Submitted by Celso Magalhaes (celsomagalhaes@ufrrj.br) on 2017-06-09T12:43:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Angela Maria do Amaral Abreu Carvalho.pdf: 6567053 bytes, checksum: b17acd5281d9b02898484b4a34b12160 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-09T12:43:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Angela Maria do Amaral Abreu Carvalho.pdf: 6567053 bytes, checksum: b17acd5281d9b02898484b4a34b12160 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-04 / The main objective of this research was to evaluate the role of Ifes ? Alegre Campus on the socioeconomic dynamics of the Capara? micro-region as a planning unit, according to the guidelines and strategies outlined by the Esp?rito Santo Development Plan 2025 established by the state government. The reflection proposal was based on the discussion of the (re) production of the geographical space as a social relation's product, seeking to understand the historicity of the organizational processes and structure, in particular on the subspace called Capara? micro-region. It sought to highlight, in a timely manner, the performance intentions of the main agents of (re) production and consumption of space in its social totality, especially the State. In discussing the State actions, the approaches are related to the public policy strategies of education and strategic planning, emphasizing the proposal for rural education in the bias of the Human Capital Theory related to the conservative modernization of the Brazilian agriculture. While an exploratory, descriptive, qualitative and quantitative-based research, it was carried out using three complementary methods: bibliographic and virtual research: scientific articles, books and other publications related to the theme and correspondent topics; documentary research: Esp?rito Santo Development Plan 2025 focusing on the Capara? micro-region, Institutional Development Plan - PDI/Ifes and related legislation; application of questionnaires to graduating students of technical courses and higher education (2014), head of education, course coordinators, head of research and postgraduation and coordinator of community outreach of the Ifes ?Alegre Campus, rural labor union representatives and Incaper of the 11 municipalities that make up the Capara? microregion. After the treatment and effort of data and information analyzes, another question has come out: what is the social function of Ifes - Alegre Campus as an education, training, research and community outreach institution in the context of socio-economic, political and cultural demands of the third poorest micro-region of Esp?rito Santo? / O objetivo principal desta pesquisa foi o de analisar o papel do Ifes ? Campus de Alegre no contexto da din?mica socioecon?mica da microrregi?o do Capara?, na condi??o de unidade de planejamento, conforme diretrizes e estrat?gias apontadas pelo Plano de Desenvolvimento Esp?rito Santo 2025, institu?da pelo governo estadual. A reflex?o proposta fundamentou-se na discuss?o sobre a (re)produ??o do espa?o geogr?fico, enquanto produto das rela??es sociais, buscando compreender a historicidade dos processos de organiza??o e estrutura??o, em especial do subespa?o denominado microrregi?o do Capara?. Buscou-se destacar, de forma pontual, as intencionalidades na atua??o dos principais agente de (re)produ??o e consumo do espa?o, em sua totalidade social, em especial o Estado. Na discuss?o sobre a atua??o do Estado, as abordagens est?o relacionadas ?s estrat?gias de pol?ticas p?blicas de educa??o e planejamento estrat?gico, com ?nfase na proposta de educa??o rural no vi?s da Teoria do Capital Humano relacionado ? moderniza??o conservadora da agricultura brasileira. Enquanto pesquisa de base quali-quantitativa, explorat?ria e descritiva, a mesma foi desenvolvida em tr?s etapas que se complementam: pesquisa bibliogr?fica e virtual: artigos cient?ficos, livros e demais publica??es relacionados ao tema e tem?ticas correspondentes; pesquisa documental: Plano de Desenvolvimento Esp?rito Santo 2025, no que diz respeito a microrregi?o do Capara?, Plano de Desenvolvimento Institucional ? PDI/Ifes, al?m de legisla??es pertinentes; elabora??o e aplica??o de question?rios junto aos alunos formandos dos cursos t?cnicos e dos cursos superiores (2014), diretor de ensino, coordenadores de cursos, diretor de pesquisa, p?sgradua??o e extens?o, coordenador de extens?o do Ifes - Campus de Alegre, representantes dos Sindicatos dos Trabalhadores Rurais e Incaper dos 11 munic?pios que comp?em a microrregi?o do Capara?. A partir do tratamento e esfor?o de an?lise dos dados e informa??es coletados, uma outra quest?o se apresenta: qual a fun??o social do Ifes - Campus de Alegre enquanto institui??o de ensino, forma??o, pesquisa e extens?o no contexto das demandas socioecon?micas, pol?ticas e culturais da terceira microrregi?o mais pobre do Esp?rito Santo?

A tese pretende analisar as relações entre Literatura moderna, Geografia e Sociedade no processo de modernização social, através do estudo de seis escritores: Charles Baudelaire, Machado de Assis, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, Carlos Drummond de Andrade e João Antônio. O percurso busca mostrar como a modernização social, produzindo formas de espaço social abstrato (Lefebvre) adequadas ao processo de acumulação capitalista, é literariamente mimetizada e reconstruída por tais escritores. O processo de modernização aparece, então, como domínio do trabalho abstrato e, em suas crises, como um estado de exceção, figurado pela literatura em três níveis espaciais fundamentais interligados, mas não-idênticos: ao nível do concebido (pela política e as ideologias), do praticado/percebido (na vida cotidiana) e do vivido (nas singularidades subjetivas, nos limites do real inconsciente). Assim, teríamos a Literatura como um meio de mapeamento cognitivo de processos sócio-espaciais modernos. / The thesis intends to analyse the relationships between Modern Literature, Geography, and Society within the process of social modernization, through the study of six writers: Charles Baudelaire, Machado de Assis, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and João Antônio. This itinerary aims to show how social modernization, producing forms of abstract social space (Lefebvre) related to the capitalist process of accumulation, is literarily mimetized and reconstructed by these writers. The modernization process appears then as imposition of abstract labor and, in its crisis, as a state of exception, thematized by literature in three interconnected but non-identical spatial levels: at the level of the conceived (by politics and ideologies), of the perceived (praxis in everyday life), and of lived experiences (in subjective singularities, in the limits of the unconscious). Thus, Literature appears as cognitive mapping of modern social and spatial processes.

This essay does a theoretical comparison of the intricate social production in digital and real spaces, proposing a model for the non-technical exploration of the social production of spaces relating to human digital technology. The ‘social space’ proposed by Henri Lefebvre (1974) - responsible for producing material space - and the holistic model of ‘cybernetic space’ proposed by Ananda Mitra and Rae Lynn Schwartz (2001) - responsible for supporting the production of real and digital spaces - are argued as collaboratively producing cybernetic social spaces, serving as the definition of a unified model for the production of spaces in contemporary society. The digital spaces are argued as being a similar analogue to classical ‘social space’. Two native cybernetic spaces are presented and discussed, argued as being responsible for the transitive production of digital and real spaces as they survey and situate the production of cybernetic social space. Finally, two case studies exemplifying the aesthetics and politics of cybernetic space are presented, analyzed and discussed in accordance with the proposed model of cybernetic social space.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Secondary Education / Diane McGrath / In many college of education programs, the feasibility of online courses has provided opportunities for in-service teachers who are pursuing a higher educational goal while working full-time with school and/or family responsibilities. Although preliminary evidence on project-based learning (PBL) in traditional classrooms with younger learners suggests that students are highly motivated, it is not clear whether adult learners recognize the value of the online PBL approach. This study documented adult learners’ learning experience with online projects, their collaborative experience, and their learning experience with technological tools. The result of this study can contribute to our understanding of the strengths and the obstacles in an online PBL environment. Nineteen participants who registered in a graduate level course participated in this case study over a 16-week semester. They collaborated in small group of 2–5 members in order to communicate and construct projects at a distance. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected and interpreted based on a descriptive case study design. Multiple sources of data include course documentation, archival data from course management system, student-created projects, surveys, and interviews. A model for content analysis of CMC was applied to qualitative analysis of the electronic discourse. Findings of this study indicated that participants gained positive experience in this new way of learning. In particular, three themes related to online PBL approach emerged: (1) project relevancy and authenticity as the primary concerns in guiding driving question, researching information, and constructing artifact; (2) synchronicity is indispensable for online collaboration; and (3) repeated exposures with technology tools reduce the fear and reinforce the skill to be learned.

Au cours des dernières années, les villes du Monde Arabe assistent à une propagation de centres commerciaux. Parallèlement et à partir des années quatre vingt dix, période de la reconstruction du Liban suite à la guerre libanaise, le paysage commercial de Beyrouth a subi de profondes mutations avec l’introduction de la grande distribution internationale et la multiplication des franchises nationales et internationales éparpillées dans la ville et ses extensions. Là, le phénomène n’est pas nouveau au Liban, mais l’ampleur qu’il prend actuellement et sa généralisation à tout l’espace de l’agglomération beyrouthine, en modifie le paysage commercial. De nouvelles structures commerciales côtoient les structures existantes. Ainsi, la géographie commerciale devient de plus en plus multiforme et complexe, surtout avec l’émergence actuelle d’importants complexes commerciaux de grande échelle et d’une nouvelle typologie. Le commerce de proximité est bousculé et remis en cause par l’avènement de la grande distribution surtout alimentaire au Liban. La problématique émerge de ces mutations qui s’opèrent autour des centres commerciaux constituant des pôles d’attraction surtout, en l’absence de planification urbaine prévoyant leur implantation et la politique d’encouragement aux investissements pour les projets de construction et de reconstruction adoptée par le gouvernement libanais suite à la guerre libanaise. Face à cette situation, ce phénomène nous incite à s’interroger sur les mutations du commerce, leur rayonnement spatial, économique et social, leurs causes et leurs effets sur l’environnement urbain. Quelles sont les logiques qui sont derrière ces mutations ? Quelle est leur portée sur le commerce existant et le commerce nouveau ? La problématique émerge des transformations qui se manifestent dans le paysage commercial et sera traitée à travers les différentes logiques, spatiale, économique, sociale, …, urbaine qui les sous-tendent, se questionnant sur leur dimensions dans chaque type de commerce et la portée du « grand » commerce sur « le petit ». / Over the past years, the cities of the Arab world attended a spread of shopping centers. At the same time and from the year 1990, period of the reconstruction of Lebanon after the Lebanese war, the commercial landscape of Beirut has undergone profound changes with the introduction of the large international distribution and the multiplication of national and international franchises scattered throughout the city and its extensions. Here, the phenomenon is not new to the Lebanon, but the extent that it is currently taking and its generalization to any space of the agglomeration of Beyrouth, alter the business landscape. New commercial structures coexist with existing structures. Thus, the commercial geography becomes increasingly multifaceted and complex, especially with the current emergence of major commercial complexes of large scale and new typology. Trade in proximity is jostled and challenged by the advent of the great especially food distribution in Lebanon. The problem emerges from these mutations occur around shopping malls constituting poles of attraction especially, in the absence of urban planning for their implementation and the policy of encouraging investment for the projects of construction and reconstruction adopted by the Lebanese Government after the Lebanese war. Given this situation, this phenomenon prompts us to wonder about the mutations of the trade, their spatial, economic and social influence their causes and their effects on the urban environment. What are the logics that are behind these mutations? What is their scope on the existing trade and new trade? The problem emerges from the transformations that occur in the commercial landscape and will be processed through the different logical, spatial, economic, social,..., urban that underlie them, questioning their dimensions in each type of trade and the scope of the "large" trade and the “small” ( Le “grand” et le “petit” commerce).

This dissertation is based on a narrative analysis of eighteen life biographies of children of Vietnamese descent in Czech Republic. It shows that these young people lives are embedded in a "transnational social space", which spans between two geographical regions of Vietnam and Czech Republic, and which leaves them exposed to a set of social expectations, cultural values and patterns of human interaction, that are shaped by more than one political, economic and social system. It also describes how these people, through multiple connected social networks and social relationships, transform cultural practices, interpretations, experiences and identities, which deconstructs the idea of integrity between place, identity and culture. Although the primary aim of the work is to analyse how children of Vietnamese operate in transnationalized social and cultural contexts, transnational practices, such as homeland visits, kinship ties and sending remittances are also being explored. In doing so the children of Vietnamese migrants are neither perceived as "existing in vacuum" nor are their identities described as "deterritorialized". The work pays also attention to the question how their lives and identities are shaped on the backdrop of discursive fields and power relationships in particular localities. Key...

As spatial properties that systems theoretically have, Socio-Ecological Systems are characterized by dynamism and mobility, therefore, are subject to changes in the space they occupy in the biosphere. In land ecosystems, these changes are understood as processes of evolution over time, or the result of extreme natural events, or transformation of the natural space induced by human activities. These spatial changes produce effects on the land surface and groundwater of ecosystems colonized or penetrated by elements, individuals or populations belonging to other ecosystems. These are the so-called Transitional Spaces between ecosystems. Throughout the continuous geographical space, these spatial transitions affect human and not human ecosystems in different ways. Given their ambiguous characteristics and their indefinite temporal location between urban, rural or natural spaces, transition spaces deserve to be investigated in order to know their properties and functions within the cartography that represents complex socio-ecological systems. The research is conducted from a particular perspective of Political Ecology. For this I proceed to develop an epistemological exercise on the political ecology syntagma in order to approach its concept and object of study as a hybrid discipline between social sciences and natural sciences. Interdisciplinarity as a practice, a dialectic vision regarding anthropocentrism, environmental perception as a method for an ontology of human ecology, The ecosystem as a unit of spatial analysis. These would be some of the characteristics of my ecological-political perspective. But what does transitional space mean for political ecology and what does it add to its theory? The question led me to seek the integral concept of ecosystem and to support myself in the General Systems Theory to analyze the notions of boundary and external environment as part of the classic concept of system. At that point, the notion of transitional spaces emerges implicit when recognizing the dynamic spatiality of other existing systems. v Since the research is not linear but interdisciplinary and convergent, a brief anthology of geographic and socio-spatial political thought is presented in order to connect the issue of transitional spaces with the point of view of the social sciences. Various socio-geographical, deterministic, anthropocentric, Darwinian, Marxist, modernist theories give an overview of the issues related to space and nature. With the emergence of the spatial turn, new concerns for political sociology, geography and environmental sciences are explained by the phenomenon of urban growth at the global level. In the same way, I introduce the topic of ecological spaces, specifically the concept of Ecotone, the space of transition between diverse natural ecosystems. The use of the notion of ecotone is based precisely on the perspective of the concept of political ecology developed previously. This, in turn, will allow me to introduce the FLACAM methodology into the research, which among its components has the virtue of identifying and analyzing the spatial phenomenon of physical and social Interfaces, that is, spaces of transition within human ecosystems. Several graphics and charts show the potential properties and functions of different kind of existing interfaces and ecotones. My proposal converges in using these concepts as planning tools for transitional spaces identified as Rurban Regions and metropolitan areas. A final reflection on the need for spatial research on global urban expansion and the theoretical and pragmatic advantages of the concept of intermediate cities closes the main body of the investigation.

The thesis inquires into the entanglement between the unsettlement of the Greek model of social reproduction that heavily relies on self-regulated property ownership and the emergence of vigilant violence on behalf of local property owners against undocumented migrants in the relegated neighborhood of Ksiladika in Thessaloniki’s West End. It probes the extent to which incidents of vigilant violence can be used as indicators of the structural deficiencies in the Greek housing system and property paradigm. 
 First, the thesis points to the distinct historic trajectory of the Greek housing system and property regime that is carved by a strategy of minimal involvement of state authority since the end of the Greek Civil War (1949). In contrast to the (North) European paradigm, the Greek model of social reproduction is marked by a normalized laissez-faire attitude in the domain of housing and by the hypertrophy of the family institution that emerged as a substitute system of social protection vis- a-vis the atrophy of administration. The thesis then points to a political discourse investing in the figure of the householder, sketched as the ‘normal’ Greek subject par excellence, within which self- government connects up with the imperatives of good government, in times when access to housing has become scarce and social insecurity widespread. 
 I focus my study on the neighborhood of Ksiladika in Thessaloniki, where as of late a vigilant campaign of evictions of undocumented migrant squatters on behalf of local property holders was launched. I suggest that this campaign of vigilance is not an act of ‘pure racism’ but is linked with the unsettlement of the Greek model of social reproduction, the scarcity of outright homeownership as a resource of symbolic and material value and the particularity of Ksiladika, that is at once a stigmatized neighborhood and a land of promise. 
 I rely on data collected through micro-ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation and semi-structured interviews with local property holders in Ksiladika. I use the conceptual tools of social space, field of power and symbolic power found in the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant, as heuristic tools to identify the significance of property and home ownership in shaping perceptions of local property holders towards their neighborhood and in defining their actions. I present my empirical findings clarifying the diversity of choices, expectations and actions of different actors, active in this propertied field of power in the studied area. 
 The thesis draws to an end by using the findings from Ksiladika to contribute to a discussion that revolves around Wacquant’s three basic theses on the emergence of advanced urban marginality as an effect of the neoliberal state crafting on a global scale. First, I argue that in regions where the social state was inexistent, the implementation of neoliberal policies did not happen in a way identical to what can be observed in the North and do not entail a reengineering of the state. Then I suggest that Wacquant's schematization of a Janus-like Centaur state that performs liberalism for those at the top of the social scale and punitive paternalism for those at the social bottom immured in precarity does not hold, due to the expanding zone of precarity. Eventually, I suggest that neoliberal governing is not attained merely by the penal apparatus of the neoliberal Leviathan, but via a governing through subjects who internalize the postulates of the entrepreneurial ideology mediated through homeownership in times when the resource is scarce.

The contemporary society is in many ways a society of consumers where individuals consume to satisfy their desires at the expense of our world’s health for our future generations. Consumption and a pro-environmental lifestyle have a polarized relationship and research indicates that society needs a change. Consumption should take place in decreased amounts and in a way that emphasizes the environment. Education has proven to have a positive effect on behavioral changes in individuals towards a lifestyle that emphasizes the environment. The aim of this quantitative essay is to study the importance of cultural and economic resources for an environmentally friendly lifestyle. In addition, it examines how environmentally oriented consumption, degree of consumption, consumerism and concern for the environment are in relation to a lifestyle that emphasizes the environment by recycling. The study’s theoretical frame of reference is based on Bauman’s theory of the society of consumers and Bourdieu’s concepts of the social space, capital and habitus. Data material retrieved from the Swedish National Data Service collected for the SOM-Survey 2018 is used and analyzed through univariate, bivariate analysis and multiple regression analyzes. Results show that higher capital, especially cultural, has a positive impact on individual pro-environmental lifestyles. In addition, the individual's environmentally friendly lifestyle increases through positioning such as shopping eco-labeled products, shopping secondhand and through concern for the environment. Shopping more than you can afford turns out to have a negative impact. / Samhället vi lever i idag är på många sätt ett konsumtionssamhälle där individer konsumerar för att mätta sina begär på bekostnad av vår världs hälsa för våra kommande generationer. Konsumtion och en miljöfrämjande livsstil har ett polariserat förhållande och tidigare forskning pekar på att samhället behöver en förändring. Konsumtionen bör ske i minskad volym och på ett sätt som framhåller miljön. Utbildning har visat sig ha en positiv effekt på beteendeförändringar hos individerna mot en livsstil som framhåller miljön. Denna kvantitativa uppsats har som syfte att studera vilken betydelse kulturella och ekonomiska resurser har för en miljöfrämjande livsstil. Därtill undersöks hur miljöinriktad konsumtion, grad av konsumtion, konsumism och oro för miljön står i relation till en livsstil som framhåller miljön genom att återvinna. Undersökningens teoretiska referensram utgår från Baumans teori om konsumtionssamhället samt Bourdieus begrepp det sociala rummet, kapital och habitus. Ett datamaterial som hämtats från Svensk Nationell Datatjänst insamlat till SOM-undersökningen 2018 används och analyseras genom univariat, bivariat analys samt multipla regressionsanalyser. Resultat visar att högre kapital, i synnerhet kulturellt, har ett positivt samband med en miljöfrämjande livsstil. Därtill ökar individens miljöfrämjande livsstil genom positioneringar som att handla kravmärkt, handla secondhand samt genom en oro för miljön. Att handla för mer än man har råd med visar sig ha en negativ påverkan.

Everyone deserves a home that promotes well-being and reduces stress. Mental illness among students has tripled in the 21st century and statistics show higher numbers than ever. The problems can often be linked to socioeconomic factors and for many young people, it applies to education. The design of our cities has a great impact on how we feel and how we choose to live our lives and through awareness and knowledge of health-promoting factors, the architect can design more stress-reducing and functional environments. We need to create a pleasant environment for students to live in using architectural strategies that counteract stress. Building enjoyable apartments incorporating architectural means to reduce stress can help students in their everyday life. Having both private spaces and different scales of public areas creates opportunities to choose where they want to spend their time depending on how much interaction with other people they want. The way we design and manage spaces around apartments, outdoor as well as indoor, can support both the development of interaction between humans and solitary activities. According to studies, offering both active and passive social participation creates security and belonging. Each person takes control over their own presence in social interactions which decreases the risk of social isolation.