To continue with material pertaining to a discussion at one end of the St.
John's Student Union table this morning, see:
*The North Carolina Project -- *
http://anthropology.unc.edu/grad/research#ncprojIn 1996, Dorothy Holland, Donald Nonini, and Catherine Lutz received a
National Science Foundation research grant for their project "Estrangement
from the Public Sphere: Economic Change, Democracy and Social Division in
North Carolina."
Recently completed, the "North Carolina Project" centered on local
democratic processes in five sites around North Carolina. Organized as a
multi-site, comparative ethnographic team that included five research
associates: Lesley Bartlett, Marla Franklin, Thad Guldbrandsen, Enrique
Murillo, and George Baca, we studied local politics focusing on how people
were drawn in or excluded from democratic participation and on how these
democratic processes were being influenced by the processes of
globalization, economic restructuring and governmental reorganization that
have taken place in the last twenty years.
Q1: Could we model any of this using Santa Fe data? If so, which aspects?
Q2: What would be appropriate objectives for the model-building exercise?
Q2: If we could build these models, how could we use them to "tell the
story" to the community in a meaningful -- i.e. leading to better
understanding and, perhaps, actionable -- manner?
Yeah, it's your homework for the weekend.
-tj
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J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)
http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.us
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
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