“Neutrality is a luxury that archaeologists are not afforded and they cannot be apolitical in the face of politics,” she wrote….
Five years of national angst and anger over the “discovery” of “graves” at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School was driven by an archeological report by a self-proclaimed activist archeologist and critical theory advocate Sarah Beaulieu. Her PhD thesis, completed in 2019, glorified her social warrior/critical theory credentials.
In her thesis, Archaeology of Internment at the Morrissey WWI Camp, insight into Beaulieu’s philosophy is revealed in chapter two under the headings “Critical Theory” and “Applications of Critical Theory within Modern Conflict Archaeology.”
Critical theory, she explained, has a dual purpose: exposing ideologies (or regimes/governments) that justify oppression and forcing a commitment from the “practitioner” (in this case Beaulieu) to act against the oppression once it has been exposed.
“Through the application of critical theory, researchers gain an understanding of how certain groups have become exploited. This understanding allows the researcher to use this knowledge and critique gained through research to strive to end such oppressive forces,” wrote Beaulieu, a professor at Fraser Valley University.
“Critical archaeologists thus take part in an emancipatory archaeology to serve marginalized societal groups and challenge the dominant class.”
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“Neutrality is a luxury that archaeologists are not afforded and they cannot be apolitical in the face of politics,”
This is how formerly respectable fields sink into irrelevancy. They abandon traditional commitments to science in favour of political activism.
“This is how formerly respectable fields sink into irrelevancy. They abandon traditional commitments to science in favour of political activism.”
Yes, just as many medical journals and associations, economic think tanks and climate change organizations have done for years now.
(not to mention the supposed ‘justice’ departments of various levels of government)
yep yep yep *EVERY* major source of authority, power and oversight in society.
whut could possible be ‘behind it all’ happening at the SAME time?
l choose to believe it is consistent with te Book of Revelation aka aheads up regarding
The End Times. that being the case, lm steeling myself for it to get VASTLY WORSE, inasmuch
one common leftoidal tactic is to ‘outdo’ each other with their outrage and claims.
aka what the point of having a speed limit where everyone exceeds it by 30%?
its like YOU HAVE TO GO ALONG (tolerate) OR GET REAR ENDED AND BLAMED
When they first rolled out this idiot they mentioned her GPR work and her PhD giving you the impression she is an expert in geophysics. Not only is she not, she is technically practicing geophysics without a license (yes you have to be licensed in every province and territory to practice). So I put her in the outhouse with the climate scientists. And if she was licensed she would lose it for the work she did because you cannot link an unmarked grave to a geophysical response as a practicing geophysicist. You can only call it an anomaly until you have proof of the source. Imagine calling every geophysical response an “unmarked gold deposit”? We have 251 gold deposits in our project area – I mean we have 251 anomalies. When you take away the emotion of unmarked graves and just look what was done, it is a total scam, and also a tragedy for the First Nations.
There are a few grifters who will make money from this, but as you say, it will be a tragedy for the majority of First Nations when the truth finally comes out and they realize they were hoaxed, and the rest of us don’t trust them ever again.
Did anyone bother to file a complaint with the regulator?
Critical Theory for Dummies.
Sounds like a pretzel.
One can understand that the scientologist (sic) must use sophistry and contrived language to muddy their nonsense and gain acceptance from the easily impressed.
It’s a misconception many have that archeology is a science. It is not. It is a social science and part of the arts faculty. Hence the poisoning of the few scientific aspects of the field.
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also a tactic l find works at times is to do a ‘search’ for the story headline which leads to publications that carry the very same story but do NOT require a subscription.
They picked her as their “expert” to get the results they wanted for the propaganda which gained them lots of money without any results.
Just as Critical Race Theory is “racism under new management” (Tomas Sowell), “indigenous knowledge” is racism masquerading as mysticism. This professor is an example of the cultural Marxist capture of the institutions and a disgrace to objective reality and science.
Hey, how do you drive a critical shovel theorist crazy?
Take him to a room full of shovels, and tell him to take his pick!
Square nose, or spade nosed … ohhhhhhh mommmaaaaa … let’s convene a study group
Just curious what “critical archeology theory” says about the piles of children’s skulls found at the bottom of Aztec Sacrificial pits? Oh yeah … it’s already said those children were given an ‘elevated status’ amongst their peers. Or something like that. Yeah, they were murdered … but it was still better than Cortez and Christianity lifting those primitive cultures out of the pits of death.
To quote Donald Fagen …
“ The things that pass for knowledge
I can’t understand”
In a just world, “critical theory” wouldn’t exist.
In a semi-just world, everyone who used “critical theory” would be horsewhipped.
Critical shovel theory! Addressing the important question: “Can you dig it?”