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Today I focused on digesting press for the critical-juncture chapter. I have a lot of good material from the 1890s that helps provide political context for the polcy choices that I study in greater detail. I made progress on that same chapter, and should be able to wrestle it to the ground tomorrow.
From June 2007 to June 2008, I posted each weekday regarding progress on my dissertation. This blog was called "It Takes a Village to Write a Dissertation."
On August 15, 2008, I filed my dissertation, completing all the requirements for my Ph.D in Political Science from UC Berkeley. Friends and family, thank you for keeping me honest. Mission accomplished!
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STATUS OF CHAPTERS
Chapter 1: Armed Challenges, Security-Force Configurations, and Party Systems
PART I: THE 19TH CENTURY BACKGROUND
Chapter 2: Regionalism, "Two-Partyism," and the Struggle for a Central-Federal Balance: 19th-Century Antecedents to State Formation
PART II: POLITICIANS, PARTIES, SOLDIERS, AND POLICE IN ANTIOQUIA'S RECURRING LOCAL INSURRECTION (1946-54)
Chapter 4: Antioquia in Context
PART III: LA VIOLENCIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 7: Security-Forces, Party Systems, and Armed Challenges in Latin American Context
Complete
PART I: THE 19TH CENTURY BACKGROUND
Chapter 2: Regionalism, "Two-Partyism," and the Struggle for a Central-Federal Balance: 19th-Century Antecedents to State Formation
CompleteChapter 3: Designing the Colombian Security Forces (1886-1910)
Complete
PART II: POLITICIANS, PARTIES, SOLDIERS, AND POLICE IN ANTIOQUIA'S RECURRING LOCAL INSURRECTION (1946-54)
Chapter 4: Antioquia in Context
CompleteChapter 5: Conflict Rising: Politicized Security Forces and the Escalation of La Violencia (1945-48)
CompleteChapter 6: Generalized Conflict: Security Forces and Politicians in the "High" Period of La Violencia (1948-54)
Complete
PART III: LA VIOLENCIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 7: Security-Forces, Party Systems, and Armed Challenges in Latin American Context
CompleteConclusion
Complete
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1 comment:
Hey Chris,
I hope work is going well today. The term you use for this chapter - "critical juncture" -- sounds very intimidating, like a dragon to be slain en route to the conclusion. Is it because you move to a comparative analysis in this chapter? What is critical about this point of the writing for you?
All I can think to offer is some advice from my acupuncturist. When I told her recently that I was wrestling (same verb, I swear) with memories of my cancer surgery, she offered: "Why wrestle with those demons, have you tried inviting them to tea instead?"
I think it's easy to get caught up in militarized language around personal goals (the battle for the dissertation!!) and a sense of struggle; especially when studying the development of armies and police forces! But can the labor be different? A peaceful negotiation with all the ideas in your head. One fellow survivor I know didn't like the constant use of "fight" and "battle" the disease, she's a buddhist and took a different approach to the work of recovery.
So, if you get really stumped, try inviting your thesis, or your key figures to tea.
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