Thèse doctorat : Department of English : Uppsala : 1993.

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Essa dissertação consiste de uma leitura crítica do romance The House on Mango Street da autora Chicana Sandra Cisneros. O foco da minha leitura recai sobre Esperanza, a narradora do romance, e sua busca por um lar como representativo de sua necessidade de autoafirmação e desenvolvimento de sua identidade. Essa monografia analisa a questão identitária de um sujeito culturalmente híbrido e analisa ainda vários aspectos da narrativa, como a língua, o desejo que leva a tal narrativa e a questão de gênero. O uso das duas línguas, Espanhol e Inglês, é também marca dessa cultura híbrida. As representações femininas também são analisadas no romance. As figuras do imaginário mexicano influenciam e marcam o perfil das mulheres Mexicanas e Chicanas que aparecem na obra. O romance pode ser considerado como representativo de um discurso Chicano, no qual podemos acompanhar Esperanza em sua trajetória de crescimento em direção à vida adulta. O aporte teórico utilizado compreende autores que investigam questões identitárias, como Stuart Hall e Homi Bhabha, de gênero, como Cherríe Moraga e Gloria Anzaldúa e questões relativas aos mitos representativos do feminino no imaginário mexicano, através da análise de Octavio Paz. / This dissertation consists of a critical reading of the novel The House on Mango Street by Chicana author, Sandra Cisneros. The focus of my reading is on the narrator, Esperanza, and her quest for a home as emblematic of her need of self-assertion and the development of her identity. This study analyses identity issues of a culturally hybrid individual, and also several features of the narrative, such as the language, the desire that thrusts this same narrative, and gender issues. The use of the two languages, Spanish and English, is also a characteristic o this hybrid culture. The female representations are also analyzed in the romance. The female figures in the Mexican imaginary influence and mold the profile of the Mexican and Chicana women that are depicted in the novel. The novel can be considered as a representative of a literary Chicano discourse, in which we can follow Esperanza in her growth journey towards adulthood. The theoretical assumptions used in the analyses comprehend scholars who investigate identity issues, such as Stuart Hall and Homi Bhabha, gender, such as Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, and the representation of women under the scope Octavio Paz’s studies of Mexican myths that portray female models.

Essa dissertação consiste de uma leitura crítica do romance The House on Mango Street da autora Chicana Sandra Cisneros. O foco da minha leitura recai sobre Esperanza, a narradora do romance, e sua busca por um lar como representativo de sua necessidade de autoafirmação e desenvolvimento de sua identidade. Essa monografia analisa a questão identitária de um sujeito culturalmente híbrido e analisa ainda vários aspectos da narrativa, como a língua, o desejo que leva a tal narrativa e a questão de gênero. O uso das duas línguas, Espanhol e Inglês, é também marca dessa cultura híbrida. As representações femininas também são analisadas no romance. As figuras do imaginário mexicano influenciam e marcam o perfil das mulheres Mexicanas e Chicanas que aparecem na obra. O romance pode ser considerado como representativo de um discurso Chicano, no qual podemos acompanhar Esperanza em sua trajetória de crescimento em direção à vida adulta. O aporte teórico utilizado compreende autores que investigam questões identitárias, como Stuart Hall e Homi Bhabha, de gênero, como Cherríe Moraga e Gloria Anzaldúa e questões relativas aos mitos representativos do feminino no imaginário mexicano, através da análise de Octavio Paz. / This dissertation consists of a critical reading of the novel The House on Mango Street by Chicana author, Sandra Cisneros. The focus of my reading is on the narrator, Esperanza, and her quest for a home as emblematic of her need of self-assertion and the development of her identity. This study analyses identity issues of a culturally hybrid individual, and also several features of the narrative, such as the language, the desire that thrusts this same narrative, and gender issues. The use of the two languages, Spanish and English, is also a characteristic o this hybrid culture. The female representations are also analyzed in the romance. The female figures in the Mexican imaginary influence and mold the profile of the Mexican and Chicana women that are depicted in the novel. The novel can be considered as a representative of a literary Chicano discourse, in which we can follow Esperanza in her growth journey towards adulthood. The theoretical assumptions used in the analyses comprehend scholars who investigate identity issues, such as Stuart Hall and Homi Bhabha, gender, such as Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, and the representation of women under the scope Octavio Paz’s studies of Mexican myths that portray female models.

Tableau d'honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdorales, 2014-2015 / La Suicidée est un projet d'exposition transdisciplinaire en arts visuels conçu à partir d'installations multi-, pluri- et inter-disciplinaires cherchant à générer du sens et de la signification par la mise en espace d'un récit tragique mettant en scène ma propre image au cœur de la représentation de l'idée de mort volontaire. Ces installations sont disposées dans un ordre logique de séquences de façon à suggérer qu'il existe des étapes dans le processus menant à l'idée de mort volontaire. En cherchant à tendre vers une meilleure compréhension du phénomène du suicide, je choisis d'utiliser comme matière première mon propre vécu avec la mise en place d'une multiplicité de points de vue. C'est dans un contexte d'auto-observation de mes propres pensées et de mes états d'âme douloureux causés par des symptômes dus à un syndrome de stress post-traumatique polytraumatique que j'ai utilisé l'art comme lieu d'amplification de la réalité pour la transformer en une histoire tragique inventée. C'est alors par le dessin, l'écriture, la vidéo, le son, la peinture, la sculpture, la photographie et la danse que je choisis de mettre en relation le désir de mort et le désir de vie. Ces autoportraits seront jumelés à la lenteur, à l'aspect fantomatique, à la beauté de la nature, à la violence des mots et aux sonorités dramatiques pour imager la détérioration de l'âme.

Feminist philosophy of science has long been considered a fringe element of philosophy of science as a whole. A careful consideration of the treatment of the key concept of objectivity by such philosophical heavyweights as Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper, followed by an analysis of the concept of objectivity with the work of such feminist philosophers of science as Donna Haraway, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, and Sandra Harding, reveals that feminist philosophers of science are not members of some fringe movement of philosophy of science, but rather are doing philosophical work which is both crucial and connected to the work of other, "mainstream" philosophers of science. / Master of Arts

This thesis project has been carried out with Husmuttern AB as the requestor for the job. Husmuttern AB is a company in the start-up phase which works with developing module houses which are recyclable, disassemblable and standardized. The goal for the thesis project is to design an assembly station for mobile tool boards in a Husmuttern factory. There should also be instructions for the assembly station. The tool boards are used as storage for tools, safety equipment and more. The station must be usable for people without professional experience and regardless of language knowledge and background. The research questions are: * How should the instructions be designed so that a person regardless of language background can understand them? * What are the most important factors regarding ergonomics and protection against misassembly? The method used is based on the product development process described in Produktutveckling by Ulrich, K and Eppinger, S (2012), but adapted to the current project. To obtain a complete tool board one needs to place all hooks and other storage on the board and thereafter mount the boards to legs to make it mobile. To make sure that all hooks, nuts, etc. are placed correctly, installation templates are used to show where everything needs to be placed. A fixture is used for the legs, where one stands the legs, installs the boards in the correct order and uses screws to secure them. The instructions are in the shape of a Powerpoint presentation which is displayed on TV monitors in the factory. The instructions contain pictures and video showing every step of the assembly. There are also symbols, like for example arrows, pointing out important details which need to be observed. The instructions contain no current text, the only writing is numbers, which the workers are expected to understand. The project group has carried out tests with the workers in the factory. The tests have shown that the concept works. The installation templates combined with the instructions makes it easy for the workers to understand where everything needs to be placed. The fixture for the legs has not been tested with the workers in its final form, but the concept has been tested and is working satisfactorily. / Detta examensarbete har gjorts med Husmuttern AB som uppdragsgivare. Husmuttern AB är ett företag i uppstartsfasen som utvecklar modulhus som ska vara återvinningsbara, demonterbara och standardiserade. Examensarbetet går ut på att konstruera en monteringsstation för mobila verktygstavlor till en Husmuttern-fabrik. Det ska även finnas instruktioner till stationen. Tavlorna används som förvaring för verktyg, säkerhetsattiraljer m.m. Stationen ska kunna användas av människor utan yrkeserfarenhet och oavsett språkkunskaper och bakgrund. Forskningsfrågorna är: * Hur ska instruktionerna utformas så att personer oavsett språklig bakgrund kan förstå dem? * Vilka faktorer är de mest avgörande när det gäller ergonomi och skydd mot felmontering? Metoden som använts baseras på produktutvecklingsprocessen som beskrivs i Produktutveckling av Ulrich, K och Eppinger, S (2012), men är anpassad till det aktuella projektet. För att få en färdig verktygstavla behöver man montera alla krokar och annan förvaring på tavlorna och därefter montera tavlorna på ben så att den blir mobil. För att alla krokar, muttrar m.m. ska hamna på rätt plats på tavlorna har man använt hålmallar som visar var varje del ska sitta. Till benen används en fixtur som man ställer benen i, lägger i tavlorna i rätt ordning och skruvar fast dem. Instruktionerna är i form av en powerpoint-presentation som spelas upp på tv-apparater i fabriken. Instruktionerna innehåller bilder och video som visar varje moment i monteringen. De innehåller också symboler som t.ex. pilar som ska uppmärksamma viktiga detaljer. Instruktionerna innehåller ingen löpande text, den enda skrift som finns är siffror, vilka arbetarna förväntas förstå. Projektgruppen har gjort tester med arbetare i fabriken. Testerna har visat att konceptet fungerar. Hålmallarna i kombination med instruktionerna gör att arbetarna enkelt förstår var alla delar ska monteras. Fixturen för benen har inte testats på arbetarna i sin slutgiltiga form men konceptet har testats och det fungerar tillfredsställande.

Cette dissertation porte sur les liens entre les pratiques politiques et la construction des savoirs, académiques et scientifiques, explorés dans le mouvement féministe et les « Études féministes » contemporains, notamment anglo-américaines (women studies), depuis les années 1970. <p>Dans la première partie, après avoir introduit le sens que donnent à la pratique « politique » certaines traditions féministes, nous présentons différentes entrées des critiques féministes des savoirs scientifiques :la critique de l'exclusion historique des femmes de la production des savoirs et des sciences et l’examen critique des préjugés sexistes intervenant dans les contenus et les critères de validation des connaissances (théorie de la connaissance ou épistémologie). <p>La deuxième partie de la thèse propose une lecture d’auteures anglophones qui ont abordé les sciences à partir d’une perspective féministe et qui ont développé des propositions qui encouragent à la reconnaissance active du caractère partiel et situé de toute construction de savoir. Nous abordons, plus précisément :les théories sur l’incidence épistémologique de points de vue et positionnements féministes (standpoints) ;le travail de la philosophe Sandra Harding spécialement sa conceptualisation d’une « objectivité forte » ;et la conception des « savoirs situés » dans le travail de l’historienne de la biologie Donna Haraway. Ces propositions de politiques du savoir sont aussi abordées dans l’optique de montrer les problèmes spécifiques qu’elles rencontrent quand elles s’adressent aux savoirs de la tradition scientifique expérimentale.<p>Une question traverse la thèse :Comment ces critiques et propositions tiennent-elles compte de la diversité des pratiques spécifiques de construction des savoirs ?Alors même que le cœur des propositions féministes qui nous intéressent est de situer les savoirs dans leur spécificité reste à savoir comment ces mêmes politiques féministes résistent à se désituer à savoir, à emprunter les formes d'une théorie générale pour aborder les pratiques singulières. Prendre en compte de la spécificité des pratiques exige en outre d’envisager les auteures féministes au travail dans les pratiques et problèmes singuliers qui les intéressent, et ainsi montrer la richesse de ce courant de pensée.<p> / Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation philosophie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:40:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renata Jordani Barbosa.pdf: 1136816 bytes, checksum: 5597799f6e5b8ecbc1c9110deee31434 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-29 / Introduction: Resilience is a human potential, present in individuals in all cultures and in all times, it is part of an evolutionary process and can be promoted since the birth. Studies about resilience aim the comprehension of how children, teen-agers and adults are capable of surviving and overcome obstacles, despite living in poverty, domestic violence and other risky situations. In modern society changes are increasingly fast and deep, requiring constant efforts of adaptation and, therefore, making resilience a challenge of this new age. The current paper is relevant to psychology professional because intends to translate and validate a scale of resilience for children and teenagers, given that there are still no instrument validated specifically for these populations. Objective: Translate, adapt and validate to the Portuguese language and the Brazilian population the original version of the Resiliency Scales for Children & Adolescents (RSCA), by Sandra Prince-Embury (2007). Method: The assumptions of Hambleton e Patsula (1999) were utilized for the translation and trans-cultural adaptation of the scale. Data gathering for the research was made in three schools (two public and one private) located in different communities in the city of Sao Paulo The sample size was 1226 children and teen-agers from 9 to 18 year old, 51% of those female. Outcomes: In order to verify the factors that compound the sub-scales CO, CR e RA, the author used factorial analysis for principal components and Varimax rotation. Factorial charges equal or greater than 0.3 were assumed and the adequacy of factorial analysis was verified according to KMO coefficient and Bartlett sphere test. Alpha Cronbach scores found in the Brazilian version (CO = 0.83, CR = 0.90 e RA = 0.87) were considered satisfactory compared to the results related by Prince- Embury (2007), indicating good internal consistent of the tool. The alpha coefficients were considered relevantly lower that the original ones in only three factors (adaptability, comfort and tolerance). Several concepts defined in this paper are theoretically related to themselves, reason why the formation of some factors shows that the items are ambiguous. This ambiguity was reflected in the factorial analysis. The factors that showed this relation were: optimism and self-efficacy (CO scale); trust and support (CR scale) / Introdução: A resiliência é um potencial humano, presente nos indivíduos em todas as culturas e em todos os tempos, é parte de um processo evolutivo e pode ser promovida desde o nascimento. Os estudos sobre resiliência procuram compreender como crianças, adolescentes e adultos são capazes de sobreviver e superar adversidades, apesar de viverem em condições de pobreza, violência familiar, ou em diversas outras situações de risco. Na sociedade moderna as mudanças estão cada vez mais rápidas e profundas, exigindo constantes esforços de adaptação e, portanto tornando a resiliência um desafio dessa nova era. O presente trabalho tem relevância para os profissionais de Psicologia, pois pretende traduzir e validar uma escala de resiliência para crianças e adolescentes, visto que ainda não existe instrumento validado especificamente para essa população. Objetivo: Traduzir, adaptar e validar para a língua portuguesa e para a população brasileira a versão original da escala Resiliency Scales for Children & Adolescents (RSCA) de Sandra Prince-Embury (2007). Método: Para a tradução e a adaptação transcultural da escala foram utilizadas as diretrizes propostas por Hambleton e Patsula (1999). A coleta de dados da pesquisa foi feita em três escolas situadas em diferentes distritos da cidade de São Paulo, duas da rede pública de ensino e uma particular. A amostra foi composta por 1226 crianças e adolescentes de 9 a 18 anos, sendo que 51% pertenciam ao sexo feminino. Resultados: Para verificar os fatores que compõem as subescalas CO, CR e RA, utilizou-se a análise fatorial por componentes principais e rotação varimax. Admitiu-se cargas fatoriais iguais ou maiores que 0,30 e a aplicabilidade da análise fatorial foi julgada de acordo com o coeficiente KMO e teste de esfericidade de Bartlett. Os escores de Alpha de Cronbach encontrados nas escalas (CO = 0.83, CR = 0.90 e RA = 0.87) na versão brasileira se mostraram satisfatórios em relação ao que foi relatado por Prince-Embury (2007), indicando boa consistência interna do instrumento. Apenas em três fatores (adaptabilidade, conforto e tolerância) os coeficientes alpha encontrados foram consideravelmente mais baixos do que os do original. Vários dos conceitos definidos neste estudo estão teoricamente relacionados entre si, razão pela qual a formação de alguns fatores mostra que os itens estão ambíguos, e esta ambiguidade conceitual refletiu na análise fatorial. Os fatores que demonstraram esta relação foram: na escala CO: otimismo e auto-eficácia; na escala CR: confiança e apoio