Comments on: I’m too tired to read your work — on refusing HAU Journal

By: Rune

Rune — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 10:59:17 +0000

Thanks Zoe! As a privileged, white, middle-aged, tenured male professor I agree whole-heartedly with you on this. We do need “a radical commitment to co-thinking, co-constitution, collaboration, and building otherwise.” This is the right way forward for our discipline! Keep up your good work!

By: Proshant Chakraborty

Proshant Chakraborty — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 05:21:56 +0000

In reply to Susann. Susann, you must be new around here, right? I mean, at this point what Zoe is saying is almost intuitive for everyone who's been engaged in #hautalk. Anyway, thanks for stopping by.

By: Miri

Miri — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 03:46:21 +0000

In reply to Susann.

Why do you put scholarship in quotation marks? Are you familiar with her scholarship? You’re making assumptions about her academic credibility based on a wrong reading of her text: in no way is she saying that her academic knowledge is based on her twitter feed. READ AGAIN. Her statement is about looking for other spaces of anthropological knowledge, of which Twitter is just one of many:

“In journals, yes, but also on Twitter, on blogs, podcasts, in conference spaces, in alternative venues being manifested beyond the institutional borders policed by the establishment. ”

I don’t know how what’s there to misunderstand, so it seems to me you’re just using your own false interpretation to belittle her and her article, while clearly missing the point she very powerfully makes. I feel sorry for your first year students.

By: CB

CB — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 01:20:36 +0000

In reply to Susann. @Susann thank you for illustrating the authors point flawlessly.

By: Priscila

Priscila — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 20:06:42 +0000

In reply to Susann. I read the entire editorial. Wish I had done as Zoe did.

By: Susann

Susann — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 13:59:54 +0000

“I have only read one screen cap of a portion of the editorial on twitter”
So you are fulminating against something you have not even read. Your ‘scholarship’ is based on your twitter feed. I wouldn’t let my first year students do that.