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May our voices be heard!
We'd like our names called as we receive our diplomas from a college official, please.
We've been taught that ritual is important, and we know it is for our families!

Caliifornia State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Latest Update: April 2, 2001
jeannecurran@habermas.org

Transforming the Imaginary

Our counter statistics for March! Congratualtions to us!

We're having discourse with the authors of our texts!

• Robert Binford's Questions on Constitutive Theory
• Stuart Henry Answers Robert Binford's Questions
• Stuart Henry and Robert Binford Discuss Constitutive Theory

• Paper accepted to American Society of Criminology Transforming the imaginary and "Susan and Mac and Gale on our imaginary! A slice of the life of writing academic papers.
• Transforming the imaginary: Discovering the Link Between Teaching and Criminological Research Planning for the Panel for ACJS in Washington.

Art and Social Meaning

• California African American Museum, Celebration and Vision:The Hewitt Collection of African American Art. Ends April 15.
  600 State Drive, Exposition Park, L.A. Tue.-Sun., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

  Review of the Exhibit in Black Collegian Online.

  Don't miss the four paintings to which you can link at the bottom of the Black Collegian Online file. One of my favorites is Easter.

Fun Stuff!

• NOW As A Goldfish

• The Sokal Hoax A delightful and erudite practical joke played on those "liberals" who believe that the "Other" must be heard in the interest of justice as fairness. I hope this reminds us all that there are many reasonable perspectives to all issues so that we should avoid "knowingness." We need to laugh at our own arrogance, that we may avoid denial.

• Why Cultural Theory Sometimes Sucks Delightful examples of bad academic writing. Fits right in with Sokal's Hoax.

Shared Readings: Languages Other Than English:

• Spanish Origen del Movimiento Campesino en Ecuador La primera Ley de Reforma Agraria del país. On Native Web Site, maintained by Mark Becker.
• Spanish and German. On Bureaucracy by Javier Fdez. Retenaga on Progressive Sociologists Net. Essay and translation on transformation possibilities in the economics of software treated as a market commodity. Compare to recent discussions on North and South land tenure. (Spivak. Postcolonialism.) Teaching essay up soon.
• Spanish Construyendo la Paz.

Shared Comments on Readings:

• On Respecting Others by Agnes Simpson. Moot court class. Why is it so hard for some people?
• A Climate of Learning In Which We Can All Focus Keyana Woolen. Theory class. A shared comment leads us to understand how varied our validity claims are, and the level of affect that surrounds them.
• Art as Social Consciousness Raising: "People are afraid to connect." Teresa Mason's experience with painting.

Shared Online Readings: English

• On the Yanomami Crisis in Anthropology jeanne's notes from the American Anthropology Association Meetings session on Patrick Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado.

• The Making of the President, 2000 by Garry Wills, New York Times, April 1, 2001. Good follow-up on our discussion of the election last Fall.

• k.i.s.s. of the Panopticon Run by Dougie Bicket. Site devoted to critical theory, cultural theory, media literacy, new media literacy, visual literacy.
  • Technological Determinism, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism "A brief bibliographic essay that attempts to tie these ideas together." Written by a student, Dougie Bicket, At the University of Washington, School of Communications, who explains the ideas as he understands them in plain, understandable English.

  • Temporality and Alterity: Dimensions of Hermeneutic Distance Jay L. Garfield, Professor of Philosophy, Smith College. This is long and involved, but clearly written. For those of you interested in how we shall manage to communicate and live peacefully in such a diverse world of traditions and beliefs, this is a good reference. I'll put up discussion questions later.

  • Children in Cities: Uncertain Futures Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy. Brookings Institute.

  Teaching Essays:

  • Oppression and Revolution, Part I by jeanne and Susan Takata. Answers to the discussion questions will have to go up tomorrow. It's 10 p.m. on Sunday night, and I quit. And the file is not completely formatted. Please be patient. It's a whole book. jeanne

  • Respect, That We Do No Harm
  • A Pardigm Shift to Alterity: Transforming Discourse Story of our attempt to turn our classrooms into communities in which differences are honored and all are treated with respect.

  • The Visual Social Image and Dominant Discourse How what we see affects how we interpret events and feelings into the framework of dominant discourse. Review and teaching essay on the oppression of minority status: privileged subjectivity of dominant discourse lags behind social facts.

  • Words, Words, Words: What Do They Mean? Detecting the meaning of professional jargon that the common dictionaries do not include.

  • Developing the Imaginary: What Schools Can Do to Teach Peacemaking

  • Art as Social Consciousness Raising

  • Transforming the Imaginary: Discovering the Link Between Teaching and Criminology Research

  Research Papers in Preparation:

  • ASA Panel Presentations American Sociological Association, National Meetings, Anaheim, August 2001.
  • Western Social Science Association Panels in Reno, in April 2001.
  • American Society of Criminology, National Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 2001. Transforming the imaginary
  • Academy of Criminal Justice Studies, Washington, D.C., April 2001. Transforming the Imaginary: Discovering the Link Between Teaching and Criminology Research

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