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Fascinating post! My feedback here isn't about content, more just about making the article more readable. You use a lot of direct quotations, which is good in many senses, but I think the volume and density of quotations in this article is too high. If you summarize the points of scholars, and weave them into a coherent paragraph, the reader will be able to follow the ideas better. Scholars use jargon and high-level language which isn't always the clearest for a general public audience. Consider taking the main ideas from each quote and choosing to rephrase say half of them in your own words. Your readers will appreciate it!

Also, I don't you need to do citations like (Che, __) in this article because you are already using footnotes.