Archive for October, 2009

Qualitative Methods

interviewing, participant observation, ethnographic fieldwork, oral histories, life-stories, archival research - for contemporary social research in the light of post colonial conflicts - debates about the question of social knowledge production - introduce post colonial ethnography so as to develop multidisciplinary theoretical practices and methodological approaches to understand current processes of subjectivation and resistance to post colonial forms of capitalist, sexist, racial...

Research Notes

Offer some tentative analysis and suggestions as to the effects of neo-liberalism on contemporary reproductive labour in the home. Relates to materialist feminist and post colonial reading of the home. Materialist feminist critique of traditional and current Marxist theory about precarity and labour. Post colonial anyalsis of the ‘gains’ of women in the north. My point of departure is the contemporary home and that the possibility of new political alliances and modes of reproduction...

Planning a Chapter

chapters 10,000 words average (8000 min - 12,000 max) section: words introductory text 200 - 1000 1st main section 2000 - 2500 2nd main section 2000 - 2500 3rd main section 2000 - 2500 4th main section 2000 - 2500 conclusion 200 -...

The Big Book Thesis

max word length: 100,000 aim for 80,000 (with 20,000 margin) chapters: 10,000 average (8,000 min - 12,000 max) Lead in chapter - 2 chapters (20,000) (introduces and sets up core material) - what do readers need to know in order to appreciate the core research? - restrict to two or three main lines of argument - methods chapter as appendix Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Set Up Core Material (traditionally Lit Review) Core Material - 5 chapters (50,000) (value added...

Patriarchy and Accumulation on the World Scale

Maria Mies (1998) Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour London: Zed...

Caliban and the Witch

Siliva Federici (2004) Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation, New York:...

The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community

Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James (1972) The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community Falling Down Press:...

The Arcane of Reproduction

Leopoldina Fortunati (1981) The Arcane of Reproduction: Housework, Prostitution, Labour and Captial Autonomedia: New...

Sex, Race and Class

Selma James (1975) Sex, Race and Class Falling Down Press:...

Extended Contents Page

- shows current sequence of materials - includes headings and sub-headings - any numbering...