Mitford, Mary Russell: Belford Regis, or Sketches of a Country Town

Author(s):  
Martin Wierschin ◽  
Barbara Schaff
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Author(s):  
A. De Morgan

Demonville.—A Frenchman's Christian name is his own secret, unless there be two of the surname. M. Demonville is a very good instance of the difference between a French and English discoverer. In England there is a public to listen to discoveries in mathematical subjects made without mathematics: a public which will hear, and wonder, and think it possible that the pretensions of the discoverer have some foundation. The unnoticed man may possibly be right: and the old country-town reputation which I once heard of, attaching to a man who “had written a book about the signs of the zodiac which all the philosophers in London could not answer,” is fame as far it goes. Accordingly, we have plenty of discoverers, who, even in astronomy, pronounce the learned in error because of mathematics.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Figueiredo ◽  
Ana Paula Leivar Brancaleoni

O presente estudo visa analisar o processo de inserção de uma adolescente transexual em um programa de formação técnico-profissional, o qual ocorre em um município no interior do estado de São Paulo. Adotou-se, pois, uma abordagem qualitativa de cunho cartográfico, por meio do qual uma das pesquisadoras acompanhou, registrou e interveio ao longo do processo de inserção. Constatou-se que as questões de gênero e do corpo em transição da adolescente promoveram esgarçamentos na heternormatividade, ocasionando tensionamentos na estrutura e dinâmica do programa. Contudo, impingiu-se, à adolescente, a reposição da condição de exclusão já vivenciada em outros espaços. Ademais, a instituição não foi capaz de oferecer os aportes necessários de proteção psicossocial à adolescente e que, sem os mesmos, a sua finalidade não pôde ser garantida. Frente a essas ausências, cristalizam-se os abandonos, rupturas e solidificam-se as exclusões.Palavras-chave: Aprendizagem para o trabalho; Transsexualidade; Processos formativos; Adolescência. ABSTRACT: This study aims to analyze the inclusion process of a transsexual adolescent in a certified technical professional program, which takes place in a country town in the state of São Paulo. It was adopted a mapping nature qualitative approach, by means of which one of the researchers monitored, registered and intervened throughout the previously mentioned process. It was shown that gender issues and the individual’s body transition disturbed the heteronormativity, which led to tensions in the dynamic and structure of the program. However, the adolescent experienced the recurrence of situations related to social exclusion, which had already taken place in other environments. In addition, the institution was not capable of providing all the necessary psychosocial protection to the adolescent, who consequently was not able to graduate. Due to the lack of all the resources quoted, abandonment and ruptures become evident, and thus social exclusion consolidates.Keywords: Learning for work; Transsexuality; Formative processes; Adolescence.


Author(s):  
Georgia M. Snowball

This article develops and narrates concepts of participant-spectator encounters with place, as outcomes of the practice-led-research performances of Promenade Locale. The Promenade Locale series was performed over three consecutive years from 2014-2016, in a regional country town in Australia. Following on from the ‘mis-guided tours’ of Wrights & Sites, the author/performer embodies the persona of Ms Guide, to take participants on night tours. Methods of the performance making and live process are discussed, which aimed to provoke participants to engage with aspects of their own town in an altered and potentially more dynamic way. Addressing themes of participation and performativity Promenade Locale worked to divert audience members from the normal experience of their own town and offer up new imaginings delivered through tactile tasks and an improvised textual score. In the opening introduction, Ms Guide invites the participants to interject, interrupt and take the lead at any point on the tour. The outcomes of the project are detailed in the article through a reflective and critical response to both the real time event and questionnaire feedback.


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