Mountz (2004) and others (Nagar et al, 2002; Hyndman, 2001) point to the importance in the scalar narratives of globalization, and particularly, in locating the processes of power in relation to the state. In this case, the processes of power are being negotiated and managed...
I've been mired, lately, in conversations around managing security. It began with a rather heated exchange about the role of prisons. I had snorted rudely at the thought of a prosecutor guiding Vipassana sits twice a month. What kind of Vipassana meditator thinks that putting...
I finally picked up Terry Eagleton's Ideology and started reading. I checked his book out something like 13 times before i bought my own. The first thing that struck me is that there is really no single definition of ideology. Lovely - 224 pages of...
I've been working on my paper pretty much non-stop for a week now and i'm beginning to realize that i'm completely overwhelmed by all of the possibilities of directions i can take: 1. there is of course the sheer irony of the fact that Haiti has...
I have a paper talk to give in just 9 days. I'm nervous. It's only the second time i've written an abstract first and a paper later. The paper, itself, is having some difficulty fleshing out theoretically - not because there isn't a wealth of...