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Yes / Rethinking intersectionality, gender identities and gender equality with Kat Gupta at the GENOVATE conference. / FP7

The focus of this thesis is the negotiation of identities by elite-level female athletes involved in disability sport. Recently, the London 2012 and Sochi 2014 Paralympic games have showcased the contemporary nature of disability sport and ostensibly suggest a growth in public interest within this field. However, there has been limited research to date conducted into the experiences of physically impaired, female athletes at the elite level of disability sport. Moreover, the existing literature fails to address the negotiation of identities within the interplay of gender, ‘disability’, body and wider socio-cultural influences. Inspired by this dearth of literature and the desire to contribute to disability sport theorisation, my research questions how elite female athletes negotiate their identities across contexts and the wider social, cultural and political values that influence this process. I address their experiences in relation to these factors alongside the intersection of gender and disability. I have explored the women’s experiences by utilising symbolic interactionism in combination with a social-relational conceptualisation of disability. This theoretical approach recognises the women’s bodies as a ‘fleshy presence’ in their interactional encounters and brings ‘impairment’ back into the theorisation of disability (Waskul and Vannini 2006). This approach allows me to interrogate the women’s unique realities in relation to wider socio-cultural values, and the ‘micro relations’ of their day-to-day lives. A life history perspective guides the methodological framework, which foregrounds and prioritises the seven elite female athletes’ subjective experiences in relation to the socio-historical context. The narratives offer a powerful and original insight into the complexity of disability, whilst addressing the multiple and fluid nature of the participants’ identities. This advances the use of the social-relational model and fosters new understandings of the social relations underpinning the effects of impairment. I have developed the concept of ‘reverse stigma’ and have highlighted the need to disrupt the social processes that create stigmatic physicality, whilst demonstrating how impairment is perceived in different social contexts. My research has provided an original contribution by generating an in-depth picture of how the women experience their lives, how they see themselves as disabled (or not) and the wider intersecting forces that shape and influence their realities. This is significant for highlighting the way disability and disabled female athletes are perceived in Western society.

Ο στόχος της παρούσας εργασίας έγκειται στην διαπραγμάτευση και την ανάλυση των αναδυόμενων ταυτοτήτων μέσα από την εξέταση των συνομιλιακών αφηγήσεων ηλικιωμένων διαλεκτόφωνων γυναικών και ανδρών. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, θα εξεταστούν ξεχωριστά δέκα συνομιλιακές αφηγήσεις με κύριες πληροφορήτριες δύο ηλικιωμένες γυναίκες και επτά συνομομιλιακές αφηγήσεις με κύριους πληροφορητές δύο ηλικιωμένους άνδρες. Στόχος της εργασίας είναι να αναδείξει τις αφηγηματικές στρατηγικές που χρησιμοποιούν τόσο οι γυναίκες, όσο και οι άνδρες στην προσπάθεια οικοδόμησης της δικής τους ταυτότητας, αλλά και των ταυτοτήτων άλλων προσώπων που πρωταγωνιστούν στις αφηγήσεις τους. Ο κυριότερος όμως σκοπός της έρευνάς μας είναι η παρουσίαση των συμπερασμάτων στα οποία καταλήξαμε για τις γυναικείες και τις ανδρικές συνομιλιακές αφηγήσεις με βάση συγκεκριμένα κριτήρια τόσο για το επίπεδο του αφηγούμενου κόσμου, όσο και για το επίπεδο του διεπιδραστικού κόσμου. Τα κριτήρια που θα χρησιμοποιήσουμε και βάσει των οποίων θα φτάσουμε στην ανάδυση των ταυτοτήτων τα αντλούμε από την Blum-Kulka (1993) και την Cheshire (2000) και είναι τα εξής: Σε σχέση με τον αφηγούμενο κόσμο θα εξεταστούν οι συνομιλιακές αφηγήσεις ως προς την θεματολογία, τον τόπο, τους πρωταγωνιστές, τη στοχοθεσία, τον ευθύ λόγο και την εξωτερική αξιολόγηση. Αναφορικά με τον διεπιδραστικό κόσμο οι συνομιλιακές αφηγήσεις θα εξεταστούν ως προς τον τρόπο επιτέλεσης της αφηγηματικής πράξης, την κατοχή του αφηγηματικού λόγου και τις αφηγηματικές ενάρξεις. Απώτερος σκοπός της μελέτης μας είναι με βάση τα ίδια κριτήρια να επιχειρήσουμε μια συγκριτική προσέγγιση των ανδρικών και των γυναικείων συνομιλιακών αφηγήσεων. Η βασική παραδοχή μας που διαπνέει ολόκληρη την εργασία βασίζεται στην άποψη περί κοινωνικής και δυναμικής κατασκευής των ταυτοτήτων, απορρίπτοντας οποιαδήποτε ουσιοκρατική και στερεοτυπική προσέγγιση. Ολοκληρώνοντας την εισαγωγή, πρέπει να τονίσουμε ότι η εξέταση των συνομιλιακών αφηγήσεων βάσει καθορισμένων κριτηρίων δεν σημαίνει πως στην εκτενή ανάλυση των συνομιλιακών αφηγήσεων που επιχειρούμε δεν κάνουμε λόγο και για άλλα θέματα, όπως το χιούμορ ως πεδίο έκφρασης ταυτότητας και η εναλλαγή κώδικα ως ένδειξη κατασκευής ταυτότητας. Ωστόσο, τα κριτήρια που παραθέσαμε θα μας βοηθήσουν να καταλήξουμε σε ασφαλή συμπεράσματα για τις ταυτότητες που αναδύθηκαν από τις συνομιλιακές αφηγήσεις των ηλικιωμένων διαλεκτόφωνων ανδρών και γυναικών και για τις ποικίλες στρατηγικές που χρησιμοποίησαν. Η σύγκριση των συνομιλιακών αφηγήσεων των ανδρών και των γυναικών σκόπιμα θα αποτελέσει το τελικό σημείο συζήτησής μας, καθώς πιστεύουμε πως πρώτα θα πρέπει να διαμορφώσουμε μια ξεκάθαρη άποψη για τις γυναικείες και τις ανδρικές συνομιλιακές αφηγήσεις ξεχωριστά και στο τέλος να τις δούμε σφαιρικά και συγκριτικά.. / -

This thesis explores different geographies of tourism, gender, work and liveli­hood in post-socialist Latvia. The study puts focus on the overall transforma­tion process and the reshaping of the tourism sector, in how Latvia is reimag­ined both as a nation state and as a tourism destination. One central aim is to analyse the transformation process as genderised, and how existing gender identi­ties in general and femininities more specifically are being transformed and mirrored within tourism. The thesis first contain an analysis of how Latvian tourism-mar­ket­ing carries genderised meanings and identities, based on three interrelated ‘geog­raphies’ as part of the transforming ‘national common space’: geogra­phies of neo-nationalism, geographies of Euro­peanisation and geographies of relic-communism. These hold certain imaginations and conceptions of space and place, and in­clude aims and priorities of the transition process. Secondly, focus is placed on the chang­ing conditions for women’s livelihood within rural tourism in the Cēsis district, and spa/health tourism in Jūrmala. The thesis has mainly a quali­tative approach, including semi-structured interviews and text analysis, but the case studies also comprise a survey. The thesis illustrates how tourism becomes an arena for reclaiming a Latvian national identity rooted in a pre-Soviet past, while also manifesting a Western European identity, and negotiating the remains of the controversial Soviet heritage. This process reveals, for example, traditional feminised features of the nation state, portraying women as the ‘mothers’ of the nation. Two case studies of female employees and entrepreneurs within rural tourism and spa/health tourism also show how women negotiate different ideals of femininities, in­cluding ‘traditional’, ‘Western’ and ‘socialist’ ideals, through their everyday live­lihood practices within both the public and the private sphere. Their negotia­tions for a more independent liveli­hood are also affected by structural factors, such as wages and taxes, but also by the local socio-cultural context and related gender identities, including class, family structure, age and ethnicity.

abstract: Many educators believe that the path to a better future is a college education. Initiatives that promote college-going cultures are quite commonplace in many public high schools with some offering elective college-prep support programs like Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID). Yet, certain groups of students are not taking advantage of these opportunities. In the initial AVID sections at a metropolitan high school in the American Southwest, the girls out-numbered the boys 2:1, and the Hispanic girls outnumbered the Hispanic boys by almost 3:1. The purpose of this study was to uncover some of the factors that influenced five Hispanic males' participation, or lack thereof, in AVID, and the ways in which those factors connected to their masculine identities. What the participants say about what influenced them to be involved, or not, in the program is reported. Some themes revealed in the interviews include how the participants' scholar identity is connected to their masculine identity, how they balance their "coolness" quotient with their desires to achieve academic success, how they depend on personal relationships and collaboration, and how their families and communities have influenced them. This information may lead to the development of strategies that will increase future representation of Hispanic males in similar programs. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ed.D. Curriculum and Instruction 2011

Submitted by ZULEIKA DE ANDRADE CAMARA PINHEIRO (zuleikacamara@yahoo.com.br) on 2018-10-18T15:46:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE FINAL - Para Repositório.pdf: 9030020 bytes, checksum: c5c1efeb5f8d2617556259d2bdd56edb (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Satie Tagara (satie@marilia.unesp.br) on 2018-10-18T19:23:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 pinheiro_zac_dr_mar.pdf: 9030020 bytes, checksum: c5c1efeb5f8d2617556259d2bdd56edb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-18T19:23:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 pinheiro_zac_dr_mar.pdf: 9030020 bytes, checksum: c5c1efeb5f8d2617556259d2bdd56edb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Esta etnografia foi realizada a partir de cenários de circulação de homens em situação de rua; Praça do Ferreira no centro de Fortaleza/Ce e o Centro POP (política pública para a população em situação de rua). A tese trata de apreender um modo específico de “olhar fronteiriço” para a relação contemporânea entre às margens, os chamados moradores de rua e o centro chamadas de “pessoas de bem”. Tendo como pano de fundo essa relação, o objetivo central deste texto é etnografar os estilos de masculinidades forjadas pelos homens em situação de rua com suas identidades abjetas e performatizações de gênero com fins de sobrevivência. Os homens em situação de rua, como categoria plástica de rejeição, acusação e desvinculação social e econômica, evocam e questionam zonas de fronteiras simbólicas, espaciais, sociais, corporais, morais e políticas. Consequentemente, incitam nas “pessoas de bem” uma defesa de ações para a sua retirada dos espaços urbanos pelos quais circulam. Com expressões limites de degradação humana por estarem abaixo na escala social e por subverterem o espaço público, os homens que moram na Praça do Ferreira criam alteridades, gestam territorialidades, acionam o Estado e incitam políticas urbanísticas sanitárias e repressivas, além de provocarem saberes e classificações. A pesquisa foi realizada em dois registros empíricos distintos: i) convivência com os homens no Centro POP e participação nas oficinas socioeducativas; ii) convivência em suas sociabilidades no espaço da Praça do Ferreira e ruas do centro de Fortaleza. As descrições e análises das cenas do campo procuram circunscrever o funcionamento e a dinâmica das manobras e deslocamentos das masculinidades, no sentido de iluminar seus fluxos, violência, tensões mais frequentes, interesses em disputa e atores que as controlam. Do debate e das análises apresentadas no corpo da tese, destaco cinco argumentos centrais: i) o urbano produz diferenças sociais, e iluminar os cruzamentos entre as relações “nós”/“eles”, pessoas/cidade, vidas possíveis/rejeição, viver/sobreviver, vida/morte é evidenciar as conexões de força que atravessam as questões políticas e sociais que envolvem o fenômeno população em situação de rua; ii) os homens forjam uma masculinidade exacerbada tendo na virilidade seu atributo de engrenagem para a violência e a constituição de um macho exacerbado; iii) performatizam gênero em práticas de masculinidade negociada que são mais dependentes, indolentes e apáticas, pelas quais os homens lançam mão de acordos tácitos ou explícitos de cooperação e coadjuvação e atitudes subservientes e condescendentes, um estilo de masculinidade menos agressivo; iv) as formas de sobrevivência nas ruas instigam alguns hábitos distintos dos hábitos sociais aos quais estamos acostumados, ao que chamou-se de masculinidade animalesca, por entender que tais comportamentos observados mais se assemelhavam aos de um macho animal do que de um humano; v) os homens praticavam atos de violência sexual contra as mulheres, estuprando as que se encontravam solteiras; a estas práticas chamou-se de masculinidade desviante. No sentido de se livrarem dos atos de violência sexual, as mulheres performatizam gênero, incorporando atitudes, posturas, aparências e comportamentos masculinos, práticas essas que se chamou de masculinidades deslocadas. Por fim, as análises sugerem que as experiências das ruas estão norteadas não apenas por marcadores sociais de diferença, como raça, classe social e gênero, mas também pela ideia de masculinidades e performatizações de gênero como manobras de sobrevivência. Essas masculinidades produzem normas, gestões, tensões, violências e territorialidades, onde os corpos em suspensão são a última fronteira para sobrevivências nessa “terra de ninguém”, ou seja, as ruas. / This ethnography was made from scenarios of circulation of street men; the Ferreira Square in the center of Fortaleza/CE and the POP Center (public policy for the street population). The thesis is about apprehending a specific mode of "frontier look" for the contemporary relationship between the margins (street men) and the center ("good people"). Against this background, its central goal is to ethnograph the styles of masculinities forged by street men with their abject identities and their gender performations in order to survive. Street men, as a plastic category of rejection, prosecution and social and economic untying, evoke and enquire areas of symbolic, spatial, social, corporeal, moral, and political frontiers. Consequently, they incite in the "good people" an avid defense of actions for their withdrawal from the urban spaces through which they circulate. With bordering expressions of human degradation, as they are below in the social scale and because they subvert the public space, street people in Praça do Ferreira create alterities, generate territorialities, trigger the State and incite sanitary and repressive urban policies, besides to provoke knowledge and classifications. The research was conducted in two different empirical registers: i) coexistence with the men in the POP Center and participation in socio-educational workshops; ii) coexistence in their sociabilities in the space of the Square of Ferreira and streets of the Fortaleza’s center. The descriptions and analysis of the field’s scenes seek to circumscribe the functioning and dynamics of the ploy of masculinities, in order to clarify their flows, violence, most common tensions, the interests in dispute and the actors that control them. From the debate and analysis presented in the thesis, I highlight five central arguments: i) the urban areas produces social differences, and clarify the crossroads between "us"/"them", people/city, possible lives/rejection, live/survive and life/death relations is to emphasize the forces that pervades the political and social issues that involve the phenomenon of population in street situation; ii) the men forge an exacerbated masculinity, with virility as their violence device and constitution of an exacerbated male; (iii) they performatize gender in negotiated masculinity practices that are more reliant, indolent e apathetic, by which men resort to tacit or explicit agreements of cooperation and coadjuvation and subservient, and condescending attitudes; a less aggressive masculinity style; iv) the forms of survival in the streets instigate some habits different from the social habits to which we are accustomed, to what was called animalistic masculinity, appearing these behaviors more to those of an animal male than a human’s; v) men practiced acts of sexual violence against women, raping those who were single; to these practices I called deviant masculinity. In order to get rid of acts of sexual violence, women performatized gender by incorporating male attitudes, posture, appearance and behaviors, which I called displaced masculinities. Finally, the analyzes suggest that the experiences of the streets are guided not only by social markers of difference, as race, social status and gender, but also by the idea of masculinities and gender performations as survival device. These masculinities produce norms, managements, tensions, violence, territorialities and alterities, where the bodies are the last survival frontier in no man's land: the streets.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:23:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 3058145 bytes, checksum: d94b8f1fe271dd440e6549c6e7ea1699 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This paper intends to discuss some questions raised about love through the perspective of gender discussions, in the Era Nova magazine, circulated in Paraíba in the 1920s. We emphasized the relational field of History and Literature, notably the discursive practices of Era Nova, a magazine considered, at the time, as literary, illustrative and informative, meant for the urban middle classes. The texts we gave more attention in this work lead us to the displacement of affective relationships, especially, to the historical conditions that enable the diffusion of love as a reason for conjugal unions, as well as the association of romantic love centered on the consolidation of marriage and motherhood. We approached the intersection and influences occurred around the indications of modern, family values, gender identifications, sociability, sexual exercise and loving practices in daily life of people in the 1920s, in order to point out their social expectations. / Este trabalho intenta discutir algumas questões postas sobre o amor na revista Era Nova, que circulou na Paraíba nos anos 1920, numa perspectiva matizada pelas questões de gênero. Enfatizamos o campo relacional História e Literatura, notadamente, as práticas discursivas da Era Nova, revista que se apresentava à época como literária, ilustrada e noticiosa, destinada às classes médias urbanas. Os textos que privilegiamos nesse periódico nos reportam a deslocamentos das relações afetivas, em especial, às condições históricas que tornaram possível a difusão do amor como motivo para as uniões conjugais, igualmente a associação do amor romântico centrado na realização do casamento e da maternidade. Abordamos o cruzamento e influências sofridas entre as indicações do moderno, dos valores familiares, das identificações de gênero, das sociabilidades, do exercício sexual e práticas amorosas do cotidiano vintista, buscando apontar as expectativas sociais que ladeavam os afetos.