The aim of this thesis is providing an initial insight into the quite recent Northern European immigration to Coastal Turkey through exploring its causes and consequences within the context of a particular locality, Didim where a single nationality group, the British, comprise the most prominent lifestyle migrant category. In that frame, three aspects of the migratory move namely the causes and the meaning of the move through the migrant narratives / the new social spaces created in terms of everyday practices of the migrants and the interactions with the locals / and the meanings of the changes for the locals have been elaborated. Within a descriptive ethnographic approach, in depth interviews were conducted in Didim with 20 British lifestyle migrants and 20 locals. It is found out that while the migratory move to Didim is a strategy devised by the British migrants to react to the broader social and cultural changes impacting their lives / the meaning of the same move for the locals of Didim is a change impacting their lives which requires devising new strategies for coping and for challenging. The encounters and co-habitation of the two groups of people from countries of different affluence levels and with a significant cultural distance, in the social setting of migration transgressing the boundaries of the already established context of international tourism, shape the daily life in Didim through the new social spaces being constructed and identities being constantly re-negotiated.

The main subject of this thesis is focused on the notion of taking space as a production and the relations that effect this production. The theoretical background of this study will be based on Henri Lefebvre&rsquo / s &lsquo / Production of Space&rsquo / . In this context, the notion of house which is the spatialization of social life, interrogated within the concepts of possession and ownership. This interrogation is constructed on the Sulukule district which presents unfamiliar social and physical relations. According to this, it is designated that, this settlement has a great value with its own dynamics and the unique spatial formation. Therefore the analyses are carried out the social and spatial value of the district and its place in the urban memory, in the light of the concepts of possession, ownership and appropriation. In this respect, the thesis ends with a call for an evaluation of the district, including its social, economic, cultural production facets.

The interest for international development partnerships has increased within the discipline of cultural anthropology hand in hand with growing globalisation. Through the study of how actors that have engaged in a Ugandan-Swedish Municipal Partnership experience, express and utilise cultural difference, this thesis aims to make a contribution to this research by examine activities that took place in a specific context of cultural intersection. In addition, it aspires to link these experiences in the everyday life to general socio-political discourses. The material that the thesis builds upon was gathered during a total of four months of fieldwork in Manafwa district, Uganda, and the municipality of Åmål, Sweden. The main informants that were consulted during the fieldwork were civil servants, politicians and actors that in other ways had engaged in the partnership or in the several side-projects that were linked to it. In the analysis of their narratives, as well as of observations collected in the two field sites and of official documents that concerns the partnership, inspiration was drawn from previous research in the discipline of applied development anthropology as well as the institutionalised anthropology of development. Theories of intercultural interaction and the work of hegemonies have been used in order to examine development through the study object of cultural difference. The thesis has its starting point in two issues that were high on the agenda during my stay in Manafwa district; the 2014 Anti-homosexuality Act and corruption within the partnership. Through the study of the way that the engaged actors' experiences are used in order to create coherence in relation to these issues, the aim is to reach an understanding of how their world views are simultaneously shaped by and reshaping intercultural encounters. The ways in which claims of universal truths are used in order to install feelings of belonging and to motivate certain actions will be presented. Furthermore, the thesis will show how hegemonies in many ways are used in order to maintain hierarchies within development partnerships that in their official outlines claim that they intend to be equal.

This study investigates Discourses of language use (Gee, 2005) in a community of artists and artistic promoters associated with the Centre culturel Aberdeen in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Members of this network are described as Acadian social actors, those who have cultural and linguistic capital, thus the potential capacity to influence Discourses of language use circulating in Acadian society, through language use accompanying their art and artistic promotion (Bourdieu, 2001; Heller, 2003; Heller & Labrie, 2004). This study specifically explores this group’s discursive constructions of their roles within social spaces (Lefebvre, 1991) in which they participate as artists, beginning with the Centre Aberdeen itself, expanding to Greater Moncton, Acadie, Canada, and finally, to the international space of la francophonie. Their discourse shows these roles to be highly dependent on the linguistic marketplace associated with each space. The findings indicate that in the space of the Centre culturel Aberdeen, formerly conceived of as a minority language space, French remains the dominant language of practice; however, many participants affirm that the use of other languages in the Centre is not censured. Some participants even refer to Aberdeen as a bilingual space. In the social space of Greater Moncton, the discourse of bilingual participants demonstrates their inner conflict between using French in their art to affirm their Acadian identity and using English in order to have a greater audience. In Acadie, the participants’ discourse focuses principally on how to represent regional varieties of French in writing, including Chiac, the variety of French local to Southeastern New Brunswick. In the space of Acadie and beyond, participants speak to the need for a normative register of French in extra-regional communications. In the national Francophone social space, participants express their frustration at lack of exposure and the essentialization of their identity in Canada’s Francophone media. In speaking of la francophonie, participants again insist on the necessity of a standard form of French for global communication, while affirming that they also assert their cultural distinctiveness in their art with regional expressions. These findings are in line with elements of Heller and Labrie’s (2004) post-nationalist discours mondialisant. / text

Research establishes, that clothes constantly communicate something about its wearer. You send out different messages depending on what sort of clothes you are wearing. For example, a suit can project social status and power, while, a pair of jeans usually conveys a more casual impression. Either way, research state that clothes are symbolic expressions. This essay focuses on the theme clothes and pupils within the school world. Do pupils today experience clothes as symbolic values? By using qualitative interviews, I have examined how four senior high school pupils talk about clothes and its potential symbolic value in school. Together with, in what ways the participants experience clothes functions as status markers in school. The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu´s theory of the judgment of taste, is the theoretical starting point of this paper. Bourdieu claims that trivial things, such as clothes, reveal the social belonging of the individual. Because, clothes can project differences in taste, and taste is connected with social class, according to the Bourdieu. The conclusion of the essay is that all participants, more or less, experience that clothes project symbolic values within school; however, what it projects varies in different social spaces. That is, clothes do not have the same symbolic meaning in all schools. For the second research assignment, I have come to the conclusion that quite often clothes actually do functions as status markers in school. But, what sort of clothing that is synonymous with status also varies within different social spaces. That is, a piece of clothing that is symbolic with high social status in one school does not necessarily project the same status value at another school.

By employing an Indigenous methodological framework and a community based research approach, I assess the role that the Aboriginal Resource Centre (ARC) has in the lives of Aboriginal students at the University of Guelph, and drawing on the ARC as a case study, I conceptualize space from an Aboriginal perspective. Drawing on interviews with a key informant, prior and current students, I demonstrate that the ARC is more than just a student service or physical centre on campus; it is a community full of meaning and lived experiences. In ARC, the students have found a safe place in which to express themselves and feel safe to explore Aboriginal identity formation. I capture the importance of conceptualizing a shared space, specifically between people who share the same cultural worldview, within a reconceptualization of space.

<p>According to conventional wisdom, the period of intense antiradicalism that followed World War II effectively drove all radical activity underground by the early 1950s, severing the intergenerational connection between the "Old Left" of the Great Depression era and the "New Left" of the 1960s. Building a Better World revises this narrative by examining how radical activists in New York City carved out space for young people's participation in leftwing political culture between 1945 and 1965. Contrary to most studies of the postwar Red Scare that focus on the Left's decline, this study tells a story of survival. Despite concerted efforts by social critics and governmental officials to curtail radicals' political influence among the young, radicals maintained a surprisingly robust radical social world centered in summer camps, private schools, youth groups, cultural organizations, union halls, and homes throughout New York City and its environs. In these spaces, youth continued to absorb a radical worldview that celebrated the labor movement, decolonization struggles, and African Americans' quest for freedom, while forwarding a biting critique of American capitalism. This process of intergenerational transmission would not have been possible without access to social space and an ever-evolving interpretation of radical values responsive to changes in political culture and demographics. Building a Better World relies on extensive archival research, print material, visual sources, and original oral histories to document this hidden history. In so doing, the dissertation significantly revises our understanding of the American Left, the history of American childhood, spatial change in New York City, and the evolution of political, ethnic, and racial identities in modern American history.</p> / Dissertation

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O presente trabalho analisa a territorialização da sociedade civil no Conselho Municipal de Assistência Social de Porto Alegre. A compreensão de que uma sociedade com maior equidade depende da ampla participação nas deliberações sobre as políticas e verbas públicas é o motor deste estudo, que a partir dos conceitos de cidadania, subjetividade, desenvolvimento sócio-espacial e horizontalidade estuda as atribuições dos conselheiros, os seus vínculos com as regiões da cidade e com a política de assistência social, bem como os motivos para exercerem o cargo, os dados sobre a assistência social na capital gaúcha e os suportes legais para as deliberações junto ao poder público. Os objetivos dessa pesquisa são de compreender quais os limites e potencialidades da participação da sociedade civil em espaços institucionais de deliberação sobre políticas e verbas públicas, analisando o modelo municipal de política participativa e refletir sobre estratégias para potencializar e ampliar a apropriação dos conselheiros dos meios para conquistarem suas demandas. Nele são realizadas entrevistas com os conselheiros das Comissões Regionais de Assistência Social (CORAS), espacialização de dados com a confecção de mapas e a leitura das atas do período de 2013 a 2015. / The present work analyses the territorialization of the civil society in the Social Assistance Municipal Council of Porto Alegre (CMAS). The understanding that a society with a high level of equity depends on a large participation in the decisions about public politics and money is the motivation for the study. It uses the concepts of citizenship, subjectivity, social-space development and horizontality to study the attribution of the council members, their bounds with the city regions and with the social assistance politics. It also researches the reasons for them to choose this kind of work, the data about social assistance in the city and the legal support to deliberations with the government in the council. The objectives of this research are to comprehend the limits and potentials of the participation of the civil society in institutional spaces of deliberation on public politics and money, analyzing the municipal model of public participation and reflect about strategies to amplify the appropriation of the council members to achieve their objectives. In it are made interviews with representations of the Regional Commissions of Social Assistance (CORAS), specialization of the data through maps and the reading of the record of the reunions of the council in the period of 2013 to 2015.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:00:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5813.pdf: 2947869 bytes, checksum: b1a14d3f564161f6d2920324c5cbb146 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-30 / The present work analyzes the process of verticalization of Brazilian cities, according to the concepts of territoriality, deconstruction space, social space. It examines the transformation of territory resulting from the vertical growth and densification of cities, from the point of view of the house and the territories of individuals and groups. Therefore, it is a bibliographical review on the relationship between man and space, which serves as the basis for a reading of the urban space, followed by bibliographic review on methods of urban analysis that used that approach. The period analyzed spans the entire history of the development of urban space in Brazil, focusing on the period of time in which the first vertical buildings appear in the capitals and cities of the country. The reading of the transformations, is empirically made through the analysis of several studies of other authors who address the subject in different Brazilian cities, in different periods. It is shown in the end, how the verticalization results in the isolation of individuals and the degradation of cities, and at the same time is influenced by changes occurring in society. / O presente trabalho faz uma análise do processo de verticalização das cidades brasileiras, segundo os conceitos de territorialidade, desconstrução espacial, espaço social. Procura analisar a transformação do território resultante do crescimento vertical e do adensamento das cidades, sob o ponto de vista da casa e dos territórios individuais e de grupos. Para tanto, é realizada uma revisão bibliográfica sobre a relação entre homem e espaço, que serve de base para uma leitura do espaço urbano, seguida de revisão bibliográfica sobre métodos de análise urbana que se aproximam daquele utilizado. O período analisado abrange toda a história da formação do espaço urbano no Brasil, tendo como foco o período em que os primeiros edifícios verticais surgem nas capitais e em cidades do interior do país. A leitura das transformações, empírica, é feita através da análise de diversos trabalhos de outros autores que abordam o tema em diferentes cidades brasileiras, em diferentes períodos. Demonstra-se, ao final, como a verticalização resulta no isolamento dos indivíduos e na degradação das cidades, e ao mesmo tempo é influenciada pelas transformações ocorridas na sociedade.