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Interesting that this was published right before Occupy kicked off

• AlotOfReading 7y ago
  There's a broader recognition in academia the last few years that most of the academic effort the past century has been to understand people from an urban, centralized core perspective. That's where the funding dollars, the cool architecture, and the big stories are. It's very difficult to discuss non traditional peoples in that sort of worldview though. Things like occupy, Mexican/European border refugees, and Asian (semi-)nomads all fall outside that category, so there have been a number of attempts by academics to construct theories that put these people back at the center of their lives where they can be analyzed/discussed, rather than trying to discuss them as the products of some other events off somewhere else. A lot of people take issue with this sort of framing though because it smells of postmodernism.
  • sophacles 7y ago
    ... there have been a number of attempts by academics to construct theories that put these people back at the center of their lives where they can be analyzed/discussed... A lot of people take issue with this sort of framing though because it smells of postmodernism. This makes me sad - Why would someone take issue with "lets pretend these actual humans are actually human, and think about their lives in that context"?