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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Political Science. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 331-345). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR19803

This project examines urban renewal efforts in Eisenhüttenstadt, a German city on the border between Germany and Poland founded in 1950 as a socialist utopian project. Originally called Stalinstadt, Eisenhüttenstadt was planned as a steel manufacturing hub and worker’s paradise. Its products would enable the rise of cities across the Eastern Bloc and its design, focused on the needs of young families, would be a model of humane urban living. Under East German rule the city thrived. Then, in 1991, came German reunification. Today Eisenhüttenstadt suffers from urban blight, massive unemployment, and depopulation. At the same time, state and private actors are working together to revitalize Eisenhüttenstadt, imprinting on the city a new utopianism as they transform it into a new urban paradigm: an environmentally sustainable city that caters to an aging and shrinking population.  My research uses ethnographic, archival, and visual methods to examine these efforts, and asks how new urban futures can be imagined in deindustrializing cities when traditional engines of growth disappear. I observe how architects and municipal officials draw on Eisenhüttenstadt’s legacy of socialist ethics in urban planning—prioritizing an attention to community cohesion, population density, and the economical use of resources both natural and financial—as they address contemporary crises: unemployment and urban emptiness, rising energy costs, an aging population, and an influx of Syrian refugees. My two primary theoretical interests are, broadly, temporality and materiality. I ask how the 20th century’s industrial and material legacies are being reimagined and redeveloped, what logics stand behind those changes, and how those logics—and legacies—are understood by the people who encounter them. I ask how people use their interactions with the built environment to situate themselves in history, as well as how people’s perception of the past influences their imagination of urban futures. And I ask how, as federal mandates are interpreted at the local level, the socialist ethics which influenced Eisenhüttenstadt’s officials reemerge in the present day. I do so over the course of five chapters. Chapter One examines how socialist urban planning was defined in East Germany and how residents of Eisenhüttenstadt experienced the transition from socialism to capitalism. Chapter Two focuses on one element of the urban landscape called the Wohnkomplex and how it is being rebuilt, according to socialist logics, to accommodate the needs of the elderly. Chapter Three examines street names, and how history comes to be experienced or erased in the urban landscape. Chapter Four examines street lamps, whose partial privatization in 2015 set off robust debate about the failure of local government to prioritize citizens’ well-being over financial gain. Chapter Five focuses on the refugee housing crisis and how residents and municipal officials in Eisenhüttenstadt responded to the unexpected need to house thousands of new residents

This thesis is an exploration of the images which define revolution's meaning. It suggests a possible shifting of emphasis from the scientific imaginary which centres on identifying the correct way to totalising revolution, towards a post-structuralist-anarchistic imaginary which privileges prefigurative radicalisations of social relations in the here and now. It looks specifically at how the field of post-structuralism intertwines with historically anarchist concepts to generate an horizon of social change animated by experimental and open-ended transformations. While the thesis offers positive characterisations of the types of contemporary movements, tactics and principles which embody the change from closed to open utopianism, it is chiefly a commentary on the role of theory in depicting the complexity of relations on the ground and the danger of proposing one totalising pathway from one state of society to another. It asks the reader to consider, given the achievements of movements and given the insights of post-structuralism, whether it is still worthwhile to proclaim certainty when sketching the possibilities for transcendence toward emancipation, an aim, which in itself, is always under construction. I engage this by firstly establishing a practical foundation for the critique of endpoints in theory by exploring the horizontal and prefigurative nature of a few autonomous movements today. Secondly I propose the contemporary theory of post-structuralist anarchism as concomitant with conclusions about transformation made in the first chapter. Finally I recommend a few initial concepts to start debate about the way forward from old objectivist models of transformation. The uncertainties of daily life, crumbling of economic powers and rapid pace of change in the twenty-first century have opened up fantastic spaces for innovative thought. Reconsidering old consensus around what constitutes a desirable image of revolution is of considerable importance given today's burgeoning bottom-up political energy and the global debate surrounding the possibilities for bottom-up revolutionisation of society. I submit that theories which portray stories of permanent, pure and natural end-points to revolution are deficient justifications for radical action.

Thesis--Göteborgs universitet, 1995. / Thesis t.p. laid in. Includes bibliographical references (p. [384]-398) and indexes.

Orientador: Angela Maria Carneiro Araujo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T03:08:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Castro_Barbara_M.pdf: 1385642 bytes, checksum: 2f5a07281149b29df20ea9e353a5d756 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa investigou a categoria de economia solidária de Paul Singer. O objetivo era compreender, de maneira crítica, o caráter de transição para uma sociedade socialista que ele outorga às iniciativas de economia solidária. Para tanto, foi necessário traçar uma cronologia de seus argumentos, entender sua concepção de socialismo e pinçar alguns dos elementos que ele seleciona na tradição marxista e na história do movimento operário para construir seu projeto político, posto que ele toma as experiências dos Pioneiros de Rochdale e o Complexo Cooperativo de Mondragón como exemplos. A continuidade histórica concomitante à recriação que ele vê na economia solidária é o fio condutor de sua argumentação, sustentada pela autogestão e por concepções similares às dos socialistas utópicos. O silenciamento sobre a questão do Estado e a preocupação com o autoritarismo justificam o uso desses elementos empíricos e teóricos, que visam dar sustentação ao seu projeto político alternativo de superação do capitalismo / Abstract: This study investigates the Paul Singer School of solidarity economy with the objective of critically understanding the transitional character towards a socialist society given to solidarity economy initiatives. With this purpose in mind, a chronology of Singer's arguments is outlined in order to understand how he conceives socialism and extract some of the elements that he selects from Marxist tradition and labor movement history to construct his political project, in which the experiences of the Rochdale Pioneers and the Mondragón Cooperative Complex are used as examples. Historical continuity accompanies the regeneration that Singer seeks in the solidarity economy and is the conducting wire in his argument, continuity that is sustained through self- management and similar concepts to those of utopian socialists. Singer's silence over the question of the State and a preoccupation with authoritairianism justify the use of these emperical and theoretical elements, that aim to justify their alternative political project beyond capitalism / Mestrado / Trabalho, Movimentos Sociais, Cultura e Politica / Mestre em Ciência Política

Zugl.: Berlin, Humboldt-Universiẗat, Diss., 2006.

Le présent travail a pour but d’étudier le village ouvrier textile de New Lanark (Écosse), fondé en 1785, aujourd’hui classé au patrimoine mondial de l’humanité et célèbre pour sa réputation d’usine « modèle » en vertu de son association avec Robert Owen (1771- 1858), lui-même considéré comme le « père du socialisme britannique ». Il soulève l’hypothèse que cette mythification doit être réhistoricisée afin d’en éclairer le sens et la portée, tant pour être déconstruite que reconstruite. Tout d’abord, l’histoire du village ouvrier doit être replacée dans celle de la Révolution industrielle, afin d’éclairer les spécificités de cette forme de peuplement, dont l’identification à des modes de gestion dits « paternalistes » n’est pas des moindres. L’examen de ce creuset paternaliste éclaire également les fondements et la formation de la pensée d’Owen, qui prend appui sur le terrain de New Lanark afin de se livrer à une expérience en matière de réforme sociale. Deuxièmement, le village ouvrier doit être étudié en lui-même, afin de confronter ses dynamiques internes à la mise en pratique des politiques patronales. Troisièmement, nous envisagerons New Lanark à l’aune des réceptions dont il a fait l’objet, alors qu’Owen lance une campagne de promotion de sa doctrine aboutissant à la fin des années 1820 à la formation du premier socialisme britannique. Le statut de précurseur conféré à New Lanark et à son dirigeant sera également analysé au regard de l’affiliation de ce dernier au champ du « socialisme utopique ». Il est dès lors possible d’envisager une mise en tradition faite de processus stratégiques où, en dépit de ses excentricités supposées, et en vertu de sa politique patronale éclairée à New Lanark, Owen a été intégré au canon socialiste comme fondateur d’un courant national distinct du marxisme. / This thesis examines the textile industrial village of New Lanark (Scotland). Founded in 1785 and now a World Heritage site, it is mostly renowned for its reputation as a « model » factory, thanks to its association with Robert Owen (1771-1858), himself considered the « Father of British socialism ». It argues that such myth-making must be studied in context in order to grasp both its scope and significance, submitting it to a deconstruction and reconstruction process. Firstly, the history of the industrial village will be studied in the context of the Industrial Revolution in order to understand the specificities of this type of settlement, namely its close links with so-called « paternalistic » management methods. Examining paternalist discourses also sheds light on the foundations and formation of Owen’s thought, as he used New Lanark as a testbed for an experiment in social reform. Secondly, the industrial village will be studied per se in order to confront its internal dynamics with the application of Owen’s policies. Thirdly, we will analyse how New Lanark was received in its day, as Owen launched a campaign for the promotion of his doctrine, which amounted to the birth of the first British socialist movement in the late 1820s. The pioneering status which both New Lanark and Owen have been awarded also need to be analysed in relation to the latter’s labelling as a « utopian socialist ». The making of this tradition can therefore be understood as a series of strategic processes whereby Owen has been integrated into the socialist canon despite his supposed eccentricities and thanks primarily to his enlightened management policies at New Lanark, thus establishing him as the founder of a distinctively British socialism owing nothing to Marxism.

Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / This research intends to analyze the actions undertaken by the intellectual, homoeopathic and utopian socialist, Benoît Jules Mure (1809-1858), for the dissemination of the Method of Universal Teaching while he was in Brazil, bearing in mind that this Method presupposes equality between human intelligences and which was discovered by the French pedagogue Jean-Joseph Jacotot (1770-1840) in the year 1818 gaining notoriety in several regions of Europe, one can see its circulation also in nineteenth-century Brazil. The time frame used here is justified, therefore, it comprises the period of 1840, the year in which Mure landed in the country, in 1848, the date on which it left, and marks its passage in Brazilian lands. It is worth mentioning that this research is based on the presuppositions of the History of Education, in the perspective of Cultural History. The research uses as sources, non-pedagogical periodicals that circulated in the province of Rio de Janeiro during the period. Especially the Jornal do Commercio of Rio de Janeiro, founded in 1827 and also A Sciencia: Synthetica Magazine of Human Knowledge, a production of Mure himself and his group of adepts with periodical publication from 1847 to 1848. The sources worked here were found in archives online from the National Library of Brazil. It is noteworthy that Benoît Mure acted in different ways in favor of the dissemination of Universal Teaching, from publications about the Method, to its application in the Homeopathic School of Brazil. We hope that this analysis represents an important contribution to the historical knowledge of the Method of Universal Teaching in Brazil, making possible the broadening of the field of Education History, since it is an unexplored subject in Brazilian educational historiography. / Esta pesquisa analisa as ações empreendidas pelo intelectual, médico homeopata e socialista utópico, Benoît Jules Mure (1809-1858), na divulgação do Método do Ensino Universal, enquanto esteve no Brasil, tendo presente que tal Método defende a igualdade entre as inteligências humanas e, que foi descoberto pelo pedagogo francês Jean-Joseph Jacotot (1770-1840) no ano de 1818 ganhando notoriedade em diversas regiões da Europa; percebe-se sua circulação também no Brasil do século XIX, através da atuação do intelectual. O marco temporal aqui utilizado justifica-se, pois, compreende o período de 1840, ano em que Mure desembarcou no país à 1848, data em que foi embora e, marca sua passagem em terras brasileiras. Vale destacar que esta investigação encontra-se alicerçada nos pressupostas da História da Educação, na perspectiva da História Cultural. A pesquisa utiliza como fontes, periódicos não pedagógicos que circularam na província do Rio de Janeiro durante a época. Especialmente o Jornal do Commercio do Rio de Janeiro, fundado em 1827 e, também A Sciencia: Revista Synthetica dos Conhecimentos Humanos, uma produção do próprio Mure e seu grupo de adeptos com publicação periódica de 1847 a 1848. As fontes aqui trabalhadas foram encontradas nos arquivos online da Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil. Destaca-se que Benoît Mure atuou de diferentes formas a favor da divulgação do Ensino Universal, desde publicações sobre o Método, até a sua aplicação na Escola Homeopathica do Brasil. Esperamos que essa análise represente uma contribuição importante quanto ao conhecimento histórico do Método do Ensino Universal no Brasil, possibilitando o alargamento do campo da História da Educação, já que trata-se de um assunto, por enquanto, inexplorado na historiografia educacional brasileira. / São Cristóvão, SE