I can't recommend enough @lauraheathstout's recent articles (on field-school costs, who publishes archaeology, compulsory able-bodiedness, among others) as well as Mary Leighton's 2020 AmAnth barnstormer that I make all of my grad students read https://t.c
Pour étendre cette réflexion au milieu de l'archéologie, je vous conseille l'excellent article de Mary Leighton sur les performances informelles ("performative informality") attendues des archéologues sur et en dehors des chantiers de fouilles. ↪️https://
@macdougallsm Just going to slide this in here... https://t.co/30Q92YPuRP Loving these suggestions. I once had a huge reading list on this topic because I was planning to write a book on it.🤷♀️Now I'm organizing group therapy sessions on it instead! (I'
Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North American Academic Communities (2020) : Mary Leighton DOI: https://t.co/1AMT8a38jO # #my_bibtex
@rokwon Plus: even apparently consensual relationships b. faculty and students have negative effects on *other* female students who see it going on, as described in this paper: https://t.co/30Q92YPuRP (free pdf on author's website)
RT @BarbVossArchaeo: 4/ Myths of Meritocracy https://t.co/18arVOjZgE “Performative informality” in #archaeology obscures actual gender an…
RT @BarbVossArchaeo: 4/ Myths of Meritocracy https://t.co/18arVOjZgE “Performative informality” in #archaeology obscures actual gender an…
4/ Myths of Meritocracy https://t.co/18arVOjZgE “Performative informality” in #archaeology obscures actual gender and class hierarchies in archaeology, allowing “intentional bullying, #harassment, or discrimination to be masked, denied, or downplayed.” #
https://t.co/xiNs62u3gr hit me up if you can't access it.
Discuss >> https://t.co/LPJQgTXshG
RT @WileyHumanities: This article by Mary Leighton looks at the subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are concept…
RT @WileyHumanities: This article by Mary Leighton looks at the subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are concept…
RT @WileyHumanities: This article by Mary Leighton looks at the subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are concept…
RT @WileyHumanities: This article by Mary Leighton looks at the subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are concept…
This article by Mary Leighton looks at the subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendship‐based and egalitarian, rejecting explicit hierarchy. https://t.co/i8kGMpLAZr A top downloaded recent paper from @AmA
@iLemmon @AcademicChatter There's an article about that! The idea that academia is informal, fun, and we are all cool with hanging out... actually encourages/rewards alcoholism. #AcademicTwitter @AcademicChatter https://t.co/EaWvrSoEM3 (no paywall versio
@johnphillips185 Does it have to do with the problems identified in this article? https://t.co/YTxGwxbSSV
Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North American Academic Communities [A lot of anthropologists are currently discussing this paper for its insights into academic culture] #MeToo #anthropology #archaeology https://t.co/yYX
This article focuses on subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendship‐based and egalitarian, rejecting explicit hierarchy https://t.co/2UVXVPovon
RT @CleoCZ: Very interesting paper on "subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendsh…
RT @CleoCZ: Very interesting paper on "subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendsh…
RT @CleoCZ: Very interesting paper on "subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendsh…
RT @rgbetancourt: "Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class andGender in North American Academic Communities" by Mary Leighton…
"Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class andGender in North American Academic Communities" by Mary Leighton https://t.co/WdHt4NwbOe
RT @asociologist: @t0nyyates @Undercoverhist ... and whether a culture of excessive drinking was associated with the field's harassment of…
RT @CleoCZ: Very interesting paper on "subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendsh…
RT @CleoCZ: Very interesting paper on "subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendsh…
RT @CleoCZ: Very interesting paper on "subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendsh…
Very interesting paper on "subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendship-based and egalitarian, rejecting explicit hierarchy" - based on the example of archeology
💯Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North American Academic Communities https://t.co/mDWH1gZXq2
RT @payetatruelle: | À lire ! 📚| [EN] Sur les inégalités engendrées par les « performances informelles » (« performative informality ») q…
RT @payetatruelle: | À lire ! 📚| [EN] Sur les inégalités engendrées par les « performances informelles » (« performative informality ») q…
RT @payetatruelle: | À lire ! 📚| [EN] Sur les inégalités engendrées par les « performances informelles » (« performative informality ») q…
| À lire ! 📚| [EN] Sur les inégalités engendrées par les « performances informelles » (« performative informality ») qui sont attendues des étudiant.e.s et chercheur.euses en #archéologie. https://t.co/XzHDHVPRVm
En lien avec l'article partagé sur @payetatruelle ce matin, je suis en train de lire cet article sur les performances informelles attendues des étudiant.e.s et chercheur.euse.s qui veulent faire carrière en #archéologie. C'est gratiné. [https://t.co/3s5
this article is really great!! "When a profession like archaeology is understood to be fun, open, friendly, and meritocratic, an individual's success depends on inhabiting or enacting that professional community's specific kind of informality correctly." h
RT @AmAnthroJournal: Now available through early view: Mary Leighton's "Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in…
I’m going to need to read this a few more times to unpack it all because it was that good. https://t.co/6pzuWch7Zn
RT @DrDispatches: @TheTattooedProf @ProfessorIsIn I'm just gonna slid this article in here, because it talks about *why* dudes excuse this…
RT @DrDispatches: @TheTattooedProf @ProfessorIsIn I'm just gonna slid this article in here, because it talks about *why* dudes excuse this…
RT @MHPoison1: Interesting https://t.co/I8fVFE3pw2
Interesting
I’m still reading this, but thinking about how it can apply to Animation: Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North American Academic Communities - Leighton - - American Anthropologist - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/Q7
RT @DrDispatches: @TheTattooedProf @ProfessorIsIn I'm just gonna slid this article in here, because it talks about *why* dudes excuse this…
RT @DrDispatches: @TheTattooedProf @ProfessorIsIn I'm just gonna slid this article in here, because it talks about *why* dudes excuse this…
@TheTattooedProf @ProfessorIsIn I'm just gonna slid this article in here, because it talks about *why* dudes excuse this behavior, and the impact it has on other female students who are onlookers to such relationships... https://t.co/yJjI0h5Z0W (its curren
Ethnography of academic archaeology demonstrates that US ideology of meritocracy & friendship-based collegiality creates subtle prejudices that often stem from comfort resulting in excluding those who do not conform & foreigners unfamiliar with the
RT @PattMeeples: Archaeology has a lot of soul searching to do. Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North A…
RT @SarahCWalshaw: Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North American Academic Communities https://t.co/gg1…
Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North American Academic Communities https://t.co/gg1CuBWxYB
RT @GretchenAMcC: I read this paper yesterday and I'm still thinking about it (and it's not just academics, either) https://t.co/bkn092nsBn
RT @Sarah_May1: This is an incredibly important article for understanding how exclusion in archaeology works. It's studying Andean archaeol…
RT @Sarah_May1: This is an incredibly important article for understanding how exclusion in archaeology works. It's studying Andean archaeol…
RT @npseaver: This looks very good. I mean, check out this abstract! “forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptu…
RT @npseaver: This looks very good. I mean, check out this abstract! “forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptu…
RT @npseaver: This looks very good. I mean, check out this abstract! “forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptu…
RT @npseaver: This looks very good. I mean, check out this abstract! “forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptu…
RT @npseaver: This looks very good. I mean, check out this abstract! “forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptu…
RT @npseaver: This looks very good. I mean, check out this abstract! “forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptu…
Failure to achieve in academia is cast as personal, never structural -- you could certainly succeed if you were just BETTER: "success of such [career networking] opportunities was invariably attributed to a combination of individual drive and likable perso
This looks very good. I mean, check out this abstract! “forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendship-based and egalitarian” https://t.co/9E7pXjkD4i
This reads as uncomfortably familiar ...
Vital, uncomfortable and for me desperately sad read - so please do read, and thank you to @GingeryGamer for signposting.
RT @Sarah_May1: This is an incredibly important article for understanding how exclusion in archaeology works. It's studying Andean archaeol…
RT @NemaVeze: "it is difficult for academics to consider that the very thing they enjoy about their professional community might be inadver…
Oh, but this rings true to me; been on both sides of this system
While specifically about Andean archaeology, these issues are easily translatable to other sub-disciplines within anthropology. Important read for anthropologists who mentor students in labs, the field, or at academic conferences. https://t.co/aBSErUWHTH
i think there are lessons here for SFF communities too.
RT @NemaVeze: "it is difficult for academics to consider that the very thing they enjoy about their professional community might be inadver…
RT @NemaVeze: "it is difficult for academics to consider that the very thing they enjoy about their professional community might be inadver…
This article was a wild ride. My eyebrows rose so high they disappeared into my hair while I was reading. WOW
RT @NemaVeze: "it is difficult for academics to consider that the very thing they enjoy about their professional community might be inadver…
I read this paper yesterday and I'm still thinking about it (and it's not just academics, either)
RT @mokersel: Must read by Mary Leighton: Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North American Academic Commu…
“the ephemerality and plausible deniability of performative informality make it hard to recognize and mitigate against.” Read pls: gender/class intersectionality in anthropology US concepts of meritocracy in higher education & the concept of “the tyran
RT @AmAnthroJournal: Now available through early view: Mary Leighton's "Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in…
performative informality is a wonderful concept to theorize a great deal of academic work sociality.
RT @chrisbuckley888: reminds me of my experiences working in a large organization and going to a hiring discussion, at which the senior per…
reminds me of my experiences working in a large organization and going to a hiring discussion, at which the senior person commented "yeah, I read all the performance data, but the real question is ... is he one of us?" https://t.co/ynd1wPDn0m
RT @PattMeeples: Archaeology has a lot of soul searching to do. Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North A…
RT @eleanorapower: Essential reading for any archaeologist, anthropologist, or social scientist more generally who wants to work to make ou…
RT @AmAnthroJournal: Now available through early view: Mary Leighton's "Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in…
Important point for many archaeologists: "The queasiness some...might feel about discussing intimate relationships and alcohol consumption in the context of professional and academic work is exactly the discomfort I want to examine." https://t.co/pVBvtNvF
RT @AmAnthroJournal: Now available through early view: Mary Leighton's "Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in…
RT @BoneBroke9: Required reading on #archaeology & the insidiousness of performative informality: "Why is academic work not “real work”?Wh…
RT @WrenGard: I can't stop thinking about this article. A spot on view of archaeologists in N America: Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, an…
RT @BoneBroke9: Required reading on #archaeology & the insidiousness of performative informality: "Why is academic work not “real work”?Wh…
Required reading on #archaeology & the insidiousness of performative informality: "Why is academic work not “real work”?What are the consequences of thinking of academic work as a fun vocation rather than “labor” or “employment”?" https://t.co/BRuMH
RT @eleanorapower: Essential reading for any archaeologist, anthropologist, or social scientist more generally who wants to work to make ou…
RT @AmAnthroJournal: Now available through early view: Mary Leighton's "Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in…
RT @AmAnthroJournal: Now available through early view: Mary Leighton's "Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in…
RT @eleanorapower: Essential reading for any archaeologist, anthropologist, or social scientist more generally who wants to work to make ou…
🗣 ‘In a discipline that prides itself on its friendliness, openness, and alcohol‐fueled drinking culture, those who find themselves unable to enact or perform informality appropriately are at a distinct disadvantage.’ https://t.co/8upK0EK5IC
RT @eleanorapower: Essential reading for any archaeologist, anthropologist, or social scientist more generally who wants to work to make ou…
Essential reading for any archaeologist, anthropologist, or social scientist more generally who wants to work to make our field *actually* more welcoming, inclusive, and equitable. (Currently open access!)
thread 📑 https://t.co/DmWhyQotr1
#longread Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North American Academic Communities https://t.co/Qk6ej29X8a
an important read for #metooarchaeology and #metooarchaeology, and for doing #archaeology in general: https://t.co/Zl5bFyAEwX
RT @PattMeeples: Archaeology has a lot of soul searching to do. Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North A…
RT @PattMeeples: Archaeology has a lot of soul searching to do. Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North A…