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<div>Just passing on a interesting development/provocation below.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Guy</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><Bailey>, Michael G W <<a href="mailto:mbailey@essex.ac.uk">mbailey@essex.ac.uk</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, 5 June 2013 11:59 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"Bailey, Michael G W" <<a href="mailto:mbailey@essex.ac.uk">mbailey@essex.ac.uk</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>German Sociological Association (GSA) Boycott Academic Rankings<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Perhaps our own Associations should be thinking about taking similar action here in the UK and elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(79, 129, 189); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.isa-sociology.org/global-dialogue/2013/04/german-sociologists-boycott-academic-ranking/?goback=%2Egde_1491397_member_245669052"><span style="color:#4F81BD">http://www.isa-sociology.org/global-dialogue/2013/04/german-sociologists-boycott-academic-ranking/?goback=%2Egde_1491397_member_245669052</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(79, 129, 189); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.soziologie.de/index.php?id=768"><span style="color:#4F81BD">http://www.soziologie.de/index.php?id=768</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Dr Michael Bailey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Department of Sociology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">University of Essex<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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