The concept of the self was central to the development of North American child and youth care (CYC). The self has been understood in CYC as the mediator of knowledge and skills, the foundation of authentic and therapeutic relationships, and the essence of ethical, moral, and professional practice. In this research project, I engage with the concept of the self in CYC by analyzing the literature on the topic, conducting research conversations with scholars in the field, and articulating my own thinking on the subject. I pay particular attention to the work of faculty and students at the University of Victoria’s School of Child and Youth Care (SCYC) to better understand our current problems and possibilities for theorizing the self in relation to praxis, professionalization, and curriculum. I approach my research engagements through a geophilosophical (Deleuze & Guattari, 2003) methodology and emphasize the roles of relationship, wonder, mentorship, and connections in my research engagements. In this thesis I analyze various conceptualizations of the self in CYC, as well as concepts of identity and subjectivity that I found to be important for understanding the topic. I focus on concepts that (1) have traditionally played a central role in CYC curriculum and professionalization; (2) emerged from my research conversations; and (3) specifically relate to issues of diversity, power, and decolonization. As a work concerned primarily with conceptualizations of the self and how they relate to CYC praxis, professionalization, and curriculum, I articulate my own understanding and process of conceptualizing. I elaborate and experiment with my own thinking through a geophilosophical (Deleuze & Guattari, 2003) approach that emphasizes the relationship between thinking and the land and bodies through which it occurs, as well as thinking’s pragmatic, constructive, and creative aspects. I suggest that some of the important and interesting questions and possibilities for conceptualizing the self in contemporary North American CYC are related to politicized praxis as a framework for CYC; decolonization and identity-based solidarity and allyship; intersectionality as means to conceptualize diversity; mentorship and relationship in the learning encounter; immanence, dualism, and Indigenous cosmology; and the notion of a CYC community identity. / Graduate / 0745 / skouri@uvic.ca

This thesis investigates in which ways Samuel R. Delany’s novel Hogg challenge the discourse of normality as stipulated, supported and maintained by the capitalist Oedipal repression of desire. Drawing from Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of the Anti-Oedipus, this thesis explores how Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of desire as a free and productive force can be seen as a disruptive element in a society that relies on repression of the subject for its stability. Furthermore, this thesis explores how the novel questions the understanding of civilisation being dependent on the individual’s submission to the Oedipus triangulation and in extension the Oedipal capitalist separation between the public and the private sphere. Ultimately, the main argument claims that Oedipal repression of desire only allows desire to invest in a restricted number of representations, making other identities than the heteronormative suspicious or invisible.  Hogg depicts a society where capitalism commodifies everything, and need the Oedipal subject to ensure its stability. The characters in the novel that do not subject themselves to the capitalist discourse escape the subjection to the Oedipal triangulation, and are thus free to invest their desire in any way they choose, primarily in non-heterosexual and salirophiliac activities. These characters can be seen as schizoid subjects that are constantly threatening to expose the fragility of the social structure by embodying a contrast to the hegemonic discourse and therefore constantly question its authority as main creator of reason and reality.

This thesis is concerned with architectural and design practitioners involved in areas outside of their training: specifically, with the way designers embrace a do-it-yourself or DIY ethic to create experimental, ephemeral, collaborative environments not usually considered “architecture” in the professional sense. This happens because they become directly involved with a variety of methods, construction activities, project types and materials normally associated with amateur building. The thesis does not aim to contribute to more comprehensive solutions for architectural production (say, commercial practice), but rather focuses on a particular production opportunity. It attempts to draw forth qualities of process, practice and conceptualisation that are of relevance to architecture and could be the basis of future exploration in architecture. With this intent, this thesis outlines a conceptual explanation for why these designers sometimes background their training in, and knowledge of, building procurement, in favour of amateur building activities. This design approach raises questions about the way architecture is understood, discussed and practiced. In philosophy and architectural theory, architecture is usually described as a device for ordering and framing the world, an opposition to the unfolding, unpredictable process of the evolving, natural world. Yet there are things that some designer-maker-inhabitants do in practice to thwart their environmental control and influence, thus introducing a degree of unpredictability into projects. This unusual design approach has the potential to inform discussions about architecture and architectural practice beyond this thesis. There is a plethora of technical information about DIY in the popular media, yet little investigation of how professionally-trained designers creatively engage with DIY. The experimental approach to building and space studied in this research is different to self-building or simple DIY because it does not adhere to a set of design plans or set approaches. This approach is also different to outsider architecture or vernacular building because it is initiated by people with design knowledge and training, even if they put aside some of their knowledge. To clarify this latter approach to architecture and space, the research describes a space of blurring between professional and non-professional building, architectural control and spontaneity; a space of germinant practice, based on the precepts and proposals manifest in germinant philosophy. The thesis includes speculations about ways to encourage germinancy in design practice. This practice-led study involved preliminary fieldwork studies through critical analysis of my own, and others, sitespecific installation art practice. These preliminary studies led to two major fieldwork projects in Brisbane: both are homes to artists and architecturally- trained designers working outside of commercial, professional practice.

Harm minimisation approaches to illicit drug use have proven extremely successful in reducing drug-related harm and improving health outcomes for those using drugs, their families and the broader community. Despite these successes, however, many harm minimisation programmes face strong community opposition, and many others are limited in their effectiveness by their reluctance to acknowledge the complex ways in which drug using contexts, social relationships, desire, pleasure and aesthetics are involved in the production and reduction of drug-related harm.[NP] Deleuze and Guattari’s ethico-aesthetic philosophy offers a conceptual framework through which to begin to grapple with the sensory and affective elements of illicit drug use and their implications for an embodied ethics. Following an introduction to their key concepts, this thesis explores the implications of their ontology for understandings of injecting drug use across four inter-related dimensions: the drug using body; urban spaces of injecting; public overdose memorials; and drug referenced, ‘heroin chic’ advertising imagery. It argues that aesthetics and ethics are complexly intertwined, and that ethically positive responses to drug use require an active appreciation of the ways in which aesthetics affect bodies and their capacities to form relations with others

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Duquesne University, 2004. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-118).

This study seeks to understand the forces initiating and sustaining colonialism, specifically the German colonial expansion in Africa. The history of this colonialism, and the relations between Germany and Africa, is difficult to understand holistically, given its complex and contentious nature. In order to best comprehend the composite interactions within the expansion of German control over Africa, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s theory of deterritorialization will provide the interpretative framework. This analysis begins by grappling with the notion of deterritorialization and then relates the theory to the social, cultural, economic and political manifestations of German colonial expansion. By taking a broad perspective upon the diverse articulations of power in Africa, the multiple elements of colonial control and resistance are manifest. In conclusion, this study finds difference, syncretism and negotiation between German and African to determine the history of German colonialism in Africa.

Esta dissertação explora as possibilidades de uma bionomadologia: uma ciência situada entre as ciências duras ou de Estado e as ciências nômades, nos termos em que esses conceitos são formulados por Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari no livro Mil platôs. Estendem-se, assim, os fios de uma bionomadologia. De uma ciência que tente desfazer as organizações e desarranjar os organismos. De uma ciência das metamorfoses e dos devires. Esses fios buscam entrelaçar ciência e filosofia. É ali, no ponto em que se encontram uma ciência nômade e uma filosofia da diferença, que se desenvolve uma bionomadologia. Uma ciência da vida. Uma ciência de uma vida. Uma ciência cujos fios se desenrolam num plano de imanência. Uma bionomadologia tende a arrastar consigo novidades. Prefere misturar o que aparentemente parece determinado, embrenhar-se num emaranhado de intensidades. Uma experimentação propriamente viva. / This dissertation explores the possibilities of a bionomadology: a science located between the hard sciences, or State sciences, and the nomadic sciences, concepts which are understood in the way they are developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the book A Thousand Plateaus. The threads of a bionomadology are, thus, spread out. The threads of a science that tries to undo the organizations and to unsettle the organisms. The threads of a science of metamorphoses and becomings. These threads work to interweave science with philosophy. It is there, in the point in which a nomadic science meets a philosophy of difference, that a bionomadology is developed. It is a science of life. A science of a life. The threads of this science are unfolded in a plane of immanence. A bionomadology tends to drag new things with it. It prefers to mingle what, apparently, is determined, to get mixed in a tangle of intensities. A truly living experience.

Esta dissertação explora as possibilidades de uma bionomadologia: uma ciência situada entre as ciências duras ou de Estado e as ciências nômades, nos termos em que esses conceitos são formulados por Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari no livro Mil platôs. Estendem-se, assim, os fios de uma bionomadologia. De uma ciência que tente desfazer as organizações e desarranjar os organismos. De uma ciência das metamorfoses e dos devires. Esses fios buscam entrelaçar ciência e filosofia. É ali, no ponto em que se encontram uma ciência nômade e uma filosofia da diferença, que se desenvolve uma bionomadologia. Uma ciência da vida. Uma ciência de uma vida. Uma ciência cujos fios se desenrolam num plano de imanência. Uma bionomadologia tende a arrastar consigo novidades. Prefere misturar o que aparentemente parece determinado, embrenhar-se num emaranhado de intensidades. Uma experimentação propriamente viva. / This dissertation explores the possibilities of a bionomadology: a science located between the hard sciences, or State sciences, and the nomadic sciences, concepts which are understood in the way they are developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the book A Thousand Plateaus. The threads of a bionomadology are, thus, spread out. The threads of a science that tries to undo the organizations and to unsettle the organisms. The threads of a science of metamorphoses and becomings. These threads work to interweave science with philosophy. It is there, in the point in which a nomadic science meets a philosophy of difference, that a bionomadology is developed. It is a science of life. A science of a life. The threads of this science are unfolded in a plane of immanence. A bionomadology tends to drag new things with it. It prefers to mingle what, apparently, is determined, to get mixed in a tangle of intensities. A truly living experience.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Departamento de História, 2009. / Submitted by Allan Wanick Motta (allan_wanick@hotmail.com) on 2010-07-26T16:40:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_LeandroMendanhaeSilva.pdf: 1656420 bytes, checksum: bb578a335c78ef0567d1c8859a76661e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Lucila Saraiva(lucilasaraiva1@gmail.com) on 2010-09-29T13:18:47Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_LeandroMendanhaeSilva.pdf: 1656420 bytes, checksum: bb578a335c78ef0567d1c8859a76661e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2010-09-29T13:18:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_LeandroMendanhaeSilva.pdf: 1656420 bytes, checksum: bb578a335c78ef0567d1c8859a76661e (MD5) / O presente trabalho é obra de motivações e inquietações acerca do que se pode extrair da intervenção de Foucault para a prática historiadora. Tomada enquanto prática de pegar o que lhe convêm, os historiadores se apropriam das ferramentas legadas alhures visando fabricar uma História rodeada pelos problemas atuais. Feito um buraco negro que procura não deixar a luz escapar, os condicionamentos históricos não funcionam – para a análise histórica proposta neste trabalho – neles mesmos, essa análise busca as linhas de fugas, os fios que resistem. Transbordam linhas mais rápidas do que a luz, linhas da intensidade do pensar que podem destecer, tal como a moça tecelã jogando a lançadeira veloz de um lado para o outro, partes do tecido das dominações que a História permite datar como tecidos um dia. O estudo segue pelas trilhas do que na prática historiográfica pode pensar o múltiplo. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This report is the work of motivations and concerns about what can be drawn from Foucault's intervention into historian practice. Taken as the practice of catching what is convenient for each historian, he/she takes ownership of the legacy tools elsewhere to produce a history surrounded by current problems. Like a black hole that seeks not let the light escape, the historical constraints do not work - for historical analysis proposed in this paper - by themselves, this analysis seeks the lines of escape, the yarn that resists. Lines overflow faster than light, the intensity lines of thinking that can unweave as the weaver girl throwing the fast roller from one side to the other, parts of the fabric of domination that history can date as tissues someday. The study follows the trails of what in historiographic practice can think the multiple.

Esta dissertação explora as possibilidades de uma bionomadologia: uma ciência situada entre as ciências duras ou de Estado e as ciências nômades, nos termos em que esses conceitos são formulados por Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari no livro Mil platôs. Estendem-se, assim, os fios de uma bionomadologia. De uma ciência que tente desfazer as organizações e desarranjar os organismos. De uma ciência das metamorfoses e dos devires. Esses fios buscam entrelaçar ciência e filosofia. É ali, no ponto em que se encontram uma ciência nômade e uma filosofia da diferença, que se desenvolve uma bionomadologia. Uma ciência da vida. Uma ciência de uma vida. Uma ciência cujos fios se desenrolam num plano de imanência. Uma bionomadologia tende a arrastar consigo novidades. Prefere misturar o que aparentemente parece determinado, embrenhar-se num emaranhado de intensidades. Uma experimentação propriamente viva. / This dissertation explores the possibilities of a bionomadology: a science located between the hard sciences, or State sciences, and the nomadic sciences, concepts which are understood in the way they are developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the book A Thousand Plateaus. The threads of a bionomadology are, thus, spread out. The threads of a science that tries to undo the organizations and to unsettle the organisms. The threads of a science of metamorphoses and becomings. These threads work to interweave science with philosophy. It is there, in the point in which a nomadic science meets a philosophy of difference, that a bionomadology is developed. It is a science of life. A science of a life. The threads of this science are unfolded in a plane of immanence. A bionomadology tends to drag new things with it. It prefers to mingle what, apparently, is determined, to get mixed in a tangle of intensities. A truly living experience.