Hierarchy of domains

Thinking about cultural appropriation from one discipline to another and how analogous this is to other forms of cultural appropriation.

From the position of power (in terms of social/institutional/fiscal capital), the appropriator is able to use and lay claim to convenient “parts” of disciplines lower on the totem pole, while declining to invest in a full understanding of the appropriated discipline, and yet still control the narrative in a way that is NOT possible in the reverse direction.