[SSC] (no subject)

Sat Jun 9 23:26:18 UTC 2012

Hello all,

That's a lot of good thinking from Heather, John, Joss, Megan, Paul, and Sally on materials, libraries, recommendation lists and etc.! A lot 
really fast -- I've taken the liberty of going back through the last five or six digests to pull out the various ideas and points and will 
bring copies to the meeting on Monday, which might make it easier to discuss them. I also have a lot of stuff on libraries and open source as 
well, so will throw it into the mix if and when it seems useful.

Heather, thanks for your beautiful report on the symposium marking Ruth's murder and affirming and continuing her work. I feel we do have 
much to learn from these experiences of engaged co-resaerch and living pedagogically. I look forward to hearing more and talking.

Best,
Sarah

On Sat  9/06/12 12:00, ssc-request at lists.aktivix.org wrote:
> Send SSC mailing list submissions to
> ssc at lis
> ts.aktivix.org
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/ssc
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> ssc-request at lists.aktivix.org
> You can reach the person managing the list at
> s
> sc-owner at lists.aktivix.org
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of SSC digest..."
> 
> 
> Today's Topics:
> 
> 1. Re: Engaged research (Heather Hughes)
> 2. The one per cent's problem (john andrews)
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 20:04:23 +0100
> From: "Heather Hughes" <
> botlenyanahughes at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <ssc at lis
> ts.aktivix.org>
Subject: Re: [SSC] Engaged research
> Message-ID: <000501cd45a9$84e74130$8eb5c390$@co.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Dear all
> 
> Yesterday I attended an inspirational event at the Institute of
> Commonwealth
Studies at the University of London (which is why, regrettably, I
> didn't
attend the 'Academic Labour' day in Lincoln....!!) but thought it would
> be
good to share one or two aspects, since they seem relevant to what the
> SSC
is about.
> 
> The event was a symposium to mark the 30th anniversary of the
> assassination
of the South African activist, Ruth First, who was blown up by a parcel
> bomb
in the Centre for African Studies at Eduardo Mondlane University in
> Maputo
in 1982. She had been forced out of South Africa in the early 1960s and
> had
spent time at the Universities of Manchester and Durham, before being
> appointed as director of the CAS in Maputo in 1978. In this capacity,
> she
developed a new approach to research and learning: 'engaged empirical
> research'. At the symposium, several of her colleagues from that time
> spoke
movingly of what this had meant. They included Alpheus Manghezi, her
> main
co-author; Annamaria Gentili, now Professor of African Studies at the
> University of Bologna; Bridget O'Laughlin, Professor at the Institute
> of
Social Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam; Marc Wuyts, Professor at
> the
Institute of Social Studies, The Hague; and Colin Darch, Archivist at
> the
University of Cape Town. Interestingly, they all referred to Ruth
> First's
method as PEDAGOGIC. Their motivation was not to impose order on chaos,
> but
to change an unfair world - one which they had not made, but wanted to
> change. Other characteristics:
> 
> Staff and students met to decide what research to undertake; final
> decisions
were made collectively. 'Everybody brought something to these sessions'
> was
the message over and over. Undertaking research 'in the field' was the
> pre-eminent way of learning about anything - secondary sources etc
> were
assembled and worked through after decisions about what primary
> research
would be done had been taken. 
> 
> They were driven by a concern with present-day problems, but
> absolutely
accepted the need to treat these in historical perspective. 
> 
> All results/write-ups were presented as documents for policy use -  a
> journal was founded for this purpose. 
> 
> There was a sense of urgency to everything they did: no room for
> complacency
in times of crisis!
> 
> Can we learn anything? Heather
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 07:40:09 +0100
> From: "john andrews" <j
> ohn.andrews57 at ntlworld.com>
To: <ssc at lis
> ts.aktivix.org>
Subject: [SSC] The one per cent's problem
> Message-ID: <4DA16C4C6ED84420BF102312D9E38D59 at walter>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> Good articles are like busses... you wait ages for one and then...
> 
> This piece is by Stiglitz. Don't know if you've read much of him, but Nobel
> laureates, shooting from our side of the barricades, need to be listened to
> in my view.
> His writing style isn't particularly easy, but the content makes it worth
> persevering with I think.
> http://www.zcommunications.org/the-1-percent-s-problem-by-josep
> h-stiglitz
> Best wishes
> 
> john
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/ssc/attachments/20120609/73
> 9661ee/attachment-0001.html>
> ------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> SSC mailing list
> SSC at lists.aktivix.org
> https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/ssc
> 
> End of SSC Digest, Vol 18, Issue 8
> **********************************
> 
> 
> 