...Oosthuizen has been one of the senior scholars most vocally in favor of ditching the term 'Anglo-Saxon,' and the reviewer, John Hines, drafted that awful letter in support of keeping the term last year. (2/6)
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In other words, this is a politically-motivated book review entirely for the purpose of denigrating and discrediting a perceived opponent. (3/6)
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I should mention here that _Emergence_ has been incredibly well-received otherwise, so this is not an example of ensuring rigorous scholarship or academic excellence. (favorable review attached as example) (4/6)https://gesteofrobinhood.com/2019/04/10/no-longer-a-dark-age-susan-oosthuizens-the-emergence-of-the-english-2019/ …
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Instead it's just unwarranted hostility of the kind that makes academia so slow to change. If a senior scholar like Oosthuizen can be targeted like this, what's the message to ECRs who want to speak out? To BIPOC? It's "shut up or we'll tear apart your work." (5/6)
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This is how the curmudgeonly side of academia gatekeeps ideas and worldviews it doesn't like, and it sucks. (6/6)
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There are respectful negative reviews. This isn't one of them. "Fake history" and "post-truth"? It's academic dick-swinging.
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Yep. A lot of us have tried to respectfully point out that they often use the same rhetoric as the alt right but the respectful part is wearing thin as they continue to do it.
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But that's also tied to the field's system of abuse and who it upholds as authorities. A lot of (mostly) British, white men have held this view that they, alone, are authorities and having that interrogated is sending them into panic-mode, so they are punching in all directions.
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I seem to remember a recent letter calling for “good will, and temperate, courteous and respectful behaviour, between academics ... in every circumstance. ... (1/2)
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“That should not prevent robust debate over scholarly work, but criticisms ... should always be focused upon evidence, methods and interpretations, and not directed personally.” I’m sure the author of that letter would therefore join me in upbraiding the author of this review.
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