A coming community: young geographers coping with multi-tier spaces of academic publishing across Europe

Aalbers, Manuel B.; Rossi, Ugo

doi:10.1080/14649360701360220

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“…Within geography, these have been scrutinized in critical interrogations of international publishing spaces (e.g. Paasi, 2005;Aalbers and Rossi, 2007;Bajerski, 2011) and debates about current Anglo-American academic hegemony (e.g. Minca, 2000;Samers and Sidaway, 2000;Garcia-Ramon, 2003;Berg, 2004;Kitchin, 2005;Rodríguez-Pose, 2006;Steinberg, 2009 Critical interventions by geographers, however, also remind us that there is no simple binary division between hegemonic Anglophone geography and marginal "other" language geographies but that both can be occupied simultaneously, are co-constitutive through mutual exchanges and shaped by complex power-relations.…”

Section: Academic Hegemoniesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global geographies of higher education: The perspective of world university rankings

2013

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Global geographies of higher education: the perspective of world university rankings his item ws sumitted to voughorough niversity9s snstitutionl epository y theGn uthorF Citation: t¤ oxD rF nd ryviD wFD PHIQF qlol geogrphies of higher edutionX the perspetive of world university rnkingsF qeoforumD RTD ppFRSE SWF Additional Information:• xysgiX this is the uthor9s version of work tht ws epted for puE lition in the journl qeoforumF ghnges resulting from the pulishing proessD suh s peer reviewD editingD orretionsD struturl formttingD nd other qulity ontrol mehnisms my not e refleted in this doE umentF ghnges my hve een mde to this work sine it ws sumitE ted for pulitionF e definitive version ws susequently pulished tX httpXGGdxFdoiForgGIHFIHITGjFgeoforumFPHIPFIPFHIR Abstract This paper contributes to emerging debates about uneven global geographies of higher education through a critical analysis of world university rankings. Drawing on recent work in geography, international higher education and bibliometrics, the paper examines two of the major international ranking schemes that have had significant public impact in the context of the on-going neoliberalization of higher education. We argue that the emergence of these global rankings reflects a scalar shift in the geopolitics and geoeconomics of higher education from the national to the global that prioritizes academic practices and discourses conducted in particular places and fields of research.Our analysis illustrates how the substantial variation in ranking criteria produces not only necessarily partial but also very specific global geographies of higher education. In comparison, these reveal a wider tension in the knowledge-based economy between established knowledge centres in Europe and the United States and emerging knowledge hubs in Asia Pacific. An analysis of individual ranking criteria, however, suggests that other measures and subject-specific perspectives would produce very different landscapes of higher education.

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Section: Academic Hegemoniesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global geographies of higher education: The perspective of world university rankings

2013

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“…For the past decade, an international debate has addressed the internal diversity of geography as a discipline, a diversity that is at the same time national, linguistic, and conceptual (for instance, see Gutierrez and Lopez-Nieva, 2001;Braun et al, 2003;Garcia-Ramon, 2003;Aalbers, 2004;Aalbers and Rossi, 2007;Fall and Rosière, 2008;Schuermans et al, 2010;Bajerski, 2011;Bański and Ferenc, 2013). While early on, the discussion questioned Anglo 1 geography's international status, we agree with the call by Fall and Minca (2012) and others to reject simple binaries between Anglo geography and "other" geographies from the rest of the world.…”

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Geography after Babel – a view from the French province

Houssay-Holzschuch

Milhaud

2013

Geogr. Helv.

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“…At this point, one might wonder why such strong differences exist today between practices of academic publishing in Europe, particularly between the UK (and to a lesser extent countries such as The Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries), where publications mainly appear through the medium of 'international journals', and the other 'main' (most populated) European countries such as Germany, France and Italy, where scientific communities have different publishing practices, preferring for example to publish in national or simply non-English-language journals instead of publishing in the Anglophone journals, which are perceived as distant and not easily accessible spaces of publication (Aalbers & Rossi, 2007). One response to this question is to be found in the changes that have occurred within academic policies in the UK from the late 1980s onwards and that have culminated with the greater emphasis now placed on the importance of the Research Assessment Exercise (the 2001 RAE marking a decisive turning-point in this respect): market-like behaviour, corporatisation of research activities, competition between university departments and uneven distribution of resources have led to the shaping of a form of 'academic capitalism' in which the productivity of researchers is assessed through their capacity to publish in 'relevant' (according to citation impact factors) international journals (see Paasi, 2005;Slaughter & Leslie, 1997).…”

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Beyond the Anglo-American hegemony in human geography: a European perspective

Aalbers

Rossi

2007

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Over the past five years or so, AngloAmerican hegemony in human geography has been widely debated. This debate has highlighted the obstacles put in the way of the building of a more international geographical discipline. In this paper, we reflect on the possibilities and also the limitations of Europe as a context for the experimentation with a more cross-national discipline. In doing so, we notice on the one hand the increasing attention towards the Europeanisation of human geography, particularly at an institutional level, but on the other hand we also notice the lack of some basic forms and tools of communication and exchange that might facilitate the mobilisation of scholars around the 'European project'. The paper tries to offer a contribution to this issue by discussing the ways in which a European journal of human geography might be conceived and also concretely organised. In this respect the paper takes into account issues of language, access to scientific knowledge and recognition of cultural and academic diversities.

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A coming community: young geographers coping with multi-tier spaces of academic publishing across Europe

Cited by 48 publications

References 33 publications

Global geographies of higher education: The perspective of world university rankings

Global geographies of higher education: The perspective of world university rankings

Geography after Babel – a view from the French province

Beyond the Anglo-American hegemony in human geography: a European perspective

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