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that class sounds very interesting.
truenic · 2009-07-30: 18:34
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I'm thinking that Edwardian play is looking good!
itch4travel · 2009-07-30: 19:23
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I'm thinking you need wet naps for your post-chocolate snacks.
Oweena · 2009-07-30: 19:38
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I like the look of the books - you do read interesting stuff.
Quailia · 2009-07-31: 02:45
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Looks like you've been studying. Festival Elephants? Is that interesting? Have you heard about the book called "White Man's Burden" its about how much the west has done but to such little effect. Its excellent. I wonder what the whole title of the Flaneur book is. You are teasing us with these half titles. I have a professional interest in flaneurship.
ShangriLa · 2009-07-31: 03:09
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It is an interesting class, and I just love that it's online; the irony of doing an environmental policy degree that requires driving an extra 10 miles a day was starting to get to me. "Festival Elephants" is amusing and occasionally baffling. The author makes a good point (that top-down projects that don't consult the local community often do more harm than good), but it's mostly amusing in that it's told in this conversational, gossipy style that feels like listening to the author bitch about his coworkers in some very off-the-beaten-track expat bar. That book you mention does sound like something along these lines, ShangriLa. "Le Flaneur" is just that - nothing more to the title. It's lovely - he wanders around Paris and talks about random things.
Liiisa · 2009-07-31: 04:24
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Oh, and I can recommend "Captain Drew On Leave" unreservedly, itchy - it was both funny and poignant.
Liiisa · 2009-07-31: 06:46
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Hee hee.....I feel good for sucking you over to the dark side (aka Anthropology). :)
Shannamuppet · 2009-08-01: 10:58
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Yes it does sound like the same sort of argument. The guy who wrote the one i mentioned used to be a high up economist at the world bank. His idea was that instead of 10 year plans - which never work - (and the inference that the millenium project of Bush will not work either and should be abandonned), grass roots development projects work much better. He talks about a piecemeal approach and also more involvement of local people. Better to let them decide what they need rather than it being decided by bureaucrats half a world away etc.
ShangriLa · 2009-08-02: 02:27
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I've eaten a lot of peach (well, technically nectarine) pie over the past week. Yum!
elldee · 2009-08-02: 12:16
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At first glance I thought the title of that book makes it sound like something way more interesting than the actual subject...but on second thought I think it could be fascinating. Like the snarky bits of Dark Star Safari:-)
Stav1 · 2009-08-02: 17:32
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It does have some very amusingly snarky anecdotes! I am just occasionally confused as to how they relate to the author's point in the chapter - it's like "the program in x region is a disaster because of x, y, and z" with this odd sidebar about one of the officials that doesn't seem to relate to the program but instead is just sort of like cocktail party gossip. But maybe I'm missing the point... I'm really stressed out these days. ;)
Liiisa · 2009-08-03: 08:56
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