Centers and Peripheries in Knowledge Production

Medina, Leandro Rodriguez

doi:10.4324/9780203767016

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“…From this perspective, peripheral countries act as reservoirs of a cheap workforce. The hegemony of western academic systems has been thoroughly investigated in the context of original Wallersteinian ideas elsewhere (Alatas 2003;Rodriguez 2014;Connell et al 2017), so here it suffices to say that one epiphenomenon of "academic imperialism" is that non-central countries are understudied, even though they are successful enough to attract some scholars. This paper tries to fill the gap regarding academic employees outside of global academic centers.…”

Section: Introduction: Highly Skilled Migrants In Slovakiamentioning

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Analyzing Biographies of Foreign-born Academics in Slovakia: Why Highly Skilled Employees Decide to Choose a Peripheral Country

Łuczaj

2019

sociologia

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Section: Introduction: Highly Skilled Migrants In Slovakiamentioning

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Analyzing Biographies of Foreign-born Academics in Slovakia: Why Highly Skilled Employees Decide to Choose a Peripheral Country

Łuczaj

2019

sociologia

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“…Nandy, 1980). More collective studies such as Thandika Mkandawire’s (2005) examination of intellectuals in Africa, and Leandro Rodriguez Medina’s (2014) study of political scientists in Argentina, document international marginality. A growing literature emphasizes that intellectuals around the colonized and postcolonial world offer important alternatives for the social sciences (Alatas, 2006; Connell, 2007).…”

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Negotiating with the North: How Southern-tier intellectual workers deal with the global economy of knowledge

Connell

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The Sociological Review

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This article examines a group of intellectual workers who occupy a peripheral but not powerless position in the global economy of knowledge. How do they handle relations with the global metropole, especially in new fields of research where established hierarchies are in question? Three new domains of knowledge – climate change, HIV/AIDS and gender studies – are studied through interviews with 70 active researchers in Southern-tier countries Brazil, South Africa and Australia. A pattern of extraversion, involving active adoption of paradigms from the metropole, is widespread and institutionally supported. Major alternative knowledge formations have not emerged in these domains. However contestations of more specific kinds are frequent. Paradigms are adapted, criticism is offered, activism is engaged, capacities are developed and allegiances sometimes changed. The valorization of local knowledge, which goes beyond the abstractions of universalized paradigms, is particularly significant. Not stark subordination, but a complex collective negotiation characterizes the response of intellectual workers in the Southern tier.

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“…They also analyse the geopolitics of knowledge by problematizing the positions from which power in knowledge is exerted and legitimized. Moreover, the sociologies of the south propose rendering visible not only the agencies of the South, beyond the provision of data for the theories of the North (Comaroff and Comaroff, 2012;Connell, 2013), but also the complicity strategies in the reproduction of knowledge asymmetries (Rodriguez, 2014). They conceive of the South as a site of knowledge production that also defies hegemonic power by means of turning the North-to-South knowledge flows in the networks in the opposite direction.…”

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Exploring tensions in knowledge networks: Convergences and divergences from social capital, actor-network theory and sociologies of the south

Suárez

2016

Current Sociology

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Knowledge networks have been discussed as mechanisms that facilitate access to resources and information. They are noted as organizations that promote the generation of new contacts and interactions between actors in order to produce knowledge that increases the speed and reliability of communication. They are also understood as platforms that encourage learning and knowledge coordination in order to advance technoscientific innovation processes. Despite these benefits, knowledge networks can engender areas of tension. The article examines the tensions in knowledge networks by analysing the theoretical convergences and divergences between social capital insights, actor-network theory and several contributions from the sociologies of the south. The following four categories are discussed: (1) hierarchy production; (2) blockages to the access to resources; (3) the spatialization of networks; and (4) the different ways of understanding power. The latter offer opportunities to make the tensions in knowledge networks visible. The article proposes initiating a discussion focused on the dynamic movement of asymmetries to analyse knowledge networks between the global North and the global South as entities that are in a process of constant negotiation.

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Centers and Peripheries in Knowledge Production

Cited by 51 publications

References 4 publications

Analyzing Biographies of Foreign-born Academics in Slovakia: Why Highly Skilled Employees Decide to Choose a Peripheral Country

Analyzing Biographies of Foreign-born Academics in Slovakia: Why Highly Skilled Employees Decide to Choose a Peripheral Country

Negotiating with the North: How Southern-tier intellectual workers deal with the global economy of knowledge

Exploring tensions in knowledge networks: Convergences and divergences from social capital, actor-network theory and sociologies of the south

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