This is my required question for Lisa’s course on Class Cultures.
Where my head is with all of the above is the convergence among curriculum in all my classes and in my head around the mediated construction of subjectivity.
My question is influenced by the lecture given by historian Dipesh Chakrabartty at Mt. Holyoke on Thursday, 10/28. He talked about … Read more...
Category: Transnationalism
rhetoric vs social justice
Stephen said something provocative last night about a realization he and Leda had come to about some tensions between their respective trainings….I’ve come to question most of what I learned in my formal social justice education training (I think it tended to paradoxically play into the reification of isms rather than their dissolution), yet I’m wary of more deeply-embedded biases … Read more...
“Soul of Capitalism”
This article in The Nation, by William Greider, looks provocative. It takes on the “values” of capitalistic endeavor (or the lack thereof) and provides examples of people/firms doing it differently. It’s grounded in labor politics in the US, so not suitable for my current project, but I wonder if one of the places I’ll “end up” is being about to … Read more...
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Class is gonna go to a lecture by him this Thursday – yeah! Field Trip! 🙂
I’m checking out his recent book, wonder if it will be useful in my lit review…
Hmmm. Probably not this time around, since it is focused on India, and I’m constrained to do this project within the EU. I *am* thinking, though, that … Read more...
DC cabbies
The cab driver who took me to the airport yesterday, Mr. Hailey, has driven a cab in DC for 46 years! What stories he could tell, eh? I asked him what had changed the most, and he said concerns for his own safety. That’s sad, eh? He used to go to all places in the city, even those with a … Read more...
trains….
I bailed on the conference this afternoon; went into DC to spend some time at the new National Museum of the American Indian. I got on the Metro going the wrong way (!) and two amazing things happened.
First, I met a “road engineer” (if I remember his title correctly), who I’d name but….don’t wanna get him in trouble (if … Read more...
virgin experience
It’s been a long time since I’ve been in an all-signing environment; my eyes are rusty! We had a characteristically Deaf start at my first ever Interpreter Trainers convention, the keynote began only 50 minutes past the scheduled time. I, in my introvert fashion, found a seat to plant myself while most folks schmoozed. Anna R. knows how to work … Read more...
“best ethnography”
Jung Yup told me Learning to Labor is the best ethnography he’s ever read, because it fully contexts the microsocial within a political economy (at least, this is what I understood from our conversation).
I’ve found a follow-up Learning to Labor in New Times that lauds the original book and updates it through a series of essays that might also … Read more...
speaking from ignorance
Danny the Destroyer (grin) taught me a lot tonight, as did everyone who participated in the critique of Smith. Thanks, Li, for telling me a gave a “good defense,” at least I have that to hold onto! 🙂 and, the brief de-brief with Srinivas and Jung Yup, about how we all have different points of entry, was helpful somewhat reassuring. … Read more...
uh…..
We escaped the sauna of our classroom last night and moved outside to the courtyard, onto the grass, where it was cool (and a bit buggy). Big class, about a dozen, several people from outside COM, which is cool – I like more, diverse perspectives. I’m also psyched that I’m in class now with folks I haven’t been before, Srinivas, … Read more...