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Wired: Anthropologists Launch ‘Human Terrain’ Probe

This report in WIRED titled, “Anthropologists Launch ‘Human Terrain’ Probe” by David Axe was just published today. According to the reporter, “The American Anthropological Association, which represents some 10,000 social scientists, has launched a formal study of the Army’s controversial, year-old ‘Human Terrain System,’ which embeds civilian anthropologists in combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan.” […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Latest Minerva and National Science Foundation News

Thanks to David Glenn of The Chronicle of Higher Education for writing to indicate that what some hoped for would be leeway in undertaking funded research free of constraints and conditions imposed by the Department of Defense, has been significantly minimized. As David Glenn explained, the National Science Foundation released its Minerva-related solicitation on Wednesday, […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Political Reactions to SSHRC Funding: Bloc Québécois

Following from five previous posts on the impacts on research arising from the structure of funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), I have had at least one reaction from a member of Canada’s Federal Parliament. Incidentally, the last of that series of posts can be seen here, with the […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Looking Beyond SSHRC: Decentralizing and Opening Research Funding (1.3)

This is a continuation of a series of articles on social science research funding in Canada (1, 2, 3, 4), with the aim being to produce some form of provisional closure before I turn my attention to other issues. In the long run, however, it will be important to get a more complete sense of […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Social Science Research Funding in Canada: Additional Notes (4.3)

The Limitations of Blogging about SSHRC Blogging about complex topics about which little has been researched and published obviously confronts and presents some serious limitations. I am referring here to the previous post on funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Trying to understand, let alone convey, the complexities of shifting […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Social Science Research Funding in Canada (2.0), or: “Where Devils Dare to Defecate”

Despite the broad sweep of the title of this post, this is most definitely not a detailed historical overview and statistical analysis of the current state of research funding for the social sciences in Canada. As this post goes through various stages of revision, some of these details and relevant documents will possibly be added. […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

“I gots me a big new grant!”–Cha-Ching!

I am thinking that the next time I get a research grant, I should get a baseball cap with a big gold dollar sign on it, and take the award letter, miniaturize it, gold plate it, and hang it from a big ass gold chain around my fat neck. Why not? I would only be […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

The Prisoner of Agenda

Take someone who has devoted between 10 and 16 years of advanced study, from the BA through the Ph.D, someone who has gained significant knowledge of the workings of social relations, political institutions, cultural meanings, rituals, symbols, power, and so forth. This same person can become largely unemployable outside of an academic setting. Take this […]