Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este trabalho busca compor um quadro das práticas cotidianas de jovens frequentadores das oficinas de jazz oferecidas pelo Centro Cultural Cartola (CCC). Contextualizado dentro de um universo tradicionalmente conhecido por sua origem no samba, esse território de arte e de expressão através do corpo e da música contempla outros movimentos musicais, principalmente o jazz e o moderno, possibilitando um conjunto de múltiplos sentidos e ressignificações na vida destes participantes. Como fundamentação epistemológica, foi utilizada a Teoria Ator-Rede (TAR), concebida como forma de abordar a fabricação dos fatos, ao abranger, simetricamente, natureza e sociedade, humano e não humano. Foram igualmente consideradas as possíveis configurações de interação e sociabilidade que envolvem território, sujeito e demais atores da rede, os quais conseguem reconhecer-se diante do outro, do diferente, e construírem um projeto individual e coletivo frente à sociedade multicultural em que estão inseridos. Para isso, foram realizadas entrevistas que, por sua vez, são complementos à descrição interpretativa registrada no diário de campo, permitindo a dimensão de improviso, de manejo das situações e de envolvimento nas incessantes redefinições processuais. O campo explorado foi, estritamente, o de jovens adolescentes, num recorte etário de 14 a 21 anos. Todos deveriam estar matriculados na escola ensino fundamental e médio e residir em comunidade, não sendo necessariamente a Mangueira. As abordagens contemplaram também as incontáveis participações do professor da oficina de jazz. Durante o processo, emanou-se a existência de um apaixonamento e de uma apropriação por parte de todos os envolvidos com a oficina: parte administrativa, pedagógica e docente, garantindo autonomia e diferencial no universo social do grupo, cujas escolhas legitimam o quanto o investimento na cultura produz artistas conscientes da beleza inerente à própria arte e aos afetamentos daí advindos. Interessante ressaltar que o samba funciona como marca histórica e temporal do CCC, mas a principal motivação ali percebida estava no encontro mediado pela dança, junção corpo/música, presente na vida dos participantes desde a infância, além do prazer de pertencerem a um grupo afim, movido por histórias semelhantes. Junto a isso, o professor exercia o papel de liderança velada, a mediar as relações e a produzir efeitos de coesão grupal, com suas ideias e incentivo à expressão pela dança, de modo a dar lugar a novas descobertas e ressignificação / This paper aims to compose a picture of the young peoples daily practices who attend the jazz workshops offered by Centro Cultural Cartola (CCC) - Top Hat Cultural Centre. Within the context of a universe traditionally known for its origins in the samba, this territory of art and expression through body and music that includes other musical movements, mainly jazz and modern, allowing a set of multiple meanings and new meanings in the lives of these attendees. On an epistemological foundation, we used the Actor-Network Theory (ART), designed to address the manufacturing of facts, when it covers symmetrically, nature and society, human and nonhuman. We also considered the possible configurations of interaction and sociability involving the territory, subject and other actors in the network, which can recognize each other to the other, to the different, and build an individual and collective project before the multicultural society where they are inserted. For this, interviews were conducted that, in turn, are added to the "interpretative" description recorded in the diary of field, allowing the dimension of improvisation, management of situations and engaging in endless procedural resets. The explored field was, strictly, the young adolescents, in an age cut from 14 to 21. They all should be enrolled in school - primary and secondary education - and live in a community, not necessarily the Mangueira community. The approaches also regarded the countless contributions of the jazz workshop teacher. Along the process, there was the falling in love and an appropriation of all the ones involved in the workshop: the administrative, pedagogical and teaching members, ensuring autonomy and differential in the social universe of the group, whose choices legitimize how the investment in culture can produce artists aware of texisting art beauty and its coming results. It is interesting to make evidente that the samba works as a temporal milestone for CCC, but the main motivation that was noticed there, was the in meeting mediated by dance, junction body/music, present in the lives of the attendees since their childhood, beyond the pleasure of belonging to a group , influenced by similar stories. Along with that, the teacher held the role of a veiled leadership, to mediate the relationships and to produce effects of group cohesion, with his ideas and incentive for the dance expression, in order to make way for new discoveries and reframing

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este trabalho busca compor um quadro das práticas cotidianas de jovens frequentadores das oficinas de jazz oferecidas pelo Centro Cultural Cartola (CCC). Contextualizado dentro de um universo tradicionalmente conhecido por sua origem no samba, esse território de arte e de expressão através do corpo e da música contempla outros movimentos musicais, principalmente o jazz e o moderno, possibilitando um conjunto de múltiplos sentidos e ressignificações na vida destes participantes. Como fundamentação epistemológica, foi utilizada a Teoria Ator-Rede (TAR), concebida como forma de abordar a fabricação dos fatos, ao abranger, simetricamente, natureza e sociedade, humano e não humano. Foram igualmente consideradas as possíveis configurações de interação e sociabilidade que envolvem território, sujeito e demais atores da rede, os quais conseguem reconhecer-se diante do outro, do diferente, e construírem um projeto individual e coletivo frente à sociedade multicultural em que estão inseridos. Para isso, foram realizadas entrevistas que, por sua vez, são complementos à descrição interpretativa registrada no diário de campo, permitindo a dimensão de improviso, de manejo das situações e de envolvimento nas incessantes redefinições processuais. O campo explorado foi, estritamente, o de jovens adolescentes, num recorte etário de 14 a 21 anos. Todos deveriam estar matriculados na escola ensino fundamental e médio e residir em comunidade, não sendo necessariamente a Mangueira. As abordagens contemplaram também as incontáveis participações do professor da oficina de jazz. Durante o processo, emanou-se a existência de um apaixonamento e de uma apropriação por parte de todos os envolvidos com a oficina: parte administrativa, pedagógica e docente, garantindo autonomia e diferencial no universo social do grupo, cujas escolhas legitimam o quanto o investimento na cultura produz artistas conscientes da beleza inerente à própria arte e aos afetamentos daí advindos. Interessante ressaltar que o samba funciona como marca histórica e temporal do CCC, mas a principal motivação ali percebida estava no encontro mediado pela dança, junção corpo/música, presente na vida dos participantes desde a infância, além do prazer de pertencerem a um grupo afim, movido por histórias semelhantes. Junto a isso, o professor exercia o papel de liderança velada, a mediar as relações e a produzir efeitos de coesão grupal, com suas ideias e incentivo à expressão pela dança, de modo a dar lugar a novas descobertas e ressignificação / This paper aims to compose a picture of the young peoples daily practices who attend the jazz workshops offered by Centro Cultural Cartola (CCC) - Top Hat Cultural Centre. Within the context of a universe traditionally known for its origins in the samba, this territory of art and expression through body and music that includes other musical movements, mainly jazz and modern, allowing a set of multiple meanings and new meanings in the lives of these attendees. On an epistemological foundation, we used the Actor-Network Theory (ART), designed to address the manufacturing of facts, when it covers symmetrically, nature and society, human and nonhuman. We also considered the possible configurations of interaction and sociability involving the territory, subject and other actors in the network, which can recognize each other to the other, to the different, and build an individual and collective project before the multicultural society where they are inserted. For this, interviews were conducted that, in turn, are added to the "interpretative" description recorded in the diary of field, allowing the dimension of improvisation, management of situations and engaging in endless procedural resets. The explored field was, strictly, the young adolescents, in an age cut from 14 to 21. They all should be enrolled in school - primary and secondary education - and live in a community, not necessarily the Mangueira community. The approaches also regarded the countless contributions of the jazz workshop teacher. Along the process, there was the falling in love and an appropriation of all the ones involved in the workshop: the administrative, pedagogical and teaching members, ensuring autonomy and differential in the social universe of the group, whose choices legitimize how the investment in culture can produce artists aware of texisting art beauty and its coming results. It is interesting to make evidente that the samba works as a temporal milestone for CCC, but the main motivation that was noticed there, was the in meeting mediated by dance, junction body/music, present in the lives of the attendees since their childhood, beyond the pleasure of belonging to a group , influenced by similar stories. Along with that, the teacher held the role of a veiled leadership, to mediate the relationships and to produce effects of group cohesion, with his ideas and incentive for the dance expression, in order to make way for new discoveries and reframing

This thesis intends to revise and update devoted actor theory (DAT) by introducing a neglected dataset—female suicide bombers. DAT provides one such theoretical framework for understanding extremist group behavior and, to a lesser extent, suicidal bombing. DAT is largely satisfying: its claims and conclusions address relevant issues and provide compelling answers to critical questions. However, it is not without its analytical and empirical gaps. Crucially, DAT does not explicitly account for the narratives and characteristic motives of female suicide bombers—which often differ in logic, content, and tone from those of their male counterparts. In addition, DAT assumes that people who are fused with extreme groups are willing to self-sacrifice for their group, but the theory does not account for how this fusion process transpires. Therefore, I propose two amendments to DAT that not only address theoretical issues, which arise partially from the lack of female terrorist accounts, but also creates a narrative that bridges the gap that would explain how an individual progresses from bonding to a group to making the decision to die for it. Accordingly, I also propose to theorize a psychosocial process that links the way in which individuals, specifically females, become fused to a group and edge closer to the most extreme of extremist decisions: to annihilate their bodies and selves, while at the same time annihilating or wreaking havoc upon the lives of others whom they have deemed enemies of themselves or their group.

This paper analyzes relationships between the roles of descriptions and actions in large scale, open ended, geographically distributed, concurrent systems. Rather than attempt to deal with the complexities and ambiguities of currently implemented descriptive languages, we concentrate our analysis on what can be expressed in the underlying frameworks such as the lambda calculus and first order logic. By this means we conclude that descriptions and actions complement one another: neither being sufficient unto itself. This paper provides a basis to begin the analysis of the very subtle relationships that hold between descriptions and actions in Open Systems.

Ces dernières années, de nombreuses organisations professionnelles ont pris un important tournant gestionnaire. Les professionnels sont enjoints à intégrer dans leur rôle de nouvelles prérogatives et à mobiliser des instruments de gestion. L’injonction ainsi adressée aux professionnels interroge, dans le même temps, les rôles des gestionnaires traditionnels. Cette thèse s’intéresse à la manière dont les instruments de gestion, incarnation d’une logique économique et gestionnaire nouvelle, interviennent dans la constitution des rôles organisationnels. Afin de mieux saisir ce phénomène, nous étudions le cas du déploiement d’instruments de contrôle de gestion dans un important hôpital public français. Les hôpitaux sont en effet soumis à des exigences d’efficience croissantes, tant sur le plan économique que celui de la qualité des soins. Dans le sillage des réformes du financement des hôpitaux (tarification à l’activité) et de la nouvelle gouvernance, certains médecins et cadres de santé sont désormais en charge de la gestion de pools de services (pôles). Ils sont responsabilisés par le biais de contrats de pôle passés avec la direction, et sont invités à gérer leur pôle en mobilisant des instruments de suivi financiers inédits. En nous appuyant sur la théorie de l’acteur-réseau et en considérant l’établissement de nouveaux phénomènes socio-organisationnels comme un mouvement d’associations entre objets et humains, nous mettons en évidence l’action conjointe des instruments de gestion et des individus dans la constitution des rôles : les instruments de gestion ouvrent de nouvelles voies de pensée et d’action pour les individus, et les individus mettent en pratique ces instruments de multiples façon. Si les instruments de gestion prescrivent de nouveaux rôles de gestion, nous montrons que ce sont les interactions à l'oeuvre, entre instruments et individus, qui conduisent à l'internalisation du rôle prescrit. Sur un plan plus empirique, nous soulignons la nécessité de mener une réflexion locale tant sur la forme des instruments introduits et leurs finalités, que sur les missions des professionnels responsables de pôles et de directions fonctionnelles. / In the last few years, many professional organizations have gone through decisive managerial changes. Professionals are asked to take on new responsibilities and use management tools. At the same time, this new demand infringes on the role of classical managers. This thesis examines how management tools, as the embodiment of a new economic and managerial logic, impacts the building of organizational roles. In order to deepen our understanding of this phenomenon, we study the implantation of management accounting tools in a large French public hospital. Hospitals are currently facing growing demands for efficiency, in terms of costs and quality of care. Following the financing (prospective payment system) and governing reforms, some doctors and head nurses become responsible for a pool of services (clinical divisions). They are made responsible through a contractual engagement with the hospital management, and are encouraged to manage their division using new financial monitoring tools. Using the actor-network theory, we see the emergence of a new social-organizational phenomenon as a movement of associations between objects and humans. We thus show the joined action of management tools and individuals in the building of roles: management tools open new possibilities of thinking and actions for individuals, while individuals put in practice these tools in multiple ways. Although management tools prescribe new managerial roles, role internalization may be achieved only when tools and individuals interact. From an empirical perspective, we underline the need to fine-tune both design and objectives of the tools, as well as clarifying the missions of clinical divisions’ heads and managers.

The diploma thesis United Kingdom and the Israeli-Palestine peace process is focused on British foreign policy towards the situation in Israel/Palestine and the ongoing peace process between 1997 and 2001. It addresses the main assumptions for the approach of the Tony Blair's government and their fulfilling. It is based on the analysis of speeches and documents issued by the Labour Party or by the government of the United Kingdom, on which it at first defines the assumptions about the activities of the United Kingdom on the international level, which it understands as commitments towards British and the electorate. Further, it presents the major steps made towards the situation in Israel/Palestine, as well as the long-term motives of Tony Blair government's approach to this area, which can be seen in speeches and other materials. It then examines whether the policy towards the Israeli-Palestine peace process matched the outlined assumptions and expectations. Subsequently, it deals with the causes of the found differences and discusses the importance of this topic for the government of Tony Blair and its possibilities get more involved in these issues. In the last section it analyses the other possible foreign policy interests of the United Kingdom that influenced the approach towards...

The liberal theory of international relations primarily associates international cooperation with liberal democratic states, to the point that a theory of scholars Poast and Urpelainen claim that international cooperation with consolidated democracies through international organizations may boost the democratization of or at least prevent democratic backsliding in non-consolidated democracies. This paper investigates the possibility of decoupling these theories from democracies and democratizing by examining whether Chinese efforts within the framework of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Belt and Road foreign policy project have a similar but reverse effect on its target states, prompting developments in authoritarian directions. Though the results of study are inconclusive on account of the relative youth of the studied IOs, they indicate a strong possibility that could do with further study.