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The thesis is an exploratory qualitative analysis of conversations between two out of three leading characters in Woody Allen’s motion picture Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). Due to a perception of invisible power relations, it is hypothesized that what seems like a powerful position in discourse, in fact is an indication of the opposite, and that what seems like a powerless position, is an indication of power. Three features based on scholarship connected to Conversation Analysis (CA), Dyadic Power Theory (DPT) and power relations in verbal interaction are chosen to test the hypotheses: first and second positions in sequences as dicussed by Hutchby (1996), control attempts as elaborated by DPT, and mitigating strategies as argued for by Mullany (2004). Findings confirm the hypotheses, but also reveal ambiguities and contrasting results. Connecting the data to sources based on talk in the private sphere, in particular within family discourse, is mentioned as one way to further illuminate the subject in future research.

Diploma thesis examines how the artist and his work can become a device of power relations illustrated by the example of one artist - Anton Jaszusch. The context of his work has changed several times over time, changing the interpretation of his work. Changes of the context were indirectly influenced by the political - social situation, which affected also the inclusion of his work in the canon of modern art in Slovakia. The thesis closely reviews the literature on the history of art from the period of the first Czechoslovak Republic until now. This review inquires the emergence and development of the phenomenon of Košice modernism and adoption of Anton Jaszusch as its leading artist. The work also analyzes available documents (periodicals, catalogs, articles and publications) in detail to refer to the aforementioned changes in the context of Jaszusch's work and its position as an device of power relations. The thesis examines the documents from three periods related to shifts in the context of Jaszusch's work. It begins in mid-twenties when an exhibition of Jaszusch's post- war series of paintings in Bratislava sparked controversy about "Slovakness" of his work. Then it continues in the Second World War period, when Košice belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and Jaszusch was presented as...

The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how public spaces in the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm have materialized in relation to cultural policy objectives and ideals of a democratic and inclusive museum. The investigated time period spans from 1943 to 2013. The Swedish History Museum is a state-run archaeological museum, where norms and values are expressed through various governmental policy- and control documents. Hence, entering the museum also means entering a symbolic national space. The fact that the museum has been politically regulated throughout the studied period makes it illustrative of changing democratic public ideals in the 20th century. Unlike other similar studies, the empirical focus is not on exhibitions, but on other public spaces that visitors encounter; the entrance, the shop, children’s spaces and the courtyard. These spaces are less invisible in the museum hierarchy. At the same time, they are often central spaces to visitors. The museum building is not as fixed as it might appear to be. Drawing on ideas from Bruno Latour and Doreen Massey – and their perspectives on space, materiality and power – I explore how the social and spatial changes of the museum affect each other. Efforts have continuously been made to alter these public spaces, and the outlines and uses have repeatedly changed. By combining archival materials, interviews and observations, I investigate how democratic ideals have been negotiated in material forms, and what kind of audiences/visitors these spaces have conceptualized over time. Linking different kinds of sources, that speak from various levels and positions, has been an analytically important method. The analysis describes the museum as a meaning producing network that materially embody different, and sometimes conflicting ideologies. The public spaces have been shaped by tensions; between education versus pleasure, collecting versus showing, and by the dichotomy between culture and commerce. What is communicated thorough various materialities and inscriptions in the shop, the entrance, and the spaces for children sometimes contradict perspectives produced in exhibitions and educational programmes. Hierarchies between professional positions and knowledges propagate as social extensions towards the visitors, and sometimes, reproduce structural hierarchies. Museum functions literally “takes place”, depending on how they are valued and assigned meaning. The museum has increasingly included children, while also becoming a space for commerce. Various, and sometimes incompatible ideals on equality and inclusion have been implemented, simultaneously. At the same time, the public spaces carry unique spatial qualities, which can benefit inclusion. Concluding, the dissertation stresses that the entrance, the shop, the children spaces and other public spaces perceived as “peripheral” need to be viewed as central, not as superficial services or add-ons to the “real” museum experience, i.e. the exhibition.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The principle aim of this thesis is to investigate all the challenges and opportunities/possibilities involved in realising the implementation of the official Western Cape Language Policy (finalised in 2002). These challenges and opportunities/possibilities were investigated within various structures of the Western Cape Province of South Africa’s civil service environment in six major multilingual towns in the Western Cape. The historical and political context leading to the creation of this policy is provided in the following three paragraphs. Following the demise of Apartheid with South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, the New South Africa brought with it amongst other things the following changes: a new Constitution; new legislation; access and freedom within a system of inclusion; the creation of new provinces; the constitutional breakdown of social, geographical and linguistic barriers; the subsequent migration to different towns and cities of people speaking different languages and their integration there; the creation of district and regional municipalities; freedom of the press. All of these introduced a whole new platform of language interaction and association and therefore general communication (Constitution of the RSA, 1996). In addition, in contrast to the Apartheid policy of only two official languages – English and Afrikaans – eleven languages were declared official languages of the state. The declaration of 11 official languages in 1996 (English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, Sepedi, Setswana, Tshivenda, isiNdebele, siSwati and Xitsonga) was an integral part of highlighting multilingualism in the newly designated nine provinces of SA. Each of the nine provinces – the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Gauteng, the Northwest Province, Northern Province (now called Limpopo), Mpumalanga, the Free State and Kwazulu-Natal - had to, in consultation with different provincial stakeholders, draft language policies according to the National Language Framework. In the Western Cape Province, three languages were identified as dominant, namely Afrikaans, isiXhosa and English. The Western Cape Language Policy (WCLP) was consequently drafted by the Western Cape Language Committee (WCLC), a statutory body and a sub-committee of the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB), after the Westen Cape Provincial Languages Act, Act 31 of 1998, was accepted by Parliament in 1998. This WCLP was the first provincial language policy to be completed in the New SA. The policy was accepted and the draft was ready for implementation by 2002. This thesis presents a critical overview of previous and current strategies being used by all provincial government departments in the implementation of the WCLP. This includes a sample of general public knowledge of the existence of the terms and meaning of the WCLP, different outcomes of studies and language-related projects done by the WCLC, PanSALB, DCAS and the Central Language Unit (CLU) since 2000. It also focuses on the role that different private and public language implementation agencies are playing, or not, in their communication with the multilingual civil society of the Western Cape. Projections for and challenges facing the implementation of the WCLP since its acceptance in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament (WCPP) in 2004 were also researched carefully, together with an analysis of research already conducted on behalf of the provincial government. Document analysis therefore forms a core part of this methodology, together with fieldwork research conducted in six selected major multilingual towns of the Western Cape. This was done in order to explore the challenges experienced by Afrikaans-, isiXhosa- and English-speaking people at grassroots level, since they needed to become more aware of their language rights as set out in the WCLP. Drawing on a theoretical and conceptual framework based on studies in Language and Power Relations, specifically studies on the role of Language Ideologies, Linguistic Citizenship, Agency and Voice and Language Ecology on effective Language Planning, Policy and Implementation, the thesis presents, through its document analysis, quantitative and qualitative data, an analysis of the limited or failed implementation of the WCLP in both government departments as well as the civilian populations in six selected multilingual towns of the Western Cape. This was achieved by examining actual language practices at particular language policy implementation agencies such as the post office, the police station, the high school, households, the municipal office, the day hospital and the clinic in each of these towns. The thesis gathers together all this evidence to prove that the implementation of the WCLP has been hampered by a range of factors such as wide-spread ignorance of the policy, the dominance of particular languages in the province over others, power relations within government structures and relatively inflexible language ideologies held by those charged with policy implementation at different levels. It concludes by providing a number of practical recommendations on how more effective implementation can be achieved.

This study reflects on an outreach initiative between two differing tertiary cultures established on different continents. The aim is to develop an understanding of what happens when a prestigious American university and a South African Higher Education Institution meet around a computer-mediated situation. Various inter-relating aspects such as cooperation and cooperative learning, educational technology, Higher Educational Institutions, globalisation, the international Digital Divide, cultural diversity, commonalities, cultural differences, an international learning programme, and power relations in international partnerships are explored. The effect of technology on education is that information is no longer restricted to a single geographical setting, instead it has expanded and became a dynamic international driving force. Increasing educational needs compel Higher Education Institutions to provide in these needs and to adapt to a more flexible learning style. Globalisation causes the world to get smaller, compressed, interconnected and resulted in a world that is in effect flat. Information communication technologies are changing the world. On the one hand the Internet promotes communication and freedom but on the other hand causes uneven development all over the globe. The Digital Divide pertains to the divide between the global well-resourced learners and the local under-resourced learners. Cultural differences between nations and organisations can be interpreted against the background of different models of cultural dimensions. The focus of the study is to explore the effect of commonalities and cultural differences on cooperative learning at organisational level. Power relations between international partners were challenging and resulted in conflict and differences of opinion. The project started with the University of Pretoria’s visit to Stanford University in November 2004. The preparation, organisation and planning phases continued through 2005. The ELISA project was intended as a three-year intervention from 2006 through 2008. The first year was supposed to be a pilot phase to gather and provide information for use in the second and third years. This study pertains to the pilot phase which started in February 2006 until June 2006. It was successfully completed and achieved a 93% success rate. However, in September 2006 Stanford unexpectedly informed the South African partners that the project would be discontinued due to several reasons. Their objections related to the lack of visible progress regarding content scheduling, media production, course logistics, and research practicalities. Although there were accommodating personalities among the project leaders on both sides interpersonal conflict between the remaining project leaders developed. The partners on both sides could not generate sufficient commonality regarding the need to continue. The situation was worsened by the fact that the initial rationale for the project lacked shared motivation among the project leaders on both sides. It is suggested that more research be conducted to explore possible differences of opinion and undercurrents among project leaders throughout the project, and to scrutinize the initial rationale as well as curriculum issues in good time, and to investigate the role of power relations between international partners that are funded by international grants, and the effect of these power relations on the learning experiences of the students involved. Copyright / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Science, Mathematics and Technology Education / unrestricted

Leftist governments are not very popular in media. However, South America seems to have ignored the critics and has elected several left wing governments in the recent years. This is also the case of Ecuador, a relatively small country, which has gone through interesting political and economic reforms since 2007. This thesis will try to evaluate the economic performance of Ecuador after this change happened, within the context of the general regime change to leftist or anti-neoliberal policies in the rest of the South American continent. The performance will be first compared between the countries according to their government's ideology through an econometric analysis of a group of economic, socio-economic and perceptual variables. After that, a more detailed analysis will be performed on Ecuador's indicators. Interestingly, results show an overall improvement of economic and socio-economic conditions in the countries under the leftist rule, which relies on a strong civic support, compared to the countries still following the neoliberal policies. The case study of Ecuador pretends to provide an example. of a successful performance since the country turned left in 2007.While this area is rarely analyzed, this thesis contributes some knowledge to the field about effectiveness of the current political economy in Latin America Moreover, it contributes to undermine critics often widespread in the media in cooperation with certain states and organizations for keeping the current unequal distribution of power and wealth intact.

A presente Tese tem por objetivo contribuir, à luz dos princípios e postulados da gestão social, para a compreensão do processo de construção de saberes no campo da cooperação internacional para o desenvolvimento Sul-Sul. Para tanto, a construção teórica que a embasa compreende: (i) a cooperação internacional para o desenvolvimento como um campo de poder, na qual se praticam duas modalidades de cooperação: a Norte-Sul e a Sul-Sul; (ii) que as disputas nesse campo são alimentadas por um sistema-mundo, no qual os países centrais exercem seu poder de modo hegemônico replicando, por meio da modalidade de cooperação Norte-Sul, a lógica neoliberal para os países semiperiféricos e periféricos, bem como impondo uma dominação intelectual, a partir de uma visão eurocêntrica, num contexto de colonialidade de saberes; (iii) que numa tentativa de tensionar o campo da cooperação internacional para o desenvolvimento, os países semiperiféricos e periféricos se uniram para construir o conceito político Sul-Sul, o qual embasa a modalidade de cooperação Sul-Sul que, teoricamente, prevê o respeito às singularidades históricas, sociais e culturais de cada país; (iv) que dentre as intervenções internacionais para a promoção do “desenvolvimento”, a cooperação internacional Norte-Sul, transfere o conhecimento científico para os países periféricos, em nome de um progresso científico e do “desenvolvimento”; (v) que inexiste um modelo universal para a promoção do desenvolvimento, o qual requer respeito às particularidades de cada sociedade; (vi) que a superação das condições de adversidade que caracterizam a realidade dos países periféricos requer a consideração e o respeito aos saberes locais, num processo de construção conjunta de saberes; (vii) que o processo de construção de saberes preconiza o respeito a diversidade epistemológica do mundo, propondo a ecologia dos saberes nos termos de Santos (2008), para a qual existe o trabalho de tradução, em que as experiências e saberes da sociedade unem-se aos conhecimentos científicos para gerar novos saberes adequados à realidade social de cada sociedade; (viii) que as relações estabelecidas no campo da cooperação internacional para o desenvolvimento são relações de poder, e portanto, precisam ser geridas; (ix) que a adoção do conceito de gestão social é pertinente para discutir as relações no campo da cooperação internacional para o desenvolvimento, uma vez que abrange a dimensão social e política das relações, além da dimensão técnica. Com base nesses postulados teóricos, esta Tese investigou e analisou o acordo de cooperação entre Brasil e Cabo Verde, na área de educação, para a implementação do Curso de Mestrado em Administração Pública em Cabo Verde. Os resultados evidenciaram que, para construir saberes no campo da cooperação internacional para o desenvolvimento, é preciso respeitar o desafio do tempo e o desafio inerente ao processo de aprendizagem, o que implica reconhecer o tempo do outro, que não necessariamente é o tempo linear preconizado pelo moderno sistema-mundo, bem como realizar o trabalho de tradução, por meio do qual as experiências e saberes das sociedades unem-se aos conhecimentos científicos gerados na universidade, construindo novos saberes, adequados à realidade social de cada comunidade. Todavia, isto implica tratar cada projeto de cooperação internacional como único, pois aproxima agentes constituídos tanto por diferentes visões de mundo como por diferentes contextos históricos, sociais, econômicos e políticos. / This thesis aims to contribute, in the light of the principles and postulates of social management, to the comprehension of the process of construction of knowledge in the field of international cooperation to South-South development. Therefore, the theoretical construction that supports our study covers: (i) the international cooperation for development as a field of power, in which we can practice two ways of cooperation: North-South and South-South; (ii) some disputes in this field are powered by a world-system, in which central countries exert their power of hegemonic mode by replicating, through North-South cooperation, the neoliberal logic for the semi-peripheral and peripheral countries, as well as enforcing an intellectual domination, from an Eurocentric vision, in a context of coloniality of knowledge; (iii) also that in an attempt to intend to the field of international development cooperation, the semi-peripheral and peripheral countries have teamed up to build South-South political concept, which bases the modality of South-South cooperation that, theoretically, provides respect for historical, social and cultural singularities of each country; (iv) among international interventions for the promotion of "development", North-South international cooperation transfers scientific knowledge to peripheral countries, in the name of scientific progress and "development"; (v) that there is no universal model to promote development, which requires respect for particularities of each society; (vi) that overcoming adversities that characterize the situation of peripheral countries requires consideration and respect for local knowledge, in a process of collective construction of knowledge; (vii) that the process of construction of knowledge establishes the respect for the diversity of an epistemological world, proposing the ecology of knowledge in terms of Santos (2008), where there is the work of translation, in which the experiences and knowledge of society are connected to scientific knowledge to provide new and suitable knowledge according to the social reality of each society; (viii) that the relations established in the field of international development cooperation are power relations, and therefore, need to be managed; (ix) that the adoption of the concept of social management is pertinent to discuss relations in the field of international development cooperation, since it has covered the social and political dimension of relations, in addition to the technical dimension. Based on these theoretical postulates, this thesis investigated and reviewed the cooperation agreement between Brazil and Cape Verde, in the area of education, for the implementation of the Master's degree in Public Administration in Cape Verde. The results showed that, to build knowledge in the field of international development cooperation, it is necessary to respect the challenge of time and the inherent challenge in the learning process. Which implies in recognizing the time of others, which is not the linear time advocated by modern world-system, necessarily, as well as to carry out the translation, through which the experiences and knowledge of societies link scientific knowledge generated at the University, building new and adequate knowledge tailored to the social reality of each community. However, it implies treating each project as the only international cooperation since it brings agents constituted both by different worldviews as different historical, social, economic and political contexts.

Orientador: Carmen Zink Bolonhini / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T10:08:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Uphoff_Dorthe_D.pdf: 3092661 bytes, checksum: e5c4d34de46c37059fcb17bd40cc3aef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Esta tese focaliza a relação de poder entre o professor e o livro didático no ensino de alemão como língua estrangeira ("Deutsch als Fremdsprache", "DaF"). Partindo da observação de que os processos de ensino e aprendizagem do idioma costumam ser mediados, no Brasil, por livros didáticos de orientação pós-comunicativa, produzidos na Alemanha para o mercado global, procura-se identificar os motivos dessa prática, bem como seus efeitos para a posição discursiva do professor. Para operacionalizar a proposta, busca-se apoio teórico em ferramentas conceituais oriundas da analítica do poder de Foucault, em especial as noções de poder, resistência, saber e discurso. Com base em uma concepção de poder como um movimento que visa a estruturar o campo de ação do outro, o livro didático usual é descrito como um instrumento de poder que conduz o fazer pedagógico do professor de forma rigorosa e duradoura, ao preestabelecer e hierarquizar os objetos de ensino e determinar a linha metodológica. Uma análise dos discursos que circulam na área de "DaF", a respeito do livro didático, mostra que esse formato convencional do dispositivo é justificado por uma descrença no saber-fazer pedagógico do professor local, além de uma visão crítica das condições de trabalho que o mesmo enfrenta em seu ofício. Assim, o livro didático é visto como um dispositivo que garante a qualidade do ensino e que, por isso, não pode ser substituído por outros tipos de materiais, que possam proporcionar mais autonomia para o professor, no desenvolvimento de suas aulas. Verifica-se que é justamente essa a proposta de alguns discursos de resistência, também presentes na área de "Deutsch als Fremdsprache", que apostam no julgamento pedagógico do professor, na construção do percurso de ensino e aprendizagem trilhado em sala de aula. Uma comparação das posições discursivas do professor e do autor de livro didático, no ensino de alemão, porém, indica que apenas o autor é considerado um especialista, legitimado a elaborar o planejamento de um curso de língua, ao passo que o professor ocupa uma posição subordinada, devendo adaptar as orientações do autor de livro didático ao perfil concreto do alunado local. Sob o ângulo de uma concepção discursiva de autoria, argumenta-se que o professor não costuma ser percebido como autor de materiais, fazendo com que seu discurso didático-metodológico circule com menos força no atual cenário do ensino da língua. Conclui-se que o livro didático, mais que um mero apoio aos processos de ensino e aprendizagem de uma língua, também molda o saber-fazer pedagógico do professor, determinando a posição a partir da qual o mesmo pode se pronunciar sobre o planejamento do ensino. / Abstract: This thesis focuses on the power relation between the teacher and the coursebook in the field of German as a Foreign Language ("Deutsch als Fremdsprache"). Starting from the observation that the processes of teaching and learning German in Brazil are usually mediated by post-communicative coursebooks, produced in Germany for the worldwide market, the reasons for this practice as well as its effects on the discursive position of the teacher are analyzed herewith. In order to carry out this project, use is made of conceptual tools given by Foucault's Analytics of Power, such as power, resistance, knowledge and discourse. Based on a conception of power as a movement which intends to structure the action field of the other, the ordinary coursebook is described as an instrument of power which rigorously and constantly governs the teacher's pedagogical actions, by pre-establishing and organizing teaching contents and determining methodological procedures. Throughout the analysis of discourses regarding the coursebook, in the field of German as a Foreign Language, it can be seen that the conventional configuration of the coursebook is due to a lack of confidence in the pedagogical competence of the local teacher, as well as a critical view of his or her working conditions. Thus the coursebook is seen as a device which guarantees the teaching quality and which therefore should not be replaced by other kinds of materials that may offer more autonomy to the teacher, when planning his or her lessons. It is shown then that this autonomy is precisely the recommendation made by some discourses of resistance, which value the teacher's pedagogical judgment, in the construction of the teaching and learning route mapped out in the classroom. A comparison of the discursive positions of the teacher and the author of the coursebook indicates, however, that only the author is regarded as a specialist and therefore certified to work out the planning of a language course. The teacher, on the other hand, occupies a subordinate position, adapting the author's guidelines towards the concrete profile of the local students. Seen from the view of a discursive conception of authorship, it is argued that the teacher is not usually considered an author of teaching materials which implies that his or her pedagogical discourse is received with less impact in the current state of language teaching. It can be concluded that the coursebook, more than a mere support to the language teaching and learning processes, also shapes the teacher's pedagogical knowledge, determining the position from which he or she may speak about the planning of a language course. / Doutorado / Lingua Estrangeira / Doutor em Linguística Aplicada

This essay is based on a study that presents the result of interviews directed at women who are integrated in the gaming community. The purpose is to get clarification on the topic about how women experience gaming and if they are treated differently than men in the community. With the question “How do women experience the male dominated gaming world and how does it affect them?”, subordination, misogyny, male dominance and gender are keywords that can be identified within the targeted area. The theoretical framework has been based on Sylvia Walby's theoretical interpretation of patriarchy, Judith Butler’s performativity theory, and Eve, K Sedgwick’s theory about homosociality. The results show that women are worse treated in the gaming community than men.  The women experience that they are subordinate men where her entry in the gaming world is considered to be deviant. The gaming world has patriarchal traits where the men through performative and homosocial behaviour reproduce and maintain these structures. The effects have been that the gaming world is now characterized by misogynistic premises where the man can get away with hate speech against women without consequences.