Topic Development 1.0: An Exercise

1. Defining my topic
   1. The intellectual stakes of my “project” will include issues of the representation of certain communities, or spaces. So I guess that means that I will articulate a set of theoretical concerns surrounding these issues.
   2. The aspect of the world that will help me answer this “question” (?) is location (which may also include a review of a certain historical era)
2. Identifying my field
   1. I am working to create a personal library of primary source materials.
      1. documentation of events and exhibitions
      2. literature contained in news sources and the like
      3. scholarship on the representation of communities and space/place
      4. fieldnotes and interviews, eventually
   2. Developing an approach
      1. (my theoretical sources will emerge from)
         1. my intellectual background: ie life? and Marx, Freire…
         2. the subject of your key thesis concerns: identity formation in spaces of community and the intellectual traditions in which i am well versed (street lingo?) (avant garde approaches?). Perhaps the subject of my undergraduate training….