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Today I received a very kind thank you letter from the Humanities Center for organizing the Made in China seminar. In the card, Rebecca pointed me to the comments that one of the participants, Hanna Erpestad, made on her blog about the seminar. I very much enjoyed reading the comments as well as [...]
Filed by ddavies at April 23rd, 2007 under Uncategorized
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I think this clip illustrates quite nicely how a question about “China” is answered in a way that slides into the American category of “Asian” before it awkwardly lands in the category of “culture.” It is interesting the way that in the absence of specific knowledge about “China” the man in the clip relies [...]
Filed by ddavies at April 22nd, 2007 under "China", video
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What are the associations of “China”? I have some footage of responses to this question that were collected as part of a collaborative research project. The project was never completed and the footage has been sitting on my harddrive waiting to be shared. I am not sure about edublog’s space and bandwidth [...]
Filed by ddavies at April 21st, 2007 under "China", video
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I have been meaning to do this for some time now. It took a comment from a participant at a workshop I did last week at the Minnesota Humanities Center to finally push me to set up a blog. The workshop, titled Made in China: Economy, Environment, and Globalization, was organized for educators [...]
Filed by ddavies at April 20th, 2007 under Uncategorized
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What if the “standard” map of the world wasn’t based on physical geography, but mapped according to toy imports, trade imbalances or some other criterion. Get ready to have your mind blown and check out
worldmapper.org
Filed by ddavies at April 20th, 2007 under Geographies
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