Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Knowledge capitalism'

This thesis has two purposes. The first is to offer a critique of existing accounts of knowledge in contemporary capitalism. On the one hand, knowledge-based models of new growth theory are criticised for privileging some aspects of knowledge whilst endogenising it on the basis of a neoclassical framing; many restrictions are placed upon knowledge, in general, and its utilisation and diffusion, in particular. On the other hand, the bold argument of cognitive capitalism theory, that contemporary capitalism is undergoing a transition to a new stage of capitalism and therefore Marx's value theory has lost its validity, is shown to be based on flawed understandings of value theory. Externalities play essential roles in both new growth theory and cognitive capitalism theory, each being a theory of use value, although there is no place for externalities as such in Marx's value theory. Especially, for cognitive capitalism theory, unpaid life activities are seen to contribute significantly to production, with surplus being appropriated by capital as rent, which can and should be re-appropriated as basic income. The latter is, however, understood in cognitive capitalism theory as factor remuneration derived from the production of surplus products and, in this respect, it has an affinity with neoclassical economics despite its purported commitment to Marx's method. The second purpose is to incorporate the role of knowledge into Marx's value theory in a consistent and coherent manner. Criticising the two contending approaches in the South Korean controversy on the value and price of information commodities, this thesis puts forward an alternative based on a structural distinction between knowledge and commodities. It is demonstrated that knowledge affects the determination of the productivity and complexity of (collective) commodityproducing labour within and across sectors, respectively, and therefore takes part in the determination of the value of commodities. This social process of virtual multiplication of labour is a relatively abstract formulation of the role of knowledge in contemporary capitalism, but it also provides a logical foundation upon which more concrete and complex, and constructive, theories of knowledge can be built.

Geriatric Education Centers (GECs), as funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, promote interdisciplinary geriatric education and training for more than 35 health-professions disciplines including medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, and social work. GECs are charged with becoming self-sustaining beyond the period of their funding. Sustainability in this application means that a GEC can fund itself through the generation of multiple revenue sources. This study seeks to explore changes in the structure, activities, and relationships of GECs over time in their pursuit of sustainability, and hypothesizes that GECs have shifted from the old economy, or the public good knowledge regime, to the new economy, or the academic capitalist knowledge/learning regime, and from the manufacturing to the networking economy. The theoretical framework of academic capitalism and the knowledge/learning regime will be used as a lens in this qualitative multiple case study.Sources included structured, in-depth, on-site interviews and observations, as well as documentary and virtual (website) evidence. While GECs are engaging in market-like behaviors, creating markets and circuits of knowledge, developing interstitial and intermediary organizations, and expanding managerial capacity, they have been unable to connect with related markets, as these markets lack a profit motive, and have ultimately been unsuccessful in their pursuit of sustainability. Continued federal funding for GECs is justified based on the public good argument that without public encouragement, these services would not be provided by the private sector. The study concludes with recommendations to enhance opportunity structures for GECs.

This doctoral project examines the knowledge economy as understood under the hypothesis of cognitive capitalism and its impact on contemporary social art practice, in particular the educational turn in art, taking account of its conditions of production within the local site of official art education at an elite university. In a counter movement, this research searches for the 'becoming cognitive of labour', a peculiar quality of the present transition, where knowledge production and the reconfiguration of labour intersect within the overshadowing hypothesis of cognitive capitalism. In response to contemporary approaches assigned to knowledge production, appropriation of the general intellect and the educational paradigm, as a practice-led research project, I devised three performative interventions premised on aestheticised withdrawal (taking account of exodus theorists) and agonistic tendency (radical negativity) to take risks and to 'struggle within and strategically against' the institution, drawing on the radical pedagogy of Paolo Freire who created an approach to emancipatory education through which to transform systems of oppression and inequality, the self-governing frameworks of the educator Ivan Illich, and Jacques Rancière who locates oppression and subjection in the noble act of 'explication'. Drawing on this, I've pursued a novel form of 'writing as activism' that allowed me to unravel dividing points between the practice of art and its theory, critically engaging with and dismantling the academic form of essay through a process of streaking, rupture and montage. As a 'work of words', this allowed me to integrate the practice and theory in one, where the thesis is withdrawn and does not make an appearance. The practice of art determines the theoretical conditions and critical context, but is not subordinate to these conditions. In this way I could construct something meaningful and complex in an unconventional way that requires other ways of reading and interpretation. I disembark from the recent field of expanded academia and the 'educational turn' in art and curating, approbated by cultural theorists and artists since the mid 1990's. While addressing the current crisis in neoliberal education and its direct link to cognitive capitalism's knowledge enclosures, in which the doctorate in art was fiercely debated, these modes of emancipatory educational 'turning' seldom found traction inside the official educational art institution itself. Rather, as an expanded idea of the academy, these critical strategies were articulated through the global museum and biennale. However, if we are to maintain that the university is the critical core of the public realm, rather than escaping it or allowing ideological contention and dissensus to be smoothed over and disciplined, this research - in and through art as 'struggle' and as 'a process of intelligibility' - re-thinks the educational turn in art by opening up and maintaining a space of crisis and critical relationship with its institutional conditions of production and the forms of labour sustaining it as it emerges from academia itself. Using a gendered agonistic research method with its attendant discourse of resistance, I expose how gender is made invisibile within the flattening paradigm of immaterial labour and its overarching frame of cognitive capitalism. I explore how the production and reproduction of knowledge can be organised and made common and how it might break with capitalist capture, how a resistant form of knowledge production might be found on the frontier of the university. Through a dramatisation of practice that is a compelling instance of the theory, I explore an alternative production of knowledge - a (becoming) learning process where the subject 'I', who is constituted in language, talks back, a mode of counter speech as a condition of my agency and potentiality. It is in, at, and around the official educational site of the university that I make an inquiry into the economic and political tendencies at work, and locate non-compliant labour as a way to open up an educational 'turn' towards regimes of discipline, authority and control. By conclusion, if the educational 'turn' in art is to fully realise its emancipatory dimension it must not only align itself to the extra-institutional realm of the artworld, but must forge a counter turn inside the official educational art institution, the primary site of education's struggle and agency. Art production inside the educational institution is profoundly fundamental to a political and philosophical 'turning' towards a critique of contemporary arts new relations of production and reception under capital, to renew once more arts political and transformative potential. This research is an emphatic refusal of fatalism about the status of the official educational institution whose ailments I diagnose throughout. It is an original contribution to the debate on the educational turn and demonstrates when educators and students together, and in common, 'turn' in struggle within and against the institution, they can create transformative strategies of engagement with the institution of knowledge. It is not yet the time to abandon the official education institution entirely.

PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
O ponto central a partir do qual se desdobra a análise objeto da presente tese é a transformação dos processos de trabalho que acompanha as inovações tecnológicas das últimas décadas e sua força transformadora da sociedade e da economia política internacional. O que se pretende é estabelecer um nexo entre a dinâmica mutuamente transformadora do trabalho, a organização social e a tendência expansiva da economia política capitalista, agora em novo estágio ou modo de acumulação identificada nesta tese como o capitalismo cognitivo. A característica desta nova feição do modo de acumulação capitalista é a flexibilidade permitida pela participação crescente do capital fixo contra a diminuição em proporções ainda maiores da participação do trabalho vivo na distribuição de resultados da atividade produtiva. Essa característica se combina com uma disputa entre, de um lado, um processo de materialização dos bens intangíveis por meio da privatização do trabalho intelectual reificado em conhecimento e transformado em capital fixo e, de outro, uma forte tendência à desmaterialização do resultado da atividade produtiva que acompanha as inovações tecnológicas recentes. Identificamos este como o dilema central do capitalismo cognitivo. A desmaterialização a que nos referimos é representada pela falta de obstáculos à reprodução infinita de conhecimento transformado em mercadoria/dados aplicado amplamente em toda a atividade produtiva. Sendo assim, o processo de desmaterialização possibilita a oferta infinita do bem em torno do qual se desenvolve o capitalismo cognitivo, dando fim à escassez e consequentemente banalizando o valor e produzindo uma crise para o sistema conceitual usado para explicar a maneira como as sociedades organizam sua atividade produtiva visando à acumulação de riqueza. Da mesma forma, a tendência à desmaterialização se apresenta na criação de novas redes de poder social, cuja fonte de alimentação e vias de difusão são viabilizadas pelas novas tecnologias, promovendo, consequentemente uma crise para o sistema conceitual usado para explicar a produção de recursos de poder que determina a distribuição no sistema internacional de resultados da atividade produtiva e das vantagens das inovações tecnológicas.
The core problem from which the analysis object of this thesis unfolds its main claims is the transformation of the work process provoked by the technological innovation of the latest decades and its potential of changing the society and the International Political Economy. Its aim is to set a link between the mutually transforming dynamics of work, social organization and the expansive trend of the capitalist political economy, now in a new stage or mode of accumulation, here called the cognitive capitalism. The character of this new face of the capitalist mode of accumulation is the flexibility permitted by the increasing participation of fix capital against the decrease in higher proportions of the participation of labour force on the distribution of the results of the productive activity in general. This character combines itself with a dispute between, in one side, a materialization process of intangible goods through the privatization of intellectual work reified in knowledge transformed in fix capital and, in the other side, a strong tendency towards dematerialization of the productive activity following the recent technological innovation. We identify this combination as the central dilemma of cognitive capitalism. The dematerialization we refer to is represented by the absence of obstacles to the endless reproduction of knowledge transformed in commodity/data widely applied in any and all productive activity. Therefore, the dematerialization process allows the endless offer of the good around which cognitive capitalism develops, putting and end in the scarcity problem and consequently banalizing the value and producing a crises in the conceptual system used to explain the way through each societies organize its productive activities with the purpose of wealth accumulation. The dematerialization tendency presents itself also through the construction of new networks of social power, with its sources and via of diffusion created and reinforced by the new technologies, promoting, consequently, a crises in the conceptual system used to explain the production of power resources which determine the distribution in the International system of the productive activity results and technological innovation advantages.

Both corporations and their global conglomerates are looking into the face of an evolving idea of capitalism. As businesses become more intertwined with society, this special relationship is becoming increasingly deterministic of the condition of the world. This paper explores the possibility that if businesses integrate shared value -- a way to combine economic and social value -- into their long-term business plans, that not only will society be better off, but the businesses themselves may be able to explore previously unrecognized potential for profits.

This thesis questions the connection between knowledge and finance and advances an account that links both in a two-folded way. The first level departs from what separates the two opposite views or alternative explanations about the value of knowledge. The source and essence of the extra profits in information goods or commodities, such as digital media contents and software, featuring increasing returns to scale owing to their peculiar cost structure manifested by a high fixed cost and very low constant marginal cost, is what separates the two views about the value of knowledge. In light of the near-decomposability/modularity hypothesis, the extra profits in information commodities should arise from '
information hiding,'
which is intrinsic to nearly-decomposable systems or modular architecture because they are built on an ignorance on the parts in regard to the other parts and the whole of system. Such (hidden) design information that gives rise to parts or modules creates, at the same time, the future paths of action or (real) options, according to real-options perspective. When the two perspectives are combined, knowledge production, as distinct from subsequent knowledge commodity production, basically becomes an option creation process. Then, it becomes possible to argue that the concurrence of knowledge and finance is not a coincidence at all because the logics of accumulation is no different but almost identical, which is the second level of the two-folded account attempted in this study. The main contribution of this thesis is to build an account that links financialization to knowledge via the notion of modularity. Such an account sees financialization as a reflection and consequence of a value-driven permanent innovation economy developed under the '
IT paradigm'
in order to exploit a surplus peculiar and intrinsic to the modular structure that makes '
information hiding'
an integral part of such architectures since they are by definition built on an ignorance on the parts in regard to the other parts and the whole of system.

Esta tese analisa o papel da informação, do conhecimento e das novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TICs) no atual estágio do capitalismo, em curso desde o final da década de 1960. Reconhece a centralidade econômica destes elementos e as mudanças significativas na lógica do sistema de acumulação e reprodução capitalista, embora se contraponha àqueles que advogam tratar-se do surgimento de uma nova ordem societária \"pós-capitalista\" ou que atribuem às novas tecnologias, notadamente às redes eletrônicas, papel democratizante e emancipador. Ao inserir a informação e o conhecimento no campo das relações contraditórias do capital e vê-los, portanto, como \"produtivos\", este trabalho verifica a pertinência dos antigos mecanismos de obtenção e controle do valor, assim como de subordinação da força de trabalho diante desta nova matéria - o \"intelecto geral\" - que agora se impõe.Um destaque especial é dado às dificuldades e incoerências geradas pela tentativa de adequar tal matéria à sua lógica reprodutiva. Analisa também a dialética entre a vocação \"desterritorializante\" do capital, sua busca por maior flexibilidade e liquidez, e as necessidades \"territoriais\" dos poderes locais e das infra-estruturas tecnológicas que lhes dão sustentação Aborda, por fim, as subjetividades geradas por esse processo e a possibilidade destas se contraporem ao estado atual das coisas.
This thesis analyzes the role of information, knowledge and new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the current stage of capitalism in place since the end of the 1960\'s. It acknowledges the economic centrality of these elements and the significant changes in the logic of the capitalist system of accumulation and reproduction, even though it opposes that which some advocate as the beginning of a new, \"post-capitalist\" social order, or the democratization and emancipation role attributed to these new technologies, notably electronic networks. By placing information and knowledge in positions contrary to capital, and, therefore seeing them as \"productive,\" this research verifies the pertinence of older mechanisms of obtaining and controlling value, as well as the subsumption of the labor force in the face of this new phenomenon, the \"general intellect\" which now imposes itself. This research places special emphasis on the difficulties and inconsistencies generated by the attempt to reconcile such phenomenon with its reproductive logic. It also analyzes the dialectic between capital\'s \"de-territorializing\" tendency, its push toward more flexibility and liquidity, and the \"territorial\" necessities of the local forces and technological infrastructures that sustain them. Lastly, it addresses the subjectivities generated by this process and the possibility that these oppose current phenomenon.

Esta tese tem como objetivo investigar a emergência de uma escola brasileira de Geografia cujas bases foram lançadas pelo geógrafo francês Pierre Monbeig. Seus anos de formação na Sorbonne, os anos em que viveu no Brasil, até os anos em que publicou suas principais contribuições sobre este país (1925-1957) demarcam o período do processo de formação da geografia brasileira sob sua liderança, visto como um percurso ao mesmo tempo material e simbólico. Uma geo-história dos saberes, que tem como eixos de análise as esferas das lentidões, da circulação e das rupturas, foi o método mobilizado para apreender uma trajetória que é atingida por movimentos profundos da constituição das ciências, bem como em conjunturas de eclipsam as longas tendências na primeira metade do século XX. Tais movimentos de longa duração são aqui caracterizados como a erosão dos valores literários, que dominaram as ciências francesas em fins do século XIX; a tentação à ação e ao engajamento, numa forma tendencial que caminha para uma crescente aplicação das ciências; e uma progressiva explicitação dos métodos científicos. Face à conjuntura e a determinismos específicos do Brasil, da formação do Estado nacional, da crise das oligarquias e do avanço do capitalismo tardio, as respostas a estas tendências, de uma ciência em contexto de recuperação de suas heranças, mas também de deslocamento, são singulares, e as transformações que a geografia de Pierre Monbeig vai sofrer nesse espaço são institucionais, teóricas e temporalmente específicas. Assim Monbeig elabora raciocínios que, sem negar as heranças e as tensões latentes, estão permeados por resultados diretos em torno da compreensão dos processos geográficos da modernização e da lógica espacial de subdesenvolvimento dos territórios em processo de colonização, e, indiretos, em torno de uma teoria geográfica adaptada às condições do capitalismo brasileiro, que nós denominados como géo-histórica do capitalismo periférico, com base em raciocínios sistêmicos. Por fim, será necessário ressaltar que tais contribuições epistemológicas, se não se anunciaram como uma ruptura às heranças da vertente da geografia francesa que ele adota, constituem, para as ciências humanas, uma fortuna crítica da Geografia desenvolvida no Brasil, pouco reconhecida nos debates historiográficos.
This thesis aims at investigating the emergence of a Brazilian school of Geography whose foundation was built by the French geographer Pierre Monbeig. His years studying at Sorbonne, his yeas spent in Brazil, and even the year in which he published his first contributions on this country (1925-1957) define the period in which Brazilian geography came to be, under his leadership; this was, at the same time, a material and a symbolic process. This research used a geohistory of knowledge that analyses the spheres of slowness, circulation, and ruptures to study a trajectory that is influenced by deep movements of the constitution of the sciences, as well as circumstances of the sciences that eclipse the long-lasting tendencies in the first half of the twentieth century. These long-lasting movements are characterized here as: erosion of literary values, which dominated French sciences in the end of the nineteenth century; temptation to action and engagement, in the form of a tendency towards a growing application of sciences; and a progressive clarification of the scientific method. In face of the situation and of Brazil-specific determinisms, the formation of the national State, the crises of oligarchies, and the advancement of late capitalism, the answers of a science in context of recovering its inheritances, but also of displacement, to these trends are singular and the transformations that Pierre Monbeig\'s geography goes through in this space are institutional, theoretical and temporally specific to that time. Thereby, Monbeig elaborates reasonings that, without denying latent heritage and tension, are direct results of understanding geographical processes of modernization and of the spacial logic of underdevelopment in territories in process of colonization, and by indirect results of a geographical theory adapted to the conditions of Brazilian capitalism, which we denominate a geohistory of the peripheral capitalism based on systemic reasoning. Finally, it is important to point out that these epistemological contributions were not announced as a break with the French geography the author adopts; they constitute, to the humanities, a critical source of information for Geography as it was developed in Brazil, which gets little recognition in historiographic debates.

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Analyses of the relationship between capital and knowledge in the capitalist system, has been the focus for researches to its historical origin, and the form in which has been developed along the time, to understand how this relation affects the life of the workers and how the technological innovation is affecting the society and its future, With this objective in mind, the idea of long cycles will be used, as initially described by Kondratieff and, later by Schumpeter, and to understand the way these cycles had influences the relation between capital-work and knowledge, mainly if it relates to the gradual appropriation, on the part of the capital the knowledge generated by the workers. The Idea of this study is focused on understanding the way the new information technology specially the advances in electronics and information nets tends to affect the relationship between the capital and work. As these facilitate the development of the so called elite workers, the diligent calls "workers of the knowledge", in the same way that it provokes an increasing exclusion of the less qualified labor.
An?lise da rela??o entre capital e conhecimento no sistema capitalista, buscando sua origem hist?rica e a forma como ela tem se desenvolvido ao longo do tempo, para entender como esta rela??o afeta a vida dos trabalhadores ou ainda, como as inova??es tecnol?gicas v?em afetando a sociedade atual e como poder? afetar seu futuro. Com este objetivo, ser? utilizado a id?ia de ciclos longos, inicialmente descrito por Kondratieff e, posteriormente retomado por Schumpeter, para entender a maneira como estes ciclos influenciaram a rela??o capital-trabalho-conhecimento, principalmente no que se refere ? progressiva apropria??o, por parte do capital, do conhecimento gerado pelos trabalhadores. O esfor?o final deste estudo estar? voltado para a compreens?o da maneira pela qual as novas tecnologias de informa??o, notadamente as baseadas nos avan?os da eletr?nica e redes de informa??o, tendem a afetar as rela??es entre o capital e o trabalho e tamb?m como estas facilitam o desenvolvimento de uma elite de trabalhadores, os chamados trabalhadores do conhecimento , da mesma forma que provoca uma crescente exclus?o da m?o-de-obra de baixa qualifica??o.

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This bibliographic research analyses the right to information in the context of social rights and the manner in which the right to information is capable of contributing to the acquisition of social rights in the era of capitalism. Information and knowledge are defined as a social phenomenon that is defined by, as well as defines, various social processes. The social value attributed to information and its effectiveness in the creation of opportunities for change determine the correlation between the right to information and social rights due to the potential of information to contribute the establishment of opportunities for autonomy and processes of participation among others. This research comprehends the right to information as a symbolic recourse that reproduces and represents the actualization of information as a facilitator and mediator of social relations that are of an informative nature. As such this research analyses the relationship between information and capitalism based on three interconnected thematically articulated topics: the genesis of the relationship between capitalism and information based upon the concept of the technological revolution as explained by Mandel (1985); the effects and impact of technological information and communication on social processes; and the emergence of the information based society as political strategy to maintain the hegemony of capitalistic interests. This relationship is characterized in terms of its capitalistic based appropriation of information and subsequent aggravation of social inequality. This research also perceives the social State as information based State that provides for individual or collective information based demands. Local authority is also analyzed as means of informational based governance and as a means of satisfying the informational and communication based needs of a society as a strategy to legitimize the right to and form of information presented to civil society. Social control is considered as a mechanism to: establish the effective management and socialization of local information based upon the right to information; establish channels of participation for civil society in a regime that is based upon and that promotes informational based governance.
Analisa, através de pesquisa bibliográfica, o direito à informação no contexto dos direitos sociais como um recurso contributivo para a efetivação dos direitos sociais sob a ambiência do capitalismo contemporâneo, junto à realidade brasileira. Delinea o percurso da pesquisa sob uma abordagem interdisciplinar, entre os campos da Ciência da Informação e Serviço Social cobrindo três contextos (da sociedade, do capitalismo e do Estado) ambientadores para as categorias informação e controle social. Define como proposição norteadora a informação e o conhecimento como um fenômeno social, produto e componente determinante nos processos de reprodução social. O valor social da informação e a sua efetividade na criação de oportunidades de transformação determinam a aproximação entre o direito à informação e os direitos sociais, justamente pela potencialidade dessa informação em favorecer as oportunidades de autonomia, os processos de participação, e as escolhas dos sujeitos e de seus coletivos. Compreende o direito à informação, como um recurso simbólico que reproduz e representa a atuação da informação como um operador de relação ou mediador das relações sociais de natureza informativa. Analisa a relação entre capitalismo e informação a partir de três eixos temáticos articulados entre si: a gênese da relação entre capitalismo e informação a partir do conceito de revolução tecnológica trabalhado por Mandel (1985); os efeitos e impactos das tecnologias da informação e da comunicação sobre os processos sociais; e a emergência da Sociedade da Informação como uma proposta política de manutenção da hegemonia dos interesses capitalistas. Caracteriza essa relação como uma perspectiva para dimensionamento da informação sob a lógica da apropriação capitalista, uma das forças produtoras da potencialização e hegemonia dos interesses capitalistas e por consequência desencadeadora da desigualdade social. Concebe o Estado social como Estado-Informação provedor das demandas de natureza informativa oriundas dos sujeitos de direitos (individual ou coletivo). Analisa o poder local como campo de efetivação da governança informacional, sob um regime de informação, para atendimento da necessidade comunicacional e informacional da sociedade, como condição de legitimação do direito à informação e forma de estabelecimento como valor estratégico para a sociedade civil. Apresenta a categoria controle social, aplicada ao campo da informação como um mecanismo para: viabilizar a efetiva gestão e socialização da informação local fundada no direito à informação; viabilizar canais de participação da sociedade civil sob um regime de informação e promotor da governança informacional.

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O trabalho disserta sobre a experiência da FLOK Society no Equador, enquanto desdobramento do Plano Nacional do Buen Vivir. O Plano do Buen Vivir 2009-2017 é o plano de governo do segundo mandato de Rafael Correa enquanto presidente do Equador que resgata o conceito ancestral de Sumak Kawsay, de uma vida boa, ou plena. A FLOK, ou o Buen Conocer, advoga que é necessário um bom conhecimento para a construção de uma vida boa, e para isso propõe a criação de uma Economia Social do Conhecimento, em contraposição ao Capitalismo Cognitivo. O trabalho foi baseado em pesquisa bibliográfica como base teórica para o estudo empírico sobre o tema proposto. Foram utilizados textos de David Harvey, Moulier Boutang e entre outros autores, que se concentram em analisar as formas de produção do capitalismo assim como a criação de valor no mundo contemporâneo e como o conhecimento é parte central nesse processo. Além disso, foram realizadas entrevistas com pessoas participantes do projeto (coordenadores, formuladores, acadêmicos) que ajudaram a entender o contexto em que ele se realizava e a sua situação atual. A partir dessa análise pode-se estudar a proposta da FLOK como alternativa às formas de apropriação do conhecimento por parte do capital internacional e imaginar uma sociedade diferente onde o conhecimento livre, aberto e comum é a base da produção coletiva. Propostas dessa magnitude, como não poderia deixar de ser, trazem consigo inúmeras contradições e questionamentos, além é claro de estar submetida aos rumos da política e da economia, tanto em nível nacional quanto em nível internacional.
The work discusses the experience of the FLOK Society in Ecuador, as part of the National Plan for Good Living. The Buen Vivir Plan 2009-2017 is the government plan of Rafael Correa second term as president of Ecuador that rescues the ancestral concept of Sumak Kawsay, of a good, or full life. FLOK, or Buen Conocer, advocates that good knowledge is needed to build a good life, and for this purpose it proposes the creation of a Social Economy of Knowledge, as opposed to Cognitive Capitalism. The work was based on bibliographical research as a theoretical basis for the empirical study on the proposed theme. We used texts by David Harvey, Moulier Boutang and others, who focus on analyzing the forms of production of capitalism as well as the creation of value in the contemporary world and how knowledge is central to this process. In addition, interviews were conducted with people who participated in the project (coordinators, policymakers, academics) who helped to understand the context in which it took place and its current situation. From this analysis, we can study FLOK's proposal as an alternative to the forms of knowledge appropriation by international capital and to imagine a different society where free, open and common knowledge is the basis of collective production. Proposals of this magnitude, as expected, bring with it numerous contradictions and questions, besides being subject to the directions of politics and economics, at national and international level.

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of the study is to identify and analyse conspiracy narratives as popular counter-knowledge and as alternatives to leftist discourse and explanations of the contradictions of a capitalist system in a systemic crisis. The study makes a distinction between pathological and cultural approaches to conspiracy theories. While pathological approaches critically assess conspiracy theories as expressions of a certain political paranoia, cultural approaches are more inclusive and view conspiracy theory as cultural expressions of the postmodern condition. The cultural understandings break the categorical link between conspiracy theories and irrationality and allows a further discussion on how conspiracy theories might relate to leftist discourse and its attempts to counter neoliberal hegemonic structures. The approach taken by the study relies on the theoretical framework of historical materialism. Key theories used derive from Karl Marx, along with Gramscian, World Systems theory and critical approaches to global political economy. In the historical analysis that was performed, the understanding of structures in the historical development of the world economy, as well as the role of social forces which lead to changes in these structures were shown to be better approaches for understanding both historical events and the current crisis in the capitalist system. However, even within the opportune movement of an on-going capitalist crisis, the Left struggles to create a consistent counter-hegemonic narrative, and current counter-hegemonic movements, whilst being influential, are not succeeding in being transformative This suggests that leftist discourse fails to address the micro-level manifestations of the contradictions of the current system in a way that appeals to the masses. Accordingly, conspiracy theories as frameworks from which to critique the current global political economy are discussed. It is argued that although conspiracy theories are essentially reactionary, as well as historically a product of the far right, these theories might be understood as allegorical narrative constructs that serve as tools of orientation in a confusing political reality and, as such, the label of irrationality should not be applied without further consideration. It is further suggested that there is a proximity between various critical perspectives and conspiracy theories, although it is not implied that there is an exchange of ideas. It is argued that strands of critical theory and conspiracy theory share certain convictions about how the social world is constructed. While leftist/critical discourse relies on a scientific historical analysis, conspiracy discourses are often categorised lacking in scientific support. Critical theoretical perspectives are therefore suggested as the most effective remedy against utopian and simplistic narratives. While the thesis does not challenge the appropriateness of Marxist/critical perspectives at explaining economic crisis and global inequity, it aims at discussing the popularity of conspiracy theories as, for many, preferable tools of orientation in the present times. While political scientific theories and conspiracy theories are generally understood as in essence incompatible, this thesis attempted to discuss and analyse whether this established view could be challenged in light of recent scholarship on conspiracy culture. The study concludes that Marxist/critical approaches should understand conspiracy theories as alternative counter-knowledge and as popular doorways into major social issues that define global political culture, which could actually complement traditional leftist discourse.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van die studie is om sameswerings-verhale as populêre teen-kennis en as alternatiewe vir linkse diskoers en verklarings van die teenstrydighede van ’n kapitalistiese stelsel wat ’n sistemiese krisies beleef, te identifiseer en te analiseer. Die studie onderskei tussen patalogiese en kulturele benaderings tot samesweringsteorieë. Patologiese benaderinge raam samesweringsteorieë krities as uitdrukkings van bepaalde politieke paranoia, terwyl kulturele benaderinge meer inklusief is, samesweringsteorie beskou as ’n kulturele uitdrukking van die postmoderne toestand. Die kulturele begrip breek die kategoriese skakel tussen samesweringsteorieë en irrasionaliteit en fasiliteer nog ’n gesprek oor hoe hierdie teorieë moontlik verwant sou kon wees aan linkse diskoers, asook laasgenoemde se pogings om neoliberale hegemoniese strukture teen te staan. Die benadering wat gevolg word in die studie steun op die teoretiese raamwerk van historiese materialisme. Die vernaamste vertrekpunte wat gebruik word is afgelei van Karl Marx, tesame met Gramsciaanse, Wêreldstelsel-teorie en kritiese benaderings tot globale politieke ekonomie. In die historiese analiese wat onderneem is, word gedemonstreer dat ’n begrip van strukture in die historiese ontwikkeling van die wêreld-ekonomie, asook die rol van sosiale magte wat verandering in hierdie strukture meebring, beter verklarings bied vir beide historiese gebeure en die teenswoordige krisies in die kapitalistiese stelsel. Nietemin, selfs met die geleenthede wat geskep word te midde van die aangaande kapitalistiese krisies, sukkel Linksgesindes om ’n konsekwente teen-hegemoniese “verhaal” te skep. Kontemporêre teen-hegemoniese bewegings, ongeag hul skynbare invloed, slaag nie daarin om verandering te weeg te bring nie. Dit wil voorkom asof linkse diskoers nie daarin slaag om die manifistering van die teenswoordige stelsel se teenstrydighede aan te spreek op ’n wyse wat aanklank vind by die massas nie. Dienooreenkomstig word samesweringsteorieë bespreek as raamwerke vanwaar en waaruit die huidige globale politieke ekonomie gekritiseer kan word. Die argument word aangevoer dat, alhoewel hierdie teorieë essensieel reaksionêr is, asook histories gesien ’n verregse produk, hulle moontlik verstaan kan word as allegoriese verhaal konstrukte wat dien as middele vir orientasie in ’n verwarrende politieke werklikheid. As sulks, behoort die etiket van irrasionaliteit nie sondermeer en onkrities aan hulle toegedien te word nie. Verder, word daar in die studie voorgestel, dat daar raakpunte is tussen verskeie kritiese perspektiewe en samesweringsteorieë. Daar word egter nie gesuggereer dat daar ’n uitruil van idees is nie. Daar word egter wel ge-argumenteer dat daar elemente van kritiese teorieë en samesweringsteorieë is wat bepaalde oortuiginge deel oor hoe die sosiale werklikheid gevorm word. Terwyl linkse en kritiese diskoers gekoppel is aan wetenskaplike-historiese analise, word samesweringsdiskoerse gekategoriseer as verklarings wat gebrek lei aan wetenskaplike ondersteuning. Kritiese teoretiese perspektiewe word dus voorgehou as die mees effektiewe oplossing teen utopieseen simplistiese narratiewe. Terwyl die tesis nie die toepasbaarheid van Marxistiese/Kritiese perspektiewe, as verklarings vir die ekonomiese krisies en globale ongelykheid, uitdaag nie, het dit gepoog om die populariteit van samesweringsteorieë, as voorkeur raamwerke vir orientering in teenswoordige tye, aan te spreek. Die tesis het onderneem om vas te stel en te analiseer of die algemeen aanvaarde aanname dat politiek wetenskaplike teorieë en samesweringsteorieë essensieel onversoenbaar is, uitgedaag kan word, gesien in die lig van onlangse akademiese werk oor samesweringskultuur. Die studie bevind dat Marxistiese/kritiese benaderings samesweringsteorieë behoort te verstaan as alternatiewe teen-kennis en as populêre ingangspunte tot belangrike sosiale kwessies wat die globale politieke kultuur definieer. In die sin, sou samesweringsteorieë selfs tradisionele linkse diskoers kon aanvul.

During the last decades we have seen a growing number of new start-ups in the service/knowledge sector. These types of companies often have no fiscal assets to secure loans with. What types of financing alternatives are there in those situations? I will in this thesis show that there are two directions to choose between to get financial support. By gathering of information I have been able to show that there are more than one alternative to consider when needing funding and that using different alternatives will lead to different results. I will not say which one is the right one, but that there are different ways and there will be different outcomes depending on which one you choose. The study also shows that there are a lot of things you need to take into consideration before using a venture capitalist. An empirical study is made between two companies that decided to use different ways to get the financial support they required. The result shown in this study is that the entrepreneurs own financial situation affect what direction the entrepreneur will take.

Nos últimos anos tem-se aguçado a discussão sobre as perspectivas de desenvolvimento econômico e social para o Brasil no atual contexto econômico mundial. Desde a década de 1950 com o surgimento das teorias do desenvolvimento, as questões envolvendo crescimento econômico, industrialização, geração e distribuição de riquezas e bens têm ocupado um lugar central em diversas áreas de estudo. A possibilidade de que o processo de globalização econômica, que se acentuou desde os anos 90, esteja recolocando a discussão sobre o desenvolvimento em novas perspectivas, impactando diretamente a estrutura e funcionamento da educação escolar e forçando uma revisão dos seus objetivos em decorrência das necessidades de qualificação da força de trabalho associada aos processos de inovações tecnológicas, conduzem a uma série de indagações que envolvem tanto a percepção da existência concreta dessa nova dimensão, quanto o entendimento dos seus fundamentos teóricos. Procuramos realizar uma revisão da teoria do desenvolvimento inserindo a análise da globalização econômica e das novas demandas pretendidas para a educação escolar. Partimos de uma análise sistêmica do processo histórico do capitalismo, apoiada nas contribuições de Giovanni Arrighi, para refletir sobre a origem das teorias do desenvolvimento, o desenvolvimentismo, e as perspectivas de ascensão ao capitalismo desenvolvido com base numa adaptação às novas demandas da globalização econômica. Optamos por localizar referências teóricas centrais e analisá-las estabelecendo relações que nos permitissem realizar generalizações conceituais e aferir a validade dos pressupostos contidos nas abordagens. O trabalho apresenta uma circularidade intencional das reflexões e problematizações, pois entendemos que as relações teóricas contidas permitem a retomada seqüencial das indagações e análises em condições diferenciadas de aprofundamento. Utilizando essencialmente fontes escritas, transitamos pelos contextos históricos localizando contribuições na época de suas formulações, o que nos permitiu perceber com mais clareza a abrangência e o teor hegemônico das diversas análises sobre a temática investigada. A reflexão sobre o desenvolvimento nos mostrou que suas fundamentações teóricas permanecem atuais, com poucas variações em relação a análises apoiadas em pressupostos schumpeterianos, keynesianos e marginalistas. A investigação sobre a globalização econômica mostrou que não existe uma era da globalização, um novo período histórico para a humanidade, posição que encontra respaldo em Roberto Leher, mas difere daquilo que demonstrou Giovanni Arrighi. As análises com base nas sociedades do conhecimento e da informação, seus imperativos tecnológicos e vínculos com a teoria do capital humano, induzem à idéia de que, por meio da educação escolar, é necessário realizar uma qualificação pautada por competitividade e produtividade, mas essa relação não se sustenta quando tomamos a contribuição da sociologia do trabalho e da educação, e inserimos a contribuição da pedagogia crítica no questionamento de tais premissas.
In the latest years, the discussion about the perspectives of economical and social development for Brazil in the present economical world-wide context has increased. Since the 50\'s, with the appearing of the development theories, the questions involving economical increasing, industrialization, the origination and distribution of richness and goods have occupied a central place in many areas of study. The possibility of the economical globalization process, that was accentuated since the 90\'s, be directly influencing the structure and the functioning of scholar education, impelling a revision of its objectives because of the necessities of qualification of the labor force associated to the technological innovations processes, leads to a series of questions that involve not only the perception of the concrete existence of this new dimension but the comprehension of their theoretical basis. We tried to do a revision of the development theory including an analysis of the economical globalization and the new demands that we intend to the scholar education. We started with a systematic analysis of the history process of the capitalism, based on the contributions of Giovanni Arrighi, in order to reflect about the origin of the development theories, the developmentism, and the perspectives of ascension of the capitalism developed thanks to an adaptation to the new demands of the globalization. We opted by locating central theoretical citations and to analyze them, establishing conceptual generalizations and checking the validity of what is presupposed by them on the approaches. The work has an intentional circle of the reflections and problems, because we understand that the theoretical relations allow a sequential retaken of the questions and analysis in different conditions of deepening. We used essentially written originals and passed through the historical contexts, locating contributions at the time of these formulations, what allowed us to perceive with more clearness the range and the hegemonic tenor of the many analysis about the investigated theme. The reflection about the development showed us that their theoretical foundations continue present at this moment, with a few variations in relation of analysis based on Schumpeter, Keynes and marginals. The investigation about the economical globalization showed that there is not an age of globalization, a new historical period for the humanity, according to Roberto Leher, but different from what Giovanni Arrighi has demonstrated. The analysis of the knowledge and information societies, their technological imperatives and links with the human capital theory, lead us to the idea that through the scholar education it\'s necessary to put into practice a qualification based on competitiveness and productivity, but this relation is not supported when we take a contribution from the work sociology and from the education, and insert the contribution of the critical pedagogy in the questioning of these premises.

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O presente estudo tem como objetivo demonstrar o poder dos trabalhadores do conhecimento e a sua capacidade de reconstruir o movimento sindical tal como em sua origem, ou seja, verdadeiramente emancipatório e contra-hegemônico. As lutas coletivas nos últimos séculos tornaram-se meramente reivindicativas, especialmente com o advento do estado do bem-estar social. A revolução informacional subverteu o paradigma capitalista fordista, e nesse cenário surgiram novos atores que protagonizam o jogo de forças entre o capital e o trabalho. A luta de classes baseada no sindicalismo de caráter obreirista não responde mais aos anseios dos trabalhadores da sociedade pós-fordista, que deverá se adaptar ao novo contexto social para reestabelecer a sua força. Para tanto, o movimento sindical deve agregar não só os trabalhadores do conhecimento, como também o proletariado, os desempregados, não empregáveis atingidos pelo desemprego estrutural, autônomos, bem como os sem teto e os sem terra, enfim, toda a classe-que-vive-do-trabalho.Demonstra também, a partir das evidências empíricas e analíticas produzidas pela Teoria Social Crítica, o impacto do desenvolvimento tecnológico nas relações individuais e coletivas de trabalho, e a ascensão do trabalho imaterial, a condição de mola propulsora da sociedade contemporânea. Para se afastar das ambivalências contidas nas propostas da doutrina clássica, aponta para o resgate do movimento sindical libertário, emancipatório e contra-hegemônico em escala supranacional, o que deve ser potencializado pelo uso das novas tecnologias da informação e comunicação.
The present study aims to demonstrate the explosive power of knowledge workers and their ability to rebuild the labor movement as in its origin, ie, truly emancipatory and counter hegemonic. The collective struggles in recent centuries have become merely protest, especially with the advent of the welfare state. Thus capitalism tamed the rights of social movements ensuring minimum. The information revolution overthrew the capitalist fordist paradigm, and new actors have emerged in this scenario who play the game of power between capital and labor.Class struggle unionism based on the character of workers, no longer responds to the desires of the workers of the post-fordist, which must adapt to new social context to restore his strength. Thus, the trade union movement should not only add knowledge workers, as well as the proletariat, the unemployed, unemployable affected by structural unemployment, autonomous, and the homeless and landless, finally, the whole class-that-lives-of-work.It also shows, from the evidence produced by empirical and analytical critical social theory the impact of technological development in the relations of individual and collective work, and the rise of immaterial labor springboard for the condition of contemporary society. Move away from ambiguities in the proposals of the classical doctrine, points to the rescue of the union movement liberating, emancipatory and counter-hegemonic supranational scale, which should be enhanced by use of new information technologies and communication.

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Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo discutir a problemática central existente entre a teoria do valor de Karl Marx e a chamada teoria do trabalho imaterial. Refere-se essa divergência à tese da superação da teoria do valor trabalho de Marx para compreensão da atual dinâmica do modo de produção capitalista, que para alguns, encontra-se hoje sob a égide da produção imaterial. Segundo os autores alinhados a essa corrente, como André Gorz, Antônio Negri e Mauricio Lazzarato, por ser essa produção repleta de caráteres subjetivos e, portanto irreprodutíveis, torna-se impossível estabelecer uma relação entre seu preço e o tempo de trabalho dispendido para sua reprodução. Logo, a teoria marxista do valor torna-se insuficiente para subsidiar as análises desse novo momento econômico. Nosso trabalho apresenta uma crítica a essa perspectiva, chegando à conclusão que a teoria do valor de Marx tem ainda enorme pertinência para análise das novas formas assumidas pelo capitalismo contemporâneo e que, principalmente, fornece as bases teóricas para a compreensão das temáticas referentes ao que se denomina imaterial. Para isso, avançamos em um aspecto central, que reside na constatação de que há uma incompreensão acerca da [verdadeira] natureza do imaterial, que podemos entender como toda ideia e elaboração intelectual humana. A não apreensão desse sentido faz com que aqueles autores vinculados à teoria do trabalho imaterial, incorram em dois equívocos essenciais: em primeiro lugar, essa confusão leva-os a classificar os setores produtores de serviços muitos deles produtivos e materiais para Marx como parte da produção imaterial. Revelamos dessa forma, como a determinação dos preços desses serviços ainda se assenta sobre a magnitude de seus valores. Em segundo, há um desconhecimento da verdadeira forma de produção desse imaterial a produção do conhecimento e de como se determina seu preço. Assim, à luz da teoria de Marx, é possível perceber que o conhecimento em si não é criador de riqueza e que sua remuneração ocorre por meio da apropriação de parcela do valor gerado na produção material, de forma semelhante ao que ocorre à renda da terra, de modo que a compreensão de sua dinâmica só é possível a partir da categoria marxista do valor.
This research aims to discuss the existing problems between the central theory of value of Karl Marx and the so-called "theory of immaterial labor". It refers to the thesis of this divergence overcoming Marx's labor theory of value to understand the current dynamics of the capitalist mode of production, which for some, is today under the aegis of immaterial production. According to the authors aligned to this current, as André Gorz, Antonio Negri and Maurizio Lazzarato, being this production full of subjective characters and thus irreproducible, it is impossible to establish a relationship between its price and the time spent in it‘s production. Hence, the Marxist theory of value becomes insufficient to support the analysis of the ―new‖ economic times. Our work presents a critique of this perspective and concludes that Marx's labor theory of value is still relevant to the analysis of the new forms taken by contemporary capitalism, and that it mainly provides the theoretical basis for understanding the issues related to it is called ―immaterial‖. In order to carry it out, we move forward in an central aspect, which lies at the realization that there is a misunderstanding about the true nature of the immaterial, understood as every idea and human intellectual development. The failure to grasp this meaning makes those authors linked to the theory of immaterial labor, incur in two basic misconceptions: first, this confusion leads them to classify the sectors producing services - many of them productive and materials for Marx - as part of immaterial production. We show that the pricing of these services is still based on the magnitude of their values. Second, there is a lack of understanding the form of production of immaterial - the production of knowledge - and how to determine its price. Thus, in the light of Marx's theory, one can see that knowledge itself is not wealth creator, and that its revenue is obtained through the appropriation of the share of the value generated in the material production, similarly to what happens to the ground rent so that understanding of its dynamics is only possible from the marxist value category

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This dissertation aims to discuss and analyze the theoretical knowledge sought by social workers to understand the reality and professional intervention offered by the institution and employer. Problematize the theoretical knowledge acquired through professional social work contributes to thinking skills necessary for the unveiling and intervention in social issues, know the context in which it operates and the influences exerted by capitalist society and the ideologies of the employing institution
Esta dissertação tem por objetivo discutir e analisar o conhecimento teórico buscado pelos Assistentes Sociais para a compreensão da realidade e intervenção profissional e o oferecido pela instituição empregadora. Problematizar o conhecimento teórico adquirido pelo profissional de Serviço Social contribui para pensarmos nas competências necessárias para o desvelamento e intervenção na questão social, conhecer o contexto onde está inserido e as influências exercidas pela sociedade capitalista e as ideologias da instituição empregadora

Wie wollen wir diese hochgradig komplexe soziale Welt von heute verstehen, in der bald über 7 Mrd. Menschen auf vielerlei verschlungenen Kanälen miteinander kommunizieren und interagieren, ohne über eine brauchbare ‚General Theory‘ des gegenwärtigen globalen sozialen Weltsystems zu verfügen? Wie wollen wir verstehen, wie das soziale Weltsystem mit seiner ökologischen Umwelt interagiert, wenn wir über keine brauchbare universelle Theorie verfügen, die hinlänglich präzise erklären könnte, wie die ‚globalen Zustände‘ zustande kamen und kommen? Adornos legitime Erbin argumentiert wider die vorherrschende Meinung, das grandiose Scheitern des Marxismus-Leninismus habe große historische Welterklärungsversuche ein für alle Mal diskreditiert. Aufbauend auf einer akribischen Kritik Anthony Giddens‘ zeitdiagnostischem Spätwerk, entwirft die vorliegende Untersuchung den Bauplan einer ‚Forschungsplattform Anthropogenes Weltsystem‘, die vielleicht irgendwann tatsächlich leisten kann, woran Kritische Theorie bislang noch immer scheiterte: schrittweise das Verständnis schaffen, das geschaffen werden muss, damit die Menschheit hoffen darf, die über kurz oder lang drohende doppelte soziale und ökologische Krisis des 21. Jahrhunderts zu meistern.

Um Kernfragen zur Mehrautorenschaft in einer bestimmten Zielgruppe zu klären, konzentriert sich diese Arbeit auf Aspekte von technologischer Kompetenz, menschlicher Interaktion und institutioneller Leitlinien. Zuerst werden interdisziplinäre Argumente in Bezug zu Mehrautorenschaft aus den Sozialwissenschaften, Naturwissenschaften, Informatik und Geisteswissenschaften präsentiert. Die Literaturübersicht enthält Statistiken zu Informationsnutzung, Beschreibung von Strategien des Wissensmanagements, Erforschung von Verhaltensmustern und Trends in der Kommunikationstechnologie, sowie Diskussionen einiger historischer, politischer und inhaltlicher Aspekte, welche die Anwendung des Internet als kollaboratives Werkzeug im akademischen Kontext beeinflussen können. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich auch mit einigen Kontroversen zur Konzeption von Wissenschaft und wissenschaftlicher Praktiken, welche indirekt mit der Problematik von wissenschaftlicher Kommunikation und Zusammenarbeit, sowie Wissensproduktion in Zusammenhang stehen, insofern sie die Produktion Texten mit mehreren Autoren betreffen. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt der Arbeit befasst sich mir dem zur Zeit vorherrschenden System zur Evaluation akademischer Publikationen (Bibliometrie oder Scientometrie; QUALIS und SCIELO Systeme). Das vorhandene System für die Evaluation von Autoren ist in der Regel unfair /voreingenommen. Das liegt daran, das Statistiken leicht manipuliert werden können um einer bürokratischen und unternehmerischen Agenda zu folgen oder individuelle Interessen darzustellen, anstatt die wirklichen Verdienste eines Autors widerzuspiegeln. Die Untersuchung wurde anhand von semi-strukturierten Interviews durchgeführt, in Kombination mit einer quantitativen Erhebung, welche drei miteinander verbundene Aspekte (technologische, institutionelle und kulturelle), die bei der in Mehrautorenschaft eine Rolle spielen, innerhalb des Graduiertenprogramms in 'Forest Engineering' an der Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brasilien) hervorheben sollte.
In order to verify core issues for co-authorship in a specific audience, the current work focus on technological literacy, human interaction, and institutional policy. It first presents an interdisciplinary collection of arguments from social sciences, natural sciences, computer sciences, and humanities about scientific collaboration, especially regarding co-authorship activities. This literature review includes statistics on information usage, description of knowledge management strategies, exploration of behavioral patterns, communication technology trends, and discussions of some historical, political and contextual elements that may be influencing the application of the Internet as a collaborative tool within academic contexts. It also draws back few controversies about the concept of science and its practices, which are indirectly related to the problematic of scholarly communication, scientific collaboration, and knowledge production. The investigation targets these activities in what they concern the production of co-authored texts. A special focus of this work targets the current mainstream system of academic publishing ranking and evaluation (Bibliometrics or Scientometrics; QUALIS and SCIELO systems). The existing measurement system for the ranking of authors is generally an unfair/biased system, as statistics can easily be manipulated by a bureaucratic and corporate agenda, or by individual interests, rather than representing the real merit of an author. The inquiry applies a semi-structured in-depth interview combined with a quantitative survey intending to reveal three interrelated aspects (Technological, Institutional, and Cultural) involved in co-authorship activities within the Graduate Program in Forest Engineering at the Federal University of Paraná/Brazil.

Dans un contexte où la création d’entreprises, l’innovation et le développement de territoires innovants sont une préoccupation des politiques publiques aussi bien territoriales que nationales, la question de leur articulation reste en débat. Dans la littérature, de nombreux travaux étudient soit la contribution de l’investissement en capital à l’émergence des clusters et à leur développement soit la contribution de l’entrepreneur au développement économique d’un territoire. La relation entre ces acteurs associés à l’innovation et au territoire est rarement étudiée. Cette thèse a pour objectif de montrer qu’investisseur en capital et entrepreneur sont deux éléments essentiels du fonctionnement des territoires innovants et qu’il existe un lien à double sens entre ces acteurs et le territoire. Les territoires innovants favorisent la présence de l’entrepreneur et de l’investisseur et le bon fonctionnement de leur relation ; en retour les entrepreneurs associés aux investisseurs, génèrent des externalités positives pour le territoire et enrichissent la base de connaissances de celui-ci. Nous étudions la relation entrepreneur investisseur sous l’angle d’un duo qui produit des ressources pour le territoire, appelé le « duo entrepreneur investisseur en capital » définit comme l’ensemble des interactions, la mise en relation et l’apprentissage mutuel entre investisseurs et entrepreneurs. Pour aller au-delà de la contribution du duo au développement économique sous l’angle de la création d’entreprises, la thèse analyse la contribution du duo au capital savoir territorial défini comme l’ensemble des informations et connaissances scientifiques et techniques produites, acquises, combinées et systématisées par les entreprises et les institutions locales pour être utilisées dans un processus de création de valeur et selon un projet territorial défini. Les approches mobilisées pour construire le cadre théorique s’intègrent dans les théories économiques et managériales de l’entrepreneur, de l’innovation et du territoire. L’analyse empirique se base sur les pôles de compétitivité de Lyon Grenoble Chambéry (PCLGC) ; le choix des pôles est justifié par une analyse statistique. Elle a donné lieu à la construction d’une base de données quantitatives qui regroupe des informations consolidées sur les 172 nouvelles entreprises des sept pôles, sur les processus d’innovation et sur le financement en capital de ces entreprises. L’analyse se fonde également sur la réalisation de 2 enquêtes qualitatives auprès de 15 entrepreneurs et de 12 investisseurs en capital. L’analyse quantitative montre que le processus de transformation de la connaissance en entreprises par les entrepreneurs fonctionne au sein des PCLGC. Les investisseurs en capital sont présents auprès des nouvelles entreprises des pôles et permettent la transformation de la connaissance en entreprises. Les pôles favorisent la mise en relation des entrepreneurs et des investisseurs. La relation entre entrepreneur et investisseur est fondée sur l’intérêt financier, la confiance, et la recherche du succès de l’entreprise. Elle base son fonctionnement sur des processus de mise en réseau, d’apprentissages et d’interactions. Les entrepreneurs et les investisseurs mettent en commun des connaissances et produisent des connaissances scientifiques et techniques codifiées mesurées par les brevets et des connaissances tacites. Notre travail montre l’avantage que peuvent avoir les investisseurs à se regrouper de manière formelle et informelle, et l’importance de créer des synergies locales entre les entrepreneurs. Concernant les politiques publiques, la thèse montre l’intérêt pour les acteurs publics de favoriser l’ensemble des actions permettant la mise en relation et les collaborations entre les investisseurs en capital et les entrepreneurs dans les territoires des pôles de compétitivité en vue de remplir l’objectif de faire des pôles « des usines à produits »
In a context where new firms, innovation and the development of innovative region are a main concern of both national and regional public policies, the question of their articulation remains in debate. In the literature, many papers study either the contribution of venture capital to the emergence of clusters and their development or the contribution of the entrepreneur to the economic development of a territory. The relationship between these actors associated with innovation and the territory is rarely studied. The main objective of this thesis is to show that the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur are two essential elements of the functioning of innovative territories; and that there is a two-way relationship between these actors and the territory. Namely, innovative territories are favorable to the presence of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and to the well-functioning of their relationship. In return, entrepreneurs associated with venture capitalists in a duo generate positive externalities for the territory and enrich the knowledge base of the territory. In this thesis, we study the venture capitalist-entrepreneur relationship from the point of view of a duo that produces resources for the territory, called the "venture capitalist-entrepreneur duo" that we define as the set of interactions, networking and mutual learning between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. To go beyond the duo's contribution to economic development in term of firms' creation. We analyse the duo's contribution to territorial knowledge capital, which is defined as the knowledge base produced, possessed and used by the set of local enterprises and institutions. The approaches mobilized to build the theoretical framework of the thesis are integrated in the economic and managerial theories of the entrepreneur, the innovation and the territory. The empirical analysis is based on the competitiveness clusters of Lyon Grenoble Chambéry (LGC). The choice of the competitiveness clusters has been justified by a statistical analysis. A quantitative database has been built for this purpose. It brings together consolidated information on 172 new firms in the seven clusters concerned, on the innovation processes and on the venture capital financing of these firms. The analysis is also based on the completion of two qualitative surveys within 15 entrepreneurs and 12 venture capitalists. The quantitative analysis shows that the process of transforming knowledge into firms by entrepreneurs works within LGC's competitiveness clusters. Venture capitalists are very active among entrepreneurs in the clusters and enable the transformation of knowledge into new firms. The clusters promote the linking of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The relastionship between entrepreneur and venture capitalist is based on the financial interest, the trust, and the search for the success of the firms. It bases its functioning on networking, learning and interactions. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists share knowledge. Entrepreneurs and VCs produce codified scientific and technical knowledge as measured by patents and tacit knowledge that provides a local knowledge base on venture capital and creates tools to improve the relationship functioning. The thesis shows the advantage that venture capitalists may have in syndicating formally and informally, and the importance of creating local synergies between entrepreneurs. With regard to public policies, the thesis shows the interest for public actors to promote all the actions allowing the connections and the collaborations between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in the clusters of competitiveness with a view to fulfill the objective of not only producing knowledges but also products

´Scientific revolution´, as a concept, is both ´philosophically general´ and ´historically unique´. Both dual-sense of the term alludes to the occurrence of great changes in science. The former defines the changes in science as a continual process while the latter designate them, particularly, as the ´upheaval´ which took place during the early modern period. This research aims to demonstrate how the historicists´ critique of the justification of the traditional claims of science on the basis of the scientific processes and norms of the 16th and 17th centuries, illustrates the historical/local determinacy of the science claims. It argues that their identification of the contextual and historical character of scientific processes warrants a reconsideration of our notion of the universality of science. It affirms that the universality of science has to be sought in the role of such sources like scientific instruments, practical training and the acquisition of methodological routines
"Revolución científica", como concepto, se refiere a la vez a algo «filosóficamente general» e « históricamente único". Ambos sentidos del término aluden a la ocurrencia de grandes cambios en la ciencia. El primero define los cambios en la ciencia como un proceso continuo, mientras que el último los designa, en particular, como la "transformación", que tuvo lugar durante la Edad Moderna. Esta investigación tiene como objetivo demostrar cómo la crítica de los historicistas a la justificación de las características tradicionales de la ciencia sobre la base de los procesos y normas científicos de los siglos XVI y XVII, ilustra la determinación histórica y local de los atributos de la ciencia. Se argumenta que la identificación del carácter contextual e histórico de los procesos científicos justifica una reconsideración de nuestra noción de la universalidad de la ciencia. Se afirma que la universalidad de la ciencia se ha de buscar en el papel de tales fuentes como instrumentos científicos, la formación práctica y la adquisición de rutinas metodológicas

BARBOSA, Fabiano Geraldo . Sociedade do conhecimento: um novo paradigma em favor da velha ordem. 2008. 95f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza-CE, 2008.
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The present work entitle: “Society of Knowledge": a new paradigm in favor of old order” has a theoric bibliographic character and aspire to analyze under a critic perspective, duly fundamented in marxian-luckasian theory of centrality of work in reproduction of human life, the vinculation essentials between the social-educational of “society of knowledge” and the period of the structural crisis of Capital, demonstrating, that the mentioned paradigm as a phenomenon of ideologic reproduction in favor of market as organizative central force of human life. This way the priority of this work, is a critic investigation about the essence of paradigm of “society of knowledge”, so as to reaffirm the centrality of work in confront at the misrepresent identification between “society of knowledge” and surmount of capital. In this perspective are collocated in debate some fundamentals questions: Is possible to demarcate historically the appearance of “society of knowledge”? What did change in social scenery that would answer for the elevation of relate society? Until that point the “society of knowledge” would indicate a direct vinculation with the structural crisis of Capital and the project of re-structuration of system? What perspectives sight the called “society of knowledge”? In other words, what the mean philosophic-politic of this paradigm? Where reside her ideologic force? To who interest this paradigm that not avalanche any “competence” directed to exercise of organization and of collective fight with objective of touch in the heart of a system which obvious destructivity menace to collocate a final point in human specie? What the fundaments, of this paradigm? Finally, would be this a new paradigm to serve the old order of Capital? This work has the objective of indicate the complex of factors of sphere of social totality that furnish the material base the revolt of ideology of “society of knowledge”, we appeal beyond of Marx, at the studies of critical thinkers in the present period, which productions can offer importants contributions to a analyze duly fundamental of terms and the philosophic and political means of the actual debate. To finish, the paradigm of “society of knowledge” is inside of the permanent movement, but intensed for structural crisis of Capital, of re-structuration of Capital
O presente trabalho, intitulado “Sociedade do conhecimento”: um novo paradigma em favor da velha ordem, possui caráter teórico-bibliográfico e pretende analisar sob uma perspectiva crítica, devidamente fundamentada na teoria marxiana da centralidade do trabalho na reprodução da vida humana, as vinculações determinantes entre o paradigma sócio-educacional da “sociedade do conhecimento” e o período de crise estrutural do capital, demonstrando, desta feita, o referido paradigma como um fenômeno da reprodução ideológica em favor do mercado como força organizativa central da vida humana. Desta forma é que priorizamos para a delimitação deste trabalho, uma investigação crítica acerca da essência do paradigma da “sociedade do conhecimento”, a fim de reafirmar a centralidade do trabalho em contraposição à falseada identificação entre “sociedade do conhecimento” e superação do capital. Por esse prisma, são postas em debate algumas questões fundamentais: É possível demarcar historicamente o surgimento da “sociedade do conhecimento”? O que mudou no cenário social que responderia pela elevação da referida sociedade? Até que ponto a “sociedade do conhecimento” indicaria uma direta vinculação com a crise estrutural do capital e a conseqüente empreitada de reestruturação do sistema? Para que horizonte aponta a propalada “sociedade do conhecimento”? Dito de outro modo, qual o significado filosófico-político desta categoria? Onde reside a força ideológica desse discurso? A que interesses serve um modelo que não alude a qualquer “competência” dirigida ao exercício da organização e da luta coletiva com vistas a tocar o coração de um sistema, cuja evidente destrutividade ameaça colocar um ponto final na história do gênero humano? Quais os fundamentos, sobre os quais se constrói a “sociedade do conhecimento”? Por fim, seria este um novo paradigma a serviço da velha ordem do capital? Com o objetivo de indicar o complexo de fatores da esfera da totalidade social que fornece a base material para a insurgência do ideário da “sociedade do conhecimento”, recorremos, além de Marx, aos estudos de pensadores críticos da atualidade, cujas produções podem oferecer relevantes contribuições para uma análise adequadamente fundamentada dos termos e do significado filosófico e político-pedagógico do atual debate.

Les mutations récentes du capitalisme, où la " connaissance " tend à remplacer les ressources naturelles et le travail physique comme outils de croissance économique, transforment en profondeur les villes contemporaines. Dans ce contexte, les villes dites " post-fordistes " adaptent leurs structures productives, spatiales et socio-organisationnelles aux exigences de la nouvelle économie. L'une des manifestations les plus claires de ces mutations réside dans la multiplication de grands projets développés au cœur des villes : " Districts Technologiques ", " Districts de l'Innovation ", " Cités du Design ", " Cités du Multimédia ", " Quartier des Sciences ", " Quartiers de la Création ou de l'Innovation " etc. Pour comprendre ce phénomène nous avons réalisé une analyse comparative de quatre projets mis en œuvre dans trois villes : Barcelone (22@barcelona), Buenos Aires (Distrito Tecnológico ; Distrito de Diseño) et Grenoble (projet GIANT /Presqu'île). A travers cette étude nous avons cherché à répondre à deux questions fondamentales. Ces projets préfigurent-ils l'émergence d'un nouveau " Modèle Territorial de l'Innovation " (MTI), le modèle des " Systèmes Urbains Cognitifs " (SUC) ? Dans quelle mesure les caractéristiques distinctives des SUC font de ces sites des supports privilégiés de production et de diffusion d'innovations ?

Television is increasingly both global and local. Those television industries discussed in this thesis transact in an extensive neo-network of flows in talents, financing, and the latest forms of popular culture. These cities attempt to become media capitals but their status waxes and wanes, depending on their success in exporting their Asian media productions. What do marital arts dramas, interactive game-shows, children's animation and teenage idol soap operas from East Asian television industries have in common? Through the systematic use of TV formatting strategies, these television genres have become the focus for indigenous cultural entrepreneurs located in the East Asian cities of Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei to turn their local TV programmes into tradable culture. This thesis is a re-consideration of the impact of media globalisation on Asian television that re-imagines a new global media order. It suggests that there is a growing shift in perception and trade among once-peripheral television industries that they may be slowly de-centring Hollywood's dominance by inserting East Asian popular entertainment into familiar formats or cultural spaces through embracing global yet local cultures of production. While TV formats like Survivor, Millionaire, Big Brother and American Idol have become profitable and powerful franchises globally, in East Asia, the size of TV format trade is actually eclipsed by the regional trade in East Asian popular cultural commodities from martial arts novels and films, manga and romantic fiction, to popular music. These commodities have become the source of remaking local television culture into tradable cultures as local TV programmes use formatting practices to circulate within their region. The many faces of formatting in television are explored through four case studies - from Hong Kong (TVB's Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre), Singapore (Robert Chua Productions' Everyone Wins, Peach Blossom Media's Tomato Twins) and Taipei (Comic Ritz Production's Meteor Garden). Conceptualised as Asian media productions, these TV programmes are sites for examining individual agency, the network flows of popular culture and structural changes of their respective broadcasting fields. This thesis argues that TV formatting practices can become a currency for neo-networked media producers to create a medium of cultural exchange that sets up the possibility for a common market for cultural trade in East Asia. However, the ease with which TV formatting practices and re-sale of TV programmes are copied lower barriers for competition and often this tends toward over production. Over-exposure kills many new genres of production and discourages investment in the research and development component of creating TV formats for trade. Change in East Asian television industries is also aided by media conglomeration, global access through satellite TV, the Internet and increasingly digital entertainment, media de-regulation and pro-development policies. A number of factors and conditions that accompany the rise of TV formatting in East Asia (such as the role of independents vis-a-vis big local players, the emergence of copyright issues and marketing celebrities) contribute to the innovations that result from adapting formatting practices to local contexts, and suggest how each city's television industry attempts to address the rise of tradable cultural commodities that are increasingly made for pan-Asian consumption.

Television is increasingly both global and local. Those television industries discussed in this thesis transact in an extensive neo-network of flows in talents, financing, and the latest forms of popular culture. These cities attempt to become media capitals but their status waxes and wanes, depending on their success in exporting their Asian media productions. What do marital arts dramas, interactive game-shows, children's animation and teenage idol soap operas from East Asian television industries have in common? Through the systematic use of TV formatting strategies, these television genres have become the focus for indigenous cultural entrepreneurs located in the East Asian cities of Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei to turn their local TV programmes into tradable culture. This thesis is a re-consideration of the impact of media globalisation on Asian television that re-imagines a new global media order. It suggests that there is a growing shift in perception and trade among once-peripheral television industries that they may be slowly de-centring Hollywood's dominance by inserting East Asian popular entertainment into familiar formats or cultural spaces through embracing global yet local cultures of production. While TV formats like Survivor, Millionaire, Big Brother and American Idol have become profitable and powerful franchises globally, in East Asia, the size of TV format trade is actually eclipsed by the regional trade in East Asian popular cultural commodities from martial arts novels and films, manga and romantic fiction, to popular music. These commodities have become the source of remaking local television culture into tradable cultures as local TV programmes use formatting practices to circulate within their region. The many faces of formatting in television are explored through four case studies - from Hong Kong (TVB's Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre), Singapore (Robert Chua Productions' Everyone Wins, Peach Blossom Media's Tomato Twins) and Taipei (Comic Ritz Production's Meteor Garden). Conceptualised as Asian media productions, these TV programmes are sites for examining individual agency, the network flows of popular culture and structural changes of their respective broadcasting fields. This thesis argues that TV formatting practices can become a currency for neo-networked media producers to create a medium of cultural exchange that sets up the possibility for a common market for cultural trade in East Asia. However, the ease with which TV formatting practices and re-sale of TV programmes are copied lower barriers for competition and often this tends toward over production. Over-exposure kills many new genres of production and discourages investment in the research and development component of creating TV formats for trade. Change in East Asian television industries is also aided by media conglomeration, global access through satellite TV, the Internet and increasingly digital entertainment, media de-regulation and pro-development policies. A number of factors and conditions that accompany the rise of TV formatting in East Asia (such as the role of independents vis-a-vis big local players, the emergence of copyright issues and marketing celebrities) contribute to the innovations that result from adapting formatting practices to local contexts, and suggest how each city's television industry attempts to address the rise of tradable cultural commodities that are increasingly made for pan-Asian consumption.

Recent calls from progressive, subaltern and postcolonial geopoliticians to move geopolitical scholarship away from its Western ontological bases have argued that more ethnographic studies centred on peripheral and dispossessed geographies need to be undertaken in order to integrate peripheralised agents and agencies in dominant ontologies of geopolitics. This thesis follows these calls. Through empirical data collected during a period of five months of fieldwork undertaken between October 2014 and March 2015, it investigates the ways through which an Indigenous community of the Canadian Arctic, Tulita (located in the Northwest Territories' Sahtu region) represents geopower. It suggests a semiotic reading of these representations in order to take the agency of other-than/more-than-human beings into account. In doing so, it identifies the ontological bases through which geopolitics can be indigenised. Drawing from Dene animist ontologies, it indeed introduces the notion of a place-contingent speculative geopolitics. Two overarching argumentative lines are pursued. First, this thesis contends that geopower operates through metamorphic refashionings of the material forms of, and signs associated with, space and place. Second, it infers from this that through this transformational process, geopower is able to create the conditions for alienating but also transcending experiences and meanings of place to emerge. It argues that this movement between conflictual and progressive understandings is dialectical in nature. In addition to its conceptual suggestions, this thesis makes three empirical contributions. First, it confirms that settler geopolitical narratives of sovereignty assertion in the North cannot be disentangled from capitalist and industrial political-economic processes. Second, it shows that these processes, and the geopolitical visions that subtend them, are materialised in space via the extension of the urban fabric into Indigenous lands. Third, it demonstrates that by assembling space ontologically in particular ways, geopower establishes (and entrenches) a geopolitical distinction between living/sovereign (or governmentalised) spaces and nonliving/bare spaces (or spaces of nothingness).

For many years, Sweden has had a reputation for having a comprehensive and women friendly welfare state. However, as in many other European countries during the past few decades, the organization and governing of welfare has undergone profound changes. Through interviews with social workers and the application of theories of governmentality, this thesis analyzes the expressions and consequences of such current organization and governing. One result is that the introduction of meticulous documentation practices of social workers contact with clients, regulate their interaction and constitute a control over both client and social worker. Another result is that the current organization fragments labor and awards more authority to managers, which functions to produce loyalty to the organization and management, rather than clients. This is expressed in demands not to voice protest, as it is said to create a bad mood. It is also expressed in demands to spend as little as possible on clients; short duration of treatment, preference for outpatient treatment and by making it difficult to receive financial support. This austerity is legitimized through the intermeshing of different ideals; budget awareness, evidence that supports short and outpatient treatment and that clients in order to change their course of life should to be allowed or coerced into taking individual responsibility. Another important finding is that the current governing and organization of social work produce distance and detachment, and thus discourage caring subjects. This is a complex process in which an assemblage of different techniques and rationalities undermines the cultivation of a relationship between social worker and client. 1) The ideal of evidence-based practice favors rigid methods over a flexible and holistic approach. 2) Ideals of rationality, closely connected to notions of masculinity and professionalism, value objectivity and devalue and deter the surfacing of emotions. 3) Meticulous practices of documentation reduce the amount of time available to meet clients. 4) Ideals and particular methods designed to promote individual responsibility in clients legitimize social workers distancing themselves from clients’ dependency and needs. 5) A division of labor, in either assessment or treatment, reduces time spent with clients for those who work with assessment and ultimately engage in the rationing of resources. 6) Standardized digital templates, installed to aid in assessments, regulate and proceduralize interactions with the client. 7) Austerity, heavy workloads, individualized responsibility and stress further accentuate distance, as detachment becomes a means to cope with arduous working conditions. The transformation of social work described above produces alienation and a fragmentation of social workers’ collective subjects. Simultaneously, an ethos of caring makes some social workers work extra hard to provide for clients, which ultimately covers for flaws in the system. Although such an ethos of caring allows for the further exploitation of social workers, it is also understood as a means of resistance, which in turn also forms the basis for organized resistance.
Sverige har ett internationellt rykte för att ha en omfattande och kvinnovänlig välfärd. Även om riktigheten i en sådan uppfattning sedan länge ifrågasatts har på senare år, likt i många andra Europeiska länder, det svenska välfärdssystemet genomgått en omfattande förändring i avseende på dess räckvidd, men också dess organisering och styrning. Fokus för denna studie är just denna organisering och styrning, och mer specifikt, hur detta påverkar ett av välfärdens kanske mest centrala område: socialt arbete. Genom att intervjua socialarbetare undersöks i denna studie uttryck för och konsekvenser av en sådan förändring, bland annat genom att undersöka hur könsbundna föreställningar och förväntningar är sammanflätade med det sociala arbetets organisering och styrning. I studien konstateras att socialarbetare erfar att deras arbete genomgått omfattande förändringar, vilket kopplas ihop med både organiseringen och styrningen av det sociala arbetet. Detta uttrycks både i de ideal som kringgärdar arbetet men också i dominerande arbetssätt. En sådan förändring är införandet av  omfattande dokumentationsprocedurer av socialarbetarens arbete och kontakt med klienter, vilket medför att kontakten med klienterna blir ytligare. Dokumentationsprocedurerna utgör också en sorts kontroll av både klienterna och socialarbetarna själva. En annan förändring som konstateras är att nya organisationsmodeller och en förändrad ledarskapskultur skapar förväntningar på socialarbetarna att vara lojala med organisationen och ledningen snarare än klienterna. Bland annat utrycks detta genom förväntningar att inte protestera och skapa dålig stämning på arbetsplatsen, men också genom uttalade krav att spendera så lite resurser som möjligt på klienterna; korta behandlingstider, öppenvårdsalternativ och orimligt hårda krav för att få ekonomiskt bistånd. Detta legitimeras genom sammanväxningen av flera olika ideal; budgetmedvetenhet, att klienter inte mår bra av långa institutionsvistelser, men också att klienterna ska tillåtas eller bör tvingas att klara att sig själva. Ett av studiens huvudresultat är att den nuvarande organiseringen och styrningen av socialt arbete skapar avstånd och likgiltighet. Genom flera sammankopplade ideal och arbetssätt styrs dagens socialarbetare till att bry sig mindre om de klienter de möter. På så sätt undermineras förutsättningarna för framväxten av en djup relation mellan socialarbetare och klient; 1) Idealet och kravet att socialarbetare ska arbeta utifrån evidens, det vill säga metoder och förhållningssätt som i speciellt utformade utvärderingsmodeller visat sig ha effekt, gör att väl strukturerade och rigida metoder ges företräde. Denna instrumentalisering underminerar ett flexibelt, relationsorienterat och helhetsfokuserat sätt att arbeta. Dessutom gör evidensidealets fokus på enskilda individer och avgränsade utvärderingstider att mer samhällsinriktat kritiskt och långsiktigt inriktat arbete undermineras. 2) Ett rationalitetsideal, tätt sammanbundet med föreställningar om professionalitet och maskulinitet, värderar objektivitet och förmågan att frikoppla socialarbetarens egna känslor från sitt arbete. Detta maskuliniserade professionsideal innebär att empati och solidaritet med klienten undergrävs. 3) Omfattande krav på olika former av dokumentation av det sociala arbetet gör att tiden som socialarbetaren har till sitt förfogande för att besöka och att ha möten med klienten blir knapp. 4) Ett allmänt samhällsideal kring individuellt ansvar och en särskild arbetsmetod (motiverande samtal) som många socialarbetare förväntas lära sig, framhäver klientens eget ansvar för och vilja till förändring. Detta legitimerar ett avståndstagande från klientens behov av hjälp och stöd enligt logiken  ”du måste klara detta själv”. 5) En vanligt förekommande uppdelning av socialarbetarnas arbetsuppgifter i en så kallad beställar-utförarmodell gör att vissa socialsekreterare arbetar med hjälp och stöd, medan andra arbetar med bedömningar av klienters behov. De senare, som också har inflytande över resurstilldelning, blir med en sådan organisering av arbetet alltmer frikopplade från den stödjande och hjälpande verksamheten och kontakten med klienten. 6) Standardiserade digitala bedömningsinstrument, skapade för att på ett likvärdigt sätt bedöma klienters behov och dokumentera det sociala arbetet, reglerar och instrumentaliserar kontakten med klienter. 7) Tunga arbetsbördor, individualiserat ansvar och stress, bidrar ytterligare till att skapa avstånd och likgiltighet eftersom det för vissa utgör ett sätt att genomleva en ohållbar arbetssituation. En allmän åtstramning av socialtjänstens resurstilldelning förstås som en viktig orsak till behovet av att skapa ovan distansmekanismer. Men distansen hänger också ihop med en tendens till ett återupplivande av en tidigare dominerande förståelse av marginalisering och sociala problem; där människors nöd ses som ett utslag av dålig karaktär och ett resultat av dåliga individuella val. De förändringar av det sociala arbetets premisser som beskrivits ovan gör att socialarbetarna alltmer görs främmande inför sitt arbete – de alieneras. Detta främmandegörande uttrycks genom att inte kunna identifiera sig med arbetet självt, sina kollegor eller med sig själv. Ett sådant främmandegörande underminerar, eller fragmentiserar, både relationen till klienten, men också en känsla av gemenskap med andra socialarbetare. En gemenskap som kan utgöra ett ”vi” och ligga till grund för att ställa krav, protestera och göra motstånd mot avhumaniserande ideal och reformer. På så vis är främmandegörandet inte bara en konsekvens av dagens organisering och styrning, utan också något som fyller en viktig funktion för en sådan styrning och organisering, och genomförandet av en allmän åtstramning i socialpolitiken. Samtidigt som dagens organisering och styrning av socialt arbete är främmandegörande, slår vissa socialarbetare knut på sig själva och arbetar extra hårt för att täcka upp för systemets brister och krympande resurser, för att trots det svåra läget ändå försöka ge det stöd som de upplever att klienten behöver. Ett sådant historiskt förankrat femininiserat omsorgsideal, dvs känslor av ansvar och empati inför behövande och en ilska inför oförrätter, utgör därmed på samma gång grund för en fördjupad exploatering av socialarbetarna, och ett vardagligt motstånd mot rådande system. I ett läge när flera upplever att kollegialiteten som grund för motstånd på arbetsplatserna underminerats, utgör ett sådant omsorgsideal samtidigt också grunden för organiserat motstånd utanför arbetsplatsen, bortom chefernas insyn, kontroll och härskartekniker. Medan nuvarande styrningssystem underminerar ett visst sorts motstånd, uppstår samtidigt grunden för nya.

This dissertation examines the narratives deployed to produce space(s) and how they become imbued with the authority to do so. The narratives-as-knowledge considered here are grounded in a specific place: the Mediterranean Basin, within which the site of analysis, Palestine, sits. How, in this particular place, has the earth been read and translated into different narratives of the past and the present, how does one gain the authority to do so, and how does this authority enable prophesizing the future? I argue for the importance of understanding the foundations of the earth sciences, namely geology, which remains steeped in colonial and capitalist roots and the ideological logics of extractivism as opposed to mutuality. Geology governs much of our understandings of the earth, space, and time. Archival research reveals that in Palestine, Biblical and geological narratives emerged concomitantly; both read the history of earth and mankind through its translation of the strata of the underground, which in turn granted the authority to prophesize the future. The local, intimate knowledge of the land, and thus the narratives of the land, are in contest in colonial contexts – colonial knowledge depends on and exploits local knowledge. The development of the modern-nation state enfolds the holders of this knowledge within its institutions as it seeks to make nature legible for extraction. In settler-states, however, the holders of intimate knowledge are excluded from the state. This, I argue, can help us understand the impasse between Gaza’s tunnel diggers and the Israeli military and offers us a case study of the potential of subterranean knowledge to rethink the Earth Sciences and their colonial capitalist paradigms. Place matters, and I focus on the dueling narratives in Gaza that reproduce it. Through a combined methodology of historical research and ethnography with the local population, I first argue Gaza should be unmapped from “the Gaza Strip,” and counter-mapped (through history and ethnography) as Southern Palestine. After redefining the geography of Gaza, I focus in on daily life on the surface of a vibrant Gaza filled with unexpected relations. The dissonance of mainstream humanitarian discourse on Gaza is shorn of historical context of colonialism and prophesizes certain death, whereas the anti-colonial narrative of local resistance promises a liberated future. I then move underground to the tunnels of Gaza, where smuggling and the logics of capital accumulation – which per local analysts had only the certainty of social deterioration – butt up against the underground resistance’s liberatory discourse and reality on the ground. I detail how the “purity” of resistance and its intimate knowledge is contained and captured in the different nation-states dividing the region of southern Palestine, namely Israel and Egypt and the quasi-state status in Palestine – but not entirely. Back above ground, social deterioration and state violence is mediated through conspiracy theories prophesizing an uncertain future for Gaza, namely the Deal of the Century that threatens to redraw the map of Gaza. Meanwhile, Egypt and Israel continue to deploy local knowledge for extractive industries. However, I argue, something fugitive remains that cannot be contained even by their powerful militaries. The dominant mainstream narratives of humanitarianism, climate catastrophe, the Deal of the Century, and so on only lead to catastrophe, whereas looking to local, intimate knowledge that is fugitive from containment or erasure offer a different reading of and relationship with the land and hence different, even liberatory possibilities for the future. Following assertions that we are a storytelling species and should re-write our origin stories and hence our prophecies, I conclude with a reflection on different subterranean poetics and land-human-animal relations to imagine what a critical geology might look like as a contribution toward new, all-inclusive theories of earth.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1987.
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In Resurrection Flowers and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Kaden C. Milliren seeks to evaluate and analyze differences in perspectives and perceptions of the environment between Western and Indigenous worldviews and, consequentially, the different attitudes and ways-ofbeing with the world that emerge as a result. In so doing, Milliren discusses the sacredness of local landscape for Indigenous peoples and the role its spiritually-significant elements impact an entire cosmology. These important elements of sacred local ecologies are socially, materially, and symbolically rhetorical, ascribing meaning onto all elements of worldview from faith to ceremony, oratory to cultural tradition, physical sustenance to ancestral connection. In feedback and feedforward loops, these aspects of cosmology continue to ascribe meaning onto one another, affecting and being affected by each other, continually weaving together meaning and, therefore, rhetorical mattering.

The academic discipline of Sociology has rarely broached the subject of war and its recursive relationship with society. This paper addresses three major approaches in several disciplines that can be deemed ‘economically deterministic’: Marxist, Liberal, and Realist. These approaches can be useful for certain questions, but also leave out, or cloud other non-economic variables in understanding war – notably culture and military variables themselves. By using Karl Polanyi’s thesis regarding the “Myth of the Hundred Years’ Peace” (1815-1914) as a foil, the historical case of war in the nineteenth century is used to highlight the nature of war in European modernity and capitalism.

The study explores, through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, the existence of Mode 2 knowledge and programmes in the South African higher education sector. It begins by theorising about knowledge and takes as a point of departure the propositions about theory-building which state that to explain social phenomena, a system of ideas is required, the conceptual tools of which are able to explain the essential dynamics of such phenomena. It goes on to describe a crisis in a system of ideas that, together with valid critiques, demands to be re-examined as well as the potential for advancing alternative lines of thought. A critical reading and understanding of existing theories leads me to believe that independently, they are all inadequate to explain the relationship between knowledge production and South African higher education in an era of globalisation. This includes the all-encompassing framework of neo-Marxism, the excessive consumerism of academic capitalism, the equation of the worker with modern technology in post-industrialism and the`lax relativity', complacent and, indiscriminate celebration of diversity in post-modernism. By combining the `culturally sensitive' critical post-modernism of William Tierney and George Subotzky with the concept of `late capitalism' as proposed by Frederic Jameson, it is possible to establish a relationship between globalisation and South African higher education on the one hand, and between its' policy and knowledge production on the other. Against the features of the newly proffered theoretical framework of `critical postmodernism in late capitalism', the study examines the new higher education policy and legislation and ensuing discourse, with particular reference to the Gibbons thesis. It then explores, by using an empirical investigation, the extent to which Mode 2 knowledge production exists in South African higher education. This is done through a selected programme from a former technikon in that demonstrates the key assumptions and perceptions about Mode 2 as held by lecturing staff and as embedded in the structure, design and content of the programme. With the results obtained the study finally makes recommendations for the establishment of a paradigm-shift and for new practices in knowledge production in higher education in South Africa.
Educational Studies
D. Ed. (Comparative Education)

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國立政治大學
經營管理碩士學程
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The research of the knowledge interactive relationship between venture capitalist and technology industries Advisor：Dr. Lee, Jen-Fang Author：Huang, Chun-Chieh ABSTRACT The objectives of this thesis intend to explore the knowledge interactive relationship between the venture capitalist and technology industries as well as the key success factors (KSFs) to initiate the interactive basis. Based on the knowledge interactive relationship , this study presents : the roles and functions of the venture capitalist during different business stages, the added-value that the venture capitalist provided, the key factors influencing the interactive relationship, and the changes in technology and innovation as influenced by the venture capitalist. The key success factors initiating the interactive relationship between the venture capitalist and technology industries are the technology company’s demand in knowledge and resources as well as the knowledge and resources that the venture capitalist can provided. This study was conducted by using case study methodology covering four samples of high-tech companies and two venture capitalists. The results of this study are as follows: 1. During the seed and start-up stages of technological companies, the venture capitalist acts as the promoter and start-up consultant. 2. During the growth and development stages of technological companies, the venture capitalist acts as the resource-provider and coordinator. 3. During the late stage of technological companies, the venture capitalist acts as the IPO promoter. 4. During the re-orgnization stage of technological companies, the venture capitalist acts as the re-structurer. 5. The industrial network of the venture capitalist will influence the company’s investment performance. 6. The investment amount will influence the knowledge interactive intensive of the venture capitalist. 7. The venture capitalist only affords capital but without knowledge have been worked difficult. Only the venture capitalists with smart-money and value-added will have development space. 8. The venture capitalist leads the capital efficiency and the technical companies lead the technology innovation. Both of them promote the development of economics. 9. Start-up new companies with innovative technologies to purchase excellent financial reward are the motive factor of technology development. 10. The venture capitalists with technical background will more actively promote the innovative technologies start-up. The venture capitalists with financial background will focus on the management of the investee. 11. The diversity of technology innovation builds up the development space basis of the venture capitalists. 12. The modularization of the technical innovation and business management is the key factor in pushing the knowledge interactive between technical companies and venture capitalists. 13. The industrial network and management knowledge contributions of the venture capitalists are more than the contributions of the capital benefit. 14. The more amorphous of the industry, the more knowledge interactive activities between the technical companies and the venture capitalists. 15. The more technical-oriented companies, the less knowledge interactive activities between the technical companies and the venture capitalists.

Social capital resources for the firm can be conceptualized as those executive-to-executive connections held by a firm’s top management team, as well as firm-to-firm relationships that exist fairly independently of particular individuals. This type of resource can compose an important portion of any firm’s overall resource portfolio. The potential benefits associated with social capital include enhanced economic exchange opportunities, improved innovation capabilities and increased firm survival rates, among others. This study adds to the literature stream focusing on the positive consequences of social capital by demonstrating the cross-level influence of social capital on the development of reciprocity within a joint venture network. It also highlights the link between social capital resources and the quality of knowledge available to a firm via its joint venture partnerships. More importantly, though, we specifically investigate the conditions under which a firm’s social capital (firm-to-firm relationships or the social capital held by key executives) can contribute to undesirable firm-level behaviors. One often mentioned, yet rarely explored dimension of social capital is the phenomenon frequently called the ‘dark side’ of social capital. This dark side of social capital is argued to exist whenever the behavioral expectations accompanying social capital limit contribute to undesirable outcomes for the firm. Several hypotheses are tested in the context of joint ventures among S&P 500 firms. The likelihood of a firm having legal action taken against it by federal regulatory agencies or other firms is demonstrated herein to be related to the number and strength of social capital relationships. In general this research supports the view that having a large number of weak ties is beneficial for firms. More specifically, we found that in the wake of the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, an inverse relationship exists between the likelihood of firms engaging in the undesirable behaviors investigated and the number of Boards of Directors on which the firms’ respective executives held seats. Conversely, firms were more likely to engage in these undesirable behaviors whenever the firm-to-firm ties within their network of joint ventures were strongest. Furthermore, executive discretion was highly related to the likelihood of firms engaging in undesirable behaviors.

This research investigates the relevance of contemporary Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) to economic development in Mode-2 society. Mode-2 society is a term coined by Nowotny et al (2001) which equates with changes in productivity and the triumph of free-market capitalism commonly referred to as knowledge driven capitalism or knowledge capitalism. Building on Schumpeter's economic theory of entrepreneurial competition and Romer's new growth economic model that have transformed capitalism into 'gales of creative destruction' by which new knowledge now generates national economic advantage, the thesis examines the literature of Training Packages as the prescribed instruments of VET in the milieu of knowledge capitalism. It could be expected that Australian VET, and in particular Training Packages, would have a greater justification for pursuing a knowledge and skill application-and-transfer policy that fits the growth of knowledge capitalism which Mode-2 society represents than it had for the former manufacturing economy. To test this contention, the thesis establishes eleven key transitions from Mode-1 to Mode-2

society and the imputed education and training needs of the latter as derived from the Nowotny et al (2001) Mode-2 thesis. These transitions are formed into an Evaluative Framework and underpin an ethnographic study involving thirty-three VET experts. The literature search and ethnography responses are synthesized and analysed with new material elicited from the ethnography. The outcomes of the analysis are equated with the eleven key transitions from Mode-1 to Mode-2 society and the imputed emergent education and training needs of each transition. It is concluded that the dominant assumptions and practices of Training Packages do not align with the imputed education and training needs of Mode-2 society as indicated by the eleven key attributes of the Nowotny et al (2001) conceptualisation. The theoretical implications of this conclusion had an impact on the Australian provision of VET because they indicate that the Training Package agenda is a potential liability for national economic advantage in Mode-2 society.