The North Carolina Project -- http://anthropology.unc.edu/grad/research#ncproj
In 1996, Dorothy Holland, Donald Nonini, and Catherine Lutz received a
National Science Foundation research grant for their project "Estrangement
from the Public Sphere: Economic Change, Democracy and Social Division
in North Carolina."
Recently completed, the "North Carolina Project" centered on
local democratic processes in five sites around North Carolina. Organized
as a multi-site, comparative ethnographic team that included five research
associates: Lesley Bartlett, Marla Franklin, Thad Guldbrandsen, Enrique
Murillo, and George Baca, we studied local politics focusing on how people
were drawn in or excluded from democratic participation and on how these
democratic processes were being influenced by the processes of globalization,
economic restructuring and governmental reorganization that have taken
place in the last twenty years.
Q2: What would be appropriate objectives for the model-building exercise?
Q2: If we could build these models, how could we use them to "tell the story" to the community in a meaningful -- i.e. leading to better understanding and, perhaps, actionable -- manner?
Yeah, it's your homework for the weekend.
-tj
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J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)
http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
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