Well, I’m back in the UK and it’s been quite a year. I have had the opportunity to carry out my work and research in/with Seva Mandir across a range of programmes, processes, contexts, issues, scales, and so on. I have engaged with diverse theoretical perspectives and an endless stream of questions emerging from my [...]
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I was excited to be heading back to England, with a whole bunch of things spread out across the roughly 1 month break I took from Udaipur from mid-June to mid-July. When I arrived in London I took the tube from Heathrow to Arsenal where my brother came and picked me up. We had dinner [...]
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After my more than 3 months in England, replete with my first term at IDS and some quality time with my family, I’m now back at Seva Mandir, Udaipur.
Without losing time I’ve pretty much dived into work, trying to make sense of what I might be able to do now that I’m back. So far [...]
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The term has now ended. Officially. Tomorrow my parents will come to Brighton and we will spend a couple of days together, talking, walking, looking, eating, laughing and connecting. After that, I will be heading to London where I will, with fingers crossed, successfully brave the process of getting my new work visa for India. [...]
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My first assessed essay during my time here at IDS was on the topic of how an inter-disciplinary approach to development can contribute to the development research and practice. I took advantage of this opportunity to write about the insights from complexity science into the workings of the world and then to point out that [...]
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Posted in action research, complexity, complexity based methods, learning, organisational change, personal ramblings, philosophy, seva mandir, social change, studying on December 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The way that can be described is not the absolute way…
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Well, miraculously the essay slipped out without too much anguish Actually, the writing process was a really good exercise for helping me to digest a whole load of reading materials that I have found rather insightful. Now with that behind me I have got my senses set on the upcoming ‘Analytical Paper’ that [...]
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Right now I am supposed to be writing my first assessed essay of the term. It’s Sunday afternoon and the essay is due at 8.45 on Monday morning. Go figure!
Well, in any case, the title is: “Contribution of an inter-disciplinary approach to studying and/or practicing development.”
It’s quite an experience putting together my first assessed essay [...]
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Well, it has been a while now since I posted here! The dust is finally settling a little here at IDS and I feel that I have reached a comfort level where I can return to my blog!
I have not been inactive at all during this time! I have been furiously conversing, reflecting and also [...]
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