Place Of Passage Research Articles

“Creative Anthropology” as a Unit for Knowing: Epistemic Object and Experimental System in Research-Creation “in” Clay

This essay takes advantage of the current context of superdiversity to define a form of hybrid heuristics between North American anthropology and research-creation “in” the arts. In an attempt to alleviate the epistemological disaster described by Gregory Bateson as the loss of the unity of the biosphere and humanity, I position myself within a nomothetic perspective of Boasian anthropology and a postqualitative approach to research-creation. My research-creation proposes clay as an epistemic object and develops a creative methodology in the form of an experimental system that borrows from the following two types of change observable in living organisms: static and schismatic changes. The artistic activities, presented as two heuristic cycles, seek to broaden the self-reflexivity inherent in the use of clay by human groups. They provoke decentring leading to a loss of control where a new identity has to be defined. This reveals itself in terms of system thinking as the reconstruction of a new reality that is defined neither entirely by my artistic practice nor entirely by my theoretical framework derived from anthropology. It is a “place of passage” between both. It is a new identity that can be defined by the “change of change” that I call “creative anthropology”. This transdisciplinary approach introduces a “second glance” into anthropological research and opens up breaches through research-creation. It works to develop new narratives and test posthumanism in the field of my artistic practice.

Between Here and Almost There: The Greek–Turkish Border as a Place of Passage

This article studies the life-stories and identity narratives of Turks of Western Thrace (Greece) focusing on the role of the Turkish–Greek border and its changing permeability. It suggests that people who have strong attachments to both sides of a national border experience spatial liminality and the border is a place of passage between not only territories, but also lived identities. For young Turks of Western Thrace, travelling to Turkey to work or study is an established strategy that is intertwined with major life events. Drawing on ride-along interviews and focusing on five participants, who travelled to Turkey during the Cyprus crisis, the article identifies the disciplinary power of bordering on identities and life-stories. By examining how different individuals dealt with this power, and how their circumstances affected the outcomes, it explores the tensions between agency and structure, state power and resistance, and categorisation and liminality during life-planning and identity construction.

Experiencing the Archive: An Autoethnographic Impression

This essay offers two things: First, an autoethnographic outline and analysis of an experience of the archive and its role in historiography. The framework for this analysis consists of various themes from archival theories, notably the archive as a place of passage and the vulnerability of the archive. Second, it points to possible gaps in its current theorisation. The author shows that the noted two themes were well present in the experience of the archive, as well as in the process of biographical writing. However, experiences of emotion and the recovery of agency do not currently fit into this framework. These phenomena are recommended for further research and theorisation. Moreover, their possible role for (church) historians is considered.

Traditional capoeira street circles in Florianópolis (Southern Brazil): impacts of the covid-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT Capoeira is a cultural manifestation of Afro-Brazilian origin, born during the slavery period in Brazil. Its practice developed historically on the street, on the margins of Brazilian society, giving new meaning to spaces almost always understood only as places of passage or transition. Capoeira has manifested itself in traditional capoeira street circles in Florianópolis (Southern Brazil) for over 30 years, representing possibilities of playful and leisure moments for practitioners, resistant to established historical inequalities. With the covid-19 pandemic and indications for social distancing, the configurations of social life needed to be reinvented. Thus, the current study aimed to investigate the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on traditional capoeira street circles in Florianópolis. This is a descriptive, exploratory field research with a qualitative approach to the data. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants, whose contents were organised in NVivo-12 software and analysed using content analysis, considering the framework of leisure studies and Southern Epistemologies. This study confirmed the impossibility of carrying out the circles in person, resulting in difficulties faced by participants, with different reverberations in their lives. The research highlights the importance of turning to the manifestations and social actors made invisible throughout history, doubly disadvantaged during the current scenario.

8-mm portal incarcerated hernia after robotic colectomy: case report

Objective: The objective of this work is to report a hernia derived from the access portal used in robotic surgery. Details of the case: A 72-year-old woman, diagnosed with splenic angle adenocarcinoma of the colon, underwent robotic left colectomy and lymphadenectomy. On the 12th postoperative day, she developed vomiting and interrupted the elimination of feces and flatus. Computed tomography revealed hernia on the left flank with an 8 mm orifice with intestinal contents. Incisional herniorrhaphy was performed to correct the defect. PSH are associated with patient risk factors. They are also related to the diameter of the trocar and its place of passage. For its prevention, it is important to assess the need to close the aponeurosis according to each case. Final considerations: The disturbances created by the passage of 12 mm and 10 mm trocars must be closed. Those created by 5 mm trocars do not need to be closed, and those of 8 mm may or may not be closed, depending on the risk factors involved.

The French Church of Maastricht

Abstract The French Reformed church of Maastricht, founded in 1632 following the Dutch takeover of the city, was a geographically isolated institution within the Dutch Republic. This isolation was reinforced by the city’s unique status, which allowed the public exercise of Catholicism. Within this context, and situated next to the hostile Principality of Liège, the French church had to develop survival strategies and establish relations not only with the States-General and the Walloon synod, but also with the urban authorities and the Dutch Reformed church, in order to withstand the influence of Catholicism. Yet even though Maastricht was on the confessional and military front line—a place of passage for merchants, refugees, and Catholic clergymen—the French Protestant community survived the French occupation of 1673–1678 and managed to absorb the massive influx of Huguenot refugees from 1686 onwards.

O Brasil não é a Europa do holocausto

A proposta deste trabalho é estudar o livro K. Relato de uma busca, de Bernardo Kucinski, levando em consideração a construção espacial do Brasil ditatorial pela narrativa. Interessa-nos observar os aspectos do livro que nos remetem ao universo labiríntico de Kafka, em O processo; a caracterização dos espaços marcados pela repressão; e o olhar crítico de estranhamento de um estrangeiro sobre a ditadura militar no Brasil. Para isso, recorreremos à definição de não-lugar desenvolvida por Augé (2009), a fim de pensar de que forma a ficção de Kucinski caracteriza alguns espaços da estrutura repressiva como locais de passagem, que não criam identidade nem relações, mas tensão solitária; locais onde o indivíduo precisa estar sempre provando sua inocência.

Melhoria no fluxo de veículos e segurança de pedestres: estudo com usuários na viabilização de semáforos próximos à rotatória

O tráfego é um conjunto de variáveis complexas como fluxo de veículos e o comportamento dos motoristas, o qual uma variável depende da outra e ambas dependem do cenário envolvido. O objetivo do estudo é analisar a implantação de semáforos próximos à uma rotatória localizada na cidade de Campina Grande-PB, a fim de aperfeiçoar o fluxo e a segurança dos motoristas e pedestres que ali circundam. Fez-se um estudo através de um questionário com motoristas e pedestres que utilizam a rotatória diariamente avaliando o uso de semáforos próximos a rotatória como solução para melhoria do fluxo no dispositivo, assim como a segurança dos pedestres que fazem travessias na sua proximidade. Os resultados do questionário intensificam a necessidade que a população tem em aumentar a segurança e eficácia da rotatória em horários de pico, local de passagem de estudantes, trabalhadores, professores da UFCG, professores da UEPB, moradores de cidades circunvizinhas que viajam diariamente para trabalhar em Campina Grande, entre outros. Portanto, é aconselhada a implantação de um semáforo parcial que opere normalmente em determinados períodos do dia e permaneça com todos os grupos focais piscando em forma de alerta nos demais horários, regularizando as passagens dos veículos de forma mais segura. O semáforo seria ativado logo cedo pela manhã, em horário de almoço e no fim da tarde, que são horários de pico, de movimentação da população para suas casas e locais de alimentação.

MONUMENTS OF NATURE AND HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL OBJECTS OF THE DNISTROVSKYI RLP: THE STATE OF PROTECTION AND THE PROSPECTS OF TOURIST USE

The existing nature conservation objects that are part of the Dnistrovskyi Regional Landscape Park are characterized and mapped. There are more than sixty different types of WFD objects in and around the park. All objects are tabulated. Also, geological, geomorphological, hydrological objects have been identified that have scientific, recreational and educational value, which gives grounds for granting them conservation status. This is a large number of rocks of different ages (Silurian, Devonian, Jurassic, Cretaceous), which makes it possible to study the history and condition sof the territory. The location is mapped. Also on the map as places of interest are the places of manifestation of modern geomorphological processes. Fluvial, karst, gravity, erosion and other processes are most evidentin the park. The dynamics of karst processes haveled to the formation of numerous caves and cave formations, which are valuable from the scientific and recreational plan. A mong the hydrological and hydro-geological features are waterfalls, marshe sand ground water exits to the surface in the form of springs. Historical and cultural sites occurring with in and around the park are characterized and mapped. The seare objects of Paleolithic heritage (the oldestin Bukivna, Horodnytsia), Kievan Rus' period, ruins of ancient castles (Rakovetsky and Chekrnelitsky) and fotresses, lordlye states, ancient churches, of which there are more than thirty, existing and in active in the region. The most ancient are the village of Michalce), monuments of liberation competitions (hiding places) and places of great historical battles. It maps and describes the existing route sand objects of the tourist infrastructure of the Dnistrovskyi RLP. The park and surrounding areas haves ignificant natural and recreational potential. The presence of a large number of diverse natural sites make sit possible to create attractions for tourism development in the region. The presence of historical and cultural heritage en hances the use of the territory. New routes and proposals for improvement of the tourist infrastructure of the territory were developed: creation of an eco-educational visit center, placement of agroosel complexes, arrangement of places for stops during the Dniester alloys, creation of a network of tourist points at the places of passage of route sand places of rest of residents, development and in stallation of new information standsne are xisting tourist natural and historical sites in the study area. Key words: Dnistrovskyi RLR, Nature Reserve objects, historical and cultural sites, nature monuments, recreational resources, tourism.

Deslocamento e pertencimento

Esse trabalho trata da representação fílmica de pertencimento do sujeito no espaço nas imagens construídas pelo cinema pernambucano contemporâneo com o objetivo de discutir sobre a noção de lugar de passagem e as implicações subjetivas relacionadas à identidade do sujeito em sua relação com determinado espaço urbano. O lugar de passagem aqui é o construído no filme/documentário pernambucano Rio Doce/CDU (2013), roteirizado e dirigido por Adelina Pontual. Parte-se da análise das imagens em movimento do e no espaço urbano de duas cidades pernambucanas: Olinda e Recife, consideradas no âmbito de uma representação através da qual os espaços filmado e projetado (no sentido cinemático e geográfico) está envolto em uma moldura cultural de percepção do espaço vivido e imaginado que possibilita novos entendimentos sobre identidade e pertencimento ao lugar. Consideramos o entrecruzamento das imagens urbanas no filme, por meio da análise crítica do discurso a partir de uma “espacialidade do lugar”, que evidentemente é construída culturalmente, e estabelecemos parâmetros de entendimento da relação posta entre as imagens em movimento do espaço urbano, a experiência humana de deslocamento no espaço, e a imaginação geográfica constituída a partir da representação da experiência espacial e da identidade do lugar.

The Construction of Workers’ Identity in Liminal Spaces

In the last decade, advances in technology have transformed the way in which we work, making it more and more fluid. One manifestation of this phenomenon is the fact that the border between work and non-work is disappearing. Many people, indeed, often work even on weekends. Moreover, a large number of workers continue working outside their home or their office environments. For example, it is more and more frequent to see managers or employees engaged in work calls in airports, public transport, cafés, hotels or other ‘liminal spaces’. These spaces have become a part of workers’ daily routines and contribute to building their identities in a changing world. In this article, I consider the concepts of liminality and of identity, as discussed in the literature. Then, I examine the construction of workers’ identity in these ‘places of passage’. I focus, especially, on what happens both in public transport and in other ‘places of passage’, such as cafés, airports and railway stations.

Praça Viva

As ações em prol das cidades devem partir da valorização e da conscientização da sua importância por parte da população, sendo que a falta de maior participação popular contribui para a existência de ambientes urbanos que não se mostram devidamente apropriados e explorados na ampla possibilidade de suas potencialidades arquitetônicas, urbanísticas e paisagísticas. O projeto Praça Viva consiste em um evento de ocupação temporária, de vivência coletiva e de revitalização das relações junto a Praça Santo Antônio, em Cachoeira do Sul/RS, para que deixe de ser apenas lugar de passagem e passe a integrar o dia-a-dia da comunidade. Realizar um evento com ações e intervenções urbanas em uma praça pública com a participação da comunidade vêm ao encontro da questão do direito à cidade, contribuindo para o compromisso com a realidade sociocultural brasileira, ao ampliar a participação dos cidadãos na transformação da realidade e do espaço em que vivemos.

A universidade enquanto (não)lugar: reflexões sobre fatores de engajamento e lugarização de estudantes

As instituições de Ensino Superior, num cenário de competitividade cada vez mais acirrado, compartilham, atualmente, de um mesmo desafio: além de atrair novos estudantes, como mantê-los? Como engajá-los no cotidiano a fim de que considerem a Universidade um lugar de permanência e não somente um (não)lugar (AUGÉ, 2010, 2012) de passagem? Escolhemos a perspectiva antropológica sobre lugares e não-lugares proposta por Augé para tecer reflexões acerca do engajamento estudantil, enquanto dimensão central na gestão identitários, históricos e relacionais. Ambientes dotados de valor, de sentimentos, de experiência, de sentidos, de vínculos. Já os não-lugares, ao contrário, são espaços, normalmente, de circulação, onde não se inscrevem relações sociais duradouras e as relações são baseadas em contratos, com discursos prescritivos, imperativos, que não chegam a gerar vínculos (AUGÉ, 2010, 2012). Acreditamos que as estratégias de engajamento das IES configuram-se em dimensões fundamentais para tornarem o ambiente acadêmico lugares antropológicos, relacionais, repletos de sentidos para seus estudantes, desenvolvendo não somente suas habilidades cognitivas, mas gerando experiências e aprendizagens significativas e relevantes. Tal envolvimento, por sua vez, além de influenciar positivamente no desempenho acadêmico do estudante (GUERREIRO-CASANOVA; POLYDORO, 2010; ASTIN, 1977, 1993), também contribui para a permanência do aluno e a consolidação de sua trajetória universitária (TINTO, 2000), impactando na sustentabilidade institucional. De acordo com Augé (2012, p. 87) “assim como os lugares antropológicos criam um social orgânico, os não lugares criam tensão solitária”. Nessa perspectiva, o lugar se constrói em meio a sensibilidades e fragmentos identitários do sujeito e/ou da dimensão que ali se lugariza. Uma dimensão lugarizada, significa dizer que entre ela e o lugar há um vínculo constituído, uma ligação que a torna parte, uma sensação plena de pertencimento. A proposta do artigo é aprofundar as reflexões sobre o engajamento estudantil em uma Universidade confessional do Rio Grande do Sul, como fator de lugarização. Metodologicamente, trata-se de um estudo bibliográfico a partir dos autores de referência, já mencionados, complementado com análise documental.

Multiculturalidade, interculturalidade, direitos humanos e violência de género: breves notas para pensar o caso da mutilação genital feminina em Portugal e a sua abordagem

Resumo A situação de multiculturalidade é hoje uma realidade crescentemente vivida nas sociedades de acolhimento de imigrantes, onde emergem cidades que se constituem como lugares de passagem, de encontro ou mestiçagem cultural, mas também de contraste ou antagonismo social. A interculturalidade aparece como utensílio de favorecimento de vinculação à ideia de outro, promovendo, por um lado, a integração e a defesa do direito à diferença, e, por outro, evitando – ou mesmo denunciando – as estruturas de hegemonização sobre minorias. Mas esta diversidade cultural só pode ser protegida, promovida e aceite desde que não coloque em causa os direitos humanos nem provoque exclusões ou desigualdades. É neste campo, difícil e persistentemente aberto ao debate (e não raro promotor de polarizações), que nos propomos a apresentar um conjunto breve de apontamentos que contribua para pensar a mutilação genital feminina na sua indissolúvel condição de violência sobre a mulher, partindo do exemplo da realidade portuguesa actual.

Leggere le Alpi / Reading the Alps

Living a place means first of all reading it, understanding it, assimilating it. This is even more evident in the case of a particular natural environment where the possibilities of land use are limited. Looking at a map of the Alps, it becomes clear how the morphology has conditioned the methods of settlement and exploitation of the places. In an attempt to read and interpret the transformation of the Alpine territories, the Architetti Arco Alpino association has initiated a review of projects, from which it emerges that today there exist very different cultural, political, social and economic contexts. The result are two almost opposite phenomena. In some places the mountains have been abandoned, which has led to the risk of losing their important architectural heritage. The interventions are therefore aimed at enhancing the existing structures and constructing new buildings capable of becoming a reference for the redevelopment of entire villages. In other places, a harmonic balance between human presence and territory has been largely exceeded. Here, the objective is to put a stop to further land development, aiming to enhance the quality of the existing buildings and implementing an aesthetic and formal research that is capable of becoming an economic value and an element of cultural identification. Taking into account the various “cultural horizons” and reference regions, it becomes clear that South Tyrol has historically maintained close ties with North Tyrol and the neighbouring Swiss cantons. Contemporary architecture is commonly seen as an asset today, not only among experts, but also among the general population. On the other hand, the relations with Austria’s and Slovenia’s Eastern Alpine territories have less effect. The research seems to be the work of a limited number of professionals. In the Western Alps, cross-border relations with France and Switzerland have a stronger cultural and linguistic root, but perhaps the presence of large massifs difficult to cross has prevented a closer relationship and a dissemination of common construction methods. Crossing national and international administrative boundaries, the Alps can continue to be a place of passage, of confrontation and of cultural, linguistic, economic and also architectural exchange.

Infância e limiar em Walter Benjamin

Este estudo de natureza teórica busca evidenciar aspectos da infância presentes na obra de Benjamin, a partir da ideia de limiar. Encontramo-nos com ela em lugares do pensamento onde o filósofo se detém sobre a importância das zonas limiares e dos locais de passagens para uma experiência com o moderno. Tais lugares do pensamento sinalizam e indicam marcas que contribuem para conferir à infância sua modernidade, bem como abrem caminho para pensar os sentidos da infância no tempo presente. Nossa hipótese é de que a ideia de infância é atravessada por núcleos conceituais e imagéticos importantes na obra do autor, como força mobilizadora, tanto desses conceitos como da ideia de infância. Foram encontrados sinais de um pensamento que brinca com as noções constituintes da imagem da infância da qual fala o autor. É justamente esse "brincar filosófico" o que aproxima a noção benjaminiana de infância de ideias densas e conceitos importantes, no contexto de suas reflexões, como a noção de limiar.

Ecological-geochemical assessment of the Sorochinskie Mountains soils (Samara Region)

In this paper we first explain the trivial geographic name Sorochinskie Mountains, introduced into scientific circulation with the aim of more accurately linking natural (botanical, zoological, soil, geological-geomorphological) objects and etalon areas to a specific locality. Then we describe the types of anthropogenic impact that manifested themselves in different historical periods and allow evaluating modern ecological-geochemical state of the Sorochinskie Mountains soil cover. In the main part of the paper we report about ecology-geochemical research of soils conducted in 2015 in the Sorochinskie Mountains, during which the etalon areas within the main plant communities (birch forest, maple forest, aspen forest, stony steppe, maple oak forest) were laid. Samples of soils were taken from each etalon area to determine the amount of humus, the reaction of the soil solution (pH), and the content of heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd) by the atomic absorption method. As a result of the conducted studies it was established that the soils of the etalon areas of the Sorochinskie Mountains are characterized by a weakly acid or close to neutral reaction and a higher content of humus than the data available in literature. The ecological-geochemical feature of soils is their considerable enrichment of Zn, the level of which in all etalon areas significantly exceeds the local and regional background, in etalon areas of birch forest, maple forest and aspen forest approximately permissible concentrations (APC). To a lesser extent the soils of the Sorochinskie Mountains accumulate Cu and Pb, the content of which exceeds the regional background, but basically does not reach the level of the APC. The concentration of Cd in soils is also below the dangerous level, but in birch forest and aspen forest it considerably exceeds the local and regional background. In general, the most contaminated with heavy metals are the soils of birch forest, maple forest and aspen forest. The soils of the maple oak forest and stony steppe, lying at a distance from the places of passage of unpaved highways, have a lower level of accumulation of heavy metals. Sources of heavy metals in the soils of the Sorochinskie Mountains are soil formation rocks and man-made streams formed by industrial objects and urban vehicles.

A Conversation About Spectral Data

Spectral data emerge from a relationship formed between a living researcher and a deceased person in a qualitative study. That relationship generates a variety of data (e.g., St. Pierre’s [1997] emotional and dream data, embodied moments, and writing) and creates a territorial assemblage, or place of passage into other assemblages, or other spaces of thought and being. To illustrate and explain spectral data, I use a photo-text—a continuous narrative of alternating pages of texts and photographs developed by Morris (1946, 1948, 1968). The text is a conversation about spectral data that I had with my deceased grandmother while I wrote this article. The photographs are those of my grandmother’s objects (e.g., photographs, documents, and artifacts) and are from my personal collection. This photo-text highlights my haunted scholarship of speaking, writing, and acting with my grandmother. Moreover, the article seeks to open a passageway to think about how the living and dead generate data in qualitative inquiry.

Writing Africa into the World and Writing the World from Africa:

Writing Africa into the World and Writing the World from Africa:

Transnational Yemen

The region known as “Yemen” has been for centuries a place of movement and exchange. Its strategic position on many trade routes has made it a place of passage; a region of contact and conquest, of immigration and emigration, and has enjoyed numerous ties to the Arabian Peninsula, around the Red Sea and, beyond the Indian Ocean, all the way to Indonesia. If mobility and exchanges with the outside world have been a feature of Yemeni society throughout the centuries, the question of transnation...