https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/553 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:34:42 GMT 2026-06-16T22:34:42Z https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8461 Title: Olhares dos Imigrantes: suas subjetividades, memórias, histórias, desafios de integração e perspectivas em Francisco Beltrão – PR (2009 - 2025) Autor: Djau, Amadu Primeiro orientador: Flávio, Luiz Carlos Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the migratory dynamics of African and Asian populations in Brazil, focusing empirically on the municipality of Francisco Beltrão, from the perspective of geographical science, covering the period from 2009 to 2025. It is grounded in the understanding of migration as a geographical, historical, cultural, symbolic, political, and complex phenomenon. The analysis is supported by the processes of (de)territorialization, (re)territorialization, and multiterritoriality, as proposed by Rogério Haesbaert (2004), encompassing symbolic, material/immaterial, psychological, and political dimensions of space, in dialogue primarily with authors such as Milton Santos (1996; 1997), Paul Claval (2001), YiFu Tuan (1983), David Harvey (2005; 2010), Denis Cosgrove (2008), Ernst Georg Ravenstein (1880), Everett Lee (1966), and Douglas Massey et al. (1993), among others. Based on a combination of bibliographic and documentary review, interviews, field observations, and statistical data, the research focuses particularly on migrant workers employed in the halal sector of BRF in Francisco Beltrão, as well as in other segments of the local labor market, such as supermarkets, repair workshops, and small businesses. The study demonstrates how the labor insertion of these international migrants reveals trajectories marked by challenges, forced and/or intentional mobility, and struggles for survival, identity recognition, and cultural affirmation. At the same time, it highlights practices of resistance, solidarity, historicalexistential reconstruction, and spatial appropriation mediated by knowledge, religiosity, and processes of language learning and coexistence. Thus, this study examines the presence of new migratory flows in Francisco Beltrão and their contrasts with local identities. Drawing on the categories of territory in Santos (1996), place in Tuan (1983), landscape in Cosgrove (2008), and space as a social construction in Claval (2001) and Raffestin (1993), it analyzes the perspectives of international migrants in the city and reinforces their centrality as agents of territorial transformation. Finally, it underscores the urgency of public policies that ensure migrants’ rights, promote inclusion, and value cultural diversity as a constitutive element of local heritage. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Tese Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8461 2026-02-26T00:00:00Z https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8460 Title: Cartografia e Universalização da Terra: representações do espaço terrestre entre a Geografia de Ptolomeu e a Cartografia Náutica Ibérica do Renascimento Autor: Maguelniski, Diego Primeiro orientador: Bauab, Fabricio Pedroso Abstract: The Modern cartography, which originated after the Great Navigations and the Renaissance period (XV-XVI), uses a type of continuous resource to the universal to represent the geographical reality in its topographical features, based on máthêsis (Foucault, 2016), in the geometrization of space and the suppression of geographical multiplicity through the process of decals and subjectivation (Deleuze, Guattari, 1995). In this bibliographic and theoretical study, we study the origins of modern Western cartography and the modern representation of space, relating them to the phenomenon of the universalization of terrestrial spatial data and terrestrial cartographic representation, in a path that scrutinizes its principles and methods on different fronts: the technical, theoretical and literary influence of the Geography by Claudius Ptolemy (c.100 - c. 170 AD), that was recovered at the Renaissance in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the advancement of projective theories about space and its process of geometrization at the Renaissance, the evolution of terrestrial and spatial representation techniques in nautical cartography, especially in Iberian nautical cartography, in the context of the Great Navigations, and, finally, the union of Renaissance cartographic techniques in the cartography of Gerard Mercator (1512-1594), in his famous projection known from his map of 1569. Through this ongoing study, we can see that there were three types of resources to the universal or universalization in modern cartography: we say that there was an ontological universalization of terrestrial spatial data thanks to the loss of their particular conditions, in the signic representation given by the processes mentioned at the beginning of this abstract. In the same way, the standardization of a way of mapping that treats the earth’s surface as an undifferentiated whole, constituting a single and universal horizon, evidenced a process of a qualitative universalization of the representation of the earth’s surface. In addition, such technical conditions had an education engaged with the transformations that Western society went through in the formation of capitalism at the end of the Middle Ages, in the face of the formation of a new Western epistémê. The technical superimposition of this form of mapping on other autochthonous forms of spatial representation constituted a form of technical universalization aligned with the interests of the West and linked to the globalization of the capitalist system and Western culture, composing, currently, the form of perception, organization, and planning of the territory that we experience, thanks to the current uniqueness of techniques and empirical universality, as expressed M. Santos (2001, 2002, 2007a, 2007b). Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Tese Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8460 2026-03-13T00:00:00Z https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8458 Title: Rompendo o silêncio e construindo a proteção: violência de gênero na Unioeste Campus de Francisco Beltrão Autor: Maier, Emili Natieli Molinari Primeiro orientador: Santos, Roselí Alves dos Abstract: Gender-based violence is an increasingly prominent topic in contemporary research across a wide range of fields of knowledge, since the presence of this phenomenon, unfortunately, remains deeply rooted in various spheres of society. However, despite the growing discussions surrounding this issue, there is still a long way to go due to the challenges of addressing the sensitive issues involved, as well as the multiple intersections that may arise within contexts of violence. This study aimed to understand the violence perpetrated against women within the university context. To this end, it sought to identify such violence in academic spaces and events at the Western Paraná State University (UNIOESTE), Francisco Beltrão campus. The main issues investigated were students’ perceptions of the subject and the institutional measures proposed to confront gender-based violence. This is a qualitative-quantitative study based on bibliographic research, drawing on the theoretical framework available in the catalog of Theses and Dissertations of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), as well as other publications relevant to the discussion. Data collection was carried out through a digital questionnaire with a voluntary participation sample of 66 respondents, a number resulting from the process of institutional silencing that hinders the recognition of violence, access to information, and reporting. As part of the methodological process, semi-structured interviews were also conducted with 12 different university representatives. The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analysis, which revealed, among many other findings, the importance of support networks and the urgent need for policies that encourage reporting and broaden discussion within academic spaces, given that the most frequently reported occurrence was sexual harassment perpetrated by peers and professors within classrooms. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Dissertação Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8458 2026-02-27T00:00:00Z https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8456 Title: Injustiças (Socio)ambientais e as Usinas Hidrelétricas no Rio Iguaçu (PR): consequências do modelo energético brasileiro Autor: Leite, Maristela Da Costa Primeiro orientador: Candiotto, Luciano Zanetti Pessôa Abstract: Based on an overview of brazilian hydroenergy policy and the impacts on the Iguaçu River/PR, this thesis discusses the contradictions of an energy model grounded in the expansion of hydroelectric power stations and analyzes the social implications experienced by communities affected by the Baixo Iguaçu Hydroelectric Power Station/PR, highlighting the process of (socio)environmental injustice. From a historical-critical approach, the research also shows how privatizations and concessions in the generation and commercialization of hydroelectric energy have resulted in the transfer of this patrimony, built with public resources and labor of thousands of Brazilians. The analytical scope covers the process of consolidation of the national electricity sector and extends to the present day, considering the dynamics of the sector’s productive restructuring, privatization, and financialization, as well as the intensification of territorial conflicts and environmental injustices. In this context, the Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens – MAB (Movement of People Affected by Dams) stands out as a central political actor in denouncing injustices and in building strategies of resistance and struggle for environmental justice. Focusing on the state of Paraná and the Iguaçu River, the study considers as a territory affected by the implementation of hydroelectric power stations, emphasizing the (socio)environmental impacts that have been accumulated, the concentration of richness, and the processes of territorial appropriation carried by electricity companies. The analysis concentrates on socioenvironmental implications and the dynamics in construction of the Baixo Iguaçu Hydroelectric Power Station, the last built along this river. The thesis argues that, although legitimized by legal structures and developmentalist narratives, the expansion of hydroelectric power stations reproduces environmental injustices and reinforces the marginalization of affected populations, who are often seen as obstacles to the expansion of brazilian energy model. Overcoming these injustices requires the democratization of energy policy, the recognition of territories as spaces of life, and the centrality of social struggles in the construction of alternatives oriented by environmental justice. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Tese Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8456 2026-02-24T00:00:00Z