David Babcock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1200940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Babcock |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Babcock |
| SIGNATURE | BABCOCK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Bildung of the professional class
Global development discourse presupposes a close relationship between nations and the professionals who administer them. This paper uses formal analysis to articulate problems of political representation facing the African professional class when it assumes the responsibility of governing a national population. It does this via a reading of Mary Karooro Okurut’s The Invisible Weevil, a 1998 roman à clef that recounts Uganda’s postcolonial history…
We Are All Administrators Now
This article reviews John Marx's Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011, a study of how the novel has sought to intervene in global administration over the long twentieth century. Adopting a genealogical approach, Marx aims to identify the discursive conditions through which literature came to have something to say about global governance. The anglophone novel, he argues, has evolved in conversation with a sociological discourse of profe…
Professional Intimacies
Korean Composers in Profile
Ancient, ornately carved palaces in the midst of a megalopolis, the spirituality of delicate green Koryo celadon, an archaic traditional music as pungent (and delicious) as kimchi – once experienced, never forgotten. Add to these the city of Kyongju, called the ‘museum without walls’, the many reminders of a long history of suffering under Japanese oppression and the uninterrupted excellence of its poetry and visual arts, and one begins to feel K…
The Bildung of the professional class
Global development discourse presupposes a close relationship between nations and the professionals who administer them. This paper uses formal analysis to articulate problems of political representation facing the African professional class when it assumes the responsibility of governing a national population. It does this via a reading of Mary Karooro Okurut’s The Invisible Weevil, a 1998 roman à clef that recounts Uganda’s postcolonial history…
Korean Composers in Profile
Ancient, ornately carved palaces in the midst of a megalopolis, the spirituality of delicate green Koryo celadon, an archaic traditional music as pungent (and delicious) as kimchi – once experienced, never forgotten. Add to these the city of Kyongju, called the ‘museum without walls’, the many reminders of a long history of suffering under Japanese oppression and the uninterrupted excellence of its poetry and visual arts, and one begins to feel K…
Professional Intimacies
We Are All Administrators Now
This article reviews John Marx's Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011, a study of how the novel has sought to intervene in global administration over the long twentieth century. Adopting a genealogical approach, Marx aims to identify the discursive conditions through which literature came to have something to say about global governance. The anglophone novel, he argues, has evolved in conversation with a sociological discourse of profe…
The Bildung of the professional class
Global development discourse presupposes a close relationship between nations and the professionals who administer them. This paper uses formal analysis to articulate problems of political representation facing the African professional class when it assumes the responsibility of governing a national population. It does this via a reading of Mary Karooro Okurut’s The Invisible Weevil, a 1998 roman à clef that recounts Uganda’s postcolonial history…
Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Agency (philosophy (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)