Sandra Harding (1987) did not believe feminists should focus too much of their discussion on methodology, but instead focus on the ‘good’ research that was being done. Harding’s position does not stem from any coyness towards the methodological ‘achievements’ made by...
The soul-crushing mind-numbing gut-wrenching heart-breaking “joy” of methodology. I was never taught me-tho-do-lo-gy. Whatever that is. Isn’t the method just 1. Idea, 2. Struggle, 3. Word vomit? That’s how I do it. I wonder, what if? What if I want to be inspired by...
For many researchers, methodology and joy don’t belong in the same sentence. Legal researchers in particular often seem to place methods-talk somewhere between irritating impediment and unbridgeable chasm. Some of these anxieties are well founded: law school legal...
On the 8th of this month, a week after the inauguration of President Lula da Silva, an event took place in Brasília that only took by surprise those who did not want to know, or had no way of knowing, about its widely disseminated preparation on social networks. The...
Dear President Lula da Silva, When I visited you in prison on August 30, 2018, in the brief time that the visit lasted I experienced a whirlwind of ideas and emotions that remain as vivid today as they were then. A short time before, we had been together at the World...
‘It cannot be denied that the direct cause leading the popular masses into the socialist movement is precisely the “unjust” mode of distribution characteristic of capitalism’ (Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution) ‘While they’re standing in the...
