Good morning and happy Monday! I need to write, finish and submit a book chapter (last year commitment, incredibly supportive research group, I can’t decline this late in the game). Deadline is Friday.
The challenge is #1500wordsaday until Friday and then take full weekend off.
And then map out the writing strategy, start filling up Topic Sentences and Reflective Questions so I can get to the Detailed Outline
Once I create a Detailed Outline (helped by Topic Sentences and Reflective Questions) I move on to breaking down the work into Memorandums and expanding the Detailed Outline to make it as "full" as possible.
TO NOTE: I have spent YEARS thinking about water conflicts. I have all fieldwork notes, analyses, etc.
Writing this chapter should be easy because I've spent years thinking these case studies through. Not all writing goes like this.
This important to note: the weeks, months and years you spend ruminating, thinking, reading, drafting, scribbling, pondering, all that time is WRITING TIME, it's research!
Don't think that if I can crank a chapter out in a week it's totally new. It's been simmering in my head.
1,873 words. As you can see, I use Reflective Questions as anchoring pieces for the beginning of the paragraph.
(yes I understand this book chapter is in Spanish but you get the gist).
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Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment buff.ly/32CiUnp edited by Dr. Carole McGranahan, published by @DukePress (use code SPRING21 for 50% discount)
"Writing takes time. Writing well takes time and practice. This book is about both"
For those of you who have not had the pleasure of listening to a talk by Dr. Carole McGranahan, her writing is just as incredible as her speech.
"Anthropological writing is a form of accountability and an ethical practice" (McGranahan 2020, p. 3)
"The responsibility to tell the stories trusted to us is substantial. Many scholars share a sense of writing as commitment to the communities in which and with whom we do our research. Politically engaged, public scholarship requires this. " (McGranahan 2020, p. 3)
Para quienes estén participando en mi reto #0to125wpd (de cero a 125 palabras por día) de mi Twitter hispanoparlante, desde hace algunos días había tenido la idea de escribir un hilo sobre CÓMO REDACTAR PÁRRAFOS.
Este hilo les mostrará algunas técnicas para redactar párrafos con ejemplos en castellano.
Quienes han tomado mis clases de Metodología de la Investigación y de Estrategias de Escritura Académica saben que uso dos métodos principales para producir párrafos:
1) Preguntas "Detonadoras" - la idea de la Pregunta Detonadora es precisamente, "detonar" la producción de ideas (o como decimos en México: "que les gire la ardilla", o "que les suba agua al tinaco" - que empiecen a generar nuevas ideas).
El fundamento teórico del Indice de Impunidad Ambiental #IGIMEXAmbiental se encuentra en la intersección del derecho humano a un medio ambiente sano, la criminología verde, y la justicia ambiental.
Escuchando la presentación de la Dra. Celeste Cedillo sobre el tema.
I am shocked at the many responses that @annehelen got to her query on the cult of hydration and personal water bottles.
Most of the work on the social science of bottled water focuses on the post-Jane Fonda, "BW is good for hydration" paradigm journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
One of the core reasons why people drink bottled water is to hydrate (Wilk 2006, Race 2012) as a personal choice, but also as a response to poor networked, piped infrastructure (Pacheco-Vega 2019, Prasetiawan et al 2017, Brewis et al 2021).
But personal bottles? I don't know.
I don't think that there is "an obsession with personal water bottles" (and if there is, there are definitely elements of class, status and prestige).
I DO think that personal-use bottles for refilling play an important role in shifting patterns of water consumption AWAY from BW
During both workshops, I got asked the same question about fighting "writer's block", and I answered with exactly the same strategy:
The trusty and humble "index card" and the memorandum.
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I had been wanting to read, highlight and annotate this article for a long while and I just hadn’t made the time.
In this article, the author talks about how lack of proper toilets can hinder fieldwork (something I have first hand experience with!)
I wrote ONE index card.
A couple of index cards give me enough of a “kick start” to write a short memo on toilet insecurity and fieldwork, and the politics of toilet access in India.