In processes of economic integration, neoliberal discourse and corresponding notions of development comprise some of the most readily available imaginaries of political and social interaction and change. However, these processes are always also locally produced and negotiated. Engaging with discourse theory, Marxism and postcolonial feminist theory, this dissertation brings together “macro” and “micro” aspects of globalization. The aim is to interrogate discursive reinforcements of and challenges to global orders of production and divisions of labor. With a focus on representations of Free Trade Zones (FTZs), which are tax-exempted enclaves for export production, the study explores competing meanings attributed to the operation of transnational capital in Nicaragua. Based on policy documents, political speeches, promotional videotapes and interviews, the political rhetoric of two governments with competing agendas is analyzed: the neoliberal/conservative government of the Liberal Constitutionalist Party (2002–2007), which framed the FTZs in terms of national progress, and the leftist government of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (2007– ), which attempts to reconnect to the country’s revolutionary past. In this way efforts to formulate legitimate political agendas in the context of shifting relations between states and markets are detailed, together with constructions of citizens and workers along differentiations of class and gender. Relying on interviews with FTZ workers, the study examines ways to interpret, inhabit or resist imperative subject positions at the intersections of contending projects of nation-building and transnational orders of production, in conjunction with a discussion of the uneasy distinction between representation and appropriation that troubles transnational feminist research projects.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:22:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniela Cardoso Pinto.pdf: 571139 bytes, checksum: eed5232a8fad5067f55c20eacd950ee7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-28 / This dissertation tries to evaluate if the expenditures on social policies introduced at the municipality of Diadema by left-wing parties from 1983 to 2000 differ from the expenditures at other municipalities of the same region of the Great ABC, which administrations were conducted by parties of both leftist and rightist parties. It intends to answer if the right-left ideological cleavage caused different patterns of public expenses, or if despite the ideological cleavages, diverse patterns of public expenditures could be caused by other reasons, such as: different kinds of policy demands at different municipalities the region; differences of style of the public managers; or if simply there were no differences of public expenditures between the municipalities. To frame de database of this research we used information from the account offices of each municipality and also information available at the internet pages of Seade Foundation, National Secretary of Treasure and Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Besides, we used interviews with some political actors in order to support our analysis / Esta dissertação busca avaliar se o volume de gastos em políticas sociais implantadas em Diadema no período de 1983 a 2000, por partidos de esquerda, difere do volume de gastos ocorridos nos demais municípios da região administrados por partidos ideologicamente distintos e similares. As hipóteses estudadas neste trabalho focaram responder se a clivagem ideológica direita esquerda reflete na importância de execução dos gastos públicos; se o diferencial dos gastos não estaria nas diversificadas demandas dos municípios que compõem a região; se o diferencial da política pública estaria na ideologia partidária ou no perfil do gestor público; se apesar de ideologicamente diferentes, os partidos políticos não gastam da mesma forma. Para tanto, utilizou-se como base de dados, além dos fornecidos diretamente pelos departamentos de contabilidade e orçamento de cada município, os constantes nos sites da Fundação Seade, Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional e Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística sendo todos apresentados a valores constantes. Além disso, utilizou-se de entrevistas e suporte teórico para embasamento da análise de dados

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:57:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniela Cardoso Pinto.pdf: 571139 bytes, checksum: eed5232a8fad5067f55c20eacd950ee7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-28 / This dissertation tries to evaluate if the expenditures on social policies introduced at the municipality of Diadema by left-wing parties from 1983 to 2000 differ from the expenditures at other municipalities of the same region of the Great ABC, which administrations were conducted by parties of both leftist and rightist parties. It intends to answer if the right-left ideological cleavage caused different patterns of public expenses, or if despite the ideological cleavages, diverse patterns of public expenditures could be caused by other reasons, such as: different kinds of policy demands at different municipalities the region; differences of style of the public managers; or if simply there were no differences of public expenditures between the municipalities. To frame de database of this research we used information from the account offices of each municipality and also information available at the internet pages of Seade Foundation, National Secretary of Treasure and Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Besides, we used interviews with some political actors in order to support our analysis / Esta dissertação busca avaliar se o volume de gastos em políticas sociais implantadas em Diadema no período de 1983 a 2000, por partidos de esquerda, difere do volume de gastos ocorridos nos demais municípios da região administrados por partidos ideologicamente distintos e similares. As hipóteses estudadas neste trabalho focaram responder se a clivagem ideológica direita esquerda reflete na importância de execução dos gastos públicos; se o diferencial dos gastos não estaria nas diversificadas demandas dos municípios que compõem a região; se o diferencial da política pública estaria na ideologia partidária ou no perfil do gestor público; se apesar de ideologicamente diferentes, os partidos políticos não gastam da mesma forma. Para tanto, utilizou-se como base de dados, além dos fornecidos diretamente pelos departamentos de contabilidade e orçamento de cada município, os constantes nos sites da Fundação Seade, Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional e Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística sendo todos apresentados a valores constantes. Além disso, utilizou-se de entrevistas e suporte teórico para embasamento da análise de dados

The submitted thesis deals with the issue of left-wing extremism, especially the development of Trotskyist groups in the territory of Czechoslovakia, later the Czech Republic between the years 1989 - 2014. In the first part of the thesis, the background of Trotskyism thought is introduced as an ideology which is the result of a long-standing conflict between Trotsky and Stalin that was primarily concerned with direction, leadership and the nature of the Soviet Union. The main topics of Trotskyism as the intellectual movement are defined on the base of the analysis of several major writings by L. D. Trotsky. The second part is devoted to the analysis of a number of Trotskyist organizations that are acting or have acted in the Czech environment. In total, four groups from the Czech environment can be identified as Trotskyist. These are the following entities: "Budoucnost" ("Socialist Alternative Future"), "Socialistická solidarita" ("Socialist Solidarity"), "Socialistická organizace pracujících" ("Socialist Organization of Working People"), and "Nová antikapitalistická levice/Levá perspektiva" ("New Anti- Capitalist Left/Left Perspective"). This thesis is an analysis of the development of these groups, of their requirements and program principles, and of the events which these groups participated in during...