Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:32:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Isabela Fonseca Cardoza.pdf: 551303 bytes, checksum: 16326ff6c91d422471967b67f08619bb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-14 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The path of references to work in this study includes, initially, the texts by Freud Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921) and Civilization and its Discontents (1930). Secondly, the references about the so called perverse setting will be used to discuss the instrumentalisation of the neurotic phantom in the tie which announces the miracle of having the father s supposed knowledge as a known fact. It allows this knowledge to be shared in the tie: a way out of the neurosis or the possibility of a complete suture. This setting would be an appropriation of the capitalist logic in the tie. Therefore, the theory of the four discourses by Lacan developed in the Seminar book 17, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, will be taken as a tool developed by Lacan to deal with four formalizations of the social tie: the discourse of the master, the discourse of the hysteric, the discourse of the university and the discourse of the analyst. The presented path describes the first part of this study. In the second part, we propose to hold a discussion about our main question and objective: the discourse of the capitalist pointed by Lacan as a corruption of the discourse of the master that would painfully come to hold the hegemonic tie of our times. The aim of this study is to analyze the discourse of the capitalist as a fallacious tie with objects produced by techno-science, gadgets, in the current speech which were called latusas by Lacan. These objects would formalize the promise of a weak and impossible suture of the lack, promise of a complete happiness in the tie. The discourse of the capitalist would be an ill turn to the desiring subject, then. Hence, we ask: Could we think of a promise of a happiness covering up to the subject through object? The subject covered up by techno-science objects in the misleading of our times. Misleading in the sense of the discourse of the capitalist producing a (dis)course referring to the discontents inherent to the human in the tie by the trial of extinguishing the lack: violence in the elision of the ingrained hole of the desiring subject. That would be the instrumentalization of neurotic phantom in the tie trough the discourse of the capitalist. Thus, we ask: how does human survive in the now existing setting of me-more-all-always-the best-too much-even more ? These are the objectives this study aims to put in question / O caminho dos referencias escolhidos para trabalhar neste estudo inclui inicialmente os textos de Freud A psicologia das massas e análise do eu de 1921 e O mal-estar na civilização de 1930. Posteriormente, os referencias sobre a denominação montagem perversa serão apontados para tratar de uma instrumentalização do fantasma neurótico no laço, o que anuncia o milagre de ter como sabido o saber suposto ao pai, permitindo assim, que este pudesse ser compartilhado no laço, uma saída da neurose ou a possibilidade da sutura frente à inconsistência. A montagem figuraria uma apropriação da lógica capitalista no laço. Logo, a teoria dos quatro discursos de Lacan desenvolvida no seminário 17, O avesso da psicanálise, será abordada como um instrumental elaborado por Lacan para tratar de quatro formalizações do laço social: o discurso do mestre, da histérica, do universitário e do analista. Este percurso caracteriza a primeira parte do trabalho. A partir de então, propõe-se abordar a questão central e objetivo deste estudo, a saber: o discurso do capitalista, apontado por Lacan como uma corruptela do discurso do mestre, que viria de maneira pungente para dar conta do liame hegemônico da atualidade. O intuito do estudo é analisar o discurso do capitalista como um enlaçamento capcioso com os objetos produzidos pela tecnociência, os gadgets, no discurso corrente, que serão denominados por Lacan de latusas. Estes objetos formalizariam a promessa de sutura precária e impossível da falta, promessa de uma felicidade toda no laço. O discurso do capitalista seria, portanto, um desserviço ao sujeito desejante. Portanto, interroga-se: pode-se pensar em um soterramento de felicidade prometido ao sujeito via objeto? O sujeito soterrado pelos objetos da tecnociência nos extravios da atualidade. Extravios no sentido do discurso capitalista provocar um (des)curso, no que se refere ao mal-estar inerente ao humano no laço pela tentativa de aniquilação da falta. Uma violência no que diz respeito à elisão da hiância própria ao sujeito desejante. Isto seria a forma de instrumentalização do fantasma neurótico no laço através do discurso do capitalista. Destarte, interrogamos: como o humano existe na montagem atual do eu- mais- tudo- sempre - o melhor- demais- mais ainda ? Estes são os objetivos e inquietações que este estudo pretende interrogar

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:16:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renato Francisco dos Santos Paula.pdf: 3673272 bytes, checksum: 243a45dd8d36789bea116008d6e01f85 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-05 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The current thesis has as object of study the particularities of those developmentalist projects, present in the history of the evolution of Brazilian capitalism as well as its implications in Social Work and its professional projects. Under the lights of the political economy as a method, it departs from the assumption that the relationships established between State and the social classes are the hard core through which circulate the legitimacy and the social orientation of Social Work as a participating profession of the social and technical division of monopolist capitalism. That way, it recovers the evolution of the socio-historical debate on State not only as a category of critical analysis but also as an instrument that makes concrete the class interests through the collation to the Political Science canon as well as to the sociological and economic thoughts taken as universal. It also lends itself to the analysis of such fields of knowledge in its Brazilian version in order to induce to a totalizing perspective that does not abstain from listing the general and particular elements of the phenomenon in question. It regards the developmentalist projects as moments of synthesis of the evolutionary process of the national capitalism with special emphasis on the current cycle of accumulation in which there is a debate on the existence or not of a neo-developmentalist project whose deployments hold in check the reconfiguration of the private job market of Social Work as well as its ways of producing knowledge, analysis of the reality and ethical-political orientations, in its daily anti-systemic struggle / A presente tese tem como objeto de estudo as particularidades dos projetos desenvolvimentistas contidos na história da evolução do capitalismo brasileiro e suas implicações para o Serviço Social e seus projetos profissionais. Sob a orientação da economia política como método, parte do pressuposto de que as relações estabelecidas entre o Estado e as classes sociais são o núcleo duro por onde circulam a legitimidade e a orientação social do Serviço Social como profissão partícipe da divisão social e técnica do trabalho no capitalismo de tipo monopolista. Desta forma, resgata a evolução do debate sócio-histórico sobre o Estado tanto como categoria de análise crítica quanto como instrumento de concreção dos interesses de classe por meio do cotejamento aos clássicos da ciência política, dos pensamentos sociológico e econômico universais. Presta-se à análise desses mesmos campos de conhecimento, em sua versão brasileira, para, com isso, induzir a uma perspectiva totalizante que arrola os elementos gerais, particulares e singulares do fenômeno considerado. Trata dos projetos desenvolvimentistas como momentos de síntese do processo de evolução do capitalismo nacional com destaque especial para o ciclo atual de acumulação em que se trava um debate sobre a existência ou não de um projeto neodesenvolvimentista, cujos desdobramentos rebatem tanto na reconfiguração do mercado particular de trabalho do Serviço Social, quanto nas suas formas de produzir conhecimento, análises da realidade e orientações ético-políticas relacionadas à sua luta antissistêmica cotidiana

Dans un contexte où la création d’entreprises, l’innovation et le développement de territoires innovants sont une préoccupation des politiques publiques aussi bien territoriales que nationales, la question de leur articulation reste en débat. Dans la littérature, de nombreux travaux étudient soit la contribution de l’investissement en capital à l’émergence des clusters et à leur développement soit la contribution de l’entrepreneur au développement économique d’un territoire. La relation entre ces acteurs associés à l’innovation et au territoire est rarement étudiée. Cette thèse a pour objectif de montrer qu’investisseur en capital et entrepreneur sont deux éléments essentiels du fonctionnement des territoires innovants et qu’il existe un lien à double sens entre ces acteurs et le territoire. Les territoires innovants favorisent la présence de l’entrepreneur et de l’investisseur et le bon fonctionnement de leur relation ; en retour les entrepreneurs associés aux investisseurs, génèrent des externalités positives pour le territoire et enrichissent la base de connaissances de celui-ci. Nous étudions la relation entrepreneur investisseur sous l’angle d’un duo qui produit des ressources pour le territoire, appelé le « duo entrepreneur investisseur en capital » définit comme l’ensemble des interactions, la mise en relation et l’apprentissage mutuel entre investisseurs et entrepreneurs. Pour aller au-delà de la contribution du duo au développement économique sous l’angle de la création d’entreprises, la thèse analyse la contribution du duo au capital savoir territorial défini comme l’ensemble des informations et connaissances scientifiques et techniques produites, acquises, combinées et systématisées par les entreprises et les institutions locales pour être utilisées dans un processus de création de valeur et selon un projet territorial défini. Les approches mobilisées pour construire le cadre théorique s’intègrent dans les théories économiques et managériales de l’entrepreneur, de l’innovation et du territoire. L’analyse empirique se base sur les pôles de compétitivité de Lyon Grenoble Chambéry (PCLGC) ; le choix des pôles est justifié par une analyse statistique. Elle a donné lieu à la construction d’une base de données quantitatives qui regroupe des informations consolidées sur les 172 nouvelles entreprises des sept pôles, sur les processus d’innovation et sur le financement en capital de ces entreprises. L’analyse se fonde également sur la réalisation de 2 enquêtes qualitatives auprès de 15 entrepreneurs et de 12 investisseurs en capital. L’analyse quantitative montre que le processus de transformation de la connaissance en entreprises par les entrepreneurs fonctionne au sein des PCLGC. Les investisseurs en capital sont présents auprès des nouvelles entreprises des pôles et permettent la transformation de la connaissance en entreprises. Les pôles favorisent la mise en relation des entrepreneurs et des investisseurs. La relation entre entrepreneur et investisseur est fondée sur l’intérêt financier, la confiance, et la recherche du succès de l’entreprise. Elle base son fonctionnement sur des processus de mise en réseau, d’apprentissages et d’interactions. Les entrepreneurs et les investisseurs mettent en commun des connaissances et produisent des connaissances scientifiques et techniques codifiées mesurées par les brevets et des connaissances tacites. Notre travail montre l’avantage que peuvent avoir les investisseurs à se regrouper de manière formelle et informelle, et l’importance de créer des synergies locales entre les entrepreneurs. Concernant les politiques publiques, la thèse montre l’intérêt pour les acteurs publics de favoriser l’ensemble des actions permettant la mise en relation et les collaborations entre les investisseurs en capital et les entrepreneurs dans les territoires des pôles de compétitivité en vue de remplir l’objectif de faire des pôles « des usines à produits ». / In a context where new firms, innovation and the development of innovative region are a main concern of both national and regional public policies, the question of their articulation remains in debate. In the literature, many papers study either the contribution of venture capital to the emergence of clusters and their development or the contribution of the entrepreneur to the economic development of a territory. The relationship between these actors associated with innovation and the territory is rarely studied. The main objective of this thesis is to show that the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur are two essential elements of the functioning of innovative territories; and that there is a two-way relationship between these actors and the territory. Namely, innovative territories are favorable to the presence of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and to the well-functioning of their relationship. In return, entrepreneurs associated with venture capitalists in a duo generate positive externalities for the territory and enrich the knowledge base of the territory. In this thesis, we study the venture capitalist-entrepreneur relationship from the point of view of a duo that produces resources for the territory, called the "venture capitalist-entrepreneur duo" that we define as the set of interactions, networking and mutual learning between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. To go beyond the duo's contribution to economic development in term of firms' creation. We analyse the duo's contribution to territorial knowledge capital, which is defined as the knowledge base produced, possessed and used by the set of local enterprises and institutions. The approaches mobilized to build the theoretical framework of the thesis are integrated in the economic and managerial theories of the entrepreneur, the innovation and the territory. The empirical analysis is based on the competitiveness clusters of Lyon Grenoble Chambéry (LGC). The choice of the competitiveness clusters has been justified by a statistical analysis. A quantitative database has been built for this purpose. It brings together consolidated information on 172 new firms in the seven clusters concerned, on the innovation processes and on the venture capital financing of these firms. The analysis is also based on the completion of two qualitative surveys within 15 entrepreneurs and 12 venture capitalists. The quantitative analysis shows that the process of transforming knowledge into firms by entrepreneurs works within LGC's competitiveness clusters. Venture capitalists are very active among entrepreneurs in the clusters and enable the transformation of knowledge into new firms. The clusters promote the linking of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The relastionship between entrepreneur and venture capitalist is based on the financial interest, the trust, and the search for the success of the firms. It bases its functioning on networking, learning and interactions. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists share knowledge. Entrepreneurs and VCs produce codified scientific and technical knowledge as measured by patents and tacit knowledge that provides a local knowledge base on venture capital and creates tools to improve the relationship functioning. The thesis shows the advantage that venture capitalists may have in syndicating formally and informally, and the importance of creating local synergies between entrepreneurs. With regard to public policies, the thesis shows the interest for public actors to promote all the actions allowing the connections and the collaborations between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in the clusters of competitiveness with a view to fulfill the objective of not only producing knowledges but also products.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação - Edilberto Santos Moura.pdf: 1196725 bytes, checksum: fd0b280289af0c23cafc98247c06d575 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-13 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present work aims at seeking to comprehend the relations and contradictions between the democratic school management and the total quality existing in Manaus city municipal schools. The study took place through critical historic focus, with the use of field research, with a qualitative approach in which it developed, transcribed, and analyzed semi structured interviews with principles, teachers, and parents in four different municipal schools from Manaus city, on the perspective to understand the conceptions of such people regarding democratic school management and the influence by the capitalist system on the systematic management of Brazilian education. With the research it is possible to perform a partial analysis from the acquired data from the interviews and from this one affirm that the principals have demonstrated confusion about the concept of what is democratic school management, relating it to terms that are appropriate to business management. It was possible to also realize that the researched school principals do not have autonomy what concerns their own financial, administration, and academic organization, and they have a dependence of the Education Municipal Secretariat. It was also evident that the adopted practices by the principles are always based on a power relation. What concerns the teachers’ conception, there is always a relation of subordination to guidelines that are established by the school system. Summarizing, it is possible to affirm that although the democratic management experiences seen in this research, are still distant from the ideal, as for instance, a model that considers the decisive participation, dialogue practices and tolerance, discussions on such different practices are important as an attempt to consolidate democratic school management, which truly takes in consideration ideas plurality, values, behaviors that are inherent to a social organization, thereby causing the need of new researches on the topic in matter. / O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de buscar compreender as relações e as contradições entre a gestão escolar democrática e a qualidade total existentes nas escolas da rede municipal da cidade de Manaus. O estudo ocorreu através do enfoque histórico crítico, com a utilização da pesquisa de campo, em uma abordagem qualitativa, no qual desenvolveu, transcreveu e analisou entrevistas semi-estruturadas com os gestores, professores e pais, de alunos de quatro escolas municipais de Manaus, na perspectiva de compreender as concepções desses sujeitos com relação a gestão escolar democrática e a influência exercida pelo sistema capitalista na sistematização da gestão da educação brasileira. Com a pesquisa foi possível fazer uma análise parcial dos dados obtidos com as entrevistas e a partir desta, afirmar que os gestores demonstraram uma confusão sobre o conceito do que seja a gestão escolar democrática, relacionando-a com termos que são próprios da gestão empresarial. Foi possível perceber ainda que os gestores das escolas pesquisadas não gozam de autonomia no que cabe a própria organização financeira, administrativa e pedagógica, havendo uma dependência da Secretaria Municipal de Educação. Ficou também evidente que as práticas adotadas pelos gestores estão sempre pautadas em uma relação de poder. Com relação a concepção dos professores há sempre uma relação de subordinação com os gestores e o sistema de ensino da rede municipal.Os pais, por sua vez, revelaram pouca informação sobre os questionamentos propostos na entrevista, colocando-se, também, em total condição de subordinação às diretrizes que são estabelecidas pelo sistema escolar. Em síntese, é possível afirmar que embora as experiências de gestão democrática presenciadas nesta pesquisa estejam ainda distantes do ideal almejado, como por exemplo, um modelo que considere a participação decisória, práticas dialógicas e tolerância, as discussões sobre essas diferentes práticas são importantes como tentativas de consolidação de uma gestão escolar democrática que, verdadeiramente leve em consideração a pluralidade de idéias, valores, comportamentos que são inerentes a uma organização social, provocando com isso a necessidade de novas pesquisas sobre a temática em questão.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T17:31:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudia_Aparecida_Cara.pdf: 2521224 bytes, checksum: 4ede64fa74fdfbb02b43b988337b9105 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The Brazilian history has shown that since the time of discovery, the land concentration and ownership in Brazil have been very uneven, causing social differentiation, cultural and economic among regions and farmers. This heterogeneity is also observed when studying the process of industrialization of agriculture, when modern technologies are used in the production process, from the Green Revolution technology package. Thus, this research is focused on the structuring of private ownership of land in the town of Dois Vizinhos, located in southwestern of Paraná; analyze the agrarian structure of the municipality, between the years of 1960/1970 to 2011, and identify the socioeconomic consequences of the intensification of modernization of agriculture from 1970. The construction of this theme was guided by the historical context of land tenure conflicts in the Southwest region of Paraná and the municipality of Dois Vizinhos, from information obtained from the INCRA from the Register of the Colony Missions - Center of Francisco Beltrão and municipally of Dois Vizinhos, between the decades of 1960/1970 to 2011; development of capitalist relations of production in rural areas; Census agricultural decades between 1970 to 2006, and fifty interviews with farmers who live in rural Dois Vizinhos. The study of these elements revealed that the agrarian structure of Dois Vizinhos remains based on small farms and the industrialization of agriculture has contributed to the subordination of small holdings to capital. / A história brasileira tem mostrado que desde os tempos do descobrimento, a concentração e a apropriação de terras no território brasileiro têm sido desiguais, ocasionando diferenciação social, cultural e econômica entre regiões e agricultores. Essa heterogeneidade é também observada ao se estudar o processo de modernização da agricultura, quando são empregadas modernas tecnologias no processo produtivo, a partir do pacote tecnológico da Revolução Verde. Sendo assim, a presente pesquisa tem como tema central apresentar como se deu o processo de colonização e estruturação da propriedade privada da terra, no município de Dois Vizinhos, localizado no Sudoeste do Paraná; analisar a estrutura fundiária do município, entre os anos de 1960/1970 a 2011; e identificar as consequências socioeconômicas com a intensificação da modernização da agricultura a partir de 1970. A construção deste tema foi norteada pelo contexto histórico dos conflitos de posse da terra na região Sudoeste do Paraná e no município de Dois Vizinhos, a partir de informações obtidas junto ao INCRA, mediante Cadastro da Colônia Missões Núcleo de Francisco Beltrão e município de Dois Vizinhos, entre as décadas de 1960/1970 a 2011; desenvolvimento das relações capitalistas de produção no meio rural; comparativo dos Censos Agropecuários entre as décadas de 1970 a 2006; e realização de cinquenta entrevistas com agricultores que residem na área rural de Dois Vizinhos. O estudo destes elementos revelou que a estrutura fundiária do referido município permanece baseada em pequenas propriedades e que a modernização da agricultura intensificada na área de estudo a partir de 1970, tem contribuído para a subordinação da pequena propriedade ao capital.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-12T14:42:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudia_Aparecida_Cara.pdf: 2521224 bytes, checksum: 4ede64fa74fdfbb02b43b988337b9105 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The Brazilian history has shown that since the time of discovery, the land concentration and ownership in Brazil have been very uneven, causing social differentiation, cultural and economic among regions and farmers. This heterogeneity is also observed when studying the process of industrialization of agriculture, when modern technologies are used in the production process, from the Green Revolution technology package. Thus, this research is focused on the structuring of private ownership of land in the town of Dois Vizinhos, located in southwestern of Paraná; analyze the agrarian structure of the municipality, between the years of 1960/1970 to 2011, and identify the socioeconomic consequences of the intensification of modernization of agriculture from 1970. The construction of this theme was guided by the historical context of land tenure conflicts in the Southwest region of Paraná and the municipality of Dois Vizinhos, from information obtained from the INCRA from the Register of the Colony Missions - Center of Francisco Beltrão and municipally of Dois Vizinhos, between the decades of 1960/1970 to 2011; development of capitalist relations of production in rural areas; Census agricultural decades between 1970 to 2006, and fifty interviews with farmers who live in rural Dois Vizinhos. The study of these elements revealed that the agrarian structure of Dois Vizinhos remains based on small farms and the industrialization of agriculture has contributed to the subordination of small holdings to capital. / A história brasileira tem mostrado que desde os tempos do descobrimento, a concentração e a apropriação de terras no território brasileiro têm sido desiguais, ocasionando diferenciação social, cultural e econômica entre regiões e agricultores. Essa heterogeneidade é também observada ao se estudar o processo de modernização da agricultura, quando são empregadas modernas tecnologias no processo produtivo, a partir do pacote tecnológico da Revolução Verde. Sendo assim, a presente pesquisa tem como tema central apresentar como se deu o processo de colonização e estruturação da propriedade privada da terra, no município de Dois Vizinhos, localizado no Sudoeste do Paraná; analisar a estrutura fundiária do município, entre os anos de 1960/1970 a 2011; e identificar as consequências socioeconômicas com a intensificação da modernização da agricultura a partir de 1970. A construção deste tema foi norteada pelo contexto histórico dos conflitos de posse da terra na região Sudoeste do Paraná e no município de Dois Vizinhos, a partir de informações obtidas junto ao INCRA, mediante Cadastro da Colônia Missões Núcleo de Francisco Beltrão e município de Dois Vizinhos, entre as décadas de 1960/1970 a 2011; desenvolvimento das relações capitalistas de produção no meio rural; comparativo dos Censos Agropecuários entre as décadas de 1970 a 2006; e realização de cinquenta entrevistas com agricultores que residem na área rural de Dois Vizinhos. O estudo destes elementos revelou que a estrutura fundiária do referido município permanece baseada em pequenas propriedades e que a modernização da agricultura intensificada na área de estudo a partir de 1970, tem contribuído para a subordinação da pequena propriedade ao capital.

The explosive growth of ‘accelerators’ in the United States has given entrepreneurs and their startups the opportunity to pursue seed-stage financing. While the specific economic role of accelerators remains unclear, a study comparing the selection of portfolio companies between accelerators and venture capitalists was performed. A difference of means was performed on the responses per question between the collected 19 accelerators’ response and the 100 venture capitalists’ response, recorded from a prior study. It is found that venture capitalists place significantly more weight, than accelerators, on the potential of the startup’s product or service to be proprietary, to enter a high-growth market with little threat of competition within the first 3 years, and to deliver a high financial return within 5 to 10 years. The results also indicate that both accelerators and venture capitalists emphasize different attributes of the entrepreneur and venture team when considering selection.

The concept of hegemony has been an important subject in the 1970s as the US hegemonic position has entered into a decline period. This study aims to underline that the ongoing decline of US hegemony shares substantial analogies with the decline of British hegemony in the late 19th century. As the hegemonic economy enters into contraction period, it starts to experience financial expansion. Today, the US hegemony is in the midst of such an orientation toward the financialization. The study analyzes the historical changes within both hegemonic cases by direct references to the world-system theory and construct a comparative perspective in production, commerce and finance domains respectively to support these arguments.

This study aims to evaluate conceptual considerations of the sociology of agriculture and food from inside and outside of the literature in relation to transnationalization and its claim on the emergence of a transnational state. Although the history of the literature can be traced back to mid-1970s, its development corresponds to 1990s which is also the period that witnessed the hegemony of the concept of globalization in social sciences. This study argues that the claim on transnationalization reflects the intimate relationship of sociology of agriculture and food with the globalist interpretation of the concept of globalization or globalization theory which suffers from methodological and theoretical problems mainly in relation to the analysis of immanent contradictions and distinctive features of capitalism. With the criticism of the concepts of globalization and transnationalization, this study aims to break the intimate relationship of the sociology of agriculture and food with the globalization theory and suggests that the concept of imperialism is a powerful analytical concept in comprehending the transformation of capitalist relations, particularly the agrifood relations since late 1970s. In other words, this study aims to reevaluate the concepts (agrifood system and food regime) and problematics formulated in the sociology of agriculture and food literature within the theoretical framework based on the concept of capitalist imperialism exemplified in the analysis of transformation of agrifood relations since 1980 in the case of Turkey.

This thesis problematizes the phenomenon of privatization of security within the context of the neoliberal transformation of the capitalist state in Turkey. On the basis of the critique of neo-Weberian and Foucauldian literatures, it attempts to construct its peculiar theoretical-historical pathway on the relationship between state-coercion-class. It problematizes the historical constitution of this relationship within the context of the historical specificity of the capitalist state power. In this regard, the formation of the public police in the 19th century is discussed as an important, albeit contradictory, aspect of the materialization of this specificity. Furthermore, it is asserted that it was a reformative movement within which class practices of private provision of security were not totally eliminated, but incorporated into the impartially presented institutional materiality of the modern bourgeois state in and through class struggles. On this basis, the thesis discusses the privatization of security in Turkey as a contradictory transformation determined by the tension between the alleged impartiality and class nature of the state. It critically analyzes the historical period from the 1960s to the 2000s to identify different dynamics of transformation in terms of the privatization of security and institutional restructuring of the state. Within this framework, it argues that the institutionalization of private security in Turkey has signalled a trend towards the fusion of state power and class power in a new form with novel contradictions.