In “The Capacity to Aspire: Culture and the Terms of Recognition,” (2004) Indian-born, New York-based socio-cultural anthropologist Arjun Appadurai [@ArjunAppadurai] asks how collective horizons are shaped. How do they “constitute the basis for collective aspirations”? Appadurai argues that societies’ less privileged (the very poor, the … Read More →
A Test of Character
I am intrigued by an item in the minutes from a NWN Board meeting of June 29th 2005. Page one reads: “Action ‘Psychometric testing was proposed’ (KM) [Kirstie McKenzie] contextualize this?” On page five of the notes from another meeting (August 6th), Meredith Belbin’s TEST A … Read More →