This thesis investigated a rupture in the U. S. legal tradition of punishing sexual crime, initiatedby The Community Protection Act of 1990 and the Sexually Violent Predator Statute, that defined the criminal subject as a sexually violent predator. Thus, with this definition was initiated a new legislative innovation. Effectuated as the following Sexually Violent Predator laws, it allowed for the civil commitment of sex offenders post completed sentence. A commitment scheme that has been subject to a vast criticism qua its severe deprivation of basic human rights and dismissal of Constitutional provisions. The investigation was composed as a content analysis of the framing of the journalistic production responding to these laws. A selection of 35 news articles was appropriated as source material. The method of content analysis was accompanied by a theoretical framework, scrutinising normative orders and claims of disability and able-ism. The analysis of the source material resulted in the identification of eight repetitive thematics. Their framing was presented and analysed in order to critically discuss the composition and execution of the Sexually Violent Predator laws.

Submitted by Leonardo Cavalcante (leo.ocavalcante@gmail.com) on 2018-05-24T14:48:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Arquivototal.pdf: 1308133 bytes, checksum: 5e8edd9d6322bffba07fbf25b81ad6ac (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-24T14:48:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arquivototal.pdf: 1308133 bytes, checksum: 5e8edd9d6322bffba07fbf25b81ad6ac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-14 / In spite of significant advances and increasing possibilities of social participation experienced by both women and persons with disabilities, the naturalization of their bodies remains as the main factor related to the permanence of practices of silencing and discrimination. In this doctoral research, the starting point is the observation that feminist movements, as well as the vast literature on gender issues, are fragile when it comes to the intersection with disability; in turn, most studies on disability neglect the female condition. Considering that gender and disability intersect as factors of oppression and discrimination that heighten female vulnerability and inequalities, the argument presented in this dissertation is that, in the case of women with disabilities, the process of precariousness of life occurs through the intersection of ableist and sexist structures. By establishing strong barriers to access to school, higher education, and to the full exercise of their sexuality, such structures place them in unequal positions in relation to men with disabilities and women without disabilities. Therefore, the purpose of this research, located in the area of Cultural Studies of Education, was to analyze the effects of ableist and sexist structures in the experience of inequality and multiple vulnerabilities of women with disabilities. Based on literature review and an empirical approach to the trajectories of women with disabilities, it discusses the precariousness of the life they experience from the perspective of ableism and gender inequalities. It uses the notion of trajectory proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, which emphasizes the individual action of certain subjects (habitus), in close relation with wider social contexts (fields). The narratives of the educational trajectories of Maria Aparecida Ramos de Menezes, Joana Belarmino de Souza, and Nayara de Almeida Adriano, professors with disabilities at Federal University of Paraíba, collected through interviews conducted in the first semester of 2016, seek to answer the research question: "How ableist and sexist inequalities appear in the educational trajectories of women with disabilities within family, school, and higher education?" Based on their narratives, which evoke my own trajectory as a woman with a visual disability, the analysis points at the common experiences of inequality lived by women with disabilities, which exclude them from participation in the public sphere and deny their right to autonomous choice and decision-making, within a sexist and ableist culture. However, the trajectories of these three women reveal that education makes it possible to breakdown such barriers and contribute to the educational and social development of other women with disabilities. By presenting the relevant contributions of feminist perspectives regarding a new understanding of disability, this dissertation aims at strengthening the debate about the transformation of able-normative mentalities, a still incipient debate in both movements of women and people with disabilities, in order to open new possibilities of empowerment and social participation. / Apesar dos significativos avanços e das crescentes possibilidades de participação social vivenciadas por mulheres e pessoas com deficiência, observa-se que a naturalização de seus corpos é fator principal da manutenção de práticas de silenciamento e discriminação. Nesta pesquisa doutoral, constata-se inicialmente que os movimentos feministas, assim como a vasta literatura em torno de questões de gênero, são frágeis quando se trata da intersecção com a deficiência; por sua vez, a maioria dos estudos sobre deficiência negligencia a condição feminina. Ao considerar que gênero e deficiência se entrecortam como fatores de opressão e discriminação que potencializam a vulnerabilidade e a desigualdade feminina, o argumento desta tese é que, no caso da mulher com deficiência, o processo de precariedade da vida se dá pela intersecção de estruturas capacitistas e sexistas. Estas estruturas, ao estabelecerem sólidas barreiras ao acesso à escola, à universidade e ao pleno exercício de sua sexualidade, as colocam em posições desiguais em relação aos homens com deficiência e às mulheres sem deficiência. Assim, o objetivo geral da investigação, situada na área dos Estudos Culturais da Educação, foi analisar os efeitos das estruturas capacitistas e de gênero na experiência de desigualdade e múltiplas vulnerabilidades de mulheres com deficiência. Com base em revisão de literatura e abordagem empírica de trajetórias de mulheres com deficiência, discute-se a precariedade da vida dessas mulheres, sob as perspectivas do capacitismo e das desigualdades de gênero. Utiliza-se a noção de trajetória proposta por Pierre Bourdieu, a qual destaca a ação individual de determinados sujeitos (habitus), em estreita relação com contextos sociais mais amplos (campos). Os relatos das trajetórias educacionais de Maria Aparecida Ramos de Menezes, Joana Belarmino de Souza e Nayara de Almeida Adriano, professoras com deficiência em atuação na Universidade Federal da Paraíba, colhidos através de entrevistas realizadas no primeiro semestre de 2016, buscam responder à pergunta de pesquisa: De que forma as desigualdades capacitistas e de gênero se evidenciam nas trajetórias familiares, escolares e acadêmicas de mulheres com deficiência? Com base em suas narrativas, que evocam a minha própria trajetória como mulher com deficiência visual, a análise aponta experiências de desigualdade vivenciadas pelo coletivo de mulheres com deficiência que, resultantes de uma cultura sexista e capacitista, as excluem da participação na esfera pública e lhes negam o direito de realizar escolhas e tomar decisões por conta própria. Todavia, as trajetórias dessas três mulheres revelam que, através da educação, é possível romper com as barreiras supracitadas e contribuir para o desenvolvimento educacional e social de outras mulheres com deficiência. Ao apresentar as relevantes contribuições das perspectivas feministas no tocante a uma nova compreensão acerca da deficiência, espero fortalecer o debate, ainda incipiente em ambos os movimentos, de mulheres e pessoas com deficiência, acerca da ruptura de mentalidades corpo-normativas, para suscitar novas possibilidades de empoderamento e participação social.

While persons with disabilities are not a homogenous group, most are likely to be disproportionately impacted by climate change and the “natural” disasters that result from these changes. As a social worker living with chronic health conditions and a particular interest in disability and public policy, I was curious about how Canada’s Federal Government climate change policies and initiatives address persons with disabilities and their diverse needs. My research explored how matters of health and disability have been taken up in recent Canadian Federal Government climate change policies and strategies through an analysis of six significant climate change documents. Framed by a feminist, poststructural-inspired critical disability lens, the documents were examined through an inductive approach to reflexive thematic analysis, with the aim of contributing to critical conversations around the intersections of disability justice, climate justice, and related social justice matters. Through reflexive thematic analysis, I identified three key themes: persons with disabilities are widely absent from Canadian Federal Government climate change documents, both as collaborators as well as groups considered in climate change planning; adaptation to climate change and climate resilience are central in government climate mitigation strategies; and healthy and normative body-minds are presumed by the documents, which broadly assume all people have the same capacities to adapt. Subthemes included both a prioritization of the economy, and a foregrounding of a productive, compulsory, able-bodied and able-minded citizen around which climate change strategies are designed. I conclude with some suggestions for how Canada’s climate change policies may become more inclusive for persons with disabilities. / Graduate

Previous research has studied toxicity in World of Tanks game with a focus on precursors of toxicity, player performance in the game from the perspective of gender-performance gap or observing the players' major behaviors instigated by various situations within the game. This research focuses on player's behavior in the game chat with an emphasis on toxic behavior by using participant observation ethnography, thematic analysis, content analysis and autoethnography. Contrary to the predicted belief that game mechanics could instigate toxic behavior in the game, results showed that the major forms of toxicity were regarded as gamesplaining, ableism, sarcasm, male preserve concept and fragile masculinity concept.

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Många seniorer väljer att arbeta efter pensioneringen. Denna rapport handlar om fyra berättelser av personer som har fortsatt att arbeta efter att ha passerat pensionsålder. Ur ett karriärutvecklingsperspektiv undersöker jag vilka faktorer i seniorernas berättelser som har lett till att fortsätta att arbeta efter 65, vad som motiverar till att vidareutvecklas och hur tillvaron ser ut runt dessa personer ut ett helhetsperspektiv. Syftet med denna undersökning är att få en skildring om seniorernas upplevelser av att vara yrkesverksamma efter pensioneringen. Dessa berättelser är av intresse för vägledningsprofessionen då det saknas studier och forskning i en svensk kontext om seniorer som arbetar efter 65 år.     Uppsatsen utgår från en kvalitativ narrativ metod. Fyra halvstrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med fyra yrkesverksamma pensionärer. Med intervjun som underlag, författades fyra berättelser. Empirin analyserades med utvalda begrepp från två teorier: System Theory Framework (STF) och Life-span Life-space. Resultatet visar att informanterna erbjöds möjlighet att fortsätta att arbeta för de har kompetenser som efterfrågas. Samtliga informanter upplevde att de hade mer att ge, och valde att fortsätta med sina respektive karriärer. Resultatet visar också att dessa personer har levt gynnsamma, aktiva, sociala liv och har utbildning. Informanternas karriärer förstås som summan av olika val som har gjorts över tid. Dessa val gör att de lever de liv de har idag. De vill fortsätta arbeta det så länge de är friska och orkar. Att vidareutvecklas och lära sig nya saker är också en stark motivationsfaktor.

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[pt] O trabalho buscou investigar a implementação das políticas da educação inclusiva na rede municipal de Corumbá/MS a partir das percepções dos agentes implementadores. Como objetivos específicos buscamos conhecer como as políticas educacionais voltadas aos alunos com deficiência são implementadas no município e quais as condições de atendimento desses alunos na rede municipal. Focalizamos em particular a interação entre a gestão das escolas com a Secretaria Municipal de Educação e a maneira como ocorrem os atendimentos voltados aos alunos com deficiência, considerando a atuação da gestão e professores das unidades escolares. Como referencial teórico utilizamos os estudos sobre burocracia de médio escalão e de nível de rua, para entendermos como essas relações se estabelecem. Utilizamos também o contexto histórico das políticas da educação especial para entendermos de que maneira elas se consolidam na sociedade brasileira, além dos Estudos sobre a Deficiência (Disability Studies) que nos ofereceram condições de chaves de interpretação dos fenômenos por meio da perspectiva sociológica da deficiência, sobretudo através do conceito de Capacitismo. Inicialmente foi aplicado um survey às equipes de gestão e aos professores de todas as escolas urbanas da rede municipal de Corumbá, totalizando dezesseis unidades escolares. A partir da análise dos dados coletados e dos microdados do Censo Escolar 2016 foram escolhidas três escolas para participar de um movimento posterior de pesquisa qualitativa. Esta fase qualitativa incluiu cerca de um mês de observação do cotidiano em cada escola e entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com oito integrantes das equipes de gestão e dez professores. Esta segunda fase da pesquisa foi completada com a análise de documentos oficiais e seis entrevistas semiestruturadas com profissionais da Secretaria Municipal de Educação. Os resultados mostraram que os agentes implementadores das políticas da educação inclusiva, apesar de seus esforços para realização do trabalho, encontram dificuldades que interferem diretamente em sua atuação. O funcionamento precário de algumas unidades escolares, a pressão de responsabilização quanto aos resultados sem a oferta de condições adequadas de trabalho, o desmantelamento nos últimos anos da equipe pedagógica responsável pelo atendimento dos alunos com deficiência da rede municipal são fatores que impactam profundamente no trabalho desses profissionais. Atrelado a isso ressaltamos também as percepções desses agentes implementadores a respeito do conceito de deficiência e o fato da maior parte deles considerar os alunos com deficiência como incapazes. Este conjunto de fatores contribui para os resultados encontrados no Censo Escolar, que mostram que esses alunos, embora acessem à escola regular, no marco da política de inclusão educacional em vigor, encontram-se majoritariamente retidos nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental, raramente completando as condições para sua efetiva inclusão escolar e social. / [en] The work sought to investigate the implementation of public policies of special education in the municipal system of Corumbá / MS based on the perceptions of the implementing agents. As specific objectives, we wanted to learn how educational policies aimed at students with disabilities are implemented in the municipality and what the conditions of attendance of these students are in the municipal system. We focused particularly on the interaction between the school board with the Municipal Department of Education, and the way the service to the disability students is provided considering the operation of the school management and teachers. As a theoretical framework, we use studies on middle-level and street-level bureaucracy to understand how these relationships are established. We also used the literature on the historical context of special education policies to understand how they were consolidated in Brazilian society, in addition to Disability Studies, which offered us keys to interpret phenomena through the sociological perspective of disability, especially throughout the Ableism concept. Initially a survey was applied to the management teams and teachers of all urban schools of the municipal system of Corumbá, summing sixteen school units. From the analysis of data collected and the microdata of the 2016 Brazilian School Census, three schools were chosen to participate in a following movement of qualitative research. This qualitative phase included about a month of observation of the daily life in each school and semi- structured interviews done with eight members of the management team and ten teachers. This second phase of research was than complemented with official documents analysis and six semi-structured interviews with professionals from the Municipal Education Department. The results showed that the agents implementing the policies of the special education, despite their efforts to carry out the work, find difficulties that interfere directly in their work. The precarious functioning of some school units, the pressure to hold the principals accountable for the school results, without the provision of adequate work conditions, and the dismantling in the last years of the educational team responsible to provide the service to the students with deficiency of the municipal system, are factors that impact the work of the professionals at school level. In addition to that we highlighted the perceptions of the implementing agents to the concept of disability and the fact of the majority of them considers disability students as unable. This set of factors contributes to the results found in the School Census that show that these students, although they attend the regular school, within the framework of the current policy of educational inclusion, are mostly retained in the initial years of Elementary Education, rarely completing the conditions for effective school and social inclusion.

The intent of this work is to explore how children, youth, and adults with disabilities are discriminated against in cultural systems, specifically the education system, and how the beliefs and structures encompassed in these systems create and recreate the phenomena of ableism. This study will explore the hegemony of ableism within school cultures by exposing prevailing discourses and the systems that enforce these discriminatory discourses and educational practices. Additionally, it will illustrate significant human rights infractions and discriminatory processes that keep disabled peoples throughout the world in states of marginalization and oppression. The analysis of this study shows resistance to the oppression of people with disabilities through the use of critical disability theory, legal theory, and social justice philosophy. In addition, the advancement of inclusive education as a human right is offered as a solution to the collective oppression and states of disenfranchisement that many disabled peoples experience. The exploration of moral and legal theory, equality jurisprudence, and libratory pedagogy will advance a collective human rights framework as an educational model for school cultures globally. This analysis will utilize an equality premise known as the right to belong to defend inclusive education as a fundamental human right. In support of this fundamental right, a theoretical base for inclusive pedagogies reveals how the deconstruction of hegemonic practices and, simultaneously, the development of transformative educational models of learning are necessary best practices in the pursuit of equality for all disabled students. This work concludes with recommendations for changes in educational leadership, philosophy, and research of education for disabled students.

The intent of this work is to explore how children, youth, and adults with disabilities are discriminated against in cultural systems, specifically the education system, and how the beliefs and structures encompassed in these systems create and recreate the phenomena of ableism. This study will explore the hegemony of ableism within school cultures by exposing prevailing discourses and the systems that enforce these discriminatory discourses and educational practices. Additionally, it will illustrate significant human rights infractions and discriminatory processes that keep disabled peoples throughout the world in states of marginalization and oppression. The analysis of this study shows resistance to the oppression of people with disabilities through the use of critical disability theory, legal theory, and social justice philosophy. In addition, the advancement of inclusive education as a human right is offered as a solution to the collective oppression and states of disenfranchisement that many disabled peoples experience. The exploration of moral and legal theory, equality jurisprudence, and libratory pedagogy will advance a collective human rights framework as an educational model for school cultures globally. This analysis will utilize an equality premise known as the right to belong to defend inclusive education as a fundamental human right. In support of this fundamental right, a theoretical base for inclusive pedagogies reveals how the deconstruction of hegemonic practices and, simultaneously, the development of transformative educational models of learning are necessary best practices in the pursuit of equality for all disabled students. This work concludes with recommendations for changes in educational leadership, philosophy, and research of education for disabled students.