A pandemic is not the time for academic opportunism

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#1 Submitted by mburgh@... on June 16, 2020 - 9:44am

I am not sure yet whether this is satire or hypocrisy: "...an education activist [who] produces the podcast Cambridge Quaranchats" accuses others of opportunism in the wake of the pandemic while peddling the notion of "post-coronial theory". Please, do not get me wrong, I do not contest the substance of her argument re academic opportunism and bandwagoning, but I still find it hilarious that a person can have so little self-awareness.

A pandemic is not the time for academic opportunism

The urge to be proved right and the mantra of publish or perish amount to a toxic scholarly brew. Reflection is the best policy, says Simone Eringfeld

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