research sources: April 2005 Archives

Find this! Stuart Hall on Ethnicity and the Discursive Turn.

Here's another one: Taking the discursive turn: Critical studies in language, discrimination and schooling.

This social movement study,
COLLECTIVE IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN BLACK ABOLITIONIST DISCOURSE, adopts an approach in which movement discourse is viewed as a networked field of concepts from which arguments are fashioned. This approach requires an examination of the socio-cognitive structure of a discourse, an analysis of its rhetoric, as well as its ideological foundations."

The freedom of services directive (the famous Bolkenstein text) and the forthcoming referendum on the constitutional treaty in France. Neither is likely to make it to the floor of the House this month but should be a topic of debate in group meetings, press briefings and at the bars.
Check out the EP website to download the preliminary agenda.

MOST is the electronic journal put out by UNESCO that Jackie wants me to check out. It does look good. :-)

James passed on this piece by Neera Chandhoke while ago, thinking it might assist me with Marta's paper. I'm not so sure about that, but I think it will help w/ my project in Europe this summer. :-)

I should also keep my eyes on the website where this was originally posted: openDemocracy.net.

Nice section on the European identity crisis, historically premised upon negative forms of identification (vs Others) and unity (geographically and symbolically bounded).

Difficult Dialogues, a grant from the Ford Foundation.

I want to attend this so badly! Discourse Nexus 3.0

What is a Schengen visa?

Online application.

Uh oh. According to the travel documents site, yes. Belgium, France, and Germany are all Schengen states, and all told I will be there for more than three months. Do not panic. There is still time.

The U.S. Embassy in Berlin.

The German Embassy.