File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1999/bourdieu.9912, message 129


Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:42:02 +1000 (EST)
From: Ania Lian <ania-AT-lingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: natural academic


On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Deborah W Kilgore wrote:

> This is not 
> to say I admire Oprah Winfrey more than I admire Jesse Jackson: the 
> opposite is true.  But does one have to be honorable or admirable to change 
> the field?  I say no.  That is, if I may use Tobin's words again, "a kind 
> of compensatory fantasy" (I don't know why, but that phrase just struck me 
> as particularly well-spoken).

you have to be honoured to "change the field" in an honourable direction,
I guess. Some may pursue this goal in more overt ways. I do not know
about Oprah well enough to assess her. But it seems that simply by
example, little can be done. Some form of legislative action needs to be
pursued in order to legislate a change. Someone , or some groups need to
make the issue relevant in ways that teh issue becomes relevant to us all.
This is not simple and I do not think that can be achieved in either way:
by example or by force. It seems that both is needed even if forced
actionmay also take many forms.

Ania lian
 


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