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prolium

LJ Interests meme results

Feb 21, 2006 13:09

academia:
I grew up on a small college campus / seminary. I'm still attached to places of higher education - teaching, research. If I couldn't finish my PhD, I'd get a job in admin / services.

bicycle activism:
I help out with Community Bicycle Network (events, committees). I go to the occasional City Cycling Committee meeting and the occasional ( Read more... )

bits, biography, meme

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lieseldenver February 21 2006, 18:26:59 UTC

That was so interesting. Really.

stockdude February 21 2006, 19:21:55 UTC

That really was interesting. What else is cool is that Trevor, your fellow Torontoan, is also originally from Halifax. Almost certain of that.

prolium February 21 2006, 20:14:09 UTC

Torontonian. That's just how it is. (Even if it looks just as strange.) Plus, bonus geographic descriptor: Haligonian.

downward__dog February 23 2006, 23:47:21 UTC

Haligonian. Best new word of the day. Thank you.

Can you tell me more about "critical management studies?" I just took the GMAT a few hours ago, even though most B-school types would probably consider me a raving lefty.

prolium February 24 2006, 20:49:59 UTC

CMS comes out of Critical Theory but for management studies rather than the broader sociological field.

It's a perspective that examines the power structures in business and challenges the taken-for-granted assumptions of what is natural in the way business and the economy is organized. I'm particularly interested in the way businesses seek to 'colonize' identity and thus diminish the individual's awareness of their own interests.

School's vary in the amount of critical thinking encouraged. Schulich (at York U), where I'm studying and do some teaching, has quite a few critical faculty, but most of them were hired in the 70s and 80s. The MBA program is more open to people challenging corporate norms. But this openness is only notable in relation to other schools. I did my MBA at Ivey (UWO), a case school, which has a much narrower, pro-business view.

The Beyond Grey Pinstripes web site could be a good place to start if you are looking for a school where there is an openness to social and environmentally conscious perspectives ( ... )

gothamasian May 10 2006, 13:50:45 UTC

Oh my goodness!

Apparently missed your 27April entry on original post date.
Did you see the film American Splendor w/Paul Giamatti [who went on to star in Sideways]??

Worthy of a viewing; smart and unusual biopic.

Anyhoo, swung by your url to thank you for your great mail and let you know I'll return-transmit tonight or Thurs.

prolium May 10 2006, 14:07:07 UTC

I barely knew of Harvey Pekar, just vaguely aware of his work and the movie. I had a brief comic books phase in the late 1980s when I lived in Boston. It was the time of Ron Mann's Comic Book Confidential (a documentary on comic books) and Art Speigelman's Maus books and Raw issues.

It's time I checked out American Splendor.