Amanada,
It makes sense.
Especially the term "conditions of production" Maybe I am more
sensitive to it at this time of year when I find myself making lists of things
I need to "produce" before the term ends. How many papers? how many
pages? What does every class have the same formula? Minor paper, group presentation/paper, major paper. Who decides what is enough to warrant an adequate amount or production? And I am always interested in what isn't counted.....
Your point about "sustain hegemony" smacks of gatekeeping,
something that happens in other professions too.(physicians sitting on the
physician review boards.) It is
the tension between needing expert knowledge and controlled entry. I guess I'm looking for the term "separation
of power." But with the
peer-review behind me, I can say that it was a worthwhile experience. While I
do not envision myself ever publishing a paper, nor being on a peer review committee, I think the process has helped me prepare to write my final research paper--I have developed a more critical
voice. I've learned to be that
fish in the water studying the water and the other fish. You need to swim around a bit--read,
re-read, ask questions, take notes, swim some more....
Mary
Mary, if this was facebook I would "like" your posts. You have a really nice style of writing.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, Mary. Doing the peer review assignment has helped me better understand methodologies from a theoretical perspective which I will be able to take with me into my final assignment. In the SSHRC proposal, I found myself describing examples of the types of methods I would use in my research (e.g. what kind of survey questions I would ask, whether the surveys would be electronic or print, etc.). After reading Knight more closely for the peer-review assignment, I now feel like I can talk about the kinds of methods I am going to use for my final proposal within the context of a more theoretical framework (e.g. determining whether the methods are unobtrusive or not, if they will involve both inferential and descriptive statistical analyses, etc.). For this reason, I am grateful for the peer review assignment, even though the process of writing it felt a bit difficult at times.
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