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11 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I am using my favourite highlighters and fineliners to read your article, @I_Solorio 😊 Image
I thinking this should count as one of my #AICCSED articles-to-read-and-annotate. Image
#AICCSED row for March 11th, 2021. I am going to have to go back and check which days I missed, I've been doing plenty of reading. Image
March 10th, I meant (I read this last night!)

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12 Mar
THREAD: On delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, but performed with an example.

A lot of people use my blog posts as guides to literature reviews, either for themselves or for their students. I have received similar questions to the ones I'm quoting.
Questions like the ones posed in the quoted tweet are quite common. A few people asked me "Professor Pacheco-Vega, how do I go from having read All The Things to producing a Conceptual Synthesis Excel Dump (CSED) that makes sense to writing my lit review?"
If you are a frequent reader of my blog, you probably know I've written a metric tonne of blog posts on specific items of the literature review (when to stop reading, how to create a mind-map of the literature, how to produce paragraphs of the lit review, etc.)
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11 Mar
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9 Mar
THIS BOOK.

I think it was Dr. @KathrynNowotny who recommended this book to me.

If you use ethnography to study illicit behaviour this book is a must read.
As someone who studies vulnerable populations (individuals experiencing homelessness, toilet-insecure and water-insecure people, and informal waste pickers) I’m fascinated by how different disciplines and fields categorize “vulnerable populations”
I have an anecdote to share: one of my best research assistants and Masters's students has ALWAYS been interested in drug policy and in studying individuals using drugs. HOWEVER she pivoted to my own research interests because she wanted to do her thesis with me.

NEVERTHELESS:
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9 Mar
An anecdote for those of us struggling to FINISH papers:

Growing up, I played competitive tennis. At a tournament, I was playing with a guy whose forehand was incredibly powerful, but whose backhand wasn't as strong. I remember my Dad telling me "stay with his backhand".
I have a pretty decently strong two-handed backhand, but I didn't know if I would be able to overpower this guy. But I just kept throwing the ball back as hard as I could until he made a mistake.

Coming back to academics: stay with The Work, friends. It's hard, I know.
I am about to return a chapter to my editor, and what I thought this morning was: "I need to stay with this chapter. I may be tired, and potentially sick of revising it, but I need to stay with it".

(sometimes I do focus on other projects to get refreshed, of course).
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7 Mar
My life post-pandemic is definitely going to be:
- less travel
- fewer academic conferences
- fewer commitments
- more Work-From-Home
- more intense in-person experiences (workshops, short modules, etc).

I don’t want to live in a world with crushing commutes/too many cars.
I’m also done with living out of a suitcase.

It’s amazing how the love and care of your dear friends leads them to ask important questions that you only ponder during a pandemic.

My dear friend @AWutich asked me @ #AAG2018 why did I travel so much. At the time I didn’t get it
But one year later, I am floored at how much more widely read and discussed my work is, and I’m not even attending or presenting at conferences!

I travelled a lot partly for fieldwork, partly to establish myself as an authority in my field (giving keynote talks, etc.)
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7 Mar
Carole McGranahan does not use Twitter anymore, but I remain in touch with her on a regular basis. Nevertheless I did not know she had edited a volume in writing, which is spectacular, a must-read volume which will be useful to teach academic writing not only to anthropologists. ImageImageImageImage
You will recognise many authors and essays because they were published online first on the Savage Minds blog, now anthro[dendum] anthrodendum.org

Carole compiled 53 essays, wrote a few of her own, and editorialized them all into a neat volume, inspired by @ruthbehar
Carole is an extraordinarily good writer and it’s lovely to see her pay homage to the incomparable Ruth Behar.

I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone, not just anthropologists and ethnographers, because there’s a piece of advice for everyone who writes. Amazing book </end> ImageImage
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