https://paulinepark.com/2018/09/19/avital-ronell-judith-butler-a-cautionary-tale-of-power-accountability-in-academia/ writer & activist Mon, 11 Sep 2023 04:20:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://paulinepark.com/2018/09/19/avital-ronell-judith-butler-a-cautionary-tale-of-power-accountability-in-academia/#comment-111214 Wed, 25 Nov 2020 11:51:59 +0000 https://paulinepark.com/?p=8010#comment-111214 Is no one replying to this? I think this is a great read. I have understood the outrage over the protective testimony the accused academic received from colleagues that is part of this post. The accuser has not received a protective testimony. What is more outrageous, the alleged harassment or the counter-allegation that the harassment did not take place and that there was a consensual exchange. If you regard the institution as a family and the senior administration of the institution as the parents while the employees are the children, then the parents did not listen to both children. Instead, they did what the Federal law requires them to do.
One more idea: I guess the letter by the colleagues is conflating academic contributions and personal integrity. The complaint about the professor did not touch upon her contributions to academic fields but delineated events that undermined the personal integrity of a subordinate by a supervisor. I wonder how a complaint about the quality of the academic contributions would have been received. My guess is that the professors that jumped onto penning a testimony for the high quality of the academic contributions of the defendant saw her own academic contributions endangered once a leading figure of the field could be convicted.

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