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Thu, Jul. 30th, 2009 07:21 am (UTC)
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This is a fantastic post; thank you so much for sharing it.

in the way so many histories and stories are not lost, but deliberately destroyed or written out. You see it in how bits and pieces of culture are taken and assimilated, and how people using those pieces of culture do so with the assumption that they now know that entire culture. And when this lack of knowledge is combined with the belief in the right to know, we end up with people demanding explanations again and again, the repeated requests for academics to get into locked spaces so they can observe their subjects in the wild, the simultaneous asking for education even as the askers are hard at work denying all the answers they are given, with so many people wanting access without making ties to communities, without putting in any work.

Yes. In addition, from my own experiences in academia, I frequently feel that relationships between academics and/or those who feel they have a natural right to knowledge and demand knowledge and the disprivileged communit being "observed" largely reflects real world dynamics, the relationship is often abused and is devoid of any groundwork of trust. I've been struck by the ordinary nature of the absence of informed consent in conversation contexts in fandom as well as academia; it's not surprising but the very lack of privileged people asking whether they can ask for education (but rather jumping straight to demanding education and then derailing through recrimination and tone arguments when they are refused).

Eh. I'm kind of rambling but this post has made me very thinky! Thanks!
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