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The Richmond Outreach Center “The ROC” is an independent soulwinning megachurch in Richmond, Virginia. This thesis explores how rhetoric plays a role in the rapid growth of this urban church and considers the church’s response—rhetorically and politically—to the city’s social issues. Through a rhetorical analysis of sermons and written texts by Geronimo Aguilar, the ROC’s founder and pastor, it is concluded that Aguilar has generated a rhetoric of change that says social change must come to Richmond and that everyone, both rich and poor, are responsible for change. Aguilar galvanizes an audience to seek social change because he articulates roles for individuals within his vision and links the ideological and material concerns of his congregants and the city’s poor. Aguilar’s rhetorical strategies and rhetorical performances indicate that he follows logics of articulation rather than logics of influence. These findings may be useful to social movement and church leaders concerned with growth.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T14:53:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lilian Paula Dambros.pdf: 8454108 bytes, checksum: f537a3cdf4444a7a5462e8b143ea3079 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-21 / This research entend to understand how the textbooks help to construction of social identities of race with class intersection. It has how goals analyzing four PNLD’s collections, of the year 2012 of high school and three PNLD’s collections, 2015, also high school, in order to understand how social identities of race, class-intersection, are represented these textbooks through speeches and multiliteracies. By analyzing the textbooks sought to answer the following questions: how the textbooks of English, suggested by PNLDs (2012 and 2015), build social identities of race and class? As the black racial identity and white racial identity are represented through literacies and multiliteracies resources of textbooks? The textbooks of English high school suggested by PNLDs 2012 and 2015, use the multiliteracies resources, enable reflections mentioned in Law 10,639 / 03? The theoretical contributions, which were the theoretical and methodological basis for this research, are supported in a literature review of studies that have been conducted with textbooks, like Ferreira (2012) and Barros (2013); about the literacies and multiliteracies bring to the discussion Kleiman (1995 and 2005), Kalantzis and Cope (2008) and Street (2014). To discuss the representation and I make use of identity Hall (2000), Bauman (2005) and Block (2006). This research also aims to reflect on the linguistic and educational policies such as PCN-LE (BRAZIL, 1998), OCEM-LE (2006), DCE-LE (PARANÁ, 2008), which tells the PNLD (BRAZIL, 2012 ) and the Federal Law 10.639 / 03 (BRAZIL, 2004). As for the methodology, was documentary analysis of linguistic and educational policies and written speeches and images produced in the English language textbooks, according to Moita Lopes (1996), Ferreira (2014), Herbele (2004), Wodak (2004) and Rojo (2009, 2012), taking into account the issue of multiliteracies. Also used the critical discourse analysis, according to Van Dijk (2012). After my analysis, I got the following final remarks: it is necessary that the teacher’s training be continuous, thus improving their knowledge about the existing racial prejudice in textbooks, the dominant ideologies brought through multiliteracies these and realize how much the textbooks influence the construction of identities of students. Teachers also need to encourage their students to a critical look at the differences, even if they are not being well represented by textbooks have analyzed because these are full of prejudice and ideologies that exclude black and poor, including the under representation of the characters, the representation of the less complex characters by means of stereotypes with defined spaces and subordinate manner. I hope, with this work, more high school teachers to understand the speeches conveyed to textbooks and start to reflect critically on the policies of the textbook as well as publishers and authors of such books. / A presente pesquisa pretendeu entender como os livros didáticos auxiliam na construção das identidades sociais de raça com intersecção de classe. Tendo como objetivo analisar quatro coleções do PNLD, ano de 2012 do Ensino Médio, mais três coleções do PNLD, ano de 2015, também do Ensino Médio, com o intuito de entender como as identidades sociais de raça, com intersecção de classe, são representadas nesses livros didáticos por meio dos discursos e dos multiletramentos. Ao analisar os livros didáticos busquei responder às seguintes questões: como os livros didáticos de língua inglesa, sugeridos pelos PNLDs (2012 e 2015), constroem as identidades sociais de raça e classe? Como a identidade racial negra e a identidade racial branca são representadas através dos letramentos e recursos de multiletramentos dos livros didáticos? Os livros didáticos de inglês do Ensino Médio sugeridos pelos PNLDs de 2012 e 2015, ao utilizarem os recursos de multiletramentos, possibilitam reflexões de que trata a Lei 10.639/03? Os aportes teóricos, que serviram de fundamentação teórico-metodológica para esta pesquisa, estão respaldados em uma revisão de literatura dos estudos que vêm sendo realizados com os livros didáticos, a exemplo de Ferreira (2012) e Barros (2013); a respeito dos letramentos e multiletramentos trago para a discussão Kleiman (1995 e 2005), Kalantzis e Cope (2008) e Street (2014). Para discutir a representação e identidade valho-me de Hall (2000), Bauman (2005) e Block (2006). A presente pesquisa, também pretende refletir acerca das políticas linguísticas e educacionais, tais como PCN-LE (BRASIL, 1998), OCEM-LE (2006), DCE-LE (PARANÁ, 2008), o que diz o PNLD (BRASIL, 2012) e a Lei Federal 10.639/03 (BRASIL, 2004). Quanto à metodologia, foi de análise documental das políticas linguística e educacionais e dos discursos escritos e imagens produzidas nos livros didáticos de língua inglesa, de acordo com Moita Lopes (1996), Ferreira (2014), Herbele (2004), Wodak (2004) e Rojo (2009, 2012), levando em consideração a questão dos multiletramentos. Também utilizei a análise crítica do discurso, de acordo com Van Dijk (2012). Após minha análise, cheguei as seguintes considerações finais: é necessário que a formação para professores seja contínua, melhorando, assim, seu conhecimento a respeito do preconceito racial existente nos LD, das ideologias dominantes trazidas por meio dos multiletramentos desses e percebam o quanto os LD influenciam na construção das identidades dos alunos. Os professores também precisam incentivar seus alunos para um olhar crítico sobre as diversidades, mesmo elas não sendo bem representadas pelos LD que analisei, pois esses estão repletos de preconceito e ideologias que exclui o negro e o pobre, entre elas a sub representação dos personagens, a representação menos complexas dos personagens, por meio de estereótipos, com espaços delimitados e de maneira subalterna. Espero, com este trabalho, que mais professores do Ensino Médio possam perceber os discursos veiculados aos livros didáticos e passem a refletir criticamente sobre as políticas do livro didático, assim como as editoras e os autores de tais livros.

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This thesis examines Antiguan narratives’ peculiar engagements with the national question. It draws largely upon the works of four writers—Jamaica Kincaid, Joanne C. Hillhouse, Marie-Elena John and Frieda Cassin—and selected calypsonians including Antigua’s leading female and male calypsonians, Queen Ivena and King Short Shirt. It reads anxiety as the chief organising principle of the singular deconstructions of gender, ‘racial’, ethnic, and class identities undertaken by these texts. I offer a retooled account of anxiety that elaborates the local/regional concept of bad-mindedness informing the core of the narratives’ deconstructive and recuperative projects. Chapter one probes the bad-minded delimiting of Antiguan literary production. It interrogates the singular cohesive Caribbean canon typically suggested by critical readings, which obscure the narratives/ literary traditions of smaller territories such as Antigua. It also highlights locally produced canons’ intervention into the dominant canons/maps of Caribbean literary traditions. Its discussion is underpinned by the concept of bad-mindedness which I use to frame the evils that locate the smaller territory and its inhabitants at the cultural periphery. Chapter two examines the texts’ enunciations of the bad-mindedness inherent in the construction of the composite gendered identities of 19^th century Creole women, 20^th century working-class Afro-Antiguan women and men, and 20^th century proletarian Carib women. It refashions Erna Brodber’s kumbla trope, Kenneth Ramchand’s notion of terrified consciousness, and Jamaica Kincaid’s line trope to elaborate these enunciations. Chapter three examines Antiguan calypsos’ record of the peculiar responses of small-islanders to their subordinate position within the ‘global village’ and continuing entanglement in British colonialism and neo-colonial relationships and processes. It draws upon Charles Mill’s theory of smadditization/ smadditizin’ or the Afro-Caribbean struggle for recognition of personhood and Paget Henry’s account of the dependency theory to analyse the calypsos’ anxious insistence upon Afro-Antiguan personhood. The primary conclusion of my thesis is that an engagement with the neglected literary traditions of the smaller territories and national literatures on the whole, is likely to excavate a cornucopia of currently sidelined experiences, issues, and transnational relationships which can only serve to enrich our postcolonial conversations.

The study examines how Aboriginal workers and workers of colour experience union solidarity and explores the necessary conditions for the remaking of solidarity and the renewal of the labour movement. Grounded in anti-colonial discursive framework, the study analyzes the cultures and practices of labour solidarity through the lived experiences of Aboriginal activist and activists of colour within the Canadian labour movement. Utilizing the research methodologies of participatory action research, arts-informed research and critical autobiography, the research draws on the richness of the participants’ collective experiences and visual images co-created during the inquiry. The study also relies on the researcher’s self-narrative as a long time labour activist as a key part of the embodied knowledge production and sense making of a movement that is under enormous challenges and internal competing tension exacerbated by the neoliberal agenda. The findings reveal sense of profound gap between what participants experience as daily practices of solidarity and what they envisioned. Through the research process, the study explores and demonstrates the importance and potential of a more holistic and integrative critical education approach on anti-racism and decolonization. The study proposes a pedagogical framework on solidarity building with four interlinking components – rediscovering, restoring, reimagining and reclaiming – as a way to make whole for many Aboriginal activists and activists of colour within the labour movement. The pedagogy of solidarity offers a transformative process for activists to build solidarity across constituencies in the pursuit of labour renewal and social justice movement building.

The study examines how Aboriginal workers and workers of colour experience union solidarity and explores the necessary conditions for the remaking of solidarity and the renewal of the labour movement. Grounded in anti-colonial discursive framework, the study analyzes the cultures and practices of labour solidarity through the lived experiences of Aboriginal activist and activists of colour within the Canadian labour movement. Utilizing the research methodologies of participatory action research, arts-informed research and critical autobiography, the research draws on the richness of the participants’ collective experiences and visual images co-created during the inquiry. The study also relies on the researcher’s self-narrative as a long time labour activist as a key part of the embodied knowledge production and sense making of a movement that is under enormous challenges and internal competing tension exacerbated by the neoliberal agenda. The findings reveal sense of profound gap between what participants experience as daily practices of solidarity and what they envisioned. Through the research process, the study explores and demonstrates the importance and potential of a more holistic and integrative critical education approach on anti-racism and decolonization. The study proposes a pedagogical framework on solidarity building with four interlinking components – rediscovering, restoring, reimagining and reclaiming – as a way to make whole for many Aboriginal activists and activists of colour within the labour movement. The pedagogy of solidarity offers a transformative process for activists to build solidarity across constituencies in the pursuit of labour renewal and social justice movement building.

In recent years, old-hand development scholars, in the category of Dan Brockington, have expressed their concern over academia’s neglect of the significance of celebrities in the field. As has been the case of an outturn hereof, namely beauty pageants. In the last six decades, Venezuela has positioned itself not only as one of the world's largest exporters of oil but also as one of the leading engenderers of titleholders in international pageantry. The latter, which has resulted in Venezuelans regarding the pageant as a fundamental cultural undercurrent in their collective identity, seems to be a ceaseless manifestation in spite of the country’s worrisome current socio-economic status. Rather than adopting a condescending paradigm towards the Miss Venezuela pageant, it is precisely this vertex of ambiguity that opens the avenue for an interesting development question. After all, if celebrity beauty queens from Venezuela are deemed as part of the nation’s identity, could the pageant, in the same breath, be deemed as a contributor to communication for development? While espousing historical context as an analysing method and in pursuit of David Hulme’s Celebrity-Development nexus and Elizabeth McCall’s four strands of communication for development, this paper presents a qualitative study in which hands-on experts are given a platform. The findings show the evolution of a beauty pageant from a, nearly, nationalist device into a system that is grounded in the Millennium Development Goals and that aims to forge socially responsible beauty representatives that are competent enough to herald purposeful messages.

Il a été montré que l’Homme a un penchant latent à poser des gestes prohibés qui sont contrôlés par les normes formelles et informelles de sa communauté. Si nous sortons un individu de sa communauté sera-t-il plus enclin à poser ces gestes? C’est cette situation que le présent mémoire cherche à exposer. Nous visons à comprendre le processus menant à la consommation de services sexuels rémunérés dans un contexte touristique à l’étranger par l’étude du tourisme sexuel au Mexique. Nous cherchons à définir les facteurs qui motivent, ou du moins favorisent ce type de consommation dans un tel contexte. Pour rendre compte de ces facteurs, nous utilisons un corpus de données composé de commentaires publiés par des touristes sexuels sur un forum de clavardage, se trouvant sur la Toile, et de données existantes. Nous analysons ce corpus de données par une combinaison théorique de l’intersectionnalité et du contrôle social. Précisément, nous analysons les commentaires seuls afin de rendre compte des motivations des touristes à pratiquer le tourisme sexuel, puis nous analysons les données existantes en établissant des liens avec les commentaires publiés pour connaitre les facteurs qui permettent aux touristes cette pratique. / It has been demonstrated that the human being has a latent inclination for transgression, which is restrained by formal and informal standards set by its community. If, however, we take an individual out of its community, will he be more inclined to transgress norms? The present thesis attempts to expound that situation. We aim to understand the process that leads one to consume paid sexual services in a touristic context abroad by studying sex tourism in Mexico. We are trying to define the factors that motivate, or at least, favour this type of consummation in such context. We use a body of evidence composed of comments published by sex tourists on an online forum, and of existing data to account for these factors. We analyze these evidences by combining intersectionality and social control on a theoretical level. Specifically, we review the comments alone in order to understand the tourists' motives to seek sex tourism, and we analyze the existing data, establishing links with the published comments as to identify the factors permitting tourists to engage in that practice.

Il a été montré que l’Homme a un penchant latent à poser des gestes prohibés qui sont contrôlés par les normes formelles et informelles de sa communauté. Si nous sortons un individu de sa communauté sera-t-il plus enclin à poser ces gestes? C’est cette situation que le présent mémoire cherche à exposer. Nous visons à comprendre le processus menant à la consommation de services sexuels rémunérés dans un contexte touristique à l’étranger par l’étude du tourisme sexuel au Mexique. Nous cherchons à définir les facteurs qui motivent, ou du moins favorisent ce type de consommation dans un tel contexte. Pour rendre compte de ces facteurs, nous utilisons un corpus de données composé de commentaires publiés par des touristes sexuels sur un forum de clavardage, se trouvant sur la Toile, et de données existantes. Nous analysons ce corpus de données par une combinaison théorique de l’intersectionnalité et du contrôle social. Précisément, nous analysons les commentaires seuls afin de rendre compte des motivations des touristes à pratiquer le tourisme sexuel, puis nous analysons les données existantes en établissant des liens avec les commentaires publiés pour connaitre les facteurs qui permettent aux touristes cette pratique. / It has been demonstrated that the human being has a latent inclination for transgression, which is restrained by formal and informal standards set by its community. If, however, we take an individual out of its community, will he be more inclined to transgress norms? The present thesis attempts to expound that situation. We aim to understand the process that leads one to consume paid sexual services in a touristic context abroad by studying sex tourism in Mexico. We are trying to define the factors that motivate, or at least, favour this type of consummation in such context. We use a body of evidence composed of comments published by sex tourists on an online forum, and of existing data to account for these factors. We analyze these evidences by combining intersectionality and social control on a theoretical level. Specifically, we review the comments alone in order to understand the tourists' motives to seek sex tourism, and we analyze the existing data, establishing links with the published comments as to identify the factors permitting tourists to engage in that practice.