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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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More on agenda
Heading 3: Labor, work, women
Purpose: lay out issues of labor and work and how they relate to question of women’s enlightenment/gaining of consciousness/awareness; to show how AIDWA understands citizenship or the process of becoming a citizen as inextricably tied to being a worker, AIDWA is an example of this process of citizenship building (with it’s [...]
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Agenda
So, I did manage to orient myself to diss writing yesterday after 2 big bottles of Perrier, numerous cups of tea at 2 coffee shops, terribly loud live music, and a trip to Whole Foods. I cleaned up notes and data on the first data chapter on gender and class tentatively titled, Interrelatedness of [...]
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Sacred/Secular
“The problem is, rather, that we do not have any analytic categories in our aggressively secular academic discourse that do justice to the real, everyday, and multiple connections that we have to what we, in becoming modern, have come to see as nonrational. Tradition/modernity, rational/nonrational, intellect/emotion-these untenable and problematic binaries have haunted our self-representations in [...]
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I just had another one of those long and heated arguments with S. So, after reading Meera Nanda’s article and my response to it this afternoon S claimed that Indians may have become less religious than their parents. I think that it is quite possible for the class we come from. I’d been thinking [...]
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In an argument between Hegel’s notion of intersubjective recognition and misrecognition and De Certeau’s (and Deleuze) ideas of making do by toggling between codes as far as AIDWA is concerned the latter win.
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Imagination and modalities
I think they are reaching the same place though with different attitudes based on their different contexts of their existence.
Modalities [...]
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Voice Recording March.2008
Communication and organizing are essential to one another. The fact of communication is an extension towards an other which creates a community. It is in that regard that we can treat the problem of organizing as communicatively constituted. I think it isn’t simply that communication is needed for organizing but the fact [...]
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Today, I realized that the folks whose work I enjoy reading call themselves historical sociologists. And then I realized after browsing for what seemed like an endless number of hours why I didn’t feel I like belonged with them. I belong only in as far as they study the same thing that I [...]
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I am interested in the relationship between the unconscious (jargon) and the conscious (jargon). Nothing new there it’s an well aged question that bogs me too. The conscious manifestations of the unconscious can be found in religion, art, politics, systems of kinship, whatever us humans tend to do. I don’t have a newer way of [...]
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