The advent of climate change promises extreme disruptions to existing concepts of political time, namely the distinction between the modes of time adopted by modern nation-states, natural time, and the everyday life of human beings. Yet the nation-state remains the primary actor through which climate politics is shaped. India is one the most prominent actors in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and also likely to be one of the most climate-affected societies moving forward. Over the 30-year history of India's engagement at the UNFCCC, there has been a shift from constructing a secular, past-oriented imaginary to a sacred, future-oriented one. The state has fostered these temporal imaginaries through three discursive registers: international politics, climate science, and conservative Hindu ideology. These imaginaries act as a heuristic tool with which to analyze the changing dynamics of political temporality in an era of rapid and extreme climate change. / Doctor of Philosophy / Climate change challenges fundamental notion of political time, the temporal relationship that embeds actors and processes. Yet this topic is underanalyzed in academic literature, especially when it comes to non-Western states. India has been one of the most prominent actors at the United Nations climate negotiations and also likely to be heavily affected by extreme climate shifts. Over the 30-year history of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Indian government has framed the temporality of climate change in two ways. First, from 1988-2004, it constructed and followed a secular, past-oriented imaginary of climate change. Beginning in 2005, and accelerating with the election of Prime Minister Modi in 2014, the government has begun to construct and follow a sacred, future-oriented imaginary. In this way, the State has moved from rhetorically framing climate change as a significant problem to an opportunity that can be met if India and other societies follow conservative Hindu precepts.

This essay explores the Swedish state’s geopolitical view and creation, of the spatial spaces in and of the Arctic. With a critical geopolitical framework, a discourse analysis is conducted on the Swedish strategy for the arctic region, with the ambition to unfold the underlining spatial spaces, actors and dramas that this discourse creates. The result of this analysis shows that Sweden creates three different Arctic spaces within its geopolitical discourse; a Swedish Arctic, a Nearby Arctic and a Regional Arctic. This has major political consequences, which will be illuminated in the essay. Perhaps the most noteworthy being the ulterior theoretical view of the Swedish state regarding the environment and the relationship between the global space and the Regional Arctic, in relation to the threat of global and regional environmental deterioration.

The primary goal of this study is to explore the impact of dominant cultural patterns associated with the contemporary workplace on organizational members' experience of time. First, in order to investigate such potential relationships, three temporal factors---varying levels of synchronicity, temporal compression, and temporal expansion---are identified as contemporary dominant cultural patterns. Next, these dominant cultural patterns are isolated to reflect three growing communication practices: multicommunicating, virtual work practices, and primary work location. With a review of the literature, these communication practices are tested with seven dimensions of time (present time perspective, urgency, pace, flexibility, punctuality, separation, and linearity). A secondary goal is to also examine both organizational members' temporal experience and communication practices with the impression management strategy, exemplification. Taken together, each goal and subsequent findings helps to inform our understanding of contemporary communication phenomenon. / text

Les recherches entreprises dans cette thèse portent sur la phénoménologie de la phénoménologie de Eugen Fink, dont la "Sixième méditation cartésienne" (1932) constitue l’exposition principale. Elles cherchent à en cerner le problème directeur et à l'analyser dans ses différentes formes. Elles entreprennent à cette fin une série d'allers et retours entre la phénoménologie de la phénoménologie finkienne et la phénoménologie husserlienne. C'est dans cette dernière en effet qu'émerge le problème méthodologique abordé par Fink dans la Sixième méditation : le problème de la phénoménalisation de la temporalisation originaire. Il peut être formulé en première instance de la manière suivante : d'une part, la temporalisation originaire ne se phénoménalise qu'en tant que niveau constitutif distinct du flux immanent ; d'autre part la temporalisation originaire ne se phénoménalise que d'après le niveau constitutif du flux immanent. Il s'agit dès lors de savoir comment la temporalisation originaire peut se phénoménaliser à la fois comme niveau constitutif du flux immanent et d'après le niveau constitutif du flux immanent. Ce problème est abordé dans la "Sixième méditation" comme question de savoir comment penser, d'une part la réduction transcendantale et, d'autre part, le retour du spectateur phénoménologique dans l'attitude naturelle. Notre thèse cherche à montrer l'importance du concept de Schwingung pour penser ce double mouvement de phénoménalisation : celle-ci ne consiste pas pour le spectateur phénoménologique à s'installer dans le niveau constitutif de la temporalisation originaire, mais à osciller [schwingen] entre ce dernier et le niveau constitutif du temps immanent. / This thesis concerns E. Fink's phenomenology of phenomenology, witch the “Sixth Cartesian meditation” (1932) is the main document. The research is focussed to address it in its basic issue and to analyse it in its different forms. To reach this result a series of investigations both in Finkian phenomenology of phenomenology and in Husserl's phenomenology were performed. In the last one we find the methodological problem that Fink explored in the “Sixth meditation”: the phenomenalizing of original temporality. This item was elaborated by Fink as the problem of unity between the transcendental reduction and the return of the phenomenological onlooker into the natural attitude. In this work we highlight the importance of concept of Schwingung to think these double movements of phenomenalizing: this does not consist for the phenomenological onlooker to put himself in the constitutive level of original temporality, bur to oscillate [schwingen] between it and the constitutive level of immanent time.

Esta dissertação estuda as transformações da paisagem na comunidade quilombola Pedro Cubas, localizada na região do Vale do Ribeira, no Estado de São Paulo. A paisagem é entendida a partir de uma abordagem cultural. Para viabilizar o estudo das transformações, adota-se um recorte das temporalidades presentes no espaço de vida da população. Estuda-se a trajetória do conceito de quilombo e o histórico de ocupação da região para verificar o contexto em que a comunidade se insere. A imersão da pesquisadora na área de estudo é o caminho usado para experienciar a paisagem, estabelecer uma relação com as pessoas e com o lugar e compreender como a introdução de novas técnicas afetam as práticas culturais. Aplicase uma análise categorial aos elementos identificados na paisagem, a fim de apreender de que forma os moradores percebem as temporalidades presentes. Identificam-se as Persistências, Transformações e Ressignificações dos elementos da paisagem. Avaliam-se como práticas do passado permanecem, transformam-se e são ressignificadas no espaço de vida dessa comunidade. Compreender estas transformações, a partir do olhar dos moradores, abre para a possibilidade de um planejamento de ações mais adequado ao modo de vida do local. / This dissertation studies landscape transformation in the quilombola community of Pedro Cubas, based at Vale do Ribeira region of São Paulo state. Landscape is understood through a cultural perspective. To make this study of transformations feasible, the dissertation focuses on temporalities present on Pedro Cubas communitys life-space. The course of quilombo concept and the historical occupation of the region were considered in order to apprehend the context in which this community is inserted. Intense fieldwork was essential given that it allowed the researcher to experience the landscape as well as establish a relationship with people and their environment. Elements identified within the landscape were submitted to a categorical data analysis, which facilitated the comprehension of how community members perceive present temporalities. Understanding transformations based on local perspectives allows the plan of actions to be more adequate to their way of life.

Thesis advisor: Michael G. Pratt / Despite a graying workforce and a growing number of workers experiencing work transitions, extant literature has largely ignored the role of age in work transition experiences and its impact on the process of work identity change. In this dissertation I employ an inductive approach to elaborate theory concerning the relationships among work transitions, work identity change, and age. Contrary to what extant literature suggests, the findings of a longitudinal qualitative study of 47 employees at a large financial services firm make clear that the types of work transition (role-based transition vs. membership-based transition) and employees' age (Gen X and Gen Y workers in early adulthood vs. Baby boomer workers in middle adulthood) did not differentiate the overall identity change processes within the organization. Rather, my data suggest that identity change is best captured as change in the direction of employees' work identity narratives. Moreover, different combinations of intrapersonal/temporal, interpersonal/social, and future time perspective mechanisms lead to three types of change in the direction of the identity narratives: adjusting, progressing, and regressing. Further, significant differences between age groups surfaced. My research enriches emerging perspectives on work identity as narrative by proposing a temporally-oriented model of work identity change that bridges past, present, and future identities; and delimits the role of age in identity change during work-related transitions. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management. / Discipline: Management and Organization.

A pesquisa busca descrever e analisar as experiências de temporalidades em narrativas digitais, desenvolvidas especificamente pelas produções audiovisuais digitais do grupo de Vjs Embolex. O estudo se dará a partir de uma análise comparativa entre a influência da narrativa midiática na percepção da temporalidade moderna e as temporalidades proporcionadas pelas novas tecnologias de comunicação e suas narrativas. Busca-se entender em que medida a inserção das tecnologias digitais provocaram mudanças no deslocamento da noção de temporalidade diacrônica proporcionando o advento de outras temporalidades técnicas. Primeiramente, é feita a contextualização das narrativas midiáticas diacrônicas, por meio de numa análise histórica introdutória que estabelece a relação entre as distintas tecnologias midiáticas (a oral, a escrita e as eletrônicas) e as respectivas temporalidades narrativas que engendraram. Num segundo momento, a pesquisa busca desenvolver um estudo sobre as produções audiovisuais digitais do núcleo de Vjs Embolex. A análise destas produções buscará identificar os tipos específicos de temporalidades técnicas apresentadas por suas narrativas, além dos seus conteúdos e especificidades estéticas. / The research seeks to describe and analyse the experiences of temporality in digital narratives developed specifically by the audiovisual digital production of the group of Vjs Embolex. The study will take place from a comparative analysis on the influence of media narratives on perception of the modern temporality and the temporalities offered by new communication technologies and their narratives. We seek to understand to what extent the insertion of digital technologies have caused changes in the displacement of the notion of diachronic temporality providing the advent of other technical temporalities. Firstly, the context of the diachronic narratives produced by the media is drawn through an introductory historical analysis that establishes the relationship between the different media technologies (oral, written and electronic) and the type of temporality they engender. Secondly, the research seeks to develop a study on the audiovisual digital production of Embolex Vjs. The analysis of these productions aims to identify the specific types of technical temporalities presented by their narratives, beyond their specific content and aesthetics.

A pesquisa investiga temporalidades em dança contemporânea a partir de três aspectos convergentes: o primeiro, de que as temporalidades se tecem em tramas pelo corpo por entendimentos espaçotemporais processados por esquemas cognitivos e experiências sensório-motoras nas trocas com o ambiente de existência. O segundo explora temporalidades pelas seleções, estratégias e organização de dados temporais numa perspectiva coreográfica a partir das referências das obras: Danças Passageiras (2013), Esculturas Breves (2015), Brevidades (2016) e Nó(s) (2016). Nessa confluência, a pesquisa agrega também os parâmetros temporais do movimento, tais como o fluxo, a repetição, o uníssono, a gravidade, a velocidade e a memória, com as obras So blue (2012), Fase: quatro movimentos para a música de Steve Reich (1982), Tempo 76 (2007) e Men Walking Down on the Side of a Building (1970). Os parâmetros temporais do movimento, compreendidos como um prisma de temporalidades, também são brevemente abordados no contexto de curso de dança. O terceiro aspecto engloba os anteriores para observar temporalidades em sua dimensão política, observando questionamentos temporais implicados no mercado cultural e no contexto histórico e sociocultural em que elas são elaboradas. A principal hipótese da pesquisa é que as temporalidades podem viabilizar uma dramaturgia do corpo em dança. O objetivo geral da pesquisa é compreender a ligação entre temporalidades e dança. O objetivo específico é analisar certas noções e estratégias temporais que, além de agirem como tessitura para a criação, permitem dramaturgias de dança. Para isso, são utilizados conceitos promovidos pelos pesquisadores(as) de dança André Lepecki (1997), Christine Greiner (2005), Geisha Fontaine (2004), Helena Katz (2005), Helena Bastos (2017), Laurence Louppe (2012), Maxine Sheets-Johnstone (1966), Rosa Hercoles (2010), entre outros autores. Esse campo teórico permite investigar a questão do tempo em dança pelo desenvolvimento do entendimento de que \"temporalidades\" correspondem ao processo de composição, organização e estruturação de toda uma concepção coreográfica. / This thesis analyses temporality in contemporary dance from three convergent aspects: the first covers temporalities as intertwined by the body through temporal experiences in environment. The second explores the understanding of temporality by selections, strategies and organization of temporal factors from a choreographic perspective, based on Brazilian dance works: Danças Passageiras (2013), Esculturas Breves (2015), Brevidades (2016) and Nó(s) (2016). In this confluence, the research also incorporates temporal parameters of movement, such as flow, repetition, unison, gravity, velocity and memory, analyzing the works: So blue (2012), Fase: four movements for the music of Steve Reich (1982), Tempo 76 (2007) and Men Walking Down on the Side of a Building (1970). Temporal parameters of movement as an aspect of temporality are also treated within this research in the context of dance course. The third aspect includes temporality on its political dimension, considering that temporal questions implies cultural market and sociocultural context in which they are elaborated.The main hypothesis of this research is that temporality enables a dramaturgy of the body on dance. The general goal of the research is to understand the connection between temporality and dance. The specific goal is to analyze temporal notions which enable the creation and dance dramaturgies. The research may use concepts promoted by dance researchers, such as: André Lepecki (1997), Christine Greiner (2005), Geisha Fontaine (2004), Helena Katz (2005), Helena Bastos (2017), Laurence Louppe (2012), Maxine Sheets- Johnstone (1966), Rosa Hercoles (2010), among other authors. This theoretical field allows us to investigate the issue of time in dance, by developing the understanding that \"temporality\" corresponds to the process of composition, organization and structuring of a whole choreographic conception.

This dissertation examines how gender and temporality are co-constitutive of one another and what temporalities underlie the actuality of gendered life. I weave together the insights of feminist phenomenology and feminist poststructuralism in order to argue that temporality produces and constrains the actuality of lived gender as racialized, heterosexist, and cissexist. More specifically, I argue that this is done through sexual violence. Ultimately, I suggest that the temporality of sexual violence is encrusted into the dominant configurations of gender and into the bodily life of gendered subjects solidifying what gendered subjectivity can become. / 10000-01-01

Nossa pesquisa pretende mostrar a relação entre liberdade e situação presente na primeira fase da filosofia de Merleau-Ponty, especialmente na Fenomenologia da Percepção. Nosso objetivo é indicar que ela se apoia em uma dimensão ontológica, cuja característica principal é a recusa da tradicional separação entre ser e nada, e cujo fundamento encontra-se na temporalidade. / Our research intends to show the relation between freedon and situation present at the begining of Merleau-Ponty\'s philosophy, especially at Phénoménologie de la Perception. Our objective is to indicate that it is suported by an ontoligical dimension, whose main caracteristic is the refuse of the traditional separation between \"being\" and \"nothingness\", and whose fundament is found at the temporality.