Have you read a really great academic article recently (ideas-wise) that's also really well-written?

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Have you read a really great academic article recently (ideas-wise) that's also really well-written? I want to hear about it

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Library workers, as with other professions, are quick to diagnose ourselves and others with imposter syndrome when we doubt or devalue our everyday work. However, methods of coping with imposter syndrome have changed little in the forty years since the term was first theorized, and often centre on
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in the evening, i let my shadow out on the field 3mos

This one by @maraebrarian is excellent:

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In human–animal studies, dogs are often framed as promoters of interactions among strangers. Yet very few of these studies discuss how racial structure shapes human-to-human engagement. Similarly, race scholarship and urban studies have failed to incorporate human–animal studies fully to better unde
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Regular Danfinn 3mos

It's from 2018 (so recent-ish?), but the article "Whose Best Friend? Dogs and Racial Boundary Maintenance in a Multiracial Neighborhood" by Sara Mayorga is great. I used it recently in an intro to sociology class and the students found it really engaging.

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The American Historical Review created a new section of the journal called 'History Unclassified,' with Kate Brown as Consulting Editor. This section featu
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Abigail Balbale 3mos

Here’s the whole collection of articles:

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Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition
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The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cu
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hors_doeuvre 3mos

my go-to for "amazing ideas, gorgeous writing" is sara ahmed. maybe you know her but if not you might really like the opening of her book The Promise of Happiness; the standalone chapter (that became a full book), Happy Objects, shows up in a google search

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hors_doeuvre 3mos

my go-to for "amazing ideas, gorgeous writing" is sara ahmed. maybe you know her but if not you might really like the opening of her book The Promise of Happiness; the standalone chapter (that became a full book), Happy Objects, shows up in a google search

Recommended by Abigail Balbale
Abstract. What can we learn from reading the acknowledgments in academic books? Many of us read acknowledgments to learn about how the field works, as well as t
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Abigail Balbale 3mos

Not standard academic articles, but I LOVE the History Unclassified section of the @AmHistReview — see, for example, Emily Callaci’s “On Acknowledgements” here for free:

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