[Air-l] british boycott over/no politics?

[Sarah Stein]

Thanks Greg Elmer for your cogent response to this issue. The last I 
looked the people who regularly get silenced when a "no politics" 
discussion rule is floated are those with little power in the first 
place. All of AoIR activities are political.
	Sarah Stein

>Barry (et als),
>
>I took Jeremy's note to mean that it is not the role of the 
>association to take political stands. And while I find such blanket 
>policies (along with assumptions about what constitutes the 
>"political) troublesome, you've now seemingly extended this logic to 
>the AOiR listserv. What's more since you don't seem to want to take 
>your own advice why should the rest of us avoid 'politics' on the 
>list serv?
>
>I for one would like to see a broad discussion about the social 
>implications of new media, the Internet, scholarship, and the 
>acadmemy (which as some of you know can get messy and political). If 
>you're not interested in posts about political issues that impact 
>upon academic life and society in general then I'd encourage you to 
>actively 'delete'.
>
>
>Greg Elmer
>
>
>>  Although there are counter-arguments to the anti-Israeli posting
>>  yesterday, I agree with Jeremy Hunsinger that they are out of place on
>>  this list.
>>
>>  But since the issue has been brought up, my position is that
>>  professionalsocieties should be extraordinarily cautious about
>>  encouraging boycotts of
>>  universities. I don't believe in collective punishment, even if
>>  there was
>>  a crime -- and there are different sets of "facts"  floating around on
>>  this matter. Hence, I have worked a bit to encourage the ending of the
>>  boycott. And am glad that it happened.
>>
>>  For reasons of the first para, I won't respond to any postings
>>  about the
>>  boycott -- or Israel -- on this list and urge us all to refocus on
>>  AOIRstuff.
>>
>>  Barry
>>  _____________________________________________________________________
>>
>>   Barry Wellman         Professor of Sociology        NetLab Director
>>   wellman at chass.utoronto.ca  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman
>>
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>>
>
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Sarah Stein, Ph.D.
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