MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEBRUARY 28--AN INTERESTING, AND OFTEN AMUSING, SET OF COMMENTS, BUT ALSO SOME DEFENSES OF THE AUTHORS
I came across this curious abstract from the Applied Linguistics Review on Twitter:
Literature review becomes violent in the Bourdieusian sense because it imposes particular configurations of privileged knowledge on researchers. Thus, in this paper, we argue that literature review is an enactment of symbolic violence and, in the process, epistemic theft, and central to this practice is the construction of research questions. Literature review, as a site of scholarly conversations, dictates the kinds of questions we ask, thus unwittingly framing our research according to the epistemic demands of past and recent studies.
Discuss.
