Cool to see humanities Twitter dunking on research they’ve not actually read based on a PR piece (hell, mostly the headline). Way to model informed and generous engagement with scholarship and show what’s behind your anti-gatekeeping rhetoric.
It’s very common—and absolutely right, I’d say—for humanists to decry gatekeeping and work to welcome diverse perspectives to the study of language and literature. When I see some of those same people, though, seemingly take pleasure in shitting on a new article…
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…written by scholars in an adjacent field (and writing to others in that adjacent field), it’s hard for me not to see hypocrisy, to catch a glimpse of the same ugly impulses they’re—we’re—ostensibly fighting against.
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I take your point. It seems to me that there is a bit more nuance here given that the conversations about gatekeeping are about differentials of power. While I agree that we should resist the impulse to reject other ways of knowing, I don't know that the situations are analogous.
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