The politics of academic deception: A conjunctural analysis

Abstract

Hannah's article posits a valuable way to think about the epistemic cultures we must navigate as geographers and academics in the current challenging conjuncture. Given the crisis facing higher education in Britain and beyond, the question of the academic hoax as a useful means to understand epistemic cultures takes on a particular salience and encourages us to explore the politics of deception more broadly. This commentary outlines some of the conjunctural dynamics of the phenomenon of the academic hoax and discusses three different modes of deception that have implications for epistemic cultures in geography and other critical fields.