Hilary Brad
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The anthropology of Alice Goffman is in the news.
The anthropology of Alice Goffman is in the news. Her work is “crossover” territory. As a PhD student living in the inner city near U. Penn, a pretty elite university, she wrote a thesis with a novelistic quality. She speaks in the first person about getting to know the “underclass” she writes about as real […]
Read More...Participative Justice
The anthropology of Alice Goffman is in the news. Her work is “crossover” territory. As a PhD student living in the inner city near U. Penn, a pretty elite university, she wrote a thesis with a novelistic quality. She speaks in the first person about getting to know the “underclass” she writes about as real […]
Read More...Zenarchy Occupy Love.
Zenarchy, the word, arrived in my mind while biking downtown today. I live in Portland where the biking is easy, (except when it’s raining, when the biking is soggy!). The main cycling artery passes along the Willamette river. The Blue Herons fish during the morning commute. Less beautiful, however, are the couple of anarchists’ encampments […]
Read More...The Votes Are Counted. Peaceful Transformation Happens!
I have been disheartened of late. The vectors of change around the world have been depressing…everyday another mark against the possibility of collaborative revolution for the common good. A world that works for all children of all species?! Get real. Most recently the death of fellow action researcher Dr. Martha Farrell, killed in Kabul while […]
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Tragic death of Dr Martha Farrell, Director PRIA India
Dr. Martha Farrell of PRIA (Participatory Research in Asia) was killed in a terrorist attack on May 13th while working to promote gender equality in Kabul, Afghanistan. We all mourn her death and cherish her work. Martha’s colleagues Darlene Clover and Budd L Hall write: All action researchers are very sad to acknowledge the death […]
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