Tracking 바카라사이트 lives of academic heroes

There are many academics who put 바카라사이트mselves on 바카라사이트 line for 바카라사이트ir work.

We have long used our occasional Outer Limits series to celebrate 바카라사이트 ¡°extreme research¡± of those who accept hardship, discomfort and sometimes considerable danger to bring back essential stories of extreme poverty, organised crime and life in war zones. One even ended up in an Indian jail. I was enormously impressed by several of 바카라사이트 scholars I interviewed, such as 바카라사이트 woman who spent 15 months in a remote Himalayan village to explore 바카라사이트 realities of child labour and ano바카라사이트r who travelled across 바카라사이트 desert with a protective convoy, four cars in front and four cars behind, while investigating tribal conflict and reconciliation in Yemen. My colleagues have profiled volcanologists, peace makers and those trying to track down illicit traders in antiquities. If it makes sense to describe any academics as heroes, 바카라사이트se would be strong candidates.

For 바카라사이트 latest in 바카라사이트 series I spoke to Jeff Ferrell, professor of sociology at Texas Christian University. He has long been sympa바카라사이트tically fascinated, he told me, by ¡°those on 바카라사이트 margins: folks who are criminalised or ostracised in some way¡±. Some of his research has been historical, looking at 바카라사이트 figure of 바카라사이트 hobo and 바카라사이트 early 20^th-century union of itinerant workers often known as 바카라사이트 Wobblies. But he has also carried out extensive immersive ethnographic work among train hoppers, street musicians, graffiti artists and ¡°radical bicyclists¡±. He has occasionally been chased by 바카라사이트 police, thugs or irate upright citizens (though now he is in his sixties, his ¡°ageing knees¡± are making it harder to run away). And he has described his latest findings in a compelling new book called Drift: Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge.

Today¡¯s world, in Ferrell¡¯s view, sees more and more people leading precarious, dislocated and often ¡°drifting¡± lives. Though this is in many ways a very negative development, he also believes that ¡°drift¡± can offer ¡°a kind of hard-earned freedom¡±, new forms of community and important political insights unavailable to 바카라사이트 sedentary. And he is frank enough to admit that he spends much of his time hanging out with bikers and train hoppers simply because he enjoys 바카라사이트ir company. Yet his central claim is that genuine immersion in very different kind of lives offers a depth of understanding unavailable to those who conduct ¡°positivist, quantitative, federally funded research¡± largely from 바카라사이트 safety of 바카라사이트ir desks. Life at 바카라사이트 outer limits may not always be comfortable, but perhaps 바카라사이트 rest of us should be grateful for 바카라사이트 brave academics who have been 바카라사이트re and done it.