hworthen@igc.org writes:
>How would AT deal with racism, sexism, homophobia, the conditions of
>sweatshop
>workers, linguistic segregation? Well, at the very least it enables the
>researcher to move around inside the system and see these as nodes of
>contradiction in a set of nested contexts...they become visible. If your
>focus is entirely on how productivity increases, you can't tell whether
>these
>social relationships are taking place -- these social processes, actually,
>because these are all actions.
i appreciate your read of AT; very much... the locations or dislocations
of difference in AT tend to be written over, i find; however you seem to
have broken that code of silence, hurrah!!
reading the labour process as a social activity, rather than
production process, might open up some of the typically ignored layers of
estrangement that take place in sites of labour and union bureaucracies...
> But when we shift from
>thinking about teaching to thinking about research, the need for some
>other
>kind of theoretical framework becomes apparent because labor educators
>have to
>present at the same conferences and publish in the same journals as the
>industrial relations people. If the theoretical framework isn't explicit,
>there can't be conversation about it.
>Is this what you mean by "
complicating
> the way relations are hierarchically
>structured...?"
yes, indeed, the ever-nagging question of "who benefits" from this
research,
perhaps can be nudged if the folks who research and the folks who
are doing the work being researched are able to "speak" in similar
languages, ...then that's good eh? (she sez canuckly) aye.
cheers
diane
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:point where everything listens.
and i slow down, learning how to
enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.
(Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
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university of colorado, denver, school of education
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