[csaa-forum] ERA & cultural nationalism

[Ned Rossiter]

A brave and welcome critique of ERA-mania:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/ 
philosophy-betrays-first-principles/story-e6frgcko-1225847663260

or: http://tinyurl.com/y8eoghn

The author, Stephen Buckle, notes:

"The Australian Research Council has no money for working out  
rankings, so it has relied on the inputs of the academies and various  
professional associations. This means dominant factions control the  
process and hand out the highest rankings to their preferred  
journals. Significant minorities are then bought off by allowing  
scraps to fall from the table. The result is totally predictable: the  
highest ranked journals are the ones in which Australian academics  
typically publish."

If CSAA has the resources, it could be an interesting exercise to  
compile a list of publication by csaa folk prior to the ERA, and then  
since to see the extent to which academics in cultural studies have  
buckled to the pressure to reproduce a form of cultural nationalism.

Ned