The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions

當跨學科研究變成了一種學術政治的抗爭舞台時，如何避免跨學科變成學院體系的一環同時也被收編為另一個學科的弔詭？這個題目在國內有多少討論是不清楚，但是正窩在一個標榜跨學科精神的研究所的我，倒是看了一些爭辯，迴避討論的更大有人在。但是避而不談不代表問題就不存在了，該面對的還是要面對。下面一段話略顯理想色彩但擲地有聲，特此抄錄。

"[I]nstitutionalizing interdisciplinary study risks integrating it into a system that threatens to appropriate what is most critical and oppositional about that study, the logic through which the university incorporates areas of interdisciplinarity simultaneously provides for the possibility that these sites will remain oppositional forums, productively antagonistic to notions of autonomous culture and disciplinary regulation, and to the interpellation of students as univocal subjects."

Lisa Lowe, "Canon, Insitutionalization, Identity: Contradictions for Asian American Studies." p. 51.