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Academic Knowledge Production and the Global South: Questioning Inequality and Under-representation

Autor Márton Demeter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 oct 2021
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.
“Márton Demeter’s monograph invokes rich anecdotal, empirical and scientometric evidence to delineate the contours of a world system that preserves thedominance of Western knowledge and scholars and the westernisation or peripheralisation of the rest – a system defined by geopolitical and material inequalities, socio-economic class differences, institutional elitism and publishing biases. Demeter’s work counters narratives that present academia as meritocratic and that justify disparities in world publications on the basis of pure rigour, exposing rather norms and values that perpetuate a western elitist system and peripheralise those who happen to lack this cultural capital. Demeter’s work adds to an expanding field of research documenting how Anglophone standards and biases in journal indexing, peer review and editorial board recruitment marginalise consistently the Global South. His practical and concrete suggestions to subvert this system of horizontal and vertical inequalities could not be timelier and provides momentum to decolonisation movements in higher education across the world.”  
Dr Romina Istratii, SOAS University of London, UK
“Márton Demeter is a scholar dedicated to revealing the inequality in academic publishing and a strong advocate for scholars from the Global South. This book is an epitome of his effort on this cause. Demeter utilizes his wealth of data including authorships, citations, journal publishers, editorial review board compositions, the reviewers and the editors of journals as strong evidence of inequality with his three-dimensional model of academic stratification.  This book is a must-read for scholars both in the Global North and the Global South to reflect on the current state of academic knowledge gatekeeping and production. It will spark a dialogue between scholars to address the dominance of the Global North especially in the field of communication.”
Professor Louisa Ha, Bowling Green State University, USA 
“Márton Demeter’s analysis and critique of the unequal structure of global knowledge production is a powerfulcontribution to the global justice movement with dramatic implications for what academics in both the Global North and the Global South can do to help science and the humanities live up to their claims of meritocracy and universality. Demeter employs a useful critical combination of the world-systems perspective and Bourdieusian field theory to organize the results of his careful and sophisticated empirical studies of global knowledge production. He is an intrepid protagonist of a more egalitarian human future.”
Professor Christopher Chase-Dunn, University of California, Riverside, USA

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030527037
ISBN-10: 3030527034
Pagini: 195
Ilustrații: XVIII, 195 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2020
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Part I Theoretical Considerations.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Stories Are Written by the Victors: Theoretical
Considerations.- Part II Empirical Evidences and Practical 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.

Recenzii

“Academic Knowledge Production and the Global South is a unique combination of a set of well-designed, rigorously crafted empirical studies and a carefully delineated theoretical model. This volume is an engaging read for Science of Science scholars and for all those, including me, who are interested in deep, data-based and courageous insight into global knowledge production processes in a social and geopolitical context.” (Judit Mihalik, Publishing Research Quarterly, Vol. 37, 2021)

“The thought-provoking monograph will be interesting to the community of communications scholars … .” (Zsolt Balázs Major, KOME, September 1, 2021)

Notă biografică

Márton Demeter is Associate Professor at the National University of Public Services, Hungary, and a Bolyai Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His works have been widely published in leading periodicals such as International Journal of Communication and Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.


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“Critique of global hierarchies along with aspirations to decolonize knowledge have increased significantly in Western academia over recent decades. And yet this critique has hardly upset the global hierarchies that it has decried. In this book, Márton Demeter opens the closet to expose the skeleton of a production of academic knowledge that remains heavily determined by its location in the Global North.”
Professor Gilbert Achcar, SOAS University of London, UK
"Can the subaltern speak in communication studies? This is a deceptively simple question and, although recent arguments for the de-Westernization of communication studies take the answer for granted, Demeter’s elegantly theorized and empirically detailed analysis shows that the reality is more complex than we thought. Scholars and institutions truly committed to the internationalization of knowledge will find this book to be an indispensable guide to fully understanding the challenges and crafting solutions. I enjoyed reading the book and I hope that it gets the wide attention it deserves.
—Professor Larry Gross, University of Southern California, USA
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 theglobal South.
Márton Demeter is Associate Professor at the National University of Public Services, Hungary, and a Bolyai Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His works have been widely published in leading periodicals such as International Journal of Communication and Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.



Caracteristici

Demonstrates glaring inequalities in representation of global knowledge production in the global South Uses a range of methods to explain the motives and dynamics behind this Proposes solutions by which these inequalities may be addressed