Her Life through Their Eyes. Reflections on A. Korevanova’s Book “My Life” (1936), which Arose under the Influence of the Revised Edition “Her Life” (2020)

The article provides an experience of reflexive reading of the autobiographical book of the Ural “peasant – worker” Agrippina Korevanova “My Life”, published in 1936 by the Moscow publishing house “History of Plants”, using the method of analyzing the narrative through ‘four readings’, focusing attention step by step on the plot and the reader’s reaction, the narrator’s I and the voices of Others, on cultural contexts and social structures. Press responses, Korevanova’s correspondence with publishers and other archival materials are used as context. A special place in this large hypertext is occupied by the revised work within the educational student project of the Ural Federal University, published in 2020 under the title “Her Life”. It focuses on the relevance of trauma talk and Agrippina’s purely personal life story, which gives a basis for polemical discussion. The peculiarity of the narrative, which at one time “did not give in” to such venerable editors as A. Tikhonov and M. Gorky, and which modern publishers are trying to eliminate, is the lack of coherence and consistency. According to the author of the article, this characteristic incoherence highlights the desire inherent in the construction of the text to combine the passive role of the heroine with her inexhaustible activity. The main and most interesting topic seems to be writing and, more broadly, mastery of the word. Korevanova struggled to enter the world of literature and it is in this field that the rejection of her auto heroine and her own are most dramatic: unrequited requests for help in “writing” (preserved in her archival fund), and difficult relations with the local writing community, and, finally, the multiple edits and shortenings that haunt the work today as well as in 1930s.

Uprising in Tashkent in October 1917 according to memoirs of S. V. Sazanov

The article examines the uprising in Tashkent in October 1917 by the memoirs of S. V. Sazanov. The purpose of this article is both to introduce a new historical source into scientific circulation (ego-document, in this case, an excerpt from S. V. Sazanov’s memoirs), and to perform historiographic analysis of the October uprising in Tashkent, which led to the establishment of Soviet power in Turkestan. The memoirs of S. V. Sazanov are especially valuable for they contain a personal impression of a direct participant in the events, as well as convey a view of the event from «a peasant in a soldier’s overcoat», since S. V. Sazanov, being a peasant-otkhodnik (peasant-worker) by origin and occupation, has preserved the peculiarities of the peasant mentality. The presented source is also important due to the fact that there are serious discrepancies in the historiography of the October uprising in Tashkent, descriptions of this event are conflicting and contradictory. In Soviet historiography, the uprising in Tashkent was presented as a classic workers’ uprising against numerous counter-revolutionary forces prepared and carried out according to a clear plan under the leadership of the Bolshevik party. S. V. Sazanov’s memoirs refute this point of view. At the same time, they do not contradict either the sources of 1917 (materials of the local press), or the post-Soviet historiography. With regard to the latter, S.V. Sazanov’s memoirs can serve as a valuable addition

The Monograph Tradition and Chinese Scholarship: Beginning with the “Best Young Scholar’s Monograph Prize in the Social Sciences of Practice”

This article first explains why our “Best Young Scholar’s Monograph Prize in the Social Sciences of Practice” selection committee has chosen the three books International Law and Late Qing China: Texts, Events, and Politics, Rural Development in Contemporary China: Micro Case Examples and Macro Changes, and Urbanizing Children: Identity Production and Political Socialization of Peasant-Worker Sons and Daughters for the award, and then goes on to discuss how monograph production is faced with deeply contradictory forces in the scholarly environment of China today when compared with the American scholarly environment, to explain the purpose of the prize.

ENSAIO FOTOETNOGRÁFICO DA FEIRA CAPIXABA DE PRODUTOS DA REFORMA AGRÁRIA

ENSAIO FOTOETNOGRÁFICO DA FEIRA CAPIXABA DE PRODUTOS DA REFORMA AGRÁRIARESUMO: O presente ensaio fotoetnográfico tem como objetivo apresentar um projeto extensionista desenvolvido pela Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Ufes). Tratam-se de ações educativas iniciadas em 2016 que apresentam resultados crescentes e sustentáveis, apontando a necessidade de ampliar espaços. A Feira Capixaba de Produtos da Reforma Agrária, se apresenta como uma das possibilidades deste Projeto romper os limites da área rural e conquistar novos espaços negociais na área urbana. A linha de extensão é o Desenvolvimento Rural e Questões Agrárias. Este projeto nasceu da articulação da Extensão do Centro Universitário do Norte do Espírito Santo (CEUNES/UFES) com o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra no Espírito Santo (MST-ES) e o Programa Educação do Campo. Durante a Feira foram exploradas as possibilidades da técnica etnográfica, vivenciando a experiência de estranhamento que traz em si o potencial de explorar o dinamismo das interações sociais que a Feira proporciona ou pela diferença e estranhamento de tal prática no ambiente urbano. Esse evento conglutina a comunidade urbana e o trabalhador camponês, elucidando os benefícios da alimentação saudável para os visitantes da feira.Palavras-chave: Produtos da reforma agrária. Processo de desenvolvimento de serviços. Formas de sociabilidade. Mercado de rua. PHOTOETNOGRAPHIC ESSAY OF THE CAPIXABA FAIR OF AGRARIAN REFORM PRODUCTS ABSTRACT: The present memorial and essay aims to present an extension project developed by the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Ufes). These are educational actions initiated in 2016 and are currently pursuing their own steps and support from the institution. Therefore, this work constitutes a photoetnographic essay and aims to present the Capixaba Fair of Agrarian Reform Products. The extension line is Rural Development and Agrarian Issues and the project was born out of the articulation of the Extension of the Centro Universitário do Norte do Espírito Santo (CEUNES/UFES) with the Movement of Rural Landless Workers in Espírito Santo (MST-ES) and the Field Education Program. This event conglutinates the urban community and the peasant worker, elucidating the benefits of healthy eating in the central dialogogical-reflective basin of the Espírito Santo lands.Key-words: Products of agrarian reform. Service Development Process. Forms of sociability. Street market.

Protecting civilians in civil war

Can local organizations give civilians the capacity to protect themselves from civil war violence? Civilians have traditionally been considered powerless when facing armed groups but new research suggests organized communities may promote security through nonviolent strategies such as resolving disputes between neighbors and managing relations with macro-armed actors. This article analyzes whether and how these ‘mechanisms’ designed to retain community autonomy functioned in the community-case of the Peasant Worker Association of the Carare River (ATCC) in Colombia. The Carare civilians developed a local institutional process to investigate threats against suspected armed group collaborators to clarify the ‘fog of war’ and reform civilian preferences to participate in the conflict. This process is evaluated in reference to existing hypotheses about violence in civil wars such as the balance of territorial control using qualitative evidence from original field research. A unique within-case database created through focus group sessions with community ‘conciliators’ is used to analyze not only acts of violence, but also threats that were defused. Despite the prevalence of conditions that would predict persistent violence against civilians, the local institution itself proved to be a critical factor for both explaining and limiting levels of violence. The results suggest civilian choices and their consequences did not merely result from the capabilities or choices of armed actors.

Historia de la educación técnica industrial en el municipio de Palmira (Valle del Cauca), 1901-1980

El objetivo del artículo es presentar los principales hallazgos acerca de la manera como emerge la educación técnica con la puesta en marcha del Ingenio Manuelita en la ciudad de Palmira (Valle del Cauca, Colombia) a comienzos del siglo XX. Para el logro de este objetivo se da a conocer la inmersión de campesinos en una lógica capitalista, a través de un sistema de capacitación creado al interior de esta empresa denominado “ambulancia”. De igual manera, se presentan las diversas formas institucionalizadas de educación técnica creadas por el Estado que definen la relación entre economía y educación. Como resultado de ese proceso, el campesino convertido en obrero genera otras formas de relación social, laboral y cultural que lo definen como una nueva clase en la localidad.Palabras clave: campesino, obrero, industria, educación, Ingenio Manuelita, Palmira.History of the technical industrial education in the municipality of Palmira (Valle del Cauca), 1901–1980AbstractThe objective of the article is to present the main discoveries about the way like the technical education emerges, with the setting in march of the Ingenio Manuelita, in the Palmira city (Valle del Cauca, Colombia) at the beginning of the 20th century. For the achievement of this objective it is given to know the immersion of peasants in a capitalist logic through a qualification system created to the interior of this company denominated as "ambulancia". In a same way shows up the diverse institutionalized forms of technical education created by the State that they define the relationship between economy and education. As a result of that process the peasant transformed into worker generates other forms of social, labor and cultural relationship that define it like a new class in the town.Keywords: peasant, worker, industry, education, Ingenio Manuelita, Palmira.