[lbo-talk] Ward Churchill and Left-wing Publishers

Michael Hoover hooverm at scc-fl.edu
Thu May 18 12:46:00 PDT 2006



>>> critical.montages at gmail.com 05/18/06 9:43 AM >>>
It's a very rare university to hire a left-wing scholar, let alone award tenure to him, based on what he published in Z Magazine or even Monthly Review. Publications in left-wing venues are normally not considered as part of academic work. Even _peer-reviewed_ scholarly left-wing journals -- e.g., New Political Science -- aren't regarded as relevant as non-left-wing peer-reviewed journals. Yoshie <<<<<>>>>>

allow me to put in a plug for nps that yoshie mentions above: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/07393148.html

1970s origins of likes of new political science - and journals such as politics and society, theory and society, critical sociology (originally insurgent sociologist) - can be traced to attempts to find places for radical scholarship and to build alternatives to mainstream academic journals...mainstream journals generally refused to publish leftist research, folks were being denied tenure because they didn't have requisite publishing record, of course, they couldn't get published because mainstream journals refused to publish their stuff, pretty obvious circularity here...

those who established and promoted criticial and radical alternatives sought to create publications that would *count* - hence, the peer-review process - towards helping people keep their jobs, as yoshie points out, however, these journals have never really been recognized by those who dominate social science disciplines... mh

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