Scenographies of the Inner World

SCENOGRAPHIES OF THE INNER WORLD is a reflection on my progress as an artist through this focused time of my doctoral studies, documenting how art and research have become intricately woven. Through drawing, sculpture, installation and moving image, my practice has evolved responding to personal experience, memory and myth, and the evocative language of philosophy and psychoanalysis. I have investigated a transitional space, mediated between internal and external perception - a hinterland between the mind and body where the unconscious leaves a trace. This residue of lived experience haunts the present and troubles the senses and through research in psychoanalytical theory, I have sought to deepen my understanding of these psychic processes. I describe how ideas are generated from collecting discarded objects, and materials whose meanings are then transformed, elaborated or obscured by the creative process and mode of presentation. The object in psychoanalysis has revealed a matrix of inter-relationships between ourselves and others. The object’s presence in the work of contemporary artists has enriched and challenged my ideas. While thinking and making can inspire, performative embodiment has connected me deeply to my past. In researching my family history and the legacies of displacement and exile, my work has explored ideas of ‘haunting’, revealing loss, trauma and abjection: evocations transmitted across generations. These themes, each evolving out from the other, evoke a journey from the surface to the depths, from thoughts to feelings. Concepts of psychic fragmentation and splitting have been a starting point to express the pathology of trauma. Often, hybrid bodies are vibrantly present, while also evoking that which dwells beyond the body. Testing the unsettling tipping points of absurdity and abjection I have trusted a process of free association and serendipity to discover the unexpected and the uncannily familiar

Interpreting the Development and Growth of Convict Criminology in South America

The Convict Criminology (CC) network has expanded beyond its American and Canadian roots to the United Kingdom and Europe. Although increasing documentation of CC’s activities and scholarship built upon CC has been produced in these countries and region, less well known are efforts beyond these locations. This article reviews attempts to build a network of scholars who are interested in the growth of Convict Criminology in South America. It may also serve as a discussion paper for a possible conference to be held in São Paulo, Brazil, Santiago de Chile, or Quito, Ecuador in the near future. The balance of the article reviews some of the dynamics for the conference

"proline production in relation to stress in Sesleria oaerulea L..”

Leaves of plants grown under optimum conditions contain a very low proportion of proline amongst their free amino acids. However, after having water withheld for a period of 24 hours or more, the proline content of the leaves becomes many times that observed as being normal. Large scale accumulation of proline also takes place in response to low temperature treatment, increased calcium ion concentrations and developmental stress. Inter-population variation with regard to stress induced proline production has been observed as well as Intro-population variation

Coloniality, just war & carceral injustice in Brazil

The Portuguese empire brought inescapable violence to the indigenous communities of Brazil and to those it enslaved. Throughout the centuries of colonial subjugation, driven by the Iberian monarchical traditions of hierarchy, militarism and moral crusade, ‘just war’ narratives were employed to legitimate the use of violent legal and extra-legal measures against enslaved peoples and others deemed unruly or rebellious and a threat to colonial order. Two centuries after independence, Brazil remains at war with its ‘internal enemies’. Its justice practices continue to be characterised by colonial rationalisations. This paper illustrates the contemporary coloniality inherent in the carceral system from the moment of detention pre-trial through sentencing and imprisonment

Aspects of the sedimentology, diagenesis and palaeomagnetism of the Capitan shelf margin (Upper Permian), Guadalupe mountains, West Texas/New Mexico, U.S.A.

PhD ThesisPetrographic, palaeomagnetic and outcrop studies of limestones and dolostones from the Capitan reef complex, Guadalupe Mountains, west Texas and New Mexico, have provided time constraints on diagenetic events, and demonstrated the crucial role of calcium sulphate in the history of these strata. This thesis is divided into six chapters: chapter I gives an introduction to the scope of the study and the geology of the study area; chapters 2,3,4 and 5 give the results and Interpretations of sedimentological, diagenetic, magnetic fabric and palaeomagnetic/magnotic mineralogy studies respectively. Chapter 6 presents a discussion of the interplay of these results and interpretations, and conclusions. Emplacement of anhydrite in the strata of the Capitan shelf margin, took place at an early stage, post-dating syn-depositional marine cementation by aragonite and high-magnesian calcite, and minor syn-sedimentary dolomitisation. Desiccation of the Delaware Basin In late-Upper Guadaluplan times exposed the Capitan shelf margin. Consequently, evaporatively-concentrated brines migrated from the shelf Into the Delaware Basin via the strata of the Capitan shelf margin. Anhydrite cement occluded all porosity and fractures in the strata of the Capitan shelf margin which remained after marine cementation, and this cementation was accompanied by fabric-selective dolomitisation. Continued movement of brines during early burial, due in part to compactional dewatering of the Castile Formation, caused the growth of replacive anhydrite and concomitant pervasive, fabric-destructive dolomitisation, particularly in the lower foreslope facies. Bacterial sulphate reduction accompanied the input of meteoric water into the Capitan shelf margin during periods of uplift and erosion, and caused the calcitisation of some anhydrite and the growth of minor diagenetic magnetite, pyrrhotite and other sulphide minerals. These magnetic minerals have been palaeomagnetically dated and indicate Jurassic and late-Cretaceous to Tertiary ages. These ages are consistent with the periods of uplift and erosion Indicated by the burial history of these strata. Rapid uplift and faulting, associated with the development of the basin-and-range province of the southwestern USA, caused the wholesale dissolution of anhydrite, and established a meteoric aquifer In the Capitan shelf margin. Significant volumes of calcite spars were precipitated into the pore space and fractures which remained after the dissolution of anhydrite. Oxidation of most sulphides to haemalite and the development of now magnetic phases Le., goethite and haematite, occurred during this stage. These magnetic minerals have been dated palaeomagnetically, and indicate times of formation of 80 Ma to present-day. These ages are consistent with the period of rapid uplift and erosion which formed the Guadalupe Mountains during late-Cretaceous times to the present day.B