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How many more papers to go?

I had a wonderful thanksgiving in NJ thanks to Ian, Carolyn and their beautiful kids, Olivia and Astrid. They were sooooo nice to Michi and me (even though Olivia sometimes made an impossible request like “sing the ABC song in Japanese!). It was a short but fantastic experience full of family love, from which we’d [...]

日本語でなんという?

英語の文献/授業に頼っていると、大事で便利な概念なんだけど、日本語(と中国語)でなんていうか分からないものがある。知っている人がいればぜひ教えてください。
1. Positivism, Post-positivism
2. Path dependency
3. Intersubjectivity (as in constructivism)
4. False consciousness
5. Critical theory (批判理論とかいうの?)
6. Reductionism, inductive, deductive, holism (基本なんですが。。。)
7. Discursive power (as in critical theory)
リストアップしていると止まらなくなってきた。このままだと日本での就職はやはり難しいか。

Thanksgiving

There are so many things that i want to write about here, but cannot find the time (even though I have been procrastinating so much before writing my paper for IR class)!! My thanksgiving plan: going to NY by Chinatown bus on Thursday, meeting up with Michi there, and studying in coffee shops (then why [...]

Gender politics as a Field of Research

This week’s topic for my Comparative Politics class is “identities: ethnicity, race and gender.” In social science, “gender” sounds either very post-modernist or very normative. For some reason I sometimes have a cynical attitude toward some people who have strong normative motivations in their research. It does not mean I don’t have normative ideals; I [...]

イライラするもの

イライラするもの、不安定なワイヤレスインターネット、紙づまりの激しいコピー機、データベースで見つからない論文、電光掲示板の表示通りに到着しない地下鉄、いとストレスフルなりけり。