Academic knowledge production and the global South questioning inequality and under-representation /
This book investigates and critically interprets the underrepresentation of the global South in global knowledge production. The author analyses the serious bias towards scholars and institutions from this region: he argues that this phenomenon causes serious disadvantages not only for authors and i...
| Main Author: | Demeter, M. Attila, |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2020]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xviii, 195 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Summary: |
This book investigates and critically interprets the underrepresentation of the global South in global knowledge production. The author analyses the serious bias towards scholars and institutions from this region: he argues that this phenomenon causes serious disadvantages not only for authors and institutions, but global science as well by impeding the flow of fresh, innovative scholarship. This book uses a combination of field theory and world-systems analysis to explain the motives and dynamics behind the geopolitical and societal inequalities in the system of global knowledge production. Subsequently, the author offers several solutions by which these inequalities could be reduced, or even eliminated. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of knowledge inequalities, and knowledge production in the global South. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Introduction -- 2. The stories are written by the victors : theoretical considerations -- 3. The dynamics behind the problem of inequality : the world-system of global inequality in knowledge production -- 4.The rise of the Global South -- 5. Collecting academic capital -- 6. Gatekeepers of knowledge dissemination : inequality in journal editorial boards -- 7. Global academia and reeducation -- 8. Technical appendix. This book investigates and critically interprets the underrepresentation of the global South in global knowledge production. The author analyses the serious bias towards scholars and institutions from this region: he argues that this phenomenon causes serious disadvantages not only for authors and institutions, but global science as well by impeding the flow of fresh, innovative scholarship. This book uses a combination of field theory and world-systems analysis to explain the motives and dynamics behind the geopolitical and societal inequalities in the system of global knowledge production. Subsequently, the author offers several solutions by which these inequalities could be reduced, or even eliminated. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of knowledge inequalities, and knowledge production in the global South. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xviii, 195 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783030527013 3030527018 |