https://worklaw.jotwell.com/dismissing-discrimination/ The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:33:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://worklaw.jotwell.com/dismissing-discrimination/#comment-53276 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:33:43 +0000 https://worklawjotwell.dewjbxx2-liquidwebsites.com/?p=861#comment-53276 I know that you don’t want to “engage with the substance of the criticisms of Goffman’s work,” but don’t those criticisms seriously undermine the value of invoking Goffman at all? The critique of the way that a court’s dismissal of a party’s claims delegitimizes them as unworthy or unbelievable would be stronger without the comparison to _On the Run_, whose assertions about police practices in hospitals appear to have been fabricated. Indeed, given the way Goffman interjected herself into the story, essentially appropriating her subjects’ disadvantaged status to shield herself from criticism, the linkage probably makes things worse rather than better for the people for whose voices _Dismissal_ seeks a hearing.

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