Eric Mcguckin
Biographic Data
| ID | 80710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Mcguckin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcguckin |
| SIGNATURE | MCGUCKIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Travelling Paradigms: Marxism, Poststructuralism and the Uses of Theory
I was sitting in the Shangri-La cafe in Dharamsala, India, drinking a beer and reading a much-valued Newsweek when I spotted the Boeing advertisement. Travel, it commanded. Flight turns the world into a single marketplace (Newsweek International 1993:26-27). Because I was in Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, studying the impacts of ethnic and spiritual on Tibetan crafts, the ad struck me immediately. A tasteful two-page spr…
Talking Academic Blues
Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis. Cary Nelson. ed. Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997
Tibetan Carpets: From Folk Art to Global Commodity
This article analyzes the Tibetan refugee carpet industry, demonstrating that the commoditization of handicrafts has had multiple and contradictory impacts on the culture, economy, and class structure of refugee society. Tibetan carpets remain functional objects for their community of origin while they simultaneously advertise Tibetan culture internationally, support refugee institutions, and cater to the tastes of outside consumers. Foreign cons…
Travelling Paradigms: Marxism, Poststructuralism and the Uses of Theory
I was sitting in the Shangri-La cafe in Dharamsala, India, drinking a beer and reading a much-valued Newsweek when I spotted the Boeing advertisement. Travel, it commanded. Flight turns the world into a single marketplace (Newsweek International 1993:26-27). Because I was in Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, studying the impacts of ethnic and spiritual on Tibetan crafts, the ad struck me immediately. A tasteful two-page spr…
Tibetan Carpets: From Folk Art to Global Commodity
This article analyzes the Tibetan refugee carpet industry, demonstrating that the commoditization of handicrafts has had multiple and contradictory impacts on the culture, economy, and class structure of refugee society. Tibetan carpets remain functional objects for their community of origin while they simultaneously advertise Tibetan culture internationally, support refugee institutions, and cater to the tastes of outside consumers. Foreign cons…
Talking Academic Blues
Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis. Cary Nelson. ed. Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997
Tibetan Carpets: From Folk Art to Global Commodity
This article analyzes the Tibetan refugee carpet industry, demonstrating that the commoditization of handicrafts has had multiple and contradictory impacts on the culture, economy, and class structure of refugee society. Tibetan carpets remain functional objects for their community of origin while they simultaneously advertise Tibetan culture internationally, support refugee institutions, and cater to the tastes of outside consumers. Foreign cons…
Talking Academic Blues
Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis. Cary Nelson. ed. Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997
Travelling Paradigms: Marxism, Poststructuralism and the Uses of Theory
I was sitting in the Shangri-La cafe in Dharamsala, India, drinking a beer and reading a much-valued Newsweek when I spotted the Boeing advertisement. Travel, it commanded. Flight turns the world into a single marketplace (Newsweek International 1993:26-27). Because I was in Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, studying the impacts of ethnic and spiritual on Tibetan crafts, the ad struck me immediately. A tasteful two-page spr…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 works) · Business (1 works)