In a prospective post-work society, a select group of citizens participate in a cross-temporal project. As we follow along their journeys, questions arise. How does time move when it is no longer a commodity? What is design in the age of rampant robotics? How do we define creativity? What is wasted potential, and is it possible to be a failure? Most importantly, can fiction teach us anything about reality?

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-07-25T11:29:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 thiagorubiolidafonseca.pdf: 2521373 bytes, checksum: a24da2c1e7f75a55e9c0a3bb75fc040e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-25T16:32:43Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 thiagorubiolidafonseca.pdf: 2521373 bytes, checksum: a24da2c1e7f75a55e9c0a3bb75fc040e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-25T16:32:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 thiagorubiolidafonseca.pdf: 2521373 bytes, checksum: a24da2c1e7f75a55e9c0a3bb75fc040e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-29 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / As florestas urbanas estão inseridas em uma matriz altamente antropizada e fragmentada, resultando em comunidades com diferentes arranjos bióticos e estruturais. Uma das principais consequências dos impactos antrópicos, intensificados durante o Antropoceno, foi o surgimento dos Novel Ecosystems. Considerando a importância das florestas urbanas para a manutenção de serviços ecossistêmicos, conservação da biodiversidade, bem estar humano e sua relação com o conceito de Novel Ecosystems, três perguntas foram elaboradas: (1) Fragmentos florestais urbanos, localizados próximos entre si, apresentam diversidade, estrutura e composição de espécies semelhantes? (2) Fragmentos florestais urbanos apresentam composição, diversidade e estrutura distintas de uma floresta secundária em estágio avançado de regeneração, de mesma fitofisionomia na região? (3) Os fragmentos florestais urbanos estudados são exemplos de Novel Forests no Brasil? O estudo foi realizado no sudeste de Minas Gerais, em predomínio de Floresta Estacional Semidecidual Montana. Os indivíduos arbóreos (DAP ≥ 5 cm) de cinco fragmentos florestais urbanos e um fragmento florestal em estágio avançado de regeneração (controle) foram amostrados em 10 parcelas de 20 x 20 m. Os fragmentos urbanos se diferenciaram entre si com relação à diversidade e composição de espécies, devido à dominância de espécies exóticas (Pinus elliottii Engelm.) e nativas oportunistas (Eremanthus erythropappus (DC.) MacLeish). Os fragmentos urbanos se diferenciaram da floresta controle, apresentando composição de espécies distinta, baixa acumulação de biomassa, baixa diversidade e distribuição de espécies menos heterogênea, em sua maioria. A dominância de poucas espécies (exóticas ou nativas oportunistas) foi suficiente para indicar a ultrapassagem de um limiar ecológico, classificando-os como Novel Forests. Devido à atualidade do conceito e a escassez de trabalhos no Brasil, este estudo é importante para documentar a existência de Novel Forests em território brasileiro e contribuir para o conhecimento do seu funcionamento. / Urban forests are within a highly anthropogenic and fragmented matrix, resulting in communities with distinct biotic and structural assemblages. The most important consequence of human impacts, which was intensified in the Anthropocene, was the arise of Novel Ecosystems. Given the importance of urban forests to maintain ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, human welfare and its relation with Novel Ecosystem concept, three questions were developed: (1) Diversity, structure and species composition are similar in urban forest fragments, located close together? (2) Species composition, diversity and structure of urban forest fragments are distinct from an old-growth forest located within the same phytophysiognomy and same region? (3) Are the studied urban forest fragments examples of brazilian Novel Forests? The study was conducted in the southeast of Minas Gerais State, within the seasonally semideciduous domain. Trees (DBH ≥ 5 centimeter) of five urban forest fragments and one old-growth forest fragment (control) were sampled with 10 plots of 20 x 20 m. The results showed that urban forest fragments were different mainly between diversity and species composition, due to the dominance of alien species (Pinus elliottii Engelm.) and native opportunists (Eremanthus erythropappus (DC.) MacLeish). The urban forest fragments were different from the control forest due to mostly different species composition, low biomass accumulation, low diversity, and less heterogeneous species distribution. The dominance of a few species (exotic or native opportunists) in most of the urban forest fragments was sufficient to indicate a crossed ecological threshold and define them as Novel Ecosystems. Due to the novelty of the concept and lack of studies in Brazil, this is important to show the existence of Brazilian Novel Forests and contribute to the knowledge of their function.

L’objectif général de ce travail est d’étudier certains problèmes d’éthique et de philosophie politique soulevés par le changement climatique et de proposer des politiques susceptibles de réduire les injustices climatiques. La première partie vise à justifier les devoirs majeurs de justice climatique à partir d’une approche centrée sur les droits humains menacés par le changement climatique. Les données des sciences du climat et des œuvres de fiction littéraires et cinématographiques servent comme fondement de la réflexion philosophique. La deuxième partie explore certaines pistes de réformes institutionnelles à même de réaliser ces devoirs de justice globale et intergénérationnelle. Il s’agit d’exclure certaines réponses proposées au changement climatique, comme la géoingénierie et la compensation, mais aussi et surtout de développer des politiques justes, efficaces et faisables de réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre, comme un cadre normatif pour évaluer les engagements des pays, un mécanisme de marché hybride et un rôle politique accru accordé à la société civile. Si ce travail s’inspire des recherches des scientifiques, des écrivains, des économistes et des spécialistes des relations internationales, il dialogue principalement avec les auteurs les plus influents en justice et en éthique climatiques. Au final, bien que les défis moraux et politiques posés par le changement climatique soient sans précédent, l’approche non idéale de la justice climatique développée ici montre qu’il est encore temps d’agir pour éviter les scénarios les plus nuisibles pour les pauvres du monde et les générations futures. / The main objective of this work is to highlight key philosophical problems raised by climate change and to propose policies that could reduce climate injustices. In the first part, I justify major duties of climate justice by constructing a normative approach focusing on basic human rights threatened by climate change. My philosophical reflections draw on data provided by climate sciences as well as works of literary and cinematographic fiction. In the second part, I explore possible institutional reforms that could realize these duties of global and intergenerational justice. My point is to reject false solutions such as geoengineering and offsetting, but also and mostly to develop just, efficient and feasible policies such as a normative framework to assess the equity of countries’ pledges, a hybrid market mechanism and an increased political role given to civil society. While this work draws on researches made by scientists, writers, economists and international relations scholars, it also critically engages with the theories of the most influent authors in climate justice and climate ethics. The non-ideal approach of climate justice I develop explains that even if the moral and political challenges raised by climate change are unprecedented, it is not too late to prevent the realization of the most harmful scenarios for the global poor and future generations.

Our western society and lifestyle is to a considerable extent depended on the way we perceive and treat our co-existing non-human species. Industrial farming, vivisection, sports, circuses etcetera are just a few examples of how human use and exploit animal bodies for own gain. A phenomenon that in many ways, is perceived, as natural and normal, and therefore seldom discussed. The thesis purpose is to problematize this phenomenon by examine, what I call “The Speciesism Gaze”, through analysis of posters that promote animal rights, selected online, through the search domain Google. The theoretical framework used, are theories focusing on intersectionality, derived within postcolonial-, eco-critical and new materialist feminism. A brief introduction of animal right movements, its linking to feminism activism and theories derived within affect theory is presented as background for the analysis. As method, I use critical discourse analysis, focusing on intertextuality of the posters context. Asking what discourses emerge, challenging the anthropocentric and androcentric western dualistic hierarchy, whilst displaying mutually reinforced structures of sexism, racism and speciesism? I discuss the western historical and cultural human idea that the human species is separated from nature and animal, and where the “right” human subject standard is perceived as male, white, heterosexual and western in the Anthropocene age. I found that, this standard is displayed, played on, and questioned in the posters selected, in relation to animal materiality, grievability, killability, species necropolitics, sexism and racism. I discuss in my conclusion that oppression based on speciesism is not a power relation discussed in society today to the same extent as expressions of sexism and racism are. It is however an oppression that we all take part in every day and that affect all of us, despite species belonging. In that context, I hope the theorization and meaning of the speciesism gaze will have significance within the field of feminist theorizations and practices.

In this thesis I explore the place of the human in the Anthropocene, and our relationship to the Earth through an analysis of N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy. As the trilogy depicts an apocalyptic landscape where the Earth has sentience and humanity is divided into three subspecies, this work of speculative fiction lends itself well to be interrogated and examined as an allegory for our current climate crisis. The analysis is anchored in posthumanism and employs a variety of concepts, such as Bruno Latour’s work on agency and deanimation, Donna Haraway’s Chthulucene, and Amitav Ghosh’s work on speculative fiction among others. I argue that The Broken Earth trilogy illustrates that the Earth is an agentive network that can no longer be ignored and contend that the trilogy complicates both anthropocentrism and individualism by depicting amplified versions of human beings, and in doing so highlights the arbitrary boundaries between both nature and society, and human and nonhuman. Thus, The Broken Earth trilogy can be read as a warning call for a future to be avoided at all costs, while concurrently be used to make sense of the incomprehensibility of our contemporary era.

Mémoire en recherche-création / Cette recherche-création s’articule autour de deux questions : - Selon le « circuit de la culture » (Du Gay et al. 1997), comment la survie dans le réel et la survie dans le fictionnel s’articulent-elles au handicap, et comment peuvent-elles être appréhendées comme un artefact culturel appartenant à l’imaginaire collectif cadrant le faisable et l’intelligible? - Plus spécifiquement, comment une méthodologie issue de la recherche-création, et des études critiques du handicap permettent-elles de « cripper » (Sandahl 2003; McRuer 2006; Kafer 2013) le concept de la survie dans un jeu vidéo post-apocalyptique, et ce afin de reconfigurer les sensibles (Rancière 2000)? La revue de littérature dresse le constat que la survie handicapée est un enjeu rarement traité; que mon travail se situe aux frontières de nombreuses recherches abordant la survie des handicapé-es en contexte de l’actuelle sixième extinction de masse, et de nombreuses créations sur la survie des handicapées en contexte post-apocalyptique. Le cadre théorique prend pour assises conceptuelles les études culturelles afin de penser au-delà de la distinction entre réel et fictionnel et de conceptions stéréotypées du handicap et des in/capacités; ainsi que dans le but de comprendre comment un artefact culturel est un aperçu de l’imaginaire collectif d’une culture. Il prend également pour assises les études critiques du handicap pour lier la notion de handicap avec des enjeux qui semblent de prime abord incompatibles -comme la survie-; pour être critique des futurs imaginés; et pour établir la catégorie du handicap comme politique. Les assises conceptuelles soulignent la nécessité de s’engager avec des théories pratiques ayant des effets sur le réel, en raison de l’urgence soulevées par les conditions de vie présentes et futures des personnes handicapées. De ce fait, la méthodologie de ce projet passe par un processus de recherche-création, qui dans le cas présent, permet de créer un mémoire écrit et un jeu vidéo desquels émergent des réflexions et des pratiques qui participent à reconfigurer les sensibles. / This research-creation explores two core questions : - Based on the « circuit of culture » (Du Gay et al. 1997), how do real survival and fictional survival relate to disability and how can they be understood as a cultural artefact belonging to the collective representations, framing the feasible and the intelligible? - More specifically, how does a methodology resulting from research-creation and critical disability studies enables to « crip » (Sandahl 2003; McRuer 2006; Kafer 2013) the concept of survival in a post-apocalyptic video game in order to reconfigure the sensible (Rancière 2000)? The literature review notes that the future survival of disabled people is an issue rarely discussed and that my research-creation is at the frontiers of numerous researches addressing disabled people’s survival during the actual sixth mass extinction, as well as of numerous creations on disabled people’s survival in a post-apocalyptic context. The theoretical framework takes the cultural studies as a conceptual foundation allowing to think beyond the distinction between a real and fictional world, beyond stereotypical ideas about disability and in/capacities, and with the goal of understanding how a cultural artefact is a glimpse in our collective representations. It also takes critical disability studies as a framework to link the notion of disability with issues whose seem incompatible, such as the notion of survival; to be critical of imagined futurities; and to establish disability as a political category. These conceptual foundations raise the need to engage with practical theories in order to have a real effect in the world, all the more so with the urgent needs of dealing with the present and future living conditions of disabled people. As a result, the methodology of this work involves research-creation, which allowed me to deploy a written dissertation and a video game from which has emerged reflections and practices that participate to reconfigure the sensible.

The main topic of the work is the interpretation of feelings related to the issue of disappearing landscape values at the expense of uncontrolled extensive development of suburban areas. It is a subjective thought product of several years of experience in architectural practice, including, among other things, one's own participation in a similar invasive construction. This empiricism has resulted in the constant questioning of ethical conduct and responsibility. The key terms are suburbanization, urban sprawl, development, satellite town, outskirts, transformation of the aura of a place in „non-aura“. An integral part of the work is represented by considerations about the general position of the object within the hierarchy of (sub)urban space. The object does not mean only positive examples in the form of aesthetic, orientation or vegetation elements. The focus is also on its averted form — waste, utilitarian technical and functional elements or, for example, the seemingly endless colonization of public space by cars. Colonization of our minds. All spatial objects are also psychotropic. Their mental impact can be beneficial, arousing affect or emotion. But what if the objects in the public space are completely missing? The urban object is not far from the position of an artifact, a prop of everyday life, which does not belong to a person physically, but mentally.

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[pt] A Dissertação de Mestrado (In)Justiça Climática e Mulheres: Um olhar interseccional se propõe a identificar se as razões pelas quais as mulheres são mais vulneráveis e sofrem com maior intensidade os impactos da crise climática têm a influência do gênero como mais um eixo de discriminação e marginalização. Para tanto, apresentamos o Antropoceno, nova época geológica na qual o ser humano é comparado a uma força geológica capaz de alterar o clima e a biosfera, como panorama de fundo para compreensão da crise climática, além de apresentar e discutir o histórico e as características desta. Em seguida, analisamos o conceito ainda novo de Justiça Climática, apresentando seu histórico e inspiração nos movimentos de Justiça Ambiental. Apresentamos a conceituação da Justiça Climática e questões ligadas à responsabilidade histórica entre países do norte e sul globais, além da distribuição desigual de ônus e bônus climáticos entre países, comunidades e até mesmo pessoas, como é o caso específico das mulheres. Ao final, abordamos o conceito da Interseccionalidade, oriundo do feminismo negro norte-americano, como ferramenta analítica que permite compreender as questões específicas das mulheres em diferentes cruzamentos identitários. A crise climática e os movimentos de Justiça Climática são analisados para que se compreenda as vulnerabilidades específicas do gênero feminino, com o olhar interseccional, e se investigue a existência da Interseccionalidade entre gênero e mudanças climáticas a partir de fatores ambientais como pobreza, segurança alimentar, educação, saúde etc. Pretende-se compreender, portanto, a relação entre gênero e mudanças climáticas como mais um fator de opressão e marginalização das mulheres. / [en] The Master s Dissertation Climate (In)Justice and Women: An intersectional View aims to identify whether the reasons why women are more vulnerable and suffer more intensely from the impacts of the climate crisis have the influence of gender as another layer of discrimination and marginalization. To this end, the Anthropocene is presented, a new geological epoch in which the human being is compared to a geological force capable of altering the climate and the biosphere, as a background for understanding the climate crisis, in addition to presenting and discussing its history and the characteristics. Then, the new concept of Climate Justice is analyzed, presenting its history and inspiration on the Environmental Justice movements. It presents the conceptualization of Climate Justice and issues related to historical responsibility between countries in the global north and south, in addition to the uneven distribution of climate burdens and bonuses among countries, communities and even people, as is the specific case of women. In the end, the concept of Intersectionality, from North American black feminism, is approached as an analytical tool that allows understanding the specific issues of women in different identity crossings. The climate crisis and the Climate Justice movements are analyzed in order to understand the specific vulnerabilities of the female gender, with an intersectional look, and to investigate the existence of the intersection between gender and climate change from environmental factors such as poverty, food security, education, health etc. It is intended, therefore, to understand the relationship between gender and climate change as another factor of oppression and marginalization of women.

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