A pesquisa trata do tema da educação corporal de atletas da ginástica artística. A temática foi investigada através do acompanhamento da rotina de treinamento de atletas da ginástica artística do Grêmio Náutico União (GNU) em Porto Alegre (RS). A pergunta principal e os objetivos que nortearam a pesquisa são os seguintes: como os corpos de atletas da ginástica artística são educados? Como gênero atravessa e dimensiona tal educação? O principal objetivo foi discutir e problematizar como corpos de atletas da ginástica artística são educados, especialmente nas sessões de treinamento esportivo, em meio a tecnologias do eu e tecnologias de dominação. A metodologia utilizada é de caráter etnográfico, com uso da observação e elaboração de um diário de campo, entrevistas semiestruturadas e análise de documentos. Busquei sustentar minha pesquisa no campo dos Estudos Culturais e Estudos de Gênero com aproximações no pós-estruturalismo. Conceitos como tecnologias do eu e tecnologias de dominação (FOUCAULT, 2004; LARROSA,1995; VEIGA NETO, 2008; NICOLAS ROSE, 2001), corpo (HARAWAY, 2000; VIRILIO, 1996; GIL, 1981, 1997) e gênero (LOURO, 1999, 2004; MEYER, 1999, 2003), entre outros, serviram como algumas ferramentas para pensar o objeto de pesquisa. Argumento que a educação corporal de atletas da ginástica artística de alto rendimento, especialmente nas sessões de treinamento esportivo, ocorre na articulação entre natureza e cultura e é o tempo inteiro um exercício do sujeito sobre si mesmo e do sujeito na relação com o outro. Além disso, gênero é uma importante dimensão constitutiva das tecnologias do eu e das tecnologias de dominação. / This research approaches body education of athletes in artistic gymnastics. The theme has been investigated through the follow-up of training routine of athletes at Gremio Nautico Uniao (GNU) in Porto Alegre (RS). The main questions and the objectives that have guided this research are the following: How have bodies of artistic gymnastics athletes been educated? How have gender crossed and dimensioned such an education? The main objective is to discuss and problematize the way bodies of artistic gymnastic athletes have been educated, particularly in sessions of sports training, amidst both technologies of the self and technologies of domination. The methodology used has an ethnographic character, with the use of observation and construction of a field diary, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis. I have attempted to ground my research on the field of cultural studies and gender studies, with approximations to post-structuralism. Concepts such as technologies of the self and technologies of domination (FOUCAULT, 2004; LARROSA, 1995; VEIGA NETO, 2008; NICOLAS ROSE, 2001), body (HARAWAY, 2000; VIRILIO, 1996; GIL, 1981, 1997), and gender (LOURO, 1999, 2004; MEYER, 1999, 2003), among others, have been some of the tools used to think about the research object. I have argued that body education of high performance athletes in artistic gymnastics, particularly in sessions of sports training, occurs in the articulation of nature and culture, and has ever been an exercise of the subject over oneself, as well as of the subject in the relation with the other. Furthermore, gender is a dimension constitute of technologies of the self and technologies of domination.

A pesquisa trata do tema da educação corporal de atletas da ginástica artística. A temática foi investigada através do acompanhamento da rotina de treinamento de atletas da ginástica artística do Grêmio Náutico União (GNU) em Porto Alegre (RS). A pergunta principal e os objetivos que nortearam a pesquisa são os seguintes: como os corpos de atletas da ginástica artística são educados? Como gênero atravessa e dimensiona tal educação? O principal objetivo foi discutir e problematizar como corpos de atletas da ginástica artística são educados, especialmente nas sessões de treinamento esportivo, em meio a tecnologias do eu e tecnologias de dominação. A metodologia utilizada é de caráter etnográfico, com uso da observação e elaboração de um diário de campo, entrevistas semiestruturadas e análise de documentos. Busquei sustentar minha pesquisa no campo dos Estudos Culturais e Estudos de Gênero com aproximações no pós-estruturalismo. Conceitos como tecnologias do eu e tecnologias de dominação (FOUCAULT, 2004; LARROSA,1995; VEIGA NETO, 2008; NICOLAS ROSE, 2001), corpo (HARAWAY, 2000; VIRILIO, 1996; GIL, 1981, 1997) e gênero (LOURO, 1999, 2004; MEYER, 1999, 2003), entre outros, serviram como algumas ferramentas para pensar o objeto de pesquisa. Argumento que a educação corporal de atletas da ginástica artística de alto rendimento, especialmente nas sessões de treinamento esportivo, ocorre na articulação entre natureza e cultura e é o tempo inteiro um exercício do sujeito sobre si mesmo e do sujeito na relação com o outro. Além disso, gênero é uma importante dimensão constitutiva das tecnologias do eu e das tecnologias de dominação. / This research approaches body education of athletes in artistic gymnastics. The theme has been investigated through the follow-up of training routine of athletes at Gremio Nautico Uniao (GNU) in Porto Alegre (RS). The main questions and the objectives that have guided this research are the following: How have bodies of artistic gymnastics athletes been educated? How have gender crossed and dimensioned such an education? The main objective is to discuss and problematize the way bodies of artistic gymnastic athletes have been educated, particularly in sessions of sports training, amidst both technologies of the self and technologies of domination. The methodology used has an ethnographic character, with the use of observation and construction of a field diary, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis. I have attempted to ground my research on the field of cultural studies and gender studies, with approximations to post-structuralism. Concepts such as technologies of the self and technologies of domination (FOUCAULT, 2004; LARROSA, 1995; VEIGA NETO, 2008; NICOLAS ROSE, 2001), body (HARAWAY, 2000; VIRILIO, 1996; GIL, 1981, 1997), and gender (LOURO, 1999, 2004; MEYER, 1999, 2003), among others, have been some of the tools used to think about the research object. I have argued that body education of high performance athletes in artistic gymnastics, particularly in sessions of sports training, occurs in the articulation of nature and culture, and has ever been an exercise of the subject over oneself, as well as of the subject in the relation with the other. Furthermore, gender is a dimension constitute of technologies of the self and technologies of domination.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:00:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 4601.pdf: 19432654 bytes, checksum: 78414d53d8909452a9c43c5c12d9eb5d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-27 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / To investigate the use and development of the idea of adventure in brasilian sports field was the main goal of this study. Due to the enormous variability of the contemporary experience of adventure, I tried to follow the developments of a local version from where doubts about its specificity emerged. I started, then, on how this notion was thought and rationalized and, at the same time, on its practice in the city of Brotas (São Paulo state), self entitled the Brazilian capital of adventure. The study of adventure in this ambiance, undeniably embodied, led me to put my own body to work for its understanding and to focus on rafting practice in Brotas, as the condition of possibility of this experiment. However, during the experimentation I realized adventure held the sporting component only as one of the possible elements of its exploring. While making the effort to put in words so many angles, objects in dispute, categories of accusation and self praising discourses that circumscribe the hues on the concept of adventure I ended on acknowledging that the main concerns of adventure in Brotas regard not only the amateur sport, but also the professionalization of tourism and, before it all, an environmental project. Through the problematization of these themes, "adventure as work" came up as an unpredicted matter but a core question to the ethnographic research. And I noted that it is compromised with a peculiar notion of nature and that it is produced in opposition to the concept of radicality. But that, even though the exaltation of nature produces the detachment of radicality, the last one is regained as the contemporary notion of adventure is created so that, and it then demands, a certain type of tourist and a specific kind of worker, the adventure conductor, whose practices are related not to the avoidance, but to the facing of certain risks, mingled with the notions of safety and technique. / Investigar o uso e a elaboração da noção de aventura no contexto esportivo brasileiro foi o objetivo primeiro deste estudo. Devido à imensa variabilidade da experiência contemporânea da aventura, procurei acompanhar os seus desdobramentos concretos em uma versão local de onde surgiram indagações sobre sua especificidade. Parti, então, de como era refletida e racionalizada e, ao mesmo tempo, de sua prática na cidade de Brotas (SP), autodenominada a capital brasileira da aventura. O estudo da aventura neste contexto, empreendimento inegavelmente corporal, me levou a colocar meu próprio corpo a serviço de sua compreensão e a focar o rafting brotense como condição de possibilidade deste experimento. Contudo, durante a sua realização percebi que a aventura apresentava o componente esportivo da prática apenas como um dos tantos elementos possíveis de sua vivência. Ao passo que me esforçava para transportar ao texto, então, as muitas vertentes, objetos em disputa, categorias de acusação e discursos de autoelogio que circunscrevem as matizes da noção de aventura cheguei, sobretudo, ao entendimento de que as principais preocupações da aventura em Brotas dizem respeito não apenas ao amadorismo esportivo, como também à profissionalização do turismo e, antes, a um projeto ambiental. Através do tratamento destes temas a aventura enquanto trabalho aflorou como uma questão imprevista e central à pesquisa etnográfica. E notei que ela está comprometida com uma ideia peculiar de natureza e é produzida em oposição à noção de radicalidade. Mas que, embora a exaltação da natureza produza o afastamento da radicalidade, a última é retomada na medida em que a noção contemporânea de aventura é criada para, e passa a exigir, um certo tipo de turista ou esportista e um tipo específico de trabalhador, o condutor de aventura, cujas práticas estão relacionadas não à evitação, mas ao enfrentamento de certos riscos, matizados pelas noções de segurança e técnica.

A pesquisa trata do tema da educação corporal de atletas da ginástica artística. A temática foi investigada através do acompanhamento da rotina de treinamento de atletas da ginástica artística do Grêmio Náutico União (GNU) em Porto Alegre (RS). A pergunta principal e os objetivos que nortearam a pesquisa são os seguintes: como os corpos de atletas da ginástica artística são educados? Como gênero atravessa e dimensiona tal educação? O principal objetivo foi discutir e problematizar como corpos de atletas da ginástica artística são educados, especialmente nas sessões de treinamento esportivo, em meio a tecnologias do eu e tecnologias de dominação. A metodologia utilizada é de caráter etnográfico, com uso da observação e elaboração de um diário de campo, entrevistas semiestruturadas e análise de documentos. Busquei sustentar minha pesquisa no campo dos Estudos Culturais e Estudos de Gênero com aproximações no pós-estruturalismo. Conceitos como tecnologias do eu e tecnologias de dominação (FOUCAULT, 2004; LARROSA,1995; VEIGA NETO, 2008; NICOLAS ROSE, 2001), corpo (HARAWAY, 2000; VIRILIO, 1996; GIL, 1981, 1997) e gênero (LOURO, 1999, 2004; MEYER, 1999, 2003), entre outros, serviram como algumas ferramentas para pensar o objeto de pesquisa. Argumento que a educação corporal de atletas da ginástica artística de alto rendimento, especialmente nas sessões de treinamento esportivo, ocorre na articulação entre natureza e cultura e é o tempo inteiro um exercício do sujeito sobre si mesmo e do sujeito na relação com o outro. Além disso, gênero é uma importante dimensão constitutiva das tecnologias do eu e das tecnologias de dominação. / This research approaches body education of athletes in artistic gymnastics. The theme has been investigated through the follow-up of training routine of athletes at Gremio Nautico Uniao (GNU) in Porto Alegre (RS). The main questions and the objectives that have guided this research are the following: How have bodies of artistic gymnastics athletes been educated? How have gender crossed and dimensioned such an education? The main objective is to discuss and problematize the way bodies of artistic gymnastic athletes have been educated, particularly in sessions of sports training, amidst both technologies of the self and technologies of domination. The methodology used has an ethnographic character, with the use of observation and construction of a field diary, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis. I have attempted to ground my research on the field of cultural studies and gender studies, with approximations to post-structuralism. Concepts such as technologies of the self and technologies of domination (FOUCAULT, 2004; LARROSA, 1995; VEIGA NETO, 2008; NICOLAS ROSE, 2001), body (HARAWAY, 2000; VIRILIO, 1996; GIL, 1981, 1997), and gender (LOURO, 1999, 2004; MEYER, 1999, 2003), among others, have been some of the tools used to think about the research object. I have argued that body education of high performance athletes in artistic gymnastics, particularly in sessions of sports training, occurs in the articulation of nature and culture, and has ever been an exercise of the subject over oneself, as well as of the subject in the relation with the other. Furthermore, gender is a dimension constitute of technologies of the self and technologies of domination.

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Situated in a time of advanced technoscience and new materialist feminist humanities/social sciences, this thesis explores how popular science renditions of biomechanics contribute to transforming imaginaries about “the natural” and “healthy”. It does so by zooming in on biomechanical scientist Katy Bowman’s pervasive and life-style commitment-requiring teaching. Her books and online material conceptualise and connect a bodily dependency on adequate physical load environments to an imagined natural health of our Palaeolithic ancestors. Drawing on several postconventional fields gathered under the banner of feminist posthumanisms and posthumanities (Braidotti 2013; Åsberg 2014), this thesis demonstrates how gendered and otherwise intersectionally interpreted fantasies intra-act with Bowman’s specific bodily practices, constructing a natural with both limiting and liberating consequences. Notions of the natural in popularised biomechanics are here explored foremost with a focus on the formative categories of gender and class. More explicitly, the thesis shows how Bowman’s teaching, on the one hand, links well with theorisings of corporeal, environmental and material feminist scholars, such as Elizabeth Grosz’s (1994) and Stacy Alaimo’s (2010) notions of environed corporeality and trans-corporeality. On the other hand, though, Bowman’s popularised biomechanics simultaneously reinforces a troublesome nature-culture divide and neo-liberal discourses on health as choice. However, while downplaying sociocultural and economical factors, and underpinning essentialist notions of motherhood, Bowman’s popular science also destabilises masculine understandings of the natural as tough; acknowledges material, individual and collective agency; and, offers effective techniques for managing various health conditions – all in ways that may well be interpreted and practiced within feminist registers. Based on this example from Bowman’s popular science, the author argues that contemporary Western understandings of the natural are influenced by a longing for self-commitment, control and connectedness.

(in English): The diploma thesis deals with the specific conception of body and corporeality in fairy tales, especially with morbid elements which are often reflected as non-fairy tale. The fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben, Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde are the main focus. The thesis also introduces the theory of the Swiss scholar Max Lüthi formulated in The European Folktale: Form and Nature into the Czech context. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical section provides a complex explication of Max Lüthi's theory of the fairy tale. It examines the main terms that Luthi defined for the fairy tale: One-dimensionality, Depthlessness, Abstract Style, Isolation and Universal Interconnection, Sublimation and All-Inclusiveness. Then the frame of this theory is extended into the field of the authorial fairy tale. The diploma thesis then sums up the differences and the points of contact between those two subgenres using The Story of the Eldest Princess as an example. The practical part focuses on relevant strategies of handling the body and corporeality in fairy tales. The last chapter deals with techniques of breaking the surface of the fairy tale characters' bodies, with internal destruction of the body and with the elements in between. All is...

According to Walter Stephens, witch-theorists in the fifteenth century developed the witchcraft belief of demon copulation in order to prove the existence of demons and therefore the existence of God. In England, during the mid-seventeenth century, Cartesian and materialist philosophies spread. These new philosophies stated there was nothing in the world but corporeal substances, and these substances had to conform to natural law. This, the philosophers argued, meant witchcraft was impossible. Certain other philosophers believed a denial of any incorporeal substance would lead to atheism, and so used witchcraft as proof of incorporeal spirits to refute what they felt was a growing atheism in the world. By examining this debate we can better understand the decline of witchcraft. This debate between corporeal and incorporeal was part of the larger debate over the existence of witchcraft. It occurred at a time in England when the persecution of witches was declining. Using witchcraft as proof of incorporeal substances was one of the last uses of witchcraft before it disappeared as a valid belief. Therefore, a better understanding of this debate adds to a better understanding of witchcraft during its decline.

The aim of my diploma thesis is to give an insight into the social reality of lightly tattooed people as well as those, who are just considering tattoo. Of people, for whom is tattoo neither a lifestyle nor only the fashion trend that recently penetrating into the mainstream culture. Presenting attitudes and opinions of these tattooed and potentially tattooed people the thesis tries to elucidate, what does it mean for them to be tattooed, if there are any concrete values and meanings connected with tattoo, how tattooed understand and reflect a possibility of conflict with the social norms and if the risk of this conflict somehow influences the decision of getting a tattoo. Main current approaches to the phenomenon of tattoo, historical development and changes of its situation in western culture are introduced in the theoretical part. The empirical part then draws on data acquired from semi-structured interviews with tattooed and potentially tattooed living in Czech Republic.

In Sweden, samba - the popular Brazilian dance (and music genre), that has been named the“national rhythm” - is very widely known and practiced. This case study envelops questions about national cultures, cultural embodiment in dance, as well as cross-border relations. It aims to observe in what distinct ways, regarding these multiple facets of the topic, Brazilian culture can be expressed through samba in a foreign country so culturally different and geographically distant from the country of origin. The study focuses on samba no pé, a samba style popularized and mostly danced in Rio de Janeiro. To reach the objective, the research data has been collected through semi-structured interviews from samba teachers and dancers in Sweden. In addition, an observation has been carried out by watching a samba class in person. The collected data showed that dancing samba gives way to different interconnected processes and elements through which the Brazilian culture is transported, translated, and experienced in Sweden. As people migrate around the world in transnational spaces, links are created between the migrants’ host countries and their homelands. These connections enable different cultures to be transported, get established in different places and spread in popularity. Corporeality is also key, as culture is embodied in the movements. Samba therefore permits an experience of Brazilian corporeality and plays a central role in the expression of Brazilianness in Sweden.