Category Archives: ethnographies
different way of being (I’ve said most of this before in print and online)
From my post to Radha ki Betiyaan pvt blog:
Okay – even though everyone [on RkB] almost is on facebook and some are on twitter – and several of you may have individual blogs. And we have once again started mass emailing each other.
This is still a different way of being, communication in this “space” we [...]
Examining Spindle technology – success at last
I found really good instructions on how to use the top spindle from youtube and finally got the hang of it. Of course I dont look very expert – but the job gets done.
Am currently using twisted.etsy.com ’s rodney colorway roving that I got way back in spring of 2008 and am practicing handspun yarn. [...]
nostalgia for the rural?
who’d a thunk it – my writing with neices leads me back to mapping roots and routes …
“my nostalgia for the rural is so unexplained by my actual life experiences…or on second thoughts maybe not unexplainable at all… while some may locate my yearning/nostalgia in roots in kakaraparru – it may be that the [...]
hmm
interesting how even this most recent article took me back to theorizing pvt and public through postcolonial feminist lenses – and I really wasnt looking to directly go there…
and of course the ubiquitous tension/dialectic of accountability to and oppression within community v individualization and illusions of liberation….
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rad meets MGandhi
Note: This is not meant to be a perfect “seamless” experience of being in secondlife – but rather it is meant to show the breaks and ruptures…This is one version – I will have more with more ruptures inserted…layered…
shifting the lens…
When you ACTUALLY truly shift the lens of benefit to look at issues of sustainable livelihoods, accessible democratic practices and sharing of resources with future generations…… THEN what would we think of a progress? I keep thinking of the senior citizen who asked about why we were not improving our (US) railways – and why we always [...]
Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Digital Embodiment, Performativity and Globalization
PLEASE SUBMIT ABSTRACTS ASAP (deadline is still tentative – so if you are working on something relevant email me anyway with a query). Title: Everyday 3D Lives: Digital Embodiment, Performativity and GlobalizationEditor : Radhika Gajjala[ http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik ](Lexington Press is interested and I am discussing this collection with them) In the recent past, there has been much [...]
Everyday 3D Lives: Digital Embodiment, Performativity and Globalization
DEADLINE EXTENDED:
PLEASE SUBMIT ABSTRACTS BY DECEMBER 1, 2007.
Title: Everyday 3D Lives: Digital Embodiment, Performativity and Globalization
Editor : Radhika Gajjala
[ http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik ]
In the recent past, there has been much talk of “web 2.0 “ and “web 3D” as new media. Educators and researchers all over the world are debating the pros and cons of such environments. [...]
Ganesh Chathurthi Greetings to all
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