I hate my job

[zanazibar]

Ok, at this point it is unavoidable to admit this:  I am not radical enough to be in this department.  Hell, I don't think I'm radical enough to be in this field.  Yesterday in our social movements class we got into the discussion of "reform" versus "radical change".  By reform I mean making things better by putting pressure on the state.  By

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[bob1oughti2000]

I think through the sheer need to represent all viewpoints there is evidently a need for you in the department. This is entirely aside from your academic qualities.

I must admit I get very worried about conversations of repression. All too often they become one big academic 'drop the pants' contest where a group of people will fight to gain liberal leverage points by saying how repressed they are and will fail to see the irony of what they're doing. It becomes about reinforcing hierarchy rther than working together. To get into that conversation/field/job you have to mimic their speech in the first place, making it harder and harder to change.

I'd personaly love to see people actually getting out and doing things (working with the government or social groups etc) to make things happen and talking the issues through as it happens, rather than taking a coffee break and realising the world outside their university library has moved on that that people are really suffering. It's making lived experience matter on a physical and conceptual level and can add clout to the argument. :-)

Then again, it'd take the rest of them venturing out of their ivory towers to do that... good luck and please do try and keep with it! x