Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tiago Dobos de Moraes.pdf: 4268619 bytes, checksum: eaf81444c6e38c1a3225edc9af3a7c32 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-03 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This thesis focuses on explaining the movement called by Nietzsche as "Slave Revolt in Morality", engages throughout the history of the western world, whose remarkable figures were the propagators of Christianity. We intend to elucidate that the said "Revolt.. ", presented by the Nietzschean interpretation, reversed the world bringing and stirring all the symptoms of the human weakness, which becomes clear in his most intense attacks, written in The Genealogy of Morals and The Antichrist. Such outlines of fragility are grouped around the moral concept of Good and Bad, focused on the message displayed by Christianity. This paper aims to address the shift of the valuation form when there was strength, health in the world, represented by Good and Mean, to the degenerative valuation form of Good and Evil. In this case there is the concern with showing the Nietzsche's criticism as a will of power used to destroy the aegis of the winning moral, that of the Good and Evil, as a will of power used to destroy the aegis of the winning moral, that of the Good and Evil, constantly emphasizing the consensual judgment that there isn't in Nietzsche's own work a total disruption of the need and importance of a moral - what would be even an awful distortion of the Nietzschean philosophy -, but the purpose to allow new moral forms moral, this time no longer degenerative / Esta dissertação se concentra em explicitar o movimento denominado por Nietzsche de "Rebelião Escrava da Moral", travado ao longo da história do mundo ocidental, e que teve como figuras marcantes os difusores do Cristianismo. Pretendemos elucidar que a dita "Rebelião...", apresentada pela interpretação nietzschiana, reverteu o mundo trazendo e atiçando todos os sintomas de fraqueza humana, o que se torna claro em seus ataques mais intensos, redigidos em A Genealogia da Moral e O Anticristo. Tais contornos de fragilidade se agrupam em torno do conceito moral de Bom e Mau, concentrando-se na mensagem exposta pelo Cristianismo. Este trabalho pretende focar a passagem do modo de valoração de quando havia força, saúde no mundo, representado pelo Bom e Ruim, para o modo de valoração degenerativa do Bom e Mau. Há aqui a preocupação em mostrar a crítica de Nietzsche como uma vontade de poder posta para destruir a égide da moral vitoriosa, a do Bom e Mau, enfatizando, a todo instante, o juízo consensual de que não há, na própria obra de Nietzsche, um rompimento total da necessidade e da importância de uma moral- o que seria, inclusive, uma distorção horrenda da filosofia nietzschiana -, e, sim, o objetivo de possibilitar novos moldes morais, dessa vez não mais degenerativos

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This dissertation explores the interaction between literati and various social forces in east China in the mid-seventeenth century by focusing on their military performance. Based on a wide range of sources, the study focuses on about twenty literati, most of whom have never been previously researched from a military history perspective. It examines the diversity and complexity of Chinese literati as they pursued power over and within local society, paying special attention to the interrelation between them (literati and society). It argues that Chinese literati in this time period had much less aptitude in changing China than has been previously thought. Both individual and group case studies show that they mainly focused on the realization of an ideal goal, but were unwilling or ill-equipped to adapt themselves to changing conditions as well as environments. This study also indicates that the local military forces as well as ordinary peasants generally played a more crucial role than the literati; the latter's superior position could only be realized in times of peace. That civil and military officials affected each other in fact is an expression of a larger relationship between the central government and its own military forces or with certain local forces. Finally, this study concludes that Chinese literati as a whole had no idea how to integrate and lead the other social forces to reach an ideal goal in that specific time period.

Why do some individuals choose to participate in rebellion, and what recruitment tactics can rebel groups use to affect this decision? These questions are central to the study of civil war because rebel groups must raise troops in order to challenge the government and to survive as an organization. Indeed, much of the civil war literature builds on participation as a key causal mechanism, yet it is rarely specified in theoretical or empirical models. The dissertation attempts to open this black box by tackling three sets of gaps in the existing literature; these relate to the assumptions made in most studies, the theoretical bases for understanding participation and recruitment, and the record of empirical testing. Essay I examines whether a particular type of recruitment practice, ethnic mobilization, is associated with higher levels of violence. The results show that when rebel groups mobilize along ethnic lines, there is a higher risk for intensified violence. Essay II employs new data on rebel troop size to study what factors affect participation in rebellion. The findings indicate that concerns over personal security rather than economic and social incentives best explain participation. Essay III addresses coerced recruitment, positing that conflict dynamics affect whether rebel groups shift from voluntary to coerced recruitment. Using micro-level data on the conflict in Nepal, the results show that the more losses rebels suffer on the battlefield, the greater the number of individuals they subsequently abduct. Finally, the Nepal case study presented in Essay IV suggests that indoctrination as a recruitment strategy was more important to rebel leaders than other facets of the insurgency. Taken together, this dissertation indicates that there is analytical leverage to be had by examining not only the individual’s decision to participate, but also the rebel group’s recruitment strategy, and that these rebel strategies are flexible and contingent on conflict dynamics.

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This dissertation examines the complex story of Korah’s rebellion found in Numbers 16 and 17 utilizing narrative critical theory. This study is first grounded in the context of historical questions surrounding Israel’s emergence as a nation and the narrative’s potential for historical veracity. Many narrative critics do not feel the theoretical necessity to establish the connection between an autonomous text and a historical context. This study does seek to collaborate with historical research, but only as permitted by the data. Though only biblical and tangential evidence supports the historicity of the wilderness sojourn, the narrative accounts should not be repudiated because of philosophical bias or the lack of corroborative extra biblical evidence. Especially important to a literary interpretation of this narrative is the work of source critics who during their own enquiries have identified the fractures and transitions within the story. In considering the text of Numbers 16 and 17, the hermeneutical approach employed in this study carefully endorses a balanced incorporation of the theoretical constructs of the author, text, and reader in the interpretive enquiry. From this hermeneutical approach recent literary theory is applied to the texts of Numbers 16 and 17 focusing particular attention on three narrative themes. First, the narrator’s point of view is examined to determine the manner that information is relayed to the reader so as to demur the rebellion leaders. Though features of characterization are often meager in biblical narratives, there remains sufficient data in this rebellion story to support the aims of the Hebrew writers and does not undermine the reader’s engagement with the story’s participants. Finally, the three separate plotlines in this narrative sustain the dramatic effect upon the readership holding attention and judgment throughout and beyond the story. In sum, this dissertation highlights the powerful contours of this ancient narrative by appropriating the theoretical work of narrative critics. The strategies employed in the writing and editing of this story uniquely condemn the rebels and at the same time serve to elevate God’s chosen leader Moses. / Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies / D. Th. (Old Testament)

A proposta desta pesquisa é reconstituir os aspectos socioeconômicos e os desdobramentos políticos da rebelião de presidiários do Instituto Correcional da Ilha Anchieta (Ubatuba, SP), ocorrida no dia 20 de junho de 1952. A hipótese norteadora é de que a rebelião teve um papel decisivo na reforma das prisões em São Paulo, cujos parâmetros e objetivos foram debatidos e executados nas gestões de Lucas Nogueira Garcez (1950-1954) e Jânio Quadros (1955-1959) no Governo do Estado. Assim, a referida rebelião será considerada como estudo de caso para a compreensão do regime prisional e penitenciário em São Paulo nos anos 1950. Com base nos autos de Inquérito Policial realizado pelo DEOPS-SP (1952-1953) pretende-se elaborar um perfil socioeconômico dos presos da Ilha Anchieta, considerando: idade, estado civil, cor, naturalidade, profissão, grau de instrução, filiação, situação familiar, condições de moradia, tempo e motivo do encarceramento. Estas informações fornecerão subsídios para compreender a relação entre processos econômicos de conjuntura e as políticas de controle social, sobretudo o funcionamento da prisão. Por outro lado, ainda no contexto da Ilha, pretende-se reconstituir aspectos da organização do Instituto Correcional da Ilha Anchieta, tais como: o trabalho prisional, a administração do pecúlio, os gastos da administração pública com a manutenção e reforma do presídio pós-rebelião, a relação entre presos e funcionários, o atendimento aos pedidos de livramento condicional, os castigos e o lazer. Considerando a rebelião como um momento de ruptura do equilíbrio de poder no interior da instituição, suas causas serão buscadas nesses aspectos que estruturam o cotidiano prisional. Para compreender o lugar ocupado pela rebelião no processo de reforma das prisões em São Paulo, esta pesquisa propõe analisar a repercussão do evento na grande mídia e nas publicações especializadas, além de resgatar os atos administrativos, normativos e legais executados pelos poderes Legislativo e Executivo. / The aim of this research is to study the socioeconomic conditions and the political developments of the inmates rebellion at Anchietas Island (Ubatubta/SP), in June 20, 1952. The main hypothesis is that this rebellion played a decisive role in the reform of prisons in Sao Paulo, whose parameters and objectives were discussed and implemented during the administrations of Lucas Nogueira Garcez (1950-1954) and Jânio Quadros (1955-1959), at State Government. Thus, the mentioned rebellion will be considered as a case study to understand the prison and penitentiary regimen in São Paulo at mid-twentieth century. Based on the records of the Police Inquires directed by Delegacia Especializada em Ordem Politica e Social from São Paulo State (DEOPS-SP), it is intended to build a profile of socioeconomic conditions of that prison, concerning inmates and employees, by collecting information about: age, place of birth, schooling, family relations, housing conditions, time and reason for conviction, work conditions before condemnation, skin color, filiations and civil status. These informations will provide aids to understand the relation between economical process and social control policies. On the other hand, but still in the Anchieta s Island context, it is intended to restore some organization aspects of the Instituto Correcional da Ilha Anchieta, as: labor-therapy, the administration of the inmates peculium, the government spending with the prison before and after the rebellion, some trends of the social relations inside the prison, punishments, rewards and recreation. Considering the rebellion as a disrupting of a certain balance of power in a priso, their causes will be sought in those aspects of everyday life in a prison. To understand the place that Anchietas Island rebellion had occupied in the reform of prisons in Sao Paulo, this research proposes to restore the administrative, legal and normative acts operated by the Legislative and Executive powers and, in the meantime, analyze the repercussion in the specialized media and in the mass media.

Owen Glendower led the last military struggle of the Welsh against the English crown for Welsh independence and nationalism. The failure of the Glendower rebellion established the supremacy of English rule over Wales. For six hundred years the status of Wales as a principality of the crown has not been seriously challenged. This paper will show how widespread the idea of "Welshness" was in 1400 and how much support existed for Wales as an independent nation. Welshmen sought to move from the status of a medieval, tribal principality to a position of an independent nation capable and ready to stand with other national in the world. The role of leadership that Owen Glendower assumed in the final rebellion against the English king, Henry IV, lifted him from a popular Welsh prince to an historical legend.

This thesis investigates the portrayal of non-violent direct action (NVDA) in This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by considering the two chapters “Courting Arrest” by Jay Griffiths, and “The Civil Resistance Model” by Roger Hallam. Using critical discourse analysis in the style of Norman Fairclough, I examine the textual features, discourse practices, and social practices of the chapters by applying theories of environmental justice, intersectionality, and embodiment. I argue that Griffiths and Hallam reproduce oppressive power structures by excluding certain identities and experiences from their discourse. First, the lack of a discussion of the situatedness of violence within the NVDA strategy employed by Extinction Rebellion – focusing on having as many protestors arrested as possible – represents the acts of arrest as inherently non-violent. This representation erases other possible experiences of arrest from the discourse. Second, the authors portray their own experiences as universal, and thereby create a universal subject that is white, middle-class, able-bodied, and a legal resident of the UK. Discourse is seen as both constitutive of, and constituted by, the social world; this portrayal of subjectivities is shown to have very real effects on to what degree certain identities feel at home within the Extinction Rebellion movement. I conclude the study with a discussion of possible paths for Extinction Rebellion and other similar movements to become more inclusive by adopting a more intersectional perspective that acknowledges the embodied realities of different identities. By applying this perspective, these movements can start working against hegemonic structures of oppression that exclude certain (non-white) identities from decision-making processes.

Due to the social, political, and religious upheavals occurring across Europe in the Early Modern period, many writers were exploring the proper relationship between citizens and political and religious leaders. While some writers encouraged citizens to give unconditional loyalty to local and national leaders, Shakespeare has a pattern of endorsing citizen rebellion as a moral means to overthrow tyrannical rulers. By exploring Richard III, Measure for Measure, and Julius Caesar, I argue that Shakespeare is developing a taxonomy of citizen responses to a tyrannical leader and teaches citizens that a moral rebellion can be launched against a tyrant when a citizen embraces personal responsibility, accepts the power of rhetoric over violence, and overcomes the filtering effects of nostalgia. To demonstrate that Shakespeare is deliberately entering the conversation about a citizen's reaction to a tyrant, I provide information about how a tyrant is defined in the Early Modern period. I synthesize the scholarship on relevant texts in the period and explain how all three leaders in the aforementioned plays support that definition of tyranny. Then I focus on each play's surrounding characters to discuss the motivations and reactions of rebellious and obedient citizens. Finally, I conclude each section with an analysis of the repercussions of the citizen's actions and evaluate the lessons that Shakespeare is consistently promoting about moral rebellion.