Comprehensive Exams!
I completed my comprehensive exams the other day. In our geography department, it encompasses a five day writing ordeal, answering three out of six questions proposed by the advisory committee. In two weeks, I will have a two-hour oral examination session where I will answer further questions based on my responses.
My "comp" areas were particularly diverse, touching on political ecology (rural livelihood and rural social movements), cultural politics (nationalism and identity formation), and political economy (state and society) literatures. Looking back on it now, I can't believe I got through it, especially as I managed to write 17,700 words, or 66 tightly packed pages in four days. (having spent Monday rereading some articles and preparing my notes) I even got some interesting footnotes in!
Early Wednesday morning as I was completing my first and longest paper, I got the idea of putting faces to names, so decided collect photos from the web of all the authors I've encountered through my readings. Check it out. (I've even cropped them to the same size!) I couldn't get all the faces, but did get most.
My "comp" areas were particularly diverse, touching on political ecology (rural livelihood and rural social movements), cultural politics (nationalism and identity formation), and political economy (state and society) literatures. Looking back on it now, I can't believe I got through it, especially as I managed to write 17,700 words, or 66 tightly packed pages in four days. (having spent Monday rereading some articles and preparing my notes) I even got some interesting footnotes in!
Early Wednesday morning as I was completing my first and longest paper, I got the idea of putting faces to names, so decided collect photos from the web of all the authors I've encountered through my readings. Check it out. (I've even cropped them to the same size!) I couldn't get all the faces, but did get most.
 Aijaz Ahmad |  Akhil Gupta |  Amita Baviskar |  Andrea Nightingale |
 Anssi Paasi |  Anthony Bebbington |  Antje Linkenbach |  Arturo Escobar |
 Arun Agarwal |  Atul Kohli |  Barbara Harriss-White |  Benedict Anderson |
 Clyde Barrow |  David Harvey |  Emma Mawdsley |  Engin Isin |
 Eric Hobsbawm |  Francine Frankel |  Hamza Alavi |  Harpriya Rangan |
 Jack Ives |  James Fairhead |  James McCarthy |  Joel Midgal |
 John Harriss |  Jurgen Habermas |  Karl Marx |  Margaret Fitzsimmons |
|  Joan Martinez-Alier |  Max Weber |  Michel Foucault |
 Nancy Peluso |  Nestor Garcia-Canclini |  Niraja Gopal Jayal |  Noel Castree |
 Partha Chatterjee |  Paul Robbins |  Paul Routledge |  Pierre Bourdieu |
 Piers Blaikie |  Prabhat Patnaik |  Pramod Parajuli |  Pranab Bardhan |
|  Richard Peet |  Samir Amin |  Stephen Cullenberg |
 Stuart Corbridge |  Tania Murray-Li |  Zoya Hasan |  Karl Zimmerer |
 P.P. Karan |  Joshua Muldavin |  Michael Mann |  Neil Smith |
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