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		<title>Qualifying Nvivo for research</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[QSR International&#8217;s qualitative software package Nvivo has almost become a &#8216;must-have&#8217; for serious researchers. Along with a handful og other QDA (Qualitative Data Analysis) tools to have survived the integration and multiplication challenge of recent computing technology (such as Atlas.ti, Asksam and Hyperresearch), these expensive packages ($300 and up) seem to have shifted from being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hirslund.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9559556&amp;post=49&amp;subd=hirslund&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Armadillo as national documentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching Janus Metz&#8217;s film about Danish soldiers in Afghanistan is a curious experience. The movie won a price during this year&#8217;s Cannes Festival (Semaine de la Critique) and has been noticed internationally for its &#8216;unfettered access&#8217; to army barracks (see movie review on variety.com) following the Danish soldiers into the trenches on their patrols, day-to-day routines [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hirslund.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9559556&amp;post=44&amp;subd=hirslund&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(one of&#8230;) The limits of ethnography</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suggest that anthropology has lost its critical edge once it abandons the investigation of ‘production’ to one of ‘effects’.In Hegelianism, &#8216;production&#8217; has a cardinal role: first, the (absolute) Idea produces the world; next, nature produces the human being; and the human being in turn, by dint of struggle and labour, produces at once history, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hirslund.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9559556&amp;post=41&amp;subd=hirslund&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Analytical activism from complicity to theoretical ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have submitted an abstract for a conference panel on Methodologies of Participation and Engagement that I look very much forward to be part of. Below is a longer version of the discussion, I plan to take: ”In my opinion, your phd is not worthy of its name, if it is not done in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hirslund.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9559556&amp;post=38&amp;subd=hirslund&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mobilization and politics in the maobaadi: Revolution as a social space</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past weeks, I have been thinking critically about how to treat this beast of the revolution, which is so predominant in the maobaadi, not only as a discursive regime but as a general frame for understanding its politics and the experience of being an activist in the movement. It might be prudent to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hirslund.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9559556&amp;post=36&amp;subd=hirslund&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fieldwork data</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post lists the different kinds of data gathered from the various research sites during the fieldwork, listed (as far as possible) in order of weight (i.e. what are the primary sources and types of data). Thematic field interviews with youth activists in one YCL camp in Kathmandu: This site was where I spent most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hirslund.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9559556&amp;post=32&amp;subd=hirslund&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>YCL, urban politics and the &#8216;transition&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nepal&#8217;s political transition that was linked to the signing of the peace agreement in 2006, and the encampment of the Maoist army once again transformed the site of political negotiations, both in terms of form and locality. Kathmandu recaptured center stage, and parliamentary negotiations were re-imbued with their former significance. This also energized another important [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hirslund.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9559556&amp;post=28&amp;subd=hirslund&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Analytical activism: For a transformative anthropology</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To what extent can our academic practice further social justice and human potentiality? The social sciences are a privileged vantage point from which to understand societal mechanisms and its potentiality. The science platform allows the development of concepts that elevate our perspectives on social processes, which in turn facilitates a wider discussion and comparison of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hirslund.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9559556&amp;post=21&amp;subd=hirslund&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bias of studying violence in politics</title>
		<link>http://hirslund.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/bias-of-studying-violence-in-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have to be careful about what kind of bias we bring to the analysis of politics. Politics as it is practised and endorsed in the Western states legitimises crisis, and vast inequalities of power, status and livelihood, as long as our formal criteria for political processes (attached to the much-abused and nebulous word of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hirslund.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9559556&amp;post=19&amp;subd=hirslund&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Processes of formalization</title>
		<link>http://hirslund.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/processes-of-formalization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a political activist one also participates in the hierarchy of officialdom during formal functions. This became clear during a small cultural program in a village far removed from the political center. Here the political youth wings and their members were nominated as chief guests by mere extension of their political affiliation, and thus acquired [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hirslund.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9559556&amp;post=17&amp;subd=hirslund&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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