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When academic requirements conflict with community accountability

My PhD research focuses on environmental racism and my advisor keeps pushing me to make it more theoretical and less activist, but the communities I study are asking me what good my degree will do them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional demands for scholarly objectivity can undermine commitment to those most affected by the research.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical case?”

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