At 08:26 AM 09/10/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Foolishly, I responded to a colleague who asked me to give a talk in his
>development lecture series, "But I don't believe in development!". The
>riposte is now the title of my soon-to-be delivered talk. I am going to try
>to write something about "development" as a trope that *does* a production
>and policing of "the normal" (a la Doing things with Words/Austin blah
>blah). Now I know someone has probably already written this paper, and one
>of you folks might know who, or even have been the author of this paper.
>Any hints or feedback on what I might read VASTLY appreciated. (I tried
>mewling that I didn't have "any data", and wasn't that a sine qua non for
>talking about development? That didn't work either. We live in strange
>times.)
>
>Mary
>
>Dr. Mary Bryson, Associate Professor,
>Faculty of Education, UBC
>Principal Co-Investigator: GenTech Project
>
>http://www.educ.sfu.ca/gentech/
>
Artin Goncu, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Coordinator, Early Childhood Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
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