Graduate study in theatre has allowed me to understand my work as an artist and educator from a critical academic perspective. I have researched Butoh as a model for original work that employs multiculturalism against hegemonic control of personal identity. From my own training experience, I am recognizing Capoeira, Contact Improvisation, and Devising processes (co-creation or collaborative creative process in dance) as counter-hegemonic forms and techniques that share a physical/philosophical emphasis on communal engagement, improvisation, circularity and repetition. Looking at them together provides points of intersection for me to examine them as an artist, while posing questions for cross-cultural investigations. In this process, it has been crucial to consider my personal relationship with these forms along with the aesthetics and values associated with them, their potential use in academic contexts, and their support as practices to match theoretical discourse towards a pluralistic and multicultural society.

This thesis aims at identifying, through Will Wright methods of narrative analysis, how the different masculinities are represented in the first season of the TV-series True Detective via the protagonists Rust Cohle and Marty Hart. Theories about hegemonic masculinity and Will Wright's theories for narrative analysis are further applied to see how these similarities and differences are formed by what Wright calls “the professional plot". Through 32 chosen scenes from the first season, this study examines the narrative of True Detective and the relationship between the main characters Rust Cohle and Marty Hart from a point of view that will highlight their hierarchic positions in the hegemonic masculinity, using Raewyn Connell’s studies as a theory. We have found that there are two separate hegemonic spheres, one within the relationship between the main characters, and one within the society as a whole. In the latter, Marty Hart is displayed as a member of the hegemonic masculinity up to the point where he loses his family while Rust Cohle constantly belongs to the subordinate masculinity. This is due to him being in constant clash with the traditional cultural values of Louisiana where the series takes place. Regarding the hegemony within their relationship, Rust Cohle goes through a hegemonic transformation, from the subordinate masculinity to the hegemonic while Marty Hart makes the journey from occupying the hegemonic masculinity to serve as the participating dito.

À partir d'une enquête par observation participante conduite au sein d’une grande entreprise de distribution, du siège social aux entrepôts, ce travail a pour objectif d’étudier la construction sociale des masculinités au et par le travail. L’histoire de Transfrilog est imprégnée d’une culture familiale forgée autour du management paternalisme des autodidactes du transport. Aujourd’hui devenu les cadres dirigeants de l’entreprise, la professionnalisation du secteur les oblige désormais à composer avec les jeunes diplômés issus des formations logistiques dont le style de management se détache des formes traditionnelles d’expression de la masculinité et de l’autorité. Dans ces conditions, comment la masculinité perpétue-t-elle son hégémonie ? La thèse s’attache à montrer que la capacité de la masculinité hégémonique à se (re)produire tient à son processus d’hybridation. La thèse montre par ailleurs la coexistence d’une pluralité de masculinités hégémoniques spécifiques à chaque filière (transport, logistique, fonctions supports) et qui sont hiérarchisées entre elles. Pour autant, la mobilisation autour d’un idéal viril propre aux injonctions productivistes et à l’intensification des tâches propose un référentiel commun aux hommes, au-delà des clivages de classe, de race et des différents métiers de la chaîne logistique. Aussi, et malgré la volonté de certains dirigeants d’amorcer une réflexion sur l’égalité professionnelle, l’hybridité de la masculinité hégémonique n’interroge qu’à la marge une répartition genrée des emplois et l’inégale échelle de valeur entre les différentes formes de masculinités. / From a participatory observation survey conducted in a logistics company, from head office to warehouses, this work aims to study the social construction of masculinities at and through work. The history of Transfrilog was built through a family culture forged around the paternalistic management of self-taught employees. Today, having become the company's senior executives, the professionalization of the sector now compels them to deal with young graduates from supply chain training whose management style stands out from the traditional forms of expression of masculinity and authority. In these conditions, how does masculinity perpetuates its hegemony? The thesis aims to show that the capacity of hegemonic masculinity to (re)produce itself is due to a process of hybridization. The thesis also shows the coexistence of a plurality of hegemonic masculinities specific to each sector (transport, logistics, support functions) and which are hierarchized between themselves. However, the mobilization around a virile ideal specific to the productive injunctions and to the intensification of the tasks proposes a common reference to men, beyond divisions of class, race and different trades of the logistic chain. Also, and despite the desire of some leaders to initiate a reflection on professional equality, the hybridity of hegemonic masculinity asks only marginally a gendered distribution of jobs and the unequal scale of value between different forms of masculinities.

Studiens syfte var att öka förståelsen för hur maskuliniteter och femininiteter kan iscensättas inom gruppen män. Detta gjordes under hashtagen pappaledig på det sociala nätverket Instagram. Variationer och mönster undersöktes i relation till könsstereotypa normer. En semiotisk bild- och textanalys användes för att kunna besvara studiens syfte och frågeställningar. Begreppen maskuliniteter och femininiteter användes som en integrerad analysenhet i syfte att frångå könsdikotomi.  Studiens huvudresultat visade att majoriteten av männens bilder kunde tolkas maskulina medan texterna uppvisade en mer feminin eller mixad karaktär. I relation till Connells teori om hegemonisk maskulinitet tycks de hegemoniska idealen reproduceras i de hårdare och mindre uttrycksfulla bilderna medan en mjukare och mer emotionell karaktär kunde ses i bildtexterna. Texternas mer omhändertagande prägel kunde relateras till ett modernt faderskap. / The aim of the study was to increase understanding of how masculinities and femininities exhibit within a group of men. This was done in the hashtag #pappaledig on the social network Instagram. Variations and patterns were examined in relation to gender stereotyped norms. A semiotic image- and text analysis was used to answer the study's purpose and questions. The terms masculinities and femininities were used as an integrated analysis unit for the purpose of departing from sex dichotomy. The main results of the study showed that the majority of men's images could be interpreted masculine while the texts showed a more feminine or mixed character. In relation to Connell's theory of hegemonic masculinity, the hegemonic ideals appear to be reproduced in the tougher and less expressive images while a softer and more emotional character could be seen in the captions. The more disposal character of the texts could be related to modern paternity.

Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar a validade científica do ideário pedagógico-didático contra-hegemônico desenvolvido na década de 1980, em face das contestações do modo pósmoderno de pensar. Para tanto, procura dar resposta à questão medular que orienta o estudo: Como os estudiosos que constituíram o movimento da didática crítica, e que tinham suas bases epistemológicas assentadas na dialética marxiana, estão tratando as questões colocadas pela pós-modernidade, uma vez que as proposições desse modo de pensar questionam as principais teses do materialismo histórico-dialético, com implicações epistemológicas e praxiológicas diretas para o campo da pedagogia e da didática? Ainda, como questão subsidiária, indaga: Há um deslocamento epistemológico de uma didática crítica para uma didática pós-moderna? O desenvolvimento da pesquisa dá-se fundado nos estudos de natureza teórica com o recurso à pesquisa bibliográfica e às análises das entrevistas realizadas com quatro estudiosos representativos da área da didática: José C. Libâneo, Maria Rita N. S. Oliveira, Selma G. Pimenta e Vera M. Candau. Tem como pressuposto teórico-metodológico a teoria do ser social de Marx, seu método dialético, a pedagogia como ciência da e para a práxis educativa e a didática como teoria do ensino enquanto totalidade concreta. No tocante ao método dialético, o estudo se faz pautado em Marx (1978, 1988a, 2007), Lukács (1979, 2007), Kosik (1995), Kopnin (1978), Paulo Netto (2006, 2009) e Frigotto (2006); na pedagogia e na didática, dá-se com Saviani (2005b, 2006, 2007b, 2008a), Libâneo (2000a, 2008), Pimenta (2000, 2001, 2005) e Oliveira (1991, 1992). A tentativa de captar as mediações do objeto de estudo conduz ao estudo do modo pósmoderno de pensar, a partir de obras de autores como Harvey (1993), Eagleton (1998), Jameson (2004) e Anderson (2004). Para sustentar a concepção de pós-modernidade, recorre-se também a Wood e Foster (1999) e Paulo Netto (2010). A pesquisa tem as seguintes categorias nucleares: pedagogias contra-hegemônicas, hegemonia, pós-modernidade, crítica, práxis, ciência, educação, cultura, pedagogia e didática. Os resultados demonstram, no tocante à questão da pesquisa, que, para todos os entrevistados, a didática crítica não está se metamorfoseando em uma didática pósmoderna, mas indicam a presença das ideias da pós-modernidade na área da didática. No tocante ao modo de lidar dos estudiosos da didática com os referenciais teóricos, sinalizam para a importância e contribuição da didática crítica, em particular aquela inspirada no marxismo, e sua validade nos dias atuais. Essa visão é compartilhada por Oliveira, Libâneo e Pimenta. Há sinalizações para modos distintos de lidar com a teoria de Marx entre esses três autores, ao passo que Candau aponta para uma didática crítico-intercultural, no diálogo com ideias pós-modernas de oposição. A pesquisa conclui pela validade e pertinência científica da posição contra-hegemônica lançada na década de 1980 e que ao longo da década de 1990 tendeu a ser contestada pela visão pós-moderna. Destaca a necessidade e validade da pedagogia histórico-crítica pelo caráter objetivo da formação humana constituinte de suas posições sobre educação e trabalho. A tarefa da didática consiste em contribuir com o desenvolvimento da consciência pedagógica do professor. Em situação de ensino, a finalidade do processo educativo é elevar a compreensão do aluno do nível sincrético ao nível da síntese. / This research aims at analyzing the scientific validity of the counter-hegemonic didactic-pedagogic approach developed in the decades of 1980 and 1990, in view of the disputes brought out by the postmodern way of thinking. In pursuing this objective, it seeks to answer the core question that guides the investigation: How are the scholars who fostered the movement for a critic didactic and had their epistemological bases grounded on the Marxism dialectic treating the questions posed by postmodernity, since its assumptions bring into question the main theses defended by dialectical historical materialism, with direct epistemological and praxticiological implications to the fields of pedagogy and didactic? Also a secondary question is posed: Is there an epistemological shift from a critical didactic to a post-modern didactic? The development of the theme comprises a theoretical study of the relevant bibliography and analyzes of interviews carried out with four representative scholars in the didactic field, namely, José C. Libâneo, Maria Rita N. S. Oliveira, Selma G. Pimenta, and Vera M. F. Candau; here the theoretical-methodological assumptions are Marxs theory of the Social Being, his dialectical method, and pedagogy seen as a science of, and for, educative praxis, and didactic seen as a theory of teaching in its concrete wholeness. As for the dialectical method, the references used are Marx (1979, 1988a, 2007), Lukács (1979, 2007), Kosik (1995), Kopnin (1978), Paulo Netto (2006, 2009) and Frigotto (2006); for pedagogy and didactic considerations, the references are Saviani (2005b, 2006, 2007b, 2008a), Libâneo (200a, 2008), Pimenta (2000, 2001, 2005), and Oliveira (1991, 1992). In the attempt to capture the mediations of the object under investigation, the post-modern way of thinking is discussed from the perspective presented by Harvey (1993), Eagleton (1998), Jameson (2004), and Anderson (2004); to support the concept of post-modernity chosen reference is made to Wood and Foster (1999) and Paulo Netto (2010). The research highlights the following nuclear categories: counter-hegemonic pedagogies, hegemony, post-modernity, critic, praxis, science, education, culture, pedagogy and didactic. The results show that, in relation to the research question, for all the interviewed scholars critical didactic is not changing into post-modern didactic, but they concede that some of the post-modern ideas are already present in the area of didactic. As for the manner those didactic scholars deal with the theoretical framework, there are indications that they consider that critical didactic, especially the segment inspired by Marxism, is important and has contributions, and is still valid in present days; this position is shared by Libâneo, Oliveira, and Pimenta. Also there are signs that those three professors have different forms of approaching Marx´s theory, and particularly Candau favors an intercultural critic didactic in the debate with opposing postmodern ideas. The research supports the validity and pertinence of the counter-hegemonic position launched in the 1980s and attacked by the post-modern trend along the 1990s. It also highlights the necessity and validity of the history-critical pedagogy due to its objectivity in human formation, one of its tenets in the reflection on education and labor. The task of didactic is to contribute with the development of teachers pedagogical consciousness. In the teaching situation the final goal of the educative process is to raise students comprehension from the syncretic level to the level of synthesis.

The gender balance in Swedish preschool and elementary schoolteachers is highly uneven. Male preschool and elementary schoolteachers consist of only 4% and 25% respectively. The study’s motivation is found here. The aim is to get knowledge of the way male students at university who are studying to become preschool or elementary schoolteachers use and take benefit of existing male discourses and if they make opposition on these discourses. By the use of qualitative interviews, the material in this study is based on subjective views and experiences of male students doing gender in the context of a female-dominated space of study and anticipated future career. Within a broader social constructive approach, the empirical material is analyzed by the use of Connell’s theory on gender and hegemonic masculinity. Other theoretical concept that have been used in this study to display and analyze the way the students are doing gender are such as “male discourses” and “masculinity”. The result of this study suggest that male students are not giving up their use of male discourses, instead they are constructing a new role in relation to their future profession and existing discourses. They construct their profession roles in relation with their use of existing male discourses as well as opposition towards them, as well as the use of female discourses. The result of this study suggest that male students are in some cases using existing male discourses in relation to their profession, but that they are also using active resistance towards these discourses with the use of female discourses. These results go mostly in line with results presented by earlier studies in the field. The students are negotiating with the hegemonic masculinity in the way they are constructing their professional role as teachers and role models.

Adentrando o debate sobre a produção do espaço urbano da cidade contemporânea, esta pesquisa analisa em que medida os processos de patrimonialização mundial regidos pela Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, a Ciência e a Cultura (UNESCO) e seus desdobramentos são conformes, ou não, com processos hegemônicos de produção da cidade. Nesse campo de disputas e conflitos, verificam-se as transversalidades e fenômenos de um processo atrelado a uma lógica de reprodução do capital e ao consumo mercantil das cidades. Neste sentido, a sua compreensão permite desvelar aspectos da reprodução financeirizada do capital no espaço urbano, e responde a hipótese que esse trabalho apresenta, de que os tecidos urbanos tradicionais da cidade são desconstituídos de seu significado ao recriar novas articulações urbanas que intensificam e reduzem realidades complexas diante de seus processos de patrimonialização regidos pela assistência e cooperação internacional da UNESCO. Tal processo de ressignificação, por meio da dissolução das condicionantes físicas, históricas e socioculturais que constituem de maneira dinâmica a identidade dos tecidos urbanos tradicionais das cidades, pode resultar em contradições em relação à articulação dos nomeados bens culturais aos seus contextos locais e na dissolução das relações de identidade e culturais do próprio lugar. Assim, considerada uma questão que perpassa o patrimônio, este trabalho analisa como estudo de caso o processo de classificação recente e ainda em andamento do Ver-o-Peso (BR) e apresenta como contraponto o patrimônio mundial da Universidade de Coimbra (PT), buscando por meio desta análise questionar e verificar as condições e os processos na cidade que podem levar tanto à criação de espaços simplificados de significado, diante de um processo de homogeneização da cultura, quanto a ações de preservação no âmbito nacional e internacional, principalmente relacionadas a uma agência multilateral internacional de preservação do patrimônio que corroboram para este processo. Dessa forma, a pesquisa se insere no quadro de discussões relativas ao processo de produção do espaço urbano da cidade relacionado à intervenções no patrimônio e a preservação de conjuntos históricos das cidades, contribuindo particularmente para avaliar o papel dos processos de classificação a patrimônio mundial das cidades na proteção e preservação do patrimônio cultural. / As part of the debate on the production of the urban space of the contemporary city, this research analyzes to what extent the processes of global patrimonialization governed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and its developments are or are not in conformity with hegemonic processes of production of the city. In this field of disputes and conflicts we verify the transversality and the phenomena of a process linked to a logic of reproduction of capital and to the mercantile consumption of cities. In this sense, its understanding allows us to unveil aspects of the financial reproduction of capital in urban space, and responds to the hypothesis that this work presents, that is the traditional urban fabrics of the city are deconstituted of their meaning when recreating new urban articulations that intensify and reduce complex realities in the face of its patrimonial processes governed by UNESCO\'s international assistance and cooperation. Such a process of resignification, through the dissolution of the physical, historical and socio-cultural conditioning factors that dynamically constitute the identity of the traditional urban fabrics of the cities, may result in contradictions in relation to the articulation of the so-called cultural goods for their local contexts and in the dissolution of identity and cultural relations of the place. Thus, considered as an issue that pervades the heritage, this work analyzes, as a case study, the recent and ongoing classification process of the Ver-o-Peso (BR) and presents as a counterpoint the world heritage of the University of Coimbra (PT). This analysis seeks to question and verify the conditions and processes in the city that can lead both to the creation of simplified spaces of meaning, before a process of homogenization of culture, and preservation actions at national and international level, mainly related to an international multilateral agency for the preservation of heritage that corroborate this process. In this way, the research is part of discussions about the process of production of the urban space of the city related to interventions in heritage and the preservation of historical sets of cities, contributing particularly to evaluate the role of classification processes to cities\' world heritage in the protection and preservation of cultural heritage.

Adentrando o debate sobre a produção do espaço urbano da cidade contemporânea, esta pesquisa analisa em que medida os processos de patrimonialização mundial regidos pela Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, a Ciência e a Cultura (UNESCO) e seus desdobramentos são conformes, ou não, com processos hegemônicos de produção da cidade. Nesse campo de disputas e conflitos, verificam-se as transversalidades e fenômenos de um processo atrelado a uma lógica de reprodução do capital e ao consumo mercantil das cidades. Neste sentido, a sua compreensão permite desvelar aspectos da reprodução financeirizada do capital no espaço urbano, e responde a hipótese que esse trabalho apresenta, de que os tecidos urbanos tradicionais da cidade são desconstituídos de seu significado ao recriar novas articulações urbanas que intensificam e reduzem realidades complexas diante de seus processos de patrimonialização regidos pela assistência e cooperação internacional da UNESCO. Tal processo de ressignificação, por meio da dissolução das condicionantes físicas, históricas e socioculturais que constituem de maneira dinâmica a identidade dos tecidos urbanos tradicionais das cidades, pode resultar em contradições em relação à articulação dos nomeados bens culturais aos seus contextos locais e na dissolução das relações de identidade e culturais do próprio lugar. Assim, considerada uma questão que perpassa o patrimônio, este trabalho analisa como estudo de caso o processo de classificação recente e ainda em andamento do Ver-o-Peso (BR) e apresenta como contraponto o patrimônio mundial da Universidade de Coimbra (PT), buscando por meio desta análise questionar e verificar as condições e os processos na cidade que podem levar tanto à criação de espaços simplificados de significado, diante de um processo de homogeneização da cultura, quanto a ações de preservação no âmbito nacional e internacional, principalmente relacionadas a uma agência multilateral internacional de preservação do patrimônio que corroboram para este processo. Dessa forma, a pesquisa se insere no quadro de discussões relativas ao processo de produção do espaço urbano da cidade relacionado à intervenções no patrimônio e a preservação de conjuntos históricos das cidades, contribuindo particularmente para avaliar o papel dos processos de classificação a patrimônio mundial das cidades na proteção e preservação do patrimônio cultural. / As part of the debate on the production of the urban space of the contemporary city, this research analyzes to what extent the processes of global patrimonialization governed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and its developments are or are not in conformity with hegemonic processes of production of the city. In this field of disputes and conflicts we verify the transversality and the phenomena of a process linked to a logic of reproduction of capital and to the mercantile consumption of cities. In this sense, its understanding allows us to unveil aspects of the financial reproduction of capital in urban space, and responds to the hypothesis that this work presents, that is the traditional urban fabrics of the city are deconstituted of their meaning when recreating new urban articulations that intensify and reduce complex realities in the face of its patrimonial processes governed by UNESCO\'s international assistance and cooperation. Such a process of resignification, through the dissolution of the physical, historical and socio-cultural conditioning factors that dynamically constitute the identity of the traditional urban fabrics of the cities, may result in contradictions in relation to the articulation of the so-called cultural goods for their local contexts and in the dissolution of identity and cultural relations of the place. Thus, considered as an issue that pervades the heritage, this work analyzes, as a case study, the recent and ongoing classification process of the Ver-o-Peso (BR) and presents as a counterpoint the world heritage of the University of Coimbra (PT). This analysis seeks to question and verify the conditions and processes in the city that can lead both to the creation of simplified spaces of meaning, before a process of homogenization of culture, and preservation actions at national and international level, mainly related to an international multilateral agency for the preservation of heritage that corroborate this process. In this way, the research is part of discussions about the process of production of the urban space of the city related to interventions in heritage and the preservation of historical sets of cities, contributing particularly to evaluate the role of classification processes to cities\' world heritage in the protection and preservation of cultural heritage.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-11-21T11:35:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Adolf Deny Motter Florencio.pdf: 3580659 bytes, checksum: 000c169ce7090a5274da9d307256ae5b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-21T11:35:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adolf Deny Motter Florencio.pdf: 3580659 bytes, checksum: 000c169ce7090a5274da9d307256ae5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-05 / We tried to analyze in this work the MCMV Entities program as a fighting chance to counter-hegemonic. So we share the view that there is a neoliberal hegemony that is generating social and environmental injustices as ever existed as to endanger the survival of our civilization in the coming decades. However we also observed that there is a growing anti-hegemonic struggle ongoing, unprecedented way. Numerous social and environmental movements are linked in networks with various connections, local and global, virtual or not. Many organizations can have global presence enabling building a global civil society. The social movement of housing is articulated with this set of networks as comprising housing in its broadest form and the roots of its precariousness. In this process the Minha Casa Minha Vida Entities arises through the claim of these movements as a form of self-management of housing. The construction of housing projects managed by social movements makes new spaces of struggle and coexistence arise and create new possibilities of social organization. Two housing projects in this mode carried out by the Housing Cooperative of Araras, housing institution headquartered in Campinas and linked to CMP (Central of Popular Movements) were chosen for our study / Analisamos neste trabalho o programa Minha Casa Minha Vida Entidades, criado no Governo do Presidente Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, em março de 2009, como uma possibilidade de luta contra-hegemônica. Sendo assim compartilhamos da visão de que existe uma hegemonia neoliberal que está gerando injustiças sociais e ambientais como jamais existiu, a ponto de colocar em risco a sobrevivência de nossa civilização nas próximas décadas. No entanto também observamos que há uma crescente luta anti-hegemonica em curso, de forma jamais vista. Inúmeros movimentos sociais e ambientais se articulam em redes com as mais variadas conexões, locais e globais, virtuais ou não. Muitas organizações conseguem ter presença global possibilitando a construção uma sociedade civil mundial. O movimento social de habitação articula-se com este conjunto de redes na medida em que compreende a habitação em sua forma mais ampla e as raízes de sua precarização. Nesse processo o Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida Entidades surge através da reivindicação destes movimentos como forma de autogestão da habitação. A construção de empreendimentos habitacionais geridos por movimentos sociais faz com que novos espaços de luta e convivência surjam e criem novas possibilidades de organização social. Dois empreendimentos habitacionais nesta modalidade realizados pela Cooperativa Habitacional de Araras, instituição habitacional sediada em Campinas e ligada a CMP (Central de Movimentos Populares) foram escolhidos para nosso estudo

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nabupolasar Alves Feitosa.pdf: 2444286 bytes, checksum: 64741c3bf7f88964eef9b1af8d5af923 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-28 / The present work, entitled The construction of the chavista State: the bolivarian influence, was done with the aim of analysing the process by which the political ideas produced in the past by Simón Bolívar were recovered and instrumentalized by Hugo Chávez under new historical circumstances. With the use of Simón Bolívar s historical figure as justification for his acts, Hugo Chávez s governing style varied in such a manner that it was possible to identify three periods during the 14 years as leader of the Venezuelan State. In each of theses periods, the way Chávez used the State to relate himself with society changed, and eventually He constructed what is called here the chavista State. The leading hypothesis in this work asserts that Chávez, using Bolívar as justification, took a political track in a growing dispute that ended up by creating a strong State, capitalist, socially oriented, with great concentration of Power in Hugo Chávez s hands, and with persecution against political adversaries or anyone that could oppose the chavista power project. To go through this hypothesis, a qualitative research was done, based also on many official data about the economic and social situation in Venezuela, besides a broad bibliographical research. The thesis holds its fundaments in Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, in the understanding of bonapartism, which characterizes the chavista way of acting, and Nico poulantzas State, Power, Socialism, that offers a theory about the substitution of the power block as a result of the struggles between the class fractions. This way, with the study of Simón Bolívar s political thinking and Hugo Chávez s political formation and his acts as president of the Republic, it became clear that in Venezuela there was no revolution, for the capitalist characteristics remain in the Venezuelan economy, and the taking of the State by the working class did not occur, but only an exchange of the power block, with the military predominance as a hegemonic class. As a result of Hugo Chávez s phisical disappearence, the decadence of the chavista State started, with a tendency to extinction, due to the absence of Chávez s charisma, his ability to reconcile inner interests inside the chavista movement, and because of the economic crisis which devastates the country / O presente trabalho, intitulado A construção do Estado chavista: a influência bolivariana, foi realizado com o objetivo de analisar o processo pelo qual as idéias políticas produzidas no passado por Simón Bolívar foram recuperadas e instrumentalizadas por Hugo Chávez sob novas circunstâncias históricas. Com o uso da figura histórica de Simón Bolívar como justificativa para suas ações, o estilo de governar de Hugo Chávez variou de tal maneira que foi possível identificar três períodos distintos durante os 14 anos em que esteve à frente do Estado venezuelano. Em cada um desses períodos, a forma como Chávez usava o Estado para se relacionar com a sociedade ia mudando, até que finalmente construíu o que se denomina aqui de Estado chavista. A hipótese norteadora desse trabalho sustenta que Chávez, utilizando-se de Bolívar como justificativa, caminhou politicamente num crescente de disputa política que culminou em um Estado forte, capitalista, de orientação social, com grande concentração de poder na pessoa de Hugo Chávez, e com perseguição a adversários políticos ou qualquer um que se opusesse ao projeto chavista de poder. Para responder a essa hipótese, foi feita uma pesquisa qualitativa, sustentada também por muitos dados oficiais sobre a situação da sociedade e da economia venezuelanas, além de uma ampla pesquisa bibliográfica. A tese teve como base o 18 Brumário de Luís Bonaparte, de Karl Marx, na compreensão do bonapartismo, que caracteriza o modo de agir chavista, e a obra O Estado, O Poder, O Socialismo, de Nicos Poulantzas, que teoriza a respeito da substituição do bloco no poder como resultado das lutas entre as frações de classe. Dessa forma, com o estudo do pensamento político de Simón Bolívar e da formação ideológica de Hugo Chávez, somados seus aos atos enquanto Presidente da República, ficou patente que na Venezuela não houve revolução, pois permaneceram os traços capitalistas da economia venezuelana, e não ocorreu a tomada do Estado pela classe trabalhadora, tendo existido apenas a mudança do bloco no poder, com predominância dos militares como classe hegemônica. Com o desaparecimento físico de Hugo Chávez, iniciou-se a decadência do Estado chavista, com tendência ao desaparecimento em virtude da ausência do carisma de Chávez, da sua habilidade de conciliar interesses internos ao chavismo, e em razão da crise econômica que assola o país