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{ 2009 06 22 }

Academic space and culture

I recently learned of University of Chicago PhD student Eli Thorkelson’s blog, Decasia: Critique of Academic Culture and it is wonderful to read.

Eli’s PhD project comprises an anthropological analysis of university culture, and he’s also looking at the socialisation of graduate students. I remember being told as a Master’s student that it was not entirely acceptable to study “our own,” and since I always thought that was bullshit I was really excited by Eli’s commitment to study academia. Anyone interested in institutional space and culture can check out an overview of the project, or read the full proposal (pdf).

I’m especially taken by his observations on fieldwork in French philosophy departments, and this fascinating post on reading as an ethnographic tactic.

Posted by Anne Galloway on Monday, June 22, 2009, at 14:12. Filed under Embodiment & performance, Europe, Everyday life, Power & resistance, Spatiality & temporality. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. eli | 24 June, 2009 at 14:43 | Permalink

    Hi Anne,

    Thanks for the kind comments about the blog! I never know quite who its audience is, but I’m happy to see that there’s something interesting in it for a fellow sociologist. Your blog, a group blog I gather, also has a lot of neat stuff on it — wish I had time to read back in the archives, but I was interested in the post about Blanchot’s notion of the everyday. Who do you think your audience is?

    take care, Eli