just as soon as i get more than a few moments-in-passing (probably this weekend), i'll be updating my blogroll to include a section for thoughtful people i disagree with. this is the direct result of a bit of providential dialogue with naaman, who challenged me to expand my blogroll and was kind enough to expand his.
it is more interesting than i can say to have my "clinic defender" identity re-activated after a couple of years without volunteering in that way. these days i am much more apt to identify myself with my occupation or my broader political leanings than with that particular piece of my activist history (history?).
my hope is that i can extend my usual reads to people who will keep the smoke pouring productively out of my ears without sending me screaming back to my insular lefty-ness. on the other hand, it is an open question these days whether i even get to read the newspaper...so we'll see how much avocation-time i have left for this project.
anyway, if you find your way to naaman's place (or any other, i daresay) by way of this place, please remember to have your productive dialogue hat on.
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by day a political scientist! by night a significantly less intellectually responsible political scientist!
amelia.hoover@[university].edu
welcome to my blog. i'm a ph.d. candidate in political science at yale, a native midwesterner, and a happy californian. right now my research is about armed organizations and how they organize their violence against noncombatants, or fail to. i'm also interested in intentional community, gender in the academy, grad school pedagogy, fat politics, the religious left, my partner, our local farmers' market and idiosyncratic capitalization practices.