the moral complexity of the systems of charity and philanthropy it purportedly replaced. In my dissertation, I theorize modern charity as a cultural narrative that found expression in a number of different writers from the start of the Great Depression and into the early 1960s, including Harold Gray, Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. Du Bois, Flannery O'Connor, and Dorothy Day.

This thesis presents qualitative research conducted in summer 2017 at the Finger Lakes Free Clinic, which provides free medical and holistic care to people without insurance in upstate New York. The primary goal of this research was to strengthen the relationship between a free clinic and its donors by gathering donor concerns and perceptions regarding federal healthcare policy. Data from 32 interviews with donors, staff, board members, and volunteers, along with 100 hours of participant observation revealed that donors to this clinic were concerned about the potential impact of Congressional healthcare reform yet did not consider federal policy a strong influence on their donations. Rather, donors cited dedication to local giving and personal connections with the clinic as their primary motivations. These motivations suggest the value of viewing the clinic-donor relationship as a relationship of reciprocity. From this framework, the research identifies opportunities for the clinic to reciprocate donor generosity while expanding services in response to a growing need. Insights from the research will guide the clinic's response to federal policy changes and support the clinic's vision of becoming a national model for integrative care.

Today, community foundations undoubtedly play a significant role in building community philanthropy and strengthening civil society through civic engagement. They are unique by their specific connection to the community, ie. to a particular geographically defined area, where this foundation financially supports activities, events, individuals or groups in the form of grants. These grants provide from a collection of donated funds from many donors and the impact on the community is that it addresses its diverse problems and needs. Thanks to this collection and the endowment can address these needs in the long run. In the submitted diploma thesis, is based on analysis of professional literature, the specifics of community foundations are derived and based on the analysis of the documents of the foundations, it is shown how many Czech community foundations correspond to this ideal. Keywords: Community, foundations, community foundations, community philanthropy, social capital, board of directors, community foundation history, foundation growth, specifics of community foundations

Significance of Philanthropy in community social work focusing on efficiency of performance Abstract (in English) The aim of this diploma thesis is the presentation of the subject of philanthropy in community social work. Special attention is however paid to the concept of effectivity of performance of social work. It is also endeavoured to delineate the concepts such as community social work, philathropy, quality of social services and measuring social impact. The main purpose of the research part of the thesis is exploration of the question whether there is a connection between effectivity of an organization and its success. In the commercial sector, success is perceived as long-term stability of the organization and its market prosperity. The aim of the research was to find out if this relationship holds true for non-profit sector or social services as well. The chosen strategy was qualitative research. The data collecting was conducted by means of individual semi-structured interviews. The main contribution of the thesis is the finding that the performance capacity of an organization is conditioned primarily by its staffing. More precisely, the more high-quality employes the organization has the higher performace it should achieve.