Chronically homeless individuals, or Street Dwellers, present unique challenges for clinicians and outreach workers who engage them when offering services like food, shelter, clothing, healthcare and mental health counseling including substance abuse treatment. This study examines Street Dwellers\' hopes, dreams and aspirations for a better life. Through thematic analysis of interview statements five themes emerged; Normal Life, Optimism, Planning, Helping Others, and From Rags to Respect. Study findings suggest that Street Dwellers dream vividly and often about a life off the streets while frequently forming and reforming plans to get there. These findings provide clinicians and outreach workers insight into the phenomenon of Street Dwelling that could be used to design more effective strategies to help this vulnerable population. / Master of Science

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In this study, I examine the material culture of the Rio Fuerte Basket-Maker Phase (200 B.C. - 1000 A.D.) and Cave-Dweller Phase (1000 - 1600 A.D.) occupations in southern Chihuahua, Mexico, that is represented in the Dr. Robert Zingg Archaeological Collection. Zingg believed that the material culture showed a clear progression from the Basket-Maker Phase to the Cave-Dweller Phase, which he interpreted to indicate a relationship between these two phases, and that these phases were the precursors of the twentieth century Tarahumara. I test this hypothesis by comparing the artifacts in the Dr. Robert Zingg Archaeological Collection curated by the University Museum at Southern Illinois University Carbondale to the artifacts in the ethnographic Tarahumara Collection curated by the Milwaukee Public Museum. Following an evaluation of the archaeological and ethnographic material culture, I conclude that Zingg's hypothesis is only partially supported by the museum collections. Although the material culture of the later Cave-Dweller Phase is sufficiently similar to the material culture of the twentieth century Tarahumara to suggest a relationship between the two cultures, the earlier Rio Fuerte Basket-Maker Phase does not provide enough artifacts that show similarity with either the Cave-Dweller Phase or the twentieth century Tarahumara.

The aim of this thesis is to examine the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation as a tool for local/regional development of underdeveloped border regions, and whether it is appropriate for Turkey&rsquo / s border regions. The basic statement is that the trajectories of intense economic relations do not always let cross-border co-operation / it can develop through supportive policies fed by the active participation of cross-border actors. The scope of this study is, - to examine changing theoretical ideas about borders and border relations, - to review some of the important changes affecting the cross-border cooperations / and the implications of transformations in the global mechanisms through new network relations determined within the multi-level governance approach, - to develop a framework for analysing the success of cross-border cooperation, - to discuss the cross-border co-operation trajectories through the world experiences and Turkish case, - to search for a new model This study will focus on a set of theoretical tools involving independent dimensions such as governance, economy and social structure. Along these theoretical perspectives, the importance of a cross-border co-operation for local/regional development will be emphasised through the case of Hopa-Batumi border region. Handling of this case will be an attempt to put forward the opportunities and barriers of a cross-border co-operation for Turkish border regions. This study is developed by the examination of theoretical literature, generating comparative analysis of world experiences with reference to available literature, and Turkish border regions executed with the newspapers archives and legal arrangements, and case study through in-depth interviews.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:44:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Hania Cecilia Pilan.pdf: 15559422 bytes, checksum: eae834aa2a5d0daddc074ad470e524e8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-17 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / The subject of this thesis is the analysis of the everyday life narratives of Sao Paulo's sidewalk residents and its (Re) meanings that enter the field of aesthetic needs. The human being is complex and at the same time transparent, desiring to be someone significant, uses mechanisms to survive as an individual among the society. And, when excluded from the group to which he belongs, he necessarily must (Re) mean, in order to join a new group. In the case of sidewalk residents, this action is exacerbated, becoming more evident the necessity of expression and the use of archetypes in the battle against invisibility within their social group and if possible, achieving to stand out among his peers. The narratives, conducted through interviews, allowed penetrate into a parallel world where neither time has the same value and setting as we were used to. In order to understand the narratives of this (Re) meaning world daily and achieve the proposed objectives, it was used as a theoretical study of social representations, with the cultural-historical psychology foundations, depth psychology and art contexts and concepts. Supported by these bibliographical sources, documentary, and especially in the participatory field research, it was possible to articulate a discussion of the aesthetic needs of the sidewalk's residents in their socio-historical context and their need to (re) signification. Among the various analyzed, we have chosen four main characters for their sensible aesthetic productions, which demonstrate the social segment in which they belong, to be analysis objects of their (RE) meanings. Among them, we were able to find heroes, faithful man, poets, painters, performers, bricoleurs, who have art as their mainspring of their social development, presenting archetypes to (Re) mean their world. / O objeto de estudo desta tese consiste na análise de narrativas do cotidiano dos moradores de calçada da cidade de São Paulo quanto as suas (Re) significações que adentram o campo das necessidades estéticas. O ser humano, complexo e ao mesmo tempo transparente, no afã de ser alguém significante, usa de mecanismos para sobreviver como indivíduo dentro da sociedade. E, quando excluído do grupo ao qual pertence, tem necessariamente que se (Re) significar, para inserir-se em um novo grupo. No caso dos moradores de calçada, essa ação é exacerbada tornando mais evidente a necessidade de expressão e o uso de arquétipos na batalha contra a invisibilidade dentro de seu grupo social e se possível, conseguindo se destacar entre seus pares. As narrativas, realizadas por meio de entrevistas, possibilitaram adentrar em um mundo paralelo, onde nem o tempo tem a mesma valia e marcação como fomos aculturados. Para compreender as narrativas deste mundo (Re) significado diariamente e atingir os objetivos propostos foi usado como referencial teórico o estudo de representações sociais, com os fundamentos da psicologia histórico-cultural, a psicologia profunda e os contextos e conceitos da arte. Apoiada nessas fontes bibliográficas, documentais, e principalmente na pesquisa participante de campo, foi possível articular uma discussão sobre as necessidades estéticas dos moradores de calçada no seu contexto sócio-histórico e sua necessidade de (Re) significação. Dentre os inúmeros analisados, escolhemos quatro protagonistas pelas suas produções estético sensíveis, que exemplificam o segmento social ao qual pertencem, para serem objeto de análise de suas (Re) significações. Entre eles pudemos encontrar heróis, homens de fé, poetas, pintores, performáticos, bricoleurs, que fazem da arte a mola propulsora da sua projeção social, arquétipos que se apresentam para (Re) significar seu mundo.