238 research outputs found

    Education as site of memory: developing a research agenda

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    This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this recordThe field of memory studies tends to focus attention on the ‘3Ms’ – museums, monuments, memorials – as sites where memories are constructed, communicated, and contested. Where education is identified as a site for memory, the focus is often narrowly on what is or is not communicated within curricula or textbooks, assuming that schools simply pass on messages agreed or struggled over elsewhere. This article explores the possibilities opened when educative processes are not taken as stable and authoritative sites for transmitting historical narratives, but instead as spaces of contestation, negotiation and cultural production. With a focus on ‘difficult histories’ of recent conflict and historical injustice, we develop a research agenda for education as a site of memory and show how this can illuminate struggles over dominant historical narratives at various scales, highlighting agencies that educational actors bring to making sense of the past

    "Aye, but it were wasted on thee": Cricket, British Asians, ethnic identities, and the 'magical recovery of community'

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    People in sport tend to possess rather jaded perceptions of its colour-blindness and thus, they are reluctant to confront the fact that, quite often racism is endemic. Yorkshire cricket in particular, has faced frequent accusations from minority ethnic communities of inveterate and institutionalised racism and territorial defensiveness. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews conducted with amateur white and British Asian cricketers, this paper examines the construction of regional identities in Yorkshire at a time when traditional myths and invented traditions of Yorkshire and 'Yorkshireness' are being deconstructed. This is conceptualised through a reading of John Clarke's 'magical recovery of community'. Although cricket has been multiracial for decades, I argue that some people's position as insiders is more straightforward than others. I present evidence to suggest that, regardless of being committed to Yorkshire and their 'Yorkshireness', white Yorkshire people may never fully accept British Asians as 'one of us'. Ideologically and practically, white Yorkshire people are engaged in constructing British Asians as anathema to Yorkshire culture. The paper concludes by advocating that, for sports cultures to be truly egalitarian, the ideology of sport itself has to change. True equality will only ever be achieved within a deracialised discourse that not only accepts difference, but embraces it

    A construção do mercado para o café em Alto Paraíso de Goiås.

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    Este estudo apresenta os principais resultados da anĂĄlise de como habitantes de Alto ParaĂ­so de GoiĂĄs estĂŁo buscando alternativas para o desenvolvimento sustentĂĄvel do municĂ­pio, por meio da implantação, pela Embrapa, de projeto relativo ao resgate do cafĂ©. A mineração e as atividades agropecuĂĄrias foram exercidas na regiĂŁo atĂ© os anos 60, quando a atividade principal passou a ser o turismo, a partir da criação do Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros e da inauguração de BrasĂ­lia. Em 2000, o fluxo de turistas decaiu devido a problemas relativos Ă  saĂșde pĂșblica, acarretando estagnação da economia local. Nos Ășltimos anos, produtores familiares despertaram para a existĂȘncia, ali, de um cafĂ© que pode ser comercializado em nichos de mercado de grĂŁos especiais: orgĂąnicos e de origem definida, e buscaram, na Embrapa, o desenvolvimento de projeto de pesquisa. O estudo na regiĂŁo revelou que por meio do desvelamento de valores - histĂłria, cultura e tradiçÔes - Ă© possĂ­vel estabelecer estratĂ©gia mais eficiente de busca de mercado, a partir da experiĂȘncia revelada no trabalho concreto e na cultura dos produtores. E que o desenvolvimento rural deve ser buscado por meio do desenvolvimento de atividades da nova ruralidade e da aplicação de abordagem territorial de desenvolvimento

    Expressive free speech, the state, and the public sphere: A Bakhtinian–Deleuzian analysis of ‘public address’ at Hyde Park

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    This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 Taylor & Francis.In this paper I explore how struggles around free speech between social movements and the state are often underpinned by a deeper struggle around expressive images of what counts as either ‘decent’ or ‘indecent’ discussion. These points are developed by exploring what is arguably the most famous populist place for free speech in Britain, namely Hyde Park. In 1872 the state introduced the Parks Regulation Act in order to regulate, amongst other things, populist uses of free speech at Hyde Park. However, although the 1872 Act designated a site in Hyde Park for public meetings, it did not mention ‘free speech’. Rather, the 1872 Act legally enforced the liberty to make a ‘public address’ and this was implicitly contrasted by the state of an expressive image of ‘indecent’ speakers exercising their ‘right’ of free speech at Hyde Park. Once constructed, the humiliating image of ‘indecent’ free speech could then be used by the state to regulate actual utterances of public speakers at Hyde Park. But the paper shows how in the years immediately following 1872 a battle was fought out in Hyde Park over the expressive image of public address between the state and regulars using Hyde Park as a public sphere to exercise free speech. For its part the state had to engage in meaningful deliberative forms of discussion within its own regulatory framework and with the public sphere at Hyde Park in order to maintain the legal form, content and expression of the 1872 Act. To draw out the implications of these points I employ some of the theoretical ideas of the Bakhtin Circle and Gilles Deleuze. Each set of thinkers in their own way make valuable contributions for understanding the relationship between the state, public sphere and expressive images

    A invenção como ofício: as måquinas de preparo e benefício do café no século XIX

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    The article studies the Brazilian coffee-growing society from the point of view of the generation of inventions and machine innovations aimed at the preparation and processing of coffee beans in the period between 1860 and 1882. Under the protection of the 1830 Patents Law, the machinistas developed their inventions and submitted them to the National Industry Auxiliary Society (Sociedade Auxiliadora da IndĂșstria Nacional - SAIN) for the concession of industrial privilege and later manufacture and commercialization. It is demonstrated how the coffee machinery developed by these inventors-entrepreneurs in Brazil brought to the slave-labour coffee plantation the technological update of agricultural machines existing in the industrial countries and how that has propitiated an improvement in the quality of large-scale coffee bean processing. This fact has made possible not only the consolidation of the country as the largest exporter in the international market, but has also has allowed for changes in the productive structure of the slave-labour plantations.Aborda-se a sociedade cafeeira brasileira sob o aspecto da geração de invençÔes e inovaçÔes de mĂĄquinas destinadas ao preparo e benefĂ­cio do cafĂ© no perĂ­odo de 1860 a 1882. Sob a proteção da Lei de Patentes de 1830, os machinistas desenvolviam seus inventos, que eram examinados pela Sociedade Auxiliadora da IndĂșstria Nacional (SAIN) para concessĂŁo do privilĂ©gio industrial e posterior fabricação e comercialização. Demonstra-se como as mĂĄquinas de cafĂ© desenvolvidas por estes inventores-empresĂĄrios no Brasil trouxeram para a fazenda cafeeira escravista a atualização tecnolĂłgica de mĂĄquinas agrĂ­colas existentes nos paĂ­ses industriais e propiciaram uma melhoria de qualidade do benefĂ­cio em grandes quantidades de cafĂ©. Tal fato tornou possĂ­vel nĂŁo sĂł a consolidação do paĂ­s como maior exportador no mercado internacional, mas permitiu alteraçÔes na estrutura produtiva das fazendas escravistas
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