ABSTRACT Hispanic parents face several barriers that impede their involvement in their children’s education. This lack of parental involvement negatively affects the academic outcome of students, graduation rates, and college attendance. This study uses the situational theory of publics to determine what kind of public Mexican parents are, and makes recommendations on what is the best way to engage them and motivate them to participate in schools. Seventeen Mexican mothers were interviewed about their views on education and relationships with their children’s teachers and schools. Findings revealed that the main barriers to parental involvement among Mexican parents are work, language and lack of childcare. The study discusses some strategies that schools can use to help parents overcome barriers to involvement. This research is important because for the first time it uses communications, and more specifically public relations theories, to further the research on Hispanic parental involvement.

Within the typical institution, social patterns are all but solidified: enter off the street, funnel through the grand multi-story lobby, take the elevator, and get to work. Everyone associates together in a single space, and everyone subsequently operates in isolation. By collapsing two-dimensional urbanism and the three-dimensional institution, the emerging articulated surface has the ability to tear down the boundary between architecture and city and integrate itself with the surroundings by leveraging the common space of interaction in the city—the street. The result is an interruption in the strict patterns of the city as street, side- walk, lot and building are disassembled, circulation is uncoupled, and the ground plane of the gridded city is reconstructed. Rather than constructing the institution around an all-encompassing connection between all of its publics in equal measure, this thesis sets out to tailor relationships between publics of the institution as well as with the segmented publics outside of it by leveraging a series of internal streets rather than a single, common one. In doing so, particular publics can be paired, specific spatial relationships can be constructed, and generative social relationships can be structured between publics. These streets will be tempered by their relationship to the ground plane and the exterior, the surrounding program, and types of connection. Relationships will not only be structured between urbanism and institution, but also within the imbedded layers of the institution, moving with and against the street. The institution that most easily encapsulates this condition is the Fashion Institute as it con- tains multiple user groups, or publics, that engage each other in multiple ways. Whether ver- bally, visually, or spatially from lectures to sketches to runways, the institutional discourse is easily penetrated by those publics that exist outside of the institution. Here, the street is brought into the school and the school is brought to the street.

Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Droit--Montpellier 1, 2008. Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Droit--Laval--Université de Laval (Québec), 2008. / Bibliogr. p. 369-432. Webliogr. p. 433-441.

Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Histoire--Paris 4, 2006. Titre de soutenance : La Société auxiliaire d'entreprises et la naissance de la grande entreprise française du bâtiment, 1924-1974. / En appendice, choix de documents. Bibliogr. p. 321-329. Index.

Thèse (M.A.)--Université Laval, 2005. / Bibliogr.: f. 66. Publié aussi en version électronique.

Thèse (M.A.)--Université Laval, 2007. / Bibliogr.: f. 102-106. Publié aussi en version électronique dans la Collection Mémoires et thèses électroniques.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 1927. / Vita. Published also without thesis note. "Selected bibliography": p. 110-111.

Cherchant à croiser projets urbain et culturel notre position critique met en avant les tendances principalesqui articulent enjeux culturels et enjeux urbains. Les arts et la culture servent le discours urbain plus qu'ils ne cofabriquentle projet de ville. Aujourd'hui l'art dans la ville se territorialise en un espace qui devient événement. Nousnous appuyons sur l'analyse de situations concrètes, où l'art investit la ville et où les pratiques culturelles migrentdes lieux dédiés (musées, théâtres) vers l'espace public. Notre étude de cas porte sur les pratiques culturelles de etdans l'espace public avec les Zones Artistiques Temporaires (Zat) à Montpellier de 2010 à 2015. D'une part, nousobservons la spatialité et la matérialité de neuf quartiers investis par les Zat, d'autre part, nous qualifions le temps, lemouvement ct l'action en étudiant comment les thèmes artistiques interrogent la ville concrète, l'imagibililé urbaineou encore la ville pratiquée. Enfin nous observons les transformations des espaces publics investis. En mettant enrésonance le projet culturel des Zat ct le projet urbain pour Montpellier il l'horizon 2040 nous cherchons ilproblémariser la possible transformation concrète du milieu urbain par l'action artistique. En imaginant unealternative pour le futur nous cherchons à faire mieux avec moins pour favoriser les expressions de l'art et de laculture mais aussi à agir sur la qualité des espaces à vivre de la ville. Dans l'idée d'une écologie culturelle, la thèsevise un potentiel de requalification des espaces publics en mettant en évidence les leviers d'une diffusion plus largede la culture dans la ville. Nous menons une réflexion sur les supports de cette diffusion autour des espaces pour lesarts et la culture à l'intérieur du projet urbain, mais aussi à travers diverses temporalités, le durable, le temporaire etl'éphémère. Dans un territoire qui révèle de trop grandes disparités, la question de la diffusion culturelle dans unformat d'éducation populaire cherche à atteindre tous les publics. Les pratiques culturelles s'appuient alors sur unespace public média de sa propre constitution ct des spécificités locales mais aussi sur une action artistique qui agitcomme médiateur sur l'altérité des lieux. A la recherche de valeurs symboliques, dans un projet urbain spatial ctsocial, les dimensions éphémère et temporaire sont susceptibles de répondre d'une plus large diffusion culturellemais aussi d'une plus grande acceptabilité grâce à la mobilité et au nomadisme envisagés par les dispositifs. Laquestion du vivre-ensemble est alors entendue au travers des possibilités de communautés éphémères pourintensifier l'urbanité. L'action artistique doit être en mesure de proposer des dispositifs multi-sensoriels visant àinduire des pratiques dans l'espace public. Au travers d'un art de j'espace dans l'espace, avec des esthétiques quipeuvent être temporaires voire éphémères mais surtout qui induisent des pratiques sensibles, il s'agit de proposer descentralités temporaires ct mobiles au travers d'un espace public plus muable. / Seeking to cross urban and cultural projects our critical position highlights the key trends that articulatecultural and urban issues. Arts and culture serve the urban discourse more than they co-produce the city project.Today art in the city temtorializes itself in a space that becomes an event. We rely on the analysis of concretesituations, in which art inveslS the town and cultural practices migrate from dedicated places (museums, theaters) tothe public space. Our case study focuses on cultural practices in the public space as shown by the Temporary ArtisticZones (Zat) in Montpellier from 2010 to 2015. On the one hand, we observe the spatiality and materiality of ninedistricts Ï.nvested by these Zat; on the other hand, we qualify time, movement and action by analyzing how artisticthemes question the concrete city, urban imageabilily, or the practiced city. Finally wc watch the transformation ofthe public spaces investigated. By attuning the Zat cultural project to the urban project for MontpeUier in 2040, weseek to question a possible real transformation of urban environment through artistic action. By imagining analternative for the future we aim to do more witb less in order to encourage expressions of art and culture but also toact on the quality of the city's Uving spaces. Bearing in mind a cultural ecology, the thesis ai ms to the potentialredevelopment of public spaces by highlighting levers ofa wider dissemination of culture in the city. Wc conduct areflection on the supports of this dissemination around spaces for arts and culture within the urban project, but alsothrough various time frames, sustainable, temporary and ephemeral. ln a territory wbich reveals significantdisparities, the issue of cultural diffusion in a popular education format endeavors to reach ail audiences. Culturalpractices are then based on a media public space of its own constitution and local specificities but also on an artisticaction which acts as a mediator on the otherness of places. Searching for symbolical values in a spatial and socialurban project, the ephemeral and temporary dimensions are likely to ensure a wider cultural diffusion but alsogreater acceptability through the mobility and nomadism imagined through these devices. The question of livingtogether is then tacklcd through the possibilities of ephemeral communities aiming to intensify urbanity. Artisticaction must be able to offer multi-sensory devices capable of inducing practices in the public space. Through an artof space inside space, witb aesthetics that can be temporary or even ephemeral but above ail that induce sensitivepractices, it offers temporary and mobile centralities through a public space that is more mutable. ET

This thesis examines the formal introduction of Localism in the South West county of Cornwall, UK. Using data taken from three distinct areas of the county, this work critically analyses strategies of Localism, where it takes place, who is involved and how it is performed. This research is contexualised within an era of localism, advocating the devolution of political governance with the aim to produce sustainable democratic communities. Changes to local government in 2009 saw Cornwall Council restructure from a two-tiered to a unitary local authority. The previous six district councils and one county council were dissolved and instead, Cornwall was divided into nineteen Community Network Areas with one centralised council. These Areas were provided with dedicated Localism officers, administrative and public service facilities and given the remit to employ the ethos of Localism to everyday interaction between the local authority and citizenry. This introduction of a formal style of conducting Localism followed the then Labour Party’s design for a Third Way; for revolutionising governance to make it increasingly civic-focused and for devolving local decision-making in the hands of communities. The findings of the thesis conclude that Localism has been a largely top-down endeavour by government and as such, widespread bottom-up governance has not been able to emerge through governmental structures. Local resistance to these structures, and the rigid frameworks and targets introduced by Localism, have meant that parts of Localism appear and disappear at certain moments. The ideological vision for Localism has therefore been interrupted, however it is through localism with a small ‘l’, historically part of the day-to-day operations of those at the heart of civic engagement, such as town and parish councils, which has emerged as pivotal in on-going local governing opportunities.

Syftet med denna studie är delvis att bidra till den rådande forskningsluckan beträffande hur muslimer framställs och representeras, efter ett terrorattentat, av svenskspråkiga användare på Twitter. Studien avser också att konkretisera rollen som användarna besitter på Twitter som gatekeepers och studera mönstren i det genererade innehållet som skapas inom användarens personal public. Detta utgör en grund för att visa hur användare befäster en stigmatiserad bild av muslimer, men också visar solidaritet.  Studien har med utgångspunkt i en kvantitativ innehållsanalys undersökt hur muslimer framställs av svenska twitteranvändare under veckan som följer efter attentatet mot Charlie Hebdo, samt en månad innan attentatet för att se eventuella skillnader i framställningen. Totalt har 588 analysenheter i form av tweets inkluderats i studien, varav 60 stycken under nedslagsveckan en månad innan attentatet och 528 stycken under veckan som följde attentatet. Analysen utgår ifrån teorierna Audience Gatekeeping, Stigmatisering, Personal Publics samt begreppen Solidaritet och ”Den Andre”. Resultatet visade att muslimer i regel framställs som en grupp och sällan skildras som individer. 43 procent av användarna framställde muslimer på ett stigmatiserande sätt men 35 procent uttryckte också solidaritet efter terrorattentatet. Den svenska twitteranvändaren i studien är oftast en privatperson med omkring 500 följare som får begränsat med uppmärksamhet gentemot dem få elitaktörerna på Twitter, så som journalister. Tweetsens innehåll bestod till en tredjedel av länkar, företrädesvis nyhetsmedier, vilket teoretiskt gör en lika stor del av användarna till gatekeepers.