Wednesday September 1

More press and thoughts from Mohsin Zaheer (Sada E Pakistan) as well as David Greenfield (City Council) here. My journey started in a community reacting to Amir 'King' Khan's boxing victory as well as Faisal Shahzad's apprehension and failed bombing attempt. External things were a big factor throughout the summer.

getting tired...

Monday August 30

posed some more questions to get family trees and messed up an appointment with one of the most important people in the 'community!' oh well, it'll be ok. also lost some more notes thanks to a gmail fault. not mine!

Sunday August 29

football at night when all the uncles are busy

More media coverage and even more here! Now just saying good byes... and trying to wrap up some missing data.

Saturday August 28

snake!

One way to spend the last days of the research project is to lie sick in bed, immobile. Here's how one young man spent his summer.

Wednesday August 25

you lookin at me????

here's lookin at you, kids

spectacle at brooklyn borough hall

Tuesday August 24

WRAP UP

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... KHUDA HAFIZ???? NOT YET!! "I HAVE JUST GOT  A FEWWWWW MORE QUESTIONS PLEASE!!"

More press in Midwood on Sunday here and also here.  

are you talking to me? am i looking at you?

Sunday August 22

v. important information

Took a break Sunday, stayed mostly dry, and writing up notes. Need to finish surveys this week and collect notebooks.

Friday August 20

local barbershop

Lots of media attention this week. A documentary maker from California, Channel 12, NPR, NY Times, NY 1, and at least one other agency came to the neighborhood to learn about the flood reaction, the Manhattan mosque reaction, among other things. I volunteered in the basement of a popular restaurant and didn't do much else besides. Ate a chicken and rice again, after almost 2 months.

Thursday August 19

popular image in this part of the world

Biked back to Brooklyn, did no real work but some informal observation and took some photos. Last two weeks in BK.

Thursday August 19

popular

Busy. writing up notes. As seen in bk.

Tuesday August 17

paratha and daal at 4:30am at bukhari

Monday August 16

First observation of service in the community that high school students do.

community service

Sunday August 15

Politics in the community... Taken in Manhattan at the Pakistan Consulate. This was an action that featured about 20 people and advocated that Pakistan repatriate Afia.

Friday August 13

writing up notes at this hour, lovely way to stay busy at 1am. Rode to Queens, 10 miles in 50 minutes. Informally interviewed several people and finally got to meet HS.

local politics in midwood

Thursday August 12

Working over time, no time left! Working at night, working in the day, and gosh I gotta step it up!

Wednesday August 11

Made an introduction between a student and a civic organization, and chit chatted about websites and blogs for several hours! Some pictures from the Pak Independence Day Parade, a few days before the Dominican Parade. Well attended and very well organized. The fighting? It's just natural. Also continued the surveying of Coney Island Avenue. And got shitted on by a pigeon right outside a fabric store where a half American half Pakistani was shooting a doc.

:)

doesn't look like he's having any fun

young man helping out with the campaign (NOT ME, I'M JUST POSING)

gora! does this mean this is not a community event?

what is community? where is community?

kids just wanna have fun

Tuesday August 10

Still writing notes at 12:57am from the day. Ramzan starts Thursday.

Monday August 9

6 in the morning!!!!!!! YUM!!!!

satter/sattar same thing??

Wendys for breakfast as the break winds down. Got robbed in the evening when I got back to Queens. Anticipating the start of Ramzan and will return to BK on Tuesday morning. Missed the cricket final and the Brooklyn Mela but ready for the four last weeks of the project!

Sauturday August 7

Taking a break!

Thursday August 5

Monday August 2

"hangama"

truly, yours

Intermission!

Sunday August 1

Some informal interviewing at a parade and some standardized interviews in Midwood on Saturday. So ends 9 weeks of fieldwork. Hopefully the data will be useful, but at least it will get worked into a boring paper with some big words mixed in here and there. There were no fights as previously reported by participants, and lots of folks from out of state. Time for a one week break. And some pizza.

Thursday July 29

r.kelly

brooklyn 2010

After losing a notepad, forgetting where I parked my bike, and going the wrong way in the subway, it's time for a break.
Probably the data is no good, possibly I didn't ask the right questions, but I did have a lot of fun!

Saturday July 24 and Sunday July 25

right before the tournament started at the local park

Traveled to the Bronx from Queens, back to Queens for a Jackson Heights visit, and then down to Bath Beach for an attempted oral history interview that was unplanned. One of the first systematic observations of basketball this summer.

Friday July 23

Volunteered in the morning. Did some fake and not so random scanning thanks to AZ's suggestion. Happened almost by accident to attend a civic meeting that I didn't fully understand, and watched a football game for the first time this summer. So I guess youth do more than just play kirket. Need to take more of AZ's advice to better understand the community. SAT session tomorrow!

Wednesday July 21

Checked time logs, systematic observation at a sports event, biked from Brooklyn to Flushing, and then took it a bit easy with laundry and bike cleaning.

Monday July 19

No pictures today, but started one volunteer position and spent time at another. Played some more cricket (participant observation I guess) and did some informal interviewing and looked at some time logs. Need to speed up before Ramzan arrives. I ought to spend more time watching basketball but there's an incredible array of activities that I will just never be able to cover.

Sunday July 18

And this is me putting in the overtime hours, working hard, doing some "systematic observation" or something like that just as H. Russell Bernard explained!

Saturday July 17

Returned to BK and still recovering from wisdom teeth extraction! Long night of participant observation again and started to see the participation of the community. Can anyone tell me where this photo was taken?

Thursday July 16

More cricket, more notebooks passed out, and two visits to MM. A trip to Eastern Market for some flour, and some more informal interviewing. No pictures today either!

Tuesday July 13 and Wednesday July 14

Rained out on Tuesday... water everywhere! Wednesday was more constructive in getting more participants, including a 5th grader! I printed out the survey instrument, hopefully for translation, and learned about the Pakistani Parade coming up in Manhattan. More than halfway through, only 5 weeks remain. No pictures today!

Monday July 12

hard at work in the field, the tension-free
life of a grad student

We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

Played cricket and did some brief interviewing. Spent some time at the library, checked out the 2004 edition of Soulside. I witnessed some chess games, and a fairly aggressive debate on the recent stoning of an Iranian woman. A Jew and Muslim went for three roundsn with little ground ceded. I made a flier, but it sucked.

Sunday July 11

Saturday July 11

after a long night of participant observation, long day of chill and rethinking instruments.

BK to Queens

Yes

Thursday July 8

More photos, less data, regular programming will resume after these short messages from our sponsors

Tuesday July 6

biking from here to there, quick ride on the G train to Queens, interviews with two students... what kind of data do i need to prove my point?