Early-career scholars and scholarship: A social justice perspective

Abstract

This paper focuses on the concept of social (in)justice to examine and discuss some of the areas in the production and dissemination of knowledge in which the issue of social justice is significant and should be applied and considered. More specifically, it explores and advocates for some of the ways in which participation in, and contribution to, global scholarship can become a more socially just practice for academics, especially novice scholars and early-career researchers in the field of Applied Linguistics. It also highlights the role and agentive engagement of both established and junior members of academic communities as an important factor in demonopolizing and democratizing academic discourses and practices and making the mobilization of scholarship more diverse, inclusive, multivocal, and transformative.

John Flowerdew's essential bookshelf: English for research publication purposes (ERPP)

“…Although the conditions described by Canagarajah in this study are extreme, this paper did a lot to raise awareness of some of the difficulties and inequalities encountered by scholars working on the periphery of international publication and is important in the ERPP literature for that reason. It led the way for much recent work in what is now referred to as the decolonisation of the academy, an important aspect of which is concerned with giving so-called peripheral scholars a greater voice (e.g., Habibie, 2022).…”

INTRODUCING ENGLISH FOR RESEARCH PUBLICATION PURPOSESBy JohnFlowerdew and PejmanHabibieRoutledge. ISBN 978‐0367330583. Price USD 39.16 (paperback), 136.00 (hardcover). 150 pages.

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English seems to have secured its position as the international language of academic communication and knowledge dissemination. The publish or perish policy which many academic centers of the world promote has turned out to be a publish-in-English or perish policy (Habibie, 2022). Given the significance of English as the lingua franca of scholarly publication, English for research publication purposes (ERPP) has turned into an independent area of study within English for academic purposes (EAP).

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