Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2007. / Thesis Advisor(s): Robert Bach "March 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. / Abowd, Gregory, Committee Chair ; Grinter, Rebecca, Committee Member ; Starner, Thad, Committee Member ; Guzdial, Mark, Committee Member ; Bell, Genevieve, Committee Member.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-137).

Thesis (D. Ed.)--Ball State University, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Nov. 09, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-191).

Magister Artium - MA (Anthropology/Sociology) / This study examines the fears of Rwandan army deserters who oppose President Kagame, of being found by the External Security Organisation (ESO), a Rwandan spy organisation meant to sniff them out wherever they are in exile: in this case Cape Town, South Africa. The army deserters are perceived as both a political and military threat to the survival of President Kagame. I argue that the fear of being hunted is a real threat which (re)produces 'militarised identities' as these former soldiers employ their military training skills to hide from the ESO in South Africa. In this I employ Foucault's (1977) concept of 'panopticism' to examine these army deserters' experiences of surveillance by the ESO and also Vigh's (2006) concept of 'social navigation' to understand how the army deserters 'scan' and manoeuvre the exile terrain. In substantiating the thesis argument, my study draws from six in-depth interviews and conversations with Rwandan army deserters living in Cape Town. It also made use of thematic analysis, drawing themes from the data on which it is based.

Despite a heterogenous array of sexual identities and histories, increasingly conservative ideals around women’s sexualities have amplified the social and political surveillance of women in contemporary Indonesia. At the same time, Indonesia’s increasing global engagement in the 21st century has created new avenues for unmarried Indonesian women to travel overseas for educational and economic opportunities. Little is known about how transnational migration shapes dynamics around sexuality among women studying overseas, in particular, whether geographic and cultural distance from parents, kin and communities at home changes patterns of sexual surveillance. Using data collected through qualitative ethnographic methodologies during fieldwork from April to July of 2017, this thesis describes the lived experiences of sexuality and surveillance among 16 unmarried Indonesian women living and studying in Melbourne, Australia. I focus on how women negotiate the challenges of sexual surveillance in the context of their mobility and the tactical opportunities for agency this mobility fosters. Intensive surveillance from home remained central to how women experienced sexuality overseas. They continued to fear the social consequences of shame, stigma, and reputational harm that sexual transgression could provoke. However, women also explored novel opportunities afforded by their transnational positionality. They used a limited range of tactics, primarily variations of secrecy and compliance, to respond to powerful parental, social, and cultural expectations about women’s sexualities. This thesis highlights the challenges and contradictions that transnational women face when dealing with pervasive sexual surveillance from parents, community, cultural norms, religion, and the state, and their struggles to achieve a degree of sexual agency overseas. / Graduate / 2019-07-31

Much emphasis has been placed on early detection of developmental delays and disabilities due to increased knowledge regarding the important role early intervention can play in a young child's development. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published policy statements in 2001 and 2006 describing the role of pediatricians in the process of developmental surveillance and screenings. This study seeks to determine the current developmental surveillance and screening practices of pediatricians and family physicians in the southern nine counties of Illinois. Specifically the study aims at looking at to what extent pediatricians/family physicians use standardized developmental screening tools to screen infants and toddlers as described in the AAP recommendations. What methods are pediatricians currently utilizing to screen infants and toddlers (standardized instruments, self made checklists, clinical judgment) In addition, this study looks at to what extent do pediatricians/family physicians follow the AAP's recommendation process for referrals of infants and toddlers identified as at-risk for developmental delays?

Nesta dissertação estudamos o Imaginário fenomenológico da vigilância a partir de matérias publicadas pelo jornalismo de referência brasileiro que abordam mecanismos de vigilância em suas narrativas, a fim de descobrir quais as motivações pulsionais que orientam essas práticas. Iniciamos a pesquisa tendo como pressuposto a ideia de que o jornalismo tem na vigilância um elemento fundamental de composição de seu Imaginário e que, portanto, oferece um ambiente privilegiado para buscar as simbolizações sobre os mecanismos de vigiar, podendo nos dar acesso ao Imaginário da vigilância e, indiretamente, ao Imaginário do próprio jornalismo. Buscamos, inicialmente, compreender qual o cenário estabelecido entre as comunicações em rede, as novas configurações da vigilância e as formas de estar-junto, apontando o encadeamento entre essas três condições que acabam por instaurar uma socialidade própria no contemporâneo. Consideramos primeiramente que a pulsão estética (de partilha), acompanhando Michel Maffesoli, é a principal norteadora do cimento social da atualidade, sendo uma forma de transfiguração da questão política. Consideramos também o trabalho de Byung-Chun Han para compreender a extensão e a força com que se consolidou o valor da transparência no contemporâneo. Consideramos ainda que tais comunicações em rede, motivadas pela pulsão de partilha e alimentadas pelo valor da transparência, estão intimamente relacionadas aos mecanismos de vigilância do contemporâneo, que atuam de forma sutil, eficiente, descentralizada e distribuída, conforme o trabalho de Fernanda Bruno. Classificamos os mecanismos de vigilância em três grandes regimes (panóptico, escópico e de rastreamento), de acordo com trabalho de Lucia Santaella. Atentamos para o regime mais recente da vigilância e de mais difícil delimitação, o de rastreamento, estudando especialmente sua manifestação na internet e sua configuração nas bolhas de filtros, com auxílio de Eli Pariser. A partir do estudo do social e da vigilância nele implicada, partimos para o detalhamento teórico do Imaginário e da maneira com que se formam as imagens simbólicas no trajeto antropológico, das pulsões às coerções. Isso é feito através do estudo das obras de Gilbert Durand, Mircea Eliade e Ana Taís Martins Portanova Barros, tendo como principal objetivo apresentar os regimes das imagens simbólicas descritos por Durand e como tais imagens se articulam entre o pulsional e o social. A teoria de Durand também nos serve de heurística para realizar a etapa analítica do trabalho, em que buscamos os símbolos universais descritos pelo autor, através de um procedimento chamado de leitura simbólica, dentro de nosso corpus – composto por 17 matérias publicadas na Folha de S.Paulo e no Estadão e que abordam diretamente mecanismos de vigilância panópticos, escópicos e de rastreamento. As leituras simbólicas, que são interpretações das matérias a partir dos grandes símbolos da humanidade, mostraram concentrações e repetições de imagens apenas do regime esquizomorfo, apresentando assim uma narrativa simbólica – paralela à narrativa textual – que dá a ver um cenário de guerra, medo, perigo, incerteza, alerta e queda. Na conclusão, realizamos, primeiramente, uma interpretação sobre a característica de equilibração e compensação do Imaginário para, a partir disso, compreender que essa reincidência de imagens semelhantes representa uma repressão de símbolos de outros regimes simbólicos, relegados no contemporâneo. Ao buscar a interpretação dos símbolos preponderantes em contato com o cenário teórico estabelecido sobre o social, percebemos que o investimento em uma hiper-transparência positiva, que visa a ignorar simbolizações “negativas” do ser, retorna como opacidade que se manifesta como violência e confusão. / In this dissertation we studied the surveillance´s phenomenological Imaginary based on reports published by reference journalism in Brazil that approach the mechanisms of surveillance in its narratives, in order to discover what pulsion motivations guide such practices. We started the research by having as assumption the idea that the journalism has in its surveillance a fundamental element of its Imaginary composition and therefore presents a privileged environment to search for symbolizations on mechanisms of surveillance, giving us access to the Imaginary of surveillance, and indirectly, to the Imaginary of journalism itself. At first, we looked for to understand what is the established scenario amongst network communications, new configurations of surveillance and be-together ways, pointing out the link amongst these three conditions that end up by establishing a particular sociality proper in contemporary. As a following step, taking the work of Michael Maffesoli as a referral, we considered the aesthetic pulsion (of sharing) is the main guide of the social cement in the present, being a form of political question transfiguration. We considered the work of Byung- Chun Han to learn the extent and force wherewith the value of transparency in contemporary has been consolidated, and we looked attentivaly at Fernanda Bruno´s work which say that such network communications, motivated by pulsion for sharing and fed by the value of transparency, are closely related to contemporary mechanisms of surveillance and operate in a subtle, efficient, decentralized and distributed way. We also classified the mechanisms of surveillance into three major regimes (panoptic, scoptic and tracking), according to Lucia Santaella´s work, and aided by Eli Pariser thoughts, we paid attention to the most recent (and more difficult to delimit) regime of surveillance of tracking, carefully studying its manifestation in the internet and its configuration in filters’ bubbles. Based on the study of the social and the surveillance implied in it, we proceeded to the theoretical detailing of the Imaginary and the way wherewith symbolic images are formed on the anthropological path, from pulsions to coercions. That was done by studying the works of Gilbert Durand, Mircea Eliade and Ana Taís Martins Portanova Barros, having as the main goal to present the regimes of the symbolic images described by Durand and how such images articulated itself between the pulsion and the social. Durand's theory also serves us as a heuristic to perform the analytical stage of the work, wherewith we looked for the universal symbols described by the author through a procedure called “symbolic reading” in the corpus – composed by 17 articles were published in Folha de São Paulo and O Estado de São Paulo, that approach in a direct way the mechanisms of surveillance: panoptics, scoptics and tracking. The symbolic readings, understood as interpretations of such articles from the great symbols of humanity, showed concentrations and repetitions of images only in the schizomorphic regime, thus presenting a symbolic narrative - parallel to the textual narrative, that makes it possible to see a scenario of war, fear, danger, uncertainty, attention and fall. In conclusion of this dissertation, we performed an interpretation on the characteristic of equilibration and compensation of the Imaginary in order to understand from this that this recidivism of similar images represents a repression of symbols of other symbolic regimes, relegated in contemporary. By seeking interpretation of preponderant symbols in contact with the established theoretical scenario on the social, we perceived that the investment in a positive hyper-transparency, which aims to ignore "negative" symbolizations of being, returns as opacity that manifests itself as violence and confusion.

Orientador: Antonio Luiz Caldas Júnior / Banca: Carlos MagnoCastelo Branco Fortaleza / Banca: Francisco Antonio de Castro Lacaz / Resumo: A construção do SUS, ao longo de décadas recentes, tem sido espaço de relevantes conquistas, a despeito de conflitos e dificuldades. Observa-se, porém, que a municipalização da vigilância sanitária (Visa) não acompanhou o ritmo e a intensidade geral do processo. O presente estudo discute e analisa os aspectos da municipalização das ações de vigilância sanitária, na percepção de seus gestores, com ênfase no desenvolvimento deste processo no município e seus determinantes políticos, técnicos e administrativos. O cenário da pesquisa foi composto por cinco municípios do interior do Estado de São Paulo, na área de abrangência da então Direção Regional de Saúde de Botucatu, em gestão plena do sistema de saúde. As informações foram colhidas por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas e trabalhadas em abordagem qualitativa buscando a construção de categorias e unidades discursivas explicativas do processo estudado. Ao final, aponta que, na visão dos gestores municipais, se evidenciaram vários conflitos. Verificou-se o comprometimento do desenvolvimento das ações de vigilância sanitária diante da figura da "ingerência política" de prefeitos, vice-prefeitos e vereadores que priorizam interesses individuais do setor regulado em detrimento de normas sanitárias. Outro aspecto destacado foi a posição secundária atribuída às vigilâncias na estrutura e nas prioridades da saúde municipal, explicitando por que o processo de municipalização de suas ações não transcorreu na mesma velocidade e profundidade das ações assistenciais. Constataram-se equipes de vigilância sanitária desmotivadas, com baixa qualificação, com rotatividade dos componentes, cingidas pelo estigma do setor como área de trabalho permeada por relações conflituosas. / Abstract: SUS creation has been achieving considering progress along decades, despite conflicts and difficulties. It has been observed, however, that the municipal sanitary surveillance (VISA) was not able to follow the rate and the general intensity of the process. The present study discusses and analyzes the municipal aspects of VISA, in its managers' perception, emphasizing this process development in the municipal district and its political determinants, technicians and managers. The research scenery was composed of five municipal districts in São Paulo countryside, in the Botucatu Regional Health Department, in full management of the health system. The information was collected through semi-structured interviews and developed in qualitative approach aiming at the category creation and explanatory discursive units of the studied process. At the end of this process, several conflicts were identified by the municipal managers. It was observed the compromising development of the sanitary surveillance in the presence of mayor', vice-mayor' and councilor's political intervention who prioritize individual interests of the regulated sections rather than the sanitary norms. Another aspect was the secondary position attributed to the surveillances in the structure and to the municipal health priorities, explaining the reason the municipal process of its actions was not developed with the same speed and depth of the social services. Discouraged groups of sanitary surveillance, with low qualification, with rotation of the components, surrounded by the stigma of the section as work area permeated by conflicting relationships were observed. It has also been demonstrated that the municipal managers of the area don't have the control of the financial resources available for sanitary surveillance, originated from agreements and adjustment terms of objectives. / Mestre

Nesta dissertação estudamos o Imaginário fenomenológico da vigilância a partir de matérias publicadas pelo jornalismo de referência brasileiro que abordam mecanismos de vigilância em suas narrativas, a fim de descobrir quais as motivações pulsionais que orientam essas práticas. Iniciamos a pesquisa tendo como pressuposto a ideia de que o jornalismo tem na vigilância um elemento fundamental de composição de seu Imaginário e que, portanto, oferece um ambiente privilegiado para buscar as simbolizações sobre os mecanismos de vigiar, podendo nos dar acesso ao Imaginário da vigilância e, indiretamente, ao Imaginário do próprio jornalismo. Buscamos, inicialmente, compreender qual o cenário estabelecido entre as comunicações em rede, as novas configurações da vigilância e as formas de estar-junto, apontando o encadeamento entre essas três condições que acabam por instaurar uma socialidade própria no contemporâneo. Consideramos primeiramente que a pulsão estética (de partilha), acompanhando Michel Maffesoli, é a principal norteadora do cimento social da atualidade, sendo uma forma de transfiguração da questão política. Consideramos também o trabalho de Byung-Chun Han para compreender a extensão e a força com que se consolidou o valor da transparência no contemporâneo. Consideramos ainda que tais comunicações em rede, motivadas pela pulsão de partilha e alimentadas pelo valor da transparência, estão intimamente relacionadas aos mecanismos de vigilância do contemporâneo, que atuam de forma sutil, eficiente, descentralizada e distribuída, conforme o trabalho de Fernanda Bruno. Classificamos os mecanismos de vigilância em três grandes regimes (panóptico, escópico e de rastreamento), de acordo com trabalho de Lucia Santaella. Atentamos para o regime mais recente da vigilância e de mais difícil delimitação, o de rastreamento, estudando especialmente sua manifestação na internet e sua configuração nas bolhas de filtros, com auxílio de Eli Pariser. A partir do estudo do social e da vigilância nele implicada, partimos para o detalhamento teórico do Imaginário e da maneira com que se formam as imagens simbólicas no trajeto antropológico, das pulsões às coerções. Isso é feito através do estudo das obras de Gilbert Durand, Mircea Eliade e Ana Taís Martins Portanova Barros, tendo como principal objetivo apresentar os regimes das imagens simbólicas descritos por Durand e como tais imagens se articulam entre o pulsional e o social. A teoria de Durand também nos serve de heurística para realizar a etapa analítica do trabalho, em que buscamos os símbolos universais descritos pelo autor, através de um procedimento chamado de leitura simbólica, dentro de nosso corpus – composto por 17 matérias publicadas na Folha de S.Paulo e no Estadão e que abordam diretamente mecanismos de vigilância panópticos, escópicos e de rastreamento. As leituras simbólicas, que são interpretações das matérias a partir dos grandes símbolos da humanidade, mostraram concentrações e repetições de imagens apenas do regime esquizomorfo, apresentando assim uma narrativa simbólica – paralela à narrativa textual – que dá a ver um cenário de guerra, medo, perigo, incerteza, alerta e queda. Na conclusão, realizamos, primeiramente, uma interpretação sobre a característica de equilibração e compensação do Imaginário para, a partir disso, compreender que essa reincidência de imagens semelhantes representa uma repressão de símbolos de outros regimes simbólicos, relegados no contemporâneo. Ao buscar a interpretação dos símbolos preponderantes em contato com o cenário teórico estabelecido sobre o social, percebemos que o investimento em uma hiper-transparência positiva, que visa a ignorar simbolizações “negativas” do ser, retorna como opacidade que se manifesta como violência e confusão. / In this dissertation we studied the surveillance´s phenomenological Imaginary based on reports published by reference journalism in Brazil that approach the mechanisms of surveillance in its narratives, in order to discover what pulsion motivations guide such practices. We started the research by having as assumption the idea that the journalism has in its surveillance a fundamental element of its Imaginary composition and therefore presents a privileged environment to search for symbolizations on mechanisms of surveillance, giving us access to the Imaginary of surveillance, and indirectly, to the Imaginary of journalism itself. At first, we looked for to understand what is the established scenario amongst network communications, new configurations of surveillance and be-together ways, pointing out the link amongst these three conditions that end up by establishing a particular sociality proper in contemporary. As a following step, taking the work of Michael Maffesoli as a referral, we considered the aesthetic pulsion (of sharing) is the main guide of the social cement in the present, being a form of political question transfiguration. We considered the work of Byung- Chun Han to learn the extent and force wherewith the value of transparency in contemporary has been consolidated, and we looked attentivaly at Fernanda Bruno´s work which say that such network communications, motivated by pulsion for sharing and fed by the value of transparency, are closely related to contemporary mechanisms of surveillance and operate in a subtle, efficient, decentralized and distributed way. We also classified the mechanisms of surveillance into three major regimes (panoptic, scoptic and tracking), according to Lucia Santaella´s work, and aided by Eli Pariser thoughts, we paid attention to the most recent (and more difficult to delimit) regime of surveillance of tracking, carefully studying its manifestation in the internet and its configuration in filters’ bubbles. Based on the study of the social and the surveillance implied in it, we proceeded to the theoretical detailing of the Imaginary and the way wherewith symbolic images are formed on the anthropological path, from pulsions to coercions. That was done by studying the works of Gilbert Durand, Mircea Eliade and Ana Taís Martins Portanova Barros, having as the main goal to present the regimes of the symbolic images described by Durand and how such images articulated itself between the pulsion and the social. Durand's theory also serves us as a heuristic to perform the analytical stage of the work, wherewith we looked for the universal symbols described by the author through a procedure called “symbolic reading” in the corpus – composed by 17 articles were published in Folha de São Paulo and O Estado de São Paulo, that approach in a direct way the mechanisms of surveillance: panoptics, scoptics and tracking. The symbolic readings, understood as interpretations of such articles from the great symbols of humanity, showed concentrations and repetitions of images only in the schizomorphic regime, thus presenting a symbolic narrative - parallel to the textual narrative, that makes it possible to see a scenario of war, fear, danger, uncertainty, attention and fall. In conclusion of this dissertation, we performed an interpretation on the characteristic of equilibration and compensation of the Imaginary in order to understand from this that this recidivism of similar images represents a repression of symbols of other symbolic regimes, relegated in contemporary. By seeking interpretation of preponderant symbols in contact with the established theoretical scenario on the social, we perceived that the investment in a positive hyper-transparency, which aims to ignore "negative" symbolizations of being, returns as opacity that manifests itself as violence and confusion.