Mémoire (M.A.) - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 2000. / Bibliogr. : f. 80-87.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 35-37). Also available in print.

Esta Dissertação foi desenvolvida em meio a um importante ciclo de protestos de oposição ao governo que usurpou o poder com o golpe parlamentar concretizado em 31 de agosto de 2016. Entre as diversas ações para implementar o novo pacto se encontram a PEC do Fim do Mundo e a Reforma do Ensino Médio. Com isso, uma onda de ocupações estudantis tomou conta de escolas, universidades e institutos tecnológicos. Provocados pelo exemplo da mobilização estudantil, técnicos e docentes da maioria das instituições federais de ensino superior deflagraram suas greves. Na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), a greve dos técnicos durou 44 dias, e a dos docentes 21. Esta pesquisa militante assume a defesa que Lefebvre (2014) faz do cotidiano como categoria de análise e do marxismo também como conhecimento crítico da vida cotidiana. A experiência concreta da realidade, o ‘vivido’, representa o mundo percebido, a focalização da consciência em uma prática. Seu contraponto dialético é o ‘viver’, a virtualidade projetada, fruto das expectativas de um futuro desejado (LEFEBVRE, 2014). O estudo da greve, através da vida cotidiana – este lugar de transição, encontros interações e conflitos -, permite compreender sua construção desde baixo, a partir do vivido e do viver, do individual e do coletivo. Além disto, destacamos as ações e práticas que suspendiam a repetição e desafiavam a alienação a partir da coesão que brota da tomada de consciência das possibilidades que o coletivo constrói ao se organizar para tentar mudar a realidade com a qual se confronta. / The study that originated the present Dissertation was developed amid an important national cycle of protests in opposition to a constitutional amendment that established a spending limit the growth of federal government spending to the rate of inflation for 20 years, and to a bill introducing radical changes in high school curriculum. Both reforms were proposed by the government that took power after the Brazilian parliamentary coup of May 2016 and were approved by the National Congress at the end of this year. These projects were opposed by massive student’s movements and university strikes, among others. In the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil), a technical-administrative staff strike lasted 44 days, and a teachers strike 21 days. We were part of the strike commands – one of us is from administrative staff (and an MSc student at that time) and the other is a teacher. We are also members of the Organization and Liberating Practice research group, based at the School of Administration, in which Marx and Marxist authors have been studied, such as Henri Lefebvre. Therefore, it was obvious that we could interconnect these two spaces (activism and academy) based on Lefebvre’s (2014) propositions on the critique of everyday life. The aim of this activist research was to analyze the everyday construction of these strikes, considering the living and the lived experience of workers and its meaning to transform potentially their everyday life. Lefebvre (2014) provided the theoretical framework to analyze conflicts, practices, ruptures, discontinuities, repetitions and creations, mainly through categories such as ambiguity, alienation, moments and possibilities Data were collected throughout the strikes and was supplemented with social network information and interviews with members from the strike commands after the end of movements. The rupture with everyday labor by rote, the recognition on the importance of cohesion beyond the hierarchies determined by the university structure, and the horizon widening of possibilities for the movement participants were some of the conclusions. Another relevant aspect is that these strikes were not organized in defense or to achieve goals directly related to labor conditions. They were organized together with the student movement that occupied more than 40 buildings in different campuses in defense of the education system, providing a space for mutual recognition that went beyond tactic alliances involving the three sectors of the university community. The everyday collective construction of this movement became evident the importance and potentialities of articulating and supporting each other in each specific struggle workplace while simultaneously being intensively involved with the wider context of social struggles.

abstract: In this dissertation I use Henri Lefebvre's concept of the production of social space to study how political theatre companies and artists in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, appropriate and resignify, through performance, their current social space as a strategy to contest Puerto Rico's neoliberal state policies. As Lefebvre suggests, modern industrial cities like San Juan maintain hegemonic power relations through spatial practices, processes through which users and inhabitants of the city conceive, perceive and live space. Lefebvre further suggests that for social justice to be possible, space must be resignified in ways that expose otherwise invisibilized struggles for social belonging and differentiation. I argue that theatrical performance, by staging various social conflicts and contradictions between the dominating space and the appropriating space, can produce new "performance cartographies" through which its audiences – in large part disenfranchised from the neoliberal processes so celebrated elsewhere on the island – may find ways to resignify space or envision new spaces for social justice on their own behalf. Specifically, I examine five theatre groups and artists from oppressed sectors in San Juan, whose work is to various degrees in opposition to neoliberalism, to reveal how both their artistic and quotidian performances might be resignifying space toward these ends. How does the work of Agua, Sol y Sereno, Y no había luz, Teatro Breve, Deborah Hunt and Tito Kayak strategically claim or appropriate space? What kind of knowledges emerge from these spatial tactics, and how are they helping envision new forms of living and social justice in the city? / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Theatre 2015

Esta Dissertação foi desenvolvida em meio a um importante ciclo de protestos de oposição ao governo que usurpou o poder com o golpe parlamentar concretizado em 31 de agosto de 2016. Entre as diversas ações para implementar o novo pacto se encontram a PEC do Fim do Mundo e a Reforma do Ensino Médio. Com isso, uma onda de ocupações estudantis tomou conta de escolas, universidades e institutos tecnológicos. Provocados pelo exemplo da mobilização estudantil, técnicos e docentes da maioria das instituições federais de ensino superior deflagraram suas greves. Na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), a greve dos técnicos durou 44 dias, e a dos docentes 21. Esta pesquisa militante assume a defesa que Lefebvre (2014) faz do cotidiano como categoria de análise e do marxismo também como conhecimento crítico da vida cotidiana. A experiência concreta da realidade, o ‘vivido’, representa o mundo percebido, a focalização da consciência em uma prática. Seu contraponto dialético é o ‘viver’, a virtualidade projetada, fruto das expectativas de um futuro desejado (LEFEBVRE, 2014). O estudo da greve, através da vida cotidiana – este lugar de transição, encontros interações e conflitos -, permite compreender sua construção desde baixo, a partir do vivido e do viver, do individual e do coletivo. Além disto, destacamos as ações e práticas que suspendiam a repetição e desafiavam a alienação a partir da coesão que brota da tomada de consciência das possibilidades que o coletivo constrói ao se organizar para tentar mudar a realidade com a qual se confronta. / The study that originated the present Dissertation was developed amid an important national cycle of protests in opposition to a constitutional amendment that established a spending limit the growth of federal government spending to the rate of inflation for 20 years, and to a bill introducing radical changes in high school curriculum. Both reforms were proposed by the government that took power after the Brazilian parliamentary coup of May 2016 and were approved by the National Congress at the end of this year. These projects were opposed by massive student’s movements and university strikes, among others. In the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil), a technical-administrative staff strike lasted 44 days, and a teachers strike 21 days. We were part of the strike commands – one of us is from administrative staff (and an MSc student at that time) and the other is a teacher. We are also members of the Organization and Liberating Practice research group, based at the School of Administration, in which Marx and Marxist authors have been studied, such as Henri Lefebvre. Therefore, it was obvious that we could interconnect these two spaces (activism and academy) based on Lefebvre’s (2014) propositions on the critique of everyday life. The aim of this activist research was to analyze the everyday construction of these strikes, considering the living and the lived experience of workers and its meaning to transform potentially their everyday life. Lefebvre (2014) provided the theoretical framework to analyze conflicts, practices, ruptures, discontinuities, repetitions and creations, mainly through categories such as ambiguity, alienation, moments and possibilities Data were collected throughout the strikes and was supplemented with social network information and interviews with members from the strike commands after the end of movements. The rupture with everyday labor by rote, the recognition on the importance of cohesion beyond the hierarchies determined by the university structure, and the horizon widening of possibilities for the movement participants were some of the conclusions. Another relevant aspect is that these strikes were not organized in defense or to achieve goals directly related to labor conditions. They were organized together with the student movement that occupied more than 40 buildings in different campuses in defense of the education system, providing a space for mutual recognition that went beyond tactic alliances involving the three sectors of the university community. The everyday collective construction of this movement became evident the importance and potentialities of articulating and supporting each other in each specific struggle workplace while simultaneously being intensively involved with the wider context of social struggles.

Moby Dick, House of Leaves, and Ex Machina portray characters that rely on a form of technology to navigate their respective environments. As such, their settings are remediated spaces – spaces understood through their relationship with technology. The inhabitants of remediated spaces inherently resemble the cyborg as their perspectives fuse with machines in their understanding of space. Captain Ahab from Moby Dick must rely on his ivory leg and ship for mobility, often merging himself with the machine of the vessel. House of Leaves provides a space and family that exist exclusively within the confines of found footage, fusing technology and humanity through layers of remediation. Ex Machina illustrates a gynoid escaping an imprisoning facility, a machine called Ava that physically resembles a human. Using theorists such as Donna Haraway and Henri Lefebvre, this thesis explores connections between technology and space.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to investigate how library users experience the space in their library. In understanding the conception of space, we have used Henri Lefebvre's triad of space which he writes about in The Production of Space (1991). We also used different interpreters of Lefebvre to understand his theory better. For this thesis we have interviewed seven users of one academic library and seven users of public libraries in different cities and communities in Sweden. All the libraries we visited were more-open libraries, that means that the libraries offers the patrons to use the libraries even when the librarians isn't there. The interviews had the character go-alongs, that means that we went along with the user in it´s library while we did a semi-structured interview or semi-structured interviews via Zoom. As a complement to the interviews made via Zoom the users drew a map of their library, in the way that they consider it, the method for this is called mental map. It was used as support for remembering the room and to place us in the room. We analyzed the empirics by using Lefebvres aspects spatial practice, representations of space and representational spaces. In our result we could see that the users experience of the library room was very integrated with others or the absence of others. Analyzing it made us understand what Lefebvre ment with social space and how bodies, our own and others influence the experience of space and how we reproduce space by entering a room. We also found that the users felt at home in their libraries and that the spaces filled their needs. The needs were to be on your own, to be in a place that motivates you, or inspires you in different ways. The library seems to be that place and also what the user expects to find in the library.

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Cette thèse analyse les modes d’habiter périurbains au travers des projets de promoteurs immobiliers des années 1960-1970 au Québec et en France. En effet, les promoteurs de Bromont et l’Estérel au Québec et des Cottages-de-Cernay et de Port-Sud en France se sont emparés de l’idéologie de la société des loisirs pour concevoir des ensembles résidentiels périurbains. Le recul historique sur cette conception urbanistique d’un habiter périurbain offre la possibilité d’une comparaison à la fois synchronique et diachronique des modalités d’appropriation habitantes de ces ensembles résidentiels sur la période 1960-2010. L’analyse de cette appropriation habitante du périurbain est inspirée du cadre conceptuel et de la méthode régressive progressive d’Henri Lefebvre (1974). Selon ce cadre théorique, l’appropriation est définie comme un processus conflictuel entre l’idéologie de l’espace conçue par les promoteurs et les représentations des habitants mais aussi comme rapports conflictuels entre les différentes modalités d’habiter ces espaces par les habitants. Cette recherche s’appuie sur trois types de sources: des entretiens, des articles de journaux et des archives. Les résultats montrent que les promoteurs ont échoué à concevoir un mode d’habiter spécifique au niveau de leur projet urbanistique. Elle détaille le jeu complexe d’alliances et d’oppositions sociales et politiques en faveur d’adhésion, de rejet et/ ou de détournement habitant de conceptions des formes périurbaines des années 1960-1970. Elle apporte de ce fait, un regard novateur sur les processus de différenciation des espaces périurbains observés depuis les années 2010 en France et au Québec. / This thesis analyzes peri-urban living patterns through real estate developer projects from the 1960-1970s in Quebec and France. In fact, developers of Bromont and Estérel in Quebec and Cottages-de-Cernay and Port-Sud in France seize on the ideology of the leisure society to design peri-urban residential complexes. The historical retreat on this urbanistic conception of a periurban inhabitant offers the possibility of a synchronic and diachronic comparison of the appropriation of these residential complexes over the period 1960-2010. The analysis of appropriation is inspired by the conceptual framework and the progressive regressive method of Henri Lefebvre (1974). According to this theoretical framework, the appropriation is defined as a conflictual process between the ideology of the space conceived by the developers and the representations of the inhabitants but also as conflicting relations between the different ways of living these spaces by the inhabitants.This research is based on three types of sources: interviews, newspaper articles and archives. This thesis shows that developers have failed to design a specific way of living that adequately represented their urban project. The research details the complex game of social and political alliances and oppositions in favor of commitment, rejection and / or diversion by the inhabitants in relation to the conception of peri-urban forms of the years 1960-1970. As a result, this thesis provides an innovative view of the different trajectories of peri-urban areas observed since 2010 in France and Quebec.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Glauber Lopes Xavier - 2010.pdf: 5005002 bytes, checksum: e38f4eabbc51096839f397b73665785f (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / L´appréhension du quotidien des travailleurs ―ruraux‖ est le principal objectif de notre recherche. Nous cherchons à l´atteindre en deux perspectives, le temps et l´espace, comprenant que le complot par lequel s´établit les procés d´exploration et de domination de ces travailleurs surgissent à partir d´elles. Autres thémes, évident, conformes à cette appréhension, étant donné que, influencé à une lecture ancrée dans le principe de la théorique et de la philosophique de la totalité, nous ne nous dérobons pas de la critique, quand cela est nécessaire, de ce qui concerne la construction de la propre connaissance. Nous nous sommes aidés méthodiquement par du matérialisme historique et dialectique. En cohérence avec cette méthode, nous cherchons, dans les pensées d´Henri Lefebvre, des elaborations théoriques capables de fournir un programme de recherche en accord avec la réalité de la vie quotidienne dans le monde moderne. De telles constructions ont eté, de cette manière, cruciales dans ce que nous objectivons, de telle sorte qui ont permis la réalisation de cette étude avec une proposition unique de pendée, différente de la connaissance parcelée, à mi-chemin de l´appréhension des phénomènes sociaux. Pour comprendre, alors, la matérialisation de ces phénomènesprovoquées par la logique dialectique, forme de mouvement du contenu et plus, pendant le procés social et, pourtant, quotidien qui résulte en une histoire dans un constant devenir, est que nous abordons les conceptes de l´espace sociale, temps ciclique, temps linéaire, société bureaucratique de la consommation dirigée, de l´ordre proche, l´ordre distant, antropologie dialectique, en plus des autres. Pour cela, nous abordons la relation entre le milieu urbain et le milieu rural dans une perspective dialectique, confondus dans le procès de re-production des relations de production. De la même façon, nous rapportons le quotidien des travailleurs ―ruraux‖ à ce qui se réfère au mode de vie et à l´urbanité pour le prisme de la technique et de la consommation, des désirs et des nécéssités. Si nous devons, alors, présenter la constitution des pensées sur lesquelles se basent nos prémisses, considérations, constatations, enfin, la démarche imprimée par le présent travail, nous avons une élaboration triadique des idées: le conçu, le perçu et le vécu, la necessite, le travail, et la jousissance. Bientôt, nous suivons l´appréhension du quotidien des travailleurs ruraux dans ce qu´il y a de poétique, rupture avec le chatiment du travail, des incessants gestes de production de plus-value, les moments d´appréciation du vécu, du plaisir et de la fête, de l´opportunité do nouveau et de l´inespéré. En outre, nous n´abandonnons pas la recherche de ce quotidien dans ce qui le défini aliénant: la religiosité, le procés du travail, l´urbanité ici enveloppent et instaurent de forme anormale. D´un autre côté, nous primons pour l´ordre distant dans ce qu´il achève comme idéologique. Surtout, le papier de l´État nous a été élémentaire pour ce que nous proposons. Pour cela, son élection entre d´autre termes de cet ordre. Nous recherchons, finalement, à les approché, ordre proche et ordre distant, de cette forme le quotidien et l´histoire, quelque chose de diluée dans le présent texte comme uns parcours dans l´appréhension du quotidien des travailleurs ruraux. / A apreensão do cotidiano dos trabalhadores ―bóias-frias‖ tratou-se do principal objetivo de nossa pesquisa. Buscamos alcançá-la numa dupla perspectiva, o tempo e o espaço, entendendo que a trama pela qual se estabelecem os processos de exploração e dominação desses trabalhadores urde-se a partir deles. Temas outros, evidentemente, conformaram para essa apreensão, sendo que, instigados a uma leitura ancorada no princípio teórico-filosófico da totalidade, não nos furtamos da crítica, quando necessária, do que concerne a construção do próprio conhecimento. No materialismo histórico-dialético nos apoiamos metodologicamente. Em coerência com esse método, buscamos, no pensamento de Henri Lefebvre, elaborações teóricas capazes de nos fornecer um programa de pesquisa em consonância com a realidade da vida cotidiana no mundo moderno. Tais postulados foram, destarte, cruciais naquilo que objetivamos, de tal sorte que permitiram a realização desse estudo numa proposta única de pensamento, destoada do conhecimento parcelado, a meio caminho da apreensão dos fenômenos sociais. Por compreendermos, pois, a materialização desses fenômenos encetada pela lógica dialética, forma do movimento do conteúdo e mais, enquanto processo social e, portanto, cotidiano que redunda em história num constante devir, é que abordamos os conceitos de espaço social, tempo cíclico, tempo linear, sociedade burocrática de consumo dirigido, ordem próxima, ordem distante, antropologia dialética, além de outros. Por isso, abordamos a relação entre o meio urbano e o rural numa perspectiva dialética, amalgamadas no processo de re-produção das relações de produção. Do mesmo modo, reportamos ao cotidiano dos ―bóias-frias‖ no que tange ao modo de vida e a urbanidade pelo prisma da técnica e do consumo, dos desejos e das necessidades. Se devemos, então, apresentar a constituição do pensamento sob o qual se assentaram nossas premissas, considerações, constatações, enfim, a démarche imprimida pelo presente trabalho, temos uma elaboração triádica das idéias: o concebido, o percebido e o vivido, a necessidade, o trabalho e o gozo. Logo, trilhamos a apreensão do cotidiano dos ―bóias-frias‖ naquilo que há de poético, ruptura com o castigo do trabalho, dos incessantes gestos de produção de maisvalia, os momentos de desfrute do vivido, do prazer e da festa, do ensejo do novo e inesperado. Ademais, não abandonamos a pesquisa desse cotidiano no que o define alienante: a religiosidade, o processo de trabalho, a urbanidade ali envolta e instaurada de forma anômala. Por outro lado, primamos pelo assento da ordem distante no que ela encerra como ideológico. Sobremaneira o papel do Estado nos foi elementar para o que nos propomos. Por isso, sua eleição perante outros termos dessa ordem. Buscamos, finalmente, aproximá-las, ordem próxima e ordem distante, de certo modo o cotidiano e a história, algo diluído no presente texto como percurso na apreensão do cotidiano dos ―bóias-frias‖.