Thesis advisor: Mary Ann Glynn / This dissertation examines the construction of entrepreneurial possibilities, i.e., opportunities for entrepreneurial action (Lounsbury & Glynn, 2019: 37) in an institutional field. In particular, I conceptualize the field as a relational space (Wooten & Hoffman, 2008) made up of multiple actors and their identities, and set out to unpack the relational and cultural dynamics that shape what actors imagine and construe as possible. I conduct an historical ethnography (Vaughan, 2004) situated in the context of the U.S. specialty coffee segment. Building from a wealth of data, including archival, interview, and observational data, I trace the actions of a particular group within the field—roasters—and ask how, when, and why different sets of roasters spearheaded the assembly of new entrepreneurial possibilities in the field. My findings situate the actual construction of an entrepreneurial possibility as resulting from a two-part process involving: (1) the revealing of relational and cultural holes through field-level events, and (2) the bridging of these symbolic holes by actors in distinct field-level positions (e.g., insiders, outsiders, and ‘outsiders within’). Relational spaces referred to the symbolic void existing between actors who did not relate with one another (e.g., between farmers and roasters). Cultural spaces, or holes (Lizardo, 2014; Pachucki & Breiger, 2010; Vilhena et al., 2014 West, Evans & Bergstrom, 2014) referred to gaps or absences of shared meanings, tastes, or interests that led to impoverished relations between actors. As such, the dissertation offers insights on the cultural embeddedness of assembling entrepreneurial possibilities (e.g., Weber, Heinze, & DeSoucey, 2008) and especially, on the collective nature of revealing and seizing spaces of opportunity. Importantly, my work complements current research examining the link between identity and the flexibility of new ventures (Zuzul & Tripsas, 2019) by showing how, early on, when the field was dominated by one type of actor (e.g., commercial roasters), the spaces of opportunity that opened up revealed essential differences regarding the identity component of ‘who we are.’ As the field evolved, the ‘who we are’ varied less, but differences regarding ‘what we do’ became central to the assembly of new entrepreneurial possibilities. Overall, the dissertation extends the reach of cultural entrepreneurship (Gehman & Soublière, 2017; Lounsbury, Gehman, & Ann Glynn, 2019b; Lounsbury & Glynn, 2001) by casting it as a lens that can deepen our understanding of multiple facets of the entrepreneurial process, especially of its early stages where so much of what entrepreneurs do is riddled with uncertainty. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2019. / Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management. / Discipline: Management and Organization.

In light of a scant, fragmentary geographical literature attending specifically to charity and charitable giving (cf. Bryson et al, 2002), this research presents an in-depth exploration of one particular (and highly popular) ‘charity’ mechanism- child sponsorship –by way of delineating a more coherent set of geographical understandings and sensibilities towards the topic. Using research carried out in the UK between 2011 and 2012 with both child sponsorship charities and ‘sponsors’, and drawing together an array of theoretical and conceptual resources from within geography and beyond, I seek to engage particularly with the ways in which charity is organised, promoted and practised; the spatial, relational ways in which charitable action is configured and performed, and the flows of ethical concern, embodied praxis and power which co-constitute it. As such, and mobilising ‘relational’ geographical work on networks and assemblages, I present an alternative reading of ‘charitable space’ which allows for its dynamic complexities to be more fully appreciated. Given my focus on child sponsorship, I set these interests within broader debates on the UK’s Third Sector, international development and humanitarian aid, particularly debates regarding neoliberalism and (post)colonialism. As such, the research also contributes to an emerging literature on Global North ‘development constituencies’ and their mobilisation (Baillie Smith, 2008; see also Smith, 2004; Desforges, 2004), as well as to well-established geographical literatures on voluntarism. I also foreground a focus on the dynamics of ‘faith-based’ giving, since the empirical landscape of child sponsorship displays a distinct orientation towards Christian modes of charitable organisation and action, though in complex, often blurry ways. In all, the work seeks to critically appraise and (where appropriate) disturb common narratives and assumptions used to apprehend charity in both popular and academic discourse, and offer instead a more critically attuned set of understandings which re-imagine charity in more enlivened ways.

Submitted by Eunice Novais (enovais@uepg.br) on 2017-08-21T17:57:14Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Juliana Przybysz.pdf: 42658430 bytes, checksum: fb6aa6eaf09cb5b25acf9c70a4e2eb44 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-21T17:57:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Juliana Przybysz.pdf: 42658430 bytes, checksum: fb6aa6eaf09cb5b25acf9c70a4e2eb44 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta pesquisa tem como questão central: como se estabelecem as espacialidades de mulheres prostitutas no exercício de maternagens, na cidade de Ponta Grossa, Paraná? Para respondê-la, foram realizados dois levantamentos dos locais de prostituição na cidade, nos anos de 2013 e 2016, envolvendo a aplicação de 115 questionários. A partir desse levantamento, foi possível identificar três locais de prostituição utilizados por mulheres de baixa renda como as boates, bares e ruas específicas da cidade. A identificação das mulheres mães que exerciam a prostituição possibilitou a criação de vínculos durante as observações de campo e a realização de 12 entrevistas em profundidade. A inteligibilidade do fenômeno foi possível por meio da análise das entrevistas conforme metodologia de Silva e Silva (2016). As redes semânticas de sentidos do discurso das mulheres mães que exercem a prostituição na cidade de Ponta Grossa permitem afirmar que apesar de imperar a dicotomia das figuras de mãe e da prostituta, inclusive no imaginário das próprias prostitutas, esta é fruto do discurso hegemônico. As práticas simultâneas da maternagem e da atividade comercial sexual desenvolvidas pelas mulheres entrevistadas elucidam estratégias de ações complementares e interdependentes que fundem a identidade materna à da prostituta. Dessa forma, elas também evidenciam a constituição de um espaço relacional em que o público e o privado não estão opostos e dicotomizados. / This research has as central question: how are the spatialities of prostitutes women established in the practice of maternity, in the city of Ponta Grossa, Paraná? For respond to it, two surveys of the prostitution sites in the city were made, in the years 2013 and 2016, involving the application of 115 questionnaires. From this survey, it was possible to identify three places of prostitution used by low-income women, such as nightclubs, bars and specific streets of the city. The identification of mothers women who were carry out the prostitution has allowed the creation of bonds during the field observations and conduct 12 in-depth interviews. The intelligibility of the phenomenon was made possible through the analysis of the interviews according to Silva e Silva's methodology (2016). The semantic networks of the discourses of mother’s women who practice the prostitution in the city of Ponta Grossa make it possible to affirm that despite the dichotomy between the figures of the mother and the prostitute rules, even in the imagination of the prostitutes themselves, this is the result of the hegemonic discourse. The simultaneous practices of mothering and commercial sexual activity developed by the women interviewed elucidate strategies of complementary and interdependent actions that fuse the maternal identity to the prostitute identify. Thus, they also evidence the constitution of a relational space in which the public and the private are not opposed and dichotomized.

Ce mémoire tente de comprendre comment l’enfant en bas âge construit son espace relationnel en lien avec l’ordinateur, en s’inspirant de la nouvelle sociologie de l’enfance qui reconnaît celui-ci comme un acteur socialement compétent ayant un pouvoir de création. Suite à une série d’entrevues, faites auprès de six jeunes enfants, il semble que ces derniers peuplent leur espace relationnel en attribuant des rôles à ceux qui les entourent (joueur, travailleur, enseignant, apprenant, etc.). Poussant un peu plus loin ma réflexion, trois dimensions se sont démarquées, venant agir comme liants des multiples trajectoires (Massey, 2005) qui coïncident et, par conséquent, forment l’espace relationnel de l’enfant: l’inconciliabilité, l’émancipation et l’affectivité. Ces trois dimensions sont à mon avis essentielles pour comprendre pleinement comment l’enfant conçoit et vit ses relations autour de l’ordinateur. / Drawing on the perspective of the new social studies of childhood that recognizes children as social actors with powers of creation, this thesis seeks to understand how children build their relational space in connection with the computer. Following a series of interviews made with six young children, it seems that they populate their relational space by assigning roles to those around them (player, worker, teacher, learner, etc.) Moreover, three dimensions stood out, acting as binders of multiple trajectories (Massey, 2005) that coincide and, therefore, shape the child's relational space, namely irreconcilability, emancipation and affectivity. These three dimensions are, in my opinion, essential to fully understanding how the child develops and lives its relationships around the computer.

This dissertation investigates department stores as complex spatial and cultural buildings, in which values and ideas are expressed, negotiated, and produced. Situated in a cultural context commonly referred to as a society of consumption, where identity and social structures are worked out through consumption rather than production, the query turns to a specific act of consumption: that of shopping. More precisely, it investigates the role of space and spatial distribution in shopping. How space is distributed, arranged, or ordered allows for different possibilities in constructing categories from which the shoppers are to make a selection, and for how these categories can be related to one another, which informs the shoppers what belongs together, what is to be held apart, what is important, what is private, what is public, and what is of higher or lower status. It further supports, prevents, and promotes different routes and choices, giving different patterns of presence, publicity, privacy, purpose, etc. that not only affects the atmosphere of the spaces, but makes suggestions of what is found in them. These questions are investigated through a series of conceptual laboratories, each addressing the problem from different standpoints and focusing on different parts of the question: from how categories are constructed and given character, to how they form systems of values, how shoppers are trained in aesthetics of fashion, how relative degrees of presences are made use of, and how they appear influenced by spatial distribution. In this, the work shifts between qualitative and quantitative methods, each completing and evolving the other. It shows that to a remarkable degree, much of the emergent values and ideas can be understood through the filter of spatial configurations, and especially when treated as two systems: one of exposure and one of availability. As similar operations also affect patterns of movement and being, which enables them to also be related to publicity, privacy, and other social characters, the department stores can be understood as not only commercial spaces but as sites of negotiation of public culture. As such, both the analytic model and the more specific findings have important implications for architectural theory in general. / QC 20100803

Ce mémoire tente de comprendre comment l’enfant en bas âge construit son espace relationnel en lien avec l’ordinateur, en s’inspirant de la nouvelle sociologie de l’enfance qui reconnaît celui-ci comme un acteur socialement compétent ayant un pouvoir de création. Suite à une série d’entrevues, faites auprès de six jeunes enfants, il semble que ces derniers peuplent leur espace relationnel en attribuant des rôles à ceux qui les entourent (joueur, travailleur, enseignant, apprenant, etc.). Poussant un peu plus loin ma réflexion, trois dimensions se sont démarquées, venant agir comme liants des multiples trajectoires (Massey, 2005) qui coïncident et, par conséquent, forment l’espace relationnel de l’enfant: l’inconciliabilité, l’émancipation et l’affectivité. Ces trois dimensions sont à mon avis essentielles pour comprendre pleinement comment l’enfant conçoit et vit ses relations autour de l’ordinateur. / Drawing on the perspective of the new social studies of childhood that recognizes children as social actors with powers of creation, this thesis seeks to understand how children build their relational space in connection with the computer. Following a series of interviews made with six young children, it seems that they populate their relational space by assigning roles to those around them (player, worker, teacher, learner, etc.) Moreover, three dimensions stood out, acting as binders of multiple trajectories (Massey, 2005) that coincide and, therefore, shape the child's relational space, namely irreconcilability, emancipation and affectivity. These three dimensions are, in my opinion, essential to fully understanding how the child develops and lives its relationships around the computer.

Dans un contexte de saturation des réseaux de circulation liée à l'accélération de l'urbanisation, le but de cette recherche est d’alimenter le débat scienti8ique sur les réponses à apporter à cet enjeu social par l’étude des comportements de régulation des distances physiques entre les piétons dans les lieux publics. La composante urbaine de la théorie de la proxémie d'Edward T. Hall est prise comme inspiration liminaire. Celle-ci soutient qu'il existe une corrélation entre l'organisation de l'espace macro de la Société et celui micro des comportements individuels. Elle conduit Hall à une distinction entre « cultures du contact » et du « non – contact », les premières préférant une plus grande proximité physique entre les corps. Toutefois, la différenciation des aires culturelles de Hall (par exemple : « monde arabe »= « culture du contact ») n'apparaît plus pertinente à l'ère de la mondialisation urbaine.Une nouvelle théorie « micromacro », fondée sur 4 macro-orientations susceptibles d'avoir une influence sur les comportements, est alors proposée : égalité entre citadins, individualisation, urbanité relative et régulation de l'urbanisme. Deux autres appréciations de l’existence d’une corrélation scalaire entre des niveaux de description des relations spatiales sont également testées. L'une, appelée « micromeso », s’inspire de la théorie des « sites comportementaux » de Roger Barker. Elle considère que les comportements proxémiques sont corrélés avec des unités intermédiaires définies par un lieu et une heure spécifiques telles que «le métro à l'heure de pointe». L'autre théorie,appelée « micro », affirme que toute forme de corrélation scalaire est une erreur écologique.Delhi, Los Angeles, Paris et Tokyo, qui répondent différemment aux macro-orientations de la théorie micromacro sont prises comme terrains d’étude. Les comportements à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur du métro de chacune de ces aires métropolitaines sont observés (théorie micromeso). Dans ces deux conditions, des niveaux similaires d’enjeu spatial sont étudiés (théorie micro). Les résultats amènent à conclure que les relations de circulation sont mieux décrites par ordre d'efficacité lorsqu'on les considère cumulativement comme micro > micromeso >micromacro. Je défends alors la thèse selon laquelle les sociétés devraient débattre des améliorations des microconditions des relations de circulation plutôt que de se concentrer sur les explications micromacro et micromeso des dysfonctionnements de celles-ci, qui peuvent par exemple être identifiées dans la mise en compétition des individus autour du thème de la civilité. / In a context of traf8ic networks saturation related to urbanisation acceleration, thisresearch is aimed at contributing to the scienti8ic debate on this issue by building a model to describe dynamic pedestrians’ physical distances regulation behaviours in public places.The urban dimension of Edward T. Hall’s theory of proxemics is taken as an initial inspiration. This author argues that a correlation exists between the organisation of space at the macro level of Society and the micro level of individual behaviours. It leads him to a synthetic distinction between ‘contact cultures’ and ‘non-contact cultures’. The former tends to prefer smaller distances at all scales of space organisation compared to the latter.This hypothesis is considered seriously in the research. Nonetheless, Hall’s macroculturalist anthropological area distinction (e.g.: the ‘Arab World’ = ‘contact culture’) isnot relevant anymore in the urban globalization era. Therefore, a new ‘micromacro’theory, based on 4 macro orientations expected to have an influence on micro behaviours,is proposed: equality between urban citizens, individualisation, relative urbanity and urban planning regulation.Two other scalar correlation theories of spatial relations description are also tested. One,called ‘micromeso’, is based on Roger Barker’s behaviour setting theory. It states thatproxemical behaviours are correlated with intermediate units related to a specific placeand time such as ‘the subway at peak hours’. The other theory, called ‘micro’, states thatany form of scalar correlation is an ecological fallacy. Accordingly, the description processhas to remain at the very level of physical distance relations between individuals.These different theories are tested empirically in Delhi, Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyowhich all answer differently to the macro orientations of the micromacro theory. Behaviours inside the metro and outside of it are observed (micromeso theory). In each condition, similar levels of spatial competition for places are taken into consideration (micro theory).The results lead to conclude that traffic relations between pedestrians are best describedwhen considered cumulatively as micro > micromeso > micromacro by order of efficiency. Eventually, I defend the thesis that urban dwellers should debate of traffic relationshipsmicro conditions improvements rather than focusing on micromacro and micromeso explanations of the networks breakdowns which can be found for instance in the competition promoted between individuals on civil behaviours.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T18:26:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Danilo Fernando Miner de Oliveira.pdf: 785959 bytes, checksum: 9643ad8f4b90859807a96a2fde8accfa (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-14 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation shows that the notion of space in Kant is developed in close connection with the controversy over the nature of space conducted around the conceptions endorsed by Newton and Leibniz. It discusses the nature of space 1) as dependent on the relations of external objects, where its configuration as an apparition arises from the sensibility and 2) as not only independent of these objects, but also as the condition of their possibility, and by those means as absolute, universal and independent of all matter. It also shows the oscillating trajectory of the so-called 'pre-critic' writings between these two notions. Kant sometimes seems to advocate the Leibniz's thesis on the space, especially because it nourish the ideal conception of the nature of space, but also because it avoids some difficulties that are characteristic of Newton's, as those associated with the existence of void and with the methodological necessity of postulate the absolute character of space. At other times, however, we can observe a greater identification with the Newtonian thesis of the absolute space due to the increasing admiration and awe that Kant nurtured by the sciences of his day. Indeed, even if the absolute character of the space seems first to exceed the limits of human knowledge, its possibility is later demonstrated by the publication of the Critique of Pure Reason. Thenceforth, the independence from external objects that the notion of Newtonian space posits is a hallmark of Kant's critical thinking. It was only after the publication of the Inaugural Dissertation of 1770 that Kant expressed his most original thoughts on the space: the groundwork of space as a priori intuition. I argue that this innovation in Kant's thought does not constitute a definitive overcoming of the previous notions. Rather, it characterizes the critical articulation of the notion of space that allows not only to avoid the difficulties in which their contemporaries have fallen, but also exhibits the foundations of physics and mathematics as pure sciences. Finally, the arguments showed in the Inaugural Dissertation were incorporated systematically in the Critique of Pure Reason and better articulated in two exhibitions that support the notion of space: besides a pure intuition, the space must be also the subjective form of all external intuition. Only after these formulations it is possible to understand 1) the distinction employed by Kant between phenomena and noumena; 2) the split between philosophy and science; and 3) the foundation of so-called transcendental idealism. / A presente dissertação de mestrado evidencia que a noção de espaço em Kant está elaborada em estreita ligação com a polêmica sobre a natureza do espaço desenvolvida entre as concepções de pensadores modernos como Newton e Leibniz. A investigação discute se a natureza do espaço depende da relação dos objetos externos, ocasionando, por esta razão, sua configuração enquanto uma aparição advinda da sensibilidade, ou se sua natureza não apenas é independente destes objetos, mas antes, a condição de possibilidade dos mesmos e, portanto, algo absoluto, universal e independente de toda a matéria. É apresentada, além disso, a oscilante trajetória de Kant, em seus textos denominados pré-críticos, entre estas duas noções constantemente presentes em seu pensamento. Embora com algumas dificuldades, observa-se em alguns momentos a apologia de Kant à tese do espaço leibniziano, principalmente por essa nutrir a concepção ideal da natureza do espaço. Essa tese também evita algumas dificuldades que a argumentação de Newton adentra, como, por exemplo, a defesa da existência do vazio e o fato de não postular que a noção espacial seja algo absoluto. Em outros momentos, pode-se notar a maior identificação de Kant com a tese do espaço absoluto newtoniano pela crescente admiração kantiana pelo fervoroso contexto científico que marcou seu curso filosófico. Mais do que isto, ainda que a característica de um espaço absoluto contrarie os limites do conhecimento humano, essa possibilidade é demonstrada posteriormente com a publicação da Crítica da Razão Pura, a característica de independência dos objetos externos que a noção do espaço newtoniano postula marca incisivamente o pensamento crítico de Kant. Somente após a publicação da Dissertação de 1770, Kant exprimiu seus mais originais pensamentos em relação à noção de espaço: a fundamentação do espaço enquanto intuição a priori. Argumento que esta inovação no pensamento de Kant não configura uma superação definitiva das noções anteriores. Antes, caracteriza a articulação crítica da noção de espaço que permite não apenas evitar as dificuldades em que seus contemporâneos se enveredaram, mas também demonstrar a fundamentação da física e matemática enquanto ciências puras. Finalmente, os argumentos da Dissertação são retomados sistematicamente na Crítica da Razão Pura e mais bem articulados em duas exposições que fundamentam que a noção de espaço, além de uma intuição pura, deve ser, simultaneamente, a forma subjetiva de toda a intuição externa. Apenas depois destas formulações, é possível compreender a distinção empregada por Kant entre fenômenos e númenos, a cisão entre a filosofia e ciência e, finalmente, a fundação do denominado idealismo transcendental.

This study and the accompanying design project explore postmodern identity construction as a nomadic state of being in relation to the shared experience of space. The potential of the relationship between postmodern identity and physical space is explored both theoretically and through practical application. The main theory explored is ‘third space’, with specific reference to the concept of ‘thirdness’ as articulated by American psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin (in Frosh&Baraitser 2009). This study examines how shared spaces can, through narrative reframed by ontology (Somers 1994), be seen as physical manifestations of the ‘third space’ as envisaged by the likes of Homi K Bhabha (1994) and Edward Soja (1996). The notion of ‘thirdness’ is used to explore the relationship between individuals and shared space. ‘Thirdness’ is also paralleled to Ubuntu. ‘Thirdness’ is investigated as a means to access shared relational spaces that provide an abundance of symbolic narratives that can be gathered and integrated into the self. This study explores how being connected through shared space has the potential to be constructive in identity formation in the wake of unstable postmodern identity. This study uses a design process adapted from Karl Aspelund (2006) as an approach to the research. In the context of this study, design is seen as more than the resulting artefact. It encompasses the thought process, the methods used and steps taken to reach a particular research outcome. This study attempts to form a synthesis between the theoretical research conducted and design praxis in the form of the design outcome. As inspiration for the design action, the design process followed in this research facilitates the exploration of theory that is perhaps unfamiliar to design discourse. The steps in the process allow the refinement of concepts, application of the theory in a practical environment (a paper making workshop) and finally, the visualisation of the theory via the design artefact (an animated short). The medium of animation is selected purposively in order to convey the interpretive narrative derived from the process. The paper produced in the workshop reflects the theory, inspires the narrative of the animation and is used to create the environment and characters of the animation, which, in turn, embody the overarching concepts of the study. Copyright / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Visual Arts / unrestricted