Post by selfe2 on Oct 20, 2012 8:50:43 GMT -5
What I find valuable:
I love Ralph's attempt to recapture the energy in the rhetorical topoi of concepts like justice and to describe the "implacability of the Commons."
This is the kind of deep and slow research that is so valuable--not only to the profession, but outside the academy, and it takes a blessed long time to mature in all its texture and layered complexity. I love the way Ralph keeps breaking off little pieces of the work and examining small parts of the larger ecology when he presents. Each time I listen to him, I get a different sense of the challenges.
A response and some challenges
A challenge I see is the vast distance between theory and language/discourses on the ground. You're studying discourses in very pragmatic/on the ground contexts, but writing about them in places/contexts that seem so far removed--especially in terms of abstraction and language--from the people and places and phenomena about which you you are talking. How do you bring these together, how do you put them in conversation?
I love Ralph's attempt to recapture the energy in the rhetorical topoi of concepts like justice and to describe the "implacability of the Commons."
This is the kind of deep and slow research that is so valuable--not only to the profession, but outside the academy, and it takes a blessed long time to mature in all its texture and layered complexity. I love the way Ralph keeps breaking off little pieces of the work and examining small parts of the larger ecology when he presents. Each time I listen to him, I get a different sense of the challenges.
A response and some challenges
A challenge I see is the vast distance between theory and language/discourses on the ground. You're studying discourses in very pragmatic/on the ground contexts, but writing about them in places/contexts that seem so far removed--especially in terms of abstraction and language--from the people and places and phenomena about which you you are talking. How do you bring these together, how do you put them in conversation?