Given the tendencies of the Liberal Party of Canada and a lot of the dominant discourse, I can't really be surprised that the rhetoric of "accountability" is flourishing in relation to academic grants.

"According to a transcript of the committee meeting last month, Blanchette-Joncas questioned whether applying EDI criteria to research funding prioritized “ideological considerations” over “academic freedom.” "

...lovely

Well these be streamed?
(Sorry - would love to attend but my travel budget doesn't quite exist LOL)

But I'm still at the stage of half remembering all of this, including half remembering what I liked and disliked, which means I am FAR away from any discussion of how this effects new empirical research.

Sorry, I'm babbling toward an idea. (3/3)

There's also some interesting commentary in corners of Rules of Art, on the roles of salons as boundaries of fields, and also there's an article entitled, "Is a disinterested act possible." And Gil Eyal wrote an essay about Bourdieu & autonomy, but I don't have the citation handy. (2/3)

Oh, yeah, that book is a fantastic intro to Bourdieu, and he talks a bit in there about what it means for a field to be relatively more or less autonomous in relation to the (meta) field of power. In short, IIRC, building around identifying homologous positions is key. 1/3)

I have a lit review on this from grad school I am going to have to dig up and read if I really want to be serious about this.

Hmm.

In short, assuming I remember it correctly, Bourdieu implies that autonomous fields of cultural production are a good thing and produce more opportunity for an egalitarian society, if not full liberation.

I need to double check stuff, but is that how other people understand him?

Things are definitely rough.

“Promising young man” justice discourse but for companies, love it