https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/arts/academic-journals-hoax.html
Sad and hilarious and illustrative of the insanity and shoddiness of these identity based social sciences. The manner they went about doing it seems ethically dubious but at the end of the day it served its purpose. This introduces a large amount of doubt into the fields and should be alarming to the "scientific" community as a whole. Even more hilarious is that one of the papers was simply Mein Kampf but modified to include some feminist buzzwords. Accepted and published.
We spent that time writing academic papers and publishing them in respected peer-reviewed journals associated with fields of scholarship loosely known as “cultural studies” or “identity studies” (for example, gender studies) or “critical theory” because it is rooted in that postmodern brand of “theory” which arose in the late sixties. As a result of this work, we have come to call these fields “grievance studies” in shorthand because of their common goal of problematizing aspects of culture in minute detail in order to attempt diagnoses of power imbalances and oppression rooted in identity.
We undertook this project to study, understand, and expose the reality of grievance studies, which is corrupting academic research. Because open, good-faith conversation around topics of identity such as gender, race, and sexuality (and the scholarship that works with them) is nearly impossible, our aim has been to reboot these conversations. We hope this will give people—especially those who believe in liberalism, progress, modernity, open inquiry, and social justice—a clear reason to look at the identitarian madness coming out of the academic and activist left and say, “No, I will not go along with that. You do not speak for me.”
- 7 papers accepted.
- 7 papers still in play when we had to call a halt.
- 6 retired as fatally flawed or beyond repair.
- 4 invitations to peer-review other papers as a result of our own exemplary scholarship.
- 1 paper (the one about rape culture in dog parks) gained special recognition for excellence from its journal, Gender, Place, and Culture, a highly ranked journal that leads the field of feminist geography. The journal honored it as one of twelve leading pieces in feminist geography as a part of the journal’s 25th anniversary celebration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/arts/academic-journals-hoax.html
Sad and hilarious and illustrative of the insanity and shoddiness of these identity based social sciences. The manner they went about doing it seems ethically dubious but at the end of the day it served its purpose. This introduces a large amount of doubt into the fields and should be alarming to the "scientific" community as a whole. Even more hilarious is that one of the papers was simply Mein Kampf but modified to include some feminist buzzwords. Accepted and published.