In this episode I explore two metaphors that relate to open practice. The first are the 19th century riots in West Wales which focused on Toll Gates, and I make the connection to reactions to academic publishing with movements like ICanHazPDF and Sci-Hub. The second metaphor looks at anthropology and how the role of women in hunter gatherer societies was often overlooked by researchers. This is analogous to the types of activity in academic practice which might be overlooked in academic institutions.

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Who’s downloading pirated papers? Everyone
The Rebecca riots: A study in agrarian discontent
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
“Big deal” publishing costs European universities over €1B a year
Man the hunter, woman the gatherer? The impact of gender studies on hunter-gatherer research (a retrospective)
The evolution of hunting
Women the gatherer: Male bias in anthropology
What hunters do for a living, or, how to make out on scarce resources
Has Feminism Changed Archaeology?
Women in evolution, part II: Subsistence and social organization among early hominids
LTHEchat – The Story of a Community of Practice through Twitter
Emotional labor in academia: The case of professors
Pedagogy of care: COVID-19 edition
Inferior: How science got women wrong and the new research that’s rewriting the story
The Fallacy of Open
Metaphors of Ed Tech book
EdTechie blog

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