Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T15:59:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maick da Silveira Viana_Resumo Tese.pdf: 17291 bytes, checksum: b75d0d26b570ea8645896d078130822f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Based on the Self-Determination Theory, this thesis aimed to assess the relationships among motivation and the factors associated to the practice of physical activities by adolescents, identifying how the interaction among these variables influences the involvement of adolescents with the practice of physical activities. In addition, to this end, three studies of literature review and four empirical studies have been performed. The systematic reviews of literature followed the criteria of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. With regard to the empirical studies, they are one validation study, performed with a specific sample, and other three epidemiologic studies. The investigated population is compound by adolescents from 14 to 19 years old, students from the 9th grade of junior high school and the 3rd grade of high school in public state schools managed by Gerência de Educação da Grande Florianópolis/SC (Education Management in the Greater Florianópolis Area). The sample was compound with 2,285 students from the analyzed region (3.8% of questionnaire loss), with 1,224 (53.6%) females and 1,061 (46.4%) males. An online questionnaire was used and answered in the school facilities. Information about demographic, socioeconomic, environmental, educational, psychosocial, behavioral and physical factors have been collected. The practice of physical activities was verified through a questionnaire about stages of behavioral changes, and the motivation for the practice with the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire - 2. Data were analyzed in the program Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS® version 20.0. Males were more active than females. After adjustments, the factors associated to the practice of physical activities, regardless of gender, were interpersonal relationships, self-assessment on the experiences with the practice of physical activities and perception over the physical capabilities. Exclusively for females, factors such as level of education, mood and active travelling to school were associated. Experiences with the practice of physical activities by females was the only factor that remained associated with the practice of physical activities when its interaction with motivational profile was considered. Regarding the motivational regulations, they were associated to most of the investigated factors, and adolescents with self-determined profile practiced more physical activities than the ones externally regulated or with low motivation. In the adjusted analysis, the motivational profile of adolescents was associated to the practice of physical activities, regardless of grade and shift, quality of interpersonal relationships and active travelling to school. For males, motivation lost significance in all cases. The results confirm the importance of self-determined motivations to the adoption of the practice of physical activities and the value of positive experiences. Strategies that aim to increase physical activities among adolescents should stimulate self-determined motivations. / Baseada na Teoria da Autodeterminação, esta tese teve por objetivo analisar as relações entre a motivação e os fatores associados à prática de atividades físicas de adolescentes, identificando como a interação entre estas variáveis influencia o envolvimento dos adolescentes com a prática de atividades físicas. Para tal, foram realizados três estudos de revisão de literatura e quatro empíricos. As revisões sistemáticas da literatura seguiram os critérios da Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. Quanto aos empíricos, tratam-se de um estudo de validação, realizado com amostra específica, e outros três epidemiológicos. A população investigada é composta por adolescentes de 14 a 19 anos, estudantes do 9º ano do ensino fundamental ao 3º do ensino médio de escolas públicas estaduais administradas pela Gerência de Educação da Grande Florianópolis/SC. Compuseram a amostra 2.285 estudantes da região investigada (3,8% de perda de questionários), sendo 1.224 (53,6%) meninas e 1.061 (46,4%) meninos. Utilizou-se um questionário on-line respondido na própria escola. Foram coletadas informações relacionadas a fatores demográficos, socioeconômicos, ambientais, escolares, psicossociais, comportamentais e físicos. A prática de atividades físicas foi verificada por meio de um questionário de avaliação dos estágios de mudança de comportamento, e a motivação para a prática com o Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire - 2. Os dados foram analisados no programa Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS® versão 20.0. Meninos foram mais ativos do que as meninas. Após ajustes os fatores associados à prática de atividades físicas, independente do sexo, foram os relacionamentos interpessoais, autoavaliação das experiências com as práticas de atividades físicas e percepção sobre as capacidades físicas. Exclusivamente para as meninas estiveram associados a escolaridade, estados de humor e deslocamento ativo para a escola. Experiências vivenciadas com as práticas de atividades físicas pelas meninas foi o único fator que permaneceu associado à prática de atividades físicas quando considerada sua interação com o perfil motivacional. Quanto às regulações motivacionais, estiveram associadas à maior parte dos fatores investigados, e adolescentes com perfil autodeterminado praticavam mais atividades físicas do que aqueles regulados externamente ou com baixa motivação. Na análise ajustada, o perfil motivacional das adolescentes se associou à prática de atividades físicas independente da interação com série e turno de estudo, qualidade dos relacionamentos interpessoais e transporte ativo para a escola. Para os meninos, a motivação perdeu significância em todos os casos. Os resultados confirmam a importância das motivações autodeterminadas para a aderência à prática de atividades físicas e o valor de experiências positivas. Estratégias que busquem aumentar a atividade física dos adolescentes devem fomentar motivações autodeterminadas.

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi is a significant philosopher who is famous for his critics on Avicenna. He also made effective dialogues between two rival doctrines (namely Kalam and Peripateticism) in the Islamic world in Middle Ages. He defended Kalam Atomism in last decades of his life. This thesis is working on his two treatises as manuscripts and translating it into English. One of the treatises is about proving atom and another one is rejecting Hylomorphism. These two treatises are attached together as a manuscript book titled as Proving Atomism. / Au Moyen Âge, dans le monde islamique, il y avait deux groupes d'érudits qui avaient deux indications différentes sur l'existence. Le premier groupe était des philosophes, ḥukamā, qui ont approuvé falsafah ou ḥikmah. Cette doctrine avait des bases aristotéliciennes. Un autre groupe était des théologiens, mutikalimūn qui était pour la plupart atomistes. Les théologiens constituaient le kalām qui se traduisait parfois par théologie islamique.Fakhr-e-Razi ou Fakhr al-Din al-Razi était un philosophe et théologien important au 12ème siècle qui a fait des dialogues et des débats entre ces deux doctrines. Il a écrit des critiques sur les livres d'Avicenne et a défendu la doctrine de l'atomisme de Kalam. Bien qu'il ait défendu l'atomisme de Kalam dans beaucoup de livres, il a écrit un traité indépendant sur ce sujet. Cette thèse est l'édition et la traduction d'un livre manuscrit qui comprend deux traités indépendants, dont l'un, prouve atomisme et un autre réfute Hylémorphisme.Cette thèse inclut des commentaires sur l'atomisme et l'hylémorphisme (l'introduction du livre). L'atomisme comme vue générale et l'atomisme de Kalam en particulier sont étudiés. L'histoire de l'atomisme est brièvement passée en revue en tant que racines de l'atomisme de Kalam. Puis la vue de Razi sur l'atomisme est étudiée selon ce livre présent et ses autres livres. Le contraste entre la vision de Razi et la doctrine d'Avicenne comme son rival sont également analysés.

À l’heure de la (re)construction d’Afrique, Présence Africaine a occupé un lieu au-delà de la rencontre et du débat intellectuels. À partir de la fondation de la Société Africaine de Culture (SAC), en 1956, et l’adoption du langage des Relations Internationales, cette organisation a joué le rôle de promotrice de discours et de pratiques politiques. Ce travail s’inscrit à la perspective de l’Histoire Intellectuelle et des éditions, ainsi comme de l’Histoire Politique, et pense la singularité de la source périodique comme lieu privilégié pour analyser la formation des réseaux intellectuels autour desquels s’est configuré le groupe Africain francophone en France dans les années cinquante et soixante. C’est, alors, à partir des publications de Présence Africaine, ainsi comme de la correspondance produite par son travail de mobilisation et création culturelles, qu’on pense sa liaison et son intervention dans les courants de la pensée politique ouest-africaine au moment considéré. La question faite pour toute une génération d’intellectuels et politiciens était : quelles possibilités pour l’avenir d’Afrique ? Plus que des sujets isolés, ces hommes agissaient au nom d’une collectivité qu’ils fondaient directement ou indirectement. Par ailleurs, Présence Africaine encourageaient de nouveaux espaces d’activités des Africains et a pris sur elle la responsabilité d’une « revendication publique ». Pourtant, les termes de cette revendication, l’engagement national ou le choix fédératif, les notions pan-africanistes et les intérêts des nouveaux états indépendants, n’étaient pas toujours claire. À l’intérieur d’une telle scène, la revue Présence Africaine utilise de différents mécanismes et manipule son origine pan-africaniste, tout en créant des stratégies de transit et d’intervention qu’autorisent et renforcent son lieu au centre des politiques culturelles en Afrique d’Ouest à la fin des années 1950 et dans la décennie 1960. / This thesis focuses on the study of the journal Présence Africaine from its creation in 1947 until the second half of the 1960s. The ruptures and internal permanences of the journal, as well as its insertion in a political, social and cultural West African context of transformation, are thought through the analysis of articles, editorials and correspondence exchanged in the period. The years selected for this research, the post-World War II scenario, were marked by many changes. This is the context in which Présence Africaine was constructed, in consonance with the West African intelligentsia of French expression and the establishment of legitimized intellectual discourses, practices and activities denominated as "African". In this scenario, the imbricated relation between intellectual and political elites was increasingly evident. In those years, the magazine's initial program of insertion of Black cultures in modernity, criticized as excluding and eurocentric, is enriched and gained new dimensions, strengthened by the creation of Société Africaine de Culture in 1956, which insert the cultural production directly into the games of force and disputes over the future of Africa. At this situation, the appropriation of the language and practices of International Relations and the creation and naming of the said Third World, for which the Bandung Conference in 1955 emerged as an important mark, were central to the paths and negotiations that the magazine and institution traced. As a periodical thought as a vehicle and a point of mobilization for cultural and political action, Présence Africaine is a rich source to understanding, in its complexity, the currents of West African political thought that circulated during the critical moment of 1950s and 1960s. Accordingly, the proposals for the future of the continent, between autonomy, independence and African unity, the revue’s adherence to projects for national construction and, at the same time, its insertion in international solidarity movements such as Pan-Africanism, can be traced and mapped as central debates within the publication. These topics became decisive for the construction of a narrative on Présence Africaine and on a whole generation of French-speaking West African intellectuals and politicians. / Esta tese tem como perspectiva central o estudo da revista Présence Africaine a partir de sua criação, em 1947, até a segunda metade da década de 1960. Rupturas e permanências internas ao periódico, assim como sua inserção em um contexto político, social, cultural e intelectual oeste-africano em transformação, são pensadas por meio da análise de artigos, editoriais e correspondências trocadas no período. Os anos selecionados para a pesquisa, no pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial, foram marcados por muitas mudanças. É nesse cenário que a Présence Africaine se constrói, em consonância com a intelectualidade oeste-africana de expressão francesa e o estabelecimento de discursos e de práticas legitimadas enquanto atividades intelectuais nomeadas como “africanas” nas quais a imbricada relação entre elite intelectual e política se torna cada vez mais evidente. Nesses anos, o programa inicial da revista, de inserção das culturas negras na modernidade, criticada como excludente e eurocêntrica, é enriquecido e ganha novas dimensões. Essa reconfiguração foi fortalecida pela criação da Société Africaine de Culture, em 1956, que inseriu a Présence Africaine diretamente nos jogos de força e nas disputas em torno do futuro para a África. Nessa conjuntura, a apropriação da linguagem e das práticas das Relações Internacionais e a criação e nomeação do dito Terceiro Mundo, sendo a Conferência de Bandung, em 1955, um importante marco, foram centrais para os caminhos e negociações que a revista e instituição traçou. Enquanto um periódico pensado como veículo e ponto de mobilização e de ação cultural e política, a Présence Africaine é uma rica fonte para entender, em sua complexidade, as correntes do pensamento político oeste-africano que circulavam durante o momento crítico das décadas de 1950 e 1960. Dessa forma, propostas para o futuro do continente, entre autonomia, independência e unidade africana, sua adesão a projetos para a construção nacional e, ao mesmo tempo, sua inserção em movimentos de solidariedade internacional, como o pan-africanismo e o terceiro-mundismo, podem ser temáticas rastreadas e mapeadas como debates centrais no interior da publicação. Esses tópicos se tornam decisivos para a construção de uma narrativa sobre a Présence Africaine e toda uma geração de intelectuais e políticos oeste-africanos de expressão francesa.

Globalization is a concept that manages to attract both academic and mainstream attention and it became an important reference point of many contemporary conversations. However, there is a surprisingly little genealogical research on globalization. This thesis seeks to contribute in this area by analyzing part of the overall academic debate about this concept from the year 1990 to 2012 and by reconstructing the debates and arguments through which the concept was shaped. It breaks the chosen time frame in two periods (1990-2000 and 2001-2012) and conducts a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the debate in four leading academic journals, each of them grounded in different discipline. The thesis finds that key reference points of the debates about globalization in both periods of the time were the terms market and state and the relationship between them. Globalization as a phenomenon that was said to alter the nature of this relationship posed a particular challenge to social science paradigms that operated with state-centered frameworks. The key dimension in which globalization was discussed the most was in both periods the economic one; however, we also saw a rise of social dimension in the second period indicating a shift in attention beyond the economics. Furthermore, this work finds that...

Judge and Jurisconsult – Coercive and Persuasive Authority in Islamic Law (Richter und Rechtsberater- Zwingende und überzeugende Autorität im Islamischen Recht) Wer spricht das Recht in der islamischen Rechtsprechung? Die islamische Rechtsgeschichte konzentrierte sich lange auf den Einzelrichter (qadi) als Inbegriff der Rechtsprechung. Der Richter handelte jedoch nicht als einzige Verkörperung der Rechtsprechung. Ein Justizpersonal unterstützte seine und arbeitete von einer ihm unterstellten Position aus. Darüber hinaus hat der gelehrte Rechtsberater (mufti) die Rechtsprechung durch übereinstimmende und abweichende Meinungen vor Gericht in vielerlei Hinsicht geprägt. Die Arbeit konzentriert sich auf zwei Autoritäten am Gericht – qadi und mufti – in der frühen Abbasidischen Rechtsgeschichte (2. und 3. Jahrhundert nach der islamischen Zeitrechnung bzw. 8. und 9. Jahrhundert der gregorianischen Zeit), die miteinander kooperiert oder auch konkurriert haben. Die Grundlage ihrer Beziehung ist das islamische Prinzip der gerichtlichen Beratung von Experten in Rechtsfragen. Die islamische Rechtslehre ermutigt einen Richter, der mit Rechtsunsicherheiten konfrontiert war, einen gelehrten Rechtsberater (mufti) zu konsultieren, bevor er eine gerichtliche Entscheidung trifft. Die islamische Rechtsprechung entstand somit aus einem Verhältnis von Kooperation, Konfrontation und Kooptation zwischen Richtern und (außer-gerichtlichen) gelehrten Rechtsberatern. / Judge and Jurisconsult – Coercive and Persuasive Authority in Islamic Law Who dispenses justice at court? Islamic legal historians have long focused on the single judge (qadi) as the embodiment of the administration of justice. The judge, however, did not act alone in dispensing justice. A judicial staff supported his work, working from a position subordinate to him. In addition, evading a clearly demarcated judicial hierarchy, the learned jurisconsult (mufti) shaped adjudication in many distinct ways through concurring and dissenting opinions at court. This contribution focuses on two authorities—the qadi and the mufti—who cooperated or competed with each other at court in early Abbasid legal history (2nd-3rd century A. H. / 8th-9th century C.E.). Fundamental to their relationship is the Islamic principle of judicial consultation of experts on legal questions. Islamic legal doctrine encouraged a judge confronted with legal uncertainties to consult a mufti before issuing a judicial decision. Islamic adjudication thus emerged out of cooperation, confrontation and cooptation between judge and (extra-judicial) legal experts.

Louis Joseph Antoine De Potter (1786-1.859) was the gifted journalist who served as the catalyst of the successful Belgian revolution of 1830. He has been largely overlooked by students of the nineteenth century revolutionary era. Only one of De Potter's works is known to have been translated into English, his Vie de Scipion de Ricci. This paper has examined the development of De Potter's thought from his youth up to and including his participation in the Provisional Belgian Government of 1830. For clarity this study has been divided into four chapters.

The purpose of this study was to identify certain experiences among Swedish scholars towards their use of Wikipedia. The goal was to create a deeper understanding of how audiences with academic professions experience Wikipedia as a place to share knowledge with other individuals. This study was done through the perspectives of the ANT theory (Latour, 2005) and the User-Gratification theory (Katz et al., 1973). The method of choice was a mixed method research where the primary choice of method was qualitative interviews with seven Swedish scholars and one expert interview consisting of an employee at the Swedish Wikimedia foundation. This material was analyzed through a thematic analysis. Some of the findings from the interview was also analyzed through a computational network analysis to provide deeper insight into the concept of Wikipedia.    The research showed that there is a variated view on the scholar’s role on Wikipedia. While some of the participants criticized the structure in which the information was produced, some raised awareness into the importance to provide society with reliable and scientific knowledge in which important decisions can be based on. Different actors within the network of Wikipedia were identified which provided a deeper insight into the variety of individuals and non-human elements that work together to generate content on Wikipedia. A few of these actors and their relationships between one another was also visualized during the study. This provided even further analytical insight to Wikipedia as a platform. The overall view among the participants showed that there is a lack of incitement on how and why scholars should contribute to Wikipedia in Sweden. The results also showed that there are a variety of ways in which the platform of Wikipedia can be viewed depending on personal use the website. The cultural approach to Wikipedia was discussed in the context to how Wikipedia can provide society with information and how this might act as a form of cultural heritage online. / Syftet med denna studie var att identifiera vissa erfarenheter bland svenska forskares användning av Wikipedia. Målet med studien var att skapa en djupare förståelse för hur mediepubliker med akademiska yrken upplever Wikipedia som en plats att dela kunskap med andra individer. Studien genomfördes med hjälp av de olika perspektiven som de teoretiska utgångspunkterna ANT teorin (Latour, 2005) och användare-belönings teorin (Katz et al., 1973) bidrog med. Valet av metod blev en blandad metodforskning där det primära metodvalet var kvalitativa intervjuer med sju olika svenska akademiker och en expertintervju med en anställd på Wikimedia Sverige. Det insamlande materialet blev sedan analyserat genom en tematisk analys. Vissa delar av det insamlade materialet blev senare också analyserat genom en nätverksanalys av data för att bidra med djupare kunskap kring konceptet Wikipedia.    Studien visade att det finns en varierad syn på forskarens roll på Wikipedia. Medan vissa deltagare kritiserade strukturen som informationen produceras i, utryckte sig andra kring vikten av att bidra med trovärdig kunskap till samhället som sedan kan ligga till grund för olika beslut. Olika aktörer inom Wikipedia identifierades vilket också bidrog till en djupare insikt i den variation av individer och icke-mänskliga element som jobbar tillsammans för att skapa material på Wikipedia. Vissa av dessa aktörers relationer med varandra identifierades också genom olika typer av visuella element som framställdes under studien. Detta bidrog således också med en djupare analytisk insikt kring Wikipedia som plattform. Den allmänna synen bidrog också med insikt i den bristen på incitament kring hur och varför forskare bör bidra med sin forskning på Wikipedia i Sverige. Resultaten visade också att det finns en mängd olika sätt individer kan skapa sin bild av Wikipedia genom sitt personliga bruk av plattformen. Den kulturella approachen till Wikipedia diskuterades också genom kontexten hur plattformen kan bidra samhället med information och hur detta kan uppfattas som ett kulturellt arv online.

This study uplifted the stories of formerly incarcerated and/or system-impacted students attending a California community college (i.e., “Rising Scholars”) to provide qualitative context to a growing literature following the state’s promotion of support programs at the University of California (UC), California State University (CSU), and California Community Colleges (CCC) systems. This study interviewed six formerly incarcerated/system impacted Rising Scholars using a narrative inquiry methodology with a theoretical framework of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Desistance theory to inquire about their educational experiences before and during their enrollment at an urban California community college with reentry support. Key themes in the interviews include trauma in early educational experiences, dropping out of college, the gendered experiences of formerly incarcerated women, the role of pregnancy and parenthood as a turning point, and authentic care expressed by the support staff. The narratives of the participants are offered as a counter-narrative to the quantitative neoliberal practice of justifying reentry programs based solely on reductions in recidivism rates. Recommendations include increasing trauma-informed pedagogy in TK-12 and Postsecondary education, recruiting and educating more allies for Rising Scholars on campus, ensuring that campus reentry support programs fully meet the needs of female Rising Scholars, and uplifting successes and scholarship by Rising Scholars to build lasting structural support for the Rising Scholars Network.

Jewish literary studies holds a peculiar field position. Although the study of Jewish American literature has been a part of American literary studies at least since the famed ‘breakthrough’ of Jewish literature in the postwar years, it often continues to be treated as a self-enclosed world of its own, apart from both ethnic literary studies and the larger American literary field.

The September 11, 2001 Jihadists attack on the West and the subsequent wars on terrorism indicate that war may be a permanent condition of life in the contemporary world. This implies that to understand contemporary society, culture and communication requires an understanding of war because war could perhaps provide a perspective through which to understand the world. The aim of this study is to provide such a perspective and to critically explore the link between war and communication. However, in approaching a study of war one is confronted with a pervasive pacifist anti-war ideological bias. To overcome the bias the study adopts a critical strategy: firstly it deconstructs the taken for granted assumptions about the positive value of peace and then it reconstructs and traces the contours of a Western tradition of philosophical thought that considers war as being an integral and formative aspect of human identity and communication. Chapter 2 uncovers the limitations of the pacifists' discourse on war. Chapter 3 traces the Western tradition originating in Heraclitus that considers war as formative experience of being human. Chapter 4 traces war and killing as formative of language and communication. Using these insights a careful reading and interpretation of how war informs the thought and functions in the texts of selected social theorists of the twentieth century. Chapter 5 traces war as an agonistic structure in the works of Johan Huizinga on the role of play and in the political theory of Carl Schmitt. Chapter 6 explores the idea of war as a model of society in the works of Foucault. Chapter 7 investigates the central influence of real and imagined war on Marshall McLuhan’s theory of the media. Chapter 8 explores the way war structures the thought of Lyotard on the postmodern condition. Chapter 9 concludes by drawing implications on how a perspective on war contributes to development of communication theory and understanding life in the postmodern condition. / Communication Science / D. Litt. et Phil. Communication )