This dissertation tells the tale of al-Mahalla al-Kubra during the transition from handloom crafts to the mechanized textile industry and from a local community to a battleground for the nationalist cause in the first half of the twentieth century. By exploring the relationships between culture, politics, and modern industrialization and how subaltern groups shaped their local experiences of modernity in a setting remote from the central government and the cosmopolitan culture of Cairo and Alexandria, it unpacks the social history of men and women, artisans and workers, notables and fitiwwat who were situated between national capitalism and foreign domination. The goal is to write the history of the society from the bottom up and to write a history that is an alternative to the already established histories of nationalism and colonialism. It provides a historical reconstruction and analysis of the process of assimilation undergone by the recruited peasants into urban industrial life and explores the various ways in which they and the Mahallawiyya negotiated living together and dealt with their mutual hostility on an everyday basis. Identity is the core question in this process of assimilation. Did modern, horizontal class relations actually replace traditional, vertical communal and patronage relations? To what extent did the traditional social institutions help or hinder the process of adapting to forms of social life associated with modern industry? I argue that both vertical class and horizontal communal relations co-existed and sometimes competed. In that fluid dynamic, individuals and groups acted and interacted depending on their socio-economic status, communal commitments, conjuncture or the way that a given situation developed, and a shared, often contested, discourse. / text

CRUZ, Elizabeth Ferreira. Ação política, transformação social e reconstrução de identidades: um olhar a partir do feminismo para a militância das mulheres rurais nos movimentos sociais. 2008. 180f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2008. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2011-11-28T16:59:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_Dis_EFCRUZ.pdf: 1349104 bytes, checksum: 31603bf81161110d96ecb7d357017d1a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2011-11-29T11:39:36Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_Dis_EFCRUZ.pdf: 1349104 bytes, checksum: 31603bf81161110d96ecb7d357017d1a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-11-29T11:39:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_Dis_EFCRUZ.pdf: 1349104 bytes, checksum: 31603bf81161110d96ecb7d357017d1a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / The present research's main objective was to identify and analyze the transformations that occurred in the dimensions of the identity and the subject position of rural women that exercise political militancy in social movements in rural Ceará. It sought also to apprehend if the linking or proximity with feminism, as it ideology/vision of the world, theory or social movement, it constitutes a differential for the change of position of the subject of militant women, contributing so that these women can be more autonomous, so much in the movements of which they are a part, as in their routine life in the scope of the familiar relations. The analysis concentrates itself in the experiences of militant women of three social movements: Movement of Rural Working Women of the Northeast – MMTR/NE, Movement of Rural Workers Without Land – MST and Union Movement of Rural Workers – MSTTR. It analyzes also the experiences of rural women that aren't militants in social movements of form to be able to identify and complicate differences and resemblances between the two groups, establishing or not if the political militancy provokes significant transformations in the dimensions of the identity and in the routine practices of the militant women. The key concepts in this study are: identity, subject, social transformation and militancy. This reflection is based on epistemological, theoretic and methodological principles of Feminist Theories e Marxism. In able to better apprehend the object of study, a methodological procedure to qualitative research was adopted, in a feminist approach, reaping the empirical facts through individual and collective interviews (focal group), participant observation, as well as the analysis of documents. The conclusions indicate that the political militancy in social movements, even if they are not sufficient to constitute the women as full subjects of themselves, it contributes in a significant form so that these women act in their own lives, political and private, with more autonomy than those that are not militants in social movements. The militancy enables bigger knowledge, bigger access to the information and the experience in a political-public world that creates conditions for the exercise of a citizen practice, such as proposition and claim of rights. There are significant differences between the women who are active militants and those that are not, specifically, in their vision about class and gender domination trials in the world. Even if there are resemblances in the perceptions about the transformations occurred in the rural environment, the militant women show a posture more critical about those transformations, some identifying in them contradictions. Also, it was possible to identify that between the militant women there is a perception more critical of the uneven relations between women and men and of the present patriarchal culture in out society, especially, those that have some straight or indirect bond with the feminism. Between these, it was established a trial of change in the relations of kind in the family scope, including a bigger division of the housework. / A presente pesquisa teve como principal objetivo identificar e analisar as transformações ocorridas nas dimensões da identidade e na posição de sujeito das mulheres rurais que exercem militância política em movimentos sociais rurais no Ceará. Buscou também apreender se a vinculação ou aproximação com o feminismo, seja como ideologia/visão de mundo, teoria ou movimento social, constitui um diferencial para a mudança de posição de sujeito das mulheres militantes, contribuindo para que estas sejam mais autônomas, tanto nos movimentos em que militam como em sua vida cotidiana no âmbito das relações familiares. A análise concentra-se nas experiências de mulheres militantes de três movimentos sociais: Movimento de Mulheres Trabalhadoras Rurais do Nordeste – MMTR/NE, Movimento Sem Terra – MST e Movimento Sindical de Trabalhadores e Trabalhadoras Rurais – MSTTR. Analisa também as experiências de mulheres rurais que não militam em movimentos de forma a poder identificar e problematizar diferenças e semelhanças entre os dois grupos, constatando ou não se a militância política provoca transformações significativas nas dimensões da identidade e nas práticas cotidianas das mulheres militantes. São conceitos-chave neste estudo: identidade, sujeito, transformação social e militância. Esta reflexão toma como base os princípios epistemológicos, teóricos e metodológicos das Teorias Feministas e do Marxismo. Para dar contar de apreender melhor o objeto de estudo, adotou-se como procedimento metodológico a pesquisa qualitativa, numa abordagem feminista, colhendo os dados empíricos através de entrevistas coletivas (grupo focal) e individuais, observação participante, bem como a análise de documentos. As conclusões indicam que a militância política em movimentos sociais, ainda que não seja suficiente para constituir as mulheres como sujeitos plenos de si, contribui de forma significativa para que estas mulheres ajam e se coloquem em suas vidas, política e privada, com mais autonomia do que aquelas que não militam em movimentos sociais. A militância possibilita maior conhecimento, maior acesso à informação e a vivência em um mundo público-político que cria condições para o exercício de uma prática cidadã, de proposição e reivindicação de direitos. Há diferenças significativas entre as mulheres que militam e aquelas que não militam, em especial, na sua visão de mundo sobre os processos de dominação de classe e de gênero. Ainda que haja semelhanças nas percepções sobre as transformações ocorridas no meio rural, as mulheres militantes mostram uma postura mais crítica sobre essas transformações, algumas identificando nelas contradições. Também foi possível identificar que entre as mulheres militantes há uma percepção mais crítica das relações desiguais de poder entre mulheres e homens e da cultura patriarcal presentes na sociedade, sobretudo, aquelas que têm algum vínculo direto ou indireto com o feminismo. Entre estas, foi constatado um processo de mudança nas relações de gênero no âmbito familiar, inclusive uma maior divisão do trabalho doméstico.

This study is a contribution to the research projects in Africa that are concerned with the analysis of the various conflicts that currently face the continent. Political, ethnic, religious, cultural, and other forms of conflicts have increased in number over the past five decades. The academic community has been making its contribution to the understanding and resolution of the conflicts through its research projects. The contributions of the academic community are widely acknowledged in this regard. This study is about those conflicts emanating from differences in the cultural interpretations of natural resources between crop farmers and nomadic herdsmen. The example selected belongs to those conflicts, which are entrenched in the cultural practices of rural communities. These conflicts are unique, since most of them predate the political, economic, and ethnic-based conflicts, most of which have emerged since the colonial era. Understanding these types of conflicts thus constitutes an important area of the development process of countries such as the Republic of Sudan, which already has many conflicts to contend with. The areas elected the North, South and West Kordofan States constitute some of the conflict hotspots of the Republic of Sudan in terms of the cultural-natural resource conflict dynamics. The understanding and resolution of the conflicts between the crop farmers and nomadic herdsmen in the region have the potential to offer enormous benefits to the peace needed for the long-term development of Sudan. The objectives of this study were chosen purposely to contribute to the research projects on the peace-conflict discourse of the Republic of Sudan. They were aimed at finding out how the cultures of the crop farmers and nomadic herdsmen of the Greater Kordofan states explain the conflicts and the efforts of the Sudanese authorities to help address them. The critical realist research approach has been selected as the framework for the study. This involved a number of steps. First, information on the nature of the current policies and plans of the government of Sudan to address the conflicts has been collected as one basic element of the challenge of development of the Greater Kordofan region. The challenge has been discussed in terms of the gap currently existing between the government’s peace building plan objectives on the one hand and the actual outcomes on the other. Next, information was collected from the relevant stakeholders on the reasons for the persistence of the conflicts between the nomadic herdsmen and the crop farmers despite the efforts on the part of the government at building peace between them. Generating information in this way led to the recommendation that the stakeholders identified in this study hold the key to the success of the attempts at building long-term peace between the crop farmers and the nomadic herdsmen of the Greater Kordofan States. The recommendations of the study are based on the idea that opportunities always exist for the stakeholders to introduce positive change in their society. / Environmental Sciences / Ph. D. (Environmental Sciences)

The present work examines the crossroads of social transformation from the contextual standpoint of the "Second World" - a political and socioeconomic term descriptively pointing to the unique location of the Former Eastern-European Block countries - in between worlds. The work involves in a dialogue some of the major trends within the contemporary Eastern-European philosophical environment: dichotomized between Neo-Marxism and Neo-Freudianism on the one hand, and Postmodernism on the other. While examining the most significant elements between the dialectical paradigms for social change of the above theories (and their ethical foundations), the text strives towards a theological paradigmatic formulation for an authentic social transformation that draws its dialectical content and passion from the hopeful eschatological vision of Christ and the Kingdom as an embodiment of the Christian alternative for human emancipation and liberation. In light of this, the work attempts to establish the following thesis: the radical Christian praxis of the eschatological reality of the Kingdom in light of the Cross is the Church’s alternative to contemporary philosophies and initiatives for social transformation. This praxis affirms the revolutionary, history-shaping force which makes Christianity relevant to the problems of Modernity and Postmodernity through its self-identification with the Crucified God. It marks the moment of conception of an authentic, liberating, life giving, transforming hope as a source of humanization and redemption of social order. Christianity is concerned with the birth and formation of a new socio-political reality - the Kingdom of God, and its embodiment on earth (through the Holy Spirit) in a new ethnos: the Church, the Body of Christ, the communion of the saints. Therefore, it is the Church's calling and obligation to exemplify the reality of the Kingdom, being a living extension of the living Christ and thus, the incarnation of the eschatological future of the world and its hopeful horizon in the midst of the present. Recognizing the vital need for a relevant Christian response to the spiritual demands of the Post-modern human being and his/her desacralized, pluralistic socio­ political context, the work concludes with a conceptual outline offering a strategy for the Church in the Postmodern setting. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / D.Th. (Theological Ethics)

Many accounts, both ancient and modern, have maintained that the Julio- Claudian women had unprecedented influence in their spheres. This dissertation attempts to determine the degree of autonomy and influence that the Julio-Claudian women had and to examine the factors that may have contributed to their exceptional influence. In trying to establish the extent and nature of the influence of the Julio- Claudian women, the ancient sources (literary, documentary and iconographic), in conjunction with modern scholarly views, were critically examined throughout. In attempting to determine the factors that influenced such weight and autonomy as these women had, the dissertation looks at the influences on women of earlier times, in particular the late Roman Republic, from a legal and a socio-historical angle. Whether the Julio-Claudian women could be considered, for example, to have been part of a “super-elite” in comparison with aristocratic women of earlier, and even later, times, was discussed and evaluated. On the surface the Julio-Claudian women did seem to enjoy a wider range of freedoms, power and influence than their counterparts, or the Roman women before or after them. Yet it is clear from the sources that these women also had restrictions laid upon them and that the patriarchal framework still curtailed their influence. When they over-stepped the accepted bounds, they were invariably vilified by the ancient historians, and often came to be negatively portrayed by subsequent generations. Whether these women truly deserved their vilification, or whether it can simply be ascribed to the bias of the ancient writers, was also explored throughout. / Classics and World Languages / M.A. (Classical Studies)

Bibliography: pages 360-378 / In this study, the researcher investigates an HIV and AIDS prevention programme known as Education for Life (EFLP) run by the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). The programme seeks to encourage behaviour changes as a viable approach for the prevention of HIV and AIDS through education. EFLP is faith-based and run by the RCC as one of the programmes in RCC pastoral mission activities to mitigating the HIV and AIDS epidemic. EFLP aims at preventing HIV and AIDs through creating awareness of human values in the context of the gospel, facts about HIV and AIDs and promoting behaviour change, particularly among the youth. The programme is youth-led, peer-driven and peer support based. The researcher examines EFLP in Sterkspruit Parish from 2003 to 2013 to assess whether EFLP was effective in bringing about preventative sexual behaviour, as a result of participants in the programme changing attitudes and values and acquiring life skills. RCC and many Christian churches promote behavioural intervention abstinence, fidelity within marriage, counselling and delaying sexual debut and partner reduction. Behavioural change programmes have, however, not been without controversies. A qualitative research method was followed to investigate the impact of EFLP. Data were obtained and tape-recorded during one-on-one interviews of 25 youth participants. The researcher employed the theory of reasoned action to examine the data. Analysis of data revealed that the mission of the church could be achieved through social transformation in the lives of the youth, especially behavioural change concerning HIV and AIDS. It also showed that a single preventative approach should not be taken to the exclusion of others in the prevention of HIV and AIDs. The study recommends combining different approaches, including promoting behavioural change / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / Ph. D. (Missiology)

This project is an exploration of how design can help redefine our interactions and engagement with tax. By using a combination of design methodologies, it explores what tax is to people today, what it could be in future and what social technological and environmental elements might be important to consider in designing future tax systems. With a particular focus on the UK, I apply user-centred research methods to gain insights into how tax, technology and non human life entities currently fit into people's lives. Using a more life-centred framework, I then synthesised the results of this research into design principles. Alongside these, I create a range of speculative probes which serve to illustrate and develop the different lenses and frictions through which the topic of tax could be approached and mapped. The final result is a more refined proposal for one way in which we might engage with tax differently in society by making it possible for citizens to allocate taxes to things in their surroundings and then track their impact. While the conclusion of this project has focused into developing a more refined result, I believe the bulk of its value has been in beginning to map a space, which up until now might have felt too complex and difficult for many designers to tackle. Tax is indeed very complex, and while the scope of this project has only allowed me to dip my toe into it, I would like to argue that it should not be neglected by design. On the contrary, as the complexity of tax inevitably collides with increasing digital complexity of our connected world, it is perhaps more important than ever that the field design takes part in any future dialogue, so that it can advocate for both human and non human perspectives within the wider picture of systemic impact.

Text in Afrikaans / Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a life-threatening disease. When heart patients in the treatment of their disease, due to certain subjugating discourses practised by the biomedical model or biomedicine, are treated in a way that contributes to their anxiety and they feel themselves marginalised by society, then CAD becomes even more threatening. The narrative-pastoral approach of this study aims to treat heart patients in a way that has a calming effect on them that could assist them to deal with their heart disease more efficiently. This study shows how a heart patient's illness stories can be centralised by means of narrative therapy and how a pastoral and ethical attitude of love and respect can produce a climate that's conducive to better health and well-being. I indicate how my methodology of participatory action research succeeds in making the heart patients active participants to the research project. Their active participation indicates that meaning is not created on their behalf in therapy; rather, they are responsible for the process of richer construction of meaning. I describe how the participants socially co-constructed alternative and richer descriptions of their illness. Futhermore, I point out how their richer descriptions of illness contribute to perceptible and measurable results that are of value to the heart patients. / Koronere hartvatsiekte (KHS) is 'n lewensbedreigende siekte. Wanneer hartpasiente in die behandeling van hul siekte vanwee sekere onderdrukkende diskoerse van siekte vanuit die biomediese model of biomedisyne s6 hanteer word dat dit spanning op hul plaas en deur die samelewing gemarginaliseer word, word KHS des te meer gevaarlik. In hierdie studie gaan dit oor 'n narratief-pastorale benadering wat hartpasiente op 'n kalmerende manier hanteer sodat hulle kan kom tot 'n meer doeltreffende hantering van hul hartsiekte. Hierdie studie toon aan hoe hartpasiente se siekteverhale deur middel van narratiewe terapie gesentreer word en hoe 'n etiese en pastorale gesindheid van liefde en respek 'n klimaat skep wat bevorderlik is vir beter gesondheid en welwese. Ek dui aan hoe my metodologie van deelnemende aksienavorsing daarin geslaag het om die hartpasiente aktiewe deelnemers te maak aan die navorsingsprojek. Hul aktiewe deelname impliseer dat betekenis nie in terapie vir hulle geskep word nie, maar dat hulle self skeppend betrokke is in die proses van ryker betekeniskonstruering. Ek beskryf hoe die deelnemers altematiewe en ryker beskrywings van hul siekte sosiaal ko-konstrueer. Ek dui verder aan hoe hul ryker beskrywings van siekte bydra tot sigbare en meetbare resultate wat vir hartpasiente van waarde is. / Practical Theology / D. Th. (Praktiese Teologie)

Text in Afrikaans / Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a life-threatening disease. When heart patients in the treatment of their disease, due to certain subjugating discourses practised by the biomedical model or biomedicine, are treated in a way that contributes to their anxiety and they feel themselves marginalised by society, then CAD becomes even more threatening. The narrative-pastoral approach of this study aims to treat heart patients in a way that has a calming effect on them that could assist them to deal with their heart disease more efficiently. This study shows how a heart patient's illness stories can be centralised by means of narrative therapy and how a pastoral and ethical attitude of love and respect can produce a climate that's conducive to better health and well-being. I indicate how my methodology of participatory action research succeeds in making the heart patients active participants to the research project. Their active participation indicates that meaning is not created on their behalf in therapy; rather, they are responsible for the process of richer construction of meaning. I describe how the participants socially co-constructed alternative and richer descriptions of their illness. Futhermore, I point out how their richer descriptions of illness contribute to perceptible and measurable results that are of value to the heart patients. / Koronere hartvatsiekte (KHS) is 'n lewensbedreigende siekte. Wanneer hartpasiente in die behandeling van hul siekte vanwee sekere onderdrukkende diskoerse van siekte vanuit die biomediese model of biomedisyne s6 hanteer word dat dit spanning op hul plaas en deur die samelewing gemarginaliseer word, word KHS des te meer gevaarlik. In hierdie studie gaan dit oor 'n narratief-pastorale benadering wat hartpasiente op 'n kalmerende manier hanteer sodat hulle kan kom tot 'n meer doeltreffende hantering van hul hartsiekte. Hierdie studie toon aan hoe hartpasiente se siekteverhale deur middel van narratiewe terapie gesentreer word en hoe 'n etiese en pastorale gesindheid van liefde en respek 'n klimaat skep wat bevorderlik is vir beter gesondheid en welwese. Ek dui aan hoe my metodologie van deelnemende aksienavorsing daarin geslaag het om die hartpasiente aktiewe deelnemers te maak aan die navorsingsprojek. Hul aktiewe deelname impliseer dat betekenis nie in terapie vir hulle geskep word nie, maar dat hulle self skeppend betrokke is in die proses van ryker betekeniskonstruering. Ek beskryf hoe die deelnemers altematiewe en ryker beskrywings van hul siekte sosiaal ko-konstrueer. Ek dui verder aan hoe hul ryker beskrywings van siekte bydra tot sigbare en meetbare resultate wat vir hartpasiente van waarde is. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / D. Th. (Praktiese Teologie)

This research surveys the Swiss missionaries' management of social transformation in South Africa (1873-1973). It has as its major focus the management of schools, hospitals and churches as the primary institutions of social change in society. The researcher's realisation that more often than not, the changes brought to bear on proselytes by the change forces take time to manifest themselves vividly induced him to extend the scope to include the dawn of the new political dispensation in this country in 1994. This need not surprise the readership as the triadic approach, which is synonymous with historical analyses compels researchers to avail readers of what happened in the past, present as well as what is likely to occur in future. In other words, readers will encounter the ethnic nationalism engineered by different change agents in this country and the repercussions thereof, and the schism within the Swiss Mission in South Africa/Evangelical Presbyterian Church in South Africa that started in 1989 and became reality in 1991. Finally, the thesis also appraises readers of what should be done in periods of rapid social change. / Educational Studies / D.Ed. (History of Education)