Voltaire marginalista: una classificazione tipologica delle sue tracce di lettura

L’articolo presenta una rassegna dei diversi tipi di postille e tracce di lettura che si trovano nei libri della biblioteca personale di Voltaire, conservata presso la Biblioteca Nazionale di Russia (San Pietroburgo). Un’attenzione particolare è riservata alle postille mute, meno studiate sinora rispetto alle postille verbali, e che pongono maggiori problemi interpretativi. Dopo aver proposto una distinzione tra macro- e micromarginalia, prendiamo in considerazione le postille di reperimento, le postille critiche, le postille autobiografiche e, infine, le postille di riscrittura.   Voltaire as annotator: a typological classification of his traces of reading This article presents a summary of the different marginalia and other reading marks that can be found in the books of Voltaire’s personal library, housed in the National Library of Russia (St Petersburg). Particular attention is given to non-verbal marks, which have not been studied as extensively to date as the verbal marginalia, and which can present greater interpretative challenges. Having established two broad categories of macro- and micromarginalia, we consider notes used as finding aids, critical notes, autobiographical notes and, finally, notes that rewrite the printed text

Seeing the way: visual sociology and the distance runner's perspective

Employing visual and autoethnographic data from a two‐year research project on distance runners, this article seeks to examine the activity of seeing in relation to the activity of distance running. One of its methodological aims is to develop the linkage between visual and autoethnographic data in combining an observation‐based narrative and sociological analysis with photographs. This combination aims to convey to the reader not only some of the specific subcultural knowledge and particular ways of seeing, but also something of the runner's embodied feelings and experience of momentum en route. Via the combination of narrative and photographs we seek a more effective way of communicating just how distance runners see and experience their training terrain. The importance of subjecting mundane everyday practices to detailed sociological analysis has been highlighted by many sociologists, including those of an ethnomethodological perspective. Indeed, without the competence of social actors in accomplishing these mundane, routine understandings and practices, it is argued, there would in fact be no social order

Film as architectural theory

Publications on architectural theory have predominantly taken on the form of text-based books, monographs, and articles. With the rise of transdisciplinary and practice-based research in architecture, new opportunities are opening up for other forms of architectural theory, such as film-based mediums, which promise to expand and alter the convention of the written practice of theory. Two possible types of filmic theory are presented here. One follows the method of ethnographic documentary filmmaking inspired by Sarah Pinkfilm-based mediums, which promise to expand and alter thellows the line of art house filmmaking inspired by Kathryn Rameyyn Rameyg inspired by Sarah Pinkfilm-based mediums, which promise to expand ae to expand ad mediums, which promise to expand a convention of the written practice of theory. or constructing knowledge, new discourses on filmic theory can be opened up. It is argued here that film as architectural theory is part of this new discourse, broadening the audience’u engagement with architecture through not only “readership” but also “viewership.

Student-centered Pedagogy and Real-world Research: Using Documents as Sources of Data in Teaching Social Science Skills and Methods

This teaching note describes the design and implementation of an activity in a 90-minute teaching session that was developed to introduce a diverse cohort of first year criminology and sociology students to the use of documents as sources of data. This approach was contextualised in real world research through scaffolded, student-centered tasks focused on archival material and a contemporary estate agents’ brochure so as to investigate changes in the suburbs that surround a university in North London, United Kingdom. In order to contribute to the growing discussion on pedagogic dialogical spaces in teaching research methods, we provide empirical evidence of students’ greater engagement via group work and the opportunity to draw on experiential knowledge in analysing sources. Beyond stimulating students’ engagement with research skills and methods, the data also shows the value of our approach in helping students to develop their analytical skills, particularly through a process of comparison and contrast

From snapshots of practice to a movie:Researching long-term social work and child protection by getting as close as possible to practice and organisational life

Research into social work and child protection has begun to observe practice to find out what social workers actually do, however no such ethnographic research has been done into long-term practice. This paper outlines and analyses the methods used in a study of long-term social work and child protection practice. Researchers spent 15 months embedded in two social work departments observing organisational practices, culture, and staff supervision. We also regularly observed social worker’s encounters with children and families in a sample of 30 cases for up to a year, doing up to 21 observations of practice in the same cases. Family members were also interviewed up to three times during that time. The paper argues that a methodology that gets as close as possible to practitioners and managers as they are doing the work and that takes a longitudinal approach can provide deep insights into what social work practice is, how helpful relationships with service users are established and sustained over time, or not, and the influence of organizations. The challenges and ethical dilemmas involved in doing long term research that gets so close to social work teams, casework and service users for at least a year are considered

Sketching women in court: The visual construction of co-accused women in court drawings

This paper explores the visual construction and representation of co-accused women offenders in court drawings. It utilises three case studies of female co-defendants who appeared in the England and Wales court system between 2003 and 2013. In doing so this paper falls into three parts. The first part considers the emergence of the sub-discipline, visual criminology and examines what is known about the visual representation of female offenders. The second part presents the findings of an empirical investigation, which involved engaging in a critical, reflexive visual analysis of a selection of court drawings of three female co-offenders. The third part discusses the ways in which the court artists' interpretation, the conventions of court sketching, and motifs of female offenders as secondary actors, drew on existing myths and prejudices by representing the women as listening, remorseless ‘others’

Note de la traductrice

Le directeur de la collection remercie Joëlle Robert pour sa dernière relecture. La traduction de cet ouvrage (paru à l’origine en anglais sous le titre de Flaubert and an English Governess : the Quest for Juliet Herbert, chez Clarendon Press à Oxford en 1980) semble s’imposer, au vu de trois considérations. D’abord, le livre traite principalement d’un sujet français, sujet dans lequel l’écriture et la langue jouent un rôle essentiel. Les flaubertiens français pourront, grâce à la traduction,..