Talk:Thomas Nail

Thank you for your feedback on "Draft:Thomas Nail". The article has been rejected twice but no one has told me how to fix the issues. One comment suggests that academics need a "named chair" to be listed, which is clearly no the case for most entries. Another says I need reliable independent sources that are verifiable—but that was what I thought I just added with links to peer reviewed journals, etc. I am super confused. Other entries are way less supported than mine. Can you tell me specifically what I need to do here? Its all so mysterious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RyanHSanborn (talk • contribs) 02:40, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Also: I read the wiki instructions and its pretty clear that the article meets at least one of the academic criteria listed: "The most typical way of satisfying Criterion 1 is to show that the academic has been an author of highly cited academic work – either several extremely highly cited scholarly publications or a substantial number of scholarly publications with significant citation rates. Reviews of the person's work, published in selective academic publications, can be considered together with ordinary citations here. Differences in typical citation and publication rates and in publication conventions between different academic disciplines should be taken into account.

I have linked to google scholar and academia.edu to verify this. Thomas Nail has a book, The Figure of the Migrant, cited 285 times (which is a lot for philosophy books). He also fulfills the other named criteria of "unique" contribution that can be verified by reading the linked book review of Theory of the Border- where the reviewer clearly states the original and unique contribution of a whole new conceptual framework. Check it out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RyanHSanborn (talk • contribs) 03:22, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Please read this: I am pasting here the explicit criteria on wikipedia for academic notability and precise how Thomas Nail satisfies this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(academics) Academics meeting any one of the following conditions, as substantiated through reliable sources, are notable.

1. The person's research has had a significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources.

"The most typical way of satisfying Criterion 1 is to show that the academic has been an author of highly cited academic work – either several extremely highly cited scholarly publications or a substantial number of scholarly publications with significant citation rates. Reviews of the person's work, published in selective academic publications, can be considered together with ordinary citations here. Differences in typical citation and publication rates and in publication conventions between different academic disciplines should be taken into account. To count towards satisfying Criterion 1, citations need to occur in peer-reviewed scholarly publications such as journals or academic books. Publication and citation rates in humanities are generally lower than in sciences. Also, in sciences, most new original research is published in journals and conference proceedings whereas in humanities book publications tend to play a larger role (and are harder to count without access to offline libraries). The meaning of "substantial number of publications" and "high citation rates" is to be interpreted in line with the interpretations used by major research institutions in determining the qualifications for the awarding of tenure."

Here is how criteria number 1 is verified: a) follow the link "highly cited" to google scholar and see that there are several "highly cited" books and many well cited peer- reviewed articles. b) follow the academia.edu link at the bottom to see that Thomas Nail has over 4,000 followers with a quarter of a million downloads. c) when determining "highly cited" consider 1. that philosophy has much lower citation rates than the sciences, 2. that books are much more important that articles, and 3. that Thomas Nail is a tenured faculty, meaning that he has published enough to be considered to have made an impact in his field. d) view his CV on academia.edu to see the 10 books he has written and over 30 peer reviewed articles and major conferences and full range of interviews.

Let me know what you think — Preceding unsigned comment added by RyanHSanborn (talk • contribs) 03:50, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

More links on Nail's work
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 * “An Ontology of Motion for a Moving World,” Anthropocene Mobilities Blog, 10/19.
 * Theory of the Border (book review at Notre Dame Philosophical Review)
 * Crossing 2 (Musical performance using spoken text from Theory of the Border)

Video


 * "Migrant Cosmopolitanism" at the Pufendorf Symposium on Migration, Lund University, Sweden, Dec 10, 2018.

Radio and Podcast Interviews


 * “We're in the Century of the Migrant.” Interview with Colorado Public Radio. Feb, 6. 2016.
 * “The Nature of Digital Image: A Conversation with Thomas Nail,” Core Concept: Podcast, interviewed by Bartosz Gonczarek, Nov, 2019.
 * “Migration—Crisis or New Normal?: An Interview with Thomas Nail and Alison Mountz.” The Accidental Geographer Podcast, Oct, 2015.

Interviews


 * “The Figure of the Migrant: An Interview with Thomas Nail.” Critical-Theory.com, Dec, 2015,
 * “Kinopolitics and the Figure of the Migrant: An Interview with Thomas Nail.” The Other Journal, No. 27, 2017.
 * “On Migrant Politics: an Interview with Thomas Nail.” Hostis: A Journal of Incivility Issue 2, June, 2015. Republished by Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political; also republished by NON Magazine, 2015.
 * “On Deleuze and Zapatismo: An Interview with Thomas Nail.” at Critical-Theory.com (2013). Translated into Turkish and published at Dunyanin Yerlileri, March 28, 2017.
 * “Ways of Doing Genealogy: Inquiry after Foucault.” Foucault Blog, June 7, 2016.

Writings for the Popular Press


 * “We are Entering a New Epoch: The Century of the Migrant.” Aeon: Ideas and Culture, Dec 2016. Republished by Quartz as “A philosophy professor says inequality between citizens and migrants is at a historical breaking point,” December 15, 2016. Also republished by Fount Magazine, June 2017. Translated into Farsi and republished by Shargh Daily as "روزنامه شرق | شماره ۲۷۶۵ | ۱۳۹۵ يکشنبه ۱۲ دي | صفحه ۱۰ |”
 * “Is nature continuous or discrete? How the atomist error was born,” Aeon: Ideas and Culture, 18 May 2018. Translated into Spanish and republished as ¿La Naturaleza es Continua o Discreta? Cómo Nació el Error Atomista at Arcadia, October 2018. Republished by The Oxford Philosopher.
 * “Child Refugees: The New Barbarians.” Pacific Standard: The Science of Society, 8/19/14.
 * “The Hordes Are Banging on the Gates of Europe?” History News Network, 10/25/15; Republished by NON Magazine, 10/2015; translated into German as “Schlagen Die Horden Gegen Die Tore Europas?”, 1/29/2016, by Achim Szepanski,