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Orientadora: Angélica Lovatto / Banca: Anderson Deo / Banca: Antonio Carlos Mazzeo / Resumo: O objeto central desta pesquisa é o pensamento de Florestan Fernandes, especificamente a análise do uso que o autor faz do conceito de classes sociais na sua produção teórica acerca do capitalismo dependente no Brasil. Como o recorte temporal da obra não nos permitiria um tratamento adequado do objeto em questão, optamos por extrair de seus principais textos as referências acerca da construção do conceito. A partir disso, conseguimos consolidar a hipótese de que o conceito de classes sociais no pensamento de Florestan Fernandes é determinado por uma base teórica centrada simultaneamente nas teorias sociais de Max Weber e Karl Marx, ao longo de toda a sua obra. Defenderemos que a inflexão ocorrida no seu ideário teórico posteriormente à década de 1970, apesar de tornar predominantes os referenciais marxistas, ainda assim estabelece linhas de continuidade ecléticas com a produção anterior, o que se reflete no tratamento dado pelo autor ao conceito de classes sociais e nas suas análises acerca da luta de classes no Brasil. / Abstract: The main object of this research is the thought of Florestan Fernandes, specifically the analysis of what was the use of the concept of social classes defined by the author along his theoretical production about dependent capitalism in Brazil. As the time frame of the work would not allow us a proper treatment of the object in question, we chose to extract from his main production the references concerning his theoretical construction of the concept. From this, we were able to consolidate the hypothesis that the social concept of social classes within Florestan Fernandes' thought is determined by a theoretical base centered simultaneously in the social theories of Max Weber and Karl Marx, throughout his entire work. We will argue that the inflection occurred in his theoretical ideas after the 1970s, even though makes the marxist referencial become predominant, still stablishes eclectic lines of continuity with his previous production, which is reflected in the treatment given by the author to the concept of social classes and his analysis about the class struggle in Brazil. / Mestre

Cette thèse de doctorat porte sur les inégalités d’accès à la culture des élèves à l’école primaire. L’objet d’investigation est un dispositif créé et financé par la Ville de Paris dans les années 1990 : « les classes à Paris ». Ces dernières proposent des projets culturels et artistiques, scientifiques, d’urbanisme menés par des professionnels dans des écoles de Paris. Les enquêtes se sont déroulées dans six écoles parisiennes aux caractéristiques socioculturelles différentes. Le regard porté sur l’objet d’étude, comme la méthodologie ont été anthropologiques. Les investigations se sont fondées sur une immersion dans le dispositif et les classes et des entretiens avec l’ensemble des acteurs, en particulier les enfants. Leur rencontre fait surgir une pluralité d’imaginaires et d’attentes devant l’Ecole. Sa perspective a priori égalitaire s’en voit questionnée. / This thesis deals with the inequalities of access to culture for students of primary education. The subject was investigated through an integration into the initiative created and funded in the 90’s by Paris City Hall: “les classes à Paris”. The initiative offers scientific, urbanistic, cultural and artistic, projects led by professionals in Parisian schools. The investigations took place in six different schools. This research utilizes an anthropological methodology centered around an immersion into the initiative and classes and interviews with the actors, including the children. Their collision reveals several imaginaries and expectations from the Institution that question the perspective of equality linked to the School’s image

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Within the UK the concept of the ‘city-region’ has gained increasing prominence in both academic and policy realms, particularly within the inter-related domains of spatial planning, public service delivery and economic development. However, our knowledge on the concept is currently limited in several respects. This includes a paucity of de-tailed accounts of how city-regions are formed and an over-reliance in existing analyses which consider city-regions as contingent responses to globalising economic impera-tives. The main aim of the thesis is to show how powerful city-regional narratives are materal-ised. To achieve this aim the research considers three key theoretical, methodological and empirical issues. In terms of theory, the research considers the role played by processes of narrative construction and institutionalisation in mediating the development of city-region agendas and subsequent material change. Methodologically, it asks how research can be designed to understand the relationship between these processes. Empirically, the research looks to increase our knowledge and understanding of these processes and events within South East Wales. South East Wales was identified as a fertile geographic location for research attention in light of the significant progression of a city-regional debate and the unique social, historical, institutional, and economic characteristics of the area. The research covers a period between 1992 and 2008 and explores the changing geographies of state spatiality and region-building processes operating in and around the case study area. The research approach draws on literature from several disciplines including human geography, political economy, international relations, and urban and regional planning. A three-stage analytical framework was developed to focus attention on particular elements of city-regionalism: i) the narrative construction of the city-region by key stakeholders; ii) institutionalisation of the narratives; and iii) materialisation of the city-region concept. Evidence was generated through the use of semi-structured interviews, documentary analysis and participant observation. The results indicate that greater attention should be given to the specific contexts in which city-regional agendas are promoted, including the roles played by personal relationships and the socio-economic conditions in the hinterland. The results also highlight the role played by the politics of scale as part of city-regional contestation and the tangible links which exist between discursive processes and the materialisation of city-regions.

This thesis aims to understand the politics, implications and interpretations associated with the transfer and mobilisation of sustainability concepts from elsewhere into Abu Dhabi. The emirate's pursuit of sustainability encompasses opportunities and also complexities which require trade-offs and creative solutions amidst the demands of globalisation and the existing authoritarian status quo. Exploring the rationale for the transfer of sustainability concepts from elsewhere into Abu Dhabi and its subsequent mobilisation in the local context expands our understanding of the different mechanisms, processes, platforms and change agents that enable sustainability-driven assemblages to thrive. By juxtaposing theoretical constructs from the academic literature on policy mobility, policy transfer and related governance, against empirical data in the areas of housing, transport, energy and urban design, nuanced meanings and experiences associated with the transfer and mobilisation of sustainability emerge. By situating Abu Dhabi's sustainability developments relationally within the context of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) nations, exploring the historical, social and political factors that have influenced the adaptation and interpretation of foreign sustainability concepts at multiple levels including the institutional level at Masdar and the UPC, this research on Abu Dhabi adds new knowledge to studies on policy mobility. Similarly, solutions that emerge as a result of concepts and actors moving and engaging across time and space expands our understanding of policy transfer processes in an authoritarian context. The nuances of the local context cannot be underestimated, particularly around the assertion of authoritarian power, persisting inequalities, and the forms of knowledge production and governance that emerge.

Networks, and associative properties, prevalent in natural and artificial systems have been investigated extensively. A common method for network analysis is based on graph theory because graphs naturally represent the relationship between objects in a network. In this context, three classes of networks are frequently investigated: random, scale-free, and small-world network. The three classes of networks have been studied extensively, to find properties and to analyze the structure of each network type using various measurements. Despite that all real networks have time delays, researchers relying on graph theory commonly disregarded delay or considered them only as being homogeneous. Delay cannot be ignored because delay has a critical role in many types of networks, such as the internet, business networks, and biological networks. The role and effect of delay, however, are still not clearly understood in the context of graph-based analysis. Furthermore, graph-based analysis of networks containing delay has not been attempted so far. In this thesis, I compared multiple network structures with delay in a graph context. I incorporated delay information into the network topology by a simple technique called temporal augmentation. Also, I investigated the effect of varying the delay distribution in these different network classes with added delay. In this thesis, several experiments were conducted based on two network construction methods (naive, and modified conventional method) and three types of delay distributions (peaked, uniform, and unimodal), with different network parameters. From the experiments, I found that the effect of the number of hubs in scale-free network was negligible, while the role of neighborhood size in small-world networks was significant. Also, neighborhood size affect smallworldness of networks. Effect of delay was expressed differently based on different patterns of delay distribution and network structures. Networks with uniformly randomly distributed delay had the best robustness in dealing with delay. Unimodal cases had larger increases in shortest path sum than uniform case. Peaked cases showed the worst increase in shortest path sum. Also, sparse networks with high smallworldness was less affected by delay while dense networks with high smallworldness more affected by delay. These results extended understanding of the relationship between network structures and delay.