This cultural research explores the relation between racial representation and emotions/affects as part of the struggle for racial minorities’ visibility. It is informed by conjunctural theory in cultural studies, with the use of textual narrative and affective analysis. It focuses on Hong Kong’s television culture as a site for context configuration, or conjuncture, for constructing the inter- and intra-ethnic relations between the dominant ethnic Chinese and ethnic minorities (EMs), via the production of emotions. Chapter One introduces a conjunctural understanding of the construction of EMs in Hong Kong through revisiting some of the most prominent theoretical works that explore the transformation of Hong Kong identity, in order to point out an underlying Hong Kong-Chineseness as a cultural center, and to argue that the demand of the present conjuncture is to respond to the necessity of generating an alternative “EM- context suitable for reimagining Hong Kong identity. Chapter Two attempts to map out this “EM-context by reviewing the major popular non-Chinese figures on TV, namely Louie Castro, Gregory Rivers (known as “Ho Kwok-wing) and Gill Mohinderpaul Singh (known as “QBoBo) in order to study how their particular cultural visibility can open up ways to rethink the problems surrounding visibility. The narrative affective approach to study racial relations is applied to the reading of No Good Either Way (TVB) in Chapter Three and Rooms To Let (RTHK) in Chapter Four. Together, these two core chapters explore the affective configuration of “anxieties and “shame in the two TV programmes. It is suggested that these affective landscapes help position EMs as either a “sweetened trouble-maker (in the work place) or “assimilating neighbor (in the domestic sphere), both of which fall short of being able to construct a new context/conjuncture for understanding the cultural presence of EMs. This research rejects the study of race/ethnicity through content analysis of stereotype, and opts for an approach that reads affects and narratives in the search not for representational visibility, but for what is termed “conjunctural visibility. Ultimately, Chapter Five concludes with a discussion of the dynamics of “soft and “hard representations of the ethnic other: the former in the mode of “sugarcoated racism which involves the figure of EM as the sweetened troublemaker appealing for audience’s sympathy, and the latter in the form of public pedagogy aimed at educating the audience (through shaming) to treat their EM neighbor as the assimilated other. This research study aims at making a small contribution to the understanding of the struggle for conjunctural visibility among EMs in Hong Kong.

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The current study examines the influence of religious affiliation and practice on family patterns and labour market activity for women in Western Europe, focusing on Britain and France. While both countries have experienced a sharp decline in institutionalized forms of religion over the past decades, differences in family and fertility behaviour on the basis of religiosity seem to persist. Although previous studies documented a positive correlation between religion and both intended and actual family size, there is still uncertainty about the different routes through which religion affects fertility, how structural factors are involved in this relationship and whether and how this relationship has changed along with the process of religious decline. This study aims to fill this gap by exploring the interrelationships between religion, educational attainment, female labour force participation, union formation and fertility levels. The data come from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which contains 18 waves from 1991 to 2008, and the French survey of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP), which was initially conducted in 2005. By following trends in fertility differences by religious affiliation and practice across birth cohorts of women, it is found that religious differences in fertility are not only persistent across birth cohorts, there is also a growing divide between non-affiliated and religiously practicing women who maintain higher fertility levels. Religious differences in family formation patterns and completed fertility are also explored, taking into account the interaction between education and religiosity. It appears that the effect of education on fertility differs by level of religiosity, as higher education is less likely to lead to childlessness or to a smaller family size among more religious women. The findings on the relationships between family and work trajectories by level of religiosity also point to a reduced conflict between paid employment and childbearing among actively religious women, although these patterns vary by religious denomination and by country.

The present study is an investigation of the nature and extent of Jewish identification and commitment in the Johannesburg Jewish Community. Jewish identification is defined as the attitudes and behaviour through which Jews express their identity with each other and with the Jewish group. It is conceived as comprising several dimensions - structural, cultural, religious, etc . - each of which may be assessed in terms of attitudes and/or behaviour. The aim of the study is, in the first place to describe the various dimensions of Jewish identification and to discover relations between them, and between them and other variables. Fieldwork consisted in the administration of a schedule, lasting about an hour, by trained interviewers to a quota sample of Johannesburg Jews. The schedule comprised questions relating to behaviour, attitudes and personal particulars. These data were augmented by several intensive interviews and by interviewers' observations. The final sample consisted of 286 men and women, in almost equal proportions, who had answered affirmatively the initial question, "Are you Jewish?" Five hypotheses were postulated, mainly on the basis of the findings of several previous studies in the United States. Briefly, it was postulated: firstly, that Jews would tend to identify through their attitudes to a greater extent than through actual behaviour; secondly that the area in which identification on the behavioural level was most likely to be manifested, was in patterns of social relations; thirdly, that observance of religious rituals was primarily a manifestation of identification rather than religious commitment ; fourthly; that there was some conflict between the desire to maintain the group and the feeling that barriers between ethnic groups should be minimal; and, finally , that the boundaries of the .Jewish community could be defined most adequately in terms of the relevance to community membership to the allocation of roles rather than in cultural terms. The first hypothesis had to be partially rejected; the remaining four were confirmed by the data. The study comprises eleven Chapters: in the first four, the problem is defined, hypotheses stated and research and sampling methods discussed; in Chapter Five, the demographic background is described, and in Chapters Six to Ten the findings relating to the various dimensions are presented and the hypotheses tested. In the final Chapter, the hypotheses and various specific findings are discussed in relation to their wider theoretical implications, as well as to their possibilities for further research and practical applications.

In Haram City, amidst Egypt's 2011-2013 revolutionary period, two visions of the city in the Global South come together within shared walls. In this private suburban development marketed as affordable housing, aspirational middle class homebuyers embellish properties for privilege and safety. They also come to share grounds with resettled urban poor who transform their surroundings to sustain basic livelihoods. With legality in disarray and under private administration, residents originally from Duweiqa - perhaps Cairo's poorest neighbourhood - claim the right to squat vacant homes, while homebuyers complain of a slum in the gated community. What was only desert in 2005 has since become a forum for vivid public contestation over the relationship between morality, ownership, and order in space - struggles over what ought to be common in a compound. This ethnography explores residents' own legal geographies in relation to property amidst public-private partnership urbanism: how do competing normative discourses draw community lines in the sand, and how are they applied to assert ownership where the scales of 'official' legitimacy have been tipped? In other words: in a city built from scratch amidst a revolution, how is legality invented? Like the compound itself, sections of the thesis are divided into an A-area and a B-area. Shifting from side to side, four papers examine the lives of squatters and then of homeowners and company management acting in their name. Zooming in and out within sides, they depict discourses over moral ownership and then interpret practices asserting a concomitant vision of order. First, in Chapter 4, squatters invoke notions of a moral economy and practical virtue to justify 'informal' ownership claims against perceptions of developer-state corruption. Next, Chapter 5 illustrates how squatters define 'rights' as debt, a notion put into practice by ethical outlaws: the Sayi' - commonly meaning 'down-and-out' or 'bum' - brokers 'rights' to coordinate group ownership claims. Shifting sides, Chapter 6 observes middle class homeowners' aspirations for "internal emigration" to suburbs as part of an incitement to propertied autonomy, and details widespread dialogue over suburban selfhood in relationship to property, self-interest, and conviviality. Lastly, Chapter 7 documents authoritarian private governance of the urban poor that centres on "behavioural training." Free from accountability and operating like a city-state, managers simulate urban law to inculcate subjective norms, evoking both Cairene histories and global policy circulations of poverty management. Towards detailing how notions of ownership and property constitute visions and assertions of urban law, this project combines central themes in ethnographies of Cairo with legal geography on suburbs of the Global North. It therefore interrogates some key topics in urban studies of the Global South (gated communities, affordable housing, public-private partnerships, eviction-resettlement, informality, local governance, and squatting), as Cairo's 'new city' urban poor and middle classes do themselves, through comparative principles and amidst promotion of similar private low-income cities internationally. While presenting a micro-history of one project, it is also offers an alternative account of 2011-2013 revolutionary period, witnessed from the desert developments through which Egyptian leaders habitually promise social progress.

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Participatory methods have been deployed in different ways by actors in pursuit of a diverse range of personal, organisational and development objectives. With the rise of globalisation, neoliberalism and new aid delivery systems, so these methods have been adapted, re-branded and deployed to serve the objectives of a new range of actors. From these macro level currents come micro level initiatives which enrol the global poor in new projects of development. Most recently, the Millennium Development Goals have focused the agenda of participatory development on new models of public service delivery. With this new imperative comes an emergent focus on governance as a determinant of improved service provision. The same influential actors that have taken a lead role in redefining the problem have also offered new solutions. Just as many populations in the Global North have historically taken a role in the production of services that are responsive to their needs, so it is proposed that others in the Global South can be supported to claim similar rights, demand similar accountability. This thesis explores the increasingly popular technology of voice and accountability as a solution to inequalities in access to health services. I explore the extent to which the model is constitutive of a broader neoliberal discourse which is coproduced by a range of actors from Washington to village. Using a case study from a maternal health programme in Nepal; I discuss the implications of this social technology, with reference to the range of personal and organisational projects of which it is constitutive. I discuss how these discourses shape the way development is performed, and reflexively reproduce diverse regimes of power. I examine what is produced by such initiatives, and, the ways in which actors gain from this globalised project, or are disenfranchised in new ways.

Submitted by Elvis de Almeida Diana null (eaediana844@gmail.com) on 2016-09-15T16:27:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DIANA,Elvis de Almeida._DISSERTAÇÃO REVISADA.pdf: 1561142 bytes, checksum: d5bbac739c9886281839e3601c34a4d7 (MD5) / Rejected by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br), reason: Solicitamos que realize uma nova submissão seguindo as orientações abaixo: Inserir a data de defesa na folha de aprovação. Corrija estas informações e realize uma nova submissão contendo o arquivo correto. Agradecemos a compreensão. on 2016-09-20T19:37:39Z (GMT) / Submitted by Elvis de Almeida Diana null (eaediana844@gmail.com) on 2016-09-20T20:26:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DIANA,Elvis de Almeida._DISSERTAÇÃO REVISADA.pdf: 1561184 bytes, checksum: 04be31b6154fd4f91d6616c52a6d8f89 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-09-21T16:31:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 diana_ea_me_fran.pdf: 1561184 bytes, checksum: 04be31b6154fd4f91d6616c52a6d8f89 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-21T16:31:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 diana_ea_me_fran.pdf: 1561184 bytes, checksum: 04be31b6154fd4f91d6616c52a6d8f89 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-15 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Este trabalho tem por objetivo realizar uma discussão acerca do ideário de José Pedro Varela (1845-1879) e a sua proposta de uma reforma educacional no Uruguai caudilhista do século XIX, a partir de uma perspectiva situada no campo da História Intelectual. Neste sentido, propomos, por meio do conceito de “contextualismo lingüístico” de Quentin Skinner e John G. A. Pocock, relacionar as ideias políticas de Varela com os principais debates e publicações realizadas por esse intelectual no período trabalhado sobre a questão da educação pública no Uruguai. Partimos do pressuposto de que, por meio das propostas de educação estabelecidas por ele, existe uma intenção política mais ampla que visava a implementação da democracia e a consolidação das práticas republicanas no país. Além disso, acreditamos que, por meio das propostas de Varela, existe uma ideia de como deveria ser o Uruguai, em termos de estabilidade política e social. Para que “tal projeto de Uruguai” seja desvelado de seus escritos, utilizaremos escritos do autor em alguns periódicos e jornais da época, além das obras La Educación del Pueblo e La Legislación Escolar, também de sua autoria. Da mesma forma, por meio da análise dos espaços de sociabilidade e os “microclimas” – nos dizeres de Jean François Sirinelli - dos homens de letras no país, recorreremos eventualmente aos escritos de alguns de seus contemporâneos, como Carlos María Ramírez, Agustin de Vedia, Lucas Herrera y Obes, Juan Zorrilla de San Martin, entre outros, para que possamos ter uma maior compreensão acerca dos embates em torno da questão educacional e, conseqüentemente, do projeto republicano de nação uruguaia nela inserido. / The present work, situated in the field of Intellectual History, aims to focus a discussion towards José Pedro Varela‟s (1845 -1879) ideas for an educational reform in Uruguay on nineteenth century. Therefore, we propose, through Quentin Skinner e John G. A Pocock‟s “linguistic conceptualism”, a relation between Varela‟s ideas and the main debates and publications about public education issues in Uruguay. Our hypothesis that his educational propositions intend to accomplish a wider political project that aimed to implement democracy and the consolidation of republican practices. Besides that, we believe that Varela‟s propositions build a projection of how Uruguay should be in terms of social and political stability. To discover this “project of Uruguay” in his writings, we are going to utilize as historical sources some texts published in newspapers back in those days, beside his works La Educación del Pueblo and La Legislción Escolar. Yet, for the purposes of the analyzing the Uruguayan intellectual‟s sociability spaces and their “microweathers” – in Jean François Sirinelli‟s terms – we are going the recur eventually to the writings of Varela‟s contemporaries, such as Carlos MaríaRamírez, Agustin de Vedia, Lucas Herrera y Obes, Juan Zorrilla de San Martin, and others, in order to get a wider comprehension about the educational struggles e, by the consequence, Uruguayan republican project attached to it. / FAPESP: 2014-06151-3

A presente dissertação examina questões relacionadas à violência de gênero, formas de preconceitos, mecanismos de poder e hierarquia nas relações, inclusive, a evolução das conquistas femininas, as lutas libertárias e alguns dos diferentes discursos que procuraram legitimar práticas excludentes, desenvolvidas ao longo do processo civilizatório. Trata da assimetria de direitos e oportunidades entre os sexos, da crise ética da modernidade, da historiografia das lutas da mulher e da violência. Aponta, também, como possibilidade de reconstrução da racionalidade ética, a alteridade. A pesquisa tem como suporte bibliográfico a obra de Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) e demonstra a pertinência do seu pensamento, através da sua obra de sentido humanista, cuja ideia central é a relação ética com o Outro, que vai além da essência ontológica, com absoluto respeito pela sua alteridade, que se expressa pela significação única de seu Rosto, que nesta reflexão tem feições de mulher. Apresenta a perspectiva levinasiana como uma alternativa exequível, no âmbito geral das relações, embora, quase utópica, de uma postura ética / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2014-09-26T14:03:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Arlete Maria Francisco.pdf: 1134014 bytes, checksum: 40de3681f9f5836295f8efca1ef472e5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-09-26T14:03:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Arlete Maria Francisco.pdf: 1134014 bytes, checksum: 40de3681f9f5836295f8efca1ef472e5 (MD5) / Cette thèse examine les questions liées à la violence sexiste, les formes de préjugés, les mécanismes du pouvoir et de la hiérarchie des relations, l'évolution des conquêtes féminines, les luttes libertaires et quelques-uns des différents discours qui ont cherché à légitimer des pratiques d'exclusion, développées au cours du processus de civilisation. Traite d’asymétrie des droits et des chances entre les sexes, la crise éthique de la modernité, l'histoire des luttes des femmes, la violence et les points à la possibilité de la reconstruction de la rationalité éthique, de l'altérité. La recherche est soutenue par le travail bibliographique d'Emmanuel Levinas (1906- 1995) et démontre la pertinence de sa pensée, par son travail de sens humaniste, dont l'idée centrale est la relation éthique avec l'autre, qui va au-delà de l'essence ontologique, le respect absolu de leur altérité, qui se traduit par l'importance unique de son visage, que cette réflexion a des caractéristiques d'une femme. Levinas présente la perspective comme une alternative possible au titre des relations générales, cependant, presque utopique, une position éthique.