abstract: RESUMEN Esta tesis investiga la escritura femenina testimonial de tres obras latinoamericanas. El testimonio de Asunta Quispe Huamán, publicado en Gregorio Condori Mamani. Autobiografía (1977), producido por Ricardo Valderrama y Carmen Escalante; Ese infierno: conversaciones de cinco mujeres sobrevivientes de la ESMA de Munú Actis, Cristina Aldini, Liliana Gardella, Miriam Lewin y Elisa Tokar (2001); y La distancia entre nosotros (2012) escrito por Reyna Grande. Los testimonios han sido analizados a través de diversas premisas teóricas compuestas de las ideas sobre la heterogeneidad latinoamericana de Antonio Cornejo Polar y teorías sobre el territorio, espacio y geografía de Henri Lefebvre, Rogerio Haesbaert, Edward Soya, Gilles Deleuze que nos han servido de plataforma para nuestro estudio. Asimismo se ha recurrido a escritos sobre el cuerpo y la frontera con teoristas feministas como Lucia Guerra, Nelly Richards, Jean Franco, Gloria Anzaldúa y Rosi Braidotti, entre otras. Este estudio se ha propuesto demostrar que estos testimonios Latinoamericanos en su polifonía social y cultural emplean discursos de dimensión multifocal que les permite reterritorializarse desde las márgenes a través de tácticas de resistencia en un proceso de permanente descolonización. Esos cuerpos nómades han sido hablados y programados por el discurso legitimador para desterritorializarlos pero ellos vuelven a reterritorializarse como “líneas de escape” que se transforman creando interconexiones de supervivencia creadora. Consecuentemente, a través del nomadismo de los sujetos analizados se forma una resistencia política que representa nuevos horizontes que son los proyectos en variados ámbitos: de género, raciales, culturales, de justicia del espacio y ambientales. Todos éstos en contrapunteo con el discurso hegemónico. / Dissertation/Thesis / Embargo / Doctoral Dissertation Spanish 2019

According to critical pedagogues and post-development scholars, globalization and transnational movement open up new avenues for pedagogy; to be sure, some scholars assert the development sector is in need of a paradigm shift to accommodate "new forms of pedagogy" (Appadurai, 2000) while subaltern scholars call for "alternative pedagogies" (Sherpa, 2014) for the theorizing and understanding of subaltern, marginalized groups within the educational realm. In the search for and transition to a subaltern pedagogy, it is necessary to tap into the very voices of those who comprise the subaltern, because, as Kelly and Lusis (2006) assert, "Researchers are frequently interested in understanding the experiences of 'the immigrant,' as an objective analytical category, rather than the experiences of 'an immigrant'" (p. 831). The aim of this study is to examine the interplay between knowledge production of migrant workers, power as domination and empowerment, and the appropriation of space in considering how these groups are able to segue subaltern epistemologies into forms of activism and empowerment; as such, this study looks at constructions and deconstructions of power among historically oppressed peoples in macro, meso and micro contexts. I assert that dominant discourses of power attempt to perpetuate an intentional subjugation of oppressed groups, in this case, migrant workers, especially female domestic workers. However, via the creation of a critical, oppositional consciousness by way of reciprocity and dialogism within the migrant worker and Lebanese activist community, migrant workers are able to harness agency and empowerment even within the most oppressive of societal conditions. What this research reveals is that migrant workers are able to create powerful counter-cultural communities of practice and epistemological spaces for learning. Based on this research, I assert a subaltern praxis, a paradigm shift comprising of a subaltern pedagogy and practice, that incorporates ideas of critical pedagogy, spatial analysis, and postcolonial/third world feminisms; this dialectic triad informs the subaltern interstitial and liminal experience, the need for the building of a critical consciousness for educators and learners alike, and a re-mapping and re-configuration of subaltern epistemologies for the benefit of all who desire to learn about migration and the refugee experience.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2017-09-13T13:11:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2573351 bytes, checksum: fcbda07a11ede6999282225ba91fd5f5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-13T13:11:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2573351 bytes, checksum: fcbda07a11ede6999282225ba91fd5f5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-22 / This work has as its object the construction of cultural and political identity of Jurema Sagrada, a hibrid religious tradiction, that combines european, african and amerindian elements, in the urban space of Campina Grande, Paraíba. Methodologically, the research was based in bibliographical inquiry and etnography, where we sought, from observation and oral history, the construction of a religious and political experience narrative of the people of Jurema in Campina Grande, in opposition to their negative representation in religious, medical and juridical discourse. The work is also based in the subaltern studies perspective, intelectual school that proposes a political and epistemological inflection, aiming to elaboration of a critical theory of human rights from the persons and social groups historically marginalized, proposing the overcoming of the disjunctions of the modernity and the classical conceptions of human rights, that was deeply eurocentric and toward to legitimacy of capitalismo as economic and political system, and that failed in his intentions of universaliity, also criticized in this work. It analyzed also the effectiveness of the rights and public policies to the people of Jurema, where we conclude that the lacks of classic theoric approach of human rights reverberates also in you real application, being necessary, therefore, its reinvention based in experience of the subjects and social groups that citizenship was historicaly denied, for the construction of a effective universal pratice of human rights. / O presente trabalho tem como objeto a formação da identidade cultural e política da Jurema Sagrada, uma forma de religião híbrida, que reúne elementos europeus, africanos e ameríndios, no contexto do espaço urbano do município de Campina Grande/PB. Metodologicamente, a pesquisa baseou-se em levantamento bibliográfico e etnografia, onde se buscou, a partir da observação e do uso da história oral, a construção de uma narrativa da experiência religiosa e política do povo de Jurema campinense, em oposição à sua representação negativa no discurso religioso, médico e jurídico. O trabalho se pauta, ainda, na perspectiva dos saberes subalternos, corrente intelectual que propõe uma inflexão político- epistemológica, com vistas à elaboração de uma teoria crítica dos direitos humanos desde o olhar dos sujeitos e grupos sociais historicamente marginalizados, como proposta de superação das disjunções da modernidade e das concepções clássicas de direitos humanos, notadamente eurocêntricas e voltadas à legitimação do capitalismo como sistema econômico e político, e que falham em sua intenção de universalidade, a qual também é objeto de crítica na pesquisa. Analisou-se, ainda, a efetividade prática dos direitos e políticas públicas voltadas ao povo de Jurema, onde se constatou que as insuficiências da abordagem teórica clássica dos direitos humanos repercutem também em sua aplicabilidade real, sendo necessária, portanto, a sua reinvenção à luz das experiências dos sujeitos e grupos cuja cidadania fora negada, para que se possa construir uma prática efetivamente universal de direitos humanos.

This thesis is about how space technology is experienced in the social domain and how its purpose is recast from different viewpoints. The author is an artist and the approach taken foregrounds qualities of experience and viewpoint in which artists have a particular investment. This approach opens up the ways that affect, agency and authorship cross social domains that are directly and indirectly associated with the production of space technologies. A key focus is a group project led by the author that was initiated in response to the launch in October 2008 of the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The project took place in Bengaluru, India where the spacecraft was built. Taking the ambivalence that surrounds the uses and purposes of space technologies as a starting point, a description of the spacecraft is developed from a number of viewpoints, including the mission scientists, public media and the participants of the artist-led project. The interventionist strategies of the project shed light on the ways that technologies can be accessed through their imaginaries and this has significance for large-scale technologies, such as spacecraft, for which physical access is delimited and much of the infrastructure is invisible or hidden from public view. The thesis proposes ways of reinstating missed qualities of viewpoint and experience within the affective spaces of space technology through the imperative to articulate first-person engagements with the world that is bound into artistic interpretation. What is further proposed is that by picturing the interrelations and flows of space technology in social domains through the lenses of experience and viewpoint, a 'technographic picture' is created that then becomes available as a tool with which to re-imagine spacefaring. This is a crucial addition to discussions about the interplay between science, technology and society that recognises the intimate spaces at the core of such large-scale concepts. It offers a new transdisciplinary modality that incorporates an artistic approach with which to make sense of the structurally ambivalent pursuits of spacefaring.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak gilt als eine der Gründungsfiguren des postkolonialen Feminismus. Ihr Profil als postkoloniale Theoretikerin gewann sie mit der Veröffentlichung ihres Werkes In Other Worlds – Essays in Cultural Politics. In ihren Texten weist Spivak auf Widersprüche innerhalb der Nationen des Globalen Südens hin. Sie fokussiert, u. a. mit Hilfe der analytischen Konzepte Repräsentation (representation) und Subalternität (subaltern), insbesondere auf die problematische Rolle von Geschlechter- und Klassenverhältnissen in postkolonialen Widerstandsbewegungen, auf den Gegensatz zwischen den indischen Eliten und den unteren Bevölkerungsschichten und auf die gewaltsame Unterdrückung von Frauen des Südens.