Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:26:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Yara Maria Pereira Gurgel.pdf: 932730 bytes, checksum: 99b602ada4a560436f31c5f9f1316d9c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-11-23 / The proposal of the present doctorate thesis is to study the concept of the equality and non segregation principle as the basis for the human rights and its application to work affairs. As the preliminary focus, statistic data that show the social reality of developed and developing countries are presented as well as its close relation to discrimination and discrimination-vulnerable groups. The first part of the thesis refers to the equality, to the human s dignity principles, and to the non discrimination principle as the basis and guiding principle of all Occidental civilization legal system. That is the main reason the question that deals with the difficulty to implement contractual freedom that comes from the autonomy of the parts, from the affirmative actions, and the non-discrimination principle as the protection rule of every human being was discussed in detail. The second part refers to the study of the human rights, specially the social rights and the principle of equality, related to the work place environment. Questions were addressed such as history, acceptation, addressees, indivisibility, and human rights included in the international treaties, which were inserted in the special, regional, and general protection systems. The last part refers to the country (Brazil) legal system. Firstly, the position given to human rights treaties, its consequence, and impact. Later on, the combat to work place discrimination based mainly on skin color, race, gender or physical condition prejudices / A proposta da presente tese de Doutorado é o estudo acerca do Princípio da Igualdade e Não Discriminação como fundamento dos Direitos Humanos e sua aplicação às relações de trabalho. Como enforque preliminar são apresentados dados estatísticos que expõem a realidade social dos Países industrializados e dos Países em desenvolvimento e sua direta vinculação com a discriminação e os grupos vulneráveis. A primeira parte do trabalho trata dos Princípios da Dignidade da Pessoa Humana e da Igualdade e Não Discriminação como fundamento maior e norma condutora de todo o Ordenamento Jurídico da civilização Ocidental. Daí por que se aborda a questão do entrave entre a liberdade contratual decorrente da autonomia da vontade das partes, o Princípio da Igualdade e Não Discriminação como norma de proteção ao ser humano e as Ações Afirmativas. A segunda parte concretiza o estudo dos Direitos Humanos, analisando especialmente os Direitos Sociais e o Princípio da Igualdade, já que relacionados ao mundo laboral. Desenvolvem-se questões ligadas à historicidade, acepção, destinatários, indivisibilidade e dimensões dos Direitos Humanos nos Tratados Internacionais inseridos nos Sistemas Geral, Regional e Especial de Proteção. A última parte do trabalho é dedicada ao Ordenamento Jurídico pátrio. Primeiro, a posição conferida aos Tratados de Direitos Humanos, sua conseqüência e impacto. Adiante, o combate à discriminação nas relações de trabalho, em especial aquela motivada pela raça/cor, gênero e pela condição física

Originating from a disenfranchisement with the contemporary definition and realisation of Westernised architecture as a commodity and product, this thesis seeks to explore alternative examples of positive socio-spatial practice and agency. These alternative spatial practices and methodologies are drawn from participatory and grass-roots development agency in informal settlements and contexts of economic absence, most notably in the global South. This thesis explores whether such examples can be interpreted as practical realisations of key theoretical advocacies for positive social space that have emerged in the context of post-Second World-War capitalism. The principal methodological framework utilises two differing trajectories of spatial discourse. Firstly, Henri Lefebvre and Doreen Massey as formative protagonists of Western spatial critique, and secondly, John F. C. Turner and Nabeel Hamdi as key advocates of participatory development practice in informal settlements. These two research trajectories are notably separated by geographical, economic and political differentiations, as well as conventional disciplinary boundaries. However by undertaking a close textual reading of these discourses this thesis critically re-contextualises the socio-spatial methodologies of participatory development practice, observing multiple theoretical convergences and provocative commonalities. This research proposes that by critically comparing these previously unconnected disciplinary trajectories certain similarities, resonances and equivalences become apparent. These resonances reveal comparable critiques of choice, value, and identity which transcend the gap between such differing theoretical and practical engagements with space. Subsequently, these thematic resonances allow this research to critically engage with further appropriate surrounding discourses, including Marxist theory, orientalism, post- structural pluralism, development anthropology, post-colonial theory and subaltern theory. 5 In summary, this thesis explores aspects of Henri Lefebvre's and Doreen Massey's urban and spatial theory through a close textual reading of key texts from their respective discourses. This methodology provides a layered analysis of post-Marxist urban space, and an exploration of an explicit connection between Lefebvre and Massey in terms of the social production and multiplicity of space. Subsequently, this examination provides a theoretical framework from which to reinterpret and revalue the approaches to participatory development practice found in the writings and projects of John Turner and Nabeel Hamdi. The resulting comparative framework generates interconnected thematic trajectories of enquiry that facilitate the re-reading and critical reflection of Turner and Hamdi's development practices. Thus, selected Western spatial discourse acts as a critical lens through which to re-value the social, political and economical achievements of participatory development. Reciprocally, development practice methodologies are recognised as invaluable and provocative realisations of the socio-spatial qualities that Western spatial discourse has long advocated for, and yet have remained predominantly unrealised in the global North.