not the motorcycle diaries

I’ve been advised a few times now by social movement academic types that I should consider the ‘recognition & re-distribution’ debate in my research. Now that the ethics approval and grant application merry-go-round is temporarily in suspension I’m finally getting around to reading some material on this - namely Axel Honneth’s on recognition and Nancy Fraser’s on re-distribution. I think I just need to be able to situate my research in this debate, rather than make an in-depth conclusion on it for its own sake. So far the debate actually seems rather dated, in terms of its usefulness for theorizing the global justice movement, as this movement operates deliberately in the tension between claims for re-distribution and claims for recognition. In this sense, the recognition/re-distribution literature is useful in that it explicates the nature of this tension, but it still seems bent on resolving it to some degree - or at least in saying that one claim ought to take precedence, albeit with consideration of their inseparableness.

It has also occurred to me to start planning my time in Brazil:

*August 20 - 28* Porto Alegre, for Latin-American Sociological Congress and general hanging out with useful people

*August 29 - Sept 4th* Porto Alegre

*Sept 5th - Sept 11th* Rio de Janeiro for touching base with research institute that I am allegedly affiliated with

*Sept 12th - Sept 18th* Research design, somewhere

*Sept 19th - Sept 25th* Research design, somewhere

*Sept 26th - Oct 2nd* Actual research, somewhere (S�o Paulo?)

*Oct 3rd - Oct 30th* Actual research, somewhere

*Oct 31st - Nov 27th* Actual research, somewhere

*Nov 28th - Dec 4th* Writing up, in Rio de Janeiro

*Dec 5th - Dec 11th* Writing up, in Rio de Janeiro

*Dec 12th - Dec 18th* Writing up, in Rio de Janeiro

*Dec 19th - Jan 1st* Holiday - coming back some time in January.