Mapping the uneven landscape of academic knowledge production
November 15, 2012
In my previous KWBN blog reflecting on my recent visit to Fiji, I argued that we should see the global South as sites of theory generation, not just as providing exotic exceptions to “universal” Northern theory. However, I noted that this was far from the norm. Indeed, my starting point for my reflection was the …
Shooting Elephants on the International Branch Campus I
November 2, 2012
I have recently become preoccupied by two elephants. The first is the ‘elephant in the room’: the enormous problem which everyone knows about but which no-one wants to discuss because it is too vast even to conceive or articulate, much less resolve. Let sleeping elephants lie. The second elephant is the unfortunate beast in George …
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