So I finally got through the ISA program (yes, days after I left the conference), and there are a lot of papers I want to check out on-line. But one sounds especially fabulous - "Dressed for the Occasion: Post-War British Diplomacy and the Dresses of Elizabeth II." I've got to get my hands on that one (among others). Do any of you have reports of the good, the bad, or the ugly, that you'd like to share from this year's event?
Posted by armand at February 20, 2009 01:40 PM | TrackBack | Posted to The AcademyAmazing what counts as scholarship these days, innit?
Posted by: jacflash at February 20, 2009 07:35 PM | PERMALINKWell I haven't read the paper, but I'm guessing the work looks at the attire as a form of political communication, something that the clothes of monarchs have been for centuries. And it seems perfectly reasonable to me to study political communication.
Posted by: Armand at February 20, 2009 10:10 PM | PERMALINKOK, I'll buy that... at least provisionally. But surely you don't disagree that there's an awful lot of academic weak sauce out there these days?
Posted by: jacflash at February 21, 2009 06:02 AM | PERMALINKWell, sure - but the weak sauce could come from skewed statistics or formal models. Rigorous work is rigorous work, and it can come in a variety of forms.
Posted by: Armand at February 21, 2009 10:13 AM | PERMALINKYou know, this could fit nicely with the subject of "signalling," always important in IR.
Posted by: binky at February 21, 2009 02:45 PM | PERMALINK