This texts examines the potential of the documentation of socially engaged art to affect change. It looks at how it can extend the goal of political action inherent in much socially engaged artwork, particularly with reference to Corrie Peters thesis exhibition: All the rooming houses on my street have had their front door removed. / October 2015

The Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers, 1942-2004 are located in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. They contain published and unpublished works along with photographs, correspondence, artwork, notes, interviews, etc. As a woman of color who is interested in issues of social justice, disrupting dominant ideological binaries, and intersections of race, class, and gender, Anzaldúa has much to offer the field of rhetoric and communication studies. The purpose of the study is to derive Anzaldúa’s theory of social change. As a woman of color, Anzaldúa simultaneously aligns and differentiates herself from the Chicano movement and the feminist movement. Citing her, and other Chicana feminists concerns, she uses a theory of the B/borderlands as a generative theory from which she theorizes using nepantla and images. Her theory of social change is implicit and available to rhetors upon an examination of the official and unofficial texts available in her archive. Diana Taylor’s concepts of the archive (official texts) and the repertoire (unofficial performances and iterations) are used to examine Anzaldúa’s archival collection. The artifacts included an examination of Anzaldúa’s birth certificate and corrections compared with a short story “Her Name Never Got Called.” In addition a documentary Altar is examined and compared with conversations that led to its creation. An analysis of Anzaldúa’s archive suggests that there is an oscillation between the official archives and the unofficial performances. These movements reveal Anzaldúa’s favor for images as instrumental in her theory-making process; they reveal her imagistic theory of social change. Applying a theory of discourse from the borderlands that emerges out of the archive of Anzaldúa will make rhetoricians better equipped to study texts that speak back to dominant discourses and refuse oppressive binaries. / text

Problema: Projektų vykdytojų kompetencijų kaita vykdant projektus: projektų vykdytojai orientuojasi į projekto tikslinę grupę ir jos poreikius, o ne į tai, kokią įtaką projekto organizavimas turi jų pačių tobulėjimui, kompetencijų kaitai. Darbo objektas: NVGN „Vilniaus SOS vaikų kaimo“ socialinių darbuotojų kompetencijos. Darbo tikslas: išnagrinėti NVGN „Vilniaus SOS vaikų kaimo“ socialinių darbuotojų kompetencijų kaitą, įgyvendinant socialinius projektus. Uždaviniai: 1. apibrėžti kriterijus – socialinių darbuotojų kompetencijoms matuoti. 2. išnagrinėti, NVGN „Vilniaus SOS vaikų kaimo“ socialinių darbuotojų kompetencijas iki socialinio projekto vykdymo ir po jo įvykdymo. 3. ištirti NVGN “Vilniaus“ socialinių darbuotojų kompetencijų kaitą, įgyvendinant socialinius projektus. Tyrimo metodai: Siekiant užsibrėžtų tikslų, darbe naudojami metodai: 1. Mokslinės literatūros analizė; 2. Dokumentų ir projektų paraiškų analizė 3. Nestruktūrizuotas interviu; 4. Anketinė kontrolinės grupės apklausa; 5. Gautų rezultatų lyginimas, analizavimas Tyrimo eiga: Magistrinio darbo pardžioje apžvelgiama mokslinė literatūra susijusi su socialiniais projektais, kompetencijos ir jos kaitos sąvokomis bei nustatomas kompetencijos kaitos kriterijus. Antrajame etape nagrinėjami oficialūs ir neoficialūs dokumentai, kurie atskleidžia reikalaujamas socialinio darbuotojo kompetencijas NVGN „Vilniaus SOS vaikų kaime“ Trečiasis žingsnis – nestruktūrizuotas interviu. Jo metu yra apklausiami 3... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Problem: The promoters of competence change in the following projects: project promoters of the project targeted audience and its needs, rather than to the impact of the project organization to their own development, competency change. The object: NVGN Vilnius SOS Children's Village 'social workers. Aim: To study NVGN Vilnius SOS Children's Village social worker competencies change, the implementation of social projects. Tasks: 1. The criteria - to measure the competencies of social workers 2. Examine NVGN Vilnius SOS Children's Village social workers competence before and after its completion. 3. Investigate NVGN Vilnius 'social workers' competencies change, the implementation of social projects. Testing methods: 1. Scientific literature; 2. Documentation and analysis of project proposals; 3. Unstructured interview; 4. Questionnaire survey in the control group; 5. Comparing the results obtained, analysis. Experimental procedure: The first step of master’s work - reviews the scientific literature related to social projects, expertise, and change its terms and determine the change in the criteria of competence. The second step examined the formal and informal documents that reveal the social worker is required competencies NVGN Vilnius SOS Children's Villages The third step - unstructured interviews. During the interview three social workers who carry out social projects. The survey takes place 2-3 days before and 2-3 days after the social project. Interviews reveal the... [to full text]

This research explores how community leaders could use Corbett’s Spectrum of Environmental Ideologies (2006) to analyze the ideologies of communication campaigns before adopting one into a community. In this research, a mixed age class of elementary students and local artisans created two “parks” in public parking spaces and participated in an arts contest in Nelson, BC. This action research used analytic coding to reflect on participants’ relationship with nature based on their response to: international Park(ing) Day and Transition Nelson. Additionally, participant recommendations for greening Nelson’s downtown core were compared with four models of social change for generating ecocentric solutions. Ecocentric solutions stem from the belief that humans and nature are interdependent. Found to be key were nurturing participants’ nascent ecocentric values and investigating the campaign materials deeply. Additionally building motivation, exploring alternatives, problem-solving, partnerships and improved organizational communication are important elements of social change.

Sociological explanations for human conduct usually place major ontological and epistemological emphasis upon either discursive or material relations without ever establishing or adequately specifying the validity of this dichotomy. Early texts by the Critical Realist philosopher Roy Bhaskar address this forced separation by creating an integrated ontological and epistemological field that provides a more detailed and precise theoretical ordering to agents, objects, and entities. Undertaking a developmental critique of Bhaskar’s arguments, this thesis extends Critical Realism’s role as theoretical ‘underlabourer’ and creates an expanded theoretical framework that balances discursive and material accounts. Utilising the sophisticated analyses of the structure and operation of discourses found in the work of Michel Foucault alongside the innovative arguments for aleatory materialism developed by Louis Althusser, a critique is established that shows discursive, material, and social relations to be complex, immanent, and, importantly, mutually constitutive. In each theory three core concepts of events, emergence, and the extra-discursive are shown to not only be present but also to operate as the main means of explaining social change. The result of integrating Critical Realism, Foucault, and Althusser in this sympathetic but non-syncretic form is the generation of a non-reductionist materialism combined with discursive relations. On this basis, social change is shown to be the result of restructured discursive and material relations of which human agents are only one part. The thesis provides an illustration of the theoretical argument with an empirical component which examines the formation and decline of the British nuclear industry between its inception in the early 1950s to the year 2000. The conclusion is that the form taken by nuclear energy is not entirely determined by any single one of political, economic, or scientific forces but is, instead, the product of multiple and complex interactions of immanent discursive and material relations that are, importantly, mutually reinforcing. / Thesis (Ph.D, Sociology) -- Queen's University, 2012-09-27 12:38:25.909

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<p><br /> A number of programmes have been implemented in the field of development communication, with the specific aim of promoting social change among communities, and a series of studies have illustrated the positive effects of entertainment-education (EE) interventions on individuals variety of fields, including health, agriculture and sustainable development, and make use of a different range of media such as radio, television and theatre. In line with the theory and conceptual framework of the Integrated Model of Communication for Social Change (IMCSC), this research is intended to explore, empirically, how development communication programmes can foster collective action amongst community members. The research is based on a case study of Sesotho Media &amp / Development (SM&amp / D), a nongovernmental organisation that has been operating in Lesotho, using media to promote social transformation and individual change. For the past 10 years, SM&amp / D has been working in Lesotho using a methodology based on facilitated documentary screening with a specific focus on HIV/Aids-related issues, combined with capacity building programmes aimed at training facilitators among support groups, youth groups and prison inmates around the country. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods of enquiry were employed throughout the research. Common research tools used include questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and observation. In addition, a variety of secondary sources of information, including evaluation reports, funding proposals and journal articles were reviewed. The results of the study reveal that development communication initiatives are able to foster collective forms of action by increasing the level of&nbsp / efficacy&nbsp / amongst the audience. Conclusions highlight that participatory development communication with an educational aim allows people to identify problems and to strategise and mobilise resources for collective action. </p> <p>&nbsp / </p>

<p align="left">A number of programmes have been implemented in the field of development communication, with the specific aim of promoting social change among communities, and a series of studies have illustrated the positive effects of entertainment-education (EE) interventions on individuals variety of fields, including health, agriculture and sustainable development, and make use of a different range of media such as radio, television and theatre. <font face="Times New Roman">In line with the theory and conceptual framework of the </font><i><font face="Times New Roman">Integrated Model of Communication </font><i><font face="Times New Roman">for Social Change </font><font face="Times New Roman">(IMCSC), this research is intended to explore, empirically, how </font>development communication programmes can foster collective action amongst community members. The research is based on a case study of Sesotho Media &amp / Development (SM&amp / D), a nongovernmental organisation that has been operating in Lesotho, using media to promote social transformation and individual change. For the past 10 years, SM&amp / D has been working in Lesotho using a methodology based on facilitated documentary screening with a specific focus on HIV/Aids-related issues, combined with capacity building programmes aimed at training facilitators among support groups, youth groups and prison inmates around the country. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods of enquiry were employed throughout the research. Common research tools used include questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and observation. In addition, a variety of secondary sources of information, including evaluation reports, funding proposals and journal articles were reviewed. The results of the study reveal that development communication initiatives are able to foster collective forms of action by increasing the level of <i><font face="Times New Roman">efficacy </font><font face="Times New Roman">amongst the audience. </font>Conclusions highlight that participatory development communication with an educational aim allows people to identify problems and to strategise and mobilise resources for collective action.</i></i></i></p>

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal