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I had a wonderful conversation with @TheDapperChef at #ISA2019 on publishing methods articles, and I have additional thoughts. While I've published stuff on water and toxics governance, on transnational environmental organizations, last year was my first publishing on methods.
My good friend and coauthor @KateParizeau and I had been thinking (separately) about the importance of discussing ethnography of vulnerable communities. All these shared conversations started in 2015. We decided that we could use our work on informal waste pickers to inform this.
.@KateParizeau had done work studying practices of informal waste picking in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I've done the same in Leon, Mexico. We recognised informal waste pickers as highly marginalized populations that deserved robustly ethical treatment by scholars.
Where we show that war-winning coalitions can collapse in war b/c shifting intra-coalition power, but *not* when a shared powerful enemy encourages declining states to tolerate their partners’ rise. (2/2+1)
Which is all to say that common enemies, by requiring collective deterrence, can stave off preventive war that would otherwise occur in a purely dyadic interaction. (3/3)
Blayne Haggart's research shows that the positions of @EFF reinforce the global hegemony of US tech companies.
#IPE #knowledgegovernance #ISA2019
#IPE #knowledgegovernance #ISA2019
1- Some advice for attending big discipline-wide academic conferences. I’m writing this for those who are attending #ISA2019 for the first time, but these are tips that apply to all subjects.
I’ve been going to these things for 15 years now and I’ve learned a few things.
I’ve been going to these things for 15 years now and I’ve learned a few things.
2- Value people for their ideas and their character. NOT their seniority or their ability to get you a job.
I.e., don’t instrumentalize your interactions. I can’t emphasize this enough.
🛑 Stop looking for someone more important to talk to and focus on who’s in front of you.
I.e., don’t instrumentalize your interactions. I can’t emphasize this enough.
🛑 Stop looking for someone more important to talk to and focus on who’s in front of you.
3- Don’t treat this as a networking exercise.
“Networking” is the wrong mindset. It emphasizes quantity over quality. This makes more sense in a normal job market since it’s friends-of-friends who can inform you of new opportunities. But it doesn’t translate well to academia.
“Networking” is the wrong mindset. It emphasizes quantity over quality. This makes more sense in a normal job market since it’s friends-of-friends who can inform you of new opportunities. But it doesn’t translate well to academia.
