I'm not sure what this means tho. We targeted fields as diverse as geography and social work. The only thing they had to have in common was a journal which focused on identity studies of some kind within its scope. I'm sure you'll appreciate that we couldn't submit out of scope.
I'm not sure why this is happening because we targeted this field but I suspect it is because it is politically loaded and people suspect bad motivations, feel defensive and resort to whataboutism. Other fields have problems too! I'm not suggesting you are doing this.
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I think because we targeted journals which look at gender, race & sexuality, people wonder if we have a problem with women and racial & sexual minorities & this manifests by asking why we chose these fields & not others. No, we have a problem with the epistemology & ethics.
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This is what we all do in one way or another. Look at epistemology and ethics and argue for evidence-based epistemology & consistently liberal ethics. We used to focus more on religion & its truth claims and the basis for them and ethics around women's and LGBT rights.
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Do you worry that we may have pushed against religion too hard in the mid-late 2000's? I do. I worry that a lot of what we've seen in the past few years is largely because the new atheist movement was *too* successful... that the religion hole was filled with... something else
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Yes and no. I think we were overconfident that if we made religion withdraw, people would become more reasonable and less ideological. I think this correlation does hold true to a certain extent but that we'll still find other outlets.
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I think that is probably right. I can't think of any fields that are more politically loaded right now
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