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PSA: faculty please stop teaching the thoroughly-refuted & debunked misconceptions of Hardin, Malthus, Diamond. That is all. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Crowdsourcing info may help folks. I’ll start. Others are encouraged to add to this thread...
NB: These are quick info on the fly & just starting points:
Instead of Hardin & other nonsense on the tragedy of commons, teach @Ostrom_Workshop Elinor Ostrom & tons other common property scholars...
Instead of Hardin & other nonsense on the tragedy of commons, teach @Ostrom_Workshop Elinor Ostrom & tons other common property scholars...
Instead of Malthus & neoMalthusian nonsense, draw from decades of critical scholars who have debunked this from different disciplinary backgrounds (e.g. Ester Boserup, Amartya Sen, @g_kallis, etc)....
Instead of Diamond’s nonsense, teach James Blaut ‘A Colonizer’s Model of the World’ (highly recommend this book) & many others, e.g. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10455752.2013.846490#.Um5yC6UspuZ
Continuing the thread (some of this will necessarily branch off, while others will hopefully continue linearly; DM me if you’d like me to post it or if you have a protected account):
Suggestion on Hardin (HT @SalilBenegal) https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/
Suggestion on Hardin (HT @SalilBenegal) https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/
Another suggestion (HT @DustinMulvaney) is Betsy Hartmann’s important work: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1050-reproductive-rights-and-wrongs
Another one (HT @fowler_lara) is the great work by James Scott: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300182910/against-grain
Another suggestion (HT @FreeScotty) is by Thomas Robertson: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-malthusian-moment/9780813552729
More broadly, feminist scholars & critical geographers have published loads over many decades to refute a lot of the nonsense (e.g. those engaging political ecology, feminist political ecology, critical human geography, critical development geography, transnational feminism, etc)
Side note: This is thread is free labor to increase overall public knowledge of critiques of ideas that are widely taught uncritically. Hundreds have found this thread useful. But it's upsetting to some men who’re nitpicking whether debunk or refute were the right words to use.
Picking up the thread from last year, here’s a new piece from @CatBrinkley on Hardin https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1473095218820460?journalCode=plta
More critiques of Diamond (H/T @DrFlachsophone): “Beyond Germs” by Cameron et al. and this article https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n22/james-c.-scott/crops-towns-government
