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Nicholas Pagnucco
@nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social
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Sociologist at St Mary's University, Calgary Specialties: Post Secondary Education, Culture, Organizations, Theory. He/Him cishet White settler. My posts are my own, reposts are not necessarily endorsements.
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · 2d
Doing a quick literature search on the relationship between postsecondary and democracy for reasons.

It's rather painful how antiquated academic work from 3 years ago feels. 3 years ago, I probably would have read the same abstracts and called them "optimistic"

...sigh
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · 7d
Well these be streamed?
(Sorry - would love to attend but my travel budget doesn't quite exist LOL)
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · 22d
Beware the scholastic fallacy.
shammaiintl.bsky.social Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 22d
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Yirmeya raises a dilemma:"
pymundgenealogy.com P. Y. Mund @pymundgenealogy.com · 22d
"by Joseph Kohen-Zedek"
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · 23d
I really wish my university had a sociology of social movements course.
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · 24d
I'm going to have to read the report. I'm assuming there will be parts that worry me.
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · 24d
But I'm still at the stage of half remembering all of this, including half remembering what I liked and disliked, which means I am FAR away from any discussion of how this effects new empirical research.

Sorry, I'm babbling toward an idea. (3/3)
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · 24d
There's also some interesting commentary in corners of Rules of Art, on the roles of salons as boundaries of fields, and also there's an article entitled, "Is a disinterested act possible." And Gil Eyal wrote an essay about Bourdieu & autonomy, but I don't have the citation handy. (2/3)
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · 24d
Oh, yeah, that book is a fantastic intro to Bourdieu, and he talks a bit in there about what it means for a field to be relatively more or less autonomous in relation to the (meta) field of power. In short, IIRC, building around identifying homologous positions is key. 1/3)
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · 24d
I have a lit review on this from grad school I am going to have to dig up and read if I really want to be serious about this.

Hmm.
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · 25d
In short, assuming I remember it correctly, Bourdieu implies that autonomous fields of cultural production are a good thing and produce more opportunity for an egalitarian society, if not full liberation.

I need to double check stuff, but is that how other people understand him?
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · 25d
*sighs*
I'm going to regret this, but I really want to figure out the viability of Bourdieu's normative claims regarding the relative autonomy of fields. Wish me luck. #sociology #socialtheory #bourdieu
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Sep 29
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · Sep 17
Jesus Chuck...I GUESS WE ARE NOW! So what the fuck are you going to do about it??
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Sep 17
Chuck Schumer just told CNN, in the wake of Kimmel’s suspension, that “we are not that country.”

Alas we are, now. Maybe not forever. But now.
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · Sep 18
Things are definitely rough.
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Nevermet @nevermet.bsky.social · Aug 17
We are definitely through some kinda looking glass.
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · Aug 17
I am not sure how many people realize the huge array of field affected by these cut to science agencies. For example, the NSF quietly stopped hosting the public available USAP photo library last month, a resource of thousands of historic United States Antarctic photos dating to the 1940s. #histsci
bordergroves.bsky.social Gregory A. Hargreaves 🍂 @bordergroves.bsky.social · Aug 16
This is profoundly bad. The data generated by NASA feeds research in many, MANY disciplines. I, for instance, am a historian, and my dissertation (now book project) uses satellite imagery as a major source for exploring the historical relationship between people and the environment.
jenlucpiquant.bsky.social Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Aug 15
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · Aug 17
Just got a weird email to my gmail, from the mailer daemon saying that an email I sent could not be delivered.

It claims the email address I tried to send stuff to was my own, and the content of the email was a T-mobile spam link.

I did not click the link and I changed my gmail password.

???
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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · Aug 9
“Promising young man” justice discourse but for companies, love it
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · Aug 8
It’s posts like this that make me feel soc of media courses are extremely important, but they also make me painfully aware of my inadequacies to teach it.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Aug 7
If I could pick one image to send back to 2003 to try and change the timeline
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · Aug 6
I don't, but this looks like something I should know more about. Thanks and sorry
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · Aug 3
I need a few more days to decide if I have a coherent comment worth making. At the moment, my thoughts are verbose, but not quite coherent.
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · Aug 2
Of course, in all 3 cases, the Theorist is somehow Not a Pidgeon.
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Nicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · Aug 2
hmm
I feel some versions of poststructuralism could do that.

Frankfurt School at its most bleak was "we could have been more than pidgeons with opposable thumbs, but here we are."

There's a reading of Bourdieu where we're just a pile of habitus and capital in a trench coat that comes close.
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