A figura da mulher ocupa significativo papel nas novelas de cavalaria do Ciclo Bretão. Emergindo como um elemento que traz liga às narrativas do lendário artúrico, constitui-se adjuvante essencial e multifacetada na construção dos episódios, numa interação constante com o masculino representado, principalmente, pelos cavaleiros. O Medievo traz à tona uma imagem matizada do feminino: a mulher socialmente vista sob clivagens diversas é refletida na literatura de cavalaria, conforme se pode verificar em A Demanda do Santo Graal. A presença feminina é importantíssima na narrativa, sobretudo na sua tensa relação com a cavalaria, agora ligada ao elemento religioso - monastizada, celibatária e ascética. O objetivo precípuo de nossos estudos é investigar de que maneira a fôrma sociocultural medieva, na qual foi moldada A Demanda do Santo Graal, se relaciona com seu substrato: as narrativas provindas da cosmovisão inerente ao imaginário céltico. Desta feita, nosso viés analítico verticaliza-se no elemento feminino presente na obra. Mais especificamente, toma-se por escopo a imagem de personagens que refletem a ideologia clerical moralístico-didatizante do século XIII, mas, sobretudo, resgata-se a imagem de personagens imbuídas de singular dualidade; ambigüidade esta que é marca não só do medievo paradoxal concernente ao feminino, mas também de personas literárias concebidas entre dois mundos, dois pólos ideológicos distintos. Em outros termos, fala-se de personagens que são seres ficcionais bifrontes: personagens localizadas entre as herdades e as identidades. Foram tomados como corpora de pesquisa os episódios em que estas damas polidimensionais aparecem e se tornam adjuvantes na ação literária, seja para cooperar, confundir ou prejudicar os cavaleiros que empreendem a sagrada, inefável e venturosa busca do Santo Cálix que dará fim às aventuras do Reino de Logres / The figure of woman takes leading role in the novels of chivalry Cycle Breton. Emerging as an element that links the narratives of the legendary Arturo, it constitutes a vital and multifaceted adjuvant in the construction of the episodes in an ongoing interaction with the male represented mainly by knights. The Medieval brings up a nuanced picture of the female: the woman socially viewed under various divisions is reflected in the literature of chivalry, as it can be seen in The Quest for the Holy Grail. The female presence is important in the narrative, especially in its tense relationship with the chivalry, now linked to the religious element monasticated, ascetic and celibaterian. The main objective of our study is to investigate how the sociocultural medieval mold, in which was shaped The Quest for the Holy Grail relates to its substrate, the narratives originated of the worldview inherent in the Celtic imagination, thus our analytical bias uprights in the female element in this work. More specifically, it becomes a scope which the image of characters reflects the ideology of clerical didactic and moralistic of the thirteenth century. However it redeens the image of characters imbued with singular duality; that ambiguity which is not only a mark of the medieval paradoxical concerning the female, but also of literary characters designed between two worlds, two distinct ideological poles. In other words, it is about personas who are "bifront fictional beings". Characters located between the inheritances and identities. The research bases were the episodes in which these polidimensionals ladies appear and become adjuvants in literary action, either to cooperate, confuse or impair the knights who undertake the sacred, ineffable and "fortunate" quest for the Holy Chalice which will end the adventures of the Kingdom of Logres

Submitted by Sandra Pereira (srpereira@ufrrj.br) on 2017-02-14T10:50:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Kelly Meneses Fernandes.pdf: 1586053 bytes, checksum: d70e708a504945e8987d36920c16b9fd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-14T10:50:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Kelly Meneses Fernandes.pdf: 1586053 bytes, checksum: d70e708a504945e8987d36920c16b9fd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-28 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / This research is inserted in the field of study of the Education of the Ethnic-Racial Relationship, specifically in its relation with Biology Higher Education. The research?s producer problem is constituted in: how Biology?s teachers of UFSCAR and UEFS had broke the historical silence of the racial question in Biology Higher Education? The research problem is sedimented in the fact of that historically the racial question constituted as a silence in the teacher?s formation of Sciences/Biology and biologists and can be affirmed that of general form still it is present. In order to answer the problem, conversations with two professors of the UEFS had been realized and a professor of the UFSCAR, that works or already they had worked with the racial question in the major?s courses where they teach. To help to think the research better, it was chosen to talk with a professor of the course of Biology of the UFRRJ, that in the case, does not work with the racial question in classroom. In intention to supply a bigger support to the research, I talked with one Biology?s student and one biologist, both of different institutions. As contributions, the research presents: the importance of considering professors?s narratives for practical to the racial question and as these practicals can help to think different possibilities for the Biology higher education of Biology. / Esta pesquisa insere-se no campo de estudo da Educa??o das Rela??es ?tnico-Raciais, especificamente em sua rela??o com o Ensino Superior de Biologia. O problema gerador da pesquisa se constituiu em: como docentes de Biologia da UFSCAR e UEFS romperam com o sil?ncio hist?rico da quest?o racial no Ensino Superior de Biologia? O problema de pesquisa est? sedimentado no fato de que historicamente a quest?o racial se constituiu como um sil?ncio na forma??o de professores de Ci?ncias/Biologia e bi?logos e pode-se afirmar que de forma geral ainda est? presente. A fim de responder o problema, foram realizadas conversas com dois docentes da UEFS e um docente da UFSCAR, que trabalham ou j? trabalharam com a quest?o racial nos cursos de Licenciaturas onde lecionam. Para ajudar a pensar melhor a pesquisa, escolheu-se conversar com uma docente do curso de Biologia da UFRRJ, que no caso, n?o trabalha com a quest?o racial em sala de aula. No intuito de fornecer um suporte maior ? pesquisa, conversei com uma graduanda em Biologia e uma egressa, ambas de institui??es diferentes. Como contribui??es, a pesquisa apresenta: a import?ncia de se considerar as narrativas de professores para pr?ticas relacionadas ? quest?o racial e como estas pr?ticas podem ajudar a pensar diferentes possibilidades para o ensino superior de Biologia.

Submitted by Sandra Pereira (srpereira@ufrrj.br) on 2017-03-23T12:19:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016- Max Fellipe Cezario Porphirio.pdf: 2726521 bytes, checksum: b71f926c7e9da85100b31095042c109e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-23T12:19:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016- Max Fellipe Cezario Porphirio.pdf: 2726521 bytes, checksum: b71f926c7e9da85100b31095042c109e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-22 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / This study is to examine how the Catholic Church, the Brazilian Communist Party and the Peasant Leagues, forces that competed in the representation and part of organization of the rural population between 1961 and 1964, have used the O Nordeste, Terra Livre and Liga ? regular linked to their organizations ? to organize farm workers around their political agendas. Therefore, we will discuss how to identify and classify the opposing forces in the race for the organization of rural workers, they spread their society projects and reported the agrarian question in its various aspects (fighting for access to land, rural exodus, land reform, technical education, unionization rural and modernization of agriculture). Adopting as theoretical and methodological reference the ideas developed by Jean-No?l Jeanneney, Norman Fairclough, Regina de Luca, Cruz and Peixoto, we make a two-dimensional discourse analysis of these journals, discussing both its textual structure ? vocabulary, grammar, cohesion and textual strategy ? as the political and economic environment in which were inserted / O presente trabalho consiste em analisar como a Igreja Cat?lica, o Partido Comunista Brasileiro e as Ligas Camponesas, for?as que disputaram a representa??o e organiza??o de parte da popula??o rural entre 1961 e 1964, utilizaram o O Nordeste, o Terra Livre e o Liga ? peri?dicos ligados ?s respectivas organiza??es ? para organizar os trabalhadores rurais em torno das suas pautas pol?ticas. Para tanto, discutiremos como identificaram e classificaram as for?as advers?rias na disputa pela organiza??o dos trabalhadores rurais, propagaram seus projetos de sociedade e noticiaram a quest?o agr?ria em seus diferentes aspectos (lutas pelo acesso ? terra, ?xodo rural, reforma agr?ria, educa??o t?cnica, sindicaliza??o rural e moderniza??o da agricultura). Adotando como refer?ncias te?rico-metodol?gicas as ideias desenvolvidas por Jean-No?l Jeanneney, Norman Fairclough, Regina de Luca, Cruz e Peixoto, procuramos fazer uma an?lise bidimensional do discurso desses peri?dicos, discutindo tanto sua estrutura textual ? vocabul?rio, gram?tica, coes?o e estrat?gia textual ? como a conjuntura pol?tico-econ?mica na qual se inseriam.

Este estudo analisa três obras dramáticas de Sam Shepard: Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child e Fool for Love dentro do contexto de sua obsessão compartilhada com o sonho americano sobre uma família harmoniosa mostrando um desvio do sonho o que também é predominante em peças de dramaturgos americanos, como O\'Neill e Miller, que antecedem Sam Shepard. Este estudo também investiga o conceito da identidade americana nas peças. Entre os trabalhos do dramaturgo Sam Shepard encontramos três peças que exploram o que significa ser o membro de uma família do meio oeste americano. Em Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, Shepard retrata a dor ecoando dentro do círculo familiar. Assim como os trabalhos iniciais de Shepard, essas peças familiares se revelam com um forte elemento biográfico, nascidas das experiências pessoais e persistentes preocupações do dramaturgo; através das peças, ele examina e reexamina o sistema familiar multigeracional do qual ele é oriundo. Por exemplo, o alcoolismo do pai e a forma como os pais são construídos em suas peças, a partir de uma perspectiva pessoal, são muito mais do que simples características das personagens, são uma condição que afeta a todos os personagens, seu relacionamento interpessoal e seus destinos. Além disso, podemos observar que o sonho americano, e sua relação com essa instabilidade familiar é um dos temas recorrentes nos dramas escritos pelo autor. Outra intenção deste estudo é, num primeiro momento analisar, o sonho americano sob uma perspectiva histórica para definir suas múltiplas facetas desde os tempos coloniais até o século XX, tal como apresentado no drama; em segundo lugar em um nível temático para identificar os vários temas que Sam Shepard usa em suas peças, tais como laços familiares adulterados, alienação, incapacidade de se comunicar, a violência, a relação esposa-amante surreal, e a busca de identidade e assim definir como eles impedem a realização do sonho; em terceiro lugar, as características usadas por Sam Shepard, que servem para apresentar as peças como instâncias do sonho de uma família harmoniosa tornando-se um pesadelo.Na peça Fool for Love analiso também a tirania exercida pela família sobre as vidas das suas crianças crescidas. De 1977 até 1985, Shepard distancia-se da aceitação fatalística e desse modo revela mudanças tanto na perspectiva autoral como no ambiente social. Como ele faz frequentemente em seus trabalhos, Shepard reflete o comportamento de uma época. / This study analyzes three dramatic works of Sam Shepard: Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child and Fool for Love within the context of their shared obsession with the American dream of a harmonious family showing a deviation of the dream which is also predominant in plays of American playwrights such as O\'Neill and Miller, preceding Sam Shepard. This study also investigates the concept of American identity in the plays. Among the works of playwright Sam Shepard there are three plays that explore what it means to be a member of a family in the U.S. Midwest. In Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, Shepard portrays the pain echoing within the family. As the initial work of Shepard, these family plays reveal themselves with a strong biographical element, born of personal experience and persistent concerns of the playwright, through the plays, he examines and reviews the multigenerational family system of which he also derives from. For example, the father\'s alcoholism and how the fathers of his plays are constructed from a personal perspective are much more than simple features of the characters, it is a condition that affects all the characters, their relationships and their interpersonal destinations. In addition, we note that the American dream and its relationship with that family instability is one of the recurring themes in dramas written by the author. Another aim of this study is, at first look at the American dream from a historical perspective to define its many facets from colonial times to the twentieth century, as depicted in the drama, and secondly on a thematic level to identify the various themes Sam Shepard uses in his plays, such as family ties tampered with, alienation, inability to communicate, violence, wife-lover surreal relationship, and the search for identity and to define how they prevent the fulfillment of the \'dream\', and finally, the features used by Sam Shepard, which serve to make the plays as instances of the \'dream\' of a harmonious family becoming a nightmare. In the play Fool for Love we also analyze the tyranny exercised by the family on the lives of their grown children. From 1977 until 1985, Shepard is away from the fatalistic acceptance and thereby reveals changes in both the authorial perspective and the social environment. As he does often in his work, Shepard reflects the behavior of an era.

This essay focuses on two cases studies that include two game designers’ views of meaning-making construction in games and an analysis of their corresponding games. This isplaced in relation to the late modern Sweden context. The study examines how the designersconceive purposeful play by employing a multi-disciplinary approach consistingof Pruyser’s three-world model, Bell’s ritualization framework, and, Howard’s quest theory.Such a study is relevant due to the new ways meaning-making is actively producedwithin games and contributes to the understanding of meaning-making in late modernSweden. The two designers work at DICE and Starbreeze Studios and were interviewedusing a semi-structured methodology. The data is analyzed with a qualitative narrativetechnique applying an inductive theoretical lens to analyze the data thematically. Bothrespondents illustrate patterns of meaning-making in their construction of games wherefunctionality is central and vital to produce purposeful play. The construction of illusionisticgame worlds encloses on feelings of authenticity to the world’s structure. Realistic,autistic, and, object symbolism operate to mold the world structure and are connected tothe designers’ genre. The designer from DICE promotes realistic worlds and the designerfrom Starbreeze Studios autistic representations. Ritualized practice within the worldfocuses on combat differentiation techniques to legitimize violent practice. The designers’realistic world construction makes combat plausible within its border and autistic worldsare empowered by back-stories. Opposition is seen as essential in both cases. The correspondinggame shows similar tendencies except that many of the quest themes are intactalthough the designers themselves consider the games to use less of the mythologicalformulae. Characters, themes, and, allegorical imagery was used to amplify the sense ofdialectic oppositions and logical opposition where the enemy is always darker. However,the hero and heroes are considerably grimmer compared to the stereotypical hero. Meaningis maintained through non-allegorical quests where the player and hero are motivatedby functionality linked to opposition or emotional elements. An anti-heroic concept isemployed to construct a practical and credible hero-character that has ambivalent attributesand convincing behavior. An alteration to dark-light symbolism can also be seen inone of the cases. In relation to other studies, this essay has broaden the spectrum of thepsychology of religion in terms of fields for meaning strategies; confirming ritualizedstrategies in video games; displayed altered ways of using mythological symbols in theSwedish context; presented cultural differences in hero structures that might be based onthe Swedish context.

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This research explores gamification as a means to motivate and engage second-language learners. Gamification uses game-based mechanics, and game thinking to engage people, motivate action, and promote learning. We investigate the limits and advantages of quest-based learning and augmented reality to assess the potential of a new mobile learning tool Explorez. In order to bridge the gap between gaming and education, Explorez was created for first-year university French students at the University of Victoria, BC. Using GPS, Explorez transforms the campus into a virtual francophone world, where students interact with characters, items, and media as they improve their French language skills and discover their campus. / Graduate / 0710 / 0679 / 0290 / bernadet@uvic.ca

Au cours du vingtième siècle, le Québec a connu un bouleversement identitaire et religieux lorsqu’une majorité de Québécois a délaissé les prescriptions doctrinales catholiques, la religion identitaire du Québec, qui encadrait leur vie et s’imposait en tant que détentrice du « code exclusif du sens » (Hervieu-Léger 1993 : 155). Pour combler la perte de repères (Lemieux 2008) engendrée par les bouleversements décrits précédemment, plusieurs individus se tournèrent vers d’autres formes de spiritualité, soit en se convertissant à un nouveau système religieux ou en s’engageant dans une quête spirituelle. Certains Québécois, au cours de leur quête, ont alors découvert le druidisme, une spiritualité fondée sur le désir de retour à l’ancienne religion païenne des Celtes, et l’ont intégré en tant que composante principale ou secondaire de leur spiritualité. Le but de ce mémoire sera d’apporter quelques éléments d’explication à la présence du druidisme au Québec. Nous soulignerons l’importance du contexte moderne dans la quête de sens amorcée par l’adepte de paganisme celte, car ce contexte semble avoir servi de catalyseur dans le processus de découverte du druidisme pour ces Québécois. Puis, nous mettrons l’accent sur les raisons identitaires mises de l’avant par la CDQ pour justifier leur choix d’intégrer le druidisme à leur cheminement spirituel. Nous verrons que pour le druidisant, cette religion vient à la fois répondre à des besoins spirituels et combler un vide identitaire. / During the last century, Quebec society underwent a major transformation in identity and religion as a majority of Québécois abandoned the Catholic doctrinal prescriptions. Until then, Catholicism was fundamental to the identity the Québécois and guided their lives, imposing itself as the holder of « code exclusif du sens » (Hervieu-Léger 1993: 155). To make up for the loss of cultural markers (Lemieux, 2008) engendered by the upheaval of the Quiet Revolution, many individuals turned to other forms of spirituality, either in a process of conversion to a new religious system or as part of a spiritual quest. Some Québécois engaged in such a quest discovered Druidism, which presents itself as going back the ancient pagan religion of the Celts, and integrated it as the main or a secondary component of their spirituality. The goal of this thesis is to contribute to the explanation of the presence of Druidism in Quebec. I emphasise the importance of modern context for shaping the search of a sense of self that is undertaken by those involved in Celtic Paganism because that context seems to be a catalyst in the process of discovery of Druidism for these Québécois. I will also examine the justifications on the basis of ethnic identity that are put forward by the members of the group I studied to justify their choice to integrate Druidism to their spiritual path. We will see that for the neo-Druid, this religion answers identity as well as spiritual needs.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:46:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 IlzamarSP.pdf: 1400769 bytes, checksum: 10901c95dc30a16277ddc28b6b962851 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-02-06 / This paper has as its main focus the relation between the infringement act and the adolescents families social economical problematic, who obey the social educational deprivation of freedom at CEDUC in the district of Pitimbu RN, establishing in the theme Children and Adolescents, with the objective of showing how these families breed in the social economical and cultural political aspect. It also seizes who those adolescents are and their family members in their social aspect and as those families face their daily activities. The focus on the social matter, family, adolescent, infringement act, exclusion, inclusion formed the analysis categories which made myths and reality possible, taking into consideration the infringement act in our society. The data collection showed that those families conditions of life are of poverty. Families originated from low social classes, 62.5 % coming from the countryside and living with a daily income ranging from R$ 0,31 to R$ 8,31. Their level of education is low; there is lack of human and citizenship rights and no professional qualification whatsoever. It questions the degrading social exclusion suffered by millions of Brazilian people due to social, political and infringement economical problems. Has this favored the infringement practice? How to confirm the families lack of competence having the social vulnerability? Are the Public Political Institutions really performing the way they should? Are they really carrying out their role as they should? We have noticed that from then on, the necessity of understanding the exclusion/inclusion suffered not only in an imprecise and empty way, but understood as processes of integrative exclusion or ways of delinquency, where the excluding is not only the only one who has lack of material care but the one who is seen or recognized as a person, is not being treated as one. The effort of this paper provided an approach to our object, and the seizing of a close relation between the infringement act and the exclusion process or inclusion suffered, which are submitted to families of those adolescents who deprive of freedom / Este trabalho tem como eixo de an?lise a rela??o existente entre ato infracional e a problem?tica s?cio-econ?mica das fam?lias dos adolescentes que cumprem medida s?cio-educativa de priva??o de liberdade no CEDUC Pitimbu RN, constituindo-se um recorte na tem?tica Crian?a e Adolescente, na tentativa de desvelar como essas fam?lias se reproduzem em n?vel s?cio-econ?mico e pol?tico cultural. Busca, ainda, apreender quem s?o esses adolescentes e seus familiares em seu entorno social e como essas fam?lias enfrentam o seu cotidiano. O enfoque de Quest?o Social, Fam?lia, Adolescente, Ato Infracional, Exclus?o/Inclus?o, constitu?ram-se categorias de an?lise que possibilitaram desvelar mitos e realidade por detr?s do ato infracional em nossa sociedade. A an?lise dos dados mostrou que as condi??es objetivas de vida dessas fam?lias s?o de indig?ncia e pobreza. S?o fam?lias oriundas da classe subalternas, 62,5% vindas do interior e residindo na periferia da capital, vivendo ou sobrevivendo com renda per capita/dia de R$ 0,31 a R$ 8,31. Apresentam baixo n?vel de escolaridade, aus?ncia de direitos de cidadania e nenhuma qualifica??o profissional. Questiona at? que ponto o cruel e degradante quadro de exclus?o social ou inclus?o precarizada de milh?es de brasileiros alijados dos processos sociais, pol?ticos e econ?micos do pa?s tem favorecido a pr?tica de atos infracionais? Como afirmar a incompet?ncia das fam?lias, frente a vulnerabiliza??o social? E ainda, at? que ponto o poder p?blico n?o vem secundarizando essa problem?tica? Ser? que as pol?ticas p?blicas de atendimento ? crian?a e ao adolescente est?o de fato voltadas para o enfrentamento da problem?tica vivenciada por essas fam?lias? Percebemos, a partir de ent?o, a necessidade de compreender a exclus?o/inclus?o precarizada n?o de forma imprecisa e vazia, mas entendida como processos de exclus?o integrativa ou modos de marginaliza??o, onde o exclu?do n?o ? s? aquele que se encontra em car?ncia material, mas aquele que n?o ? reconhecido como sujeito, que n?o se reconhece nem atua como tal. O desdobre do trabalho permitiu uma aproxima??o ao nosso objeto, e a apreens?o de uma estreita rela??o entre ato infracional e o processo de exclus?o ou inclus?o precarizada a qual est?o submetidas ?s fam?lias dos adolescentes privados de liberdade

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:46:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MariaCRG_DISSERT.pdf: 2732809 bytes, checksum: f88c442cd3b95a0eb81153eef3d62eed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-16 / To the extent that the expansion of cities is increasingly pushing and segregating the working class to outlying areas, devoid of services and infrastructure, the urban space is also important as a space in the class struggle, and in this direction, the this study aims to analyze the political organization of urban social movements and popular organizations existing in Natal-RN, nowadays, in their process of struggle for social rights, with emphasis on the right to the city. With this dimension, we appropriate the contributions of historical and dialectical materialism because we believe that this benchmark enables the understanding of the processes of collective organization and a critical perspective of totality, going beyond its immediate appearance. For production data conducted literature, documentary and field, through semi-structured interviews recorded with (the) mapped leaders of organizations in our survey, as well as advisory bodies to the movements studied. The results of the study allowed us to characterize the action of the political movements in urban Christmas struggle for recognition and guarantee of the right to the city and seize the advances and obstacles in the process of intervention of social movements and popular organizations existing in Natal, highlighting dilemmas and contradictions underlie the processes of organization and mobilization in the contemporary period. Thus, we conclude that the Natal territory, as in contemporary Brazil, the urban and political action movements that show the public scene and intertwine necessarily relate to historical trend that has been performing since the 1990s, when the country entered a period marked by a new bourgeois offensive / Na medida em que a expans?o das cidades ocorre cada vez mais empurrando e segregando a classe trabalhadora para as ?reas perif?ricas, destitu?das de servi?os e de infraestrutura, o espa?o urbano se constitui tamb?m como um espa?o importante na luta de classe e, nessa dire??o, o presente trabalho visa analisar a organiza??o pol?tica dos movimentos sociais urbanos e organiza??es populares existentes em Natal-RN, na contemporaneidade, nos seus processos de luta por direitos sociais, com ?nfase no direito ? cidade. Com essa dimens?o, nos apropriamos das contribui??es do materialismo hist?rico-dial?tico por entendermos que este referencial viabiliza a compreens?o dos processos de organiza??o coletiva numa perspectiva cr?tica e de totalidade, indo para al?m do seu aspecto imediato. Para a produ??o dos dados realizamos pesquisa bibliogr?fica, documental e de campo, por meio de entrevistas gravadas semi-estruturadas com os(as) dirigentes das organiza??es mapeadas em nossa pesquisa. Os resultados do estudo nos permitiram caracterizar a a??o pol?tica dos movimentos urbanos de Natal na luta pelo reconhecimento e garantia do direito ? cidade e apreender os avan?os e entraves no processo de interven??o dos movimentos sociais e organiza??es populares existentes em Natal, evidenciando dilemas e contradi??es que perpassam os processos de organiza??o e mobiliza??o no per?odo contempor?neo. Com isso, conclu?mos que no territ?rio natalense, tal como no Brasil contempor?neo, a quest?o urbana e a a??o pol?tica dos movimentos que a evidenciam na cena p?blica se entrela?am e necessariamente se relacionam com a tend?ncia hist?rica que vem se apresentando desde os anos 1990, quando o pa?s adentrou num per?odo marcado por uma nova ofensiva burguesa