Botchan

This English translation of 坊っちゃん (1906) was published in Tokyo by Ogawa Seibundo in 1918. It is a first-person narrative of a young man’s two-month tenure as assistant mathematics teacher at a provincial middle school in 1890s Japan. A native son of Tokyo, with all its traits and prejudices, he finds life in a narrow country town unappealing — with its dull and mischievous students, scheming faculty, bland diets, stifling rules, and gossipy inhabitants. Impulsive, combative, committed to strict ideals of honesty, honor, and justice, he is quickly enmeshed in the strategems of the head teacher, “Red Shirt.” His sufferings and confusion continue to mount until finally he and fellow-teacher “Porcupine” are able to deliver a “heavenly chastisement” and escape the island, back to his one emotional attachment, Kiyo, the old family retainer. Natsume Kinnosuke (1867-1916) signed his work Sōseke — “stubborn.” Like the narrator of Botchan, he was a city-born Tokyo-ite, who found himself teaching middle school in remote Matsuyama in Shikoku in 1895. He emerged to study English literature in London, become Professor at Tokyo Imperial University, and a successful novelist, beginning with the popular I Am a Cat in 1905.

Passeios a pé em Belo Horizonte: Um ciclo formativo aos guias de turismo

A city that arose already modern, welcoming, and rich in experiences, affectionately called "Belô" or "Beagá" by some of its most intimate citizens. Every tourist easily feels welcomed in Belo Horizonte, a city that was planned to be the capital of Minas Gerais – with tree-lined streets and alleys that breathe art, stories, and charm. Despite being a Metropolis and home to approximately 2,600,000 (two million six hundred thousand) inhabitants, it still keeps secrets as a country town valuing its origins, which means not refusing a delicious coffee with "pão de queijo" (Brazilian cheese bread), and some chitchat in its squares and gardens. The best way to get to know and experience a city as a whole is to walk through it and experience its daily life, thus, connecting with the city and people. Walking around the city makes you notice details that you may have never noticed before. In this work, we present “UAI a PÉ” tours through Belo Horizonte, so that you can be familiar with and experience each one of them. Itineraries that will make you even more enchanted by our beautiful capital. Walk freely through the “Belo Horizonte Cultural: Circuito Liberdade” amid gardens and many stories and tales. Walk around the streets of the downtown, enjoying our “Belo Horizonte Urbana: Visual Arts,” which is an opportunity to experience our Urban Art that is a worldwide reference. Have a conversation at “Praça da Estação Circuito Cultural”, the gateway to our city since its foundation – many stories are kept in museums and mansions there. “Cultura e Política Mineira”, which is an itinerary from Praça da Assembeia (Assembly Square) to Praça da Estação (Station Square), to understand our history and culture. Fresh breeze and sunset in the beautiful “Pampulha: Patrimônio da Humanidade” (cultural heritage of humanity) where modernism is present in every detail of this picturesque place.

Só me resta ser puta? Enfrentamentos da heteronormatividade em um programa de aprendizagem para o trabalho

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.

NOISY FIELD EXPOSURES, or what comes before attunement

Before attunement comes exposure, the necessary fact of being a body. This photo essay is a play on two meanings of the word exposure: corporeal exposure and photographic exposure. I offer the latter in order to stay with moments of the former, exposing multiple scenes of misattunement from fieldwork in a small country town in regional Australia. Picking up the classic distinction in information theory between signal and noise, this piece pauses at the moment of indeterminacy before an event might be affirmed as valuable signal or discarded as unwanted static, weaving stories and images from the field with excerpts from Michel Serres’ The Parasite, Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida and Paul Harrison’s essay on Corporeal Remains. Ultimately, this essay’s suggestion is that ‘attunement’ is not primarily about attunement. Instead, as a methodological principle, I offer that attunement initially – and sufficiently – gestures towards an attempt, a vulnerability and a commitment to the event of exposure.

BCLM: Forging Ahead: building a new urban history of the Black Country

The recreation of urban historical space in museums is inevitably a complex, large-scale endeavour bridging the worlds of academic and public history. BCLM: Forging Ahead at the Black Country Living Museum is a £23m project recreating a typical Black Country town post-World War II. This article uses case-studies of three buildings – a Civic Restaurant, a record shop and a pub – to argue that urban-historical research methodology and community engagement can both create a vivid sense of the past, and challenge pervasive prejudices. It also argues that such a collaborative and public project reveals much about the urban and regional nature of industrial areas like the Black Country in this pivotal historical moment.