Mônica Mesquita

Some Sociological “Images & Actions” Thinking and Seeing – Durkheim

Two approaches have predominated in the study of asphalt children. The first concerns the reasons that drive children to the streets and the conditions in which they endure their existence, with particular reference to the strategies they use to guarantee survival. Observation and ethnographic methods are typically used in this form of research.

Mônica’s Voice

To begin with ethnography is to begin in synchronism with the actions and images of this research.You learn ethnography through practices, and perhaps a little bit of apprenticeship. There are guidelines but few rules. More or less anything goes (Buraway, 2000: 25). I, Monica, grew up in an urban area, in the city centre of Sao Paulo – a megalopolis of Brazil, exchanging energy with certain modes of life – urban modes. The people that live in the street have their own mode of life and this mode impacted my own mode of life in many powerful ways.

The Freedom of Knowledge

During all the trajectory of this script, the freedom of knowledge was the main exercise of all actions; the freedom of knowledge was exercised searching to give voice to all the actors inserted in this script through a dialogical process. “ … o dialogo e uma exigencia existencial. E, se ele e o encontro em que se solidarizam o refletir e o agir de seus sujeitos enderecados ao mundo a ser transformado e humanizado, nao pode reduzir-se a um ato de depositar ideias de um sujeito no outro.‭

Some Mathematical “Images And Actions”

After non-Euclidian geometry, and through its practical application in astronomy, after the new conceptions of space and time that resulted from the relativity revolution of Einstein and from the quantum revolution, after a humanization of science brought about by the collapse of vulgar determinism and vulgar materialism through thinkers such as Marx and Freud, it became impossible to live believing in the modernist paradigm dominated by scientism and positivism — corruptions of enlightenment.