English Explanatory Dictionary

grievance studies

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Academic fields that are perceived by critics as airing grievances with society rather than rigorously pursuing truth.

Word forms

grievance studies

Etymology

Coined by English literary critic Stefan Collini in 1999. Popularized in 2018 by James A. Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose, the perpetrators of the "grievance studies affair".

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