This is an autoethnographic account of the performative practices in the Umbrella Movement (2014, Hong Kong), a struggle that I myself and some fellow artists participated in. Instead of making a discursive analysis of postcolonial identity, this thesis focuses on performative practices and the performativity of artists and their activist counterparts in the Umbrella Movement. This thesis starts with an overview of the political situation in Hong Kong before relating it to the social turn in contemporary art practice and the performative turn in art and research practices. Instead of using performance as a metaphor for understanding cultural phenomena, I persevere with the notion of performance per se, of artists taking part in activism and examining the performativity involved in the process. As an artist/researcher, I have been seeking a research methodology that is compatible with the means and ends of activism being studied and can nourish a reflexive account on the performative practices of resistance in postcolonial Hong Kong. I propose a methodology of 'performative autoethnography' which accentuates the co-performative and intersubjective process as well as the non-textual aspects of embodied experience and of performing struggle in activism. Reviewing the performative practices on macro- and micro-levels, I borrow the term 'microutopia' to depict the imaginary space created by micro-performances used to cope with the discrepancies between utopian ideals and reality. Specifically, I examine the transformative power of some performative tactics employed in the Umbrella Movement: parodic performance of 'over-identification,' improvisation accomplished by collective connectivity and kinetic responsiveness of the performers, and the artist as an intersubjective mediator. Among these tactics, there are recurring claims and recurring forms that add up to a repertoire of protest. Through microutopian interventions staged at the site of protest, the identities of the multitude are constructed through critical engagement. I suggest that we use the concept of 'critical identities' to study how identities are constructed within an open-ended network of social relations, using a critical reflexive lens of performance studies at a precarious moment in which Hong Kong finds itself at a crossroads.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este estudo tem como propostas pensar os processos formativos que acontecem nos movimentos estudantis e como as experiências vivenciadas neste espaçotempo influenciaram e influenciam práticas educacionais que busquem ser mais democráticas. Assim, neste texto, dedicar-me-ei a refletir um pouco mais sobre a noção de democracia que venho assumindo nesta pesquisa e meus caminhos formativos como pesquisadora e professora. Dialogo com Oliveira (2009) e Santos (2007) para pensar a democracia, partindo da noção de que uma sociedade seria realmente democrática quando as relações tecidas entre os diferentes conhecimentos, culturas e valores se darem de maneira horizontal, nas quais não sejam estabelecidas formas de inferiorização e marginalização entre as diferentes perspectivas de estar no mundo. Este trabalho parte da ideia de que as experiências vividas por ex-militantes/praticantes dos movimentos estudantis ajudam na promoção de subjetividades mais democráticas eo fortalecimento desta premissa se dá através das narrativas de professores/professoras que tiveram experiências nos espaçostempos dos movimentos estudantis. Assim, procuro tecer uma narrativa através do compartilhamento de diferentes experiências docentes, não como objetivo de qualificar ou quantificar o grau de democracia desenvolvida nessas práticas, mas sim, de apresentar que são múltiplas as práticas que partilham da noção de solidariedade entre os conhecimentos, valores e sentimentos, ocorrendo elas dentrofora do ambiente escolar. / This study has the proposals to think of the formation processes that take place in student movements and how the experiences lived in this spacetime influenced and influence the educational practices that seek be more democratic. Thus, in this text I will reflect a little more on the notion of democracy that I have been assuming in this research and my formative paths as a researcher and teacher. Dialogue with Oliveira (2009) and Santos (2007) to think democracy, based on the notion that a society would be really democratic when the relations woven between the different knowledge, cultures and values give on the horizontal way, in which there are not established ways of inferiorization and marginalization among the different perspectives of being in the world. This work is based on the initial idea that the lived experiences by former activists/practitioners of student movements help to promote more democratic subjectivities and the strengthening of this premise has consolidate through the narratives of teachers who have had experiences in student movements spacetime. So I try to weave a narrative through of the sharing the different experiences, not to qualify or quantify the degree of democracy developed in these practices, but to present that are multiple practices that share the notion of solidarity between the knowledge, values and feelings, happening inside and outside of the school environment

Orientador: Rodrigo Czajka / Resumo: Em circulação entre os anos de 1965 e 1966, o jornal Folha da Semana teve um papel fundamental na articulação de inúmeros núcleos intelectuais e artistas dispersos pelo golpe em 1964. Um periódico que possibilitou a visibilidade de inúmeras questões referentes à organização da produção cultural das esquerdas intelectualizadas no processo de constituição da chamada "hegemonia cultural de esquerda", no momento de recrudescimento da repressão militar na década de 1960. Muito embora este jornal não tivesse uma ampla inserção num espaço público de debates nem a visibilidade, da qual gozavam as casas editoriais, como a Revista Civilização Brasileira, é importante situá-lo como uma das organizações que trabalhavam em função da divulgação cultural e da contestação ao regime, portanto inserido numa rede de intelectuais e organizações oposicionistas, que produziam e reproduziam representações intelectuais sobre o mundo e sobre si mesmas. Estas representações pautaram, nos anos 1960, parte das discussões nos campos da cultura e da política, haja vista o exemplo que nos oferece o objeto desta pesquisa, o jornalista Arthur Poerner, que promoveu tais representações tanto em seu reconhecido livro sobre a história do movimento estudantil brasileiro O Poder Jovem quanto no período em que esteve à frente do jornal Folha da Semana. / Abstract: In circulation between the years 1965 and 1966, the newspaper Folha da Semana played a key role in the articulation of numerous intellectuals and artists cores dispersed by military coup in 1964. A journal that allowed the visibility of many issues concerning the organization of cultural production of intellectualized left in the process called of constitution of "cultural hegemony of the left" in the upsurge of military repression in the 1960s. Although this paper did not have a wide insertion into a public space for discussion or visibility, which enjoyed the editorial houses, such as the magazine ―Civilização Brasileira‖, it is important to place it as one of the organizations working on the basis of cultural dissemination and challenge to the regime, so on a network of intellectuals and opposition organizations, which produced and reproduced intellectual representations of the world and about themselves. These representations guided, in the 1960s, part of the discussions in the fields of culture and politics, in view of the example that gives us the object of this research, the journalist Arthur José Poerner, who promoted such representations both in their recognized book on the history of Brazilian student movement The Youth Power as in the period in which he led the newspaper Folha da Semana. / Résumé: Em circulant entre les années 1965 et 1966, le journal Folha da Semana avait un rôle fondamental dans l'articulation de nombreux noyaux intellectuels et artistes dispersés par le coup d'Etat en 1964. Un périodique qui a permis à la visibilité de nombreuses questions relatives à l'organisation de la production culturelle de la gauche intellectualisés dans le processus de la constitution d'appellée ―l'hégémonie culturelle de la gauche‖, dans le moment de la recrudescence de la répression militaire dans les années 1960. Bien que ce journal n'eût pas eu une grande insertion dans l'espace public de débat ou de la visibilité, qui avait les maisons d'édition tels que le Magazine Civilization Brésilienne est important de le placer comme l'une des organisations qui travaillaient sur la base de la promotion culturelle et de la contestation au régime, donc insérés sur un réseau d'intellectuels et d'organisations de l'opposition, qui produit et reproduit les représentations intellectuelles du monde et d'eux-mêmes. Ces représentations guidées, dans les années 1960, une partie des discussions dans les domaines de la culture et de la politique, étant donné l'exemple qui nous donne l'objet de cette recherche, le journaliste Arthur Poerner, qui a promu ces représentations à la fois dans leur livre reconnu sur l'histoire du mouvement l'étudiant brésilien O Poder Jovem comme la période qu'il a dirigé le journal Folha da Semana. / Mestre

Submitted by Maria de Lourdes Mariano (lmariano@ufscar.br) on 2017-01-17T19:46:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 SILVA_Mayris_2016.pdf: 4434460 bytes, checksum: 9a02dc727bf98e0ef0696050f6c5b2b6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria de Lourdes Mariano (lmariano@ufscar.br) on 2017-01-17T19:46:22Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 SILVA_Mayris_2016.pdf: 4434460 bytes, checksum: 9a02dc727bf98e0ef0696050f6c5b2b6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria de Lourdes Mariano (lmariano@ufscar.br) on 2017-01-17T19:46:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 SILVA_Mayris_2016.pdf: 4434460 bytes, checksum: 9a02dc727bf98e0ef0696050f6c5b2b6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-17T19:46:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SILVA_Mayris_2016.pdf: 4434460 bytes, checksum: 9a02dc727bf98e0ef0696050f6c5b2b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / The present work aims to analyze the memory of women who acted in the student movement in 1990, conceiving each one of them as a historical, political and social subject. It was a main goal of this work to understand the women participation during the History in a student movement configured by a hierarchical and sexist environment in which the women’s struggle to survive inside spaces they are oppressed configure a process of reinvention of themselves. The methodology developed during this work is based on reports given to us during four interviews conducted with women that had participated in the student movement in the past. Themain themes discussed in these interviews were: Women Participation, Gender and Education. The reported memories gave visibility for the political context of the 90’s, covering from the universities to the student movement as a whole and its relation withsociety. The whole set of considerations about women actuation inside and out of the student movement given to us, were not only capable of covering questions about gender and diversity but also to show all the questions that emerge from those memories. The conclusion is that the collected testimonials from the practical and subjective experiences in the student movement came to show that the re-inventions contemporary women have been through in their daily life were somehow led by those experiences. Women participation in the public world can bring a variety of themes to public discussion, but specially values and questions that go against men’s order of things, or a sexist order of things, because when women start to understand their role in History theystart to be visible, breaking the silence of their own existence. It occurs when women are included in History. / O presente trabalho se propõe analisar as memória s de mulheres que atuaram no movimento estudantil na década de 1990 concebendo cada uma delas enquanto sujeito histórico, político e social. Buscou - se compreender a participação feminina ao longo da história e do movimento estudantil como ocorrência que se dá em um espaço hierarquizado, masculinizado e, sobretudo, no qual o processo de reinvenção da mulher é composto da luta feminina para subverter os espaços de opressão. A metodologia desenvolvida ao longo do trabalho está pautada na história oral, de modo que se realizaram quatro entrevistas de história oral temática junto a mulheres participantes do movimento estudantil no passado, cujos temas centrais foram: Participação, Gênero e Educação. As memórias relatadas dão visibilidade ao contexto político da década de 1990, abrangendo desde o contexto da universidade até o movimento estudantil e a sociedade como um todo, sendo que suas considerações como mulheres atuantes dentro e fora do movimento estudantil, além das questões de gênero e diversidade sexual, permeiam todas as memórias advindas desses espaços. Conclui - se que os relatos obtidos são construções de memórias oriundas das experiências de vida prática e subjetiva relacionadas ao passado de participação no movimento estudantil e às (re) invenções do se r mulher no tempo presente, que se faz em no cotidiano dessas mulheres no espaço público. A participação feminina no mundo público traz para a discussão diversos temas, valores e questões que rompem com a ordem masculina objetiva e racional, pois, ao entender seu lugar na história, a mulher junto a outras mulheres passa a ter visibilidade por meio de suas experiências, quebrando o silêncio de sua existência, do que decorre a inclusão da mulher na História.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este estudo tem como propostas pensar os processos formativos que acontecem nos movimentos estudantis e como as experiências vivenciadas neste espaçotempo influenciaram e influenciam práticas educacionais que busquem ser mais democráticas. Assim, neste texto, dedicar-me-ei a refletir um pouco mais sobre a noção de democracia que venho assumindo nesta pesquisa e meus caminhos formativos como pesquisadora e professora. Dialogo com Oliveira (2009) e Santos (2007) para pensar a democracia, partindo da noção de que uma sociedade seria realmente democrática quando as relações tecidas entre os diferentes conhecimentos, culturas e valores se darem de maneira horizontal, nas quais não sejam estabelecidas formas de inferiorização e marginalização entre as diferentes perspectivas de estar no mundo. Este trabalho parte da ideia de que as experiências vividas por ex-militantes/praticantes dos movimentos estudantis ajudam na promoção de subjetividades mais democráticas eo fortalecimento desta premissa se dá através das narrativas de professores/professoras que tiveram experiências nos espaçostempos dos movimentos estudantis. Assim, procuro tecer uma narrativa através do compartilhamento de diferentes experiências docentes, não como objetivo de qualificar ou quantificar o grau de democracia desenvolvida nessas práticas, mas sim, de apresentar que são múltiplas as práticas que partilham da noção de solidariedade entre os conhecimentos, valores e sentimentos, ocorrendo elas dentrofora do ambiente escolar. / This study has the proposals to think of the formation processes that take place in student movements and how the experiences lived in this spacetime influenced and influence the educational practices that seek be more democratic. Thus, in this text I will reflect a little more on the notion of democracy that I have been assuming in this research and my formative paths as a researcher and teacher. Dialogue with Oliveira (2009) and Santos (2007) to think democracy, based on the notion that a society would be really democratic when the relations woven between the different knowledge, cultures and values give on the horizontal way, in which there are not established ways of inferiorization and marginalization among the different perspectives of being in the world. This work is based on the initial idea that the lived experiences by former activists/practitioners of student movements help to promote more democratic subjectivities and the strengthening of this premise has consolidate through the narratives of teachers who have had experiences in student movements spacetime. So I try to weave a narrative through of the sharing the different experiences, not to qualify or quantify the degree of democracy developed in these practices, but to present that are multiple practices that share the notion of solidarity between the knowledge, values and feelings, happening inside and outside of the school environment

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Over the past years, particularly during 2018, Chilean society has experienced a robust feminist movement led by high school students. At the same time, mainstream society and researchers claim that Chile is experiencing a youth civic and citizenship education crisis, particularly among young women. I address this apparent contradiction by challenging the futuristic approach in citizenship education taken in the country and exploring how young women are currently politically engaged and challenge gender oppression within their high schools and their activist spaces. I have used a post-human and post-colonial feminist theoretical framework to answer the following research question, How do female public high school students in Chile who identify as feminist or politically active produce their gender/political subjectivities in the 2018 context of contentious feminist politics? And, sub questions; How do they do this while engaging with feminist discourses and practices in and outside of school? How do they do this while engaging with historical narratives? Finally, how do they do this while engaging with formal political education in school? A context of contentious feminist politics will be understood as a context where feminism is prevalent in public discourse, which forces people -in this case students- to take a stance concerning this subject. To answer the research questions, I conducted a critical ethnography, observing classes and other activities at Edelbina González High School, a Chilean all-female public high school with an active group of high school feminists. During my fieldwork, I invited six 12th-grade participants to be my focal group of observation and to take part in individual testimonios interviews and collective art-based testimonios workshops. Through these methods, I produced fieldnotes of observations, transcriptions and audio-recordings of the interviews and workshops, and photographs of the school space and students’ art pieces. I analyzed the data through a three-layer process using thematic coding analysis, narrative structural and content analysis, visual analysis, and “plugging in with theory” analysis (Jackson & Mazzei, 2012). This study engages with lengthy discussion regarding education and reproduction of gender regimes; it explores how oppressive systems transform but remain, particularly in regards to citizenship and formal political education through neoliberal discourses of girl empowerment. It also shows how feminist female high school students communally and creatively respond, theorize, and re-imagine political engagement within these frames, providing insights into what is, and what can be education for democratic citizenship and gender justice. The Feminist students in this study produced themselves as nomadic mestiza bodies engaging with pre-existing political frameworks but at the same time built something more. The students assembled themselves within an antagonistic us/them framework within the Chilean Student Movement, which considers the state and school as adversaries attempting to oppress them. Their high school attempted to reproduce them as feminine, successful, conflict-free neoliberal girls. Regardless, the feminist students displaced both the antagonistic and neoliberal model producing their gender/political subjectivities as nomadic, ever-shifting, vulnerable and strong, and connecting themselves with collective memories and historical narratives. The production of the feminist students’ gender/political subjectivities through “affectivism,” resistance, and political caring rendered the participants as nomadic mestiza bodies, always becoming, collectively connected and empowered by one another to produce political change.

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Text in Afrikaans / Summaries in both Afrikaans and English / Religiositeit is 'n antropiese ontisiteit en kinders word in 'n bepaalde geloof opgevoed. 'n Christelik-Protestantse perspektief van godsdiensopvoeding word aangebied. Die betrokke opvoedingsmoveerders en hul verhouding tot mekaar word bespreek. Ter aanduiding van wat jeugdige-wees wesenlik kinder-antropologiese kategoriee beskryf, is, word bepaalde gevolg deur 'n sinkroniese en 'n diakroniese perspektief van godsdienswording. Die hedendaagse jeugdige se leefwereld en gepaardgaande struikelblokke word bespreek. Die taak, die doel, asook relevante religieuse kriteria en essensies van opvoeding word bespreek. Die Afrikaanse Christen-Studentevereniging is een van die opvoedingsmoveerders betrokke by die godsdienswording van sommige jeugdiges. Die oorspronklike struktuur en benaderingswyse van die vereniging, asook die veranderde struktuur en benaderingswyse en die redes daarvoor, word beskryf. Die missie, toekomsvisie en modus operandi van die vereniging word deur hierdie veranderinge geraak. Omdat persone van verskillende denominasies by die vereniging mag aansluit, word 'n oorsig van dogma binne die Christelike geloof gegee, gevolg deur 'n bespreking van ideologies-religieusestrominge wat van belang mag wees. Die vereniging se confessio van 1988, 1992 en 1994 word vergelyk met die oog op die moontlike veranderinge rakende godsdiensopvoeding. 'n Evaluering is onderneem vanuit sowel die struktuurdenke as die sisteemdenke. Hierdie evaluering geskied op drie vlakke. Op die ontologiese vlak word gekyk of die vereniging rekening hou met sekere neaniagogies-antropologiese kategoriee. Op die terrein van die pedagogiese word die realisering van bepaalde opvoedingsessensies, van die verhoudings- en verloopstruktuur en van Protestants-Christelike geestelike volwassenheid as doel ge-evalueer. Die vereniging se bewustheid van sekere bepalende aspekte rakende godsdiensopvoeding, asook die bantering van sommige van die leefwereldprobleme word geevalueer. Die aktualiteit van die werksaamhede word vergelyk met 'n Amerikaanse jeugbedieningsmodel. Op teologiese gebied word moontlike ooreenkomste tussen verskillende Christelike belydenisse aangedui. 'n Christelike evaluering van die werksaamhede van die vereniging word onderneem. Godsdiensopvoeding gaan moontlik in die "nuwe" Suid-Afrika veranderinge ondergaan en daarom word 'n prospektiewe blik op die moontlike rol van die vereniging in die veranderde situasie gebied. / Religiosity is an anthropological onticity and children are educated in a specific religion. A Christian-Protestant viewpoint of religious education is presented. The educational motivators involved, as well as their inter-relatedness, are discussed. To indicate what it means to be a youth, certain childanthropological categories are described, followed by a synchronical and diachronical perspective of religious growth. The influence on the life-world of today's youth and related problems are discussed. The task, aim and relevant religious criteria and essences of education are discussed. The Afrikaanse Christen-studentevereniging is one of the educational motivators involved with certain youths. The orginal structure and attitude of the organisation, as well as the changes in its structure and attitude and the reasons for these changes are described. The organisation's mission and vision, as well as its methods, are affected by these changes. Because people from different denominations can become members of the organisation a cursory description of dogma within the context of the Christian religion is given, followed by a discussion on ideological religious mainstreams that may be of importance. The organisation's confessions of 1988, 1992 and 1994 are compared in view of the probable changes concerning religious education. An evaluation is done from both a structural thinking and systems thinking point of view. This evaluation is conducted on three levels: On an ontological level it is evaluated with regard to what extent the organisation is taking neaniagogical categories into account. on a pedagogical level the realisation of the pedagogical relationship and sequence structures and its essences as well as Christian-Protestant religious maturity as aim are evaluated. The organisation's awareness of certain determining aspects concerning religious education, as well as the handling of some of the lifeworld problems are evaluated. The actuality of the organisation's activities are compared to an American youth program model. On a theological level possible similarities between different Christian confessions are indicated. A Christian evaluation of the organisation's activities is also rendered. Since religious education may undergo certain changes in the new South Africa a prospective view is presented of the possible role the organisation may fulfil. / Education Studies / D.Ed.

A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Art by research in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, April 2017 / Fire lives briefly, breathes sharply and spreads with urgency across the surface of the earth. Writing from Inside the Fire offers a series of reflection on the fire-centered politics that have been ignited within the RhodeMustFall and FeesMustFall movements. in this paper I trace the political roots of fire and explore the ways in which it employed as a tool of resistance and empowerment during the anti-apartheid struggle.: [Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version] / XL2018