Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:20:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Isabel Mattos Porto Pato.pdf: 1403126 bytes, checksum: be79cb44c26d3916d69a6dd87895ff7d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this research is to examine the actions of civil society organizations in the cultural and artistic fields by identifying existing institutional profiles. Based on a historical context, in Brazil, three categories have been identified within the context of organized civil society working in the fields of art and culture organizations that provide cultural services, organizations that offer financial support to cultural projects and organizations that directly deal with populations and offer art and culture workshops. Working on the hypothesis of a fourth category, which would include organizations that develop actions related to the right to culture, this research examined the experience of Ação Educativa Assessoria, Pesquisa e Informação, which is an organization, stablished in 1994, whose work is guided by a human rights-based approach to art and culture. The organization focuses on artistic expressions produced in lowincome neighborhoods of the city of São Paulo, which are part of a more comprehensive movement known as cultura de periferia. This study is based on Marilena Chaui s concept of cultural citizenship, on the understanding of culture as a tool for social change and on the full right to culture: access, fruition, production and creation. Raymond Williams s concept of culture, its dimensions of popular culture and culture is ordinary. This is a challenging moment for civil society organizations with respect to their political and financial sustainability, since their reliability is being questioned and they have been facing project-funding difficulties. In view of this situation, they must reinvent themselves. And, certainly, getting connected with the cultural and artistic fields is a way of both reinventing themselves and expanding their scope of action. The increase in the number of cultural public programs has enabled this connection and has become an opportunity. These organizations have emerged from popular education and from the support to social movements; therefore, their actions are rooted in this way of thinking. In addition, when organizations deal with the human right to culture, they become spaces that foster the fight against social inequalities, as well as social transformation and a new project of society. The methodology of this research is a multidisciplinary analysis of the facts in its political, anthropologic/culture dimensions. Based on the bibliographic references and on the field research as strategies of analysis, as realization of interviews and participation on some events organized by Ação Educativa / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a ação das organizações da sociedade civil no âmbito da cultura e das artes, identificando as formas distintas de perfis institucionais existentes. A partir de um contexto histórico no Brasil foi possível observar a existência de três eixos que constituem parâmetros para o contexto da sociedade civil organizada e vinculada à área temática da arte e cultura: as organizações que prestam serviços culturais; as que financiam projetos de cultura; e aquelas vinculadas ao atendimento às populações e que oferecem oficinas de arte e cultura. Na hipótese da existência de uma quarta vertente, que seriam as organizações que atuam pelo direito à cultura, esta pesquisa debruçou-se na experiência da Ação Educativa Assessoria, Pesquisa e Informação. Fundada em 1994, propõe-se a trabalhar cultura e arte na perspectiva dos direitos humanos, com foco nas manifestações artísticas produzidas nas regiões periféricas da cidade de São Paulo, por sujeitos inseridos numa mobilização mais ampla, conhecida por cultura de periferia . Para fundamentar a análise, partiu-se da compreensão da cultura para a transformação social e do direito à cultura na sua totalidade: acesso, fruição, produção e criação de bens culturais, utilizando, como referencial teórico, a noção de cidadania cultural apresentada por Marilena Chaui, assim como o conceito de cultura, de Raymond Williams, em suas dimensões de cultura popular, produzida e apropriada por sujeitos na vida cotidiana. O momento é complexo para a sustentabilidade financeira e política das organizações da sociedade civil, que têm sofrido ataques a sua idoneidade e dificuldade para a manutenção financeira dos seus projetos. Sendo assim, é preciso que elas se reinventem. E, a aproximação com o contexto cultural e das artes é uma forma de reinventar-se, de ampliar sua ação. O aumento dos programas públicos culturais possibilitou essa aproximação e configurou-se como uma oportunidade. Tais organizações surgiram da educação popular e do apoio aos movimentos sociais, e essa forma de pensar está enraizada em sua forma de fazer. Direito à cultura, quando trabalhado nas organizações, torna-se também espaço de luta contra as desigualdades e pela transformação social e por um projeto novo de sociedade. Metodologia pressupõe uma análise multidisciplinar que compreende a dimensão antropológica/cultural e política dos fenômenos. Estratégias de análise estão centradas no mapeamento e incorporação das referências bibliográficas e na pesquisa de campo

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:54:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Isabel Mattos Porto Pato.pdf: 1403126 bytes, checksum: be79cb44c26d3916d69a6dd87895ff7d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this research is to examine the actions of civil society organizations in the cultural and artistic fields by identifying existing institutional profiles. Based on a historical context, in Brazil, three categories have been identified within the context of organized civil society working in the fields of art and culture organizations that provide cultural services, organizations that offer financial support to cultural projects and organizations that directly deal with populations and offer art and culture workshops. Working on the hypothesis of a fourth category, which would include organizations that develop actions related to the right to culture, this research examined the experience of Ação Educativa Assessoria, Pesquisa e Informação, which is an organization, stablished in 1994, whose work is guided by a human rights-based approach to art and culture. The organization focuses on artistic expressions produced in lowincome neighborhoods of the city of São Paulo, which are part of a more comprehensive movement known as cultura de periferia. This study is based on Marilena Chaui s concept of cultural citizenship, on the understanding of culture as a tool for social change and on the full right to culture: access, fruition, production and creation. Raymond Williams s concept of culture, its dimensions of popular culture and culture is ordinary. This is a challenging moment for civil society organizations with respect to their political and financial sustainability, since their reliability is being questioned and they have been facing project-funding difficulties. In view of this situation, they must reinvent themselves. And, certainly, getting connected with the cultural and artistic fields is a way of both reinventing themselves and expanding their scope of action. The increase in the number of cultural public programs has enabled this connection and has become an opportunity. These organizations have emerged from popular education and from the support to social movements; therefore, their actions are rooted in this way of thinking. In addition, when organizations deal with the human right to culture, they become spaces that foster the fight against social inequalities, as well as social transformation and a new project of society. The methodology of this research is a multidisciplinary analysis of the facts in its political, anthropologic/culture dimensions. Based on the bibliographic references and on the field research as strategies of analysis, as realization of interviews and participation on some events organized by Ação Educativa / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a ação das organizações da sociedade civil no âmbito da cultura e das artes, identificando as formas distintas de perfis institucionais existentes. A partir de um contexto histórico no Brasil foi possível observar a existência de três eixos que constituem parâmetros para o contexto da sociedade civil organizada e vinculada à área temática da arte e cultura: as organizações que prestam serviços culturais; as que financiam projetos de cultura; e aquelas vinculadas ao atendimento às populações e que oferecem oficinas de arte e cultura. Na hipótese da existência de uma quarta vertente, que seriam as organizações que atuam pelo direito à cultura, esta pesquisa debruçou-se na experiência da Ação Educativa Assessoria, Pesquisa e Informação. Fundada em 1994, propõe-se a trabalhar cultura e arte na perspectiva dos direitos humanos, com foco nas manifestações artísticas produzidas nas regiões periféricas da cidade de São Paulo, por sujeitos inseridos numa mobilização mais ampla, conhecida por cultura de periferia . Para fundamentar a análise, partiu-se da compreensão da cultura para a transformação social e do direito à cultura na sua totalidade: acesso, fruição, produção e criação de bens culturais, utilizando, como referencial teórico, a noção de cidadania cultural apresentada por Marilena Chaui, assim como o conceito de cultura, de Raymond Williams, em suas dimensões de cultura popular, produzida e apropriada por sujeitos na vida cotidiana. O momento é complexo para a sustentabilidade financeira e política das organizações da sociedade civil, que têm sofrido ataques a sua idoneidade e dificuldade para a manutenção financeira dos seus projetos. Sendo assim, é preciso que elas se reinventem. E, a aproximação com o contexto cultural e das artes é uma forma de reinventar-se, de ampliar sua ação. O aumento dos programas públicos culturais possibilitou essa aproximação e configurou-se como uma oportunidade. Tais organizações surgiram da educação popular e do apoio aos movimentos sociais, e essa forma de pensar está enraizada em sua forma de fazer. Direito à cultura, quando trabalhado nas organizações, torna-se também espaço de luta contra as desigualdades e pela transformação social e por um projeto novo de sociedade. Metodologia pressupõe uma análise multidisciplinar que compreende a dimensão antropológica/cultural e política dos fenômenos. Estratégias de análise estão centradas no mapeamento e incorporação das referências bibliográficas e na pesquisa de campo

Ng King Sau. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-147). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.iii / 論文摘要 --- p.iv / Acknowledgements --- p.v-vi / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- Research Background --- p.1-3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Questions --- p.3-5 / Chapter 1.3 --- Research Significance --- p.5-7 / Chapter 1.4 --- Overview of the Research --- p.7-9 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review / Chapter 2.1 --- Definition of Civil Society --- p.10-16 / Chapter 2.2 --- The Idea of Global Civil Society --- p.16-19 / Chapter 2.3 --- Development of Chinese Civil Society --- p.19-23 / Chapter 2.4 --- Development of Global Civil Society in China --- p.23-26 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Analytical Framework and Methodology / Chapter 3.1 --- Structural Level of Analysis --- p.21-29 / Chapter 3.2 --- Organizational Level of Analysis --- p.29-33 / Chapter 3.3 --- Individual Level of Analysis --- p.33-34 / Chapter 3.4 --- Definition of Culture --- p.34-40 / Chapter 3.5 --- Methodology --- p.40-45 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Global Civil Society: The case of Greenpeace / Chapter 4.1. --- A History of Greenpeace --- p.46-47 / Chapter 4.2. --- The Mission of Greenpeace --- p.47 / Chapter 4.3 --- The Resources of Greenpeace --- p.48-49 / Chapter 4.4. --- Organizational Structure of Greenpeace: a M-form organization --- p.49-52 / Chapter 4.5. --- Global Strategy of Greenpeace --- p.52-56 / Chapter 4.6 --- Background of Establishment of China Office --- p.56-57 / Chapter 4.7 --- Greenpeace China I: An Introduction to the Hong Kong Unit --- p.57-58 / Chapter 4.8 --- Greenpeace China II: An Introduction to the Beijing Unit --- p.58-60 / Chapter 4.9 --- Greenpeace China III: An Introduction to the Guangzhou Unit --- p.60-62 / Chapter 4.10 --- Conclusion --- p.62-63 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Guangzhou Unit: Process and Mechanisms of Cultural Diffusion / Chapter 5.1 --- Structural Level of Analysis: An Introduction of Guangzhou --- p.64-69 / Chapter 5.2 --- Organizational Level of Analysis: Cooperation with local civil society and local authorities --- p.69-82 / Chapter 5.3 --- Individual Level of Analysis: Social Remittance Theory and Opinion Leader --- p.82-83 / Chapter 5.4 --- Conclusion --- p.83-84 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Before Change: Development of Traditional Chinese Civic Culture / Chapter 6.1 --- Chinese Civility: From Traditional to Contemporary China --- p.85-88 / Chapter 6.2 --- Compare Chinese Civility to Western Civility --- p.88-92 / Chapter 6.3 --- Conclusion --- p.92-93 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- After Change: Success and Constraints on Cultural Change / Chapter 7.1 --- Diffusion of the Consciousness of Civil Rights --- p.94-100 / Chapter 7.2 --- Diffusion of the Consciousness of Social Rights --- p.100-102 / Chapter 7.3 --- Diffusion of the Consciousness of Political Participation --- p.102-104 / Chapter 7.4 --- Diffusion of the Consciousness of Community Participation --- p.104-112 / Chapter 7.5 --- Constraints --- p.112-117 / Chapter 7.6 --- Conclusion --- p.117-120 / Chapter Chapter 8 --- Conclusion / Chapter 8.1 --- Globalness and Cultural Change --- p.121-122 / Chapter 8.2 --- Roles Played by Local Civil Society --- p.122-123 / Chapter 8.3 --- Culturla Change led by Greenpeace --- p.124-128 / Chapter 8.4 --- Reflections and Implications --- p.128-129 / Appendix I --- p.130-131 / Appendix II --- p.132-135 / Appendix III --- p.136 / Appendix IV --- p.137 / Bibliography --- p.138-147

Zhang Yanan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-95). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgement / Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter Two --- Literature Review --- p.6 / Chapter Chapter Three --- Methodology --- p.26 / Chapter Chapter Four --- Introduction of the Beijing Municipal Lawyers' Association (BMLA) and its Professional Supervisory Agency: the Beijing Municipal Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice --- p.29 / Chapter Chapter Five --- Power BMLA enjoys in Professional Education and Training --- p.36 / Chapter Chapter Six --- Power BMLA enjoys in Community Code-making and Culture Building --- p.50 / Chapter Chapter Seven --- Power BMLA enjoys in Participating in Social Activities --- p.63 / Chapter Chapter Eight --- Power BMLA enjoys in Professional Autonomy --- p.77 / Chapter Chapter Nine --- Conclusion --- p.83 / References --- p.92 / Appendix

<p>This study investigates how different kinds of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), operating in different national political contexts, perceive and use the Internet as a political space. The political space concept, as defined here, encompasses two dimensions of Internet use: one external, where organisations use the Internet for online activism and campaigning, and one internal, signifying organisational use of the Internet to promote engagement and interactivity with members and/or supporters. Another question raised is whether Internet use for political purposes by NGOs varies between different national political contexts. Moreover, do the organisations believe that the Internet has affected their political influence to any extent? The empirical data consist of the results of two surveys, one directed primarily to American NGOs, the other explicitly comparative, analysing NGOs in Sweden and the USA. Furthermore, content analyses of NGO websites have been conducted and additive indexes constructed. The findings of the study suggest that, overall, the Internet is most important to the studied organisations as a space for external political initiatives. There were, however, important differences in this regard, which could be related to the organisations’ national political contexts. For example, the American NGOs have oriented their websites primarily towards relatively superficial forms of member involvement, while the Swedish NGOs provided more interactive grassroots features on their websites. Regarding political influence, the Internet arguably has the potential to make the most dramatic difference by reinforcing the organisations’ offline political activities. The present results indicate that, despite the possible converging effect of the Internet on NGO political activism, national political culture exerts an inescapable influence on how the Internet is used as a political space by the studied organisations.</p>

This study investigates how different kinds of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), operating in different national political contexts, perceive and use the Internet as a political space. The political space concept, as defined here, encompasses two dimensions of Internet use: one external, where organisations use the Internet for online activism and campaigning, and one internal, signifying organisational use of the Internet to promote engagement and interactivity with members and/or supporters. Another question raised is whether Internet use for political purposes by NGOs varies between different national political contexts. Moreover, do the organisations believe that the Internet has affected their political influence to any extent? The empirical data consist of the results of two surveys, one directed primarily to American NGOs, the other explicitly comparative, analysing NGOs in Sweden and the USA. Furthermore, content analyses of NGO websites have been conducted and additive indexes constructed. The findings of the study suggest that, overall, the Internet is most important to the studied organisations as a space for external political initiatives. There were, however, important differences in this regard, which could be related to the organisations’ national political contexts. For example, the American NGOs have oriented their websites primarily towards relatively superficial forms of member involvement, while the Swedish NGOs provided more interactive grassroots features on their websites. Regarding political influence, the Internet arguably has the potential to make the most dramatic difference by reinforcing the organisations’ offline political activities. The present results indicate that, despite the possible converging effect of the Internet on NGO political activism, national political culture exerts an inescapable influence on how the Internet is used as a political space by the studied organisations.

This study tries to understand the internal dynamics of the civil society organizations in Turkey on the experiences of three CSOs: the Ankara Branches of KADER, MAZLUMDER and IMO by focusing on the intra&ndash / organizational practices (the decision making processes, elections, general meetings, division of labor, basic conflicts and divergences, the disagreements, the way of deliberation and consensus). It tries to shed light on the transformative potential of the CSO&rsquo / s in public sphere as civil organizations themselves in time both in the sense of their political stances and organizational structure. The research was designed in the form of a case study including both the depth interwiews and participant observations. In this framework, ten depth-interviews were made with members having different qualities for each of these CSOs and participant observations were realized in the general meetings, elections and activities of these organizations. Since the aim of this study is to understand the contribution of the CSOs to the public sphere, the research findings were interpreted and considered basically in the light of the two main theoretical positions: the deliberative (Habermas) and agonistic (Laclau and Mouffe) democracy. The study espoused a post-structuralist conception of democracy combined with a weakened model of deliberation and dialogue pointing out the requirement of the existential publicity of man (Arendt) in the world. In this context, this study tries to discuss the following questions within the framework of the public sphere experience of the three CSOs throughout the thesis. Is the concept of civil society a proper concept for understanding the peculiar experience of Turkey (with reference to the historical context of civil associational life in Turkey and the recent civil resurrection)? Do civil organizations have the capacity to serve for deepening and consolidation of democracy in public sphere? Are these civil organizations democratic and participatory with regard to their intra-organizational structures and decision-making processes? And, more importantly, do they have any capacity to influence the process of democratic transformation in Turkey?

La présente recherche doctorale prétend, depuis la philosophie politique, penser les relations entre les individus et la collectivité, au moyen de l’exploration de trois catégories utilisées en référence aux systèmes démocratiques actuels, à savoir les catégories de « citoyenneté », de « société civile » et d’ « État ». Le sens de la recherche repose sur l’approfondissement, depuis une perspective démocratique, de la valeur épistémologique des trois catégories lors d’une réflexion sur les limites et les possibilités offertes par ces systèmes politiques à l’égard des individus, du point de vue de différents courants théoriques. De même, notre recherche, dans une tentative d’appliquer les résultats nés de l’exploration des concepts, esquisse un portrait de la société espagnole contemporaine, à travers lequel nous avons tenté de montrer ses relations avec le système démocratique, en se fondant sur les liens établis entre les individus et la collectivité sur le territoire espagnol, à partir des trois catégories. / This PhD investigation pretends to analyse the relations between the individuals and the communities by usage of political philosophy and taking into consideration the examination of three categories:citizenship, civil society and the state. These categories are usedwhen one refers to contemporary democratic systems.The purpose of this thesis is to study in depth the cognitive value of three above mentioned categories from democratic perspective and when thinking of the limits and opportunities that the political systems offer to the individuals in different theoretical trends. At the same time this investigationis trying to apply the results extracted from the examination of the concepts and drawsa picture of the contemporary Spanish society by showing its relations with democratic system. This system is presented from the perspective of the links that are established between the individuals and the community in Spain and looking into the three categories. / La presente investigación doctoral pretende, desde la filosofía política, pensar las relaciones entre los individuos y las colectividades, mediante la exploración de tres categorías utilizadas para referirse a los sistemas democráticos del presente, esto es, las categorías de «ciudadanía», «sociedad civil» y «Estado». El sentido de la misma es el de profundizar, desde un punto de vista democrático, en el valor epistemológico de las tres categorías a la hora de pensar los límites y las posibilidades que ofrecen dichos sistemas políticos para con los individuos desde diferentes corrientes teóricas. Al tiempo, nuestra investigación, en un intento por aplicar los resultados extraídos de la exploración de los conceptos, traza un retrato de la sociedad española contemporánea, mediante el que se intentan mostrar sus relaciones con el sistema democrático desde la perspectiva de los vínculos que se establecen entre los sujetos y la colectividad en el país ibérico a partir de las tres categorías.

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In this master thesis I deal with civil society organizations in Tunisia with a focus on women's rights. Firstly, I present the conceptual frameworks I work with and I set the indicators on the basis of which I assess the organization. I present context in which organisations are operating, I describe the history of Tunisia and the state of women's rights in Tunisia. First I focus on the period before the first democratic elections, between 1987 and 2011, when president Zin Abidin bin Ali ruled. Then I move on to the period after the first democratic elections, which took place in 2011, until 2018. Subsequently, I compare the functioning of civil society organisations with a focus on women's rights in these two periods. I discuss what organizations have to deal with during their operation, what influences them and what problems they concentrate on within the framework of women's rights. I collect information and data using document analysis, and then analyze the data with open coding.