This dissertation is about boys and fatness. In it I explore the central discourses that shape young men’s (13-15 years) experiences of their bodies, particularly in relation to body size, shape, and fatness. A central objective is to listen, hear, and take seriously the embodied health rationalities of young men as they negotiate the multiple and contesting discourses that confront them in their daily lives. I employ a feminist poststructural lens to account for the nuanced, alternative, and contextually specific ways young men think about and do health. Data collection was divided into three phases (non-participant observation, photo(focus) groups, and interviews) and was implemented at two Toronto area sites, including an exclusive private school and a publicly funded parks and recreation community centre. I demonstrate that there is not one way of experiencing fatness and masculinity, rather the young men’s constructions of fatness and health were fluid, shifting, contradictory and cross cut by other salient identity categories such as gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and age. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, I show how obesity discourse provides a set of resources by which young men are able to construct themselves as autonomous, rational, neoliberal subjects, and how these subjectivities are differentially constituted depending on social and cultural positioning. I also reveal how differently raced and classed young men take up and embody normative ideals of the lean muscular male body through culturally appropriate masculine technologies of the self (i.e. sport and heterosexuality). The multiplicity of health and body discourses available to the young men gave rise to contested and ambivalent experiences and practices, such that dominant discourses were not always articulated in a straightforward and predictable manner, but were imbued with alternative and, in some cases, subversive meanings. To date, the social sciences have neglected to account for the relationship boys and men have with fatness discourses. By centering the analysis on the embodied experiences of diverse racialized and classed youth, this research demonstrates that weight and shape is more than a biomedical problem to be eradicated, but a discursively compelled embodiment that exists at the crossroads of the social, cultural, psychic, and biologic.

This dissertation is about boys and fatness. In it I explore the central discourses that shape young men’s (13-15 years) experiences of their bodies, particularly in relation to body size, shape, and fatness. A central objective is to listen, hear, and take seriously the embodied health rationalities of young men as they negotiate the multiple and contesting discourses that confront them in their daily lives. I employ a feminist poststructural lens to account for the nuanced, alternative, and contextually specific ways young men think about and do health. Data collection was divided into three phases (non-participant observation, photo(focus) groups, and interviews) and was implemented at two Toronto area sites, including an exclusive private school and a publicly funded parks and recreation community centre. I demonstrate that there is not one way of experiencing fatness and masculinity, rather the young men’s constructions of fatness and health were fluid, shifting, contradictory and cross cut by other salient identity categories such as gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and age. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, I show how obesity discourse provides a set of resources by which young men are able to construct themselves as autonomous, rational, neoliberal subjects, and how these subjectivities are differentially constituted depending on social and cultural positioning. I also reveal how differently raced and classed young men take up and embody normative ideals of the lean muscular male body through culturally appropriate masculine technologies of the self (i.e. sport and heterosexuality). The multiplicity of health and body discourses available to the young men gave rise to contested and ambivalent experiences and practices, such that dominant discourses were not always articulated in a straightforward and predictable manner, but were imbued with alternative and, in some cases, subversive meanings. To date, the social sciences have neglected to account for the relationship boys and men have with fatness discourses. By centering the analysis on the embodied experiences of diverse racialized and classed youth, this research demonstrates that weight and shape is more than a biomedical problem to be eradicated, but a discursively compelled embodiment that exists at the crossroads of the social, cultural, psychic, and biologic.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-11-30T12:26:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Paloma de Freitas Daudt_.pdf: 1154374 bytes, checksum: d2661e3d4673efb4ca8f3603a235d466 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-30T12:26:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paloma de Freitas Daudt_.pdf: 1154374 bytes, checksum: d2661e3d4673efb4ca8f3603a235d466 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-28 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / PROEX - Programa de Excelência Acadêmica / O presente estudo versa sobre os espaços de controle social do Sistema de Participação Popular e Cidadã de Canoas. Tem como objetivo analisar as mediações pedagógicas e contratos estabelecidos nos espaços de controle social, do sistema, com destaque para as comissões de obra do Orçamento Participativo (OP), Conselho Municipal de Saúde e Conselho Municipal do OP, a partir da identificação de possíveis sentidos que se inscrevem na realidade discursiva e que permitem uma melhor compreensão da organização dessas ferramentas de controle social no OP e da sua relação com uma conjuntura maior, na qual orçamento participativo e linguagem estão situados. A investigação tem também no horizonte a pesquisa participante, tendo como princípio o diálogo com os diversos setores envolvidos no sistema. O trabalho é decorrente da participação em diferentes espaços de controle social do Sistema de Participação Popular e Cidadã de Canoas ao longo do ano de 2016. Os resultados da pesquisa são apresentados em dois artigos intitulados: Controle social, reconhecimento coletivo e educação para a cidadania em discurso do sistema de participação popular e cidadã de Canoas; A construção discursiva no orçamento participativo enquanto mediação pedagógica. O primeiro pretende refletir sobre como os espaços de controle social contribuem para um reconhecimento coletivo como um processo de educação para cidadania. O segundo analisa o contrato de comunicação dos diferentes sujeitos em espaços de controle social que demonstrem as mediações pedagógicas em jogo. Os resultados apontam para a importância do senso de coletividade nos espaços de controle social no processo de educação para a cidadania através da participação popular, mostrand comoos sujeitos envolvidos utilizam de estratégias linguísticas visando ao sucesso do contrato de comunicação enquanto mediação pedagógica. / This project studies the spaces of social control of the Popular Participation System and Citizen of Canoas. This dissertation's goal is to analyse the pedagogical mediations and contracts established in the spaces of social control, of the system, highlighting the commissions responsible for public works of the Participatory Budget (PB), the County Health Council and the County Council of the PB, based on the identification of the possible meanings that are inscribed in the discursive reality, and that allow a better understanding of the organization of these social control tools in the PB and their relationship with a broader context, in which the Participatory Budget and language are situated. The investigation also relies on aspects of participatory research, having as a goal the dialogue with diverse sectors involved in the system. The dissertation is the result of the participation in different spaces of social control of the System of Popular and Citizen Participation of Canoas during the year of 2016. The results of the research are presented in two articles intitled: Social Control, collective recognition and education for citizenship in the Discourse of the System of Popular and Citizen Participation of Canoas; The discursive construction in the Participatory Budget as a pedagogical mediation. The first article pretends to reflect about how the spaces of social control contribute to the collective recognition as a process of education to citizenship. The second analyzes the communication contract of the different subjects in spaces of social control that demonstrate the pedagogical mediations. The results confirm the importance of the sense of collectivity in the spaces of social control in the process of education for citizenship through popular participation, revealing how the subjects involved utilize linguistic strategies aiming the success of the communication contract as a pedagogical mediation.

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Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-11-26T10:54:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Inês Teixeira.pdf: 10610546 bytes, checksum: 04a604eae0f9e18428f3a92a51290a7e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-26T10:54:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Inês Teixeira.pdf: 10610546 bytes, checksum: 04a604eae0f9e18428f3a92a51290a7e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP / The aim of this work, from a rhetoric perspective, is to conceive an analytical reflection of the vestibular argumentation, since it understands that the theories of rhetoric and rehabilitation studies are more important to interpret statements, but are also ideas and visions of the world that lead to social interaction, cultural and historical improvement. The analysis of texts from now on allows an understanding of how the individual assumes his values and the opportunities to expand socially to be able to promote higher education. The corpus of analysis composed of three real reductions produced in the “vestibular” of PUC-SP constitutes a sample of text that allows an intolerance to a certain type of project. The analysis is shown as a retrospective argumentation in a representation of the reality of keywords constitutive of a conceptual field that indicates a discursive construct that, in turn, provides a basis for the argumentation. In addition, understand an argumentation under the rhetorical look in a didactic course in the teaching of writing. Understanding how it is a reality can improve social interaction and cognitive development, and train candidates to produce a text that is a solid and consistent representation of the world / Este trabalho, sob a perspectiva da retórica, tem como objetivo conceber uma reflexão analítica da argumentação de redação de vestibular, por compreender que as teorias de estudos da Retórica antiga e da Nova Retórica são essenciais não só para interpretar enunciados, mas também para construir valores, ideias e visões de mundo que levem à interação social, o aperfeiçoamento histórico e cultural. A análise dos textos a partir dela permite uma compreensão da forma como o candidato concebe seus valores e tenta expô-los socialmente de forma que sejam aceitáveis para promoção ao ensino superior. O corpus de análise composto por três redações reais produzidas no Vestibular da PUC-SP constitui-se em uma amostra de texto que possibilite aplicar uma concepção diferenciada dos critérios usuais de correção das redações. A análise demonstra como a argumentação retórica insere-se na representação da realidade a partir de palavras-signos constitutivas de um campo conceitual que indica um constructo discursivo que, por sua vez, dá a base para a argumentação. Ademais, entender a argumentação sob o olhar retórico propõe um percurso didático no ensino de redação. A compreensão de como o sujeito descreve a realidade pode aprimorar a interação social e o desenvolvimento cognitivo, e formar indivíduos competentes para produzir um texto em que haja uma representação de mundo sólidas e consistente

Using a feminist poststructuralist approach as a guide, I begin this thesis with the workinghypothesis that gender may be an adult-centred concept in feminist studies. This leads me toask: If the concept of gender in feminist studies is adult-centred, how is this centring formedand maintained? To answer this question, I begin by splitting my analysis into three analyticalsections: age, children, and gender. Although I include age, children, and gender into eachsectional analysis, my main priority in the first two sections is to look at how feminist scholarsdiscuss and use the terms age and child(ren). In the gender section, I use three canonical gendertheory texts as the basis of my analysis, where I see how gender is discussed and conceptualisedand how both children and age figure in these conceptualisations.One of the main concerns of feminist poststructuralist theory is tackling binaries. However,with the category of age having been often taken for granted in feminist studies, and thereforeunder-theorised, the adult/child binary in the category of age remains largely unchallenged.Instead, where age has been investigated in terms of tackling binaries, the young/old binary hasdominated but has remained centred around the adult; leaving children underacknowledgedand under-theorised in feminist studies age discourse. This under-theorisation of childrenmeans that “child” remains a master status with seemingly unshakeable connotations ofinnocence, vulnerability, and incompetence. Children are those who are not adults and not-yetsubjects. They are understood as being in constant need of care from the competent andcomplete adult. In this thesis, I show how these points, among others, contribute to both theformation and maintenance of the concept of gender as adult-centred.

This study is a qualitative exploration of the gendered discourses of South African women in middle management. It explores the locations and perspectives from which middle management women speak, the institutions and traditions that inform their discourses and the challenges to dominant discourses on gender present in their talk. It is conducted from a social constructionist framework. The broader South African context is fraught with a contradiction between policy and practice. South Africa’s progressive constitution does not erode women’s tenuous and vulnerable position as is seen in the high incidence of violence against women, sexual harassment and women’s specific vulnerability to and rates of HIV infection. This contradiction is also evident in the labour market where South Africa echoes a global tendency of the continuation of gender stratification in the workplace. This is characterised by a tendency towards gender traditional occupations, a continuing wage gap, discontinued career paths for women, gender stratification of task division at work and unequal work division on the home front. This results in continued gender stratification of management and executive management positions. Women make up approximately 50% of the global, economically active population yet they have not been successful in entering the management world with the same proportion. Using social constructionism and a focus on discourse, this study examines the discursive construction of the gender stratification of the workplace. It starts by exploring how available literature on the topic constructs the problem as related to internal and individual matters, societal and social factors or organisational and institutional processes. It further explores the developments in the field of gender, discourse and organisations. Interview data from semi-structured interviews with women in middle management are analysed using discourse analysis. Different and contradicting discourses emerge from this analysis illustrating different discourses and associated identity positions available to women. The discourse analysis shows how different and contradicting discourses support the status quo by structuring certain subject positions into desirable explications of femininity but also how these contradictions allow space for resistance. The study argues that establishing a feminine identity remains vital to participants and that this requires ‘identity footwork’ within complex and contradictory discursive positions. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Psychology / unrestricted

ICT has become so deeply embedded into the fabric of European society – in economic, political, and socio-cultural narratives, practices, and structures – that it has been constructed as holding tremendous untapped and inestimable potential for instigating and unleashing far-reaching societal transformation, addressing key societal challenges, and solving all societal problems. It has recently been seen, given its ubiquity, as a critical driver and powerful catalyst for sustainable urban development due to its potential to enable substantial energy savings and GHG emissions reductions in most urban sectors, especially buildings. However, related to this ubiquity, there are also a lot of visions (of limited modern applicability), hopes, myths, fallacies, and oxymora, which applies for the environmental subsystem of information society where debates focus on whether ICT can advance environmental urban sustainability. There are intricate relationships and tradeoffs among the multidimensional effects of ICT for the environment that flow mostly from the use and application of ICT – e.g. energy efficiency technology - throughout the urban sphere. Regardless, the technological orientation and framing of the sustainable city and the green economy has gained dominance in European society and become prevalent in what has come to be identified or known as the discourse of ICT for sustainable urban development (ICT4SUD). The aim of this study is to carry out a critical reading of the social construction of ICT4SUD, the underlying ideology about the ICT potential in advancing environmental urban sustainability. To achieve this aim, a Foucauldian-Faircloughian discursive approach is employed to examine the selected empirical material. This approach consists of nine stages: (1) surface descriptors and contextual elements; (2) historical-diachronic dimension; (3) epistemic and cultural frames; (4) discursive constructions and discourses; (5) social actors and framing power; (6) discursive strategies; (7) discursive mechanisms; (8) political practice, knowledge, and power; and (9) ideological standpoints.As a scholarly discourse, ICT4SUD is inherently part of and influenced by economic, societal, and political structures, and produced in social interaction. ICT4SUD is thus neither paradigmatic nor value-free, but rather socio-politically situated. It is shaped by cultural frames that are conventionalized by European society and attuned to its values, and it is a matter of a pre-intellectual space where ICT and sustainability constitute salient defining factors of the dominant configuration of knowledge, institutions, and material forces of European society. Indeed, ICT4SUD is impacted by earlier representations of reality and how they were reproduced in relation to the significance of discursive constructions of ICT and sustainability issues in the broader context of European culture. Moreover, the ICT4SUD discourse plays a major role in (re)constructing the image of the ICT industry as a social actor and in defining its identity and relation with other constituents of society, in that it is relocated new roles and attributed new societal missions. The dominant framing of the reports is clearly the one advanced by the ICT industry: it is constituted into the main definer of the represented reality. Further, positioning the ICT industry as the driver of the low-carbon city/economy aids the construction of an image of leadership in creating a low carbon society. The reports’ construction of energy efficiency technology is a powerful legitimation of the ICT industry’s views and actions. In addition, the ICT4SUD discourse is exclusionary, namely a number of facts and issues pertaining to structural, indirect, and systemic effects of ICT and the associated rebound effects are left out, concealed, or neglected. Also, the discourse is inclined to be deterministic, i.e. it postulates that ICT, supported by policy, will achieve SUD while it falls short in considering social behaviour and socio-economic relationships. It moreover tends to be rhetorical – that is, it promises environmentally SUD without really having a holistic strategy to achieve that goal. Furthermore, given the scientific discourse and the legitimation capacity of computing, climatology, and sustainability indicators, one can subsume a range of social and political effects under the category of discourse mechanisms through which ICT4SUD operates, which both show the power of discourse and potentially empower the ICT industry and its cohorts. There are different justifications for the development of energy efficiency technology in relation to decision-making processes. Plus, politics, as a consequence of its interaction with ICT4SUD, forces, though different mechanisms, the emergence and development of the ICT4SUD discourse, which is, simultaneously, influenced by the power/knowledge relations established in European society that bounds or expands its success. Finally, as to ideological reproduction, the ICT4SUD discourse reconstructs cultural claims, conveys ideological messages, and reproduces and legitimizes power structures.