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The research is done within the diocese of Kanyakumari of the Church of South India. It examines the viability of the following training programmes to socio-political factors: the Church Workers Theological Training Programme, the Sunday School Programme, the Vacation Bible School Programme, the parish-based training programmes - for example retreats and workshops, the Women’s Fellowship Programme, the Christian Endeavour Programme, the Programme of Communication and Revival as well as that of the Student Christian Movement of India, and the Union of Evangelical Students of India. The practitioners of these programmes felt the need for guide-lines to transform their programmes to be more relevant to their socio-political contexts. Hence the present qualitative-oriented research was undertaken. The preliminary interviews and reading of the related literature enabled the researcher to identify some promoted theories, regarding the relationship between the socio-political factors and the programmes; this assisted him to set up a questionnaire for semistructured interviews. A sample for interviews was chosen with the help of the organisers of the programmes. A pilot study was conducted using the questionnaire, which led to the semi-structured interviews. The respondents narrated their experiences and reflections related to the socio-political factors. The information was organised, scrutinised, and the findings were recorded under six different pointers, which enabled the researcher to exhibit and explain the connections between the training programmes and the sociopolitical factors. Then the findings were evaluated, using the puzzle-solving method. Consequently, some guidelines were devised. These guide-lines indicate the limitations and the possibilities in making a socially-oriented training programme more vibrant and viable to its socio-political factors. Moreover, they highlight the possibilities for the existing pietistic-oriented programmes to become more relevant to the context. They also guide the practitioners to construct alternative approaches in training that are more relevant. The research is a small incentive to the emerging cooperation among the practitioners of the various training programmes in CSI Kanyakumari diocese. It will hopefully encourage them to join hands with people of other faiths and Non Governmental organisations in facilitating the social transformation in India today. Proposals are made for further related research work. / Practical Theology / (D.Th. (Practical Theology))

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-11-18T11:34:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Angela Michele Suave.pdf: 2432450 bytes, checksum: 6cb1885c342906e2072d51aac90fb357 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-18T11:34:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Angela Michele Suave.pdf: 2432450 bytes, checksum: 6cb1885c342906e2072d51aac90fb357 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The socio-political reconfiguration of “Pinheirinho Movement” in the right of conquest to city: Sao Jose dos Campos, 2011-2015, is an issue that arises from the urban process having as genesis the conflicts of the relation between capital and work. The “Pinheirinho Movement” became symbolic in the country by portraying the reality of Brazilian cities. It was analyzed that the eviction expressed the achievement of hegemony and power strength of the city ledgerbait. The intensification of the conflict caused a sociopolitical reconfiguration of “Pinheirinho Movement”. It was considered to study the sociopolitical reconfiguration of Pinheirinho movement, with its reorganization to the conquest of the city, it was essential to highlight the mediation’s that express the antagonistic interests that pervade the relations of the social classes of the capitalist system of production. It was chosen a qualitative research, starting with a bibliographic survey and documentary research, in which was used sources containing records about the “Pinheirinho Movement”, the local press (by virtual means). It was utilized to meet the socio-political configuration of the movement, unsystematic participant observation. The answers to this sociopolitical process “Pinheirinho Movement” signaled that the struggles for housing and the citinzenship as the constituents of conflicts intensification between classes in the urban space, which suggested the study of the State, Bourgeois Democracy and the Right to the City as theoretical categories foundational to our analysis. In Chapter I, it was made an analysis of the continuing struggle for housing of Pinheirinho's former occupants in the post-eviction process, bringing elements of the previous situation of stability. In Chapter II, the reflections on the housing policy achieved by “Pinheirinho Movement” sought to consider the process of social reproduction in a society divided into classes. In Chapter III, it was studied the importance of Social Work to contribute to the workers movement into a professional exercise that has the purpose of strengthening its struggle. The experience of “Pinheirinho Movement” demonstrated that workers' awareness of regarding urban problems as well as transportation, housing, health, among others, is an important element to demonstrate the possibilities of promoting fights for the right to the city and the materialization of the actions of the workers social movements that can boost the working class to the head of the revolutionary transformation process / A reconfiguração sociopolítica do movimento Pinheirinho na conquista do direito à cidade: São José dos Campos, 2011 a 2015 é uma temática que advem do processo urbano, tendo por gênese os conflitos da relação capital X trabalho. O movimento Pinheirinho tornou-se simbólico no país por retratar a realidade das cidades brasileiras. Analisamos que a desocupação expressou a concretização da hegemonia e da força do poder da alta burguesia da cidade. O acirramento desse conflito provocou uma reconfiguração sociopolítica do movimento Pinheirinho. Considera-se que estudar a reconfiguração sociopolítica do movimento Pinheirinho, com a sua reorganização para a conquista da cidade, foi fundamental para evidenciar as mediações que expressam os interesses antagônicos que perpassam as relações das classes sociais do sistema capitalista de produção. Optamos por uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa, iniciando-a com um levantamento bibliográfico e com uma pesquisa documental, na qual usamos fontes que contêm registros sobre o movimento Pinheirinho, da imprensa local (por meio virtual). Foi usada, para conhecer a reconfiguração sociopolítica do movimento, a observação participante assistemática. As respostas para esse processo sociopolítico do movimento Pinheirinho sinalizaram que as lutas por moradia e pela cidade são constituintes do acirramento dos conflitos entre as classes no espaço urbano, o que sugeriu o estudo do Estado, da Democracia Burguesa e do Direito à Cidade como categorias teóricas fundantes para a nossa análise. No capítulo I, fizemos uma análise da continuidade da luta por moradia dos ex-ocupantes do Pinheirinho no pós-desocupação, trazendo elementos da anterior situação de estabilidade. No capítulo II, nossas reflexões acerca da política habitacional alcançada pelo movimento Pinheirinho buscaram considerar o processo de reprodução social em uma sociedade dividida em classes. No capítulo III, trabalhamos a importância de o Serviço Social somar-se aos movimentos de trabalhadores para um exercício profissional que tenha a finalidade de fortalecer sua luta. A experiência do movimento Pinheirinho demonstrou que a tomada de consciência dos trabalhadores em relação aos problemas urbanos, bem como os problemas de transporte, de moradia, de saúde, dentre outros, é um elemento importante para demonstrar as possibilidades de impulsionar lutas pelo direito à cidade e para a materialização das ações dos movimentos sociais de trabalhadores e pode impulsionar a classe operária no processo dirigente da transformação revolucionária

This study is concerned with the obscurity surrounding the boundaries of a socio-political context and a metaphysical context, especially as it correlates to Contemporary Performance Art. This dichotomy seemingly results in symbolic conflation and therefore necessitates the inclusion of social science as part of Performance Studies discourse. The intersection of these disciplines aligns with respect to the significance of context: the role of communication when considering the phenomenon of interpreting the perspective of other individuals. In this study, the various layers appropriated to the contextualisation of Performance art are explored: how it pertains to the theatrical framework, audience, art, social order, and the sublime. To this end, the influence of the socio-political construct of reality on the theatrical framework of a performance is examined. The premise is that a socio-political context both precedes and follows a performance and likely affects 5 how a performance is experienced. This investigation relies upon the methodological approach of Grounded Theory that allows the freedom of exploring this phenomenon in conjunction to the development of a communicative model. To delimit the scope of this study, I primarily focus on the symbolic, insofar as it affects the context of a performance. The analysis of this study supports the development of a theorisation that introduces an approach to the theatrical framework, defined as Neo-Surrealism. Drawing upon Immanuel Kant's philosophical work on judgement, a precept is introduced for a theatrical framework: Neo- Surrealism is a platform that constitutes the demarcation of sacred space, where the signification of the aesthetic has symbolic authority over the signification of the socio-political construct. In the present study, the term transgression as situated in a metaphysical context of sacred space, changes its symbolic signification from a complicit act against the socio-political construct to a complicit act against the limitations of perception, positioning this semiotic sign to constitute an aesthetic infinitude. This theorisation serves to support a philosophical dialectic that incorporates performative methods from Ritual Studies. This aspect of the dissertation acts as a counterpart to the documented artwork aimed at reinforcing the specific purposes as outlined through the research. The practical portion of this study consists of three performances that rely upon the platform of Neo-Surrealism. Each performance strategically responds to the influence of the socio-political construct in separate ways. Neo-Surrealism: What is Performance art? (2015) contains a fictitious narrative that is integrated in an academic context. I portray several different archetypes; this theoretically makes my identity impalpable to an audience comprised mostly of students that are unfamiliar with my work. Neo-Surrealism: The Audition (2016) is centred on the site specificity of the performance, challenging the application of the communicative model in an unfamiliar socio-political context, Anchorage, Alaska. Neo-Surrealism: The Rehearsal (2017) is aimed at asserting the relevance of the platform of Neo-Surrealism by expanding the symbolic boundaries of Performance Art.

In this thesis I will demonstrate that there is a similarity between the use of physical walls and digital walls as means of ideological dissemination by power structures as well as socio-political protesters. Also, I will show that their use in this manner not only changes the way that both function ideologically, but also changes the environment that these walls are created/exist in as well. The first case study will analyze Banksy’s employment of carnivalesque graffiti as a means of protest. The second case study will analyze the use of digital public space and “walls” created within social media as tools of protest, paralleling the earlier examples pertaining to the physical walls of public space. The third case study will look at the employment of the digital “walls” of Facebook and Twitter in conjunction with the use of public space in Cairo and its role in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

The research is done within the diocese of Kanyakumari of the Church of South India. It examines the viability of the following training programmes to socio-political factors: the Church Workers Theological Training Programme, the Sunday School Programme, the Vacation Bible School Programme, the parish-based training programmes - for example retreats and workshops, the Women’s Fellowship Programme, the Christian Endeavour Programme, the Programme of Communication and Revival as well as that of the Student Christian Movement of India, and the Union of Evangelical Students of India. The practitioners of these programmes felt the need for guide-lines to transform their programmes to be more relevant to their socio-political contexts. Hence the present qualitative-oriented research was undertaken. The preliminary interviews and reading of the related literature enabled the researcher to identify some promoted theories, regarding the relationship between the socio-political factors and the programmes; this assisted him to set up a questionnaire for semistructured interviews. A sample for interviews was chosen with the help of the organisers of the programmes. A pilot study was conducted using the questionnaire, which led to the semi-structured interviews. The respondents narrated their experiences and reflections related to the socio-political factors. The information was organised, scrutinised, and the findings were recorded under six different pointers, which enabled the researcher to exhibit and explain the connections between the training programmes and the sociopolitical factors. Then the findings were evaluated, using the puzzle-solving method. Consequently, some guidelines were devised. These guide-lines indicate the limitations and the possibilities in making a socially-oriented training programme more vibrant and viable to its socio-political factors. Moreover, they highlight the possibilities for the existing pietistic-oriented programmes to become more relevant to the context. They also guide the practitioners to construct alternative approaches in training that are more relevant. The research is a small incentive to the emerging cooperation among the practitioners of the various training programmes in CSI Kanyakumari diocese. It will hopefully encourage them to join hands with people of other faiths and Non Governmental organisations in facilitating the social transformation in India today. Proposals are made for further related research work. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / (D.Th. (Practical Theology))

Submitted by Josias De Oliveira Nunes (josias.nunes@hotmail.com) on 2018-04-25T18:29:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO MESTRADO VERSÃO de defesa (Repositório). 22-04-2018 (versão repositório COMPLETA).pdf: 2873653 bytes, checksum: 22abf1793734c5a2da350a6219a43981 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Luiza Carpi Semeghini (luiza@assis.unesp.br) on 2018-04-25T22:23:17Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 nunes_jo_me_assis_int.pdf: 2873653 bytes, checksum: 22abf1793734c5a2da350a6219a43981 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-25T22:23:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 nunes_jo_me_assis_int.pdf: 2873653 bytes, checksum: 22abf1793734c5a2da350a6219a43981 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O Brasil, um dos três maiores países das Américas, foi colonizado pelos portugueses, que aportaram em suas terras no século XVI, status conservado até o recente século XIX. A colônia tornou-se reino independente de Portugal, e tem-se desde sempre que o seu idioma é o português, legado dos descobridores. A educação brasileira perpetua a versão, através do conteúdo formal para a educação básica, sem que haja nos PCN`s informações sobre sua gênese. Não há menção do galego, ou mesmo do galego-português. O presente trabalho aborda à história sociopolítica da língua portuguesa, “que circunstâncias favoreceram essa sucessiva expansão e que consequências sociopolíticas advieram delas” (FARACO, 2016, p.10), e propõe a exposição das obras dos trovadores dos séculos XII e XIII aos discentes. Embora um estudo histórico-linguístico não seja o propósito, procura-se dar rápido panorama da evolução interna da língua portuguesa sob Teyssier (TEYSSIER, 1987), através de Saraiva (SARAIVA, 1995); aborda-se a linguística românica (ILARI, 2004), o português arcaico (MATTOS E SILVA, 2006), e, ainda, a gramática histórica (COUTINHO, 1976). Mas debruça-se mais detidamente sobre história da sociedade que serviu de berço para o nosso idioma (WINCK, 2017), e no fato de o Português ser língua oficial de Portugal só em fins do século XV, fenômeno tardio; vê-se a Gramática da Linguagem Portuguesa de Fernão de Oliveira (1536), a primeira. Pesquisa-se o século XVIII, quando muito se fala em ‘língua do príncipe’ ou ‘língua do soberano (BURKE, 2010); busca-se caminho por linguagens e comunidades nos primórdios da Europa Moderna, citado por Faraco (FARACO, 2016). Faz-se distinção, portanto, entre os autores que perpetram a história interna da Língua, por estudos histórico-linguísticos – Teyssier, Saraiva, Ilari, Mattos e Silva e Coutinho – e autores que produzem uma história externa, pelos estudos sociopolíticos – Winck, Faraco e Burke. Autores galegos que abordam a questão sociopolítica da língua, de dentro para fora, conhecedores que são de sua própria história, são consultados. Estende-se a breve análise à construção do currículo e às políticas linguísticas vigentes através do MEC – Ministério da Educação. Tendo-se em mente a distinção entre aspectos histórico-linguísticos e sociopolíticos da língua portuguesa em sua origem na Galícia, pretende-se que o alunado tenha acesso introdutório a esses aspectos, pelos textos pertencentes aos compêndios: Cancioneiro de Santa Maria, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa – Colocci Brancutti, Cancioneiro da Vaticana. Há de se confirmarem (ou não) entendimento de tema, assunto, título e texto com as respectivas transcrições para a língua corrente. Busca-se o reconhecimento (ou não) da identidade linguística do aluno brasileiro do século XXI a partir de textos matriciais que transitem da Provença às percepções literário-culturais brasileiras atuais, e a despeito de suas variações. / Brazil, one of the three largest countries in the Americas, was colonized by the Portuguese, who arrived in its lands in the sixteenth century, a preserved status up to the recent nineteenth century. The colony became an independent kingdom from Portugal, and Portuguese has been its language since then, a legacy of the discoverers. The Brazilian education perpetuates the version through its formal content for basic education, without any information whatsoever in the NCPs about its genesis. There is not any mention of the Galician, not even of the Galician-Portuguese. This present paper deals with the socio-political history of the Portuguese language, when it comes to “what were the circumstances that favored this consecutive expansion and what were the socio-political consequences that resulted from them” (FARACO, 2016, p.10), and suggests the exposition of the troubadors’ works from both the 12th and 13th centuries. Even though a historical-linguistic study is not the purpose, it aims at giving a quick overview of the internal revolution of the Portuguese language (TEYSSIER, 1987) or by Saraiva (SARAIVA, 1995); the romance language here is in focus (ILARI, 2004), the archaic Portuguese (MATTOS E SILVA, 2006), and in addition, the historical grammar (COUTINHO, 1976). However, it looks more closely into the history of the society that served as the cradle for our language (WINCK,2017), and because Portuguese was the official language of Portugal only in the late 15th century, thus a late phenomenon; one can look into the Grammar of the Portuguese Language by Fernão de Oliveira (1536), the first one. The eighteenth century is researched, when a great deal is said about “the language of the prince”, or “the language of the sovereign” (BURKE, 2010); a path is sought after languages and communities in the early beginnings of Modern Europe, quoted by Faraco (FARACO, 2016). Distinction is made, therefore, among the authors who perpetuate the internal history of the Language through historical-linguistic studies – Teyssier, Saraiva, Ilari, Mattos e Silva and Countinho – as well as authors that produce an external history through socio-political studies – Winck, Faraco and Burke. Galician authors who deal with the socio-political aspect of the language, from inside to outside and who are experts of their own history are also consulted. Both the brief analysis of the elaboration of the curriculum and the language policies in force are extended through the MEC (Ministry of Education and Culture). Bearing in mind the distinction between the historical –linguistic and the socio-political aspects of the Portuguese language in its origin in Galicia, it is intended that the students have an introductory access in regard to these aspects, by using the texts that belong to the compendia: Cancioneiro de Santa Maria, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, Cancioneiro da National Library of Lisbon – Colocci Brancutti, Cancioneiro da Vaticana. It is to be confirmed (or not) the understanding of the theme, subject matter, title and text with its respective transcripts for the current language. One seeks the recognition (or not) of the linguistic identity of the 21st. century brazilian student, stemming from matrix texts that transits from Provence to the current Brazilian literary-cultural perceptions, in spite of their variations. / CAPES: 5649518

The present text develops a model designed to generate conceptual theories with respect to the pictorial (visual) form of representation. This is achieved by combining a computational approach to cognition with philosophical devices of the analytic tradition. The model itself, simulating the structure of reality, consists of (i) a metaphysical stage based on Armstrong's theory of combinatorial possibility, (ii) an epistemological stage proposing emergent phenomena founded upon the notion of computational irreducibility, and (iii) a semantic stage proposing a stochastic account of concepts anchored in the intensional/extensional apprehension of meaning. Towards the end, the model is applied to develop a conceptual account of a case of social, political, and economic organization of human communities as depicted in the visual propaganda of the so-called Islamic State.

Magister Artium - MA / In this paper I attempt to look critically at the literary construction of one particular 'race', namely the 'Coloureds'. In Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren. To this end, the paper draws on the hlstorlcal background of Millin, and investigates the way in which Millin has consciously and strateglcally forrned, as it were, a 'unique' Coloured Identity. Furthermore, the paper explores the proximity or tension between author and narrator in the novel. This tension, i suggest, emerges In response to various pressures In the novel which in tum are based upon the author's social, . political and economic background. Evidence to this effect is derived from Millin's biography and other sources. What emerges from the paper Is that the concepts 'race' and 'Coloured', as they are employed In this novel, are equally elusive. In attempting to piece together a 'race', the novel communicates Millin's aversion to miscegenation, and discloses characteristics of her 'self. Ironically, I conclude, she falls prey to the same kinds of prejudices that she projects onto her literary subjects