Why is it so hard to believe that a person can do everything 'right' and still fail to find a TT job? Are we *that* wedded to the idea of academia as a meritocracy?
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invested in exclusivity and perceived difficulty of access as markers of quality, yet such gatekeeping perpetuates its structural inequities. All roads lead to 'you don't want it enough' when exclusivity and inaccessibility hinder your ability to work in academia. For all the lip
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service paid to 'yeah, we have problems in academia', we keep hitting this wall of not wanting it enough, not being willing to forgo family or relationships or any sense of permanence, not being willing to go into debt in order to finance the possibility of eventual work,
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not toeing the disciplinary line in terms of where and what we publish. If we don't question the need for these things, we can't hope to address the problems of academic employment.
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This point in particular is SO important. I've seen this bias play out, and it's antithetical to our mission as educators and (public) intellectuals. Some of this might begin to be resolved by calling out that implicit bias in the room.
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And then maybe making room for alternative ways of engaging with each other and the broader public. It's strange to me that *media* studies, of all things, remains so entrenched in analog production/dissemination of knowledge. There are attempts to address this - Antenna, Flow,
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