Race, power, and knowledge: tracing the roots of exclusion in the development of political science in the United States

McClain, Paula D.; Ayee, Gloria Y. A.; Means, Taneisha N.; Reyes-Barriéntez, Alicia M.; Sediqe, Nura A.

doi:10.1080/21565503.2016.1170704

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“…Most notable is the truncation of ontological and epistemological perspectives. 26 In addition to marginalizing topics about race and gender (Achen 2014;McClain et al 2016), methodological perspectives focus on quantitative rather than qualitative approaches, which can exclude work by women and minority scholars from the most highly ranked disciplinary journals (Teele and Thelen 2017). Fourth, the processes that create gender citation gaps also hinder the advancement of women in social science fields.…”

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Gendered Citation Patterns across Political Science and Social Science Methodology Fields

2018

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Accumulated evidence identifies discernible gender gaps across many dimensions of professional academic careers including salaries, publication rates, journal placement, career progress, and academic service. Recent work in political science also reveals gender gaps in citations, with articles written by men citing work by other male scholars more often than work by female scholars. This study estimates the gender gap in citations across political science subfields and across methodological subfields within political science, sociology, and economics. The research design captures variance across research areas in terms of the underlying distribution of female scholars. We expect that subfields within political science and social science disciplines with more women will have smaller gender citation gaps, a reduction of the “Matthew effect” where men’s research is viewed as the most central and important in a field. However, gender citation gaps may persist if a “Matilda effect” occurs whereby women’s research is viewed as less important or their ideas are attributed to male scholars, even as a field becomes more diverse. Analysing all articles published from 2007–2016 in several journals, we find that female scholars are significantly more likely than mixed gender or male author teams to cite research by their female peers, but that these citation rates vary depending on the overall distribution of women in their field. More gender diverse subfields and disciplines produce smaller gender citation gaps, consistent with a reduction in the “Matthew effect”. However, we also observe undercitation of work by women, even in journals that publish mostly female authors. While improvements in gender diversity in academia increase the visibility and impact of scholarly work by women, implicit biases in citation practices in the social sciences persist.

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Gendered Citation Patterns across Political Science and Social Science Methodology Fields

2018

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“…In the United States, there have been calls for the decolonization and diversification of academic courses, including demands within political science to address the exclusion of American Indians (Ferguson 2016) and other minority voices (Colgan 2017;McClain et al 2016). Courses across subfields (and levels) could benefit from considering whose voices and perspectives are omitted or underrepresented and then working to make Wikipedia more representative in its presentation of political science material.…”

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The Subversive Potential of Wikipedia: A Resource for Diversifying Political Science Content Online

Timperley

2020

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ABSTRACTWikipedia is a powerful tool that reinforces dominant knowledge paradigms, especially those emanating from the Global North. Simultaneously, it has subversive potential to challenge these paradigms, offering a far-reaching platform to voices that have been traditionally marginalized and underserved. Despite this potential, instructors often employ an “abstinence approach” to Wikipedia, telling students to avoid using it in their academic work. This article advocates for active engagement with Wikipedia with the aim of challenging bias resulting from omission or underrepresentation of particular material to develop more diverse, publicly accessible political science content. First, I explain the theoretical objectives of the assignment and describe its structure. Then I reflect on its successes, challenges, and possible modifications.

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“…Though assumed to be essential attributes of an academic career, in fact these normative institutional rules and practices are social constructions that can and must be changed (Bailyn 2003). Elsewhere in this symposium McClain et al (2016) and Smooth (2016) analyze how race has shaped the experience of scholars, particularly those who study race or who are women of color in political science. In this essay, I address how the hierarchy of higher learning institutions is gendered, drawing on my experience as a white woman and full professor of political science who has served in administrative positions at a top ranking, public, independent college in the South.…”

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Two steps forward, one step back? Strengthening the foundations of women’s leadership in higher education

Ford

2016

Politics, Groups, and Identities

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Race, power, and knowledge: tracing the roots of exclusion in the development of political science in the United States

Cited by 30 publications

References 25 publications

Gendered Citation Patterns across Political Science and Social Science Methodology Fields

Gendered Citation Patterns across Political Science and Social Science Methodology Fields

The Subversive Potential of Wikipedia: A Resource for Diversifying Political Science Content Online

Two steps forward, one step back? Strengthening the foundations of women’s leadership in higher education

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