On perceptions of threat

[Entries from 2008 are imported from another blog] This shows the relevance of the research, although my informants, asked about perceptions of threat, seemed to be convinced that this is an entirely American thing 🙂 Europeans see China as a threat to security

Media analysis resources

[Entries from 2008 are imported from another blog] I really love the book: Allan Bell. 1991. The language of news media. Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : Blackwell. I just wish I had more time to really read it, and not scan it. It’s too detailed sometimes and presents rather common-sense facts, but I see it as a good description …

Main concerns (fieldwork)

[Entries from 2008 are imported from another blog] The main problems I’m having with the thesis are the following: How to write critically about the people who were so helpful and wasted their precious time to help me with a totally minor paper? Too few interviews, but nothing can be done about it anymore. Incomplete grasp of the field. Ideally …

Leaving Brussels

[Entries from 2008 are imported from another blog] So, my fieldwork is kind of over, I have five interviews and one possibility to interview someone online. It was more complicated than I expected, but the material, I think, is great, and the last interview was extremely critical and helped me put together my research approaches. Also, the Tibet issue proved …

Elite anthropology resource

[Entries from 2008 are imported from another blog] I’m starting my academic blog with my MA thesis fieldwork in Brussels on knowledge-making about China. In case you might be interested, I found this article on elite interviewing quite useful: http://www.jstor.org/stable/419807 It’s not even Anthropology, rather Political Science, and not very new, but I found it useful.

Flashes of Kyiv

My acquaintance with Kiev starts much before we all start trying to delineate its limits through the window of our plane. It starts from the stewardesses with ‘Slavic’ style makeup – they won’t give us immigration cards until we ask them, since they don’t consider us foreigners. It also starts from pieces of hot chicken and lots of potatoes, which …

A woman’s worth – three cents a minute

[This article was published in Atgimimas in February 2009 (in Lithuanian). It was translated by professional translators for public procurement purposes. The copyright of the original article belongs to the publisher of Atgimimas, Pilietinės minties institutas, and the copyright of this English translation belongs to Gravitas Partners. The archives of Atgimimas are no longer available online.] “I am Ericsson and this is …