In Praise of Zotero: The One Hill I Will Die On in Research Workflow
Why a free, open reference manager is the single tool most likely to save a doctoral project, and what its unpolished interface is quietly buying you.
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Browse page 4 of Adam DJ Brett's blog archive with posts on web development, digital publishing, teaching, and project updates.
There Is No Neutral Map: Humanities Theory as a Foundation for Method
Anderson and During recast theory as a set of reading practices rather than a doctrine, which turns the ordinary work of sorting a field into an argument you have to defend.
The Master Who Knew No Flemish: How Rancière’s Ignorant Schoolmaster Works
Joseph Jacotot taught French he could not explain, and Jacques Rancière turned the accident into an argument about what every explanation assumes before it begins.
The Unforced Force: Habermas and How Best Practice Gets Settled
Jürgen Habermas separates practice argued out among practitioners from practice handed down by money or command, and leaves behind a portable audit for telling the two apart.
Lessons Without a Syllabus: Henry Giroux, Public Pedagogy, and Democracy
Giroux moves pedagogy out of the classroom and into film, policy, and platforms, and then the question becomes which institution teaches your field its common sense.
There and Back Again: Why the Journey into Theory Only Counts If You Come Home
Theory is never the destination for a scholar-practitioner; the rhythm is praxis, theory, praxis, and the test at the end is the question a friend asks over coffee.
A Good Idea Gathering Dust: From Named Gap to Workable Innovation
Three lenses on innovation (diffusion, encoding, leading change), one philosophical move underneath them, and two tests any proposal has to survive.
The Gadfly and the Algorithm: Why Critical Thinking Is Not Yet Critical Theory
A walk through the Frankfurt School’s claim that thinking becomes critique only when it accounts for its own historical situation, institutions, and consequences.
The Abstract Goes Last: Finishing an Article Without Tack-On Piety
How to end a piece of practice-based scholarship: implications that point forward, reflection that grows from the argument instead of decorating it, and an abstract written after everything else.
Calibrating the Instrument: Ethnoautobiography and the Question of Whose Best Counts
Kremer and Jackson-Paton’s reflexive method braids autobiography, ethnography, and participatory epistemology into a discipline for naming where you stand when you judge.
Who Are You Such That You Live Here: Ethnoautobiography as a Research Design
How a practice of radical presence became a defensible method: its dimensions, the dissertations that built it, and the point where it meets autoethnography.
Practice Talks Back: Integrating Theory, Identity, and Faith in Doctoral Work
How de Kock’s model of integration turns the literature review into a conversation partner and makes the researcher’s own location part of the evidence.