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jeannecurran@habermas.org
Latest update: December 1, 2000

Recommended Readings for jeanne's Classes:

Transforming Dominant Discourse:
Truth and Reconciliation in Human Relationships, Micro and Macro:

• Academic Discourse Forum: On Forgiveness, Responsibility, and Critical Thinking
  by Leslie Hendricks.
  Click on the image for larger version and discussion. This is an excellent account of a class discussion in Distributive Justice. Leslie, you are a talented writer. We hope you will continue to write for Dear Habermas.

• Addition. We Were Using Dominant Discourse While We Were Discussing It
  by Caroline Ibekwe.
  Click on image for larger image and academic discourse on dominant discourse.

• Where do I even start to define "dominant discourse"?
  by Samara Kenney.
  Click on image for larger image and academic discourse on dominant discourse.

• "to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting" -- ee cummings

  This quote on llama's site reminded me of how many of us in how many arenas have been trying to transform dominate discourse for how long! Llama suggests we read the prefaces to two of ee cummings' books. Me, too. jeanne

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  Click on image for larger image and field report.
  jeanne's imaginary of Hunt's Scapegoat at the AAA

  Jeanne's narrative on the American Anthropology Association's Annual Meetings in San Francisco in November 2000.

• Throwing Out Data in the 2000 Elections
  by Samara Kenney.
  Click on the image for larger version and discussion.

• Why I Am a Marxist Lauren Langman, Chair elect, Marxist section of ASA.

• Truth commisssions - El Salvador Add map.
• The Truth Commission Report to the United Nations: MARCH 15, 1993
• Ratner's writings on truth and reconciliation globally Steven R. Ratner, Albert Sidney Burleson Professor in Law

• Student Movement Is Thriving After Seattle by Bhumika Muchhala, Boulder Daily Camera, November 25, 2000 - on sweatshop labor and WTO.
  • Muchhala's Policy Reports Institute for Policy Research in Washington, D.C.
    Muchhala was a student at the Seattle demonstration on WTO last year. Now she works at the Institute for Policy Research. Don't forget to notice career paths when they happen right under your nose. jeanne

• White Racism: the Basics Joe R. Feagin and Hernan Vera, Routledge, 1995, 230 pages, £12.99 paperback. Second Edition just out. Feagin is the source I use in teaching "institutional racism." jeanne

• Conflict Moments in Critical Methodology T. R. Young, Richard B. Hovard, Robert M. Christie, February, 1977.

Frontiers in Sociology
GIS Mapping:

• Position Papers: GIS and Society: The Social Implications of How People, Space, and Environment are Represented in GIS
• Geographic Information Systems as Social Practice
• Community Groups Need Equal Footing William J. Craig, Center for Urban & Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota
• GIS and Social Struggles in Southern Mexico, Oliver Raimund Froehling.

  "In this context, the importance of what counts as geographic information and how it is produced comes to the fore. A narrow definition of GIS in which only the analyst as the expert has the power to define the representation of issues limits local participation to circumscribed points in the production of geographic knowledge. On the other hand, if the definition is broadened to include systems of communications that convey and produce geographic information, the space is opened up for contesting representations in which marginalized movements can produce alternative versions to contest dominant representations."

Hyper-Text Media in Spring 2001:

• New River Journal
• See especially New River 5, City of Angles and Anguish by David Herrstrom.

  New River, A Hypertext Journal is experimenting with both text and image. I would like to investigate the possibility of our doing more of that next semester. For that, those of you learning to run the site will need to learn some programs. Let me know if you're interested. jeanne