From: "Irvin Peckham" <ipeckh1-AT-lsu.edu>
Subject: RE: S.O.S:  first advice is to not read or listen to  the Americans or English..
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 06:12:55 -0500


Can you see that your advice might be a shade myopic as well?
Irvin peckham


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UNLESS its Richard Nice. After having spent years studying Bourdieu I
think 
the best pedagogical advice he gave was to understand his work in
relation 
to other historical works.  Too much of the capitalist and publish or
perish 
mentality tends to appropriate him for far too narrow of purposes
without 
understanding his larger purpose. Which only requires you read him. Not
look 
for his "position" on a particular topic, but his entire, sometimes 
complicated, approach to carrying out research...and the importance of 
reflexivity-something that is not institutionally honored, but
discouraged 
in the Anglo-American tradition. Stick with the French and not axe
grinding 
myopic leftist from the US.

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Irvin Peckham
Director of Firstyear Writing
Louisiana State University
 ipeckh1-AT-lsu.edu
http://members.cox.net/ipeckham
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