By Harald Bauder and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro (editors)
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A newspaper paragraph entitled “Moscow” or “Java” will henceforth attract his attention. The more so if he is in a lively intercourse with his friend, if both pursue the same work and communicate to one another the results of their explorations. More than that. Let English children be in a continuous exchange of correspondence, collections, and thoughts with Russian children; and be sure that after some time neither English nor Russians will so readily grasp at guns for 4 Ballard, Harlam H. 1884.
The feminist movement, now a force to be reckoned with in and outside the academy, continues to endure serious political backlash within our communities: threatening the credibility of its members, their political projects, and sometimes even their lives (Faludi, 1991). Within academia, feminists worry about their on-going marginalization and exclusion from power, and about whether or not men will engage with their work in ways that further, distort or obstruct feminist agendas (McDowell, 1992).
At its worst, it implies an elitist model of community groups as the instruments of activism, rather than its subjects. Not only are many of the community folks I have worked with leery of the academy and of academics – often for good reason – but the life of the mind is often a lot healthier in many of the community settings in which I have found myself. Also, the role I have been asked to play – if I am a self-identified academic – takes many and different roles. My supposed position as an “impartial academic” means that one group I have worked with has used me as a strategic mouthpiece, given that individuals feared the consequences of speaking out publicly for themselves.