Sally Bonsall
@SalBonsall
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Political scientist @UNOmaha. Previously @PoliticsUVA @UABBarcelona @LSEnews. Comparative politics: globalization, parties, & democracy in Europe 🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇪🇸
Omaha, NE
Joined April 2009
I completely agree. Class is largely ignored in DEI efforts, when making it a central focus would enrich not only working class students but also academia as a whole. https://t.co/o7GwM4642F
This resonates, even in social science. Many academics become visibly uncomfortable when I share that my parents are blue-collar workers or that I support them financially. Few ever ask what that's like or how I ended up where I am.
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En route to MPSA 🚂 tomorrow, I’ll be presenting on the legacies of dictatorship in Spain and Argentina, and their effects on the contemporary far-right. Hope to see many of you in Chicago soon!
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Just arrived in Alexandria for APSA’s Teaching and Learning Conference. Safe travels to everyone — hope the weather related delays aren’t too bad — and see you soon!
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Thanks to the APSA Teaching Comparative Politics symposium in DC last summer, I developed a resource for using literature (Shakespeare) to teach populism, just published here today on APSA Educate’s website:
educate.apsanet.org
Populist parties, populist leaders, and threats to democracy are significant phenomena often studied and taught in Political Science. This resource provides a background to introducing these topics...
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There are grown adults who think it’s nonsense to analyse sensory imagery in literature, a basic thing taught in middle school. These people passively consume fiction without understand the mechanics of how and why it works, which makes them the perfect targets for propaganda
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"how could this have happened," we cried from our vacation home while our kids were barely affording groceries
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And dare I say as a DGS that, today, the world needs political science and statistics and history as much as it ever did. More than ever. It needs YOU, the early career scholars. Let’s go.
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But the critiques I’ve seen do not deal with the fact that women are expected to deal with the majority of domestic labor in addition to being full-time in the formal labor market. The logic of “girl, suck it up and work” is understandable but not very progressive to me.
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*Of course* I think she’s wrong to think that living in the 1950s would be preferable. *Of course* women having economic power is a great thing. *Of course* feminism has made huge strides forward for women.
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Everyone seems mad at this woman but part of me understands her. What she says is not necessarily anti feminist — it is decades of neoliberalism that made a dual-income household necessary for most people. And women often get a shitty, exhausting deal. https://t.co/HmRLqv3tQY
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They have so much grit and determination, they thrive and are excellent researchers/teachers when given the chance and opportunities.
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But also, we need to give working class/lower income (whatever you want to call it) students more money/scholarships. Many of my students are exhausted with part-time/even full-time jobs alongside full-time education, and caring responsibilities.
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Mentorship is SO important — I totally lacked the “know how” of academia and am so thankful to those who have taken the time to give me the info and encouragement.
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This resonates, even in social science. Many academics become visibly uncomfortable when I share that my parents are blue-collar workers or that I support them financially. Few ever ask what that's like or how I ended up where I am.
The academe has for a long time had a severely neglected social class problem. "Children from low-SES homes were already severely underrepresented [in the academe]." "Scientists from high-SES families have 38% higher odds of becoming stars." https://t.co/mKwo6UKWhf
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The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.
Why is academic writing so awful?
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Bring back descriptive reserach!!
I have no solutions or answers, and this may be a taste issue - though I think this is actually about (re)training ourselves to be comfortable with more uncertainty and (re)embracing the beauty of descriptive/inductive research and learning while doing. Helas, collective action.
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I had such a great time at #APSA2024. Thankful for the feedback, new connections, friendships, ideas, and enthusiastic engagement with others. Special shoutout to the TLC folks — you’re all such good vibes and I learn so much from you!
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If you look very closely, you may be able to identify some of the very subtle differences between party conventions in the United States and party conferences in the United Kingdom.
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