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Sociology 52: 2: Becker on Social Science Writing
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Sunday, 14 February 2010. 2: Becker on Social Science Writing. All this came to mind when I revisited Becker's. Writing For Social Scientists. Ed 2007, originally 1986) while preparing a teaching session for students stressing about their undergraduate dissertations. Becker's book is much more than a 'how to' guide to writing. It is rooted in a deep psychological and sociological understanding of the writing process and the barriers to good writing. As Becker suggests:. Understand as the conventions of a...
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Sociology 52: 22: Discussing Islamophobia in Peterborough
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Sunday, 6 November 2011. 22: Discussing Islamophobia in Peterborough. I helped to organise an event held in Peterborough last week and billed as a ‘fact finding’ visit looking at the issue of Islamophobia. I am very grateful to colleagues from Peterborough Race Equality Council and from University Centre Peterborough whose hard work made the event a success. Have pointed out) the parallels between the two eras and two minority group experiences are striking and revealing. Cambridge, United Kingdom. I hav...
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Sociology 52: 13: Machado and Silva: Forensic DNA in Portugal
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010. 13: Machado and Silva: Forensic DNA in Portugal. Interestingly in 2005 the Portuguese government contemplated creating a universal forensic and identification database arguing that such an approach would provide humanitarian benefits and “avoid discrimination”. Instead Portugal has followed the lead of other countries in establishing a database of the ‘criminal population’. The rules for inclusion are in comparison with the British case very strict. Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Sociology 52: 3: Sarah Franklin gets Sheepish
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Sunday, 21 February 2010. 3: Sarah Franklin gets Sheepish. A drawback of the ‘what I am reading this week’ conceit of Sociology 52. Is the requirement to confess to books that I really should have already read but never have. Sarah Franklin’s study of the world’s most famous clone – Dolly the Sheep ( Dolly Mixtures: the Remaking of Genealogy. 2007]) - falls into that category. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Cambridge, United Kingdom. I am Reader in Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
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Sociology 52: 18: Blencowe: Rethinking Contingency and Racism
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Friday, 4 March 2011. 18: Blencowe: Rethinking Contingency and Racism. I have published previously on the changing politics of race and science ( see here. And on the unsatisfactory role that 'biology' plays in standard sociological accounts of racism ( see here. Unsurprising perhaps I enjoyed Claire Blencowe's. Paper given at HPS, Cambridge 'Biosociality to feminist-eugenics: rethinking contingency and racism in twentieth century sociological science'. Part of the assertion of authority by the bourgeois...
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Sociology 52: 20: Yuval-Davis: Belonging and the Politics of Belonging
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Thursday, 22 September 2011. 20: Yuval-Davis: Belonging and the Politics of Belonging. I turned to Nira Yuval-Davis's paper 'Belonging and the Politics of Belonging' ( Patterns of Prejudice. In search of conceptual clarity as I begin further work on the Technologies of Belonging. Project with Katharina Schramm and Amade M'Charek. If you are the sort who likes conceptual frameworks (as I am) then you'll find this a worthwhile read. 2) Identifications and emotional attachments. Yuval-Davis views identi...
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Readings & Inspiration | MoistSoMoist
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New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation. Absolutely seminal. Tjek the google books version here. Or check this interview. Sex during menstruation: Race, sexual identity, and women’s accounts of pleasure and disgust in Feminism and Psychology. Although a Woman’s Article’: Menstruant Economics and Creative Waste in Body and Society. 13:77 This article puts a Marxist perspective on the development of the menstrual economy with a particular view to visual culture. Good background.
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love your bicycle: March 2014
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Chronicling aesthetics, life and culture of bikes. Lately, as I've been riding around Maastricht, the bell on one of my bikes has been jingling along with every bump and cobblestone I ride over. while i like the gentle ringing sounds, it reminded me of how convenient it is, as a pedestrian, to hear bikes coming from behind you before deciding to cross the street. No doubt you're less likely to blindly step out without looking if you can hear a noisy rattling thing approaching at speed. My wife recently t...
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Garry Peterson | Resilience Science
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All posts by Garry Peterson. Prof of Environmental science at Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University in Sweden. Remapping Chimborazo’s vegetation 200 years after Humboldt. September 19, 2015. Was one of the founders of biogeography and ecology. He had an a crazy upbringing and strange life, but his integrative view of nature and focus on precise measurements had a strong impact on Science. In a new paper in PNAS by Naia Morueta-Holme. And others explain how they resurveyed Mt. Chimborazo.