With over a million followers, #PastaGrannies might look like a charming YouTube cooking project. But it’s also something much deeper: an archive of embodied knowledge.
As Vicky Bennison films elderly women across Italy making pasta by hand, what emerges isn’t just a record of techniques. "These women are revealing a knowledge that has become inseparable from their bodies. Their hands don’t follow instructions. They know", writes Victoria Mummelthei at #NoDiscipline 👇
One of academia’s most cherished myths is that identifying an unstudied area automatically creates a valuable research problem. But just because there is no research on what color socks professors wore while writing groundbreaking papers doesn't make it a problem worth studying, writes @vmmmh at #NoDiscipline.
In a world drowning in information but starving for understanding, which would you rather contribute?
Let’s talk about one of academia’s most cherished myths: that identifying an unstudied area automatically creates a valuable research problem. We’ve all done it. Faced with the need to justify our research, we fall back on that comfortable phrase: “While scholars have extensively studied X, there is a gap in the literature regarding Y.” It … „Writing, Why “No One Has Studied This” Is Scholarly Writing’s Most Dangerous Comfort Zone“ weiterlesen
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