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Nguyen, Nhat Nguyen. "Dynamique de l’interaction entre formes culturelles globales et locale : Étude ethnographique multi-site de la consommation musicale chez les jeunes Vietnamiens." Thesis, Lille 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LIL20024/document.
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Les recherches en comportement du consommateur sur la globalisation mettent souvent l’accent sur l’interaction dialectique ou dialogique entre une culture globale et une culture locale. Dans cette thèse ethnographique multi-site, nous nous attachons à comprendre l’interaction entre les formes culturelles globales provenant de différentes origines et la culture locale. Nous étudions celle-ci dans le contexte de la consommation de la musique pop sudcoréenne (K-pop) et de la musique pop anglo-américaine (USUK-pop) chez les jeunes Vietnamiens. Notre recherche révèle que l’interaction entre les formes culturelles globales et la culture locale est dynamique, complexe et transformative. Nous identifions deux formes d’interactions culturelles : une verticale où la culture locale et les formes culturelles globales s’opposent et rentrent directement en dialogue ; l’autre horizontale où la culture locale favorise une relation dialectique et dialogique entre les formes culturelles globales. Ces interactions se manifestent dans trois espaces : imaginaire, discursif et corporel. Elles se transforment et se manifestent constamment selon les expériences vécues des consommateurs locaux. Sur le plan théorique, notre travail contribue à prolonger la conceptualisation de l’interaction culturelle entre global et local. Ce travail offre également des implications méthodologiques dans l’étude de la globalisation ainsi que des apports managériaux pour le marketing internationalConsumer research on cultural globalization has paid attention to either dialectical interaction or dialogical interactions between a local culture and a global cultural forms coming from one origin. In this multi-sited ethnographic study, we focus on the cultural interaction between local culture and global cultures coming from different origins. We focus on the Vietnamese youngconsumers’ consumption of Korean pop music (K-pop) and Anglo-American pop music(USUK-pop) as a context. Our study shows that the cultural interaction between global and local is dynamic, complex and transformative. We identify two manifestations of this interaction: one is vertical, in which local culture simultaneously opposes to and dialogues with global cultural forms; another is horizontal, in which local culture stimulates dialectical and dialogical exchanges between global cultural forms. The interactions between global and localoccur in three spaces: imaginary, discursive and corporeal. They transform and performdifferently in consonance with lived experiences of local consumers. Our study extends theconceptualisation of cultural interaction between global and local. It also offers somemethodological reflections to the literature on globalization, as well as managerial implicationsto international marketing
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Blunt, Caroline Sarah. "Arriving home : A multi-sited ethnography of the making of 'home'." Thesis, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514230.
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Gerson, Yael. "(Un)Masking Neozapatismo : a multi-sited ethnography of 'The Other Campaign'." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2012. http://research.gold.ac.uk/10459/.
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This thesis is an examination into how nationalism continues to be an important source of identification and solidarity for people participating in alter-globalisation movements. Based on ethnographic research throughout the Zapatista Other Campaign, this thesis looks at the process of building Zapatista solidarity. This research thus follows Zapatismo, looking at how nationalism is a way of talking and of thinking about belonging in ways that develop ‘real’ material structures of solidarity and recognition. It explores what happens to ‘the national’ in the consolidation of ‘neozapatismo’ – a social and political project imagined as an alternative to neoliberal globalisation. Much of the academic literature on alter-globalisation lacks a critical engagement with questions of nationalism and national identity preferring instead to focus on global connections, and how these produce new, radical and innovative social imaginings. By radicalising notions of ‘democracy, justice and liberty’ the Zapatistas are seen to exemplify the possibility of radical politics in their practice of autonomy. Through research carried out in multiple sites across Mexico, Los Angeles and New York City, this thesis looks at how autonomy is lived and experienced in the everyday. It explores some of the different discourses of and about the Zapatistas that have emerged, looking to understand some of the ways in which neozapatismo is mediated, identifying two key players: Subcomandante Marcos and ‘alternative’ media. This thesis addresses questions of how to re-think ‘the national’ in imaginings of alternative forms of globalisation that can translate into social and political action.
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Wagner, Sarah. "A multi-sited ethnography of the decolonization of mobile media among Guaraní." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668810.
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Els moviments de drets indígenes d'Amèrica Llatina lluiten contra les hegemonies colonials que impregnen la vida contemporània. Mitjançant l'anàlisi particular dels pobles guaranís i les seves estratègies avançades, aquesta tesi aporta les primeres evidències sobre les implicacions de la descolonització dels serveis de comunicació mòbil. La tesi se centra en la política de les formes de comunicació interpersonal, un tema habitualment oblidat en els estudis sobre mitjans de comunicació indígenes. Adopta un enfocament crític i multilocal que combina la col·laboració comunitària amb l'anàlisi d'economia política. Els resultats comminen a qüestionar els discursos tecnooptimistes de la inclusió digital i a analitzar com la desigualtat condiciona la influència cívica sobre els mitjans. Cal destacar les connexions que aquesta tesi estableix entre factors clau que afecten la capacitat individual de decidir (o agència individual) sobre els serveis mòbils en el cas de les anomenades "perifèries digitals".Los movimientos de derechos indígenas de América Latina luchan contra las hegemonías coloniales que impregnan la vida contemporánea. Mediante el análisis particular de los pueblos guaraníes y sus estrategias avanzadas, esta tesis aporta las primeras evidencias sobre las implicaciones de la descolonización de los servicios de comunicación móvil. La tesis se centra en la política de los modos de comunicación interpersonal, un tema habitualmente ignorado en los estudios sobre medios de comunicación indígenas. Adopta un enfoque crítico y multilocal que combina la colaboración comunitaria con el análisis de economía política. Los resultados conminan a cuestionar los discursos tecnooptimistas de la inclusión digital y a analizar cómo la desigualdad condiciona la influencia cívica sobre los medios. Destacan las conexiones que esta tesis establece entre factores clave que afectan a la agencia o capacidad individual de decidir sobre los servicios móviles en el caso de las llamadas "periferias digitales".
Indigenous rights movements in Latin America are fighting to overturn the colonial hegemonies that continue to pervade contemporary life on the continent. The Guaraní people, for instance, have devised advanced strategies to decolonize mobile media services through local ownership. While most research on indigenous media focuses on the activities of organizations and the nature of media content, this thesis draws attention to the politics surrounding indigenous people's means of interpersonal communication and provides unprecedented evidence regarding the implications of decolonizing mobile media services. The results of this research, which adopts a critical, multi-sited approach that combines community-based collaboration with an analysis of the political economy, compel us to question the techno-optimism inherent to digital inclusion discourse and to further explore how inequalities shape civic influence on the media. Most significantly, this research ties together key factors that affect the individual agency of those at the so-called "digital margin" over their mobile media services.
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Deja, Elizabeth. "A multi-sited ethnography of patient and public involvement in epilepsy research." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2014. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/17933/.
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Contemporary health policy and funding bodies are placing increasing emphasis on patient and public involvement (PPI) in healthcare and health research, advocating PPI in all stages of the research process. Currently, however, there is limited empirical evidence critiquing different approaches to PPI or exploring its associated benefits and challenges. Without this information researchers and patient/public representatives cannot make informed decisions about best practice. The principal aim of this thesis was to generate a detailed understanding of the implementation of PPI in health research. To accomplish this broad aim, I focused on a specific health condition, epilepsy, and the research structures underlying health research in the UK, namely, research networks. I achieved this using a multi-sited, ethnographic approach, incorporating multiple qualitative data collection methods, including 47 interviews, 35 observations, fieldnotes and document analysis. My in-depth thematic analysis of the data found that PPI is conceptualised in terms of ‘meaningful’ and ‘tokenistic’ involvement by those engaged in the process, rather than how it is depicted in the current models of involvement. Having first explored these terms I identified five components that can help to ensure that PPI is meaningful and not tokenistic. Having compared and contrasted multiple approaches to PPI I conclude that there is not one single ‘best approach’ for implementing PPI. Rather, to achieve high ‘quality’ PPI there is a need to incorporate seven methodological factors that overarch approaches and ensure that there is an alignment of approach and purpose. Both the professionals and the patient/ public representatives within my research appeared to be highly aware of the moral and political motivations of PPI, but were primarily motivated by pragmatic or consequentialist reasons. Professionals were motivated almost exclusively by the goal of improving the applicability or relevance of the research. This goal was important for representatives too but they were also motivated by a range of personal reasons, including the wish to feel they were making a difference; the opportunity to learn about epilepsy and epilepsy research; and the opportunity to interact with others. The perceived benefits of PPI were also identified and discussed in depth, and appeared to be largely congruent with those reported in the literature. However, my work has identified some challenges and barriers around PPI that have not previously been explored including: adverse emotional effects; organisational practicalities; concerns about ‘representativeness’ and ‘tokenism’; the ‘blurring’ of roles and the erosion of patient-clinician boundaries. I conclude by recommending that there should be an increased focus on appropriate, ‘meaningful’, involvement rather than endeavouring to implement PPI in all stages of the research process, as currently advocated in policy documents. The insights into the challenges of PPI that my work has provided will allow them to be addressed from the outset, improving the PPI experience and consequently the likelihood of PPI being successfully implemented.
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Peng, Ping-chuan. "New immigrant children's complicated becomings a multi-sited ethnography in a Taiwanese diasporic space /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1181924608.
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Peng, Ping-chuan. "New immigrant children’s complicated becomings: a multi-sited ethnography in a Taiwanese diasporic space." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1181924608.
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Aitieva, Medina. "Reconstituting transnational families : an ethnography of family practices between Kyrgyzstan and Russia." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/reconstituting-transnational-families-an-ethnography-of-family-practices-between-kyrgyzstan-and-russia(8216e73e-8a34-4315-8485-a16c6cf2e19e).html.
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This dissertation examines transnational family practices between Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan experienced intensive internal and external mobilities. As one of the poorest Soviet republics, independent Kyrgyzstan continued to battle with poverty and high unemployment, which pushed nearly 20% of its population to seek jobs internationally. Transnational families have become a norm for Kyrgyzstan that receives the equivalent of one-third of its GDP in remittances. Using the transnational perspective, I explored the role of migration in reconstituting 'family practices' (Morgan, 1996, 2013). In a multi-sited ethnography of family life between Alcha village and Yakutsk city, the study demonstrates the everyday lives of transnational family members maintaining ties across time and space. Treating families as groups of configurations, rather than households, the study illustrates the multitude of family and kin relationships and networks that family members are embedded in. Through the examination of remittances and monetary ties, communal celebrations, arrangements of caregiving in migrants' absence, the study describes the contradictory effects of migration. I argue that migration has dramatically transformed and reconstituted family life. Divided and fragmented, Kyrgyzstani transnational families continued to maintained strong ties with home. I demonstrate that transnational families coped with the contradictory consequences of migration that shifted the family meanings, practices, constitution, and architecture of Kyrgyz family lives. The dissertation argues that Kyrgyzstani families, characterized by extended family relations, are nonetheless increasingly engaged in nuclear family type of relations in the transnational social fields.
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García, Peter J. "La Onda Nuevo Mexicana multi-sited ethnography, ritual contexts, and popular traditional musics in New Mexico /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3031600.
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Askew, Hannah. "Farmers' local ecological knowledge in the biotech age : a multi-sited ethnography of fruit farming in the Okanagan Valley." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99572.
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In this Master of Arts Thesis in Anthropology I examine the controversy in the Okanagan Valley over the introduction of GM seed technologies into local agricultural processes. I explore via a multi-sited ethnography how local fruit farmers in this region view GM seed technologies and their perception of how these technologies will impact their farming practices. I argue that (a) the use of GM seeds as currently regulated in Canada threatens to erode farmers' local knowledge of plant breeding and that (b) this erosion is of consequence not only to local farmers but to society generally because the environmental knowledge and skills possessed by local farmers is crucial to the protection of biodiversity, environmental sustainability, and food security.
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Roubert, Francois. "Intensely distributed nanoscience : co-ordinating scientific work in a large multi-sited cross-disciplinary nanomedical project." Thesis, Brunel University, 2017. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/16868.
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This thesis is concerned with the study of biomedical scientific research work that is intensely distributed, i.e. socially distributed across multiple institutions, sites, and disciplines. Specifically, this PhD probes the ways in which scientists co-operating on multi-sited crossdisciplinary projects, design, use and maintain information-based resources to conduct and coordinate their experimental activities. The research focuses on the roles of information artefacts, i.e. the tools, media and devices used to store, track, display, and retrieve information in paper or electronic format, in helping the scientists integrate their activities to achieve concerted action. To examine how scientists in globally distributed settings organise and co-ordinate their scientific work using information artefacts, a multi-method multi-sited study informed by different ethnographic perspectives was conducted focused on a large European crossdisciplinary translational research project in nanodiagnostics. Situated interviews with project scientists, participant observations and participatory learning exercises were designed and deployed. From the data analysis, several abstractions were developed to represent how the joined utilisations of key information artefacts support the co-ordination of experimental activities. Subsequently, a framework was developed to highlight key interactional strategies that need to be managed by experimenters when using artefacts to organise their work cooperatively. This framework was then used as a guiding device to identify innovative ways to design future digital interactive systems to support the co-ordination of intensely distributed scientific work. From this study, several key findings came to light. We identify the role of the experimental protocol acts as a co-ordinative map that is co-designed dynamically to disseminate various instantiations of experimental executions across sites. We have also shed light on the ways the protocol, the lab book and the material log are used jointly to support the articulation of scientific work. The protocol and the lab book are used both locally and across co-operating sites to support four repeatability and reproducibility levels that are key to experimental validation. The use of the local protocol / lab book dyads at each site is further integrated with that of a centralised material log artefact to enable a system of exchange of scientific content (e.g. experimental processes, intermediate results and observations) and experimental materials (both physical materials and key information). We have found that this integration into a co-ordinative cluster supports awareness and the articulation of experimental activities both locally and across remote labs. From this understanding, we have derived several sensitising tensions to frame the strategies that scientific practitioners need to manage when designing their multi-sited experimental work and technologists should consider when designing systems to support them: (1) formalisation / flexibility; (2) articulability / local appropriateness; (3) scrutiny / tinkering; (4) accountability / applicability; (5) traceability / improvisation and (6) lastingness / immediacy. Lastly, based on these tensions, we have suggested a number of implications for the design of interactive information artefacts that can help manage both local and multi-sited co-ordination in intensely distributed scientific projects.
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Davis, III Charles Harold Frederick. "Dream Defending, On-Campus and Beyond: A Multi-sited Ethnography of Contemporary Student Organizing, the Social Movement Repertoire, and Social Movement Organization in College." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595672.
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Much of the extant higher education literature examining student activism and social movements in college is limited by both chronological time and physical space. In addition, very little is known about the ways in which technology generally and social media specifically are embraced in contemporary student organizing practices. Accordingly, my multi-sited ethnographic study focuses on the Dream Defenders, a Florida-based, racially and ethnically-diverse multi-campus social movement organization "developing the next generation of radical leaders to realize and exercise [their] independent, collective power; building alternative systems; and organizing to disrupt the structures that oppress [their]communities" (Dream Defenders, 2014). More specifically, my study is intended to contemporize research on student activism in college by using robust, real-time ethnographic data to examine off-campus organizing undertaken by Dream Defenders' organization and their use of new and social media technologies. Drawing from and modifying resource dependency/resource mobilization perspectives and new social movement theories, I conceptualize the interactive use of the aforementioned technologies as mobilizing structures and in the construction movement frames–parts of the social movement repertoire (Tilly, 2004) of contemporary student organizers. The findings from my study indicate the use of alternative and activist new media in contemporary student organizing is part of a larger, dynamic interactive process of traditional organizing practices to include four primary domains: occupation and agitation, power building, political participation, and civic demonstration. More specifically, findings further indicate the use of 1) mediated mobilization, and 2) culture jamming (Lievrouw, 2011) as alternative and activist new media practices within the Dream Defenders' social movement repertoire. The former harnesses the power of social media to leverage new and existing networks of college student organizers in on-the-ground mobilization. The latter, however, utilizes the production of digital art for purposes of social and political critique, which also serve as a diagnostic frame by which contemporary student organizers are able to identify problems/issues of concern and attribute of blame to key political targets. Overall, my study makes scholarly contributions to the empirical, theoretical/conceptual, and methodological domains of higher education research generally and student activism scholarship in particular. First, the findings from my study challenge higher education scholars to consider the importance of moving beyond campus contexts to investigate students' lives, which are increasingly occurring off- and away from campus. Second, my findings expand understandings of the ways in which contemporary college students relate to technology and social media beyond social uses, entertainment purposes, and utility for the delivery of instructional content to include harnessing alternative and activist new media for creating social change. Lastly, my findings strongly counter the prevailing narrative regarding millennials' lack of awareness of their history. Through drawing from communities of memory, invoking traditions of non-violent civil disobedience, and leveraging relationships with historical civil rights icons to increase legitimacy, contemporary student organizers draw upon history as a non-material resource as part of their social movement repertoire.
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Krueger, Stephanie. "Beyond the paywall." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17585.
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In dieser Dissertation untersuche ich die Forschungswege von sechs Wissenschaftlern, die in verschiedenen Disziplinen und Institutionen in den Vereinigten Staaten und in der Tschechischen Republik arbeiten. Um dies zu tun, verwende ich sogenannte „multi-sited“ ethnographisch-methodische Strategien (d.h. Strategien, die Anthropologen verwenden, um Kulturen an zwei oder mehr geografischen Standorten zu vergleichen), mit dem Ziel, informationsbezogene Verhaltensweisen dieser Wissenschaftler im global vernetzten akademischen Umfeld zu untersuchen, englisch abgekürzt „GNAE“, ein Begriff, der sich speziell auf die komplexe Bricolage von Netzwerkinfrastrukturen, Online-Informationsressourcen und Tools bezieht, die Wissenschaftler heutzutage nutzen, d.h. die weltweite akademische e-IS, oder akademische Infrastruktur (Edwards et al. 2013). Die zentrale Forschungsfrage (RQ1), die in dieser Dissertation beantwortet wird, ist: Gibt es, gemäß der multi-sited ethnographischen Analyse der beteiligten Wissenschaftler in dieser Studie—Personen, die Forschung in verschiedenen Disziplinen und Institutionen sowie an unterschiedlichen Standorten betreiben—Hinweise darauf, dass ein signifikanter Anteil der nicht-institutionellen/informellen informationsbezogenen Forschung über Mechanismen im GNAE, die nicht von Bibliotheken unterstützt werden, betrieben wird, sowie (RQ2): Was für Muster sind vorhanden und wie beziehen sie sich auf informationswissenschaftliche und andere sozialwissenschaftliche Theorien? Und drittens (RQ3): Haben die Resultate praxisnahe Bedeutungen für die Entwicklung von Dienstleistungen in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken? Ethnographische Strategien sind bisher noch nicht in der Informationswissenschaft (IS) eingesetzt worden, um Fragen dieser Art zu untersuchen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass eine informelle Informationsexploration nur bei zwei Wissenschaftlern, die mit offenen Daten und Tools einer verteilten Computing-Infrastruktur arbeiten, zu finden ist.In this dissertation I examine the pathways of information exploration and discovery of six scientists working in different research disciplines affiliated with several academic institutions in the United States and in the Czech Republic. To do so, I utilize multi-sited ethnographic methodological strategies (i.e., strategies developed by anthropologists to compare cultures across two or more geographic locations) to examine the information-related behaviors of these scholars within the global networked academic environment (GNAE), a term which specifically refers to the complex bricolage of network infrastructures, online information resources, and tools scholars use to perform their research today (i.e., the worldwide academic e-IS, or academic infrastructure [Edwards et al. 2013]). The central research question (RQ1) to be answered in this dissertation: According to the multi-sited ethnographic analysis of scientists participating in this study—individuals conducting research in various disciplines at different institutions in several geographical locations—is there evidence indicating a significant allotment of non-institutional/informal information-related exploration and discovery occurring beyond official library-supported mechanisms in the GNAE?, and—part two (RQ2) of the central research question—What (if any) patterns are exhibited and how do these patterns relate to information science (IS) and other social science theories? Both RQ1 and RQ2 are exploratory. I additionally ask (RQ3): What might all this mean in the applied sense? by showing examples of services piloted during the research process in response to my observations in the field. Multi-sited ethnographic strategies have not yet been employed in IS, as of the date of publication of this thesis, to examine such questions. Results indicate informal information exploration occurring only with two scientists who use of open data and tools on a distributed computing infrastructure.
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Achtnich, Marthe. "Mobility in crisis : Sub-Saharan migrants' journeys through Libya and Malta." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cccd4fc5-5e71-4a36-b468-60df3fb01ce6.
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This thesis is a multi-sited ethnography of sub-Saharan migrants' journeys through Libya and by boat to Malta. Its overall aim is to understand how undocumented migrants make and conceptualise their complex journeys through shifting regulatory landscapes. The thesis draws upon, and consequently develops, understandings of migrants' mobilities, both within anthropology and wider migration studies. Over the course of their journey through Libya and Malta, sub-Saharan migrants move across uneven topographies in place and time, from the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert to the turbulent Mediterranean Sea, from situations of detention to everyday houses in society, from the hands of smugglers to the arms of the law. To this end, the thesis is guided by three wider objectives. First, investigating how different forms of mobility are part of migrants' journeys. Second, examining how migrants navigate such journeys. And third, understanding the ways in which migrants encounter and negotiate borders en route. These objectives are engaged with through a multi-sited ethnography tracing migrants' journeys through five contexts: sites of confinement and detention in Libya, everyday spaces of Libyan society, the boat crossing, and finally the legal framework in Malta. These varying contexts prompt comparisons across particular sites, processes and practices on a journey, highlighting elements that might be generalized and those that are specific. The ethnography is presented in five chapters, their sequence mirroring the overall journey of migrants through Libya and Malta. Unpacking the journey and mobility, this thesis develops a set of interrelated arguments. First, it deconstructs the notion of migrants as a homogenized group of people on a linear trajectory aimed at Europe. It goes beyond typologized understandings of migrants, such as legal, illegal, refugee or asylum seeker, that fix migrants into static categories linked to the state or specific crisis situations. Second, it front-stages the journey as a focal point of inquiry, thereby addressing a theme under-acknowledged in the anthropology of mobility and migration. This enables a move beyond state-centric and isolated understandings of migrants' mobilities to one that accounts for the multiplicity of journeys and processes en route. Third, this emphasis on the journey highlights the importance of thinking through relations involving multiple actors and bordering encounters. Taken together, these arguments advance important insights into the anthropologies of mobility and migration. The thesis makes wider contributions by conceptualizing an 'architecture' of the journey, constituted by three inter-related components: mobility, navigation, and borders. They offer a more nuanced understanding of migration and mobility in (post-)conflict settings, one that not only has implications for understanding sub-Saharan migrants' journeys through Libya and by boat to Europe, but one also relevant to other crisis contexts as well.
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Henriksson, Andreas. "Organising Intimacy : Exploring Heterosexual Singledoms at Swedish Singles Activities." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-33658.
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Single activities have long been places where single people can come to meet friends, build community or look for partners. The activities have relevance for studies of heterosexuality, intimacy, personal life and space. This dissertation discusses a conference, a cruise, an online site and an association for heterosexual singles in contemporary Sweden. It shows how these activities, analysed as organising people and spaces, offer participants different versions of intimacy, relationships, personal life and ultimately singledom itself. The concept non-relationality is coined to describe how people understand and enact what it means to lack a certain kind of relationship. Multi-sited ethnographic observations are combined with interviews and a survey (n=416). The chosen methods allow insight into both the heterogeneous character of the contemporary single activity scene, as well as existing tendencies to form communities. The group whose single activities are examined is deemed fairly typical of the single population at large. Nevertheless, most conclusions centre on the specific set of activities described in the book and relate them to historical examples and theory. The single activities examined can be interpreted to enact different practices entailed in a relationship without necessarily demanding commitment to a whole relationship or a specific person. In that way, the activities accommodate the inflexible personal lives that some singles report having. This challenges strict boundaries between coupledom and singledom. Such transgressive or “hetero-doxical” potential in single activities is nevertheless circumscribed by organisers’ notion that the activities provide therapeutic community in a phase before singles take the step (back) into coupledom.
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Gudjonsdottir, Rosa. "Personas and Scenarios in Use." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Människa-datorinteraktion, MDI, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-12834.
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Personas are fictitious characters that represent the needs of the intended users, and scenarios complementing the personas describe how their needs can be met. The present doctoral thesis considers the usage of personas and scenarios and how they are used in system development projects. The study is motivated by the relative lack of empirical data on the persona method in actual use. The study was carried out in the context of a large international research project called Nepomuk and involved two conceptually different field studies. On the one hand, field studies in user settings were conducted, which aimed at creating personas and scenarios, and for which a user-centered design approach was applied using participant observation, contextual interviews, video brainstorming and prototyping. On the other hand, a field study in the setting of the Nepomuk project itself was conducted, which aimed at observing how the personas and scenarios were received and used in the project work. The work conducted in the project setting was a multi-sited ethnographic field study, which was documented through ethnographic writing. The project setting field study showed that the persona method was difficult to put into consistent use, and the support of persona advocates guiding usage would have been helpful. The method was used without much effort to communicate about the needs and desires of the intended users, but was less successful in compelling project members to use personas and scenarios during various design activities. The field study also revealed alternative usages of the method that can be supported and utilized. The contributions of the thesis include an account of the effect the storytelling aspect has on the creation as well as usage of personas and scenarios. Also, the essential elements of constructing personas and scenarios are discussed as well as the prerequisites for making personas and scenarios support the design process in system development projects. Lastly, the thesis describes how personas and scenarios can support the communication of user needs and desires to project members and stakeholders as well as support design activities in system development projects.QC20100629
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Bazzo, Juliane. "‘Agora tudo é bullying’ : uma mirada antropológica sobre a agência de uma categoria de acusação no cotidiano brasileiro." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/174498.
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Esta tese oferta uma mirada antropológica sobre a agência da noção de bullying situada como uma categoria de acusação social no cotidiano contemporâneo brasileiro. Nascido como construto científico durante os anos 70, na região escandinava, o bullying conferiu nome a condutas, típicas em escolas, de intimidação sistemática entre pares, no interior de um decurso civilizatório no Ocidente que passa a atribuir reconhecimento a agressões de feitio moral. No Brasil, a acepção de bullying populariza-se apenas mais tardiamente, em meados da primeira década dos 2000. O espraiamento do conceito no país, inclusive para além dos muros das instituições de ensino, se dá num período sociopolítico específico: aquele de operação sem anterioridade na história nacional de um conjunto de políticas públicas nos campos da inclusão econômica e da diversidade social, alavancadas pelos governos presidenciais do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT). Essas iniciativas estatais colocam em primeiro plano tensões seculares presentes na sociedade brasileira perante alteridades e iniquidades de naturezas diversas. Tal quadro desencadeia uma série de disputas e confrontos que agência da noção de bullying trabalha por traduzir, comunicar e, concomitantemente, abastecer. Para problematizar isso, esta investigação apresenta-se como uma etnografia multissituada, a perseguir agenciamentos do bullying em diferentes domínios – científico, estatal, educacional, mercadológico e midiático – , em escalas sociológicas micro, intermediária e macro, a partir de acontecimentos ordinários e extraordinários. Os resultados apontam, de um lado, para um construto que, uma vez legitimado científica e politicamente, se revela potente em desencadear processos de subjetivação e estratégias de militância, capazes de denunciar uma gama de segregações e agir sobre elas. De outro lado, contudo, essas mobilizações encontram limites na exata medida que o conceito possui para subsidiar investidas neoliberais de gestão de populações, as quais demandam o autogoverno dos indivíduos em prol de uma pacificação ideal, mediante suspensão de contextos ético-políticos amplos e consequente perpetuação de desigualdades. A consideração dessa dupla faceta própria ao construto do bullying se coloca, assim, fundamental para pensar produções acadêmicas, políticas públicas, programas escolares de intervenção, produtos e serviços, bem como coberturas noticiosas, em ação no passado, ativos no presente ou, ainda, a serem planificados no futuro em favor dos direitos humanos e da justiça social.The present dissertation offers an anthropological perspective on the agency of the notion of bullying as a category of social accusation in the Brazilian contemporary everyday life. Born as a scientific construct during the 1970’s in the Scandinavian region, the concept of bullying, within the Western civilization course that now recognizes moral character aggressions, gave a name to typically school-based conducts of systematic intimidation between peers. In Brazil, the notion of bullying is popularized only later, in the first decade of the 2000’s. The concept’s dissemination in the country, even beyond the walls of educational institutions, occurs in a specific sociopolitical period: an unprecedented moment in the national history for the operation of a set of economic inclusion and social diversity policies, leveraged by the presidential governments of the Workers’ Party (PT). These state initiatives bring to the fore secular tensions regarding alterities and inequalities of different natures that have always been present in the Brazilian society. Such framework unleashes a series of disputes and confrontations that the agency of the bullying notion works to translate, to communicate and, at the same time, to instigate. In order to problematize this scenario, this investigation presents itself as a multi-sited ethnography, pursuing bullying agencies in different domains – scientific, state-owned, educational, marketing and media – on micro, intermediate and macro sociological scales, by means of ordinary and extraordinary events. The results point, on the one hand, to a construct that, once legitimated scientifically and politically, proves itself potent in triggering processes of subjectivation and strategies of militancy, capable of denouncing a range of segregations and acting on them. On the other hand, however, these mobilizations find limits in the exact measure that the concept has been subsidizing neoliberal population management efforts, which demand the self-government of individuals for the ideal pacification, through suspending broad ethical and political contexts and consequently with the perpetuation of inequalities. Considering this double facet of the bullying construct is therefore essential for thinking about academic productions, public policies, school intervention programs, products and services, and also the news coverage which were in action in the past, active in the present, and to be planned in the future in favor of human rights and social justice.
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Setianto, Yearry P. "Media Use and Mediatization of Transnational Political Participation: The Case of Transnational Indonesians in the United States." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1461247603.
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Julla-Marcy, Mathilde. "Des spécialistes de la polyvalence : une analyse sociologique des carrières dans les sports pluridisciplinaires : (pentathlon moderne, heptathlon/décathlon)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100105.
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Cette thèse prend pour objet les carrières d’athlètes engagés dans deux sports pluridisciplinaires : les épreuves combinées (heptathlon, décathlon) en athlétisme et le pentathlon moderne. En adoptant une perspective interactionniste attentive aux différentes dimensions analytiques et méthodologiques de la notion de carrière (Becker, 1985 ; Darmon, 2003), nous renseignons finement des carrières sportives de haut niveau. Malgré la dimension pluridisciplinaire de la pratique, celles-ci reposent de façon classique sur une spécialisation qui suit les phases de découverte et d’initiation et précède celles de développement et de reconnaissance d’une expertise. La polyvalence devient une spécialité à part entière qui gagne à être pensée comme un processus qui s’inscrit dans un cadre institutionnel spécifique et non pas comme une caractéristique intrinsèque des individus. La thèse apporte des résultats complémentaires, relatifs à la construction sociale et institutionnelle des spécialisations disciplinaires, aux processus de réorientation sportive, à la démonstration de l’entraînement comme créateur de configurations sociales spécifiques, aux inégalités genrées dans la reconnaissance de la polyvalence et à la nécessité de conceptualiser des socialisations familiales renversées pour comprendre l’engagement parental dans la pratique sportive de leurs enfants. La méthodologie employée repose sur une ethnographie multi-située (Marcus, 1995) déployée dans diverses structures fédérales. Aux 67 journées d’observation (entraînements et compétitions) et 40 entretiens réalisés s’ajoutent la constitution et l’exploitation de bases de données, la consultation de documentation fédérale et l’analyse discursive des retransmissions télévisées des compétitions olympiques en 2016This thesis focuses on the careers of athletes who practice two multidisciplinary sports: combined events (heptathlon/decathlon) in athletics and the modern pentathlon. I adopt an interactionist approach that explores all the analytical and methodological implications contained in the notion of career (Becker, 1985; Darmon, 2003). In doing this, I study precisely these careers in high performance sports. Despite the multidisciplinary dimension of the analysed sports, the corresponding careers will still be based on the phase of specialisation. This follows phases of “discovery” and “introduction”, and precedes phases of “development” and “recognition” of an expertise. Therefore, multi-faceted versatility appears as a full speciality in and of itself that shall be thought of as a process within an institutional framework rather than as an intrinsic and individual characteristic. The thesis brings forth additional results about:- the social and institutional construct of disciplinary specialisation,- the processes of sports reorientation, - the fact that sport training creates specific social configurations, - gender inequalities in the recognition of the versatility of an athlete- and the need to conceptualise inverse family socialisations to understand parental commitments in the sports practice of their children. The analysis is based on a multi-sited ethnography (Marcus, 1995) which I have used within different federal structures, and where I have observed a total of 67 days of training and competitions, and developed 40 semi-structured interviews. I have also created several databases to implement sequence analyses, read federal documentation and made a discursive analysis of the televised transmission of 2016 Olympics Games
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Palash, Polina. "Organizing transnational social protection in times of crisis : Ecuadorian families in between Ecuador, Spain and England." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AIXM0601.
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Cette thèse porte sur les arrangements transnationaux de protection sociale à l’échelle des familles, c'est-à-dire les stratégies développées par leurs membres dispersés pour faire face aux risques et couvrir leurs besoins, par delà les frontières nationales. Le terrain concerne les familles transnationales équatoriennes qui organisent leur protection sociale entre l’Europe et leur pays d’origine, et s’appuie sur une étude ethnographique multi-localisée et avec un échantillon partiellement combiné, conduite en Espagne, en Angleterre et en Équateur. Les familles ont été affectées par deux crises financières majeures : en Équateur à la fin des années 90 et en Europe en 2008. Ces crises ont généré des reconfigurations spatiales des mobilités, en particulier une deuxième migration récente de citoyens de l'UE bénéficiant de la double nationalité (équatorienne et espagnole), depuis l’Espagne vers Angleterre, où des Equatoriens étaient déjà installés depuis les années 1980. Ces recompositions affectent les formes de protection sociale au sein des familles, générant notamment des flux économiques inversés en provenance d'Équateur, qui assurent les besoins des migrants en Europe. Dans leurs multiples adaptations, les migrants accumulent des vulnérabilités, tout en faisant face aux insuffisances des systèmes de protection sociale nationaux pour couvrir les besoins de leurs familles transnationales. Les risques relatifs à la gestion des questions de protection sociale sont en partie compensés par une circulation diffuse du soutien au sein des réseaux familiaux, qui génère des flux de ressources multidirectionnelsThis thesis addresses the transnational social protection arrangements deployed as strategies developed and sustained by people living across different countries to cope with risks and cover their needs. The thesis focuses on Ecuadorian transnational families managing social protection concerns between Europe and their country of origin, drawing on a multi-sited, partly matched-sample ethnographic study conducted across Spain, England and Ecuador. Families in this study have had to deal with two financial crises – at the end of 1990s in Ecuador and the global 2008 recession, which again destabilized the life of Ecuadorian migrants abroad. This implied various spatial reconfigurations, such as the onward move of dual EU (Ecuadorian-Spanish) citizens from Spain to England, where there has been a small Ecuadorian community since the 1980s. The 2008 recession also prompted readjustments of protective arrangements for Ecuadorian migrants, including reverse economic flows from Ecuador aimed at providing for their daily needs in Europe. In their multiple adaptations migrants accumulate vulnerabilities, while dealing with inadequacies of the different welfare systems with respect to the needs of their transnational families. The predominant risks of the management of social protection concerns across several countries is partly compensated by a diffuse circulation of support in family networks, entailing multidirectional flows of resources
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Ridley, Simon. "Les sens de la liberté d’expression : socio-anthropologie comparative des campus de Berkeley et de Nanterre : appropriations, retournements, récupérations, recompositions et prolongements des mémoires collectives du Free Speech Movement de 1964 et du Mouvement du 22 Mars de 1968." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100013.
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L’université est une des institutions les plus fortes de l’époque moderne. Lieu d’élection de la contestation, elle peut se retrouver à présent la cible d’attaques sans précédent de l’extrême droite, en particulier aux Etats-Unis. Cette thèse vise à suivre un conflit de définition par le biais d’une ethnographie multisituée, avec comme terrain de recherche la liberté d’expression sur les campus universitaires. En partant d’une sociologie historique comparative du Free Speech Movement de 1964 à Berkeley et du Mouvement du 22 Mars de 1968 à Nanterre, une approche socio-anthropologique permet d’examiner une dualisation des mémoires collectives des mouvements étudiants des années 1960. Suivant une démarche inductive, je voyage avec mon terrain dont l’étude inclut une immersion au sein de plusieurs groupes révolutionnaires, l’observation des rites commémoratifs, des attentats, d’une diversité de pratiques autonomes, et s’étend jusqu’à l’inauguration de Trump et le retournement de la liberté d’expression par des groupes d’extrême droite, la montée en puissance de l’alt-right et ses spectacles/meetings sur les campus, provoquant une série d’émeutes urbaines. La contextualisation systématique et radicale, la pratique et la généalogie de l’archive, le savoir vécu, alliés à une approche comparatiste latérale, engagent à un travail historique sur l’institution universitaire. À rebours des thèses du capital humain, de la démocratie comme libre marché des idées, je retrace la question de l’émancipation, suivant la création d’une « génération civique » après 1944, jusqu’à son retournement numérique. Cette ethnographie politique incite à (re)penser la sociologie et la pédagogie critique comme contre-discours face à une culture anti-intellectuelle, pour rendre possible une culture commune de l’intelligence démocratique, un héritage choisi et réfléchiThe university is one of the strongest institutions of the modern era. After having been a prime place for dissent in the 1960s, today it is the target of unprecedented attacks by the far-right. This work aims to follow a conflict of definition via a multi-sited ethnography using freedom of expression on university campuses as a world for research. The method combines comparative historical sociology – of the Free Speech Movement (1964) and the Mouvement du 22 Mars (1968) – with a socio-anthropological approach, to shed light over the dualization of the collective memories of student movements. Taking an inductive approach, I travel with my fieldwork via commemorative rites, terrorist attacks, an immersion in several revolutionary groups and a diversity of autonomous practices, all the way to the Trump inauguration and the battle of free speech with the rise of the alt-right and the far-right shows/meetings on campuses, and a series of urban riots. The systematic radical contextualization as well as the practice and genealogy of archives, a living knowledge and lateral comparison, commit to a historical study of the university. Against the theories of human capital and of democracy as a marketplace of ideas, I trace the questions of emancipation following the emergence of a « civic generation » after 1944 to the uses of digital technologies as cultural attacks on democracy. This political ethnography encourages us to (re)think sociology and critical pedagogy as counter-discourses against an anti-intellectual culture, and in doing so it aims to empower a culture of democratic intelligence, a reflexive heritage
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Maass, Petra. "The cultural context of biodiversity conservation." Doctoral thesis, Göttingen Univ.-Verl. Göttingen, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-000D-F23A-C.
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García, Peter J. "La Onda Nuevo Mexicana : multi-sited ethnography, ritual contexts, and popular traditional musics in New Mexico." 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/10476.
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Soares, André. "Entre Luanda, Lisboa, Milão, Miami e Cairo: difusão e prática da Kizomba." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/11211.
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Esta dissertação pretende analisar crítica e reflexivamente o processo de difusão da kizomba, um
género de dança oriundo de Angola que tem vindo a ganhar enorme popularidade em todo o mundo.
Descreve-se, de modo particular, o papel que os festivais deste género de dança desempenham
nesse processo de difusão recorrendo à noção de “campos de batalha” para caraterizar as suas
componentes competitivas, pedagógicas e de entretenimento.
Através de estratégias metodológicas inspiradas na noção de etnografia multi-situada, a pesquisa
procede a um mapeamento dos atores (professores, músicos, dançarinos) e dos festivais, na
tentativa de analisar a circulação desta dança de raiz africana pelo mundo.
Ao longo do trabalho interrogam-se e exploram-se também as negociações e tensões que ocorrem
nos lugares de aprendizagem e pratica da kizomba concedendo particular atenção à forma como a
mobilização da categoria etnicidade nos discursos sobre a kizomba, aliado ao uso das novas
tecnologias (plataformas digitais, youtube e facebook), que constituem características centrais para a
análise do processo de globalização da kizombaThis thesis aims to analyze critically and reflectively the diffusion process of kizomba, a dance genre coming from Angola that has gained huge popularity worldwide. Describes, in particular, the role that festivals of this dance genre play in this diffusion process and the concept of "battlefield" to characterize their competitive, teaching and entertainment aspects. Through methodological strategies inspired by the notion of multi-situated ethnography, the study carries out the mapping of actors (teachers, musicians, dancers) and the festivals and tries to analyze the movement of this dance with african origin worldwide. Over interrogate work are developed and analyzed negotiations and tensions that occur in places of learning and practice of kizomba putting particular attention to the mobilization of ethnicity category in the discourse on the kizomba trough the use of new technologies (digital platforms, youtube and facebook), which are key features for analyzing the globalization of kizomba
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Bhana, Deevia. "Making gender in early schooling : a multi-sited ethnography of power and discourse : from grade one to two in Durban." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1951.
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Brook, Joanna L. "Reclaiming America for Christian Reconstruction: The rhetorical constitution of a “people”." 2011. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3482589.
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This dissertation investigates the rhetorical constitution of a religio-political social collective which has come to be understood as Christian Reconstruction (CR). CR is guided by conservative Calvinism (Reformed theology) and upholds the ideas of theonomy, postmillennialism, and presuppositional apologetics. Some of the leaders associated with CR are R. J. Rushdoony, Gary North, Gary DeMar of American Vision and Doug Phillips of Vision Forum. A few of its key practices are homeschooling, the father ‘returning home,’ and having as many children ‘as God will allow,’ (a vision aligned with the Quiverfull movement). It is primarily a national movement within the United States, not limited to a singular geographical location or denomination. This study provides a comprehensive overview of CR, illustrating how the grammars of CR are animated, embodied, and upheld in peoples’ lives and practices. Through the observation of conferences and events, and the collection and examination of media materials, this analysis takes a constructivist approach to piecing together the discursive fragments that constitute CR. CR grammar is richly embedded in a web of interaction, media, technology, images, bodily adornment, performance, music, games, and consumer culture. My theoretical framework utilizes the work of critical cultural theorists (Gramsci, 1971; Butler, 1990; Hall, 1976, Laclau, 2005) in combination with theories of constitutive (Burke, 1950; Charland, 1987; McGee, 1975) and visual rhetoric and display (Olson, Finnegan & Hope, 2008; Prelli, 2006; Selzer & Crowley, 1999) to examine the types of social, cultural, and political subjectivities, practices and institutions that are constituted within the CR community. It focuses primarily on the patriarchal identities within CR families as well as the focus on nationalistic teaching about Christian American history as methods for changing the culture of America. I consider the hegemonic machinations of CR grammars in constituting these identities. Finally, this study makes available a methodology and method for the study of dispersed “peoples” and their discursive lives. I demonstrate that multi-sited ethnography, combined with the theories of constitutive and visual rhetorics and critical cultural studies provides a systematic heuristic with which to inquire into a people, its culture, activities, identities, and how they constitute themselves.
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Seidlová, Veronika. "Cesta mantry z Indie do Čech aneb příspěvek k etnografii hudby a globalizace." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-353471.
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This PhD thesis is a multi-sited ethnographical study (Marcus 1995) of globalized world through focusing on the social life (Appadurai 1986) of one of the well-known Vedic mantras (the Gayatri Mantra) as a globalized phenomenon and a commodity. Chanting of mantras (Hindu sacred chants in Vedic Sanskrit; pronunciation, intonation and rhythm of which is prohibited to change in the Brahmanic discourse) which had been a local cultural practice, has become a globally known phenomenon. During the globalizing process of their cultural transmission from India to the West and later to the Czech Republic, the mantras have gained new sound forms, new social and cultural contexts, new functions and new meanings. Contemporary cultural productions of mantras are a thick example how the present inter-continental connectedness works in everyday life, music and in the relationship to the Sacred. Selected places on this trajectory will be sites of the fieldwork. The project will research, how the transmission process happens, what music forms it takes, and what meanings are attached to them by their agents.
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Hidalgo, Solís Priscilla. "Transmigrants from Spanish Speaking Latin America and the Instrumentalisation of Nostalgia: Symbolic Goods of Those Who Leave and Return." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-321537.
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This MA thesis presents the results of an investigation about the Hispanic Americans in Prague. Relying on a transnationalist theoretical approach, this research presents an empirical description about the existing ties between the transmigrants and their city of residence, analyzing the migration networks and the transnational practices that arise during the migratory experience. We wish to demonstrate the measure in which the transnational migration is going to foment the exchange of symbolic goods between the country of origin and the country of reception of the transmigrant, and how this exchange is often triggered by the feeling of nostalgia that is frequently associated with the transmigrants experience. To approach these problems in the thesis we focus on the portrait of the migration networks, and on various strategies adopted by migrants from Latin America. Thus we are able to discover the transnational practices of migrants, their integration strategies, and the tools which facilitate to keep the contact with their homeland, and native civilization/culture. The exchange of symbolic goods is one of the very important instruments. We discover them through the testimonies of the transmigrants, which constitute the frame of this investigation, and function as a window on the nature of the...
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Hájková, Zuzana. "Uchváceni odpadem: etnografická studie nejen okolo velkoobjemového kontejneru." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-353925.
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Abctract In my diploma thesis I deal with actions that happen around bulk containers, that are intended to collect larger pieces of domestic waste and that are periodically placed in public space in Prague. I consider the bulk container as an actor, which leads us to particular practices of guarding, disposession and collecting stuff (from the container). I use method of multi-sited ethnography to investigate how the value of disposed objects change according to actions around container and according to change of the context in which it is newly placed. I identify several kinds of value, that are inscribed to wasted objects by their new owners. Waste can become valuable with regard to its economic potencial (as a thing or material that can be sold), with regard to possibility of its further practic use (as a household equipment or material), with regard to its estethic value (as an indicator of taste or as an artefact) or it can gain some specific kind of value in socially engaged context. It is possible to consider the bulk container as an actor of recyclation. I research how various groups of people that are concerned with reusing of waste, interact and how are their interactions, their relationships and their specific practices constitutive for reality of waste in surrounded area of the cotainer and...
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Soares, Maria Filipa Reis. "Património digital, hoje: uma abordagem em ambiente museológico: o Museu Calouste Gulbenkian: coleção do fundador." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/15616.
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Tendo como base teórica o estudo entre as novas tecnologias e o modo como os museus gerem a informação, apresentam e divulgam o conhecimento, e entendendo o património digital
como área de prática e tema de estudo, pretende-se utilizar o campo museológico para pensar
a sociedade e a produção do conhecimento humano. Através da etnografia multi-localizada,
que se estende para além do campo físico do Museu Calouste Gulbenkian - Coleção do Fundador, a presente investigação propõe pensar os museus na era da informação, abarcando duas
dimensões: 1) interna - Qual o papel do património digital nos museus? Em que medida o recurso às novas tecnologias digitais no contexto museológico introduzem alterações nas funções de inventariação, gestão de coleções e curadoria?; e 2) externa: Como se apropriou o
museu das tecnologias digitais para a apresentação e divulgação da sua coleção? O tema dos
média digitais no museu, enquanto campo de atuação independente mas inevitavelmente integrado na sociedade, desembocará numa reflexão sobre os museus na era da informação e globalização cultural, onde se analisam os meandros em que se processa a produção e a divulgação do conhecimento, pautadas pelas políticas sociais, culturais, económicas, a nível nacional
e internacional.Based on the topic of new technologies and the way museums manage their information, present and disseminate knowledge, and taking digital heritage as an area of practice and subject of study, I intend to use the museological field to discuss society and the production of human knowledge. This analysis uses multi-sited ethnography, as Calouste Gulbenkian Museum - Founder´s Collection, takes part of a comprehensive fieldwork. This research seeks to explore museums in the information age, whose exercise encompasses two dimensions: 1) internal - what is the role played by digital heritage in museums today? To what extent digital technologies change museum´s functions of inventory, collection management and curatorship?; 2) external: how do museums rely on digital technologies to present and disseminate their collections? Analyzing digital media in museum, as an institution integrated into the society, will lead us to a theoretical reflection on cultural globalization and museums in the information era. Social, cultural and economic policies, both at national and international level, will be scrutinized.
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Yaman, Ntelioglou Burcu. "Drama Pedagogies, Multiliteracies and Embodied Learning: Urban Teachers and Linguistically Diverse Students Make Meaning." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43403.
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Drawing on theoretical work in literacy education, drama education and second language education, and taking account of poststructuralist, postcolonial, third world feminist, critical pedagogy, and intersectionality frameworks, this dissertation presents findings from an ethnography that critically examined the experiences of English language learners (ELLs) in three different drama classrooms, in three different high school contexts. More specifically, this multi-site study investigated two aspects of multiliteracies pedagogy: i) situated practice and ‘identity texts’ (Cummins et al., 2005; Cummins, 2006a) and ii) multimodality and embodied learning by overlaying, juxtaposing, or contrasting multiple voices (Britzman, 2000; Gallagher 2008; Lather 2000) of drama teachers and their students to provide a rich picture of the experiences of ELLs in drama classrooms. The diverse drama pedagogies observed in the three different drama contexts offer possibilities for a kind of cultural production proceeding from language learning through embodied meaning-making and self-expression. The situated practice of drama pedagogies provided a third space (Bhabha, 1990) for the examination of students’ own hybrid identities as well as the in-role examination of the identities of others, while moving between the fictional and the real in the drama work. The exploration of meaning-making and self-expression processes through drama, with attention to several aspects of embodied learning—from concrete, physical and kinesthetic aspects, to complex relational ones—was found to be strategic and valuable for the language and literacy learning of the English language learners. The findings from this study highlight the role of embodied forms of communication, expression and meaning-making in drama pedagogy. This embodied pedagogy is a multimodal form of self-expression since it integrates the visual, audio, sensory, tactile, spatial, performative, and aesthetic, through physical movement, gesture, facial expression, attention to pronunciation, intonation, stress, projection of voice, attention to spatial navigation, proximity between speakers in space, the use of images and written texts, the use of other props (costumes, artefacts), music and dance. The dialogic, collective, imaginative, in-between space of drama allows students to access knowledge and enrich their language and literacy education through connections to the real and the fictional, to self/others, to past and present experiences, and to dreams about imagined selves and imagined communities (Kanno & Norton, 2003).