Univ., Diss., 2009--Marburg. / Enth. Sonderdr. aus versch. Zeitschriften.

Thesis (M. Env. Des.)--University of Calgary, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 36-40).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-128).

Zugl.: Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 2009

Orientador: Vânia Maria de Vasconcelos Machado / Resumo: Por ser um híbrido entre égua e jumento, o muar apresenta características anatômicas e fisiológicas intermediárias. Existem poucos estudos sobre esse híbrido e mesmo com a extensa literatura sobre cavalos domésticos não está claro se esta serve como referência para os muares. O propósito deste estudo foi caracterizar os rins dos muares por meio do exame ultrassonográfico modo Bidimensional e Doppler (colorido e pulsado). Foram avaliados os rins de 12 muares sendo os achados formam comparados com rins de 12 cavalos e dados pré-existentes. Foram observados os seguintes achados: 1) topografia renal semelhante, salvo maior distância do rim direito à coluna lombar nos muares; 2) dimensões renais semelhantes, salvo a zona medular mais espessas nos muares; 3) ecogenicidade renal menor no muar; 4) menor captação do sinal Doppler renal nos muares; e 5) índices de resistividade e de pulsatividade menores nos muares, indicando menor resistência vascular e maior perfusão sanguínea. Embora os rins de muares possuam diversas semelhanças com os dos cavalos, existem particularidades anatomo-fisiológicas que resultam em diferenças ultrassonográficas significantes. / Mestre

Submitted by Viviane Vergueiro (msvivianev@gmail.com) on 2016-07-12T00:53:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 VERGUEIRO Viviane - Por inflexoes decoloniais de corpos e identidades de genero inconformes.pdf: 3944211 bytes, checksum: 5591b50323c752ca2f61da58df54033c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Patricia Barroso (pbarroso@ufba.br) on 2016-07-13T01:13:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 VERGUEIRO Viviane - Por inflexoes decoloniais de corpos e identidades de genero inconformes.pdf: 3944211 bytes, checksum: 5591b50323c752ca2f61da58df54033c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-13T01:13:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 VERGUEIRO Viviane - Por inflexoes decoloniais de corpos e identidades de genero inconformes.pdf: 3944211 bytes, checksum: 5591b50323c752ca2f61da58df54033c (MD5) / Capes. / Este trabalho tem como propósitos (1) fundamentar e caracterizar as categorias analíticas de cisgeneridade e cisnormatividade, propondo-as como relevantes para reflexões políticas, acadêmicas, existenciais sobre as diversidades de corpos e de identidades de gênero, assim como tecer reflexões autoetnográficas atravessadas pelas localizações, limitações e potências intelectuais desta autoetnógrafa acerca (2) dos dispositivos de poder institucionais e não institucionais cisnormativos que exercem colonialidades sobre estas diversidades, bem como sobre (3) as possibilidades de resistência e enfrentamento a estes cistemas de poder interseccionalmente constituídos. Para cumprir tais propósitos, a dissertação é composta por dois movimentos: no primeiro, o objetivo é promover diálogos sobre alguns dos conceitos que inspiram a proposição analítica de cisgeneridade, e trazem possibilidades epistêmicas e metodológicas ao trabalho, como os de autoetnografia, interseccionalidade, heterossexualidade, e branquitude. A partir de referenciais trans+feministas, queer e decoloniais, pretendese caracterizar a cisgeneridade como normatividade sobre corpos e identidades de gênero que os naturaliza e idealiza, em fantasias ciscoloniais, como pré-discursivos, binários e permanentes. O segundo movimento se constitui pela caracterização, a partir de análises autoetnográficas, de processos cisnormativos que estabelecem colonialidades do saber, poder e ser que operam violentamente através de cistemas. Contra estes processos cisnormativos e colonialidades cistêmicas, tentamos elaborar alguns caminhos decoloniais que possam promover autodeterminação, autonomia, dignidade e liberdade às diversidades corporais e de identidades de gênero, particularmente aquelas inconformes, interseccionalmente, às cisnormatividades. / The purposes of this research are to (1) substantiate and characterize the analytical categories of cisgenderness and cisnormativity, suggesting that they are relevant for political, academic, existential reflections about bodily and gender identity diversities, as well as to weave autoethnographic considerations traversed by the autoethnographer’s specific positions, limitations, and intellectual potencies on (2) the institutional and non-institutional cisnormative power dispositifs which exercise colonialities over such diversities, as well as (3) the possibilities of resistance and confrontation against these intersectionally constituted power cistems. In order to accomplish such purposes, the dissertation is composed of two movements: in the first one, the objective is to promote dialogues about some of the concepts which inspire the analytical proposition of cisgenderness, and bring about epistemic and methodological possibilities to the project, such as autoethnography, intersectionality, heterossexuality, and whiteness. From trans+feminist, queer and decolonial references, we intend to characterize cisgenderness as a normativity over bodies and gender identities which naturalize and idealize them, within ciscolonial fantasies, as pre-discursive, binary and permanent. The second movement is constituted by the characterization, from autoethnographic analyses, of cisnormative processes that establish colonialities of knowledge, power and being that operate violently throughout cistems. Against such cisnormative processes and cistemic colonialities, we intend to develop some decolonial pathways which might incite self-determination, autonomy, dignity and freedom for bodily and gender identity diversities, particularly those, intersectionally, non-conforming to cisnormativities.

This dissertation explores how life narratives created by trans*-identified people (transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, and other non-binary identities included in the term’s asterisk) imagine new categories by re-working familiar stories; trans* life narratives are thus indispensable for comprehending how gender, identity, and self shape each other across social contexts in relation to dominant cultural narratives and embedded epistemologies. Prevailing U.S. ideologies (created and maintained through medical and media discourses) conceive of trans* identity through a binary formation, reinforce trans* people as objects who exist for nontrans* consumers, and rationalize trans* people as trapped within improper bodies or liberated within surgically constructed new ones. In opposition, twenty-first century narratives by filmmakers Jules Rosskam and Gwen Tara Haworth, autobiographers Jennifer Finley Boylan and Alex Drummond and YouTube digital storytellers Ky Ford and Skylar Kergil imagine trans* identity as productive – the goal is not to explain or justify gender diversity but to embrace it and to continue to widen its collective scope. The twenty-first century narratives I analyze reconceptualize trans* identity as viable with or without medical intervention and articulate a whole, continuous subject rather than a subject split between pre- and post-transition. Evoking a new historical moment, these life writers and media producers celebrate their identity in spite of or even because of the transphobia they experience. In so doing, radical trans* life narratives exemplify how medical models and popular media fail those who they purport to protect and represent. Gender is an identity as well as a social and historical process, which is constantly open to investigation. If laying claim to an identity makes subjects, as Michel Foucault argues, the process also occurs bi-directionally: identities come into existence through the act of naming and narrating them. As more individuals articulate what it means to be trans*, personal and collective knowledges will expand to include a range of diverse subjectivities, some of which have yet to be narrated into existence.

This thesis is a descriptive analysis of Wano, a Trans-New Guinea language found in West Papua which is spoken by approximately 7,000 native speakers. The thesis includes: (i) an introduction of Wano topography and demography; a brief ethnographic sketch; some sociolinguistic issues such as name taboo, counting system and kinship terms; and typological profile of the language in chapter 1; (ii) morphophonological properties in chapter 2; (iii) forms and functions of nouns in chapter 3; (iv) verbs in chapter 4; (v) deixis in chapter 5; (vi) clause elements in chapter 6; and (vii) intransitive/transitive non-verbal predication in chapter 7; (viii) clause combination is consecutively observed in terms of coordination and subordination in chapter 8; serial verb constructions in chapter 9; clause linking in chapter 10; and bridging linkage in chapter 11. Chapter 12 sums-up the overall thesis. Wano has 11 consonantal and 5 vocalic phonemes expressed through their allophonic variations, consonantal assimilation and vocalic diphthongs. The only fricative phoneme attested is bilabial fricative /Î2/. There are two open and two closed syllable patterns where all consonants are syllable-onset, while approximants can also be syllable-coda. Vowels are syllable-nucleus. Stress is syllable-final which will be penultimate in cliticization. The phonology-morphology interface provides a significant contribution to the shaping of conjugational verbs, which, in turn, plays an essential role to an understanding of Wano verbal system where distinction between roots, stems, citation forms, sequential forms and tense-aspect-mood is defined. Wano is a polysynthetic language that displays an agglutinative-fusional morphology. Although the alienable-inalienable noun distinction is essentially simple in its morphology, the sex-distinction of the possessor between kin terms allows room for semantic-pragmatic complexity in the interpretation of their various uses. Wano has four non-verbal predications, consists of experiential event, nominal, adjectival, and deictic predicates. Wano is a verb-final language that allows pronominal pro-drop and has no rigid word order for arguments. A clause may consist only of (i) a single verb, (ii) a single inalienable noun, (iii) a serial verb construction, (iv) a combination of an inalienable noun with a verb, and or (v) a combination of an inalienable noun with a serial verb construction. To maintain discourse coherency, Wano makes use of tail-head linkage construction. The thesis consists of: pre-sections (i-xxxiii), contents (1-478), bibliography (479-498), and appendices (499-594) that include verb paradigms, noun paradigms, some oral texts and dialectal wordlist.

Trans-frontier conservation areas (TFCAs), large cross-border areas dedicated to biodiversity conservation, multi-national co-operation and development are expanding in southern Africa, fast becoming the dominant conservation solution in the region. TFCAs adopt a celebratory discourse of ecological, community, economic and political gains, while the reality is often far more complicated. This thesis situates the expansion of TFCAs within a critical political ecology approach, and argues that they represent a neoliberal solution to a complex series of development, environment and political challenges. Drawing on five and a half months of fieldwork to Mozambique along with policy and discourse analysis it examines the first marine reserve to be linked to a TFCA in Africa, the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve (PPMR) in southern Mozambique. It makes three arguments: First, it argues that Mozambique’s embrace of TFCAs represents the neoliberalisation of conservation through novel tourism-based products, techniques of governance, creation of subject positions based on entrepreneurialism, and new arrangements of space. At the same time, the adoption of TFCAs also stems from Mozambique’s post-war politics, especially the ways in which elite state actors have sought to reconstruct and reorder the country through engagement with donors. Second, the thesis uses a combined governmentality and assemblage framework to explore how neoliberal conservation is made to cohere as a truth discourse, how it materially co-produces human and non-human life in the marine reserve, and how it is fragile, partial and contested. Third, it critiques the increasingly close relationship between the extractive and conservation sector at a policy, state and donor level, exploring how and why marine conservation is increasingly intertwined with Mozambique’s resources boom through its green economy discourse. Through these three points of engagement, the thesis contributes to debates around the intensifying relationship between extraction and conservation, Mozambique’s post-war development, and processes of neoliberalisation of nature.

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