By using critical discourse analysis this study aims to understand the asylum process in Sweden through the experiences of the denied asylum seekers as they are expressed in their narratives published online. The study also aims to explore how the applicants influence the asylum process and if the applicants perform any resistance. By adopting the power perspective and presenting the denied applicants‟ experiences of the asylum process through the perspective of discipline power, sovereign power and biopower, the study shows that applicants experience positioning which is imposed on them by Swedish Migration Agency. This research supports findings of the previous studies yet it presents the asylum seekers in a contrasting way, namely as acting subjects who resist and negotiate their position during the asylum process. The denied applicants do not just accept the assigned positions, namely the subject who can be denied, be deported and the unwanted subject, rather negotiate them in various ways including attempt to mobilization through the social medias and digital technologies. The study also shows how the family unit is used as a resource in this negotiation both by the applicants and the Migration Agency.

The thesis will show how Jennifer Dawson's fiction of the 1960s and '70s explores the effects of the overlapping dialects of the normalizing discourse, interlocking manifestations of constraint that consolidate themselves through internalization on a continuum that underpins, generates, perpetuates and constitutes perceptions of `the social. ' A Laingian reading of the scapegoating of perceived dissenters, to invalidate or ideally to pre-empt implied dissent and to confirm in their membership the members of `the group, ' will be applied to illuminate the response provoked by Dawson's protagonists, semantically discredited by a continuum of coercive structures that range from the psychiatric to the dynamic of individual relationships. A Foucauldian analysis of the transition of the maintenance of the status quo from identifiable applications of force to democratized formulations of normalizing power to an internalization of the panoptic principle will further contextualize the dilemmas and tensions of Dawson's protagonists, on whose experience Procrustean identities are systematically if subtly imposed. A Foucauldian perspective will be used to cast light on the feelings of deadlock addressed in the novels, where the tendency of power to incite identification makes a locus of authentic resistance elusive and hard to sustain. This perspective will also inform how Dawson's fiction dramatizes the futility of resistance that fails to engage at the level of form and which thus reinforces power's underlying paradigm, even on the sites of its ostensible subversion. The thesis will demonstrate how her novels increasingly reflect the Laingian concept of contextual intelligibility, revealing how the targets and transmission wires of the normalizing drive are fully enmeshed in power's dynamic structure. Foucault's emphasis on the interstitial will be applied to show how, in her fiction of the `70s, the mutual impact of individual lives is portrayed as not only constraining but also as potentially inspiring. Her protagonists move towards a conscious awareness of the need to forge and activate an interstitial perspective, symbolized initially by music, from which to transcend collusion with the normalizing drive. Only when `freedom' is understood to be not a destination but an attitude of mind do her protagonists emerge from the impasse of complicity and develop a receptiveness to genuine exchange and a view of themselves as more than merely acted upon but as potential definers and inhabitants of their experience.

The aim of this study is to investigate how women, having migrated from a Muslim country to Sweden, reason about their veiling – why do they wear the veil and what meaning does the veil have for them? The veiling custom has become the subject of a heated and polarized debate in Sweden. But where are the veiled women given space to speak, and why are they not involved more in a debate that most of all concern them?                                                                                                                                    Four women from Syria, now living in Sweden, participated in this interview study. The purpose is to investigate the aim with basis in three analytic themes: identity, presentation of self and resistance. These themes have been analysed based on relevant theories and previous research within the subject: social and personal identity, impression control, stereotyping, power and resistance. The previous research consists of three different studies performed on countries with a Muslim majority or minority: India, Indonesia, Canada, Denmark, and Great Britain. In this way, this study attempts to understand, as profoundly as possible, the meaning of the veil from the perspective of the veiled woman herself.                                                                 The result shows that the veil has great meaning in terms of identity and presentation of self. The result also shows that the clash with the discursive power regarding veiling can cause resistance, which in turn affects the meaning of the veil both in terms of internal identity creation and the external presentation of self. This is due to the threat against identity from a challenging environment forcing the human being to negotiate and define identity within herself, which also affects presentation of self. The experiences and reasoning of the respondents differ both over time and between them, sometimes in paradoxical ways, although they are similar in some aspects. This indicates that although they experience, are affected by and shaped by the same societal discourses, they react differently and therefore relate differently to their veiling. / Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie är att undersöka hur muslimska kvinnor som har migrerat från ett muslimskt land resonerar om sitt slöjbärande– varför bär de slöja och vilken betydelse har slöjan för dem? Att bära slöja har blivit ett omdiskuterat ämne i Sverige och åsikterna som hörs och syns i samhället är både många och polariserade. Men var ges de slöjbärande kvinnorna plats att tala och varför involveras de inte mer i en debatt som först och främst rör dem själva?                                                                                                                                  Fyra kvinnor från Syrien, numera boende i Sverige, har deltagit i studien. Med intervju som metod avser studien att undersöka syftet utifrån tre analytiska teman: identitet, självpresentation och motstånd. Dessa teman har analyserats utifrån relevanta teorier och tidigare forskning i ämnet; social och personlig identitet, intrycksstyrning, stereotypering samt makt och motstånd. Den tidigare forskningen är tre olika studier gjorda i muslimska majoritets- och minoritetsländer såsom, Indien, Indonesien Canada och Danmark och Storbritannien. På detta sätt avser denna studie att på ett så djupgående sätt som möjligt försöka förstå slöjans betydelse ur den slöjbärandes eget perspektiv.    Studiens resultat visar att slöjan har stor betydelse för identitet och självpresentation. Resultatet visar också att möte med diskursiv makt kring slöjbärande kan leda till motstånd vilket påverkar slöjans betydelse både för det inre identitetsarbetet och den yttre självpresentationen. Detta beror på att hotet mot identiteten från en ifrågasättande omgivning tvingar människan att förhandla och definiera identiteten inom sig själv vilket också påverkar självpresentationen. Informanternas upplevelser och resonemang skiljer sig åt både över tid och mellan varandra på ibland paradoxala sätt, samtidigt som de liknar varandra i vissa avseenden. Det tyder på att även om de upplever, påverkas och formas av samma diskurser i samhället så kan de reagera olika och därmed också förhålla sig olika till sitt slöjbärande.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2016-10-07T11:49:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RAFAEL JOSÉ DA COSTA SANTOS.pdf: 967569 bytes, checksum: 3d3d5cb001539ceed9a92afa61bf4f83 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-07T11:49:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RAFAEL JOSÉ DA COSTA SANTOS.pdf: 967569 bytes, checksum: 3d3d5cb001539ceed9a92afa61bf4f83 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-31 / This dissertation’s research object is the militarization of the public school in Goiás. We made an investigation of the implantation of the Goiás’ Military Police schools in the public teaching system. The creation process of this kind of school is the result of the transference of the administration of basic school institutions to Goiás’ Military Police through the Public Security Department. We intended to show how such movement is modifying the transferred schools’ structure. They used to be democratic spaces open for all, but became militarized and selective structures. A historical analysis was made in order to show that the whirling rhythm of installation of the CPMGs has as background a political project promoted by the government of Goiás and that is resulting in social impact. Interest relations and conflictions are involved in such a context. The government of Goiás, which dominates the political space, imposes the military schools, and social groups that benefit from the militarization defend such a teaching mode. On the other hand, a part of the impaired civil society and community mobilizes itself and offers resistance. Besides that matter, this work reflects on subjects concealed from the discussions, such as the admission priority given to certain candidates, the choice of schools to become administrated by the police and the monthly fee. These factors select and exclude the students out of the school unities. The analysis made of the military teaching in the CPMGs allows us to approximate them to the Military School of the Brazilian Army, because they follow a common education guideline directed by the doctrine of the Military Forces, where the hierarchy and the discipline prevail, being also important the servile obedience to the military professionals. Despite that similarity, the research shows there are also differences between them. Different from the Military Schools, which prepare the young people to the military career, the CPMGs do not form students to the Military Forces, neither to the PM career, but they insert military values and practices into the civilians’ everyday life and formation. The research is widened as the historical analysis deepens and reveals the complexity of the military matter in the Brazilian society. Through the pondering about the formation of the State of Goiás, of the Military Police and of the public school, it is possible to clarify the deepening of a military idea of society which got into the institutions and into our society. Hence, in the territory of the public school of Goiás there is fertile ground for a military educational system. At the end of this study, an excursus was inserted with the aim of showing how previous researches regarding the theories of Michel Foucault were fundamental to inspire and guide this research. Such excursus works as an epistemology of the research and aims to show the ways that made it possible to build the object of study. / Esta dissertação tem como objeto de sua pesquisa a militarização da escola pública em Goiás. Realizou-se uma investigação sobre a implantação dos colégios da Polícia Militar de Goiás no sistema público de ensino. O processo de criação desse tipo de escola é resultado da transferência de instituições de ensino básico para a gestão da Polícia Militar de Goiás, por meio da Secretaria de Segurança Pública. A intenção foi mostrar como esse movimento está modificando a estrutura das escolas transferidas, as quais, se antes eram espaços democráticos e de acesso para todos, passaram a se constituir como estrutura militarizada e seletiva. Foi realizada análise histórica para mostrar que o ritmo vertiginoso da instalação dos CPMG tem como pano de fundo um projeto político promovido pelo governo de Goiás e isso está acarretando impacto social. Nesse contexto, estão envolvidas relações de interesse e de conflito nas quais o governo goiano, que domina a esfera pública, impõe os colégios militares e grupos sociais que se beneficiam da militarização defendem esse modo de ensino. Por outro lado, parte da sociedade civil e da comunidade atingida se mobiliza e exerce resistência. Além dessa questão, o trabalho reflete sobre assuntos escamoteados dos debates, tais como a prioridade das vagas dada a determinados candidatos, a escolha das escolas para se tornarem colégios da polícia e a cobrança de taxa mensal, fazendo os estudantes serem selecionados e excluídos dessas unidades. A análise sobre o ensino militar dos CPMG possibilita aproximá-los do Colégio Militar do Exército Brasileiro, porque eles seguem uma matriz comum de educação regulada na doutrina das Forças Armadas, com a predominância da hierarquia e da disciplina, além da obediência servil aos profissionais militares. Apesar da similaridade entre ambos, a pesquisa mostra haver pontos de distinção. Ao contrário dos Colégios Militares, que preparam jovens para a carreira militar, os CPMG não estão a serviço de formar nem estudantes para compor as Forças Armadas, nem para a carreira da PM, mas, isso sim, implantam valores e práticas militares no cotidiano e na formação de civis. A pesquisa é ampliada à medida que a análise histórica se aprofunda e revela a complexidade da questão militar na sociedade brasileira. Com a meditação sobre a formação do Estado de Goiás, da Polícia Militar de Goiás e da escola pública, é possível elucidar o enraizamento de uma concepção militar de sociedade que se introduziu nas instituições e na nossa cultura. Assim, é no território da escola pública goiana que se encontra terreno fértil para um sistema militar de ensino. No final do estudo, foi inserido um excurso com objetivo de mostrar como estudos prévios a respeito das teorias do filósofo Michel Foucault foram fundamentais para inspirar e orientar a pesquisa. Esse excurso funciona como uma epistemologia da pesquisa e tem por finalidade explicitar os caminhos que possibilitaram a construção do objeto.

Submitted by Mariana Dornelles Vargas (marianadv) on 2015-05-05T12:56:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 embates_sobre.pdf: 6700745 bytes, checksum: 26ff6a551cbbc3da0a494b33afff992d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-05T12:56:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 embates_sobre.pdf: 6700745 bytes, checksum: 26ff6a551cbbc3da0a494b33afff992d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-29 / Nenhuma / A presente tese examina as afetações das tensões entre campos sociais sobre as práticas do jornalismo na WEB, permeadas por lógicas desenvolvidas na ambiência da midiatização. Investiga de que forma estas tensões resultam em conflitos e rupturas, onde se tornam visíveis e dizíveis novas formas de controle e censura sobre o webjornalismo midiatizado. Um estudo complexo que analisa os mecanismos e a abrangência destas tensões e seus efeitos sobre a produção da noticiabilidade, que emergem de relações de poder e resistência vivenciadas na internet e na sociedade, conectadas. Para isso, desenvolvemos reflexão teórica, a partir de conceitos que nortearam nossa investigação, entre os quais destacamos os de midiatização, circulação, tensão entre campos sociais, resistência e poder. Também realizamos descrição e análise empírica, com metodologia híbrida, de três acontecimentos jornalísticos, midiatizados no âmbito da WEB, e assim nominados: Pleito por internet livre, Dupla contenda e Duelo entre político e blogueiro. Após observá-los e estudá-los em suas processualidades, depreendemos o webjornalismo brasileiro envolto em tensões e enfrentamentos entre os campos sociais - nos quais percebem-se ações de controle, censura e resistência -, em relações que cada mais vez mais se complexificam, diante da crescente midiatização da sociedade e da chegada da tecnologia do poder à rede. / The present thesis examines the affectations of the tensions between social fields on the practice of journalism on the WEB, permeated by logics developed in the mediatization environment. It investigates how these tensions result in conflicts and ruptures, where new forms of control and censorship become visible and utturable on the mediatized web journalism. A complex study that examines the connection between the mechanisms and scope of these tensions and their impact on news production, which emerge from power and resistance relations experienced on the Internet and society. This way, we develop a theoretical reflection based on concepts that guided our investigation, among those concepts we highlight mediatization, circulation, tension between social fields, resistance and power. We also conducted empirical description and analysis, with hybrid methodology, of three news events, mediated in the WEB, and so named, Pleas for free Internet, Double contention and Duel between a politician and a blogger. After watching them and study them in their processes; we inferred that the Brazilian web journalism is wrapped in tensions and confrontations between social fields - in which actions of control, censorship and resistance are perceived -, in relationships that become more and more complex in the face of the increasing society mediatization and the arrival of the technology of power to the Net.

This study aims to explore the relationship between racist police practices and the production of space in the city of Malmö, Sweden. Acknowledging the systemic inequalities inherent in Nordic welfarism and how past Swedish colonialist efforts inform such systems, it presupposes that racist police practices should be considered structural rather than dependent on individual actors. To holistically explore how intersections of essentialist categorizations such as race, gender, and class are imposed on individuals, it focuses on the intertwined concepts of space, mobility, power, resistance, and subjectification. Building on three interviews with racialized men with different ethnical backgrounds and class affiliations living in Malmö, the study suggests that the impacts of racist police practices on the informants’ everyday lives are profound. Such practices do not merely restrict and determine physical movement but also shape the production and perception of space, both public and private. While room to maneuver is limited, it is important to recognize that resistance, too, is an element in the production of space. The experiences and narratives of the informants highlight both explicit and implicit acts of resistance as well as self-protection, challenging dominant narratives and protecting them from the gaze and sometimes the violence of the police, and reclaiming space and mobility. Moreover, racist police practices significantly impact processes of self-formation, as racializing and criminalizing stereotypes are internalized through conforming to society’s expectations and through challenging such expectations. In mitigating the impacts of police encounters, the informants modify their daily actions and appearances.