Dec 31, 2015 06:16 PM
http://www.thenation.com/article/remembe...nderson-2/
EXCERPT: Young academics are often advised to prioritize scholarship over citizenship, meaning political involvement. But as the careers of some of our most influential scholars repeatedly demonstrate, especially in the humanities and social sciences, this is often a false and foolish distinction. It’s hard to imagine a more impressive “citizen scholar” than Benedict Richard O’Gorman Anderson [...] Anderson learned “the inseparability of politics and scholarship” from the research he conducted on Indonesia’s coup....
EXCERPT: Young academics are often advised to prioritize scholarship over citizenship, meaning political involvement. But as the careers of some of our most influential scholars repeatedly demonstrate, especially in the humanities and social sciences, this is often a false and foolish distinction. It’s hard to imagine a more impressive “citizen scholar” than Benedict Richard O’Gorman Anderson [...] Anderson learned “the inseparability of politics and scholarship” from the research he conducted on Indonesia’s coup....