Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts by Research in Drama and Film in the Theatre and Performance Department Wits School of Arts University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, March 2017 / A theory of performance-making is presented through this study that contributes to the body of performance studies research. The consideration of looking “beyond” the “linoleum colon”, as the research title suggests, positions this study to respond to the research question: To what extent can a constructed performance narrative provide the potential for audience transformation in reading, knowing, and understanding the public health site as an ally to health care practice? The “performance-making process” is forwarded as a possible model for creative research. The collaborative process leading to the performance Beyond the linoleum colon is an experiment in performance-making. I frame this experiment as a “collision course” (Pollock, 2010: 203) that presents a convergence between performance studies, urban spatial praxis, and narrative theory. The performance-making process as a model presents a formula for a theory of performance-making. A performance-making theory can be derived from the ways in which a citing of site took place and will be presented as part of this study. I have connoted the action of ‘digestion’ from the metaphorical element of the ‘colon’, an incorporation of supportive theoretical ideas that develop into a model for a theory of performance-making. The research to follow is informed by writers in performance studies including Schechner (2002), Conquergood (1995, 2002a, 2002b), Pollock (2010), and Warren (2010), urban spatial praxis from the perspective of Lefebvre (1991), and narrative theory with reference to Braid (1996), Bruner (1986), and McArthy (2007). The implications of performance-making on the field of performance studies will be addressed, underscoring the importance of a performance-lens to the creative endeavour of the current study. Urban spatial praxis will be stressed, as a consideration of space within the performance was twofold: the citing of site in a theatrical space emerged, as well as a foregrounding of hospital site as a space for the culmination of experiential accounts that developed the Expressionist theatre work. A framing theory on space and the circumstances for its production will be emphasised, leading to an imperative to what I reinforce as narrative construction and narrative performance. The way in which the research has developed in response to these key theoretical perspectives informs the process, progress, and concluding findings of the performance experiment: Beyond the linoleum colon. / XL2018

Orientador: Guita Grin Debert / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T09:47:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_AngeloAugustoda_M.pdf: 205227 bytes, checksum: a90ee24c9c1dc0f0ec0d1f921904787b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: A pesquisa teve como objetivo inicial apreender as re-configurações dos saberes e práticas médico-psiquiátricas, no contexto atual de expansão da procura e oferta desses serviços e de uma rebiologização nas explicações destes saberes. Paradoxalmente os "fenômenos não explicados organicamente" constituem um grande desafio ao campo e são descritos frequentemente pelo fenômeno de "somatização", nome dado a um programa de pesquisa e atendimento à  população e objeto dessa pesquisa. Se no referido contexto o trato a estes sofrimentos a partir de uma visão organicista e unidirecional mostra-se insuficiente, a incorporação de psicoterapias e da psicanálise no tratamento cotidiano da clientela também não se mostra isenta de dificuldades e dilemas. Buscou-se compreender também como a própria classificação e elaboração do diagnóstico e prognóstico são realizadas segundo as representações e visão de mundo dos profissionais do programa, estreitamente coadunada com a visão psicologizante de Pessoa, configurando universos de valor diversos que são fundamentais de serem apreendidos para melhor compreensão e reflexão das questões e dificuldades em jogo no atendimento / Abstract: The aim of this research is to capture the re-configurations of the several kinds of medical and psychiatric knowledge and practices in the current context of demand and offer enlargement of those services and also of a re-biologization of the explanations related to this kind of knowledge. In a paradoxical way, the phenomena which are not explained in an organic way constitutes themselves a great challenge and are often described by the "somatization" phenomenon, name attributed to a research and support program to the population, and also the purpose of this study. If in the context mentioned, the treatment of these sufferings from an organicist and unidirectional point of view proves to be insufficient, an incorporation of psychotherapies and psychoanalysis in the daily treatment of clients also presents difficulties and dilemmas. We tried to understand how the very classification and elaboration of diagnosis and prognosis are made according to the representations and perspectives of the professionals of the program, strictly linked to their psychological view of the world, setting up universes with different values which have to be captured in order to find a better understanding about the issues and difficulties in the treatment / Mestrado / Mestre em Antropologia Social

This thesis examines the place of metaphor in biomedical knowledge about two major public health problems: cancer and coronary heart disease (CHD). Specifically, it considers why cancer is constituted by biomedicine in obviously metaphorical concepts that are also highly pejorative. Conversely, the metaphorical dimension of the biomedical knowledge concerning CHD is less obvious and less negative in its connotations. This thesis posits that the difference in linguistic styles associated with cancer and CHD can be accounted for by whether knowledge about them confirms or challenges the knowledge and value system of modernity. Cancer, as construed by biomedicine, appears to confound some important tenets of the epistemology and knowledge of modernity. In particular, it confounds the idea that the body is a machine and that nature is an inert order obeying objective laws. It thus suggests that the universe, including that of bodies, is not entirely subject to rational understanding and control. Women having irrational bodies and an affinity with unruly nature are primary sites for cancer. It is therefore hardly surprising that cancer's metaphors express a fear that order based on masculine rational agency is fragile. By contrast, biomedical knowledge about CHD appears to confirm key aspects of modernist knowledge. Specifically, it suggests that the (masculine) body can be understood as a machine that exists as part of a wider domain of nature that is inert and is fuelled by objective laws. Unlike cancer, which is depicted as mysterious and arcane, CHD is presented as an ailment with causes that are well understood and treatment that is effective, thus affirming the truth of rationality and technology. Coronary heart disease is construed overwhelmingly as a disease affecting men exercising their capacity for rational agency, free from the 'dictates' of an irrational body. Coronary heart disease is depicted as a disruption of supply and demand rather than as a threat to social order itself. In Durkheimian terms, sacred things can be pure and beneficent or they can take impure and threatening forms. Cancer expresses the impure, threatening dimension of sacredness in exposing threats to the knowledge and order of modernity. Conversely, coronary heart disease is profane, in those terms, since it offers apparent confirmation of the knowledge and order of modernity. Cancer makes us aware of deeply held values by making us conscious of threats to them but the knowledge of CHD is so congruent with the knowledge system of modernity, that it does not provoke us to examine that framework; it merely affirms our routine and mundane view of the world. These findings suggest that biomedicine can be regarded as a secular religion because it acts as a cosmology. Knowledge of the body and its ailments is set within a wider conceptual framework and value system recognizing and naming sources of order and danger. This further suggests that while biomedicine may be rightly regarded as a technical and instrumental body of knowledge, it is nevertheless fuelled by and intertwined with deeply held values and convictions that are beyond the domain of rationality. The unexamined, a-rational elements of biomedicine have been virtually ignored within public health and explain some of its limitations in defining and responding to familiar public health problems. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Department of Public Health, 2003.

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In response to the anthropological literature on old age and ageing that remains largely isolated from more contemporary anthropological theory, this thesis re-focuses anthropological attention on the experiences of ageing. Towards this end, I examine the way macro- (history, politics, economics) and micro-level processes (social relations, intergenerational relations, local contexts, individual histories) intersect to frame the cultural construction of old age, personal experiences of "being old", and the self. A central point of intersection between these processes comes from the recent history of social transformation in my fieldsite, Dodworth, a former coal-mining village. Since the late 1980s, this is an area that has been grappling with the rupturing effects of the closure of the coal-mining industry. Attending to these conditions and how they inform the everyday reality and the experiences of ageing and of the self are critical concerns in this thesis. My approach to the ageing self is one that privileges narrativity and temporality as key constitutive elements and which considers the potentially different position of older people in relation to time and to the self. Growing older is a complicated mixture of bodily and social change, and negotiating these shifts has crucial implications for one's sense of self and subjectivity. While "old age" is a category which is readily used in daily discourse and living, what old age is and who is old nevertheless resists anchoring. What old age, being old and ageing meant to my research participants are key questions in order to understand the experience of growing older in Dodworth. Throughout the thesis, I focus on the dialectics of interpersonal interactions in order to speak meaningfully about how the experience of old age is organised and constructed. Emerging in tandem with these issues is another major topic of this thesis: social memory. Talk in Dodworth about places, absences, and relations continually brought the past and present together and was involved in how a sense of self is created. What emerged was a three-dimensionality of memory, an individual and collective way of placing oneself and others in relation to spatial aspects of the villagescape.

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Orientador: Guita Grin Debert / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T01:39:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio_AndreaTochiode_M.pdf: 1067282 bytes, checksum: c0a8e1291052e2e9577824ea1f135d3f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Esta Dissertação analisa a construção contemporânea dos padrões de beleza femininos, tendo como referência o ideal corrente de "supervalorização do corpo", por meio de uma das técnicas de sua produção: a cirurgia plástica de caráter estético. Para tanto, a pesquisa de campo foi realizada no Hospital das Clínicas da Unicamp, especificamente no Setor de Cirurgia Plástica tendo como objetivo a observação da dinâmica dos atendimentos qúe engloba as consultas pré e pós operatórias e os curativos pós-cirúrgicos. Entrevistas com pacientes e cirurgiões plásticos também foram realizadas, assim como o acompanhamento das cirurgias e de reuniões mensais onde os médicos residentes discutem os casos e dados científicos com os médicos responsáveis. Através da observação participante da pesquisadora a intenção foi apreender o cotidiano do Serviço de Cirurgia Plástica de um Hospital de ensino que é público e no qual, a princípio tal serviço é voltado para as camadas populares. Com isto, procura refletir acerca das concepções e significados do uso do corpo por parte de mulheres de classes populares, privilegiando as dimensões de classe social, faixa etária e gênero / Abstract: This essay provides an analysis of the construction of contemporary female beauty patterns, having as a reference the current ideal of "body super valorization" by means of one ofthe techniques used in producing results fitting such standards: the aesthetic plastic surgery. To achieve this, the field research was carried out at Unicamp's Hospital das Clinicas, specifically at the Plastic Surgery Division, having as the main objective to observe and study the dynamics of all procedures, including patient and physician interaction, the pre and post operative appointments, as well as the post-surgery removal of stitches and dressings. lnterviews with patients and the plastic surgeons were conducted. The actual surgeries and the monthly meetings where the resident ' doctors discussed the cases with the attending physicians, were also carefully observed.Through the participative observation, the researcher's goal was to learn about the daily activities and routine work of a PIas ti c Surgery division belonging to a public teaching hospital, in which its primary attention is aimed at citizens who cannot afford care at private health facilities. With all those data gathered, a discussion was done on the concepts and meanings of the female body usage by the working and poor classes, with special attention to social class, age group and gender / Mestrado / Sexualidade, Genero e Corpo / Mestre em Antropologia Social

This interdisciplinary thesis examines the concept of sexuality through lenses provided by economic history, anthropology, and queer theory. A close reading reveals historical parallels from the late 1800s between concepts of a desiring, utility-maximizing economic subject on the one hand, and a desiring, carnally decisive sexological subject on the other. Social constructionists have persuasively argued that social and economic elites deploy the discourse of sexuality as a technique of discipline and social control in class- and gender-based struggles. Although prior scholarship discusses how contemporary ideas of sexuality reflect this origin, many anthropologists and queer theorists continue to use "sexuality" uncritically when crafting local, material accounts of sex, pleasure, affection, intimacy, and human agency. In this thesis, I show that other economic, political, and intellectual pathways emerge when sexuality is deliberately dis-ordered. I argued that contemporary research aspires to formulate new ideas about bodies and pleasures. It fails to do so adequately when relying on sexuality as a master narrative.