WilliamsMemo42

=Williams Memo 42 Plan of Study= I still have a lot of reading to do before I defend my proposal. There are a lot of books and articles about Sustainable Development, World Development, Transnationalism, Neoliberalism, Modernity, social construction of technology, medical sociology, etc that I have not read. Also, there is quite a lot of secondary literature that I can possibly analyze on medical technology and avoidable blindness. __**Plan of Study**__ __**TIMELINE**__
 * 1) Develop a comprehensive review of three primary literatures:
 * 2) World Development
 * 3) Transnational networks/NGOs
 * 4) Nonlegislative governance (harmonization; NGOs)
 * 5) Appropriate technology/ technology choice {in this literature; but I will not use this term}
 * 6) Neoliberalism & World Systems : Show how this moment in time has affected technology transfer processes
 * 7) Technological Change (field of STS); Knowledge Translation (field of Anthropology); Technology Transfer (field of Business); Technology Diffusion (fields of Sociology, Public Health, Public Policy, and Economics)
 * 8) Develop comprehensive background in secondary literatures:
 * 9) medical technology design, medical technology diffusion, and medical technology-practice from the perspective of social construction of technology theorists and policy analysts
 * 10) Avoidable blindness (cataracts, glaucoma, trauchoma, onchocerciasis)
 * 11) Develop a general understanding of the following literatures:
 * 12) Re-read: knowledge inscription and Actor Network Theory (Latour)
 * 13) Read: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (Bloor), Local Knowledges (???), Public Engagement (???), Community Science (???)
 * 14) Re-read Social Movements: collectives (????), epistemic cultures (Knorr-Cetina), collective identity (Melucci 1996), transnational activism (Tarrow 1998&2005), transnational activist networks (Keck and Skikink 1999)
 * 15) Read Organizational theory: flexibility (???), resilience (???), risk (???), uncertainty (???), cooperation (???)
 * 16) Read/re-read Design Theory: design of public and private spaces (???), participatory design (???) , material artifacts and large socio-technical systems (Bijker, Hughes, and Pinch, ed. 1987).
 * 17) Possible methods courses: RPI's Ethnography and Cultural Analysis (Fall 2009) and SUNY's Survey Design and Analysis (Fall 2010)
 * May - July 2009**
 * July 2009 - Aug2009 6 weeks Pre-dissertation fieldwork : Begin collecting ethnographic data, observe and interview professionals in NGOs, and eye care clinics in Kathmandu, Nepal ($2000 flight + $2816 Passage Project International/food & lodging = $4816 USD)
 * August 2009 - December 2009 Coursework**
 * January 2010 - May 2010 Coursework & Comprehensive Exam**
 * April 2010 Comprehensive Exams
 * April 2010 Unite for Sight Global Health Conference; participant observation
 * May - July 2010**
 * Public Health Internship and, or, pre-dissertation fieldwork
 * August 2010 - Dec 2010 Finish Coursework & Candidacy Exam**
 * Oct 2010 Defend Proposal (Candidacy Exam)
 * NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant Application Due