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recognition redistribution
i am reading fraser again to incorporate parts of her argument in the first chapter on the relationship between class and other forms of identity in building a social movement. thus far, i have these issues with her argument:
1a. its not clear what she understands by class. is it a particular social category which got [...]
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Wilting down
After, months of writing, not writing, redrafting, brooding here’s what I have to say:
Chapter 1: Tackles Nancy Fraser’s argument about the relationship between recognition and redistribution with examples from the Indian social movement organization I am studying. It shows the difficulty of building a working class women’s movement in the face of religious, caste, and [...]
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Title of …
…whatever that chapter will be 1 or 2 in Unit 1 will be: It is always a question of politics.
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Chapter 1
I would explain the difference between Kafka’s critique’s of bureaucracy and Weber’s exposition on it. I think there is difference between the two and it lies in the way the Kafka’s is able to capture the feeling of being in a bureaucracy whereas Weber is remove the affective dimension but explain it. But the [...]
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First Chapter
I think I’ve just managed to crystallize an old train of thought into what could now be called Chapter 1 of the bloody dissertation, which will be titled, “The cycle of birth and death of the subject in Organizational Theory.” Like a Fisher King story. It’s the fucking grand narrative of this history of [...]
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